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by floren 3mo ago
It's so damn easy to hit "pause" on the kid by turning on the TV or handing over a phone, but the result is so apparent: demands for more phone or more TV.
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by floren 3mo ago
Same, I designed & built my own 108-key keyboard (no numpad, just a shitload of keys) and it's lovely. I'm very slowly binding functions to all the extras. https://jfloren.net/b/2024/10/23/0
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by floren 3mo ago
> SS No 7 only roughly maps into OSI model, the equivalent application layer would use MAP - Mobile application part. Well yeah only the OSI stack actually maps onto the OSI model, or should be expected to
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After 6 months of delays, Brilliant Labs delays smartglasses again(jfloren.net)
3 points by floren 3mo ago|0 comments
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by floren 3mo ago
I'd rather look old than be one of those lunatics who goes for a summer walk in a longsleeve shirt, gloves, and a hat with built-in veil (a pretty common sight in the Bay Area)
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by floren 3mo ago
12L is 1.2 million
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by floren 4mo ago
Iran has figured out it can make the US president look like an idiot over and over at relatively low cost to themselves, since they're already so thoroughly excluded from the rest of the world.
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by floren 4mo ago
Well, guess we'll have to wait a bit to see if we're in the weights... I got a 429, as I'm sure many others are (and thus mashing retry).
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by floren 4mo ago
They now charge to list your car, even as a private party. I'm not sure it was the right choice because it drove so much traffic to Facebook Marketplace, which is an absolute disaster.
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by floren 4mo ago
Doesn't help that he's a self-help author so he's always written like an LLM, even before LLMs.
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by floren 4mo ago
Shocking how a quote from some 2016 novel now rolls around the Internet like it's fucking Aristotle
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by floren 4mo ago
Everyone I've ever asked indicated it's because being higher up feels "safer".
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by floren 4mo ago
Yeah as I was making my shitpost I realized that a coastline entirely meets the actual definition of "liminal" (as opposed to the common usage, "teens pretending to be scared by an empty office break room")
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by floren 4mo ago
I honestly liked the Google+ circles thing too, felt like a similar idea.
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by floren 4mo ago
cskt.io is an AI-first company disrupting funerals with innovative cardboard burial receptacles.
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by floren 4mo ago
Liminalism? Nah thanks sorry I'm into littoralism these days, give me coastlines and beaches.
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by floren 4mo ago
I was struck by something similar when I visited the county fair in rural Grant County, Washington in 2023. We were walking around, checking out the 4-H/FFA barns and the exhibit halls, and there were teenagers everywhere, and almost n
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by floren 4mo ago
Are we talking about 8 year olds, or 15 year olds? I think it's fine to give your 8th grader a flip phone. A third grader isn't "grabbing dinner after band practice". For sports practice, I'd just take the sports bu
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by floren 4mo ago
"I'll be done with marching band practice at 6:30" "Ok, I'll come get you then"
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by floren 4mo ago
There's something you'll start to notice in Stephenson's books, where a passage will be almost entirely standalone and you think, he wrote this some other time and just barely massaged it to fit into this text. See also &quot
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by floren 4mo ago
That was the sentence that made me close the tab.
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by floren 4mo ago
Yes, that's a concern for me too, I'd like to retire early but healthcare has me wondering about getting a job as a teacher or something just to make sure I can afford it if I get cancer at 55.
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by floren 4mo ago
I'm trying to figure out where the best place to do this sort of thing is, looking a few years ahead. Currently feels like the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York hits a good combination of available farmland, affordable prices, ac
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by floren 4mo ago
"Better and faster than ESR" is not a particularly high bar to clear.
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by floren 4mo ago
I don't see that much advantage in pushing them out of the crab bucket and into the rat race. As a smart kid in a small rural high school, I had so much free time to read and pursue my other interests, because school wasn't dema
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by floren 5mo ago
Wow, what's it like being the president's grandkid?
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by floren 5mo ago
It's great but they don't handle AMT so I had to use TurboTax this year.
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by floren 5mo ago
> My mother has started watching 100% AI generated stories on YouTube. God, I'm sorry
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by floren 5mo ago
What makes them "modern"?
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by floren 5mo ago
Agreed, it's my 2026 book of the year despite being written in the 30s

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