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by brookst 3mo ago
There is a fantastic book to be written about the Antichrist finally rising to lay waste to the world, only to be astounded by air travel, the internet, etc. A demonic horde of a thousand flaming knights riding through Rome is largely writt
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by brookst 3mo ago
It’s negligible revenue and carries some risk. Say the printer works well, and these enthusiasts drive a couple of thousand more cartridge sales. And that encourages someone to develop an alternative cartridge, which is mechanically and ele
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by brookst 3mo ago
Because the script can do branching logic and checks that you otherwise have to explain to the user. Not defending the practice, I don’t like it. But the intent is to make it easier.
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by brookst 3mo ago
I’m good with that. Wanting usable design is not related to avoid logging in.
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by brookst 3mo ago
This is false. Not sure if propaganda or ignorance of infowar, or lying for the fun of it, but 100% false.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Well if you build a new telescope where there are already satellites doing their business with no objections, shouldn’t you be required to pay for changes in their business, if the principle is first claimant?
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by brookst 3mo ago
Sigh. Reductionist thinking again. Yes, of course, if you literally say “small penis” the plaintiff would rightfully cite this history. But it’s not meant to be taken literally, like those are magic words. You say “he failed upwards, funded
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by brookst 3mo ago
Sure, but you think they’ll invest in a million of them?
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by brookst 3mo ago
And new astronomy infra should obviously pay Starlink for the mitigations they put in place, right? Maybe water rights really are the best model for this, but it’s a terrible model as demonstrated everywhere there are water rights. I’d like
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by brookst 3mo ago
And who decides which satellites are approved? Is there a quota per country? Per capita? If a country declines to participate, do we count their satellites? Centralized control from a benevolent dictator sounds great as a first approximatio
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by brookst 3mo ago
Did they though? Not accounting for confounding factors like “other drugs” seems to indicate it’s not about the risks of cannabis use so much as the risks from all sources that the average cannabis user faces. Using only cannabis might have
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by brookst 3mo ago
Not to mention art, sex, walking, etc, etc
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by brookst 3mo ago
I’ve been paying $200/mo for Claude code for, IDK, 9 months? I am 100% sure that I get far more value from today than I did in December. The models are smarter, the limits are higher. It’s possible there’s some “five steps forward, one
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by brookst 3mo ago
Nah there have been thousands of “they made the model dumber” false alarms between these two.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Is there any indication that optimization shipped? Depending on whether it’s R&D or pragmatic, I’d expect it to take months at least.
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by brookst 3mo ago
How do Democrats’ policies on health care, paid leave from work, unions, public funding of political campaigns, and public transit compare to European conservatives? If you’re a single-issue abortion voter, yes the US democrats tend to prop
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by brookst 3mo ago
Is there any reason to think WFH rates would differ between Seattle and Bellevue? I’m not super knowledgeable in this area but GP is right the The Seattle Times is a very partisan outlet that spins confirmation bias into everything. Left-le
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by brookst 3mo ago
Can you imagine if we didn’t have libraries and someone tried to create them today? From publishers to right wingers, they would be painted as communist plots to destroy creativity.
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by brookst 3mo ago
There are plenty of authoritative reference books full of errors. Teachers in every subject can be wrong, convincingly.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Though that study included a 45 minute acclimation period. Appropriate for submarines, but I wonder what the results would be in the first 1 / 5 / 10 minutes.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Any source for that “Apple just doesn’t care”, as opposed to thinking there are security/privacy tradeoffs or other considerations that cut against such a feature?
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by brookst 4mo ago
And use the phone’s UI for anything more complex the pause/skip?
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by brookst 4mo ago
Agreed, if you’re a single-app user then something like Spotify works just as well, as long as they do a great job of maintaining to-the-second sync across devices. Audible does a good of that as well. That just puts you in the space of ne
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by brookst 4mo ago
Jeep may not be modern, but all of the windows, climate, etc, are physical buttons.
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by brookst 4mo ago
You missed the biggest one: continuity. Start listening to music at home, take it to the car. Start a podcast in the car, finish it in the gym. CarPlay is user-centric, which is why users like it. All these attempts to force people into a d
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by brookst 4mo ago
IDK, I’ve had my mind changed on music and art that I saw little value in.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Give an example where a slippery slope is itself a legitimate argument and not just a rhetorical technique to oppose A using arguments against B?
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by brookst 4mo ago
I would 100% support this as long as the same is true for human works. Every artist is trained on thousands of years of art tradition. Copyright wasn’t a thing for the first many millennia of artistic creation, and we still got Bach and Mic
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by brookst 4mo ago
“Anthropic is hypocritical and hoarding data” is 100% compatible with “copyright has gotten out of control and we need less of it” But pearl clutching over the poor corporations who have their works trained on is much less compatible with
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by brookst 4mo ago
They’ve never paid for any content?

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