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by johnea 1y ago
Shouldn't people who don't like coffee, just not drink coffee? The article makes it seem like caffeine is an essential nutrient. Is this kid just addicted? I drink an espresso or two each morning. I find drip coffee... uninteresti
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by johnea 1y ago
Seriously. One has to wonder how many of those "reviews" and "articles" were LLM generated. Like the tool's glowing appraisal of Altman, it also is self promoting. To me, this represents one of the most serious issu
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by johnea 1y ago
> a large part of humanity will cease to be able to add significant (economic) value Which, of course, is our "special purpose" in life. Why would people even exist if they weren't going to contribute to shareholder value?
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This seems like a pretty accurate summary to me. Both the "right" and "left" are now more defined by identity politics than economic class. My impression is that both of these "identities" have been promoted an
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> Ubuntu Touch is behind in the core things users actually value Indeed, the primary "core thing" missing is being manufactured and dictated to "the market" by a multi-billion $ monopoly...
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by johnea 1y ago
"See, I'm an idea man, Chuck. I got ideas coming at me all day..." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Night_Shift_(film) The drop line is the funniest though: "Wait a second... hold the phone! Hold the p
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by johnea 1y ago
Once again, goggle catches up with linux features from 10 years ago. Just one example article, using a chroot environment: https://www.nextpit.com/turn-your-android-device-into-a-linu... But Ubuntu touch, and other native l
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by johnea 1y ago
Your mileage may vary. I know a number of very experienced engineers that went through hundreds of application over more than a year before finally finding employment. Often there would be several rounds of interviews, sometimes 6!, with se
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Wouldn't it be better if the world totally forgot the twitverse?
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by johnea 1y ago
Thank you for the correction! On re-reading, I realize the name I thought I was remembering is "Andy" Kay, not Alan Kay. I guess I was victim to "close but no cigar". To quote Emily Latella: Never Mind...
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by johnea 1y ago
Bell Labs wasn't the only loss. HP Labs was another victim of LBO cannibalism.
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Outside the issue of OOP, Alan Kay has always been an icon to me, since I moved to Solana Beach CA in the early '80s soon after the establishment of Kaypro computers in that city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayp
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by johnea 1y ago
This is highlighted by how many different types of user interface environments are implemented in free s/w platforms, vs the monoculture user interfaces of proprietary OSes. The resultant windoze brain damage is a co-mingling of "
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by johnea 1y ago
Really only as a matter of scale. The main vendor locking practice of M$, has been to cut deals w/ h/w makers to preinstall windoze on their new computers. This caused many many more people to face childhood indoctrination into wi
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by johnea 1y ago
Maybe the dismissal of the Deathbed Fallacy should be mitigated by the "What I'm doing right now can't possibly be wrong" fallacy? As usual, people who haven't yet reached the situation of others, fail to learn from
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by johnea 1y ago
This is just to serve as a reminder of who actually "owns" your computer. Overwhelmingly, people who speak in favor of windows, grew up using it. It's like the indoctrination of any religous cult, it works best when you start
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by johnea 1y ago
I'm not torn at all, I would say going to public domain is exactly what should have happened. Here in SoCal, our past senator cosponsored the DMCA (aka Disney Millennium Copyright Act) to benefit her long time contributor. Once authors
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by johnea 1y ago
I think the anime based on this is pretty widely known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flowers_of_Evil_(manga)
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They were great! Along with the drafting machine instead of T-square and triangles. This is a reminder of so many things: Like chip and board "tape out" being done with actual tape on velum...
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by johnea 1y ago
One has to wonder: What percentage of that 10% graduated from yale...
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by johnea 1y ago
No, getting old isn't what _you_ think... In response to: > I’m turning 50 soon I'd have to reply with: > “Add a decade, mate, and then we’ll talk…” I felt young all through my 50s, and was routinely running 12 to 20 miles&
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by johnea 1y ago
</sarcasm> Sure, if they just make one with the guiding principle's of the pink, hello kitty, assault rifle, it'll be great for the kids! </serious> All commercial products will be designed to maximize revenu
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by johnea 1y ago
I agree with that. Both in terms of your statement regarding the understandings of economists working in their field, and in a sense of trying to meet in the middle here, because I don't think we're that far apart. My main objecti
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by johnea 1y ago
> Instead of merely spitting out text based on statistical models of probability, reasoning models break questions or tasks down into individual steps akin to a human thought process. Uh huh, because they have the entire human brain all
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by johnea 1y ago
All your container are belong to us!!!
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by johnea 1y ago
While "Always" would certainly be the correct answer in a running average sort of analysis, I think we're seeing a local maxima enabled by the recent technology enabled surge in internet brain rot... p.s. I only know this bec
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by johnea 1y ago
Clearly most people just don't give a sh1t. They throw themselves gushingly at every app that oozes out from under a rock, and then they wonder how they became so economically f_cked...
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Acquire, Extend, Abandon... Yet another victim of M$
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by johnea 1y ago
I'm too old for memes. I'm sure you've heard of GDP, it's pretty much exactly what you say the market theories are not about... When in fact, GDP is the most common metric used to illustrate economic health. WRT theories
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by johnea 1y ago
> allocate resources more efficiently More efficiently for whom? "Efficient" in what way? The extent to which a thing is "efficient" or "optimal" is entirely based on a desired outcome being comparing to ac

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