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by h9n 3y ago
I address my journals to my future biographers. I also maintain a Spotify playlist for my biopic's soundtrack. And I leave digital footprints for ingestion by future AI models. A while of doing this has shaped my thinking generally. Th
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by h9n 3y ago
Like the article author, I have always found Harari's work and ideas, if not facile, then uninsightful, and the size of his following unwarranted. But a passage in the article stood out to me: > According to this notion, our mastery
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by h9n 3y ago
It is possible to write pornographic literature using Microsoft Word — and many do
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by h9n 4y ago
> the current funding model of post-secondary institutions, which does not prioritize the ratio of faculty-to-students necessary for ever more personalized or real-time assessment methods. Get ChatGPT to do the assessments.
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by h9n 4y ago
How about a taxonomy by associated sexual pathology? https://youtu.be/mZyvIHYn2zk
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by h9n 4y ago
Last year I bought a copy of The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, first edition. Inside was a folded piece of paper printed in really coarse old dot-matrix that had (I (BE (NOT (RATHER
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by h9n 4y ago
If countering blind denialism means conducting mathematics with regard for anything other than mathematics, then blind denialism it must be. I think though this is falsely dichotomous, and hyperbolic, and that such assertions have only serv
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by h9n 5y ago
I’m sure this comment is facetious, but as many motorcyclists will attest, something absolutely was lost in the 80s with the transition to electric starter motors. Kickstarting a motorcycle is a truly pleasurable experience (at least for sm
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by h9n 5y ago
> I really disagree. I think engineers scratching their own itch leading down to trickle-down tooling is what a lot of independent devs _like to believe_, but that it's motivated mostly by self-importance. I think the utter failure
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Connections: An Alternative View of Change (1978)(archive.org)
4 points by h9n 5y ago|0 comments
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by h9n 6y ago
There's a real epistemological problem that people of protected classes face that I hadn't considered before reading this article and the comments here; one unintended effect of the current zeitgeist is that, because overt sexism
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by h9n 6y ago
After pressing Cmd + Shift + 4, press Space and then click on a window or alert to screenshot it entirely, instead of having to drag out a rectangular region. It works at the level of the compositor so the screenshot includes its chrome and
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by h9n 7y ago
After selling Australia the F/A-18 Hornet, the US refused to give Australia access to its friend-or-foe identification system, making it essentially useless for its role as the country's front-line fighter. Australia had to resort
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The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10(daringfireball.net)
624 points by h9n 7y ago|602 comments
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by h9n 7y ago
I've been wondering lately how and whether Australia could use its position as the biggest exporter to deliberately wreck the global thermal coal market, and consequently, coal usage. I'm definitely not an economist, but would it
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by h9n 7y ago
But the Swedish Chef is still, surprisingly, the Swedish Chef in Sweden, which seems to be a cruel joke. https://slate.com/culture/2012/08/swedish-chef-what-do-swede...
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by h9n 7y ago
We should not be surprised that the environment we find ourselves in is so seemingly well-suited to the flourishing of life. I believe the grandparent post was saying this as a response to the idea that things are too improbably perfectly-s
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by h9n 7y ago
Great article. It expresses ideas similar to Game & Watch and GameBoy creator Gunpei Yokoi's philosophy of Lateral Thinking of Withered Technology.[0] > Yokoi said, "The Nintendo way of adapting technology is not to look fo
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by h9n 7y ago
At the risk of flogging a dead horse, the tweeter was technically correct when she said that she had written a book. She said neither that she edited, typeset, printed, bound, distributed, shelved, loaned, sold, nor solely forged a book out
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by h9n 8y ago
Not exactly what the GP asked, but there’s also Wireguard in the iOS[0] and Mac App Stores[1]. Wireguard from the Mac App Store works successfully with Little Snitch (per-app firewall) and comes with a menubar icon that shows connectivity a
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by h9n 8y ago
Ergonomics. Text that does not require much horizontal back-and-forward movement of the eyes is easier to read than super wide-set text. Gruber has long talked about typography so I’d guess it’s deliberate.