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by dofm 26d ago
It certainly and very clearly was not an ad hominem. Stop projecting things onto what I said so you can criticise me.
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by dofm 26d ago
On reflection I wonder if it doesn't drop more because it's a learned habit and it doesn't unlearn in the time of the study. However, I suspect the other complaint — that chronological feeds get overwhelmed by corporate spam
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by dofm 26d ago
Well they can generally void contracts at will and they can't have credit cards. I reckon this will have been informed at least in part by a billing complaint somewhat like those "my kid bankrupted me playing games from the App St
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by dofm 26d ago
Only half? That's sort of depressing.
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by dofm 26d ago
On the contrary, analogy is absolutely a foundational communication technique. But you do have to choose an analogy that your listener does not need to consider first. They need to know the subject of the analogy without having to questio
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by dofm 26d ago
I have this issue with cables between my Pi 4B and my slightly old 3D printer. USB-A to micro-B cables, and the connection is tetchy beyond belief about which ones it will accept and which it won't, either with or without the theoretic
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by dofm 27d ago
These appear to be a sort of AI-driven re-evaluation. I am a sort of engaged cynic about AI but I am happy to chalk this one up as a straightforward win for the machines. (I'm also quite intrigued about the other blog post regarding an
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by dofm 27d ago
> I wonder if the people objecting to your statement would object as strenuously had you had phrased it as “evidently mentally unwell”. The word “ill” seems to have triggered people into reading more into it than what was actually said.
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by dofm 27d ago
I have the receipts. I've always retained them for the deposition. :-) (It is, of course, not really out of the question that the first sale doctrine will always completely cover things like subscription-upgradeable cars and cameras)
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by dofm 27d ago
To be fair, it is different because it impairs perception . There's good evidence that depressed people are better at detecting simple sadness in others, and there's some evidence that depressed people are better at correctly pre
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by dofm 27d ago
Yes — I get unreasonably upset when people nitpick holes in good analogies as if it is evidence of intellectual weaknrss, rather than working with and around them or suggesting overlapping analogies that address those limitations. And the h
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by dofm 27d ago
They did something really different actually: they put out a product that wasn’t ready and allowed the market to shape how it was used. More or less the pure fantasy of digital cameras: a sensor in a box with a computer, screens and a lens
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by dofm 27d ago
Oh, I do. I mean part of what is so great about these cameras is their everyman quality — plus secondhand availability. There is a Sony mirrorless camera at essentially every secondhand price point you can imagine. At heart, I am a Nikon gu
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by dofm 27d ago
I am deeply ambivalent about Sony. I have had three mirrorless Sony cameras (albeit two secondhand), and I think they made what is one of the low-key best hobbyist cameras of its class ever [0], and I don't even much mind their current
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by dofm 27d ago
> I'd find it far less acceptable if a doctor told me work stress was mental illness. Goodness me. Sit and think about that for a while.
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by dofm 27d ago
> I agree, introducing it into the core should have and could have been a constructive move way before given how important the plugin is in the WP ecosystem. There was a (stalled) core Fields API effort. The project lead abandoned core W
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by dofm 27d ago
For goodness’ sake, I didn’t “diagnose” him or try to. If I were to get more specific than “mentally ill” that would be a diagnosis. But “mentally ill” is not a diagnosis and it wasn’t an attempt at one. I mean it colloquially based on my o
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by dofm 27d ago
FWIW I went through a phase of this (feeling like streaming services were full of low grade stuff) until one day when basically nobody seemed to understand me except Amazon Music, which has an almost eerie recommendation mechanism that I th
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by dofm 27d ago
Right but that is part of this long rolling episode that started with the WP Engine thing, which is really when he began to act in an unhinged way. That is really when the sudden shift in his public manner happened. It has been going on tha
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by dofm 27d ago
Very very small fonts is one of the things that annoys me most; truly a sign that design-based post-training is in the hands of the young and inexperienced. Far too many AI-generated site designs look like a teenage fan site designer trying
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by dofm 27d ago
I don’t use or even read Reddit. But thank you for your thoughtful input or whatever.
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by dofm 27d ago
Not just its verbosity; also its architecture. Muse Glimmer has some interesting and it seems reasonably daring trade-offs in its architecture (that I wish I understood better) that seem to favour longer agentic “dialogue”, and it is just m
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by dofm 27d ago
> but I also do think that forking ACF into SCF was a net positive for the community. I think you can make the case that in principle this fork was a good idea. (Though I personally feel ACF is architecturally bad) What I think is unargu
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by dofm 27d ago
I am "evaluating" him as someone who feels he has come unglued in a similarly severe but less public way and recognises a fellow traveller. I'm fully entitled to say this, am I not? It's just my opinion. I am not "m
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by dofm 27d ago
That is sad but not surprising. I think they always had a bit more trouble with its sync system than they would have wanted. I loved Simplenote for the longest time but ultimately simple pragmatism switched me to Apple Notes after dalliance
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by dofm 27d ago
That is a question of interpretation. But based on my own life experiences I think there is enough evidence that he is in deep, rolling burnout. He is making severely self-sabotaging actions that appear to be designed to force clarity throu
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by dofm 27d ago
It is the default, which is insane. I think it is clear that medium reasoning has more 'loopy' results like the older Qwens, but I actually think the low effort results are usually more appropriate. If you plan to one-shot and v
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by dofm 27d ago
It doesn’t use the caveman speak unless reasoning is set to xhigh, in my experience. But I don’t know if it has always been coincidental.
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by dofm 27d ago
> I don’t think that’s accurate or helpful. There are, to me, abundant signs that he is severely burned out, dysregulated and irrational. (In this statement, in other statements, in his actions that wilfully worsened his own case again
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by dofm 27d ago
He is surely very evidently mentally ill. This is a man who, to be fair to him, has been beneficially bullish and iconoclastic in the WP community's favour for decades, as well as writing a big chunk of what was "early modern&quot

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