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by gcanyon 10mo ago
When our kids were little we got them a wire bead rollercoaster, something like: https://www.ebay.com/itm/304637213979 It's one piece. Cleanup is picking it up and putting it where you want it. For playability, th
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
That's where the in:anywhere search is your friend. It searches all mail.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
I'll point out that I read Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series, which started in 1983, is projected to run to 19 books with 17 done. Brust is 70, but he appears to be in reasonable shape, and the books have been pretty regular of la
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Would it kill them to use the words "AI coding agent" somewhere prominent? "MiniMax M2.1: Significantly Enhanced Multi-Language Programming, Built for Real-World Complex Tasks" could be an IDE, a UI framework, a performa
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Yeah, I'm by no means saying that Apple is uniquely bad here -- it's just an issue I've been frustrated by since the first M1 chip, long before local LLMs made it a serious issue. More memory is always a good idea, and too
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
The other reason being that Russian (and other non-English) speakers are usually picking up their third or fourth language, while for English speakers it's almost universally number two, and half-hearted at that... (I say that as a nat
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
If Apple offered a reasonably-priced laptop with more than 24gb of memory (I'm writing this on a maxed-out Air) I'd agree. I've been buying Apple laptops for a long time, and buying the maximum memory every time. I just check
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
I wouldn't think so, knowing SQL has been a benefit, and knowing how to use LLMs to write SQL even more so.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Some tumor types metastasize well, others not so much. But the article doesn't say anything about metastasis, or leaving any cells behind from the target. Rather, it talks about destroying the targeted cells entirely, leaving behind on
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
> the second programming language everyone needs to know Do they though? I've been writing SQL for over twenty years, and my experience is that LLMs have been better at writing it than I am for at least most of 2025, for most use ca
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
> see what they care That's why you need smart people who care planning things. Miss out on either of those and you're going to fail. And right how we have people "planning" things who are neither smart nor caring.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Having a president who lacks object permanence makes long-term planning difficult.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
> ... and have white skin You forgot that. It's not that black and white (pun fully intended). But it's not not that black and white either.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
> courtesy of pax Americana Can we back this up? As an american, I'd like to think it's true, but I'd take a historian's viewpoint seriously.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
> the current WH has decided science has a bias against them As the saying goes, reality has a well-established (left|liberal) bias...
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
They can make a two-legged walking robot, but they can't avoid the visible seam in the back of his head? The tech is amazing, but they need better sewing...
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
In the late 1800s/early 1900s there were books published "in words of one syllable" -- e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonder... More: https://triviumpursuit.com&#x2
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Serious question: what makes you think team “hold my beer” won’t find a way around past norms, or just ignore them? Not that they actually care enough to do it, but I don’t think they wouldn’t/couldn’t if they did care.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
> You didn’t just ‘walk’; you ‘strode purposefully’, ‘trudged wearily’, or ‘ambled nonchalantly’. ‘Striding’ is ‘purposeful’; ‘trudging’ expresses ‘weariness’; ‘ambling’ implies ‘nonchalance’. Good verb choice reduces adverb depend
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
5.1 is major?
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
It's bad if it goes down by more than about 1.2% per year. That would mean zero births, present-day natural deaths. Of course zero births isn't presently realistic, and we should expect the next 10-30 years to significantly increa
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
There is a My Pillow network, and their person is in the Pentagon press pool. https://lindelltv.com/lindelltv-press-corps/
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
I had the app installed way back when, and it was fun. I reached my limit around 60-90 step solutions. The numbers are a little deceiving: in many cases there are sequences of moves 3, 4, or 5 (or more?) long where only one move is possible
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
> The cost of writing simple code has dropped 90%. Need to add, “…and what ‘simple’ means is getting broader by the day.”
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
Since the author seems interested in the maximum number of moves required to solve the puzzle, a similar puzzle called Subway Shuffle far outdoes Rush Hour. For example, puzzle 100 involves 9 pieces on a 10-spot grid, but requires (as far a
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
I would love to see that.
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
I was working at HBO when Ted Sarandos said, "The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us.” I knew then how that would play out, although I didn’t have this exact outcome on my bingo card.
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
"Differences in test scores" Anyone know how to interpret that chart?
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
Not 100% related, but I remember when OS...8? came out with balloon help, and one of the guidelines for it was that it should provide specific messages for when a menu item or control is disabled, to explain why the feature was disabled. e.
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
I know one feature Siri has added in the past fifteen years, because I always complained that Siri couldn't "text this photo to my wife." I would demonstrate to people that this doesn't work, complain about the lack of d

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