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The Beauty of the In-Between: "Ma" and Its Influence on Modern Minimalism(deeperjapan.com)
3 points by nomilk 2y ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
> offering Newport City Council more than $70 million to dig up the site What are the odds a HDD would be still be readable after being left outdoors for 12 years?
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Aporia(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by nomilk 2y ago|0 comments
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Ma (Negative Space)(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by nomilk 2y ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
X/Twitter should publicly provide a suspension reason - that would help a lot in verifying whether the account did/did not break TOS. A justification [0] of sorts is provided for the journalist suspensions: > Criticizing me all
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by nomilk 2y ago
Brilliant idea. Although I can't seem to connect to get air traffic audio. I'm weird and often listen to 3 music track simultaneously for optimal flow state / concentration. Typically chillwave|retrowave at high volume, then
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by nomilk 2y ago
> by having all negative reviews removed I've noticed the occasional incredibly bad business that gets bad reviews removed, but always wondered how they did it and how that works? A guess: they make some fake google accounts and rep
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by nomilk 2y ago
No - the opposite (!) - these two metrics are not random or meaningless - they're precisely the metrics the 2022 naysayers said Twitter/Musk would fail on! - that is, these are the results according to the metrics of the naysay
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by nomilk 2y ago
> How did it go "amazingly well"? Extremely high site reliability (others claimed it would literally go down, have outages). And the eng team's ability to pump out features: https://x.com/nima_owji/sta
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by nomilk 2y ago
> "meaningfully" is doing all the lifting here. You got me (I actually felt guilt writing that weaselly sentence!). The reason I still wrote it is because I'm reasonably confident it's correct (for some definition of
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by nomilk 2y ago
Meaningfully reducing the size of government is a surprisingly rare occurrence throughout history. A counter question: how should it be done? Elon's strategy is bold; 'deleting' entire departments. But that decision seems s
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by nomilk 2y ago
He did it for twitter and it worked amazingly well. A lot of smart people scoffed at how there was no way he could run twitter with 80% fewer staff (here's a great example of the sentiment typical at the time: https://www.yo
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by nomilk 2y ago
It's easy to judge whether reducing government waste and improving living standards is good/bad (obviously it's good). What will be less enduring is the current Elon-hate which is more based on tribalism and mood than reason.
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by nomilk 2y ago
> The term has also been used against Elon Musk by critics of U.S. President Donald Trump. The term is predicated on government doing the right thing (and the persuasive private interest doing the wrong thing). History furnishes thousa
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by nomilk 2y ago
This is probably more a physics/CS question than a biological one, but how far off are we from having physics simulators good enough to try the types of experiments MIT did with the eye but for entire organisms? Presuming that will one
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by nomilk 2y ago
Where/how are images like this made? They're cool. Technical and communicative, but with a relaxed and casual look and feel. https://maknee.github.io/assets/images/posts/2024-11-02/leag...
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by nomilk 2y ago
> Noland suffered a spinal cord injury in a swimming accident and became paralyzed below his shoulders. Noland spent most of his days in bed. His primary digital device was a tablet which he controlled using a mouth-held stylus (mouth st
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by nomilk 2y ago
(paraphrasing) > (DOGE employees) have not been subject to rigorous ethics rules and lack training and experience to handle private, personal data — like Social Security numbers and bank account information. An odd complaint in the conte
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What does a human score on Humanity's Last Exam?(old.reddit.com)
2 points by nomilk 2y ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
Ha, fair! 'Sounding like an LLM' might be the ~2025 equivalent of being called an NPC. But it could also imply good grammar. To put it another way, ditching a medium entirely is the incorrect strategy; akin to refusing to read boo
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by nomilk 2y ago
Optimism might be bland but I can't help it! Prior to social media, we all had incredibly conflicting views, just wasn't in our faces all the time to get outraged about! So the trick is to remember, by having these discussions&#x2
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by nomilk 2y ago
I really like it. Which bits do you dislike?
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by nomilk 2y ago
I'd pay more for more search results (as opposed to searches, which are already unlimited with Kagi subscriptions). I found google unbearable when it removed the '100 results' default setting (until I found a chrome extensi
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by nomilk 2y ago
Is there a copy/video of your talk, or a similar one you recommend?
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by nomilk 2y ago
The guide is comprehensive, on the other extreme, this one-pager contains 90% of git commands you'll ever need: https://wizardzines.com/git-cheat-sheet.pdf
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by nomilk 2y ago
This is similar in content and tone to Steve Jobs's incredible Stanford commencement speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc Also similar to the broad life advice found in Sam Altman's essay The days
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Life Lessons – Tim Minchin UWA Address (2013) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by nomilk 2y ago|1 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
I was surprised the topic has a Wikipedia page. I happened across it after searching for Trump's nickname for Gavin Newsome, which Trump mentioned in a press conference [0]: > I almost called (Gavin Newsome) by the other name.. my l
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by nomilk 2y ago
> Advertising Tracking ID was actually set to 000000-0000... because I "Asked app not to track". > I checked this by manually disabling and enabling tracking option for the Stack app and comparing requests in both cases. &gt
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by nomilk 2y ago
The article centers around vim being easy to configure relative to neovim. A daggy but effective trick I started using is using cursor (i.e. a context-aware LLM) to help modify my dotfiles, including neovim configs. If it messes up, simply

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