wyclif

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by wyclif 22d ago
This is one of the reasons why open protocols (like email, http, irc, &c) are so important.
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by wyclif 22d ago
The correct answer is, "Of course he did not; free expression and free speech only exist for people who subscribe to doublethink. All other opinions are thoughtcrime."
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by wyclif 23d ago
I'm from Pennsylvania and a proverbial stone's throw from where Taylor Swift is also from. Trust me when I tell you that there's nothing "middle class" about her. Her parents are wealthy and this gave her a big boos
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by wyclif 24d ago
Where's the human poop on the sidewalks? It won't be realistic until it has that.
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by wyclif 25d ago
Well, there's no accounting for taste. Chuck Berry, the famous rock and roller who wrote "Johnny B. Goode" saw that song get outsold by a throwaway novelty song he also wrote called "My Ding-a-Ling." The masses may
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by wyclif 25d ago
Yeah, I'm familiar with that quote but as great of a writer as he was, I don't think Faulkner was right about this. To extend his carpentry analogy, if all you read is pulp then you are going to become a pulp producer as a writer.
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by wyclif 25d ago
I was quite fortunate to have an AP English teacher my senior year of high school that understood this advice, and expounded on it often. I recall that he boiled it down to one simple line: Garbage in, garbage out. What he meant by that w
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by wyclif 25d ago
Nabokov is even more impressive once you realise that English wasn't even his first language!
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by wyclif 25d ago
The Name of the Rose by Eco is essential. Don't be fooled if you've only seen the movie, which was not good. The book itself is phenomenal.
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by wyclif 28d ago
DHH still has a slight Danish accent. But it's nothing compared to what it was when he first moved to the US.
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by wyclif 28d ago
Dumb question, but what does the green hand denote?
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by wyclif 1mo ago
Doesn't GitHub already do this? (I don't know if they do or not; just wondering).
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I teach calculus at Berkeley. Some of my students can't do middle school math(sfstandard.com)
24 points by wyclif 1mo ago|12 comments
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by wyclif 1mo ago
For example it doesn't block youtube adverts Pretty sure that's not true. I don't see any YT adverts when using Brave, and I don't have any extensions installed.
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by wyclif 1mo ago
I don't think he "fooled the interviewers." The point of the story is that he focussed down on what the company's culture decided was important.
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by wyclif 1mo ago
Au contraire, mon frere. Milton Friedman looks prophetic in 2026, especially his book "Free to Choose."
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by wyclif 1mo ago
Important to remember that this style of writing originates well before the AI era. It's called direct mail marketing. It's the same style of writing you'd read when you got your physical junk mail from your physical mailbox
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by wyclif 1mo ago
It's not on the same level at all as medical records, but I remember years ago when I got my first "real job" working as a credit adjuster at a major credit card bank that you've definitely heard of. Any employee could j
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by wyclif 1mo ago
I thought they both hit equally hard. RIP, Phrack.
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by wyclif 1mo ago
He's asking hypothetically why Google would be willing to give up a healthy, lucrative business to Doctorow-ize their gravy train.
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At the altar of AI capex, Google is sacrificing the golden goose(twitter.com)
3 points by wyclif 1mo ago|7 comments
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by wyclif 1mo ago
In theory I agree. It's probably just a way for people who don't like AI to weaponize the issue.
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Music to confuse AI might be the next new genre(cdm.link)
2 points by wyclif 1mo ago|0 comments
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Big tech's AI-powered 'pervert' glasses are in a losing battle with DuckDuckGo(sfgate.com)
5 points by wyclif 1mo ago|3 comments
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by wyclif 1mo ago
I was never a big 1980's synth music guy, but for some reason I always enjoyed the soundtracks Vangelis made. Not only for this movie, but also "Chariots of Fire", "Antarctica", &c.
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by wyclif 2mo ago
When I was growing up, "Supper's ready" was a common phrase. I think it is more common in the Anglosphere. Of course, my family is of English extraction so that might be why.
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by wyclif 2mo ago
Sorry not sorry, but Substack isn't going to run off Lineham because he thinks that people with a dick shouldn't be in a female locker room.
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by wyclif 2mo ago
I want very badly to use RSS to read everything, and I still use RSS a lot. But I have to admit that email won the resiliency battle a long time ago.
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by wyclif 2mo ago
Eh, I think you have a classification problem. Andrew Tate is far, far right and Linehan...this is the man who created "Father Ted"... is "right" just because he thinks men shouldn't use women's bathrooms and s
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by wyclif 2mo ago
Europeans are more accepting of being sweaty during the day.

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