[–] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

Sure. But if you read the original post, it's about someone saying that jews are not safe in Canada. And this is then contrasted with how bicyclists are being killed in Canada but jews are not being killed. Directly contradicting the presented narrative.

So then you might wonder: why did someone feel that Canada was unsafe? And you'll find that the answer was "because they heard a few people criticize Israel."

In my own experience, the people saying "jews aren't safe" or "this is antisemitism" often aren't jewish or representing any jewish people; they're just pro-evil.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Who wrote these regex? They are terrible:

    • We've got a capture-group for the numbers (the () means we're saving that part for later). Are we planning to do something with the mlg numbers? Why don't we care about the mmmberry numbers?
    • The capture is one or more numbers, but then it's an optional group. Write ([0-9]*) instead
    • We match mlg and mlg1 but not mlga because we anchor to the end ($). But not on mmmberry--that one will match "mmmberry5" (but we don't track the number!) but also "mmmberry_is_the_worst" so the enemy of my enemy is also my enemy because they share a prefix

    Maybe mlg has sock-puppet accounts mlg1, mlg2, but never MLG?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago (10 children)

    When people say "AI" these days, they mean the LLM-derived generative AI such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and Grok.

    These AI systems are not capable of finding authoritative search results. They are good at generating fluent, plausible, context-appropriate text. In legal and medical situations, that's the opposite of what you'd want.

    Do you know how often doctors will take a patients history, step outside the exam room, and then google shit?

    Think about how often the doctors land on some pseudo-science result. Now imagine that instead of a doctor it's a patient and instead of asking "could these be related" the patient is told "these are related".

    a big ol disclaimer that it’s NOT to be taken seriously

    This has worked very well for Fox News, which is not a news agency and is for entertainment purpose only. Also for dietary supplements, which are not medicine.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago

    It's a disservice to pitch this as "easy-peasy, win-win, 10 seconds of work and you save in the end!"

    More realistic to say:

    • It will take up to 1h to find a way to buy it (and the answer may be "only on Amazon (tm)"
    • It will cost more
    • Also shipping $$$
    • It will take longer (because you're not getting Prime shipping)

    For that cost, you get some benefits:

    • You get the actual product, not something that Amazon decides is "the same"
    • Fuck you Amazon

    And most of all

    • The extra effort and money will maybe lead you to realize that you don't need to buy yet another thing.
    • Or if you do still buy it, maybe you'll decide you might as well get the good version that lasts, instead of the cheap version that breaks in a month.
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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    I played around for a few minutes and I'm somewhat surprised that I like it (because on page-load it looks the same as Excalidraw or Miro or the others).

    • Small number of shapes is good. I like that "database" and "server" are there, because I'd be using this for software architecture diagrams and I don't want an overwhelming number of shapes.
    • The map in the lower left works quite well. I should try it on something big enough to need it.
    • The note is just basic text. All the other apps I've used make the text scale to fill the note and I hate that.
    • Some things are sticky (arrows, freehand) while others are not (shapes). This is surprising and I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it may be the correct choice.
    • The AI isn't popping up in my god-damn face. I really don't want "help" with drawing.
    • Export as Mermaid is very interesting-looking.

    The sticky/nonsticky buttons are the only maybe-criticism I've got after a quick peek, but I liked it quite a bit and will try using it for real. The export options are important because they make me feel like I won't lose my work if you get bored or forget to pay a bill. :-)

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It's quite good for any problem that nobody cares about. For example, if you have a boss who wants hourly status-updates but does not actually read the updates. Or if you need to fill out security forms, but you were going to lie on all the forms and trust that nobody reads them. Or if you get a bonus for writing >100k lines of code, but the code doesn't need to do anything that people want. Or if you need to have someone answer customer-support questions, but it doesn't matter if the customers get helped or are happy.

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