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by _fw 6mo ago
What’s the trade-off? If it’s smaller, faster and more efficient - is it worse performance? A layman here, curious to know.
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by _fw 6mo ago
One thing I think would be very useful here is national archive data: there will be thousands of letters, memos and official documents shared between people alive back then under the care of a museum or government. One of my dreams is to he
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by _fw 6mo ago
I love this! Thank you.
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by _fw 6mo ago
The teachings of the Buddha explicitly encouraged it. Buddhism is the only religion I know of that instructs you to fully abandon it, as once you’ve fully grokked what it has to teach… you won’t need it any more. IIRC the Buddha said it was
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by _fw 6mo ago
I was surprised to see Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzburg and Joseph Goldstein not mentioned here. They’re the founding forces behind the Insight Meditation Society in MA, which although isn’t the West Coast, is perhaps the most influential fo
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by _fw 6mo ago
I think the MacBook Pro 2015 was probably unrivalled as a laptop for around 6 years, in terms of build quality, specification and… sheer love. I had a work issue machine and absolutely worshipped it, so I was sad not to see that here. I rem
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by _fw 7mo ago
What tickles me is that Andreas put these on GitHub 13 years ago. That’s long enough in tech to be considered retro in and of itself… let alone the age of these tiled backgrounds!
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by _fw 7mo ago
Something tickles me about describing the forced inclusion of Copilot as “entry points” in things like Notepad. It reveals Microsoft’s intentions SO precisely. They aren’t trying to add Copilot in useful ways for their users. They’re forcin
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by _fw 7mo ago
It’s interesting to see the big about Virtual Desktops being surpassed by Windows here. I still can’t get thumbnail previews of my Virtual Desktops at the top of my screen. I see the desktops but they’re blank. And missing that context is t
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by _fw 7mo ago
Fun glitch on the homepage: the dynamic text runs over a line break, so when it “deletes” the brand, the entire page gets shifted up a bit. Makes everything constantly move up and down on mobile.
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by _fw 7mo ago
Also, very influenced by the literature of Jenkins (2010).
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by _fw 7mo ago
This is like something straight out of Cyberpunk 2077 - the braindances investigation scenes.
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by _fw 7mo ago
It’s not that a single email isn’t worth the bargain (it is). It’s that this is symptomatic of an unhealthy, performative culture. This kind of behaviour incentivises a kind of pick-me, I’m suffering the most for the shareholders type of be
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by _fw 7mo ago
There’s an argument that MAYBE it did - with the Second World War, and the allies’ ability to completely destroy the means of production in Germany and Japan. Aircraft factories, munitions factories, forges, steel refineries: all wiped out
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by _fw 7mo ago
You’re right - I confidently asserted an assumption and turned out to be totally wrong. I had no idea videos on mobile sites could look that sharp and well integrated… I guess I’m used to seeing them done so badly this one stuck out, so I t
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by _fw 7mo ago
Well flabber my gasts. I’ve never seen a video that sharp and well optimised on a mobile page… Goes to show how good things can look when done right!
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by _fw 7mo ago
The WebGL animation at the top is really cool. It’s probably smaller than a video too, and much sharper
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by _fw 9mo ago
He needs the money for Mars bro Just a few hundred billion more We’re so close to interplanetary civilisation bro Just hundreds of billions more, just one last time
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by _fw 9mo ago
I think the person you’re replying to meant MacBooks. They were USB-C exclusively way before Windows machines.
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by _fw 9mo ago
Because CEOs are largely paid at the expense of people like you. Does a C-level executive deliver £20m of value, or do they extract it? Landlords and rent seekers get rich from what they own, not what they create. C-levels rewarded in share
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by _fw 1y ago
This is disappointing, but not surprising. I think it’s clear the potential that devices like these have… they stand to be as much a step forward in computing as touchscreen and handheld devices. If the Vision Pro was able to natively run M
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by _fw 1y ago
Holy shit. You’ve just changed my perspective on my life (and my spaniel’s). Thank you Doug.
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by _fw 1y ago
The biggest problem with this is outsized gains for the company compared to the employee. You sacrifice time with loved ones, wellbeing, mental health… to churn out extra hours for some Series A firm that won’t think twice about showing you
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by _fw 1y ago
This is exactly it. A lot of the author's comments about skin tone and 'flat' colour are spot on though. To your point, take six steps back and use the 5x zoom on an iPhone Pro and you'll get a much better effect. As the
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by _fw 1y ago
I’m using Dia a lot for work at the moment and frankly it’s a gamechanger. granted I’m not a developer but being able to interact with an LLM that has access to the page I’m on is extremely useful: Instead of manually hunting across half a
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by _fw 1y ago
Is… is the industry that bought the puff piece in the room with us now?
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by _fw 1y ago
This is good but it’s not diverse enough for North West England. In ‘Wigan’ (as shown on the map) you’ve got the Oldham/Bolton accents (book - bewk; first - fussed) which are similar but as distinct as Brummie/Black Country. In Me
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by _fw 2y ago
Great story. And ndiswrapper… I haven’t read that word in SO long!
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by _fw 2y ago
I’ll never forget the day my laptop Wi-Fi worked on Linux. I was a teenager and it was my first machine and I’d been dying to Ubuntu to break free from the grasp of Windows 7. Wi-Fi was a dealbreaker because it was a laptop and it was my on
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by _fw 2y ago
It’s not about immigration. If it was, then mainstream parties WOULD fix immigration. It’s about national identity, “us and them”. If it wasn’t about immigrants it would be about “experts”. If it wasn’t about experts it would be about “the

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