PaulHoule

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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
When I worked at arXiv we had a math professor on the advisory board who couldn't believe it took us months to roll out upgrades, like he thought he could code up a site like arXiv in a weekend. And he could, except it wouldn't
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
When I used to run a spam factory my impression was that success on Reddit was all about avoiding the downvote brigades that would nuke you before you got your first 5 upvotes. Write a post on proggit where you confess that you are partial
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
... and I think it's a big mistake to say, as some people are, that people are opposed to data centers in their backyard because of a Chinese influence campaign. There is also reason to think that some "foreign agents" are
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
I think it is not just "intense" it is whether you realize you had more or less the same experience that everybody else has when they take hallucinogens because it is written in our nervous systems or whether you believe you are &
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
(1) Actually... I got one of these things https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DX26QV8L which "just works", like I plug the watch in and it charges... just like that! It's amazing though that Garmin has norma
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
Not sure if it is really a "movement" but it is the first glimmer of something that transcends D-R polarization. Like if any election is perceived to be a referendum on data centers, data centers lose, and it doesn't matte
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
... all the inputs for everything are coming from China!
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Mount Toba eruption doesn't seem like it could nearly kill our species(arstechnica.com)
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
I dunno... I don't think he knew how to hold his acid. I mean, I never had a near death experience on acid or knew anyone who had a near death experience on acid but Lily had three.
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
You can alpha blend a QR code onto images easily and fit them into graphic designs https://mastodon.social/@UP8/115939341268444811 https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113494337763505908 (R&D)
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
Like instagram but focused on still photos but with less annoyances like dm scams, text in pictures, sexy selfies, etc.
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
It charges if and only when it wants to. And I've been a Garmin enthusiast for a while and been through a few devices already though I am getting sick of the charging unreliability. Like if I am really careful I can plug my watch in
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
Unlike a Garmin Watch it will actually take a charge.
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
Flash is patterned. There is talk about patterned surfaces for HDD but who knows if it will ever see the light of day.
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
In terms of the web two of the greatest things we could do for accessibility: (1) eliminate GDPR pop-ups (and all pop-ups and senseless modal dialogs) and (2) eliminate cloudflare harassment, ReCAPTCHA harassment and anubis harassment. An
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
I remember a lot of talk about how transformative bubble memory was going to be circa 1980 and then quit hearing about it.
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
It's an opinion that always gets downvoted but... Using an Apple device these days is to be spoken to in a weird language that invites you become one of those people who lives at the genius bar, if you are so lucky to live within rang
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
Somebody has to push back about all the senseless permission boxes as an accessibility problem. Like my home computer has 12 perfectly good USB charging ports but I'm not 100% happy using them, as opposed to wall wart or a wireless ad
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
That's like asking what happened at the National Mall! In addition to the incident you were thinking about there was a large protest in 1976 that the current regime would rather you don't know about, Mao announced the formation o
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
https://archive.ph/ukd1p I find it remarkable. American politics flips through regimes of politics, see https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393093972 I remember in 2000 Bill Clinton had come to the conclusion
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
The whole "make it harder for pirates to watch in 4K" makes no sense to me, like it comes out of the psychology of people who couldn't possibly understand the psychology of other people at all. My experience is that people
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
Once in a while you get a good one, one that stands out among all the others, and that's a worse outcome because the same image will be used by everybody including your competitors.
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
Given that Hollywood is struggling to produce movies that people want to watch I don't think it is in their best interest to allocate much headspace at all to an experience just a few people will experience in a few Capital-C Capital C
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
What can be done about it? Facebook could have been held responsible for its contribution to the genocide in Myanmar https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocide-ho... but people in Myanmar could have ran
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
Most of the human brain's energy consumption is not dependent on how hard you are thinking https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/442230-can-you-burn-calo... I think differential equations are a funny example be
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
There is a Venn Diagram of "This content is AI slop" and "This content is slop about AI" and the intersection "AI Slop Slop Content about AI" is a LinkedIn specialty!
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
That's a refutation of agile, Vibe Coding and the last 25 years of the software industry. One of my own quality metrics that almost everyone rejects is a "a good design is a design where a change that seems like a small change to
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
Well, not covering content helps. Another thing that would help is sensitive to the emotional rhythms. One problem is that before I have to close your modal dialog I have probably closed 20-30 other modal dialogs that I never wanted to
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
When I get a nag I leave a 1 star review every time and I know I'm not the only one.
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by PaulHoule 3mo ago
It could have been "respect DNT or go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200". Instead we got American-style legalistic consentualism. My experience as a web developer since 1995 or so is I was able to push back on

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