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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
Remember when that was a thing and then its developers killed it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
https://aiascendant.com/p/extropias-children
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
> " it pays to dig further down to find the stuff that didn't make sense to dig up before " A limited amount; for each barrel burned to power the drilling we used to get 100 barrels back. Now we need to build a floating o
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
You don't eat the cash cow, you milk the cash cow.
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
> " That AGI is relatively near is the party line everywhere. " Is it no nearer than it was in 1750, 1850, 1950, 2001, or 2010? It feels nearer. Relatively near, as in it feels weird to imagine another two thousand years happen
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
It is on the Wayback Machine (NSFW of course) https://web.archive.org/web/19991111060504/http://www.goatse...
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
or LiveGrep fast search of the Linux kernel source code with regex support: https://livegrep.com/search/linux
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
> " The agent is running tests, loading webpages, etc, which all take time " A frustrating vision of the future would be when we've been asking for faster loading lighter web pages for years and then companies start caring
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
Psion Series 5 and other PDAs had infra red (IrDA) ports for 'beam'ing contacts, transferring files, printing, etc. 1998 - https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.psion.misc/c/oFtTHyx6IR... 1994 - htt
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
I wonder if people would have a more favorable view of it if it wasn't a way to whitewash the wealthy crushing the poor as if they were a commodity like stones, and then direct blame onto the poor for not working hard enough, and prese
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
> " How much would you pay to have access to a smarter version of yourself? " How much would I pay to rent my fucking self from a landlord? No, bodylord? Mindlord? Poe's Law. But looking at the post, they argue that big AI
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
Domingo Gonsales is flown to the moon by tying himself to wild swans, and meets Lunar Christians - The Man in the Moone by Francis Godwin (1601) Manned mission to the Moon by giant gun - Jules Verne (1865 ish). Manned trip around Saturn by
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
It’s better than many of the AI offerings and the bike could steer and the ducks are sitting on saddles, but the three nephews can’t reach the bottom of the pedal stroke and by the looks of their feet on the far side of the bike they aren’t
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
Yes we do leave pubs on the sidewalk and require everyone that wants to drink there to age verify first, what are you talking about
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
Oh but you enabled the setting "don't use infinite scroll" and we've deprecated infinite scroll so that isn't a setting anymore. While improving service for our customers we have introduced "unrolling pages&quo
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by jodrellblank 3mo ago
a) I went to a Talon Voice cheat sheet and copied them out because I didn’t remember them. Is plex not right? b) Talon Voice is a configurable voice engine, the commands are something you setup and people use common shared starter packs and
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by jodrellblank 3mo ago
NATO phonetic is to be understandable over a noisy radio channel, if you want just distinct sounds then Talon Voice users settled on shorter ones easier to use all the time: air a bat b cap c drum d each e fine f
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by jodrellblank 3mo ago
Why is a dehumidifier either a hack or a lie? smartvacuums.co.uk says a dehumidifier collects 10 - 20 litres of water a day. dehumidifier-rentals.co.uk says 8 - 20 litres a day for a domestic compressor type, or 0.5 - 10 litres per day for
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by jodrellblank 3mo ago
> " but that core kernel of shared values is truly universal. " Which values? "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
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by jodrellblank 3mo ago
The irony of (teacher) reciting a pledge in support of 'liberty and justice for all' and then falling apart because a child has tried to use some of that liberty, then wishing and perpetuating injustice upon them in retaliation,
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by jodrellblank 3mo ago
> " where's the amazing product that couldn't have been done without AI? " My phone can search my photos with text based on what's represented in the photo. That wasn't a thing for computers from 1950 throug
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by jodrellblank 3mo ago
> You are comparing CLIs to GUIs. Yes, and GUIs are winning again as they so often do, but also no I'm not; you can be in PowerShell CLI and run `Get-Help thing -Online` and have it launch a GUI web browser to the URI that `thing` d
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by jodrellblank 3mo ago
It's awful UX for a program to know that you used it wrong, to be able to print the help there and then, and instead to tell you off and instruct you to ask politely (with --help). People who think that's okay in CLI world hate th
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by jodrellblank 3mo ago
“A rolling stone gathers no moss”, you say?
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by jodrellblank 3mo ago
ls | gvim - or in PowerShell gci | ogv -PassThru Programs which call GUI library functions can read stdin too... why wouldn't they be able to?
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by jodrellblank 3mo ago
> " I'd wager that if actually tested, " https://danluu.com/keyboard-v-mouse/ - """The widely cited studies on mouse vs. keyboard efficiency are completely bogus ... <testing, readin
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by jodrellblank 3mo ago
> " Lots of disabilities cause physical activity to be extraordinarily painful or difficult. " Nobody claimed otherwise.
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by jodrellblank 3mo ago
Nobody claimed that.
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by jodrellblank 3mo ago
Nobody claimed otherwise.
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by jodrellblank 3mo ago
Nobody claimed it was.

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