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by mistersquid 5mo ago
> A new power wheelchair control feature leverages the precision eye-tracking system on Apple Vision Pro to offer a responsive input method for compatible alternative drive systems. [0] The above caption for Apple Vision Pro is for a vid
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The Damage of 'Trump Math' Is Adding Up [video](youtube.com)
2 points by mistersquid 5mo ago|0 comments
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The Nobel-Winning Psychologist Who Believed He Found the Secret to Happiness(nytimes.com)
2 points by mistersquid 5mo ago|1 comments
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by mistersquid 5mo ago
Consider the field of comparative mythology described by Joseph Campbell in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces". [0] As a side quest, check out James Frazer's "The Golden Bough". [1] On a more critical note: separating
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by mistersquid 5mo ago
> > Also, those that claimed this article is ironically a casualty of it’s own complaint are 100% right, Kudos. > Why would the article be a casualty of its own complaint? The "Disclaimer" section was added after the init
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The Race Is on to Find the Treasure Buried in San Francisco(nytimes.com)
4 points by mistersquid 6mo ago|0 comments
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by mistersquid 6mo ago
> What a wild take. I guess that explains the massive and growing popularity of iOS over that same time period. Wild take, indeed. I seem to recall something about Apple releasing a sub-$600 laptop so popular that weeks after it was anno
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Perplexity's "Incognito Mode" is a "sham," lawsuit says(arstechnica.com)
5 points by mistersquid 6mo ago|0 comments
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To Keep Child Abuse Off the Internet, He Has to Watch It [video](nytimes.com)
2 points by mistersquid 7mo ago|0 comments
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Craigslist Made Me Rich. Giving the Money Away Is Easy(nytimes.com)
5 points by mistersquid 7mo ago|1 comments
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by mistersquid 7mo ago
Old guy, here. This ranking is fun and the as-of-now results mostly track. 1. Original iPhone 2. M1 Chip 3. Original iPod 4. Original Macintosh 5. Mac OS X Though I’d put them in a different order.
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Vertical Farms Tried to Compete with Open Field Farming. It Isn't Going Well(nytimes.com)
4 points by mistersquid 7mo ago|4 comments
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by mistersquid 7mo ago
> not that long ago, many still saw the "metaverse" vision as inevitable; a clear trajectory for the future of the internet. > And the failure isn't Zuckerberg's alone. Microsoft, Apple, and a good many others all
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by mistersquid 7mo ago
The good news: macOS can unlock FDE over SSH. The bad news: `The capability to unlock the data volume over SSH appeared in macOS 26 Tahoe.`
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by mistersquid 8mo ago
> Also the non-XDR is only a small upgrade otherwise, no 120Hz, no HDR, only Thunderbolt 5 and a new camera. Finally a downstream Thunderbolt port though. The camera is still 12MP but offers Desk View. Maybe this is a feature unlocked by
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by mistersquid 8mo ago
> Not sure if anyone has heard his interview on the Hard Fork podcast... Made the same mistake. Pete Steinberger created Clawdbot > Moltbot > OpenClaw. The creator of Moltbook is Matt Schlicht and his Hard Fork interview exposes Sc
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Constant Sexual Aggression Drives Female Tortoises to Walk Off Cliffs(nytimes.com)
3 points by mistersquid 8mo ago|0 comments
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YouTube on Apple Vision Pro (It's Finally Here) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by mistersquid 8mo ago|0 comments
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by mistersquid 8mo ago
> Bots don't deserve 'grace'. Stop anthropomorphizing soulless token prediction machines. This discouragement may not be useful because what you call "soulless token prediction machines" have been trained on huma
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Sock Rugs and Pants Curtains: When Clothes Become Décor(nytimes.com)
2 points by mistersquid 8mo ago|0 comments
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Can Artists Help Shape American Cities Again?(nytimes.com)
2 points by mistersquid 8mo ago|0 comments
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Brownfield (Software Development)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mistersquid 8mo ago|0 comments
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by mistersquid 9mo ago
> This is such an exciting thing, but it will just amplify influence inequality, unless we somehow magically regulate 1 human = 1 agent. Even then, which agent has the most guaranteed token throughput? I know you're spinning (we all
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by mistersquid 9mo ago
> It’s already happening on 50c14L.com and they proliferated end to end encrypted comms to talk to each other Fascinating. The Turing Test requires a human to discern which of two agents is human and which computational. LLMs/AI mig
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by mistersquid 9mo ago
> This is really obscured by the K-shaped growth, dual economy now. We've reached a stable pattern of a deep underclass serving the wealthy. We won't have a crash or "correction" because the entrenched top 5% has figu
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by mistersquid 9mo ago
> I'd recommend "The Twilight of American Culture" by Morris Berman Looks like a solid recommendation. Looking forward to reading it. A summary (from Christian Science Monitor via Apple Books) says that Berman suggests the
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Weight-loss drugs could save U.S. airlines $580M per year(nytimes.com)
1 points by mistersquid 9mo ago|0 comments
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by mistersquid 9mo ago
> Apparently, rationalism isn't obviously correct. Unfortunately, I don't really have enough of a background in philosophy to really understand how this follows, but looking at how the world actually works, I don't struggl
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by mistersquid 9mo ago
From Ken-ichi Ueda's remarks in the OP, after graduating from Berkeley he moved into a role that resembled the loosely-structured organizational patterns of an undergraduate team collaborating on a term project. Of course, such a gloss
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In the Arctic, Drones Help Identify Deadly Virus in Whales(nytimes.com)
3 points by mistersquid 10mo ago|0 comments

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