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by gumby 3mo ago
There are other alternatives like the bsds and if things become intolerable a switch is viable. It just takes work.
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by gumby 3mo ago
I remember the same at the advent of desktop publishing
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by gumby 3mo ago
This was the first link in. Quick web search: CBP claims about 3/4 of deportations were self-directed (CBP was paying $1-3K per self-deportee). This does not include people who simply leave on their own which ICE tells people to do.
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Maybe dark energy doesn't need to exist after all(ucdavis.edu)
5 points by gumby 3mo ago|1 comments
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by gumby 3mo ago
I’m surprised this comment was downvoted. I know it’s bad form to discuss that, but this is a completely normative comment, with no opinion given so far from being a flame. And it adds to the technical discussion!
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by gumby 3mo ago
I went to a lot of work to adopt a “neutral” American accent, with some success. Perfectly adequate for casual conversations. Why? You run across many people with accents every day, right? Well, it’s a problem; people definitely treat yo
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by gumby 3mo ago
Politicians, celebrities and wealthy people often have staff who accompany them to collect this info and to remind them as you approach who you are and why you might want to talk to you. This is extending it to more people, not just those w
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by gumby 3mo ago
You already collect data on some of the ppl you meet (messages, contacts, LinkedIn connections etc). But the face recognition, memory of interactions etc should stay on device. That why I said I don’t want it to,take pictures I have access
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by gumby 3mo ago
I sometimes have trouble recognizing faces and sometimes it’s quite embarrassing (like when it’s one of your in laws or running into an important customer at a conference. However yes, I usually do that.
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by gumby 3mo ago
The real killer app form me requires a camera (though it doesn’t need to record photos or video for me to access — I have a phone for that). I need a device that tells me who I’m talking to if I’ve been introduced to them before and tell me
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by gumby 3mo ago
The LLM is the next generation of 20th century culture. Until the early 20th century, all stories (from before homer to Shakespeare, through Dickens and so on), music etc we continual remix and interpretation. But as recording became poss
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by gumby 3mo ago
I fed your comment into ChatGPT and asked it to answer your question. It told me that <a> starts an html anchor. Which while absolutely correct does not at all address your question.
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by gumby 3mo ago
Pretty sure the alif/alif had upward prongs because it was the head of the ox (so the triangle is the snout or head with two prongs above. Phoenician alif has the upward prongs. It may have come from Egyptian which would have been a d
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by gumby 3mo ago
That’s what user groups are for.
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by gumby 3mo ago
TBH, the calculator example isn’t an encouraging one. I use a calculator (these days N PP, or spotlight). But by the time I do that I already have an approximate ide of why the answer is, so if it’s way off, or the sign is wrong, I see it
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by gumby 3mo ago
Why is type erasure useless?
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by gumby 3mo ago
You need the flipped chirality which in extensive use and is a Unicode code point.
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by gumby 3mo ago
Thankfully I’ve never encountered one. But I’ll check before discarding if I ever get a device that comes with one, thanks!
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by gumby 3mo ago
Yeah. They want and need the “executive summary” level of resolution and don’t have time to immerse themselves sliver of high resolution data.
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by gumby 3mo ago
It’s a cool model but the training is so slow it feels like years!
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by gumby 3mo ago
This is a success! USB-C was designed so that the part most likely to fail is the inexpensive plug, not the socket. One of the problems with USB mini-A was that the socket would fail, meaning the device had to be repaired or discarded. Com
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by gumby 3mo ago
I scan the emarker on every USB C that comes into the house and add a p-touch label. I chuck out power-only and ultra baseline (60 W/USB 2 cables) with no marker or resistors. Power-only cables could be handy when traveling as they ar
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Dupes took over the world(vox.com)
118 points by gumby 3mo ago|129 comments
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by gumby 3mo ago
It’s just a field engineer but with a more military-sounding name in order to attract the worst bros. A job that has existed since the 60s in computing and likely long before that
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by gumby 3mo ago
If you look at the example I gave, the US Declaration of Independence, you’ll see the crossbar of the t is little transverse wiggle, so you draw the pen up to the top, then as you descend you make a brief horizontal twitch on the way down.
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Yes, you can trick AI into exonerating someone(braddelong.substack.com)
4 points by gumby 3mo ago|0 comments
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by gumby 3mo ago
It’s mostly all the emulators and platform APIs. I’m not defending Xcode (I hate it), just clarifying.
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by gumby 3mo ago
I’m surprised, as the whole points of it are speed and duration (less cramping, less energy when moving the wrist). Discrete lettering is simply slower because it requires more motion.
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by gumby 3mo ago
I am not sure what country the author is in, because when I learned to write English in school (decades ago, and it was the language of instruction) very few letters required backtrack, pretty much only ‘i’ and ‘j’. I just looked at an ima
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by gumby 3mo ago
In fact I’ve never liked the whole Patterns movement and the obsession with the Go5 at all!

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