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pwillia7··on A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
Yeah but you know what I mean -- A person specifically interacting with my brand vs anthropic hitting all sites 100000 times a day
pwillia7··on Let's all meet up in the Y2K
I went down the rabbit hole yesterday and found the THREE-em dash exists too https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2E3B
pwillia7··on A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
There is bot traffic initiated by a human and bot traffic not initiated by a human. I would want to serve the first but not the second if it impacted my cost/performance at all.
pwillia7··on Let's all meet up in the Y2K
I really like your super emdash
pwillia7··on Let's all meet up in the Y2K
Not the 90s but check out Halt and Catch Fire: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/
pwillia7··on Let's all meet up in the Y2K
Claude, make a plan to refactor this repo to introduce low-level concepts like data-driven design, functional programming, etc.
pwillia7··on Zed DeltaDB
that was my first question too. Here's hoping
pwillia7··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
What if my blog is mostly about AI generated images? :P
pwillia7··on Em dashes are amazing
double dash is the place to be -- all the em dash goodness, significantly less AI accusing.
pwillia7··on Flux 3
Awesome -- glad they're going to release the open weight version! I've been waiting for an excuse to re jump into AI OS image gen!
pwillia7··on I Think You Might Be Fooling Yourself with AI
Now imagine if this was written about the first steam engines being used inefficiently to pull coal up out the ground and pump out the water. It's so expensive -- is this really more effective than just hiring 50 men? We all know how that ended up...
pwillia7··on Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality – Worse on Purpose
You should do clothing brands like PVH brands (CK, Hilfiger, VS, and more) where they have a high end line and use it to build a brand and then sell a totally different cheap line of terrible goods with the same name on it in different stores. Luxury consolidation with LVMH and the enshittification there would be a good one too
pwillia7··on I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
whoa
pwillia7··on Making
yeah I think he's not an 'artisan' anymore at least not in an applied way. They're more of a technician at that point.
pwillia7··on Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
Fix for ChromeOS Linux: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a60b174-7b14-83ea-83d4-bdf4dc8ccc...
pwillia7··on Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
that's fair
pwillia7··on Show HN: CodeAlmanac – Karpathy-style codebase wiki from your conversations
Cool thanks I will keep an eye on it!
pwillia7··on Show HN: CodeAlmanac – Karpathy-style codebase wiki from your conversations
Any data on better outputs and/or token saving?
pwillia7··on Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
I bet if you had a way to easily train a LORA on you trying on various clothing types the models would do pretty well but I agree without that I can't think of a way to get it to work. Reminds me of the flattering mirrors scam https://finance.yahoo.com/news/company-swears-controversial-...
pwillia7··on Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25
WPE tried to make Faust.js a thing so you could use WP CMS but generate a modern static site but I don't think it really took off much
pwillia7··on Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25
tbf literally all my php hate comes directly from WP
pwillia7··on Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
yeah feels like you can only target end consumers or hobby business people as any real business would just reinvest capital in equipment that is modern and can compete or get rid of the business if it's not worth the $$$
pwillia7··on 5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)
I see everything is CENTS! I was like what on earth who is paying $250 for a ham sandwich???
pwillia7··on The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
I have one of these and they're great. If you get one though, you really do need to convert to XTC for not terribly jagged glyphs -- https://x4converter.rho.sh/
pwillia7··on United Wizards of the Coast recognized by NLRB
feels so gross
pwillia7··on Plotnine
Very cool will have to check this out more.

Semi related -- I made a little d3.js AI wrapper that works pretty well for making quick charts -- https://prompt2chart.com/share/e998a3f6-9482-4c18-931f-a4513...; https://prompt2chart.com/;

pwillia7··on Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
This guy should call the ACLU -- The cops' behavior might get them involved here.
pwillia7··on Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test
Relevant WKUK sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpC_hO15IoA
pwillia7··on Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques
I heard about an experiment on some podcast where they switched organ donation to opt-in from opt-out and before and after the change they interviewed people coming out of the DMV and asked them _why_ they chose to or chose not to be an organ donor.

No one said -- Oh that's just what the default option was.

Everyone had a thought out reasoned answer why they did what they did. But the data showed none of them did that and they in fact just did what the default was and justified their choice afterwards.

I wish I could remember/find the podcast but I haven't been able to. It feels like an old freakonomics but I don't think it is.

pwillia7··on Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
you don't use vim/emacs for the productivity. It's a lifestyle decision
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