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by internet_points 3mo ago
In my experience, waiters tend to be quite good at splitting bills. I feel like many of them remember what people had, maybe they get good mental maps of seating or person <-> meal type just like taxi drivers used to get good mental m
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by internet_points 3mo ago
Just like wolves selected for survival the humans who treated them well and eventually humans evolved to produce oxytocin on petting wolves =P
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by internet_points 3mo ago
OTOH I now have a lot more sympathy for my cpu's, I should give them some slack
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by internet_points 3mo ago
I think you'd get your point across better if you avoid consulting AI to improve your style, may lead to less distracting threads like this.
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by internet_points 3mo ago
could've guessed staying away from xdisp.c was a good idea, cf. the "Buttery Smooth Emacs"[0] post: > Keep in mind that Emacs xdisp.c tries to support five different toolkits (including two different major versions of GTK)
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by internet_points 3mo ago
Alternatively, I might have been even more sick if I didn't take vitamin D!
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by internet_points 3mo ago
Yeah I took vitamin D all through my kids' nursery years, every morning, had strong belief in it. I still was sick all the time. That combination of not enough sleep (kids crying in the night etc.), work stress and insane amount of vir
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by internet_points 3mo ago
Legally obtaining a book for reading it yourself is different from legally obtaining a book for copying and republishing/reselling. If I buy a book for $5 at a sale I can read it myself or even sell it for $10 on craigslist, but I can&
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by internet_points 3mo ago
Politicians these days are expected to have harder and harder skin. I've seen lots of stories in the news lately of (in particular young) politicians from scandinavia who dropped out of politics due to harassment, anonymous threats etc
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by internet_points 3mo ago
If you stop using horses other places, you don't need to move around hay, so you need even fewer horses. (If the world generally uses less fossil fuels, the demand for shipping goes down as well, since much of shipping is just shufflin
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by internet_points 3mo ago
There's also a bit of east/west rivalry going on. Politicians and newspapers based in the east deride it, those in the west cheer it on. (Compared to the yearly budget the per-year cost doesn't seem like a big deal, but I don
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by internet_points 3mo ago
For those saying it's not MLM, it's not not MLM: https://replit.com/refer Of course it's all within legal limits (or at least pre-legal , as the AI people call it[0]), but it smells like MLM. They'll st
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by internet_points 3mo ago
Same here! I was so annoyed that it didn't come with an auto-powerdown function. Did they really expect people to remember to turn them off "when they plan not to use it for a few days" (I mean who plans not to use somethin
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by internet_points 3mo ago
Put their own email in there, ceo@that-dumb-company.com
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by internet_points 3mo ago
It has me through my open source contributions, but interestingly it claims the same regardless of what I use as a given name, as long as I keep the (fairly unique) surname. So my whole extended family are open source contributors.
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by internet_points 3mo ago
Weell, it's not completely untyped, but it is runtime type-checked. There's stuff like `(if (integerp foo)` and `(defcustom ... :type '(choice (const tag "abs" abs) 'integer))` And then there are more ambitiou
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by internet_points 3mo ago
I was also reminded of this :) Direct link to the write-up of the previous such record: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01960...
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by internet_points 3mo ago
Nah. It's great that they're making it less of a hassle to use, but it's still going to be more of a hassle than just using the plain regex-based modes, and treesitter in itself doesn't really make much of an improvement
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by internet_points 3mo ago
This is one of the creepiest "big AI" product launches I've read. I know it's becoming a meme, but that spa looks like something from a Black Mirror episode. If they were just creating a new less-invasive and differently
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by internet_points 3mo ago
...except ruler-mode uses dragging of middle mouse button to move the fill column, which on my system scrolls.
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by internet_points 3mo ago
TIL about ruler-mode; now I can delete my own half-assed implementation of the same. And compare-windows looks really handy. I was about to write a note in my init file to my future self telling me to start using that, but then I saw there
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by internet_points 3mo ago
Putin is right now considering how to get on that Mafia show and improve his public image in the US
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by internet_points 3mo ago
You can! But the set of just one thing tends to be easily guessable, just like the set of all things. The hardest (or most frustrating) rules are the ones that have two or more "components" like "smelly but also is in our hou
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by internet_points 3mo ago
also we can close our eyes and stop monitoring it https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/03/climate/ocean-monitoring-...
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by internet_points 3mo ago
We play another hypothesis testing game in our family where one player invents a secret rule and gives a single example of a thing that's acceptable. Then the others have to guess other things that might also be acceptable, and the inv
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by internet_points 4mo ago
Intriguing. You should notify Narayanan and Kapoor so they can update their post with your counter-example :)
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by internet_points 4mo ago
If "the latter hypothesis" of parent commenter was that "AI will replace ~80% of white-collar jobs", then that hypothesis clearly not supported by the current layoffs. AI isn't replacing workers, AI just happens to
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by internet_points 4mo ago
https://www.normaltech.ai/i/201537309/the-stories-of-ai-driv... suggests AI is used as an excuse rather than being a real reason.
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by internet_points 4mo ago
I've been a happy Fastmail customer for years, and one of the best things about Fastmail has been how they just incrementally make things slightly better, as if they somehow haven't learnt how to enshittify. So on seeing this titl
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by internet_points 4mo ago
"The Search for the Perfect Language" is a really entertaining book if you like codes, languages, occult history, and/or chuckling at hubristic academic endeavors.

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