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Looked at the cover and saw “From Two Time Hugo Award Finalist Chuck Tingle”.

There’s no way that’s true. But I did a quick search anyway, and holy shit!

https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2016-hugo-awards/...

https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2017-hugo-awards/...

The story behind it:

https://www.quora.com/How-did-Chuck-Tingle-become-a-Hugo-Awa...

https://archive.ph/20160526154656/http://www.vox.com/2016/5/...


They wrote a book about it too, "Slammed In The Butt By My Hugo Award Nomination".

Hard to say without knowing what your needs are. What’s wrong with using macOS’ native tools? They work great not only for capturing but for annotation. What exactly are you looking for?

The app has a constant item on the bar at the bottom. Quitting that quits the whole application, I couldn't find a setting to change this behaviour. But I could live with that if it wasn't for it somehow switching desktops when you start taking a screenshot. It switches desktop, goes back to the main one, then starts the set up. Of course that also means it takes a couple of seconds before the screenshot gets taken.

The world isn’t black and white. Should we outlaw video games? No, I don’t think so. Should we outlaw specific addictive features, such as loot boxes, which are purposefully designed to trigger addiction in people and knowingly cause societal harm in the name of increasing profits for private companies? Probably.

> Portugal's decriminalisation, partial legalisation of weed in the Netherlands, legalisation in some American states and Canada prove legal businesses will better and safer provide the same services to the society, and the lesser societal and health cost.

You’re stretching it big time. The situation in the Netherlands caused the rise of drug tourism, which isn’t exactly great for locals, nor does it stop crime or contamination.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2022/11/change-starts-here-amsterda...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/24/bacteria-pesti...

As for Portugal, decriminalisation does not mean legalisation. Drugs are still illegal, it‘s just that possession is no longer a crime and there are places where you can safely shoot up harder drugs, but the goal is still for people to leave them.


Star Trek replicators were deterministic. They had a library of things they could replicate that your programmed in and that’s the extent of what they could do. They replicated to the molecular level, no matter how many times you ask for something, you got the exact same thing. You’d never ask for a raktajino and get a raw steak. In the rare instances where they misbehaved as a plot point, they were treated as being broken and needing fixing, no one ever suggested “try changing your prompt, or ask it seventeen times until you get what you want”.

— Why are you launching nukes? No one asked you to obliterate humanity.

— You’re absolutely right. I should not have done that. Would you like me to help undo the launch?

— Yes! Quickly! Do it!

— <completely made up crap which does not work>

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995


"I have turned off the missile monitoring systems. The missiles now report as non-existent."

No one, absolutely zero people, voted for giving the president the power to ignore all checks and balances, taking a dump on the democracy you’re so fond of.

We know for certain no people voted for it, because the option was never on a ballot.


Considering how often I’ve been seeing people on HN ardently defending everything Trump and “owning the libs”, I somehow doubt “open and peaceful discussion environment” is the deciding factor in flagging submissions of this nature.

> It feels like a lot of people are using GenAI wrong.

That argument doesn’t fly when the sellers of the technology literally sing at you “there’s no wrong way to prompt”.

https://youtu.be/9bBfYX8X5aU?t=48


> If it were true there would be no role for things like university lecturers.

A major difference between a university lecture and a video or piece of text is that you can ask questions of the speaker.

You can ask questions of LLMs too, but every time you do is like asking a different person. Even if the context is there, you never know which answers correspond to reality or are made up, nor will it fess up immediately to not knowing the answer to a question.


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