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Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:18AM (#35056252)
Because, as someone else on the Internet put it so eloquently, information wants to be wrong. Sure, you can build your technologies and make your culture and it'll even work for a while, but the average person doesn't really care about all that infrastructure and the rules for preserving content. It's (one of the reasons) why search engines are pushing LLMs so hard - few actually want to search for stuff, they just want to put words in a box and get an answer. They don't even necessarily care if the answer is (very) truthful, just if it's useful!
$10,000 will buy you many CS textbooks
Re:Ask HN: What service are you willing to provide for $1? on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @08:20AM (#17187072)
Distributed accountability buddies. I like it.
Re:Where the Console.WriteLine Rubber Meets the Road on Saturday November 18, 2017 @10:20AM (#15729261)
Hello, everyone, first time poster, long time reader. I got the idea for this post after reading HostileFork's excellent look into the printf function, and thought it'd be interesting to take a look at the .NET equivalent.

Please let me know if I got anything wrong!