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by robrain 9mo ago
I’m in the same corner of the parties with you. Also I’m passionately opposed to feathering billionaires’ nests, even with fractions of pennies of profit. This story is funny, but also so so sad.
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by robrain 9mo ago
Pleased that I'm not alone. The comments here suggest that I should just bin my Mac and buy a Linux-capable machine instead since MacOS is now "unusable", "heinous", "diabolical", "worst OS EVER"
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by robrain 9mo ago
As someone from 1969, but with an excellent circulatory system, I just roll my eyes and look forward to the sound of bubbles bursting whilst billionaires weep.
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by robrain 9mo ago
As I said, I was being lame. But I get real Terminator vibes when a very good robotics company joins forces with a company that might make those robots autonomous. Terminator and Asimov robot stories make me pessimistic. It was a knee-jerk
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by robrain 9mo ago
What could possibly go wrong? Lame, I know, but seriously can we have some good, not sinister news for a week or two? With no AI or evil tech-bro, or senile despot overtones if possible.
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by robrain 9mo ago
You know you’re moving the goalposts, don’t you? I’ll grant you that the App Store and Music show ads. But that’s not what you claimed originally, is it?
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by robrain 9mo ago
I said it was simplistic :). Point taken.
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by robrain 9mo ago
Simplistic analysis of whether CSS sucks: this definitive guide is 1,126 pages long. On the Amazon page it also suggests the "Definitive guide to JavaScript" - it's 704 pages long. If you can fully explain JS (an inexplicable
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by robrain 9mo ago
Indeed - it’s like the last hundred years of detergent marketing: “the whitest whites ever, the gentlest wash you’ve ever experienced”. Then six months later another advance from the boffins in their lab coats. All the time it’s just soap.
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by robrain 9mo ago
Self-reply addendum - individual photos can be dealt with with a simple long-press, no need for delving into the info page for the user.
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by robrain 9mo ago
Messages, select user, click the user icon to get to the info page, click Photos, Edit, Select, Download -> photos are in the Photos app and you can do what you want with them. Not the easiest operation, but hardly jealously prevented.
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Norway reaches 97% EV sales as EVs now outnumber diesels on its roads(electrek.co)
2 points by robrain 9mo ago|1 comments
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by robrain 9mo ago
With respect - bull.
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by robrain 10mo ago
Since the dawn of the current "AI" I've continued to buy and read books at the same pace. Likewise downloading interesting human-created PDFs. I know I'm not the only human who takes zero interest in the output of word-s
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by robrain 10mo ago
Thank you for remembering and sharing this - I knew I'd seen it before, I just couldn't recall where. Mr Scott is and was (and maybe will be?) the obligatory xkcd of nerd experiments.
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by robrain 10mo ago
Yup, Apple user since 2001, desktop and laptop, 20ish years in an office environment used for 8+ hours a day, now 5 years retired. Total faults - zero. Desire to upgrade RAM before rest of machine needed updates (eg storage+CPU+screen) - ze
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by robrain 10mo ago
"Think “screen share, but the thing being shared is a robot writing code.”" Thinks: why not send text instead of graphics, then? I'm sure it's more complicated than that...
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by robrain 10mo ago
British-born Canadian here. Strong spelling pedantry courses through my veins. But... this is just the next chapter in Canadian media (ha! it mostly belongs to the southern dictatorship) having a go at non-Trumpish politicians. Life continu
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by robrain 10mo ago
Discussed entertainingly here by ThePrimeTimeagen: https://youtu.be/E3_95BZYIVs?si=IY-iT1eyXKnVvpTS
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by robrain 10mo ago
I've got a sudden strong urge to play Katamari Damacy.
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by robrain 10mo ago
And when you’ve finally switched to the last LLM and it tells you it can’t answer you, and you decide not to use LLMs for important life-changing questions anymore, your world will be a better place.
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by robrain 10mo ago
You have the choice to open the door if you wish. This choice has been removed from those who prefer privacy if the door doesn't exist.
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by robrain 11mo ago
That's the basic method of retraining. I've got a bunch of essential oils in tiny jars and I regularly take a 20 second sniff of each whilst thinking strongly about the smell in context. For example, when I smell the lavender oil
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by robrain 11mo ago
Thanks for the info. I'm on top of it (in the ways you described) but still appreciate it and maybe someone else will see your comment.
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by robrain 11mo ago
Still have it, intermittently. A sort of nameless-but-familiar "chemical" smell that comes and goes, along with any sense of taste. That is, I have bad days with no taste, just a chemical smell. Other days I have a pretty good sen
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by robrain 11mo ago
Did some major projects for my employer using Perl (coupled with Java of all things) in the 90s. Then I learnt Ruby and put aside childish things (jk). I then dropped Ruby for Elixir and Python for the sort of projects that I would have use
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by robrain 11mo ago
Please engage sarcasm-awareness mode.
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by robrain 8y ago
Functional. I favour Elixir, but any flavour's fun after years of procedural or OO. Kind of feels like the future and the deep past all at once.