GavinMcG

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Comment · 18 days ago
Exactly: a weird perspective.
Comment · 1 month ago
When I scroll down to select a different color for my next stroke, the canvas often resets.

Edit: or rather undoes the last stroke (which looks like resetting when it goes from 1 to 0).

Comment · 1 month ago
Ok, then back up a step: Why distribute the power to vote on the basis of people’s fundamental equal dignity instead of descending into warlord-driven feudalism?
Comment · 2 months ago
Two things that are necessary are both necessary. That doesn’t mean one collapses into the other.
Comment · 3 months ago
> Melanoheliophobia

Tangential, but this being a nearly word-for-word translation of “black hole fear” made me realize how odd it is that we insist on latinizing these things.

Comment · 4 months ago
Information wasn’t what those voters lacked.
Comment · 4 months ago
50%? No, that’s for high wages. And previous taxation is irrelevant: we as a society get to choose what is taxed, and there’s no inherent reason why only a single tax should apply to someone. Sales taxes, for example (which disproportionately burden those with less wealth) are paid out of one’s already-taxed income.
Comment · 4 months ago
Presumably because it hasn’t yet been published?
Comment · 5 months ago
FTA:

> The attorney using the plugin — not the plugin, and not Anthropic — is responsible for the legal positions taken in their work product.

Comment · 6 months ago
I wouldn’t imagine most people consider anchovy paste a sauce?
Comment · 7 months ago
I think one factor is the lack of variation. Sure, a copywriter might use those techniques as a hook, but there’s far more content using them paragraph after paragraph after paragraph than I’ve ever seen before.

You might also reframe how you read those comments. Perhaps when people are labeling a piece as “written by AI,” they’re just conveying that they perceive it to use the same “voice” that LLMs use, and judge that voice negatively. Sometimes people say things non-literally and don’t need proof.

Comment · 7 months ago
It’s the fake drama. Punchy sentences. Contrast. And then? A banal payoff.
Comment · 7 months ago
The abstract refers only to “sun exposure,” but it really did focus on sunbathing:

> Four predetermined questions were posed regarding sun exposure: (i) How often do you sunbathe during the summertime? (never, 1−14 times, 15−30 times, >30 times); (ii) Do you sunbathe during the winter, such as on vacation to the mountains? (no, 1−3 days, 4−10 days, >10 days); (iii) Do you use tanning beds? (never, 1−3 times per year, 4−10 times per year, >10 times per year); and (iv) Do you go abroad on vacation to swim and sunbathe? (never, once every 1–2 years, once a year, two or more times per year).

Comment · 7 months ago
Most people who use a keyboard aren’t using it for c like languages.
Comment · 7 months ago
I’d bet 99% of professional developers have never peeked at kernel source code or built their own device drivers.

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