People with enough positive points have the ability to flag a comment or submission to indicate they don't feel like it belongs. Why it's flagged is sometimes difficult to figure out.
In your article, you write that a social platform without trolls is impossible. You simply encountered a dumb-ass troll who didn't like the fact that you like Twitter and he reacted this way.
If you look now, your submission isn't flagged anymore, people with enough points to flag can also 'vouch' and counter a flag, so it looks like enough people vouched to unplug your submission :) Sometimes it turns into a tug of war.
I think this is just the first step for a full-featured agent that not only does searches for you, but also executes whatever was your goal (e.g. a restaurant reservation, etc)
To solve that problem you have to solve all the issues that make me not trust the results. As search, it's fine, since I am perusing and evaluating them. But as an agent, hallucinations and inaccurate answers have to disappear (or very close to disappear).
Preview is one of the most underrated apps in macOS, and the one I miss the most when I use Linux or Windows. It's a great little toolbox for quick editing and convenience features.
I didn't realize it was underrated, but it's probably the best MacOS bundled software. If I could get a Linux equivalent, that would be fantastic. Viewing, editing, PDF filling, PDF signing (so useful), all in a fast and responsive tool is just incredible.
If anyone has anything near a Linux equivalent, please let me know.
I have an Air and I felt like its speakers were pretty decent, but my wife bought a Pro and they're just incredible.
Sometimes I hear her watching some movie or show a few rooms away, and I can never know if she's watching it on the TV or on the Pro just by the audio alone. Those speakers do fill the room, and them some.
VGA Planets. Such a great game, advanced to its time!
It was a Civilization-like game, but in space, with lots of pop culture references, complex like Dwarf Fortress, and turn-based. Each turn was uploaded to a BBS or Usenet, and a host put all the players' turns together every few days, then sent the turn files back. So fun.
For me it was a similar game, Stars![0] I got the shareware demo along with several other games on a floppy included with some computer magazine I randomly purchased at the mall. Got my brother and across-the-street neighbor hooked on it and we'd have days-long hot seat games during the summers. Later on I discovered the actual boxed version and bought it on the spot.
It is probably the oldest game I still play occasionally (it runs fine in Wine). In a weird coincidence, in the 201Xs my best friend and I were reminiscing about old games and it turned out he played it in his youth as well, so we fired up our respective copies and got several PBEM (well s/email/Google Drive) games going.
One of my favorite things about it is tweaking scripts to optimize the game economy each time I get another round of obsession with the game. It will dump detailed game data into TSV specifically for parsing by other tools.
If anyone is interested, you can still get legit software keys for it [1].
Yeah I bought this too. It still exists as a web game, by the way. It was fun but it mainly taught me I lack the fundamental strategic insight for such games.
The problem is “the public” wants to be part of the conversation but isn’t able to participate or understand it to an adequate level.
It would be like trying to have a sophisticated discussion on Reddit about quantum mechanics. You’d have a huge majority of people with a passing interest in the subject and the majority of their knowledge from 10 minute YouTube videos without any real technical details, and a minority of experts who actually understand the math and work with the stuff. The majority will jump to strange conclusions that can’t be debunked without learning the math and practices they don’t know and mostly don’t care about learning, the minority will either try to take great pains to educate them or just go somewhere they can talk amongst themselves.
I understood that sentence as something that can happen to you even if you believe it won't.
> Please believe me. My current email server IP has been managed by me and used exclusively for personal email with zero spam, zero, for the last ten years.
