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A Talk with Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy (2002)(bloomberg.com)
2 points by loughnane 1y ago|0 comments
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Are You a 'Heritage American'?(theatlantic.com)
4 points by loughnane 1y ago|2 comments
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The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)(thecascade.dev)
766 points by loughnane 1y ago|329 comments
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by loughnane 1y ago
A common model is for startups to use publicly available data to build their first model/device. Those devices then collect more application-specific data and use that to iterate design. Not hard to see how piles of ecg data could be u
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by loughnane 1y ago
Like many others here, I too am turned off by it being Chromium.
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The American Nations regions across North America(colinwoodard.com)
87 points by loughnane 1y ago|106 comments
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by loughnane 1y ago
Most books have little to say and you can, in fact, get most of what it has to offer in one reading. It’s worth your while to find the books that reveal more to you on each reread, especially rereads at different points in your life. The bo
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by loughnane 1y ago
I feel like these posts started popping up with increasing frequency over the last 10 years. At this point its almost a rite of passage to realize that Apple---though good in many ways---is far less than it's cracked up to be. At least
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by loughnane 1y ago
I deeply want the equivalent of Debian on a phone. Rock solid. Every few year feature updates, only security fixes otherwise.
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Five Republican factions jostle for the President's favor(economist.com)
6 points by loughnane 1y ago|1 comments
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by loughnane 1y ago
Not true. You can debate in private in a way where two people are searching for truth. The sad thing is if people debate like it’s a performance when it’s not.
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by loughnane 1y ago
As I've said in a few other comments, I agree it's a poor "debate". But sadly it's the sort we've got now in the public sphere. I hope for better, but I can't help but think his killing doesn't help.
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by loughnane 1y ago
I agree with that. As I said elsewhere it's a shame that we don't get better. If you compare it with the more sober, reflectful sort (eg russell vs copleston on the existence of God [0]) you can see how far we've fallen. Neve
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by loughnane 1y ago
Like I said, not when you sort by controversial. Top post right now when sorted that way is "Hate Kirk with a passion. But I hope he pulls through." https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1ndmobl&#x2
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by loughnane 1y ago
Yeah, I agree. It's a poverty of ours that he's the most prominent "debater" we've seen. Ideally we'd have a few dozen folks, maybe even a whole culture that debates. That way I think it'd be harder for gr
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by loughnane 1y ago
nothing to do with kirk, but rhetoric is like strength---it can be used for good or bad.
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by loughnane 1y ago
if you sort by 'controversial' on most of the reddit threads that's where you'll see the the more nuanced takes.
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by loughnane 1y ago
The Economist did a briefing on him in July which explains his increasingly large influence pretty well. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/07/18/charlie-k...
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by loughnane 1y ago
The sad irony is that he's at a college campus debating/arguing with people. At their best that's what college campuses are for. I know they haven't been living up to it lately but seeing him gunned down feels like a met
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by loughnane 1y ago
Agreed. I think when the history of this time is written the failure of the government to spread around the gains of capitalism and free trade will be seen as what led to the end of a political era.
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by loughnane 1y ago
I think this is true for most capital equipment, at least until governments step in to take the edge off. Whether AI has a more powerful effect than it's predecessors remains to be seen. It could.
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by loughnane 1y ago
For a while I kept feeling the urge to upgrade. Now I view it as an appliance so the urge is gone.
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by loughnane 1y ago
Yeah, I didn't think of non-native speakers. I def see the value there.
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by loughnane 1y ago
I get that. I also read many old books. Usually I can get context out of the sentence itself, but i'll occasionally bust out my phone. I see why it's nice, I just don't see why it's a top-tier feature. Each their own of
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by loughnane 1y ago
Granted I've only used a remarkable as an e-reader, but i read a lot of paper books. I don't understand why this is such a necessary feature. Most people don't read paper books with a dictionary handy.
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by loughnane 1y ago
I use rmfakecloud even though i'm grandfathered in to the cloud. It's great. I locked the fw on my remarkable 2 to 2.x and used ddvk hacks and it's just worked for years. I don't need any new features.
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by loughnane 1y ago
This title reminds me of Patrick Winston's "How to Speak" lecture at MIT. It's the best of its kind that I've seen. An hour long and I've watched it several times. Even my highschooler was impressed. https:&#x
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by loughnane 1y ago
I created my first passkey today using bitwarden. After digging around I saw I'm not able to see the keys (ie like I can in ~/.ssh). I won't do it anymore until I have some way to see them, otherwise I'm essentially lock
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by loughnane 1y ago
I noticed them in the Economist around 2010, and thought they were slick. Tons of software will autodetect "---" as an emdash so that works. Honestly, even if it doesn't make it pretty I find stringing together a few hyphens
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by loughnane 1y ago
I agree no more. If I had to pick a perfect number I’d probably go to 25 or 30

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