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by sellyme 4d ago
Fortunately it's fairly easy to query the database for that kind of thing and a few editors periodically go through the most implausibly-sized common features, so anything too egregious will get noticed eventually . The last time I sa
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by sellyme 4mo ago
Putting aside the "So you hate waffles?" non-sequitur, surely the entire topic of this thread should be a bit of a hint that this misguided policy has not, in fact, "[made sure] courses are fully accessible".
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by sellyme 1y ago
> It's not in your interest buy a $200/mo subscription unless you use >$200 of tokens per month This is only true if you can find someone else selling them at cost. If a company has a product that cost them $150, but they wo
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by sellyme 2y ago
> Puzzles in commercial collections don't usually have that problem, I would argue that puzzles in commercial collections are more likely to have that problem than ones made freely available by hobbyists, as commercial enterprises
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by sellyme 3y ago
> Like how a streaming website will say "Hey, you're using a VPN. We don't allow that" - the user's recourse is to turn off the VPN, or find a new VPN that their service won't detect. No, the user's rec
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by sellyme 3y ago
> you're just supposed to know what Kentucky number plates look like from a blurry image, and you're also supposed to know the logo of a sports club? Cool. Knowing exactly what they look like would help, but the point is more t
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by sellyme 3y ago
> so what are you going to do with a number like "17" which appears in almost every street in the country? Exactly the same thing that Rainbolt did in this video: cut down the amount of work you have to do on each street from c
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by sellyme 3y ago
There's a few open data projects that provide similar features to Streetview and can very occasionally be useful in regions without coverage. But yes, typically outside of Streetview coverage you'll be relying on satellite photogr
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by sellyme 3y ago
I genuinely can't work out what part of this video you think is US-specific. America is far from the only country in the world that has municipality logos on infrastructure, house numbers, or OSM coverage. There's certainly region
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by sellyme 3y ago
Yes, I've been using TST without the top tab list visible since about 2012.
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by sellyme 3y ago
About halfway through this blog post the topic of LLM "personas" is mentioned, and while the given examples are mostly just jokes, the actual use case for that would solve the problem you perceive of this UX, in that you could sim
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by sellyme 3y ago
It's not a matter of "wannabe", it's "wannado". Having a bunch of sycophants in the sidebar isn't going to restore a community unless they're actually committed to making the subreddit an enjoyable pl
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by sellyme 3y ago
What you're describing is administration, not moderation. Very similar concepts, but there's an absolutely gigantic difference in the feel of a community with active moderation versus a site like YouTube where the overwhelming maj
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by sellyme 3y ago
> Moderation is an important job. It's needed. But I can't think of any other social site that has such a bad rep for moderation. Pretty much every other social site of note doesn't have a rep for moderation, on account
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by sellyme 3y ago
Evidently not, since that's already a motivation that isn't sufficient to get enough people actually doing the work - and if anything, Reddit taking the step of unilaterally usurping community leaders for not being profitable enou
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by sellyme 3y ago
The general unwillingness of people to do unpaid labour for a website that is actively working against them. It's difficult enough to find anyone willing to actually put the hard yards in to moderation as it is, let alone when all of t
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by sellyme 3y ago
That's the trick: they didn't keep it at all. By the time that colour scheme arose, the Cold War was long finished. The idea of colour-coding the parties at all didn't really become widespread until 1980, and the exact colour
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by sellyme 4y ago
...that data appears to be claiming that more 25-34yos in the United States use Facebook than actually exist.
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by sellyme 4y ago
> The effort put into this video I’ve only seen matched by on YouTube by “Stuff Made Here” Captain Disillusion is definitely up there. His Flight of the Navigator video is one of the most remarkable things I've ever seen on the inte
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by sellyme 4y ago
There is plenty of addition in modern sudoku, as visible in the example shown in the linked article featuring killer cages.
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by sellyme 5y ago
I'm getting real sick of websites I use becoming less and less functional the bigger they get.
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by sellyme 5y ago
As I continue exploring that site I'm becoming increasingly concerned that it might not be satire.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Not sure why folks seem to want to exclude humans from nature Probably because the concept of "nature" no longer serves any purpose if you don't, as it doesn't exclude anything. It's often a pointless distincti
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Perhaps we could instead once again employ people to write encyclopedias, and fact check? We have a couple of centuries' worth of evidence that this system is subject to exactly the same kinds of flaws, along with the downside of
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by sellyme 5y ago
> And what’s so bad about medical misinformation vs say talking about murdering people? Predominantly that I'm not aware of a huge number of people who listened to Stan and then committed a murder suicide, but I'm aware of a st
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by sellyme 5y ago
I feel like I've read this exact comment on HN before, so either this situation has somehow happened more than once, or this story has been doing the rounds for a couple of years despite best efforts to debunk it.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> The half that continued to wear masks after the CDC said it wasn't necessary? If you posed the question I presume the CDC would say that it's not necessary to wear hats. I don't think it's a reasonable conclusion t
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by sellyme 5y ago
No. Possibly your ad blocker is trying to get rid of the Nikkei footer and only doing half the job?
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by sellyme 5y ago
They know. They're referring to the page this thread is about, which lists Tragedy of the Commons as a reason for a 404 with this explanation: > Everyone wanted to view this page, but no-one was willing to maintain it.
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by sellyme 5y ago
Medical disinformation? Because the typical music industry schtick of lying about how much money you have or how often you get laid probably isn't quite as bad as that one.

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