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by cpcallen 3y ago
I'm disappointed that the article is only making the (somewhat pedantic) distinction between source code and weights. From the quotation marks in the headline I hoped that it would instead be making the distinction between human-reada
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by cpcallen 3y ago
My impression from the video is that Rossman is actually completely fine with Amazon cancelling his account—he just doesn't like the (in his view disingenuous) email they sent him claiming to to have cancelled it because of TOS violati
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by cpcallen 3y ago
This is definitely tidier than the mechanical keyboard I had for my ZX81—build by a friend in the early '80s and purchased by me circa 1994!—which had keycaps which were more or less photocopies of the picture of the keyboard in the ma
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by cpcallen 3y ago
Indeed. Money and status are certainly correlated, but you only need to look at e.g. the British class system, or the difference between "old money" and "new money" to understand that they are not the same thing.
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by cpcallen 4y ago
If I understand correctly, the linked article is grossly misleading. Yes, it could well be that publishers would like to kill libraries and controlled digital lending—but AFAICT this suit[1] is about UNCONTROLLED digital lending: during the
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by cpcallen 4y ago
And definitely a lot like a job interview!
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by cpcallen 4y ago
Given that Google is currently conducting layoffs I suspect this is rather harder than usual just now. That said: - I see at least one Chrome-related job still being advertised. [1] - I imagine that having a track record of making signif
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by cpcallen 4y ago
Relationship building is certainly useful, but how useful depends on context: in the recent layoffs at my company, the only person who might have been able to influence whether I was cut or not was four levels above me on the org chart. My
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by cpcallen 4y ago
The connectors have chips in them which communicate with the device they're plugged in to. E.g.: https://www.cabledo.com/anker-usb-c-to-usb-c-2-0-100w-cable-...
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by cpcallen 4y ago
Pope is catholic…
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by cpcallen 4y ago
I definitely appreciate reading points of view very different than my own, but—even aside from the US-centricity pointed out by other commentors—it seems to me that the author has got some things obviously wrong, most principally the relati
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by cpcallen 4y ago
Substack also gets lots of revenue from subscriptions. If that's not enough to keep the platform up then perhaps they need to try to take a bigger cut (or not offer service to authors who have too few subscribers). There's no rea
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by cpcallen 4y ago
Also doesn't seem to work in Chrome: I see a toolbar and the rest of the page is blank.
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by cpcallen 4y ago
I have mixed feelings too, but for slightly different reasons: AFAICT Chrome is a power grab in the literal sense that (on macOS) it drains my battery a lot faster than Safari does, for equivalent use. Not great, but bearable on a laptop;
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by cpcallen 4y ago
You misunderstand. The point is that people are only able/willing to travel a certain distance from where they live to use public land. Public land that's very far way from population centres is not useful (for public access purp
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by cpcallen 4y ago
Use a film camera and develop the film yourself.
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by cpcallen 4y ago
This article mentions "on-the-run clearing" and links to another discussing SBF's plan to clear every thirty seconds, but I don't really understand the proposal discussed. I gather that, on traditional stock exchanges,
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by cpcallen 4y ago
You are getting a lot of downvotes, but I agree with you. It's true that the rocket equation is unforgiving, and it's not surprising that our early ventures into space all involved a lot of disposable hardware. But SpaceX has de
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by cpcallen 4y ago
I own quite a lot of GAP clothing—mostly trousers bought second-hand on eBay since they stopped carrying the design I liked—and none of what I have had has ever had a logo other than on the label.
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by cpcallen 4y ago
In this thread: people discussing all the excellent features they wish their text editor had that emacs (and/or vim) has had for literally decades.
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by cpcallen 4y ago
> Come next year you'll have either completely forgotten about this, or have no opinion at all. I doubt it. There are still so many rebrands / logo changes that I get angry thinking about. Off the top of my head (in addition
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by cpcallen 4y ago
This is _definitely_ a _brilliant_ rebrand, at least in hindsight: I'm not sure I loved it at the time, and seem to recall finding the asymmetry and curviness of the arrowhead slightly disturbing.
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by cpcallen 4y ago
This is the ultimate example of a _terrible_ rebrand, in my opinion. I _loved_ the colourful logo, and I think that getting rid of it was the ultimate travesty. (At least the flat black Apple is better than those terrible shiny ones, thou
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by cpcallen 4y ago
> Burger King I like this one. Not spotted the new logo in the UK yet, but it would definitely make me less determined to avoid the company's restaurants. > InstaCart I'm not really familiar with this company so I don'
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by cpcallen 4y ago
> I'm trying to think of a rebrand that I truly hated and that led to actual decline in something. I'm not claiming that a bad rebrand spells doom for the entity (though I guess there are probably examples of that)—only that I
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by cpcallen 4y ago
> The original "Federal Express" logo wasn't bad, but FEDEX rocks it hard. I will give you this one, but… > Some of the old LEGO logos aren't great… True, but in the context of my original question, I don't th
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by cpcallen 4y ago
I am trying to to think of a single rebrand / new logo / new icon that I actually liked at the time—that didn't seem to signal a degradation in the integrity, quality or trustworthiness of the entity represented. (There are s
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by cpcallen 4y ago
My older iPhone SE has a screen small enough that even that did not suffice . :-(
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by cpcallen 4y ago
This is a fascinating, disturbing but thought-provoking article, which (perhaps unsurprisingly) turns out to be a hoax[1], presenting an image of a wind tunnel[2] as something much more sinister. [1] https://web.archive.org/
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by cpcallen 4y ago
Disabling cookies quite naturally disabled local storage as well, since localStorage can be used to identify and track a user as surely as a cookie can, at least if they have JavaScript enabled. I selectively enable cookies on websites that

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