janwillemb

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by janwillemb 4mo ago
It's nice, but after a few clicks my LLM content fatigue kicks in.
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by janwillemb 5mo ago
That is indeed a similar problem. Europe is now aware of this problem and starting to mitigate it, to reduce dependencies on big tech - how hard that may be.
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by janwillemb 5mo ago
This is what worries me. People become dependent on these GenAI products that are proprietary, not transparant, and need a subscription. People build on it like it is a solid foundation. But all of a sudden the owner just pulls the foundati
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by janwillemb 6mo ago
A website that lets you be the "A"I to other people.
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by janwillemb 7mo ago
Same (GP). Schools were really unsafe places for children back then. It always strikes me of you see movies about schools in that period, that the story is often that children get horribly bullied and are called ugly, etc. I am glad my chil
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by janwillemb 7mo ago
Thanks for sharing this. It is so sad! Sorry that there are people like that. The only thing we can do now, is be better people than those horrible teachers.
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by janwillemb 7mo ago
As a 10y old, my father taught me about logical ports. I took a very large piece of paper and in a few days, I designed a tic tac toe "computer". It had LEDs that indicated the next computer move, based on the position of the piec
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by janwillemb 7mo ago
Douglas Crockford nearly got cancelled because he qualified JavaScript as "promiscuous". People not knowing what the word means plus having a sense of urgency about sensitivity can be a dangerous combination.
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by janwillemb 7mo ago
> You're experiencing something real that the industry is aggressively pretending doesn't exist. I agree with the article and recognize the fatigue, but I have never experienced that the industry is "aggressively pretendin
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by janwillemb 7mo ago
His point is that the Orwellian way of surveillance is impossible to do in practice, and that a proper science fiction writer would have left the surveillance to machines. So I think his critique is about the art of SF writing, not about th
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by janwillemb 8mo ago
DNS is only for resolving the host part. The path is not passing through a dns query. In example.com/blah, the /blah part is interpreted by the host itself. And apart from that I would indeed consider DNS records a database.
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by janwillemb 8mo ago
Firefox reader mode also helps
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by janwillemb 8mo ago
No, that spec is the failed attempt to standardize by Atwood et al., that Gruber sabotaged.
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by janwillemb 8mo ago
Here is a post from Atwood about it: https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo... And an interesting discussion on hn about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4700383
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by janwillemb 8mo ago
The writeup does not mention Jeff Atwood (Stackoverflow founder) trying to convince Gruber to standardize markdown. Atwood approached him publicly in a series of blog posts, but Gruber kept silent, and if I remember correctly finally declin
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by janwillemb 8mo ago
I used to host an SSH server at home at port 443, for the same reason! The sysadmin of my employer was so strict that 'solutions' like this were the way of the least resistance. Security gets worse when policies get stricter.
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by janwillemb 8mo ago
He is singlehandedly responsible for using up an entire city's worth of power and water this way?
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by janwillemb 11mo ago
This comment contains a few logical fallacies. > It states the cargo culted reasons, but not the actual truth This dismisses existing explanations without engaging with the mentioned reasons. The following text then doesn't provide
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by janwillemb 11mo ago
:) true. I'm a teacher myself. I never dismiss questions, but I do get discouraged sometimes.
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by janwillemb 11mo ago
Thanks! I didn't know that one. I had a teacher who became angry when a question was asked about a subject he felt students should already be knowledgeable about. "YOU ARE IN xTH GRADE AND STILL DON'T KNOW THIS?!" (inten
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by janwillemb 11mo ago
Doesn't it state this in the article? > Browsers, search engines, assistive technologies, etc. can leverage it to: > - Get pronunciation and voice right for screen readers > - Improve indexing and translation accuracy > - A
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by janwillemb 11mo ago
It is about a company, First Wap, that makes it possible to track individuals. Their USP is a piece of software that operates at phone network level and uses the fact that phone companies still support an old protocol, Signalling System 7:
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by janwillemb 1y ago
Still only one point
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by janwillemb 1y ago
Doesn't seem to work on Firefox mobile. On each stroke it only renders one "point".
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by janwillemb 1y ago
The links in the article are all annotated with a symbol (showing what happens when you click the link?), which breaks the flow of reading imo. I don't feel this helps communicating the message of the article. [Example]( https:/&#
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by janwillemb 1y ago
I have the same thing, really annoying. I can wake up at night at the same song too. I stopped listening music hours before bedtime, but that doesn't always help and I also tend to forget. I'll try out suno for this purpose. What
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by janwillemb 1y ago
Long press the picture, open image in new tab. Then you can zoom.
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by janwillemb 1y ago
True, but this is about adults in a professional context.
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by janwillemb 1y ago
I could read it using the reader view
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by janwillemb 1y ago
I'm religious myself. What you are describing is not taught by the bible as it is in its pure form, but is a selection of specific parts of it by the tradition that you are part of. A different, lesser known selection was posted in ano

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