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by marssaxman 3mo ago
That's funny - to me, Jodhpur is most immediately appealing of the three. It reminds me of the medinas I visited in Fez and Marrakesh: overwhelming at first, as a visitor, but compelling, and full of life. I'd rather live in a thr
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
King County (where Seattle is located) repealed its mandatory helmet law in 2022, not because anybody has changed their mind about bike helmets being a good idea, but because the law primarily served as a discretionary-enforcement tool for
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
> one of the most rewarding blueprints for making money online was to “start a blog.“ I would date the Great Blogging Collapse to the arrival of this idea, not whatever happened a decade later.
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
Who would do the requiring, how would they enforce it, and what would motivate them to bear the expense?
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
That's a different complaint. I was responding to the previous commenter, who said, "No one getting rich off data centers wants to live next to one, which kind of tells you everything you need to know": but people getting ric
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
The same is true of factories, mills, distribution centers, stockyards, and industrial facilities in general. As these things go, datacenters are relatively benign.
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
Perhaps there will come a day that I give up my gas range, after all.
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
The fear began in 1998, when a fraudulent research paper was published in the Lancet which claimed that the MMR vaccine caused autism. The fraud was exposed in 2010, prompting retraction of the paper and revokation of the author's medi
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
Someone is finally building an electric vehicle for people like me!
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
This seemed obvious to me at the time. It was hard to understand why people in the cultural mainstream let themselves get swept up in it. I felt like I lost my country, back then, as they pretty much all went off into crazyland together.
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
If AR glasses could run an adblocker for the real world, that might convince me to buy a pair.
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
That's kinda neat, actually. The summary appears to have a pronounced recency bias. Is that intentional?
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
It was a rhetorical question; I am aware that people do stupid things with their employers' hardware. More directly, my point was that the supposed privacy questions raised by the AI-training keyboard tracking system do not matter much
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
"If you log into your personal bank account, does the tool track you? What about when you’re writing a personal email, or responding to a personal call?" Why would you ever do such a thing on a device controlled by your employer?
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
> just is an overlay for pirate streaming sites Now you're making it sound even more interesting. What is the name of this device?
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
My exact thought: this is nothing like a real claw machine.
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
There are no maintainership obligations unless someone pays you for them.
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
As far as I'm concerned, this means "Google is finally killing [...] Chrome for good". The web is intolerable without adblocking.
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
> turned an old guitar hero controller into a fully functioning midi controller That sounds like fun. Do you have anything written up about the project?
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
The "MultiFinder" extension allowing cooperative multitasking was actually included with "System Software 5", but I don't think I used it myself until System 6.
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
I'd always rather use Linux, but sometimes your employer gives you a MacBook. I might use this tool.
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
> Solar is a massive maintenance liability that a majority of buyers will avoid. That's not at all true where I live (Seattle): the cost of a solar system goes almost straight over into home equity. Solar energy is a feature - a r
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
I have heard that web design is supposed to be tractable again, but I could not stand CSS with all its spooky-action-at-a-distance unpredictability, and did not have the years of patience it would have taken to get through the growing pains
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by marssaxman 4mo ago
as is tradition
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by marssaxman 5mo ago
I used to work there - but I was talking about their reputation , not the actual quality of their code.
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by marssaxman 5mo ago
I walked around downtown Seattle twenty-five years ago helping my ex-wife make a survey like this, cataloging & photographing surveillance devices for a project she was working on. I wonder whatever came of it. Even then, it was difficu
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by marssaxman 5mo ago
I have worked for quite a few companies with unlimited-PTO policies, with quite a few different managers, and it's always been fine. I've never had any manager at any company give me any trouble about any time I wanted to take off
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by marssaxman 5mo ago
> Microsoft focused on quality code That's a sentence I have certainly never read before!
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by marssaxman 5mo ago
This is the reason I stopped bothering with MacOS, also. Linux just works.
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by marssaxman 5mo ago
This is the very question under debate. Training LLMs on publicly available data is a novel situation, and neither law nor social opinion have settled a consensus on the subject. Copyright maximalists like to borrow unearned moral weight fo

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