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martin293··on EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution
I would appreciate an explicit statement about who this OS is intended for, is it laypeople, some subset of linux users, somebody else entirely? Or is it just a hobby project that has gained traction?
martin293··on There's a right way to cancel a restaurant reservation – and a wrong way
Yeah, I guess there could be downsides to this that I can't see, but asking to prepay when creating the reservation seems to be the best option by far.
martin293··on X (Twitter) marks the (porn) spot
Bad gateway
martin293··on Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia
I wonder what exactly were they worried would happen if they denied the request?
martin293··on Glish: A version of English where every word is only one syllable
The amount of syllables in a word does not always, and in the case of this language a considerable amount of time, correspond to how long it takes to say a word nor to how difficult the word is to pronounce.

I really hope the language was intended as nothing more than a curiosity.

martin293··on A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material
I remember finding Quora when it was good. It was a literal godsend, actually interesting and meaningful questions and answers. Basically what the internet was advertised as (information interchange). Sadly it only lasted like 6 months.
martin293··on It is time for more holistic practices in mental health
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Also,

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

martin293··on PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
Which features do you mean?
martin293··on PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
Sometimes this might not work, in that case try a different extension or different user agent strings. I had to go through a few before I found one that worked.
martin293··on PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
This solution will work for exactly a year. That's how long google gives enterprises to migrate to manifest v3.

Source: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate...

martin293··on Delivering WordPress in 6KB (2018)
I believe the message it sends is more important then it being active. And it's a finished project, no? Why should it be active?

Also I don't find reposts over long periods of time to be spam. Many people will see this for the first time here, me included.

martin293··on Why YC went to DC
Why did they decide not to release GPT-2? I haven't heard about it.
martin293··on My Hour of Memoryless Lucidity
I'm also interested in why they said no.
martin293··on Number 16 (spider)
Meh. As another commenter pointed out, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot) . Also I find the idea of "academic seriousness" very weird. I would never ever want to wake up with the thought of doing "serious science" all day. I want science (in my personal case, math) to be interesting, and thus fun.

"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play." - Heraclitus

martin293··on WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics
Such as?
martin293··on Number 16 (spider)
How does that have amything to do with disrespect?
martin293··on I want flexible queries, not RAG
I do not understand the point of this article.

You did not even tell us what the correct recipe was called. But let's ignore that for now.

I did some googling around, and the Wikipedia article for sartu di riso [0] mentions the fact that "it (the dish) found success in Sicily". Also, in [1] a commenter going by the name of passalamoda mentions that they also make this dish in Sicily. The comment they wrote is in Italy, but Frank Fariello has translated it for us, or if you don't believe him for whatever reason, google translate does a fine job. All of this is to say that associating this dish with Sicily based on the short description you've given, is not far fetched at all.

> I fail to see how an LLM summarizing the material would be an improvement.

I am fairly confident that typing the question you gave ChatGPT, waiting a few seconds for an answer, and then reading it can easily take under a minute. Lets be lenient, and say it takes 5 minutes to also ask a second question and receive the answer. That would still take way way way less time then to find a book, get the book and go through the book to find the correct recipe.

Also, you yourself have given a reason in your article as to why ChatGPT would be an improvement. I will quote it now:

> Most of her time was dealing with the brittleness of the query interface (depending on word matching and source popularity), spam, and locked down sources.

I have already spent way too much time on debunking a random internet article, but I also decided to try to get an answer from ChatGPT. I did that by continuing to ask it questions that a person looking for an answer, not contradictions, would ask. If we make the assumption, that deanputney is correct, and the dish you were looking for is Arancini al Burru, we are able to get an answer from ChatGPT by asking the very simple and natural question shown in [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sart%C3%B9_di_riso

[1] https://memoriediangelina.com/2013/01/21/sartu-di-riso-neapo...

[2] https://imgur.com/a/PKqGXyK

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