matthoiland

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by matthoiland 21d ago
418 I'm a teapot
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by matthoiland 23d ago
I don't see it as a bigger phone. It's a new thing. Not a phone. Not a laptop. Not an iPad. It's an agent terminal.
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by matthoiland 3mo ago
I gladly paid $1,499 for an iBook G4 in 2005. (~$2,572 inflation adjusted)
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by matthoiland 7mo ago
I've tried the LG UltraFine and LG UltraGear (w/144hz) ... still went with the Studio Display. Expensive, but my previous Thunderbolt display gave me 12 solid years – hoping the SD does the same. Edit: Also consider the price of s
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by matthoiland 9mo ago
Dear Apple, Please do not add liquid glass to your professional applications. Keep it simple, gray, performant, and functional. Thank you.
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by matthoiland 11mo ago
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
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by matthoiland 2y ago
I feel the same way about my M1 Macbook Air ... it's such a silly small and powerful machine. I've got money to upgrade, I just have no need. It's more than enough for even demanding Logic sessions and Ollama for most 8b mode
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by matthoiland 2y ago
> If you own dead/brown/unoccupied land, you're an asshole. Well said. But yes, we should all be re-reading Progress and Poverty (1879), as our world shares many similarities.
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by matthoiland 2y ago
Indeed an S-tier insect build: https://youtu.be/g9BMcIxrkF4?si=lkvIrU5CiAdEpJeX&t=1224
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by matthoiland 3y ago
My daughter said there are 5 oceans ... I said she was wrong, then we looked at a modern map. Who forgot to send out the memo about the Southern Ocean?
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by matthoiland 3y ago
> Astronaut James Irwin, the eighth person to walk on the Moon, experienced a religious epiphany during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971. The following year, he resigned from NASA and founded an evangelical organization, the High Flight Fou
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by matthoiland 3y ago
More trains please. High-speed rail between cities, lightrail between suburbs, streetcars between neighborhoods, and better shoes for everywhere else.
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by matthoiland 4y ago
I love reading things like this that reinforce my belief that I personally know very little about anything. _back to writing CSS for me :)_
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by matthoiland 4y ago
multipass
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by matthoiland 4y ago
"Le Roux was sentenced to 25 years in prison in June 2020" [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux
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by matthoiland 4y ago
BYU Scientists Convert Matter Into Mormonism [1] 1. https://www.theonion.com/byu-scientists-convert-matter-into-...
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by matthoiland 4y ago
Our first canaries at 9:21 PDT
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by matthoiland 4y ago
I'd love to see a git history for our current US legislation
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by matthoiland 4y ago
Biblically accurate iPhones
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by matthoiland 4y ago
Also worth mentioning Roy Underhill [1], who for 35+ years has been on US public television teaching traditional woodworking. [1]: https://www.pbs.org/show/woodwrights-shop/
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by matthoiland 4y ago
Era 1: Nobody knows what they're doing Era 2: Everyone uses jQuery Era 3: Everyone copies Gmail and Grooveshark using Backbone and Angular Era 4: React is all the hipster bootcamps teach Era 5: NextJS and React Native is how you build
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by matthoiland 4y ago
I've been brainwashed by consumers – they demand and expect a certain experience on the modern web. Also, you can run Next.js on a Raspberry Pi and free Cloudflare DNS+SSL. :shrug:
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by matthoiland 4y ago
At some point in each of our lives, we'll be dependent on the empathy of another to keep us alive and comfortable. Designing and discovering technology now will help us all then, and help others that are suffering right now.
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by matthoiland 5y ago
Probably a time traveling technology historian?
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by matthoiland 5y ago
Thank you for bringing up WISV-IV – it's a fascinating way to categorize intelligence. My son (11yo) is autism spectrum and recently received a WISV-IV evaluation and found him off the charts for spacial reasoning. It immediately had m
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by matthoiland 5y ago
Interesting way to think – we use additive color (RGB) on web so why not additive styling? But in practice while creating interfaces, we're making broad brush strokes, then accommodating exceptions, like :last-child. Also curious about
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by matthoiland 5y ago
If the entire nervous system contributes to cognition, then you would assume that stimulating more of the body would stimulate more cognition – or "pseudorandom ideas".
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by matthoiland 5y ago
Anyone have good/bad experience moving from 1Password to Apple' iCloud Keychain? I've recently been using keychain for new accounts, but not sure I wanna bite the bullet and go all in - just need a nudge.
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by matthoiland 5y ago
On a 109ppi Apple Thunderbolt Display, the blockquote text looks like it was printed on a dot matrix printer from 1994.
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by matthoiland 5y ago
> Everybody works but the vacant lot. I paid $3600 for this lot and will hold 'till I get $6000. The profit is unearned increment made possible by the presence of this community and enterprise of its people. I take the profit withou

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