joshmarinacci

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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
Insanely bad compared to books or other permanent records. The human memory system did not evolve to be an accurate record of the past. It evolved to keep us alive by remembering dangerous things.
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
What is this? I can’t tell if it’s satire or serious or AI slop.
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
Fascinating. Thank you for the quick reply!
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
Is this a rebrand of R-Studio?
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
I don't think this would work. A big part of why ChromeOS is so simple is the Google services backing it. Without the unified login, automated backups, verified app store, and hardware certification ChromeOS wouldn't be the easy
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
If more people want MRIs then the market will create more machines. And hopefully the tech will improve over time, though we might be waiting for room temperature superconductors for real progress. Lack of staff to analyze the results is a
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
Self was influenced by Smalltalk, not the other way around. Smalltalk was developed in the 1970s. Self in the 1980s.
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
Finding the impact crater pretty much cemented it. It absolutely happened. The remaining questions are around if the impact was enough to trigger the extinction on its own or if other factors compounded the problem.
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
I think what you were saying is that it depends entirely on the type of writing you’re doing and who your audience is.
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
When I worked at Markforged we had a printer that could put solid carbon fiber threads into the print using a second extruder (on the same print head), so it's certainly possible. It was $20k, though. Getting this down to something acc
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
This. Every commercial system I've used changes or is discontinued. I now take my storage into my own hands, even if it takes longer.
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
This is kind of a weak and fluffy article coming from the Economist. As a long term subscriber I’m disappointed.
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
Thank you so much for Executor. I used to run it on my 486 Linux box, over an X11 SSH tunnel to the Sun workstation I used in the computer labs for work on campus. I balanced my checkbook and wrote essays in emulated Excel and Word (with ro
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
I feel like we are fighting the wrong battle here. Eventually AI bot behavior online will be indistinguishable from human, but so what?! We've had teams of underpaid humans being paid to be organic bots for years now. Whether the perso
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
The PNG format has chunks with types. So you can add an additional chunk with a new type and existing decoders will ignore it. There is also some leeway for how encoding is done as long as you end up with a valid stream of bits at the end (
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
A fun trick I do with my web based drawing tools is to save a JSON representation of your document as a comment field inside of a PNG. This way the doc you save is immediately usable as an image but can also be loaded back into the editor.
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
I’ve been considering making something like this since usb host support showed up on the raspberry pico. My dream is something like this with an eInk screen for weeks long battery life n
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
I don’t buy the argument that we need design harmony between platforms. If I wanted an iPad like experience on my Mac I would have bought an iPad. I paid for a mouse and keyboard centric experience. Liquid Glass actively takes away from tha
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
It is possible for different devices to have different interfaces optimized for those different interaction models. Apple has the money to support this.
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
That is indeed what's happening. The countryside is emptying out and people are moving to the big cities.
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
It did have that at launch, but the transition was very confusing. There was (is?) an "iTunes Match" thing to replicate your personal mp3s in the cloud rather than uploading them. It was a real mess.
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
Former Palm employee here. I was a developer advocate working directly with app devs from a couple of months before Palm was acquired until after the shutdown. I remember Phil and rather liked him. Everything he states in the article is cor
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
I think of it not as Newton was wrong, but rather his explanation was incomplete.
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by joshmarinacci 1y ago
Was this written by an LLM?
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by joshmarinacci 2y ago
I don't think so. Good landscaping requires knowledge of the site, the local ecosystem, and an understanding of how water and soil flow. It's a whole lot more than generating an image. The image is simply an output of the process.
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by joshmarinacci 2y ago
Ah. Thank you. Having examples up front really helps me understand it better.
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by joshmarinacci 2y ago
Sometimes a company can know the problem is real and be unable to address it. I was at Palm when HP bought us. HP knew the future was mobile and wanted to not be just a low margin OEM for someone else’s software platform. Buying Palm was a
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by joshmarinacci 2y ago
I was there during the end of the Windows Phone era and can confirm. There were even efforts for additional Linux based OSes post windows phone. Nokia just never had software in their DNA.
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by joshmarinacci 2y ago
It also documented far better than any other easily accessible hardware. I’d pick the Pi over any other real hardware target.
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by joshmarinacci 2y ago
Unfortunately the first thing I see is a giant ad scroll down over the header blocking the entire viewport on my phone, so immediately hit the back button. Are all personal blogs automatically monetized now?

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