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by qubex 10mo ago
I’m an economist and an applied mathematician and also a naturist (or nudist), whatever term you wish to use is fine by me. Like most I’ve observed how the gender balance tends to skew male and I’ve often thought about the pros and cons of
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Request for comments: mathematical paper on naturist venues (SFW)(link.resilio.com)
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by qubex 10mo ago
Not delighted to read that I’m supposedly 62% through my life. EDIT: exploring a bit, it’s clearly using a very crude model for lifespan. It’s not using a rigorous “given that a person has lived T time, what is the expected residual lifetim
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by qubex 10mo ago
My Graf Castell Tiago fountain pen. My Barbour Kontiki jacket. My iPhone Pro Max 17/Apple Watch Ultra 3/Airpods Pro 3 ensemble. My Lapham’s Quarterly subscription. My LimeSDR/Raspberry Pi 5 16GB setup. My Pokit Pro. My Mathem
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by qubex 10mo ago
NetInfo. I’ll show myself out.
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by qubex 10mo ago
As a naturist I’ve always wondered whether there’s a difference in prevailing skin cancer rates, but I’ve never found any data.
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by qubex 10mo ago
Yeah Haiku is its “own thing”… but only up to a point. After all you’re the one mentioning it on a thread ostensibly about BeOS.
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by qubex 10mo ago
Hard pass on that; I’m much happier with software written by fallible humans with a mind than word salad devices.
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by qubex 10mo ago
Yes, I’ve been watching them and running their builds for… fifteen to twenty years now. It’s gone from an effort to reimplement a fairly prescient OS to basically an exercise in software archeology, since even achieving the project’s goals
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by qubex 10mo ago
Yeah they go down so deep they start appearing from above.
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by qubex 10mo ago
Being somebody whose absolute favourite book is The Computational Beauty of Nature by Gary William Flake (1998), this is the kind of stuff I come here for. So much more interesting than shop talk about the framework of the week, blockchai
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by qubex 10mo ago
I have a 2010 Toshiba Regza TV that has never been connected to the internet and is from the time when “1080p” was the new hotness and there was a kerfuffle going on about 3D televisions. Lots of HDMI 1.2 (?) ports, and a lot of legacy conn
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by qubex 10mo ago
Amazingly rugged design that somehow places man and machine on equal footing by throwing us back to the time of casette futurism. Amazingly poor choice of logo.
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by qubex 10mo ago
Have it in print. Fondly remember BeOS in the second half of the nineties; still have second-generation BeBox. I was amongst those who were dismayed when Apple “didn’t choose Plan B” and instead acquired NeXT (that I also had experience wit
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by qubex 10mo ago
You’re most welcome. This reads like an epistolary sci-fi origin story.
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by qubex 10mo ago
Interesting, but the element of survivorship bias is inevitable: any evidence that they were lighting fires later than our hypothesised first date passes unremarked, so only previous dates raise eyebrows and are ‘surfaced’.
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by qubex 10mo ago
You built Janes’ bicameral mind.
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by qubex 10mo ago
“Remember the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
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by qubex 10mo ago
I in no way want to underplay the seriousness of child sexual abuse, but as a naturist I find all this paranoia around nudity and “not safe for work” to be somewhere between hilarious and bewildering. Normal is what you grew up with I guess
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by qubex 10mo ago
I’m the insufferable Apple fanboy that chimes in to mention Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. I have a personal subscription to Office 365 for interoperability but I’ve been annoyed by their inescapable AI price hike and now this. I might as wel
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by qubex 10mo ago
I last used Publisher way back in the late nineties to lay out the school newsletter, later I graduated to PageMaker because I found Publisher easy to use but ultimately quite limiting. Fun memories, I hadn’t even realised Publisher still e
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by qubex 11mo ago
I wrote an extended essay on “Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead” in high school… 1998-1999 period. I loved his screenplays even though I’m not a great fan of theatre in general. 88 is a ripe old age but it’s still deeply saddening.
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by qubex 11mo ago
You don’t “leverage a space”. What nonsense is that?
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by qubex 11mo ago
I love writing. I sit down with a stack of paper and a fountain pen and a bottle of ink.
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by qubex 11mo ago
DHL a flash drive with an AES-encrypted zip file. Share half of the key in person and half over an encrypted E2E chat app.
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by qubex 11mo ago
Well the thing is: if they were particularly obnoxious about their implementation, they could be replaced. I’m looking forward to a multi-protocol messaging client that implements other protocols as plugins. If and when such a thing arrives
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by qubex 11mo ago
Please don’t. There’s enough AI slop sloshing around already. What’s the endpoint of this? Machines pretending to be human speaking to machines that pretend to ignore the fact they’ve guessed they’re speaking to a machine?
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by qubex 11mo ago
For the iOS world, ideally the Messages app would be mandated to become a generic interface receptive to protocol plug-ins to interoperate with all messaging networks; and it too itself would be replaceable in that role.
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by qubex 11mo ago
Usually when you’re running at a loss you generate positive externalities (I.e. old national railway and telecoms firms in the UK, for example) but these guys seem remarkable in that they’re not even generating excess value for their custom
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by qubex 11mo ago
Glad to be of service. It’s lovely to have actually direct and honest conversations once in a while instead of talking over each-other dogmatically.

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