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by macintux 7mo ago
~30 years ago I sat down with two students and accused them of copying each others’ work, because they both made the same amusing mistake: they called their C functions without passing arguments, but they declared their variables in such a
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by macintux 7mo ago
I have considered starting throwing more em-dashes into my writing, simply because I find the whole “this looks like LLM” to be a tiresome comment. Engage with (or dismiss) the material, not the pen.
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by macintux 7mo ago
I have had the experience of serendipitous discovery when researching relatively recent history. To find Galileo’s handwriting 400 years later, effectively engaging in both agreement and debate with Ptolemy through the latter’s work… even t
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by macintux 7mo ago
Apropos of absolutely nothing, and impossible to prove, but I've long suspected I might be the youngest person in the U.S. to have won tickets from radio stations both from a rotary phone (at home, ~1989) and from a payphone (while I w
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by macintux 7mo ago
Really? Terrific.
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by macintux 7mo ago
I can't go back, now that I've discovered the joys of "tap to click". But I doubt most new Mac users would notice.
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by macintux 7mo ago
That's true for displays, at least. I don't know about external storage. https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/599_not_a_piece_of_junk_m...
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by macintux 7mo ago
Gruber said something[0] that parallels your point, and emphasizes the target audience for this Mac: > If you know the difference between sRGB and P3, the Neo is not the MacBook you want. Apple has made extensive tradeoffs to make this p
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by macintux 8mo ago
At my old job we’d call that Daily bogons (my last name). Didn’t know I was in such illustrious company.
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by macintux 8mo ago
Please read the guidelines and consider moderating your tone. Hostility towards other commenters is strongly discouraged.
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by macintux 8mo ago
Flood the zone.
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by macintux 8mo ago
> And the government can't stop the New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers. Yet. Give this administration a little time and they’ll solve that problem too. (They’ve already addressed it to some degree by intimidating the
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by macintux 8mo ago
Even disregarding self driving features, it seems like the smarter we make cars the dumber the drivers are. DRLs are great, until they allow you to drive around all night long with no tail lights and dim front lighting because you’re not pa
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by macintux 8mo ago
One difference between morning and evening: in the mornings, some or even many students must wait outdoors for their bus to arrive, because they live too far away from the bus stop to run out when the bus pulls up. That means they are stand
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by macintux 8mo ago
Especially given the fact that software bugs do happen. If it’s not Waymo, it could be some other half-assed full self driving software package.
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by macintux 8mo ago
Good luck making eye contact with the Waymo to gain confidence that it sees you.
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by macintux 8mo ago
There’s a strong push right now to mandate voter ID requirements that could block married women from voting (if their last name doesn’t match their birth certificate). And more stringent ID requirements are discriminatory against the poor,
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by macintux 8mo ago
How many renters have a useful amount of renter's insurance?
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by macintux 8mo ago
I don't know that it's necessarily incompetence. The idea of "overproduction of elites" pops up frequently: https://www.niskanencenter.org/are-we-overproducing-elites-a... You may be supremely competent
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by macintux 8mo ago
> …today it came out that we are also are going to outsource of of our key tax systems to an American company. That’s a remarkable failure to read the room, given the digital sovereignty initiatives across Europe.
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by macintux 8mo ago
Not only annoying for the driver, but also for the residents.
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by macintux 8mo ago
Jobs to Murdoch: > “The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot with the destructive people. Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society. You can be bet
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by macintux 8mo ago
I've learned repeatedly that LLMs are very susceptible to helpfully giving you the wrong answer when you're asking the wrong question, or asking it in the wrong way.
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by macintux 8mo ago
Sharing a van with strangers is more unpleasant than buses, given the cramped seating.
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by macintux 8mo ago
I doubt they’d be able to measure that with any accuracy.
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by macintux 8mo ago
> The UK was evil for wanting more sovereignty vs the EU I don't think many thought the UK was evil. I think many thought the UK had been sold a bag of lies, and that exiting based on a very slim majority of voters on a referendum w
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by macintux 8mo ago
White ethno-nationalism is not exactly irrelevant to current U.S. news & politics.
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by macintux 8mo ago
At no point in time before this era was it possible for a random bureaucrat to have a reasonably comprehensive list of everyone in a country who attended church yesterday. Scale matters.
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Referenced at the very end; I came here to mention the sheer size of this effort. 60,000 lines is incredible. I can barely review 1,000 lines of Python without wanting to become a manual laborer instead. > Ten years later their approach
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Just as poorly.

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