Wikipedia in its early days was not a high quality source of information. Assignments citing Wikipedia were graded F, no one trusted the information there, etc etc.
Now look at it! It's a key data source for humans AND AI. When did the flip happen? How did it happen?
Your views on vibecoding are going to become wrong similarly: gradually then all at once.
So keep looking for the signs and be ready to change your views - it'll happen fast to vibecoding too.
It shouldn't. It's not Wikipedia's project to be a source. You should use it as a good entry point to whatever topic you're researching, and use the cited sources. (and sure, acknowledge Wikipedia, but it's not a source)
That's what you should be doing, especially if you want to claim to be an authoritative source yourself, you need to play the knowledge provenance game.
Everyone else that just need information for practical reasons? Wikipedia has long proven its stochastic guarantees are more than enough.
(Even if you need to cite primary sources in the end, it makes more sense to go with Wikipedia early on, and track back the sources for citation once whatever you're working on pans out.)
I used Claude for my taxes last year. It was fine.
Previously, I used Free Fillable Forms which does force me to know more about tax forms than a more abstract software program. Most people's tax situation does not change very much year to year so it's fairly easy to verify - you can check if my tax return looks fairly similar to the previous year taking into account any differences.
If you have a substantially different year for whatever reason, sure get an accountant to double check. But if you're paying for an AI frontier agent, there's really no need to pay for a 3rd party program anymore.
but the windows phone OS was better, and the hardware very good. They just couldn't get their shit together with the app ecosystem; even paying us devs huge premiums to write apps wasn't enough.
This is such an arrogant, presumptive and mean-spirited comment that I cannot imagine you actually want an answer or a healthy conversation about the topic.
You need to review Hacker News site guidelines and refrain from posting flamebait.
Emerging from Amish-Mennonite life, also from deep Appalachia. Being twenty-three and experiencing cinema, rock music, and city life--not to mention a mall--for the first time was shattering, and poignant.
This is a new one. I usually see we are better off than in the Fifties because they had fewer entertainment options, or inanities like that. But you posit they didn't have plumbing?
"In 1990, only 1 percent of our homes lacked complete plumbing facilities. But, things were much different in 1940, when nearly half lacked complete plumbing. Then, about ten States had rates approaching or exceeding 70 percent. In succeeding decades, the proportion of homes lacking complete plumbing dropped dramatically, falling to about one-third in 1950 and one- sixth in 1960. It is interesting to note the States with the lowest percent- age of such homes in 1940 were higher than Alaska, which topped the 1990 list.
Complete plumbing facilities are defined as hot and cold piped water, a bath- tub or shower, and a flush toilet. In earlier censuses, these facilities must have been for exclusive use of a housing unit's inhabitants; this requirement was dropped in 1990"
Maybe it's demographic, then; because I don't know anyone who cheated on a spouse and am struggling to think of anyone who knows someone who did. Or maybe you spend too much time consuming pop culture.
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