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by bsimpson 9mo ago
That sounds like a good way to keep moms out of the workforce. I know a lot of couples who feel like the wife's job is a hobby, because after taxes it barely covers childcare (especially if you also value spending time with your kids).
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
Agents know that. > ReadFile ../other-project/thing > Oh, I'm jailed by default and can't read other-project. I'll cat what I want instead > !cat ../other-project/thing It's surreal how ofte
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
The assessment he got was "you have supergenerian genes, but also this one that's really sensitive to heart disease. If you can keep you plaque in check, you're almost invincible (to other popular causes of mortality)."
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
Tangent, but some people I know have been downloading their genomes from 23andme and asking Gemini via Antigravity to analyze it. "If you don't die of heart disease by 50, you'll probably live to be 100." I wonder how ac
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
I saw Coraline in theaters when it came out, and had the exact same reaction. It was clear that it was edited in 2D. Object permanence is in direct tension with 3D content. In real life, things don't blink out of existence. When they d
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
Well I guess the iMac Pro isn't on the lucky list then. I know it's losing updates (and therefore support) this year. Unfortunately, I looked into it, and my other options are an Asus CX54 Chromebook or a Lenovo X1. There simply a
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
Scott Jenson - who worked on the classic Mac for Apple, and Android for Google - recently gave a talk on this: https://youtu.be/1fZTOjd_bOQ?si=BVOxUPjoULhwiclE The tl;dw is that copying UX lets others invest energy in ident
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
Blows my minded that a 4k 27" monitor that was $500 a dozen years ago is still near top tier now. 5k has been surprisingly stagnant.
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
So apparently when Canonical was the gorilla in desktop Linux, they had a push to have apps make their menus accessible via API. KDE supports that protocol. There are KDE widgets that will draw a Mac-style menu bar from it. That means you
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
The default modality changed. Classic Macs were designed for the mouse or trackball. Modern Macs are designed for multitouch scrolling. When it's easy to get the scrolling infrastructure on demand, the desktop might not need the same c
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
I fell down the Nix hole this weekend, getting my corp Mac and my SteamOS Legion Go sharing a config. My corp device is a 5k iMac Pro that is going to be kicked off of the network when ARM-only Tahoe becomes mandatory later this year. I wor
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
Now I'm tempted to try xonsh. It looks like it support the amount of bash that I know, and everything else I can just do in Python. (TBH, the things that I would need Python for are obscure enough in bash that I wouldn't otherwis
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
I'm changing to GhosTTY as we speak (from Mac Terminal, because I'm tired of gemini-cli not getting my shift-return for newlines). Wasn't until that process that I learned that new Mac accounts are on a different shell (zsh)
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
I don't work on Android, but I suspect it's a whole lot less work for both confidentiality and maintenance to not have to worry about daily/weekly OSS releases. That's probably worth more to the decisionmakers than the v
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
I have a cache of old devices, largely the freebies Google gave out at I/O in the early days of Android. Was prepping them to sell last week and saw most are running Cyanogen (the first big community Android fork). Even then, root wa
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
Vietnam is a one party state. Does the government control the banks?
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
A better demo would correlate the pixelization of the source with the settings in the sidebar. Doesn't even have to be part of the shader, but would convey the effect better. The animated shapes toggle really kills the illusion.
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by bsimpson 9mo ago
I dislike that it has a memory. It creeps me out when a past session poisons a current one.
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
Standards wonks love dancing on Flash's grave, but overlook the massive dent in culture that we lost. Maybe vibe coding will unlock a similar indie ethos for a future generation, but the frameworkification of the web and centralization
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
So many websites look like someone spent 10 minutes in Squarespace
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
Definitely didn't expect one of Japan's most famous video game companies to have been started by a GI named David.
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
Loved his writing style - happily read the whole thing. 3D printers are really cool, in a way that's hard to grasp until you use one. My apartment came with a single trash bin, conflicting with the CC+R requirement that you separate o
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
There's been so much pressure to use AI at work. My codebase is a zen garden I've been raking for 6 years. I have concerns about what's going to happen after a few months of "we're using AI cause they told us to.&q
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
One of my favorite engineers calls AI a "wish fulfillment slot machine."
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
There's a long-circulating mind virus that makes executives believe top-tier engineers don't need their software tested. Google's QA is pitiful too.
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
> keep GUI apps and casual tools imperative, and treat Nix as the source of truth for the stuff that actually blocks you from doing work I landed somewhere similar for gaming. When I first got my Legion Go, there were a whole bunch of ga
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
That sounded outlandish so I asked Gemini for a citation: https://www.mindlessmag.com/post/a-boy-s-hobby-gender-and-ma...
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
It's called Xbox Full-Screen Experience and is marketed as Xbox PC. It's available now, but nobody's been impressed yet. Gives you a gamepad-compatible launcher (although the gamepad PIN to login is buggy). Doesn't see
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
So far as I can tell, Linux phones are still ass. Linux on mobile is probably even more behind than Linux on desktop was in the 90s.
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
My dad got his phone stolen on day 1 of a monthlong trip. He went without a phone the whole trip, in part because he was nervous he wouldn't have the right radios if he brought a euro phone home.

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