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willdr··on Early response to false claims in Wikipedia, 15 years later
DYK is a notorious part of Wikipedia from an editing POV and is rife with long-term accounts who all they do is curate it.
willdr··on Chicago’s parking meter disaster
The problem is, obviously, the expertise of one field ("maximise car parking to deliver revenue") clashes with the expertise of another ("if we don't work to minimise car parking and dependence thereon, we'll all be breathing sulfur-infused atmosphere and praying we don't break through the wet bulb temperature").
willdr··on Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components
A better name for context is Client Context. On the server can you not just use a pojo?
willdr··on ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is
So you'd support a physical blockade of the United States and trying their leadership at The Hague?
willdr··on Why the US is one of only a few countries with no paid time off
Americans will not only say they deserve the shackles of their oppression, but advocate for them.
willdr··on Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API
Okay, and this one proposal by Google has outweighed all of those exponentially.
willdr··on Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)
But a developer isn't using Windows.
willdr··on Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)
But on a developer machine this doesn't matter does it?
willdr··on The Nano ESP32
I need some sort of basic guide to like, the actual hardware. Bought one of these but not keen to fry things accidentally...
willdr··on LazyVim
Do those places use GitHub? Anything on GitHub has been given to Microsoft.
willdr··on Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy
As someone who works side-by-side with creatives, I think you're being generous with "people can deal just fine with spreadsheets". I've seen multiple creative directors responsible for million-dollar-ad campaigns have to be walked through a simple spreadsheet.

Probably time to re-evaluate that prior.

willdr··on PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news
A service should not use LLMs to execute real world commands. Ever.
willdr··on PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news
Why would you ban them from huggingface? They've acted as white hats here.

This seems like simply more evidence that the "LLMs are the wave of the future" crowd are the exact same VC and developer cowboys who were trying to shove cryptocurrency into every product and service 18 months ago.

willdr··on Deep space experts prove Starlink is interfering in scientific work
They got approval to pollute the LEO of planet Earth? Who could you possibly go to for approval for that?
willdr··on Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
If I can ask, what is Paperless? Google is strangely unhelpful.
willdr··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
The service level agreement will go up? With whom?
willdr··on Sears offered complete houses in large DIY kits
Consumers didn't want to pay for quality to the extent demanded by corporations that need to grow YOY. Companies were placed into a cost-cutting race to the bottom. Everything continually gets worse, until we no longer remember how it was better.
willdr··on Show HN: Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments
That's because all the web3 grifters jumped ship to AI when the future of crypto became clear.
willdr··on PyPI Was Subpoenaed
They are equal insofar as they exist for the same purpose.
willdr··on GPT-4 Takes a New Midterm and Gets an A
I think this raises more questions about what we value in the Western education system rather than about the ability of a language model.
willdr··on Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
What are you talking about? Do you remember January 6?
willdr··on How to start a React Project in 2023
Vendor lock-in.
willdr··on So you've installed `fzf` – now what?
Don't you need admin to run `updatedb`? On a work machine, this is my main barrier to using plocate.
willdr··on We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams
Honestly, not removing them but putting them in a readonly state is worse than removing them.
willdr··on Show HN: OpenBB Terminal – Investment research for everyone
This is your brain on Finance, unfortunately.
willdr··on Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead of $100
Australians are obsessed with the property market in a way few from outside the country can understand. It is very uncommon to invest in securities here, compared to pumping more money into housing.
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