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   by dmd 7mo ago

   It's wild to me the disconnect between people who actually use these tools every day and people who don't. I have done exactly the above with great success. I work with a weird proprietary esolang sometimes that I like, and the
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   by dmd 7mo ago

   The vast majority of americans have never used whatsapp, if they’ve even heard of it.
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   by dmd 7mo ago

   Kinda-not-really? Wayland has wl_region objects and wl_surface_set_input_region but wl_region only has axis-aligned rectangles. you'd end up approximating the circle (or whatever shape) as a union of horizontal rect slices, rather than
4. 184.▲
   by dmd 7mo ago

   I've got great news for you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_extension
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   by dmd 7mo ago

   Yeah, in my user prompt I have "Whenever you are asked to perform any operation which could be done deterministically by a program, you should write a program to do it that way and feed it the data, rather than thinking through the p
6. 186.▲
   by dmd 7mo ago

   If you'd clicked the link, instead of just reading the title, you'd have known it was.
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   by dmd 7mo ago

   These days infants' hearing (including my own two childrens') are tested at birth , without them having to participate in the process at all (they can even be asleep)! https://www.audiology.org/consumers-and-patie
8. 188.▲
   by dmd 7mo ago

   It's air molecules vibrated by mucous membranes. Not real conversations.
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   by dmd 7mo ago

   Huh! I'm kind of stunned that we only use ~30x the power that we did back then. If I'd been asked to guess I would have added another 0 or even two of them.
10. 190.▲
    by dmd 7mo ago

    “someone’s woman”?
11. 191.▲
    by dmd 7mo ago

    jfc. What is the point? What do people get out of doing that?
12. 192.▲
    by dmd 7mo ago

    Where does that 0.3 TW figure come from? That seems awfully high.
13. 193.▲
    by dmd 7mo ago

    God forbid anyone read past the title.
14. 194.▲
    by dmd 7mo ago

    Yet another person who responded to the title without clicking through to the article, which has nothing to do with support chatbots.
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    by dmd 7mo ago

    You wrote all of that in response to the title, without reading even one paragraph of the article? Wild. The article is not about support chatbots.
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    by dmd 7mo ago

    How does your assertion hold up give they've already written this code and it's used every day by millions of people? You just have to turn it on with a MDM profile. It's just consumers they don't let use it.
17. 197.▲
    by dmd 7mo ago

    I don't see how any of those require a constant-heartbeat loop. Those all work just fine in claude code / cowork.
18. 198.▲
    by dmd 7mo ago

    https://github.com/obra/superpowers "brainstorming" is pretty much exactly this workflow, and it's great.
19. 199.▲
    by dmd 7mo ago

    I'm guessing you're either from the midwest US, or not from the US. Am I right?
20. 200.▲
    by dmd 7mo ago

    See my answer to that question is “er, yes, obviously??!” and so I assume, apparently incorrectly, that everyone is like me.
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    by dmd 7mo ago

    They're not even stitched together ; there's just no padding between the two images.
22. 202.▲
    by dmd 8mo ago

    I can't figure out what "seals" or "break" mean in this sentence. What am I missing here?
23. 203.▲
    by dmd 8mo ago

    Er - you know a magnetron doesn’t actually spin, right?
24. 204.▲
    by dmd 8mo ago

    1) Like 80% of the world is smartphone-only 2) In my (wealthy, Boston area) suburb most high school students do all their work - including writing multi-page papers - entirely on their phone. They think laptops are for old people.
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    by dmd 8mo ago

    My overall philosophy for (my quite extensive) Home Assistant setup is “amy time a human interacts with the HA UI in any way whatsoever, that is a failure.” I don’t want dashboards, I don’t want a user interface at ALL other than for settin
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    by dmd 8mo ago

    take a wild guess
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    by dmd 8mo ago

    I had a weird experience with thankfully very temporary aphasia 20 years ago, which I wrote a bit about here: https://dmd.3e.org/2005-11-23-aphasia-and-back-sunday-20-nov...
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    by dmd 8mo ago

    > Also, just to be clear-- are you saying there are blind tests where an expert tried playing multiple violins and couldn't guess better than chance which one was the Strad? Yes, this has been done many times.
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    by dmd 8mo ago

    I think it's somewhat interesting that codex (gpt-5.3-codex xhigh), given the exact same prompt, came up with a very similar result. https://3e.org/private/self-portrait-plotter.svg
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    by dmd 8mo ago

    Well now you've done it.