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by chihuahua 8mo ago
But the author of that page is not concerned with readability or accessibility. He just wants things to look cool and design-y. One piece of supporting evidence he cites is some random photo he took that doesn't contain #000000 black.
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
I frequently walk 20 minutes from my house to a trailhead. Along the way, I often see annoying trash. Somehow, a freeway underpass (a road going underneath I-90) seems to be catnip to people who want to throw trash out of their cars. Eventu
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
Altman put all of his attribute points on lying.
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
There are people who are angry at Little Free Libraries because they have somehow convinced themselves that they are a plot to drive regular public libraries out of business. Absolute madness.
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
Somehow it's not a problem, even in Western Washington in the winter.
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
This is 100% spot on. Passkeys are a mystery, and no one bothers to explain what they are, what it means, how it works, what to do, what to avoid. I'm not an average user - MA in Mathematics, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 27 years of expe
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
I guess the idea that a programmer can create software that then runs on multiple computers would have blown their mind.
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
Everyone else (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc) has boring plain AI servers. Apple invented Advanced AI Servers! So much more advanced! Just like in the 2000s when the G4 Mac was a "supercomputer".
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
I used to get the occasional recruiter cold-calling me and hyping up the chance to work for some Musk- or Bezos-associated entity, and for me it's not as appealing as they think it is. But I politely decline without pointing out their
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
Amazon is pretty serious about physical access security. Even back in 2002, you had to scan your badge while a security guard watches, to check if you are the same person as the badge picture. The same guard also checked if your dog was reg
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
Best we can do is a monthly subscription, with every dark pattern known to man to prevent cancellation.
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
I thought the #1 use case for crypto was ransomware, followed by shitcoin rug-pulls, and the ability to commit theft without recourse. Sending money to Iran is just a minor edge case.
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
The Fine Article. It's a reference to "RTFM" = Read the F'ing Manual.
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
Ugh, this brings on flashbacks to when I had to work with Ruby, and the *** debugger would break with every single release. The RubyMine IDE that 45% of the company used was based on some bizarre custom Ruby gems to enable debugging, and th
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
If you go into a dealership to have your Tesla repaired, they give you a 3D-printed poop emoji to inform you that the parts are not available.
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
LOL I'm amazed that's still up and running; I created the backend for this using Dynamics 365 in 2021.
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
Reference to support the claim that translating the bible into English was banned (William Tyndale was executed for doing it): https://nobimu.no/en/subject-articles/banned-translations-of... You can nitpick that &
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
Indeed. I don't know how Sony could top this, except possibly by also suing everyone.
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
There's a much less effective guy in Germany who does a similar thing, but for parking violations. He'll ride around in his small town until he finds someone whose car is 20 cm from the curb instead of the maximum allowable 15 cm,
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
If no one deserves points for checking a phone briefly while a vehicle is stopped at a red light, then either the police can decide not to act on video footage showing someone doing this, or the law should be changed.
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
> Today you can, at least as an American, just walk in to the subway in just about any country and tap to pay. Is that really true? I remember wanting to buy a train ticket at Charles De Gaulle airport, and the machine only took French c
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
Paul Graham only uses computers that use Lisp in the same way. But it's so good that he keeps it to himself, it's his competitive advantage.
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
Greetings, fellow human. I am Mr. Young — a real human person — from Akron, Ohio. I, too, like to use em-dashes — for clarity and sparkling style.
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by chihuahua 8mo ago
The elegant solution is to rent space in the system prompt to advertisers. $X per character per hour, up to 1000 characters.
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by chihuahua 9mo ago
The scheme to damage hardware or data when Prolok Plus thinks someone's using a pirated copy seems ludicrous. Who wants to deal with the liability when this goes wrong due to a bug or unexpected circumstances?
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by chihuahua 9mo ago
Some people are calling Twitter "X". The second part of your question remains a mystery :-)
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by chihuahua 9mo ago
He was only going to the island to get rid of bots on Twitter. Just like OJ spent the rest of his life looking for the real killer.
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by chihuahua 9mo ago
I think GP was referring to the fact that the United States is made up of former colonies of Great Britain, but that was such a long time ago, I don't see how it matters for the moon landing.
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by chihuahua 9mo ago
Indeed, the 13 colonies that formed the United States in 1776 were a colony of Great Britain up to that point, but what does that have to do with the moon landing? In the 1960s, neither country was a colony of any other country. But regardl
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by chihuahua 9mo ago
They did it 5 more times. Are the goalposts moving so that you have to do something 7 times before it counts? They stopped doing more moon missions in the 70s because people lost interest very quickly and nobody cared anymore.

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