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It genuinely doesn't matter anymore. All mine lately have been .xyz you can get them for like $1 a year from porkbun.com.


I just looked at .xyz on Porkbun. It's $9.92/year (with $2.04 for the first year).


yeah, a big plus if porkbun sells it as thats where i got most other domains


You can tell them you don't need one here https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/t...

It does need abolishing though.


Don’t see why I should dox myself to them for a thing I never want and never asked for.


Well I'm not 7, but I'm definitely interested in that!


Not saying this is what happened but if you search for a domain multiple times, then sometimes the service you're using will register it instead of you, then try to sell it to you at a jacked up price.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326790 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running


GoDaddy was once notorious for this. Don’t know if they still are.


GoDaddy to me is synonym for actively sabotaging their customer's interests.


It would be fun to spam domain searches to cause them to register a bunch of shitty domains they can’t sell.


That doesn’t work because they don’t pay anything. They get to “taste” ownership of the domain for free.


Ok, at least there must be limits, so it would act as a diluter and possibly make it uneconomic.


Oh yeah, and you don't need to search it many times. Do the window shopping a couple times and "someone" will get the domain right away.


I always search for my desired domain with the .wtf TLD and then browse to see if .media/.io/.dev is available.


This is an excellent anti-pattern strategy to adopt when searching for a new but premium domain.

No sense tripping up all the gTLD and registars’ mousetraps of shady jacked-up pricing scheme.


"In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."


I don't think I've ever read so much nonsensical word vomit in my life.

And I say that as someone who owns and operates a bunch of (relatively) successful social media websites.

> The set of content processing algorithms is relatively fluid as new types of content become prominent and new algorithmic capabilities emerge. The set of content propagation algorithms is relatively stable.

This is the wrong way round as well. Content processing is stable, but it's the 'content propagation algorithms' that change a lot of the time.

And using the word 'algorithm' more than 200 times literally just makes it lose its meaning.


It depends very much what you're trying to read.

Start with the 90 day Harvard classics https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120622

And also check out Penguins Great Idea series https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/PEN02/penguin-great-ideas

If a book was read 100 years ago and is still being read today then it's worth a read. Most books written a few hundred years ago are just as relevant (if not more so) today.


On the other hand, many books from the past are dreadful with respect to readability, pacing, period context stuff and more... Generally the evolution the feedback loop between readers, writers and editors has generated over the last 100 years.


Most books from the past were dreadful but there are a couple selection mechanisms at play. For one, we only promote the best ones. The further back it goes the more picky we get. Second, it was a lot harder to publish in the past, so those who did it had more reason to.


Teach them how to write their own.

Don't teach your kid how to use a computer program, teach them how to write one.

You can easily build a toy language model yourself, it will give your kid a massive head start and help structure their mental models for life so they don't view this as 'magic' like so many other people do.


It's not even an Alexa.

But you can get text to speech libraries pretty easily to try it for yourself.


> It's not even an Alexa.

It's far smarter than Alexa. What do you mean?


Alexa is specifically designed to interact with services, whereas ChatGPT is a large language model which predicts the next lexical token(it's cool with me if you call industrial-grade autocomplete "smart", but some might hold the view that there's little intelligence in this process), rather than perform an API call itself.


See the breakdown of the bicameral mind.[0] What people now call the 'voice in their head' they used to think it was God speaking to them.

It's probably caused by parasites though [1]

The good news is with regular (real) meditation you can remove the voice entirely.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in...

[1] https://www.livescience.com/61627-ancient-virus-brain.html


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