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by jprd 3mo ago
Aaron Swartz, for one.
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by jprd 3mo ago
This is great. The amount I've learned from threads like this is wonderful. Fountain pens AND chalk. We are so spoiled by the ubiquity of paper and writing tools that we tried to eliminate them with typing on glass.
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by jprd 3mo ago
https://archive.is/PSE0i
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by jprd 4mo ago
Oh wow, that was so cathartic. Thank you for sharing.
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by jprd 5mo ago
Good.
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by jprd 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/qtMjh
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by jprd 6mo ago
Not sure I understand, but all I know is this dude has been an unhinged actor for a long time - and now he's on an Anti-Christ tour? I take him even less seriously than Andreessen, Karp and Musk. Unfortunately they have more money than
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by jprd 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/SsM81
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by jprd 6mo ago
Prefer Grok for what exactly?
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by jprd 6mo ago
Right. This compute still being powered by an illegal amount of gas turbines in a residential neighborhood? Claude is eating so much compute, the threat of that power being tuned down by lawsuit (rightfully) is worth the risk to Anthropic i
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by jprd 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/ZWWDX
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by jprd 7mo ago
Yes. Both me-south-1 and me-central-1 have been _heavily_ impacted/disrupted for nearly a month now due to drone strikes on infra.
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by jprd 8mo ago
Nice. Do you just use your 5 as a stationary iPod, or do you dual-carry with a modern device as well? Curious on if you also use it to wi-fi the web on your local LAN periodically too, of it that was just a periodic test to check if HN work
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by jprd 8mo ago
Glorious. This must be what is like when old people long for the hot car they lusted for in their youth.
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by jprd 9mo ago
It is already complete.
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by jprd 9mo ago
https://archive.ph/TQnPn
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by jprd 9mo ago
Super glad to hear this. I absolutely do not want to be a member of any private club these people are a part of.
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by jprd 9mo ago
I have so many conflicting thoughts that I cannot properly articulate yet. I can say though, this is not going to end well for most, it is clumsily premeditated and starting to feel like dude is just trying to be a Neal Stephenson character
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by jprd 9mo ago
lol what? Can you please cite some sources for this claim?
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by jprd 10mo ago
There is always going to be an intersection between tech and politics. This convo is no different than talking about Section 230, H1B visas or using vision models to sexualize people or distort the truth.
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by jprd 10mo ago
I miss shame, and accountability.
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by jprd 10mo ago
https://archive.ph/ZngPL
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by jprd 11mo ago
Look, when Britain taxed our tea, we got frisky Imagine what gon’ happen when you try to tax our whisky
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by jprd 1y ago
I'm not educated enough in this area to have any expertise, however, in my personal experience leaving a lithium-ion battery plugged all the time results in scary semi-exploded batteries that also stop working. Would you say this is a
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by jprd 1y ago
https://archive.ph/38zMO
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by jprd 1y ago
RPI?
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by jprd 1y ago
Yet we as a species are doing our damn best to delay it, chasing LLMs and entertaining those who want to "drill baby drill".
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by jprd 1y ago
BBC == OK Arab News == Not OK What is your opinion on Al Jazeera then?
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by jprd 1y ago
https://archive.ph/cIvCS
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by jprd 1y ago
My mom did this in the '80s so we weren't kidnapped, even by a family member. I'm not going to share the secret phrase, but it has stuck with me and I use it with my kids too. I know most of that was driven by the tragedy of

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