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Cat Frazier, Whose Retro GIFs Celebrated a Weirder Internet, Dies at 35(nytimes.com)
1 points by mistersquid 5d ago|0 comments
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The Examined Life in the Age of Optimisation(journal.nyphilosophy.org)
1 points by mistersquid 14d ago|0 comments
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Dopamine Sites Sell Nothing, and People Cannot Get Enough(nytimes.com)
5 points by mistersquid 14d ago|0 comments
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by mistersquid 21d ago
> The resolution is literally 1 line of code that could be arrived at in about 30 minutes of patient, old school troubleshooting. This critique (if it can be termed such) admits that the code itself has little value especially compared t
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Humanoid robots clean a house in San Francisco for $30 an hour [video](youtube.com)
2 points by mistersquid 24d ago|1 comments
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by mistersquid 25d ago
New Apple Polishing Cloth folds, unquestionably ultra lux. Does it stack up to Apple Polishing Cloth 1 though? [0][1] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvvyTXacSzg [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEpe6
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by mistersquid 1mo ago
> You’re absolutely right to be hopeful. Three honest possibilities, and I’ll be straight with you about each: > [UGC styled humorously as LLMisms] All joking aside, having interacted with Claude intensely for the last 8 months and ab
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by mistersquid 1mo ago
> I’m native French speaker and do not understand what you mean with “avant la lettre”. That translates to “before the letter”, what do you mean? Metaphorical language, of which French is a rich source, often prevents native speakers fro
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by mistersquid 1mo ago
> I self-published a historical fiction book a couple of years ago, in French, that got a little notoriety […]. Was it bad or scandalous, or did you mean “renown” instead of “notoriety”?
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by mistersquid 1mo ago
> Everyone close to him, including his family, kept telling him these girls weren’t real, to stop contacting them. Given he had family, one remedy would have been to establish a guardianship/conservatorship on the basis of mental&#x
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by mistersquid 1mo ago
Seems threads about local LLMs on Apple hardware feature comments listing M3/4/5 at 48GB 64GB and not 128GB. That is, users with M-series hardware that have less-than-max RAM share results whereas users with max RAM do not. Specul
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by mistersquid 1mo ago
> > One of them was […] a Gen Z developer who did not personally own a computer (besides a phone). > > I was floored. Still am. > Why? My personal computer is how I learned to be a software developer and how I continue to imp
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by mistersquid 1mo ago
> Just that fact that the company expects a candidate to even have their own machine is egregious. In the company where I work (in recent history, the most valuable company on the planet), there are younger employees who do not own perso
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by mistersquid 2mo ago
The promo website is something to behold and by itself is sufficient reason to chuck a buck at the possibility of Altar II coming into existence. Thank you, good luck, and looking forward!
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by mistersquid 2mo ago
> But to get these from junior and senior engineer for the areas they work in and expect someone else to read it for them? It’s crazy behavior. How can someone serious even think that’s ok. Deciphering error messages can be a bit of an a
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by mistersquid 3mo ago
> piranha: carnivorous fish Nice callout. Neither here nor there, but many (most?) fish are carnivorous.
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by mistersquid 3mo ago
> There's one more: The "bicycle for the mind" analogy was one Jobs chose specifically in reference to the fact that a human on a bicycle moves more efficiently than a human on foot—or any other land animal for that matter
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SpaceX Purchases Cursor, a Claude Code and OpenAI Codex Competitor(9to5mac.com)
3 points by mistersquid 3mo ago|1 comments
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by mistersquid 3mo ago
> Relatively nobody in the US cares about soccer, much less travels for it. Utahns travel to US states with World Cup games for reasons other than the World Cup. Its Summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Utahns do travel, for example, to th
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by mistersquid 3mo ago
> The World Cup already started. But there are no games played in Utah For now, Utahns can travel freely to US states where World Cup games are played.
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New York City Leaders Propose Building More Homes on Top of Libraries(nytimes.com)
3 points by mistersquid 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mistersquid 4mo ago
> But linimal aesthetic is different, especially as has recently become popular. Your articulation of a liminal aesthetic hits upon the tension inherit in the word “liminal”. By definition “liminal” signals “in between” which connotes an
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by mistersquid 4mo ago
> I'm currently in Paris so I've seen a ton of metro stations recently and really, unless you arrived in the dead of night so that you could snap an empty photo like the one in the article, there's nothing much liminal abo
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by mistersquid 4mo ago
> Don't leave us hanging, what was the issue? A: Linux
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by mistersquid 4mo ago
> 100x is achieving something in two days, what it took an entire year before. Reduce your scale: "100x achieves in 1 hour what used to take 1 week." One year of work could require levels of complexity and human judgement that
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Road to WWDC 2026: What's a developer?(sixcolors.com)
2 points by mistersquid 4mo ago|0 comments
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The Quest to Mine the Bottom of the Sea(nytimes.com)
3 points by mistersquid 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mistersquid 4mo ago
> The contemporaneous iPod _was_ technically and acoustically inferior to the Nomad. You're cherry-picking your "technicals". The click wheel hardware and software implementation (especially the UI response time) was (and
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Killing in Japan Stirs Fear of New Crime Rings That Recruit the Vulnerable(nytimes.com)
3 points by mistersquid 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mistersquid 4mo ago
> Your concerns are completely nonsensical. With all due respect, my concerns are not nonsensical but borne of my daily use with Apple Vision Pro and my awareness of the limitations of dwell control. Iterating on this idea with a device

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