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New comment by Jepacor in "Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025"

Jepacor — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:10:57 +0000

An LLM's only commitment isn't to correct syntax either. It's only commitment is to popular syntax.

It happens that what is popular is correct often enough for the whole thing to somewhat work but I think it's always gonna be bristle.

New comment by Jepacor in "Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025"

Jepacor — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:07:15 +0000

Ah, so when you force students to edit Wikipedia for their courses, you get worse results than someone editing something voluntarily because they're passionate about it. That's... Hardly surprising.

So it's more about how generative AI is a problem in college right now because lazy students are using it to do the work than about Wikipedia itself, I think.

New comment by Jepacor in "Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025"

Jepacor — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:36:36 +0000

If you can buy the food at a supermarket, can't you cite a product page? Presumably that would include a description of the product. Or is that not good enough of a citation?

New comment by Jepacor in "Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset"

Jepacor — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:41:21 +0000

Samsung has already partnered with Microsoft in the past to make WMR headsets, and that did not prevent Windows 11 from dropping support for the device. The very same could happen to a Android-based headset.

New comment by Jepacor in "Kagi News"

Jepacor — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:22:18 +0000

Google will captcha me on the second or third search if I try to use the "site":" advanced keyword to narrow down search

I'm sorry I know how to use your tool?? ? Didn't you put these keywords in to be used?

New comment by Jepacor in "Why do some gamers invert their controls?"

Jepacor — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 01:52:38 +0000

And given how both mental models are reasonable, I think a lot of the preference is going to come down to what you're used to.

For me it seems to be tied to muscle memory too? Because I've noticed that when I play using a Gamecube controller I prefer the camera's x-axis to be inverted, but when I play using a modern controller I prefer not inverting it.

New comment by Jepacor in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

Jepacor — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:57:09 +0000

The percentages really don't tell you that much. To illustrate with an extreme exemple, if the top 0.1% earns a million, and the government taxes a single dollar on them and nothing on anyone else, the top 0.1% would pay 100% of the taxes. But it obviously would not be enough to help people in need.

I don't know the particular situation for Canada, but I know that welfare benefits are getting worse in my country (France)

New comment by Jepacor in "Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech"

Jepacor — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:36:59 +0000

That depends heavily on the subreddits you browse. There absolutely are places with high quality content, though it feels like they are getting sparser and sparser.

New comment by Jepacor in "Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech"

Jepacor — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:34:40 +0000

I think it's easier to just stop using em dashes, as much as I like them. People have latched on to this because it works a good amount of the time, so I don't think they will stop. I don't even think they should stop, because, well, it works a good amount of the time.

New comment by Jepacor in "Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems"

Jepacor — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 15:07:16 +0000

> > One thing I've wound up feeling from all this is that the current web is surprisingly fragile. A significant amount of the web seems to have been held up by implicit understandings and bargains, not by technology.

This is something I've been pondering, and honestly I feel like the author doesn't go far enough. I would go as far as to say a lot of our modern society has been held up by these implicit social contracts. But nowadays we see things like gerrymandering in the US, or overusing the 49-3 in France to pass laws despite the parliament voting against them. Just an overall trend of only feeling constrained by the exact letter of the law and ignoring the spirit of it.

Except it turns out these implicit understandings that you shouldn't do that existed because breaking them makes life shittier for everyone, and that's what we're experiencing now.