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Comment · 1 month ago
Now put yourself in the place of someone who knows what they want to say but now how to say it -- non-native speaker, not experienced in writing or structuring their thoughts, dyslexic, whatever the issue may be.

I would suggest AI can be a bicycle for the mind. Railing against it like this is like insisting cover letters for job applications need to be hand-written.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is obviously more a risk in the US than in Europe.
Comment · 1 year ago
Oh look, it's another one of those.
Comment · 1 year ago
I have no issues using a QWERTY keyboard, but I'll always prefer a (Belgian, not French) AZERTY keyboard to anything else. Even when coding.

Nothing is ever going to get my brain to reprogram 45 years of muscle memory.

Comment · 2 years ago
What is the purpose of the moving banners?
Comment · 2 years ago
What are recs? What is AnyRecs?

"AnyRecs Logo / Sign in with Google / made with love in France" is not what I call very informative. I will not sign in to something I have this little information about.

Comment · 2 years ago
I used to appreciate her. Until I realised she just always takes the contrarian view and expresses it in a needlessly undiplomatic and cynical way.
Comment · 2 years ago
There's not a chance in hell I'm trusting image hosting to a company that could go under in a couple of weeks or months.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's not a pathetic reason. I'm 100% on Mullenweg's side here. The DNA of WordPress is to keep revisions of everything.

You may not care about the history of your website, many people do.

Comment · 2 years ago
Some UX feedback:

- I click the link and see an image and a slogan. I can't click on anything and it's not immediately clear I need to scroll down to enter data.

- The date picker is not intuitive. Take a look at other sites that allow you to choose a start and end date: you allow start and end dates in the past, an end date before a start date, etc.

- I'm on your website to find out where I can go but I can't proceed without telling you where I cant to go. Perhaps ask me where I am now? Or give some general options?

- Once I get a result (I searched for Belgium from April 2024 to January 2024) I can't go back to the form. It's not a good idea to disable the back button.

Comment · 2 years ago
Well, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Israel, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_United_States_for... etc.

Does the existence of these Wikipedia articles now mean that I can call any information put out by Israel or the United States "biased content" and just disregard it?

Comment · 2 years ago
If you feel you need to go back that far it's perhaps a good idea to compare the way Jews and Christians were treated in Muslim countries with the way Jews were treated in Europe.
Comment · 2 years ago
...where he is accused of having "helped bring about the state of affairs in the academy that [he is] now lamenting — in which woke ideology subverts all that they deem precious in the academy and science".
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
It might seem far-fetched but the theory is not based on speculation. It's supported by a substantial body of scientific evidence.

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