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cwnyth··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
They came to get free help and couldn't even bother to put a little effort into their questions. What do they expect?
cwnyth··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
You do not get points for closing questions, and you get negative points for downvoting. Where did that lie come from?
cwnyth··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
It worked fine earlier this week, but I guess that's that for Reddit. It had been a (not so) good run.
cwnyth··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
I'm a mod on two SE sites. It definitely happens. And yes, (imo) they typically need help.
cwnyth··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
I think it's pretty clear that was the cause of the 2020 spike and fall. Once people started going back to work (summer 2020 for us), questions dropped back to pre-2020 levels.
cwnyth··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
There's Old Reddit Redirect extension in Firefox, but honestly, you're not missing out on anything there anyway.
cwnyth··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
I think you're forgetting of a certain major event that happened in 2020. An event that initially caused a lot of free time around the world and kept people indoors...
cwnyth··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
I think Reddit is even worse. You could get banned from SO for using pretty foul insults, but in some places of Reddit, it's business as usual.
cwnyth··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
But SO was never a place to just talk to others. It's not a general purpose discussion site. It could have been a friendly place, but users still would have left, because it's just far easier to get an immediate answer from AI, and those answers have only been getting better.

Yeah, the place could be very hostile, but that hostility didn't crater questions before ChatGPT was released.

cwnyth··on Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI
The fact that all this stuff is easily accessible online and yet some people think they can just out-logic the law is mind-boggling to me. Oh, you never studied law in your life but you're criticizing a 60-year old law that has been hashed out over and over again? Dunning-Kruger strikes again.
cwnyth··on Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI
Because if neither side budges, it goes to court to figure out what's reasonable, like with any other dispute. This is pretty basic stuff.
cwnyth··on Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI
You're missing a major component of the law:

> Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for an applicant or employee whose sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance conflicts with a work requirement, *unless providing the accommodation would create an undue hardship for the employer.*

If using a computer is necessary for the job, then the religious exemption would create undue hardship. Presumably for this Kentucky guy's job he can get his work done without AI and the university isn't suffering for it.

cwnyth··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI
cwnyth··on Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505
Oh, look, another drive-by throwaway profile that doesn't add anything meaningful to the conversation and just pisses on those who call out sloppy AI writing.
cwnyth··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
I just have it constantly update real-world analogues for keeping track of everything. I have it create guides, note cards, flowcharts, running to-do lists, etc. with every change.

It helps us keep track of things, why not AI, too?

cwnyth··on The Real Kevin Bacon
Equally, just because someone is lower on the A-list than actor B doesn't mean that B is off the A-list...
cwnyth··on The Real Kevin Bacon
Couldn't you say the same about Nick Cage? Granted, Cage's iceberg is quite a bit bigger than Bacon's.
cwnyth··on The Real Kevin Bacon
I'll concede he's not at the same level as George Clooney, but as the lead in Footloose and co-leads/part of ensemble leads in Wild Things, Flatliners, The River Wild, and Hollow Man, I would have thought that put him above someone like Bill Pullman, who I think of as a B-list actor. But you don't always have to be the lead to be an A-lister. Just look at Gary Oldman.
cwnyth··on The Real Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon is objectively an A-list actor.
cwnyth··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
But that only raises the question: what bore PHP? A bit of a C(hicken) and an egg situation.
cwnyth··on Show HN: We had AI write a wiki from 45k Enron emails, every fact cited
You're not wrong. These load-bearing air molecules are not too energized; they are quite tranquil―and the wavelengths emitted off plants' photosynthesis organs are equally pleasing.
cwnyth··on Shitter – A Nitter Fork
Dude created his account 30 minutes ago. He's just a cowardly troll, probably paid by Twitter.
cwnyth··on Shitter – A Nitter Fork
You forget that Twitter is just a joke.
cwnyth··on Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
No one reads the article anymore. They're just vibe commenting.
cwnyth··on The compiler was supposed to end programming too
I'm not sure you're even reading the comments to which you're replying.
cwnyth··on Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference'
If someone thinks they can profit off of or otherwise control the Torment Nexus, they will build it as fast as they can.
cwnyth··on Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference'
AKA, Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia.
cwnyth··on CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership
Additionally, engineering is distinct still.
cwnyth··on Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do
Plenty of good answers were rejected, especially where typos were concerned. On the coffee shop question, CK's coffee shop wasn't found and Waffle House was rejected, but Paul's was a top answer? Paul's also serves breakfast food. Seems arbitrary. Memphis Colosseum was rejected probably because the proper spelling is Coliseum. But how could it not find it from "Memphis Colosseum"? It's easily found (and the spelling corrected) in Google Search.
cwnyth··on Hittite royal archive found in Turkey
Jaynes' goes far beyond the Bronze Age, though. It's unfortunately a bit of claptrap. Read "A Man and His Ba" to see just how clearly Bronze Age man knew they had individual will.
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