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by criddell 11mo ago
According to Don Norman, attractive things work better. I assume that would include printed matter and signage.
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by criddell 11mo ago
There are people out there bewildered by those of us who have strong operating system preferences. For most users, Windows, MacOS, Linux/Android, and iOS are pretty much the same thing. They let you connect to WiFi, install apps, send
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by criddell 11mo ago
Most of those things weren't very good before AI was applied. Translation specifically was pretty bad before Google applied machine learning methods to it around 2007 when it became very good almost overnight.
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by criddell 11mo ago
The line is drawn where ever the public puts it. Generally, the correct spelling of a word is determined by those that use it. Canadians have used 'colour' for a long time. If enough people start using 'color', that will
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by criddell 11mo ago
A lot of people are worried we will soon effectively have a one-party system.
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by criddell 11mo ago
They hired me. That was in 1996 and I still work for them today.
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by criddell 11mo ago
Until you can define what thinking is, you can't assert that particles don't think (panpsychism).
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by criddell 11mo ago
That's not true. The MLBPA (baseball players) is definitely not anti-immigrant.
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by criddell 11mo ago
But sometimes that's the goal. In professional sports, the player's union helps raise athlete salaries and improve working conditions and that does ultimately come out of the owner's pockets.
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by criddell 11mo ago
You say that, but you probably do care at least a little. It benefits you when an application doesn't do surprising things. Even basic things like clicking in an edit control, it's better for you if that results in the same outcom
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by criddell 11mo ago
Who wants to run multiple widget sets though? You lose any semblance of your system having a native look and feel.
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by criddell 11mo ago
I'm not super familiar with the history of GNOME, KDE, or COSMIC and I've never used COSMIC and I haven't been able to see into their app store to see what apps are available. The version of Chrome (for example) that Google d
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by criddell 11mo ago
What's been your favorite? I wasted too much time tweaking Enlightenment. I remember that was fun but I don't really remember much about actually using it. OS/2's Workplace Shell feels like the biggest lost opportunity (
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by criddell 11mo ago
Based on Ubuntu? So is it basically Ubuntu with Gnome removed and COSMIC added? How compatible are the two OS's? They show icons for Steam, Chrome, Firefox, Zoom, etc... Does that mean they are maintaining their own fork of those appli
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by criddell 11mo ago
I skimmed the linked story and I still don’t really know what POP!_OS is. They are using the Linux kernel and wrote their own desktop environment, but what’s in between that? Does it include all the GNU system tools? Is there a lot of softw
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by criddell 11mo ago
Is the paint job supposed to resemble R2-D2?
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by criddell 11mo ago
I wasn't thinking about their data store or other infrastructure. I was thinking about the layers added for reasoning and other functions that modify or guide the output of the LLM.
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by criddell 11mo ago
HN and Reddit are both social media. Both sites are largely populated by lurkers. I'm not sure there's a good example of a social network site left. Even sites and services that can be used for social networking are designed to ma
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by criddell 11mo ago
Are you describing the difference between a social network and social media?
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by criddell 11mo ago
Amazon has a generous return policy. You could always order one to test it then return it if it's not good enough.
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by criddell 11mo ago
I have an Oasis and if I could buy a new one with USB-C, I would. In fact, I'd probably buy at least two so that I have a backup. The Scribe is interesting, but it's too small. Where's the 13" version? I want to mark up
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by criddell 11mo ago
> most ereaders don't have access to kindle's huge book catalog Are you saying there are a lot of exclusives in their catalog, or just that Kobo devices (for example) can't access DRM'd Amazon books in the same way Ki
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by criddell 11mo ago
When my dad retired, he basically stopped doing much of anything outside of watching television. I think if I could afford to retire tomorrow, I'd have no trouble keeping myself busy for the rest of my life.
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by criddell 11mo ago
Stallman was talking about ChatGPT which isn't just an LLM.
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by criddell 11mo ago
I think Slashdot still has the best moderating system. Being able to flag a comment as insightful, funny, offtopic, redundant, etc... adds a lot of information and gives more control to readers over the types, quantity, and quality of discu
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by criddell 11mo ago
Or you sell every bit of data you collect.
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by criddell 11mo ago
Is intelligence a binary thing? A dog's cognitive capabilities are nowhere near human level. Is a dog intelligent?
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by criddell 11mo ago
And nephophobic.
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by criddell 11mo ago
https://news.caloes.ca.gov/earthquake-myths-separating-fact-... Myth 5 is "Small Earthquakes Relieve Pressure and Prevent Larger Ones"
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by criddell 11mo ago
Some of us don't care that much about advertising, but we object to surveillance.

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