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xirdstl··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
Biden was in power for the survey in 2024.
xirdstl··on The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great
That is probably the more likely scenario.
xirdstl··on The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great
There are two conflicting messages here: AI is ruining the Internet, but also now the relationship with the Internet is more "peaceful".

A more peaceful relationship with the internet does sound good, and most of us probably waste too much time with social media in some form (including here).

My "optimistic" take on this is that AI will ruin the Internet and cause us all to spend more time with people in real life. And maybe that's a good thing.

That's assuming that AI Internet slop is such a turn-off that most of us will decide to disengage from it, which is a big assumption. But I did say it was optimistic.

xirdstl··on Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
They don't claim that's 2.5M cancellations of paid subscriptions. It's "taken action". It's vague for a reason
xirdstl··on Merlin Bird ID
It is amazing, but it does often give false positives. That probably can't be avoided, though
xirdstl··on Making Beautiful API Keys
They realized that and were pleased with themselves.

> The dashes do remove easy double-click copying, but we think this a fine trade off for readability. We don't want users copying and pasting them everywhere, in fact we want them to be handled with care. Ideally, users copy each key exactly once - when they generate the key from our dashboard - so we added a copy button to our UI to solve that case

Don't even think about copying/pasting that key, you rube!

xirdstl··on The X-Files Game
Could almost call it a staple of Sierra games.
xirdstl··on The Coffee Machine Hiring Test
I look forward to the next couple posts in this series: The Leaky Faucet Test and The Clogged Toilet Test.
xirdstl··on More doctors are charging fees to respond to patient messages
If you're in the US, and can afford it, I think direct primary care is the way to go.
xirdstl··on Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game
It doesn’t track streaks correctly. I have solved for the last 8 days. It shows 100% correct, but my current streak is 1 and longest streak 3
xirdstl··on Dating apps lose their luster with college students
Great question. Something like you suggest could help. I definitely think it's possible to do better, because some of the apps have a lot fewer fake profiles/scammers compared to say, Tinder.

I think there isn't enough incentive for some of them (again, Tinder) to bother. If enough people stop using them, maybe they will incentivized to do better.

xirdstl··on Dating apps lose their luster with college students
If you pay to subscribe, that does nothing to help with scammers, I promise you.
xirdstl··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
With, of course, the minters of that coin taking the majority of the claims /s
xirdstl··on The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman
Have you looked at the RAZ Memory Cell Phone? I've been considering that for my mom, who also has early stage dementia.
xirdstl··on Google engineer earns $150K works 1 hr/day, spends rest of time on his startup
This is the kind of thing that will be pointed to as a reason to bring employees back into the office. So much so, that it's hard to believe it's real.

If you are applauding these guys while maintaining that being forced into the office is a crime against humanity, you may want to do some introspection.

xirdstl··on Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco
Same happened to me using Brave on desktop
xirdstl··on Substack Notes Launched
On the other hand, I have a quite positive opinion of Substack given the articles I read there, and I know I'm not alone.

I don't like Twitter though, so I don't really care about Notes

xirdstl··on FTX stored private keys to crypto assets in plaintext, without access controls
That only difference is an extremely important difference
xirdstl··on Home Prices Fell in February for First Time in 11 Years
That's good to know. I'm hoping those conditions don't come back here for awhile.

Getting into spring, I could see more people start looking again, with some pent-up demand not met from last year.

xirdstl··on Home Prices Fell in February for First Time in 11 Years
That must be specific to your market. That's not what I'm seeing in the Denver area, speaking as someone who has been casually looking for a house for over a year.

As soon as interest rates started rising, conditions went from what you describe, to, in a lot of cases, houses sitting weeks or months on the market. They go through, sometimes, multiple prices drops before going under contract.

I'm speaking specifically of homes that are in the range of those I'm considering purchasing, so maybe it doesn't apply to the overall market. For me, though, it is now much more of a buyer's market than it was a year ago.

xirdstl··on Emulating Pokemon Emerald on GPT-4
I was imagining similar things. Dating apps, in general, are already pretty poor experiences for a lot of people. This won't help.

Will scammers use it to create more believable bot matches?

Maybe we'll have to go back to meeting at bars.

xirdstl··on Home food delivery’s questionable value, for consumers and investors
Freshly did full meals, ready to microwave. That said, they shut down this year.
xirdstl··on Repairing Your Car in Your Own Garage Is Considered Illegal in Sacramento, CA
I agree that the attitude that doing real work is "low class" is disgusting.

I also think the attitude that paying someone to fix your car "is disgraceful" is disgusting.

xirdstl··on We’re making Firefox accessible and delightful for everyone
This is also offtopic, but I cringe when software companies use the word "delight" when describing their software.
xirdstl··on New York City hiring top rat killer
Which were also cringe
xirdstl··on Eye of the Beholder: C64 Port
I loved Grimrock. Have there been any similar games of comparable quality released since Legend of Grimrock 2 in 2014? I haven't found any that I could get into.
xirdstl··on Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year
Agreed, though fortunately it silences quickly upon “Alexa, shut up”
xirdstl··on IKEA asks horror game to change so people stop comparing it to IKEA [update]
The video description also references IKEA:

"Check out the official reveal of the new Open-World Action Horror game that has you explore an infinite IKEA store and survive it's many different entities and discover it's secrets"

xirdstl··on AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)
This is my complaint as well. On multiple pairs, the microphone becomes unreliable after some number of months. If I'm lucky, it's within the warranty period.
xirdstl··on How elites misread public opinion
You're right, I misinterpreted what you were saying, and the explanation I described does not address that.
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