Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Darius Kazemi @darius@friend.camp

6/11/2025, 1:47:31 PM

Public

This piece in particular:

> It gets most things right, but it consistently makes mistakes in the places that you are least likely to notice. In places where a person wouldn’t make a mistake. Your brain keeps trying to develop a theory of mind to predict its behavior but there’s no mind there, so it always behaves infuriatingly randomly.

Let me repeat:

> Your brain keeps trying to develop a theory of mind to predict its behavior but there’s no mind there

Chew on that

Michael Roberts @vivtek@indieweb.social

6/11/2025, 2:11:35 PM

Public

@dariusDarius Kazemi This is *exactly* the experience I had five years ago as a professional translator when the entire industry decided it was time to start running everything through machine translation and then paying translators half as much to "MT post-edit".

It gets most things right, but makes *plausible* mistakes it's hard to notice. So you can't use the translation without a human translator in the loop, but you "don't have to" pay the human as much.

Everybody wins! Except me.

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