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by chongli 7mo ago
Also, inserting hidden or misleading links is specifically a no-no for Google Search [0] Depending on your goals, this may be a pro or a con. I, personally, would like to see a return of "small web" human-centric communities. If
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by chongli 7mo ago
You just need to supply the native plants they prefer to pollinate, they’ll do the rest. If you’re wondering about whether you can harvest honey from them, I don’t think so. Most native pollinator species don’t produce honey. Bumblebees do
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Apple OSes being so amazingly simple, approachable and cleverly designed with a lot of attention paid to detail That was the Mac in the 1990s. It was designed for, and highly usable with, a one-button mouse. It didn't have hidden con
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Ticketmaster is owned by Live Nation which owns at least 338 major concert venues [1]. Their market power in the venue business allows them to force artists to use Ticketmaster for ticket sales. The artists don't mind though, as they c
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by chongli 7mo ago
Ticketmaster is a reputation management company. Their true purpose is to take the reputation hit for charging market value for limited availability event tickets. Artists do not want to take this reputation hit themselves because it impact
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The soil in my backyard has very few rocks but the clay is so hard and dense it may as well be a brick wall.
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The no dig method has taken on a life of its own, almost a religion. It's probably a mistake for most people though. "One dig" is almost always going to be superior, given soil that has never been used for gardening before. T
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by chongli 7mo ago
Numbers has a lot of keyboard shortcuts [1]. Are there particular ones you're missing? Or is your issue that Numbers has different keyboard shortcuts from the ones you're used to in Excel? [1] https://support.apple.co
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by chongli 7mo ago
Software is not the world. It’s a tiny bit of what humans do. The lack of online learning is a critical fault. Much of what humans learn (such as anything based on mathematics) has a dependency tree of stuff to learn. But even mundane stuff
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by chongli 7mo ago
Well, humans do experiments for one, as I explained elsewhere in the discussion. Experiments give us access to new knowledge from the world itself, which is not merely a synthesis of what we already know. Real progress in science is made by
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You don’t need to do knowledge work to advance the state of the art. You could be working in a shoe factory and discover a better way to tie your shoes. Your math assumes each person has exactly one thing they do in life. The shoe factory w
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by chongli 7mo ago
So for every computable function, there is a neural network that computes it. That doesn't say anything about size or efficiency It also doesn't say anything about finding the desired function, rather than a different function w
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Experimentation leads to experience Of course it does, but only after the fact. You don't have any experience of the result of the experiment before you perform it . Sure, they can't have apples fall on their heads like Newton
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I want to point back to my remark about everyday people. if you don't limit yourself to "advancing the state of the art at the far frontiers of human knowledge" but allow for ordinary people to make everyday contributions in
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No, that's not all we're doing. If that's all humans ever did, we'd still be living in the stone age.
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99% of humans in a particular specialization, sure. It's the 1% who become experts in that specialization who are able to advance the state of the art. But it's a different 1% for every area of expertise! Add it all up and you get
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by chongli 7mo ago
We’re not there yet, but that chef or that teacher definitely would want an AI voice assistant as good as the computer in Star Trek. Maybe to achieve that, a language model builds software entirely autonomously and runs it to carry out th
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by chongli 7mo ago
It's not text, it's control characters, which have always been in character sets going back to ASCII.
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Unicode is for human beings, not machines.
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I would argue the opposite. Black market liquor (bootlegging) requires a full black market distillery industry and smuggling/distribution network. It's every bit as difficult as operating in the narcotics world, with violence and
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by chongli 7mo ago
How does Hammerspoon help with this? Seems like just AppleScript and bash. Also if I may ask, how do you like Obsidian? I had never heard of it until now. Seems like a competitor to the Notes feature of iOS/macOS, but with its own subs
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by chongli 7mo ago
I think this is also a way of getting ahead of any “ban social media for teens and preteens” bills that might pop up in the US. They do not want repeats of Australia! By adding age verification into the operating system they can deflect res
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by chongli 7mo ago
I use the password manager built into the OS (iCloud Keychain) which doesn’t put an icon into that bar. We’re talking about a limited resource (a few inches of screen real estate at the top of the screen) that tons of app developers feel en
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by chongli 7mo ago
Yes, though SSDs that can sustain 1.5G/s and an OS that transparently compresses memory before swapping yield a lot better experience than Win95 swapping.
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The firmware could be flashed to the device in factory and then write-protected by burning a fuse in the circuit.
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I just uninstalled the Dropbox app to get rid of that icon because it was annoying me. I guess we have different priorities!
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The native solution to this is to hold the command key and drag unneeded icons out of the bar to remove them. If the programs you’re using refuse to let you remove those icons (or they keep re-adding them against your wishes) then those pro
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by chongli 7mo ago
What 3rd party tools would those be? I've been using Macs since ~1994 and my 3rd party tool use has fluctuated wildly over that time. I have a lot of 3rd party software installed but I can't think of anything that I'd call a
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You build it directly into the GPU firmware and don't give the operating system any access to it.
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by chongli 7mo ago
No, macOS has improved a ton in a lot of ways under-the-hood. Battery life, memory compression, paging behaviour. The MacBook Neo wouldn't be possible at 8GB without all this stuff.

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