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Money quote:

Excel requires some skill to use (to the point where high-level Excel is a competitive sport), and AI is mostly an exercise in deskilling its users and humanity at large.

That post aged like wine.

Hee hee.

Welcome to the future, where asking a question costs $4.99 and you'll never be able to find out if the answer is right or not.

geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/14273969

This is a paper for a MIT study. Three groups of participants where tasked to write an essay. One of them was allowed to use a LLM. These where the results:

The participants mental activity was also checked repeatedly via EEG. As per the papers abstract:

EEG revealed significant differences in brain connectivity: Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use.

I know, I know, WordPress is no longer cool, the boss is a dork and PHP is sooo 2000s. Unfortunately, life is often not a concert of wishes, and you have to make compromises.

One of the things that annoys me the most about the newer versions of WordPress is the ‘block editor’. (Yes, there is the Classic Editor. But Automattic has already announced that it won't be around forever. And then what?) It may be useful for people in marketing who want to ‘design’ websites, but I just want to write prose on the Internet and not have to think about trivial things like paragraphs. But what do people who write a lot of prose use?

That's right: WordStar. ;-)

A few years ago, Gerald Brandt published WordTsar - great name! -, a WordStar clone for modern systems that doesn't necessarily require (nor even support) DOS. Writing Word documents with it is really fun. So why not blog posts too?

Like many people in this community, I use a Markdown editor that could also publish directly in WordPress. After a few years with Ulysses, I recently switched to iA Writer on macOS to minimise my software subscriptions. Alternatively, there are also a few WordPress plugins that directly support Markdown as an input format, which is probably still the cheaper option.

So my approach for WordPress blog posts that don't necessarily require fiddling around with the HTML code (sometimes I fancy colour or specially formatted embedded photos, for example) is as follows: I write my posts in WordTsar, convert them with ws2markdown to Markdown and then upload the result to WordPress. I enjoy writing longer texts more this way and am therefore happy to recommend it to others. Maybe you like it too.

With the release of the 1.5 series of 42links (first announced here), my own approach at writing a bookmark collector has finally surpassed the functionality of its inspiration Espial: As you can see in the screenshot, deleting multiple links at the same time right from the index page is possible now. 🎉

I have been using 42links myself almost every day and I think I have now found and fixed the most embarrassing shortcomings. I would still very much welcome more users contributing ideas and/or people contributing code. :-)

I kept my promise and wrote something in Lisp.

FWIW: Not counting third-party libraries, READMEs and build-related stuff:

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Language                     files          blank        comment           code
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LISP                            12            205            330           1028
HTML                            16             69              6            698
CSS                              1             19             11             92
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TOTAL                           29            293            347           1818
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This has a few rough edges yet, for which I’m sorry. I’m proud enough to release it though. Please don’t consider this to be “finished software” yet. :-)