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by dlivingston 1y ago
Totally off-topic, but your comment reminded me of some lyrics to a song by one of my favorite folk singers [0]: [Weed is] jus' a plant Like poppies and sugar cane Coca and some science make some good cocaine [0]: https:&#
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by dlivingston 1y ago
C++ modules seem like one of those things worth staying far, far away from. I wish they worked well because it would be a huge boon to modernizing C++. But from what I've seen, it's a dumpster fire. The spec is too broad and ill-d
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Very funny, but also flippant and glib. When people -- myself included -- say they have a problem with chemicals in food, they of course mean artificial chemicals: that is, compounds, preservatives, dyes, and flavors that are non-naturally
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by dlivingston 1y ago
I see, thanks. I came across this summary which echoes what you wrote: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-616-Bcachefs-Late-Featur...
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by dlivingston 1y ago
What's the backstory here? I'm totally out of the loop.
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Trust me, I'm with you 100%. I weep for the Mac OS X we used to have. I'm just trying to look at it from Apple's eyes. From their perspective, I think, they're trying to design a UI framework that exists beyond any parti
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by dlivingston 1y ago
> I'm not convinced that convergent UI works either. The needs of desktop and mobile just differ too greatly. For the record, I agree. But I've been playing with Apple's new Liquid Glass UI on macOS / iOS and I think
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Like who?
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by dlivingston 1y ago
where does this idea that apolitical = right-leaning come from?
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by dlivingston 1y ago
See San Francisco's failed de-tracking experiment as Exhibit A.
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by dlivingston 1y ago
> Any image file or an executable program can be regarded as simply a very large binary number. This had never occurred to me before but is totally obvious in hindsight. An interesting corollary is that, given an infinite natural number
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by dlivingston 1y ago
I am desperately waiting for someone to come along and disrupt social media. It's overdue. My Facebook feed is entirely low-effort slop and posts from acquaintances I added 15 years ago. Instagram and Snapchat aren't too different
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by dlivingston 1y ago
1.25% of Elon Musk's net worth is $5.2 billion dollars, but buying, I don't know, a new PC for that price would not be reasonable. Okay, bad analogy. My point is: just because your budget is high and you've got bytes to burn
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by dlivingston 1y ago
My BlueSky account has long been deleted, so I don't have any links. But as a frame of reference, my "hot takes" were very much in the Ezra Klein / Derek Thompson opinion space - something you may disagree with, but 600
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by dlivingston 1y ago
The sole reason I'm still on Twitter/X is that it's still ground zero for the startup scene. Paul Graham, Sam Altman, Garry Tan, and thousands of other VCs, CEOs, founders, and engineers are highly active and visible. Also, I
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Can you expand on this?
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by dlivingston 1y ago
The Population Bomb is a great reference. This was something a family member of mine was seriously worried about in her younger days. Population is an extremely complex, dynamic system, and I don't think we have any way of actually p
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Reading your linked article, it's clear that this was viewed as absolute quackery even back then, and is about as conflict-of-interesty as you can get: commissioned by Louisiana at the height of the Civil War, and proposed by a doctor
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by dlivingston 1y ago
> Any species that is advanced enough for interstellar communication will almost certainly be a highly aggressive apex species. How can you estimate likelihood of behavior when currently N=0 (or N=1 if you count humans)? There is no base
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by dlivingston 1y ago
I have a very funny childhood memory of being in a McDonalds with my Cub Scout chapter; one of the boys ordered a "cheeseburger with no cheese", which - of course - was delivered with cheese, and the boy's father escalated th
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Not surprised. I've heard Nix support on macOS is significantly worse than Linux.
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by dlivingston 1y ago
As someone totally outside of this space, how do I build an agent? Are there any languages or libraries that are sort of the de facto standard?
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by dlivingston 1y ago
I've got a MacBook with a notch and I literally never notice it. That's a common sentiment among MacBook users, btw -- I very rarely seeing people complain about the notch. I'm sure there are some, but seems to be a minority.
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Microsoft has excellent documentation. So that's one counterexample. :)
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by dlivingston 1y ago
> Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. That's from 2021 [0]. If you go to their mission statement today [1], it reads: > Build the future of human connection and t
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Reminds me of how Google's Genie 3 can only run for a ~minute before losing its internal state [0]. My gut feeling is that this problem won't be solved until some new architecture is invented, on the scale of the transformer, whic
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by dlivingston 1y ago
You're making some meta-point about "aloneness" where it's disqualified if they have some pre-existing threshold of wealth or connections. I disagree that's disqualifying, especially because you can play that game a
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by dlivingston 1y ago
I run into this all the time. I've just given up on the built-in spell checker and search the word in Google now.
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Context on DHH vs. Apple: https://youtu.be/mzDi8u3WMj0 I find myself agreeing with much of what he says. The Apple of today is not the same as the Apple of 15 years ago.
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by dlivingston 1y ago
I'm surprised it's still being offered period ! My parents live in a remote area outside of a rural town in one of the USA's smaller states, and even they haven't had dial-up in ~15 years. We grew up with dial-up until

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