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2,076karma·299submissions·April 8, 2025
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It is a new nature of abstraction, not a new level. UP:
It lets us state intent in plain language, specs, or examples. We can ask the model to invent code, tests, docs, diagrams—tasks that previously …
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That time coincided with humanity living near the lowest standards of life.
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Ads are a brute force approach to the challenge of having useful information (company X offers Y) reach their target (people who needs Y presently or in the future). If you say no ads should exist, th…
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The tagline was below or at the end of the signature. They were stored separately in a list and there was software that would pick one of them randomly to add to the signature when posting.
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There are 3 primary undesirability aspects of ads: 1) ads as irrelevant intrusions (in spite of all data Google collects, ads are mostly irrelevant for any person) 2) ads as ugly or blockers of beauty…
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I appreciate the effort that went into writing the article but it conflates different concepts missing some historical context and technical distinctions. For example, TUI (text user interface) and CL…
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I thought of printing some of those in a t-shirt but someone would probably see it as branding for an extra-terrestrial donut shop. The kind that would serve coffee in a Klein bottle.
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Yes, it is not possible. We can't predict but can follow the trends.
Governments tend to want to be seen as a god-like entity protector/judge of all.
So they hate satire or anything that mea…
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I will spend this weekend creating burner social media accounts for my kids as a precaution. Each one will be crafted to look like they've never had a controversial thought in their lives. Just l…
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No paywall: https://archive.ph/Xi1bJ
3 pts
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I honestly expected the article to start like Smalltalk, Haskell, and Lisp ...walk into a bar. Smalltalk: “Bartender, please send an instance of Martini to me - selector withOlive: set to true.” Haske…
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Not to confuse with builder.IO - poor founder was posting these days "FOR THE LAST TIME GUYS THIS IS A DIFFERENT COMPANY".
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Please tell me if I understood it correctly: It implements voxels via <input type="radio" />. Each of the faces of each voxel is configured via <label>s, one for each face h…