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multjoy··on Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool
If I'm eating a sausage, I like to be certain that no asbestos was used in its production.
multjoy··on EFF is leaving X
Aptly, given Elon's ancestry, did the whole anti-apartheid movement simply pass you by?
multjoy··on I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit
Or, you know, just write it yourself.
multjoy··on Palantir extends reach into British state as gets access to sensitive FCA data
The references are almost irrelevant. The banks + fintechs have far more depth than that.
multjoy··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
We're talking about LLM's that are designed to be confidently incorrect. Accuracy is a side-effect.
multjoy··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
How do you know that the explanations are free from error?
multjoy··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
The EU does not write traffic legislation, it leaves that up to the individual states.

Unlike the US, the EU is a collection of fully sovereign countries.

multjoy··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
No, because in a functioning legislature the offence would be something like 'failing to disclose details', in the same way that refusing to participate in a DUI breath/blood draw would be a discrete offence.
multjoy··on The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)
The UK driving licence authority (DVLA) also has a period in which you can’t conduct a range of transactions overnight, but that’s because it interfaces with systems that still run batch jobs overnight and the cost of making it all 24/7 simply wasn’t worth it considering the demand.
multjoy··on AI makes you boring
I mean one thing we have learnt from Epstein is that the 'elite' don't spend much time crafting the perfect email!
multjoy··on South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection
The King has made it very clear that he was entirely unhappy with Andrew's involvement for years, but had Andrew done the right thing and entirely disappeared from public life he might have retained a degree of protection.

He didn't and so he had everything stripped away which sent a very clear message to Government and the police that he was there for the taking.

multjoy··on Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action
Well done you.

Catch all the security holes while you were reviewing it, or did you leave those to the machine as well?

multjoy··on Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025)
In many jurisdictions (the UK, in particular) charging people to apply for work is specifically illegal.
multjoy··on I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
>The thing is, it will soon become trivially easy to modify your own "text editing environment,"

elisp enters the chat

multjoy··on Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup
It says it finds errors.
multjoy··on AI coding assistants are getting worse?
Gear Acquisition Syndrome is a very different problem. Even if you haven't cured the issue the new synth was meant to fix, at least you have a new synth.
multjoy··on Lessons from 14 years at Google
It is an almost universal fact that dealing with retail customers is something that is left to the lowest paid, lowest status workers and often outsourced and now increasingly left to LLM chatbots.

While you obviously can't have highly paid engineers tied up dealing with user support tickets, there is a lot to be said for at least some exposure to the coal face.

multjoy··on Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience
Given that LLMs have no understanding of the text, what is the point of it?
multjoy··on Learn Lisp/Fennel Programming Against Neovim
Isn’t there an OS with a text editor that is based on lisp?
multjoy··on Lessons from the PG&E outage
It would encourage Starlink to put yet more crap into Low Earth Orbit and see them fill the atmosphere with barely understood pollutants.
multjoy··on The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
AI doesn’t necessarily mean an LLM, which are the systems making things up.
multjoy··on Hammersmith Bridge – Where did 25k vehicles go?
Also nonsense. I lived and worked in London for over a decade and even when I lived in an outer zone the car sat idle for 95% of the time.

Driving in London is a mug’s game. Your car journey is almost certainly unnecessary.

multjoy··on Hammersmith Bridge – Where did 25k vehicles go?
Nonsense. Traffic speed is not proportional to a competitive economy.
multjoy··on RFK Jr.'s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism
Those weirdos on the street aren't your actual government institutions.

This is 1984 territory, without hyperbole. They are rewriting what you see so that you will always have been at war with Eurasia.

multjoy··on Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable
What lunatic thinks that voice is the best way to interface with a computer?
multjoy··on I Am Mark Zuckerberg
No it isn’t.
multjoy··on I Am Mark Zuckerberg
The key term in most statutes is dishonesty.

Impersonating someone at their behest as a favour is unlikely to be dishonest.

multjoy··on I Am Mark Zuckerberg
One of my gmail doppelgängers has started trading crypto and I am deeply concerned for them.
multjoy··on Free software scares normal people
I’ve been computer touching since the mid eighties.

Exactly what golden era of computing are you harking back to, and what are you doing that requires 14 different commands?

multjoy··on Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life in Cycles
You have roads, infrastructure, a social security system, hospitals, schools…

The peasant got nothing.

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