"Hey, someone on the Internet used decent diction! Obviously, this means I must accuse them of being a bot!"

(Hey Dang. Can we get a ban button? There's a few people here that are impossible to conduct rational discourse with. My sanity would improve if they were simply gone from my view.)

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bonsai_spool 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You've edited the response since you posted it. I think there's a difference between diction and the standard output of ChatGPT et al.

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rfl890 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I have trouble believing that you're pointing this out in good faith.

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ssl-3 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd like to say that I'm sorry that you feel that way, but frankly: My ability to feel anything empathetic about you dwindles by the moment.

Please stop fucking with people in this way. It's callous, unnecessary, and antithetical to the greater good. We don't come here to get accused of things.

(edit: Today, I learned about the existence of a chip that does a clever thing. That made me curious: After all, I've been passively wondering for -decades- about how electronic things remember their previous state without power, and without hammering an EEPROM.

I could have learned more about this at any time over the years, but I just never bothered with doing so.

And today, it was right in front of my face -- with a part number! That gave me a very easy place to start, so I started.

I read up on it a bit using the datasheet and a whitepaper. I learned some about how it does that clever thing, and I wrote a few sentences about this new-to-me stuff in a way that I felt would be approachable and appreciated by this particular audience.

That's what we're here for -- to be curious, to share ideas, and to learn stuff from others. Not for fucking with people.)

	▲	antx an hour ago \| parent [-]
		And we're also here to use double dashes, aren't we.

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ninalanyon 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You could create a browser user script to do it locally.

	▲	ssl-3 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's not a terrible idea. An extra UI element or two should be enough. Maybe with sticky options for collapse-by-default or hide-by-default at the top of each HN comment section. And the list of usernames can be stored and edited in the purveyor's HN bio (in plain text, like a monster), so that it works automatically across devices.