forbiddenvoid

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by forbiddenvoid 20d ago
The park across from our apartment in Cupertino was the morning gathering point for every crow in the Bay Area. They showed up at about 3:30-4:00a every day. It was as loud and obnoxious as you might otherwise imagine. Now, in Seattle, we j
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by forbiddenvoid 22d ago
If there was a second of the same letter, but in the wrong place, it would be yellow. If it's gray, that means there is no repetition of that letter. So once you've seen that the second one is gray, you have the information you ne
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by forbiddenvoid 2mo ago
This is great. The speed aspect reminds me of the old AOL chatroom word scramble games. I personally love the timer, but I also do the newspaper anagrams without a pen, so I'm certain to be out of the majority on this. A shuffle button
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by forbiddenvoid 2mo ago
I mean, no one except the 30 million or so people who are paying for it. I'm quite happy with the GamePass selection, and I consider it an excellent value for me.
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by forbiddenvoid 4mo ago
I don't really buy this argument. When you buy a physical product, you are paying the entire product lifecycle, not just the marginal aspect of retail distribution. This is the same thing. The marginal inference has to come FROM somew
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by forbiddenvoid 5mo ago
The meat is alive, actually. Sentient meat, if you can believe it.
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by forbiddenvoid 5mo ago
This seems really cool for people whose friend networks are physically located in the same place they are. That's not me, and hasn't been for probably 20 years. But it's a neat idea regardless.
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by forbiddenvoid 5mo ago
I don't really need a social network for the people I'm already in close proximity with. But, I'm glad they're making an attempt here, at least.
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by forbiddenvoid 5mo ago
I was just in Aomori this past week (to see the sakura blossoms in Hirosaki). We literally left Sunday night, and while it seems like there really wasn't any concern in the city, I'm not sure I would have been prepared as a visito
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by forbiddenvoid 5mo ago
I know that it's just a super common distinction between pilers and filers, but I really struggle to comprehend the usefulness of just "dumping everything" in one place and hoping that search will sort it out. At a certain th
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by forbiddenvoid 5mo ago
We still have "both" and it's quite commonly used. It's even used _in_ the article, and in several comments here in this very discussion.
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by forbiddenvoid 5mo ago
The medium is the message. I feel like this should be more obvious in 2026 than at any other time in history. If the author does not care to take the time to craft their message, why should I care to take the time to read it? If you used AI
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by forbiddenvoid 5mo ago
I immediately suspected AI writing. Then I quickly checked a couple of their older posts, and sure enough: completely different tone, language, grammar. There may come a day when we can no longer reliably tell the difference, but for now, I
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by forbiddenvoid 5mo ago
More than one solution can exist for the same problem.
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by forbiddenvoid 6mo ago
> "Today it's gambling advertising, tomorrow it's alcohol, then it's sugary drinks, fast food, critical minerals and who knows what else comes next," chief executive Kai Cantwell said. Good? I really hope that we
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by forbiddenvoid 6mo ago
I would say that it is less that DoorDash makes it worse than it is that DoorDash's model removes any incentive for making it better.
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by forbiddenvoid 7mo ago
This has been common parlance in much of the US for a long time. I would hesitate to even call it slang at this point. It's a pretty commonly used term.
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by forbiddenvoid 8mo ago
Not the person you asked but: ADHD is a debilitating neurological disorder, not a mild inconvenience. Believe me, I wish that just drinking coffee and "trying harder" was a solution. I started medication because I spent two decade
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by forbiddenvoid 9mo ago
It's very presence in the list is already a drain on my attention that I didn't ask for and do not want. The fact that it requires any action on my part to remove it from the queue is an issue in and of itself.
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by forbiddenvoid 9mo ago
I will not hide my disappointment that this headline was not, in fact, referring to the classic adventure game.
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by forbiddenvoid 9mo ago
The AI turned me into a newt!
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by forbiddenvoid 9mo ago
In the long run, this makes for very interesting rhetorical analysis of the work. Your example of Braveheart, for instance, involves two views of the past through the lens of the _present_. So even in that context, both of those views are t
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by forbiddenvoid 9mo ago
I hope so. Random accusations of "this feels like AI" don't add anything to the conversation and are genuinely harmful to those accused when there is no AI involved. AI has it's demons, for sure, but there is an awful lo
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by forbiddenvoid 9mo ago
I would consider it more of a necessary evil than a flaw. Both the writer and the audience need to be able to connect with the story, and you're just going to have a better connection if it feels more familiar to you.
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by forbiddenvoid 9mo ago
It's a construct that long predates AI. And using it with such intensity and frequency is more likely a sign that this _wasn't_ AI generated, since AI writing tends to _not_ repeat things quite so often.
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by forbiddenvoid 9mo ago
Just a note, because I think the footer might be confusing: this essay was written by just one person. There are 24 essays each year, each one written by a different anonymous contributor.
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by forbiddenvoid 10mo ago
You _can_ literally do this in your head, and also, it doesn't matter what the numbers are, what the product is or what the sum is.
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by forbiddenvoid 11mo ago
Companies pay out severance mostly for compliance with the WARN act. If they could get away with not doing this, they absolutely would.
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by forbiddenvoid 1y ago
Every time one of these pops up on HN, it's always an abandoned, unfinished project. Why do these OS projects never get completed?
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by forbiddenvoid 1y ago
My first instinct was to think this was satire and I exuded a chuckle. My second instinct was a brief moment of panic where I worried that it might NOT be satire, and a whole world of horror flashed before my eyes. It's okay, though. I

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