Deborah
here is my finger .plan:
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I have to create a new awful.systems account and read from there, so I stop seeing these weenies’ replies after they get banned. The purified experience is the Awful™️experience.
Speaking as a librarian, you’re a mistaken. It is actually incredibly difficult for most people to know how to verify that a source both exists and says what your unreliable informant claims they say.
Meanwhile medium sized & large law firms have their own librarians (at least in the US), and in many places lawyers from smaller firms have access to some kind of outsourced research service. The easiest solution in the world is to ask the expert researchers whose cost is billable to the client.
Wikipedia informs me that your diet includes squid, anchovies, mackerel, rockfish, and sardines. Yum yum!
Or when you’re singing karaoke and suddenly break into a chorus of the phone number and email address of a random author of a scholarly paper whom you’ve never met whose paper has nothing to do with the lyrics of “Free Bird“?
How is a human being different from running
cat my\_textbook.txt? Checkmate! Give Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie billions of dollars, for they have invented artificial general intelligence, and now we may all have robot girlfriends.
JFC I avoid AGI boosters mostly so I’m always aghast when I’m reminded of what they believe. HN commenter says (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40365850) AGI will bring:
Solve CO2 Levels
End sickness/death
Enhance cognition by integrating with willing minds.
Safe and efficient interplanetary travel.
End of violent conflicts
Fair yet liberal resource allocation (if still needed), “from scarcity to abundance”
I mean can you imagine them at any fandom con?
…oh wait i can
Figma is an angry god’s judgement upon me for something. Atheism, probably, or maybe that time I stole a peanut when I was eight.
I have a coworker who uses Figma as a spreadsheet and it saps me of the will to live.
People use it for “wireframes” (read: mockups without any of the useful features of a wireframe). It’s one of those pieces of crap that encourages people to keep adding new images to one mega, unsorted, non-navigable, non-paginated massive screen. It’s *awful*.
Is that you, Grimes?
I love the HN response that’s basically “soooo, usenet with trn, then?” Though a client that handles email reply bottom posting with “>” prefixed fragments more accurately describes this use case.
Either way there is nothing new under the sun.
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