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by mistersquid 10mo ago
> Someone Who Isn't Me? Funny, I saw “SWIM” and reasoned “Someone Who Is Me”, thinking “is not” would be represented as “Is Not” instead of the contraction. :)
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by mistersquid 10mo ago
Senator Corey Booker’s YouTube channel posted the archived video about 9am EST. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiehEMlNiCI
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Toilet Rats: Rare, but There(nytimes.com)
4 points by mistersquid 10mo ago|1 comments
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by mistersquid 10mo ago
> Everything that TikTok is doing is being done by Meta, Snap, Instagram, etc. If it’s not done through TikTok it’ll be done somewhere else. Meta, Snap, Instagram (i.e. Meta), are US-based media companies and subject to US regulation and
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by mistersquid 10mo ago
> One scenario floated internally by some executives involves elevating him into the role of chief technology officer. Such a job — overseeing a wide swath of both hardware engineering and silicon technologies — would potentially make hi
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by mistersquid 10mo ago
> If you're interested in things like this you might wanna checkout CGP Grey's videos on tracking down various stories from books through archives. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEV9qoup2mQ The video is
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by mistersquid 11mo ago
> Was the kidney donor already dead, from something other than rabies, or were still alive for donation and later died? FTA > About five weeks later, the man started to hallucinate, have trouble walking and swallowing, and had a stiff
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After Apple refusal, Indian government completes U-turn on mandatory iPhone app(9to5mac.com)
7 points by mistersquid 11mo ago|1 comments
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by mistersquid 11mo ago
> Many others in this thread have pointed out IBM's achievements but regardless, IBM is far from "zero for three". I was specifically commenting in the context of this thread.* I was not trying to characterize either IBM o
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by mistersquid 11mo ago
> We don't look to Meta, who only a few years ago thought that the Metaverse would be the "next big thing" as an example of failure to identify the future, we look to IBM who made that mistake almost 30 years ago. The gran
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by mistersquid 11mo ago
> Wrong article? Yeah, it was supposed to be: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/business/dell-children-tr... Too old to edit URL or delete this submission.
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by mistersquid 11mo ago
> before LLMs I definitely thought coding would be the last thing to go. While LLMs do still struggle to produce high quality code as a function of prompt quality and available training data, many human software developers are surprised
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by mistersquid 11mo ago
> Long term they wouldn't be, and hence lower ROI and therefore disincentivized While the ROI would be lower compared to allowing rent to increase uncontrolled, in a rent control zone there is more incentive to build (and renovate)
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Michael and Susan Dell to Put $250 in 25M Children's Accounts(nytimes.com)
4 points by mistersquid 11mo ago|2 comments
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by mistersquid 11mo ago
> Rent control is not a great solution long term since it reduces the incentive to build more housing which is the only real fix. In California (and SF in particular) rent control applies to housing older than 15 years and owned by corpo
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by mistersquid 11mo ago
Thoughtful piece with a different and engaging tack to the “Developers don’t understand marketing” commonplace. Kozlowski describes indirectly his mother’s professional organizing business, which indirectness asks readers to consider the ch
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by mistersquid 11mo ago
I found it odd that breaks (e.g. lunch) were not part of the mix.
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by mistersquid 11mo ago
> The writer mentions Kilduff is a 'trained comedian'. This is the foundation that somewhat undercuts the message that failure is OK if not requisite. That is, the latest YouTube episode of Let’s Paint TV, “Come to the promisel
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by mistersquid 11mo ago
> I must say matches on "the eternal present" are a giant bag of mystical wank, no disrespect to yourself intended. Yeah, I searched _after_ I commented. Here's what kagi yielded for `literary eternal present` [0] > Lit
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by mistersquid 11mo ago
> "predicts" must be a variant of standard english which projects the past tense into the present tense because .. reasons? Literary criticism and philosophy cast actions in and from recorded media in the "eternal present&
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by mistersquid 11mo ago
> > I learned his real name and used it to track down an old friend of his to ask for help You left out the adverbial phrase. The whole sentence is > When he reached out to my company six months later to apply for a job, I learned
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Join the Committee for the First Amendment(committeeforthefirstamendment.com)
4 points by mistersquid 1y ago|1 comments
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Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps Amid Trump Pressure Campaign(nytimes.com)
9 points by mistersquid 1y ago|2 comments
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by mistersquid 1y ago
> Surely it comes up at least once somewhere in Shakespeare? Doubtful because the concept of clocking and clocking out is an artifact of the shift from mercantilism to capitalism and the Industrial Revolution where people sold their time
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Trump's $100k Visa Fee Puts Many Tech Startups in a Bind(nytimes.com)
4 points by mistersquid 1y ago|0 comments
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by mistersquid 1y ago
> Isn’t looking poor a good strategy for being an unattractive target for theft? Looking poor is also an expression of wealth where wealth is defined money one has not yet spent which provides options in the future. (Source "The Psy
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The Hottest New Defense Against Drones? Lasers(nytimes.com)
2 points by mistersquid 1y ago|0 comments
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Two Valuable Satellites Are in 'Perfect Health.' They May Be Scrapped(nytimes.com)
10 points by mistersquid 1y ago|2 comments
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by mistersquid 1y ago
Super article with cross-cultural (US and Japan) explanations I’d not encountered even as a scholar and student of American popular culture and Twentieth Century Literature. For example, Joshua Hunt makes connections between Rap (e.g. RZA f
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by mistersquid 1y ago
> I believe the macOS app OmniGraffle can do this, like Microsoft Visio on Windows. I don't think Omnigraffle offers direct synchronization for editing database structures between its diagrams and SQL code.

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