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by flkiwi 6mo ago
Obviously this (along with the original unwritten order a few weeks ago) is causing a stir, but this decision isn't as weird as it sounds. The defendant's assertion was essentially a retroactive application of privilege: he didn&#
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by flkiwi 6mo ago
There was an old flash game called, I think, curveball that was kind of like 3d perspective, 2d plane Pong. I could play that gave for so, so long and not get tired of it. This might end up being a replacement. EDIT: Uh oh. I found it again
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by flkiwi 6mo ago
The number of times I find myself saying to beginning photographers that babying their camera is the surest way to hate photography, whether as a hobby or a profession… I get particularly testy about handwringing about weather sealing or pr
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by flkiwi 6mo ago
Same principle applies to, e.g., Leica cameras. Yes, they're pricey (absurdly so), but the lack of features, the slow speed, and the lack of configuration contributes to me improving my photography. It doesn't make me a better pho
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by flkiwi 6mo ago
It's ... weirdly validating that what I ended up with is what I actually use (Source Code Pro).
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by flkiwi 7mo ago
I literally just fixed a couple of nagging config issues that I couldn't be bothered to find in my (admittedly complex) set of NixOS and HM config files by asking Claude to find and fix them. I had Claude do the grunt work of shifting
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by flkiwi 7mo ago
First guess: making things small (and durable) is more expensive than making things big.
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by flkiwi 8mo ago
Me, before clicking: Man, I remember I had this USR modem that did this weird BONG sound during handshake. I wonder if anyone else in the comments remembers that. Comments: YUP.
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by flkiwi 8mo ago
Exactly right. The individual in question produces excellent deliverables within their space. They, the coworker, are very good at receiving inputs, but not very good at outputs (other than their deliverables). In a way, it's like havi
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by flkiwi 8mo ago
Exactly right. He’s good at what he does, except communicating, and people are beginning to associate him with AI slop they don’t have time to read rather than the excellent work he does for them.
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by flkiwi 8mo ago
Remote, multi location workforces, supervisors and workers thousands of miles apart.
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by flkiwi 8mo ago
This is only going to become more common. Companies are implementing checks using similar services (a) to prevent employment scams (where the person who interviews is not the person who works; usually the latter is a low-paid offshore indiv
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by flkiwi 8mo ago
One of my coworkers is EXTREMELY capable but functionally almost illiterate. He’s recently discovered that he can put an idea in Copilot and have it generate an email. So now instead of brief, correct, but difficult to parse emails we recei
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by flkiwi 8mo ago
I read things like this, which I absolutely agree is happening, but then compare it to my ongoing, multi-day failures to create a child account on a Samsung device (which also involves a child account on Google, which is where the workflow
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by flkiwi 8mo ago
Well the obvious solution is take away the vote for over-65s! /s … maybe
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by flkiwi 8mo ago
I actually tried Ground News for a while because, you know, why not? I appreciate what they're trying to do, but the signal to noise ratio was so, so unfavorable between the UI clutter, the curious lack of certain categories, and the o
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by flkiwi 8mo ago
My "favorite", and likely related, part of Apple News is that if I have blocked a source because it is unreliable, heavily biased, etc., and a story from that source appears in the main timeline, Apple News shows a greyed out vers
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by flkiwi 8mo ago
Interesting post. I appreciate their candor and self-criticism, but, as a customer, I'm consistently surprised by how robust Tailscale ends up being, and how rarely I've experienced an issue that actually broke my tailnet. The sor
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by flkiwi 9mo ago
I accidentally gave my wife a prompt the other day. Everything was hellishly busy and I said something along the lines of “I need to ask you a question. Please answer the question. Please don’t answer any other issues just yet.” She looked
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by flkiwi 9mo ago
I've gotten more value out of it than just about any ongoing subscription I have. It's clean, fast, deeply customizable (i.e., excluding "answers" websites or any other domain you never want to see again), and, for what
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by flkiwi 9mo ago
The approval of the people is irrelevant if Putin cites Zelenskyy’s democratic illegitimacy as a reason to remove him (which, arguably, they have) or Trump as a reason to withhold support.
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by flkiwi 9mo ago
So we can justify, say, deposing the king of Saudi Arabia? Or Zelenskyy on the pretext that he hasn’t held a timely election? Or the president of Taiwan on the basis of illegitimacy of the election? Regardless of Maduro’s sins, this is a ma
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by flkiwi 9mo ago
Thank you. I was confused about why this was suddenly bubbling up again. And ... paints Honey in a pretty bad light? LOL, they already looked like a fraudster scam to begin with! (But, again, thank you.)
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by flkiwi 9mo ago
Didn't this Honey fraud thing break like a year ago (or longer)? This is the second story I've seen about it in the last couple of days and I guess I'm surprised it's even still around.
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by flkiwi 9mo ago
Another tool to add to my arsenal of responses to people who claim either "no filter used" or "SOOC photo". Both of those may be true for some values of "no filter" or "straight out of camera" but the
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by flkiwi 10mo ago
Tailscale is one of the simplest, most useful things I use. I only use the personal plan, but I keep toying with signing up for paid because it’s a damn good product.
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by flkiwi 10mo ago
Goodness no, I chuckled.
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by flkiwi 10mo ago
Someone didn't think so, lol. I debated not saying anything because the AI partisans are just so awful.
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by flkiwi 10mo ago
I gave up my OpenAI subscription a few days ago in favor of Claude. My quality of life (and quality of results) has gone up substantially. Several of our tools at work have GPT-5x as their backend model, and it is incredible how frustrating
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by flkiwi 10mo ago
It's cute that this presumes Office will still be called O365 in 10 years. It will have been through at least new naming schemes by then.

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