Amorymeltzer

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The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline(bloomberg.com)
22 points by Amorymeltzer 6mo ago|10 comments
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Cahokia(en.wikipedia.org)
24 points by Amorymeltzer 6mo ago|1 comments
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Who Would Believe NASA Used Whale Oil on Voyager and Hubble? (2014)(ksj.mit.edu)
1 points by Amorymeltzer 6mo ago|1 comments
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by Amorymeltzer 6mo ago
The book[1]— Super Nintendo by Keza MacDonald—is a fun enough read. Definitely written as a fan and for fans, it picks a few specific items/series and uses them to tell a narrative. It's not, you know, hard-hitting journalism,
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by Amorymeltzer 6mo ago
I basically agree, but I think at this point it's an accepted use; see e.g. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratization_of_knowledge > and < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratiza
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March inflation soars, confirming Iran war price shock(axios.com)
7 points by Amorymeltzer 6mo ago|2 comments
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Retina monitor explorer(retinadisplays.com)
2 points by Amorymeltzer 6mo ago|0 comments
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AI Changed Chess, Grandmasters Now Win with Unpredictable Moves(bloomberg.com)
5 points by Amorymeltzer 6mo ago|1 comments
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by Amorymeltzer 7mo ago
The (excellent) Megan Greenwell wrote Bad Company , all about private equity; I'd recommend it. It does a good job of telling the story through a few specific and illustrative examples of people/industries[1], while still explai
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by Amorymeltzer 7mo ago
Siracusa—probably best known here for doing fabulous OS X reviews for Ars—is a co-host of ATP. He is also known is such circles for having Mac Pros, and using them for a long time (sometimes by choice, sometimes by circumstance). He think
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by Amorymeltzer 7mo ago
For those who don't know what the t-shirt reference is, it's a creation by John Siracusa/The Accidental Tech Podcast: < https://cottonbureau.com/p/4RUVDA/shirt/mac-pro-believe-dark >.
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by Amorymeltzer 7mo ago
>Ê with the circumflex accent marks an “e” after which originally some other letter was written (usually an S), but this letter is no longer present in its modern spelling. [snip] >By imagining “es” instead of “ê”, we can often deduce
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Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)(bethmathews.substack.com)
1038 points by Amorymeltzer 7mo ago|202 comments
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by Amorymeltzer 7mo ago
For anyone vaguely familiar with ffmpeg, don't sleep on this video. Quite funny, and everything from `yadif` (which I dealt with today!) to mkvtoolnix to "But then it will explode if you have an apostrophe in your file name. Bec
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by Amorymeltzer 7mo ago
I'm in the middle of reading Peter Brannen's The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything —it's excellent and goes deep into the (bio)geochemistry of Earth—and he presents a good case for a metabolism-first development of lif
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Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV(hollywoodreporter.com)
254 points by Amorymeltzer 7mo ago|95 comments
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by Amorymeltzer 7mo ago
Indeed! He specifically cites Yanis Varoufakiss, dubbing this technofeudalism. If I may quote Doctorow a bit: >Varoufakis defines capitalism as a system designed to preference profit over rent. [snip] >The feudal era wasn't d
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by Amorymeltzer 7mo ago
To name a few components: - Older chip (and with fewer thermal constraints) - Only one camera (and much cheaper) - Less RAM than 17pro and Air - No cell modem, FaceID, ProMotion, MagSafe, etc.
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by Amorymeltzer 7mo ago
Well, the Library of Congress entry notes him as "Gugusse the clown" and the Wikipedia entry[2] has a few citations (to books, I can't verify) that support it, but more to the point, "Pierrot" is a classic[3] stock
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by Amorymeltzer 8mo ago
For that in particular, I use delta (< https://github.com/dandavison/delta >) with `side-by-side = true` enabled. I find I use both icdiff and delta side-by-side on a regular basis.
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Why Are So Many Teen Girls Still Tearing Their A.C.L.s?(nytimes.com)
5 points by Amorymeltzer 8mo ago|2 comments
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by Amorymeltzer 8mo ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite YouTube series, Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong. They were short little videos where a guy had a toy dinosaur and he would explain why the toy was incorrect. Short, easy to understand, fun, and I learned a l
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by Amorymeltzer 8mo ago
>Orwell's mistake lay in thinking there had to be actual war to keep the merry-go-round of the balance of power in being. In fact, in one of the more laughable parts of the book, he goes on and on concerning the necessity of permane
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Garden State Parkway Jon Bon Jovi Rest Stop Is Playing Loose with Quotes (2023)(defector.com)
1 points by Amorymeltzer 8mo ago|0 comments
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The Myth of Cops Overdosing from Touching Fentanyl Persists for a Reason (2021)(defector.com)
5 points by Amorymeltzer 8mo ago|1 comments
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by Amorymeltzer 8mo ago
There was a discussion recently on the Wikimedia wikitech-l discussion list, and one participant had a comment I appreciated: >I'm of the opinion if people can tell you are using an LLM you are using it wrong. They continued: >It
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by Amorymeltzer 9mo ago
I highly recommend the book of the same title—a collection of her essays. I read it year or two ago, and it's excellent: gorgeous writing, and definitely a touchstone of the time. "I think we are well advised to keep on nodding
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by Amorymeltzer 9mo ago
I particularly like (what I assume is) the subtle paean to Ted Chiang's "Blurry Jpeg of the Web" in there. < https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-... >
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ChatGPT ads are coming, a bellwether for free AI services(axios.com)
8 points by Amorymeltzer 9mo ago|1 comments
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China's Top Paid App Is a Tool to Help Grandma Check In(bloomberg.com)
2 points by Amorymeltzer 9mo ago|0 comments

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