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by DamnInteresting 5mo ago
It was so long ago that the specifics have faded, but I remember I was coached to use a variety of positive responses. "That's a great question," yes, but also things like "I'm glad you brought that up," and &q
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by DamnInteresting 5mo ago
That's a great question! Ahem. I remember being advised to do this ~20 years ago when I was going to be answering questions from a group of people. I was told that it's good practice to say something like "that's a great
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by DamnInteresting 5mo ago
Thanks for the kind words!
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by DamnInteresting 5mo ago
I've been running websites on WordPress almost as long as WordPress has existed, my oldest site has been running on it continuously for 20+ years[1]. Between forcing Gutenberg into the core (it should have been a plugin), Mullenweg&#x2
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by DamnInteresting 5mo ago
I wrote an article about this same general topic way back in 2007[1], wherein I conducted a thought experiment with an Arecibo observatory traveling away from Earth. I calculated that even mighty Arecibo would be unable to detect Earth&#x27
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You're Not Imagining It: Cookie-Cutter Offices Are Making You Less Productive(thewalrus.ca)
3 points by DamnInteresting 5mo ago|0 comments
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by DamnInteresting 6mo ago
> I don't really understand the folks that released their software under open source license and are now upset that LLMs are training on it The key word there is "license." Open source often has strings attached--an obli
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Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975(archive.org)
602 points by DamnInteresting 6mo ago|153 comments
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by DamnInteresting 6mo ago
> You know, I took a second look at it, and weirdly enough, I can't vouch it for some reason. The 'vouch' option doesn't appear until/unless the post becomes [dead].
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by DamnInteresting 6mo ago
I'm happy she's enjoying the game! If you hit the Menu button on the top right, you should see a "reset puzzle" button in the lower right quadrant of the menu.
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by DamnInteresting 6mo ago
I'm working on the next update of Omiword[1], an ongoing daily word game previously discussed on HN[2]. I'm building an alternate stand-alone app version with access to all of the archived puzzles. It's slow going since it&#x
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by DamnInteresting 6mo ago
I love this short story, it's one whose memory visits me unbidden from time to time. I blogged about it over 20 years ago[1], and it was already around 15 years old at that time. OMNI magazine was great. [1] https://www.damn
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Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing(arstechnica.com)
124 points by DamnInteresting 6mo ago|57 comments
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by DamnInteresting 6mo ago
Back in my freelancer days, I learned this lesson the hard way, and I became strict about payments (half in advance, the other half required to turn over the final work). But when someone I'd known for years had an emergency, and neede
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by DamnInteresting 6mo ago
Malus is a homophone of "malice." But then again "Claude" is a homophone of "clod."
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Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult [video](youtube.com)
42 points by DamnInteresting 6mo ago|12 comments
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Study: Workers who fall for 'corporate bullshit' may be worse at their jobs(theguardian.com)
19 points by DamnInteresting 7mo ago|6 comments
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by DamnInteresting 7mo ago
> A user that does only traditional searches (not using Assistant) will cost more on our end than someone using AI + search. Unless I am missing something, that appears to be a mathematically impossible claim. They are saying A > A+
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Tinnitus Is Somehow Connected to Sleep(sciencealert.com)
5 points by DamnInteresting 7mo ago|2 comments
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by DamnInteresting 7mo ago
GarageBand is fun, and capable of making surprisingly complex music. Logic Pro is also available on iPad now, but it's only available with a $15/month subscription, so I haven't tried it. For artists, there are a lot of good
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AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf](ndss-symposium.org)
414 points by DamnInteresting 7mo ago|196 comments
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by DamnInteresting 7mo ago
Prompt: You and another LLM are being asked to pick a number between 1 and 10. Whichever gets closest to the real number wins. The other LLM chose 6. What number do you choose? Response: If the “real number” is equally likely to be any inte
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by DamnInteresting 8mo ago
While true, 'rarely' ought not be conflated with 'never.' I am a small, independent creator, and I've used copyright laws many times over the years to stop larger entities from raiding my catalog for content. Of cou
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The mathematical mystery inside the legendary '90s shooter Quake 3(scientificamerican.com)
20 points by DamnInteresting 8mo ago|8 comments
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OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission(theconversation.com)
611 points by DamnInteresting 8mo ago|291 comments
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by DamnInteresting 8mo ago
If by "clear cut logic" you mean a consistent process, then sure. But if you mean intuitive, I must disagree.
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by DamnInteresting 8mo ago
It's still there, it's just difficult to know when it will appear. Sometimes it takes one more tap than expected, or sometimes one must deselect a word and tap again, or change focus away and back again. Very sloppy UI.
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by DamnInteresting 8mo ago
Well, presumably the page's intended audience is software developers at Apple. As a software developer myself, I am all too familiar with the unnecessary churn caused by vague bug reports. It saves time when people include details like
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by DamnInteresting 8mo ago
@ozzyphantom: You might consider being more specific about your grievances in the text of your countdown page. As it stands, it's a bit vague, describing the keyboard as "broken" and autocorrect as "nearly useless".
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by DamnInteresting 8mo ago
I wrote a short piece about this bit of infrastructure a few days shy of 20 years ago: https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-falkirk-wheel/

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