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by shervinafshar 20d ago
I knew the Mitchell and Webb duo from _The Peep Show_ and one day (long before the pandemic) I saw a comment on Slashdot about working from home linking to this sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_DNpTMKXk Then I wat
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by shervinafshar 20d ago
And here's the history of Numberwang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ofnDdi-vfw
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by shervinafshar 22d ago
I tried your site and here's what I'd do: - Stop paying for ads immediately. - Give away full access to other devs to get their opinion - Dog food. When you run it on its own page, do the results make sense? I did and I believe so
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by shervinafshar 2mo ago
> How, one should rightly ask, could a khrafstar like the snake possibly be associated with good fortune? For a while a running joke in Persian Wikipedia community was to call software "bugs", _khrafstar_s.
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by shervinafshar 5mo ago
Baudrillard shaming McLuhan on Slack. :chef-kiss:
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The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate but Not Instantiate Consciousness(philarchive.org)
2 points by shervinafshar 5mo ago|1 comments
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by shervinafshar 5mo ago
Good that folks kept going and it's all documented here. Please fix the typography of this wonderful directory.
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A Constitutional Scholar on Claude's Constitution(newyorker.substack.com)
3 points by shervinafshar 6mo ago|0 comments
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Claude, you are a cutie-pie(margaretatwood.substack.com)
4 points by shervinafshar 7mo ago|1 comments
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by shervinafshar 7mo ago
Github[1] page says it's intended to "feel" like Ghostty: > A native macOS note-taking app that feels like Ghostty — GPU-accelerated, keyboard-first, monospace, zero-config. [1]: https://github.com/mimoo&#x
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by shervinafshar 7mo ago
Love it. No Infinite Cavapoo Theorem needed. Give Momo a week and she'll have DOOM running on her treat dispenser.
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The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)(lauriepenny.substack.com)
2 points by shervinafshar 8mo ago|0 comments
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by shervinafshar 9mo ago
I've been using Kagi for the past few years, but I try to use a brand-agnostic language talking about web search; e.g. "I'm gonna search [the web] for it"; "Use your favorite search engine to look it up".
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by shervinafshar 9mo ago
Jon Gjengset—among other things, the author of Rust for Rustaceans—works for this company and talks about them occasionally answering questions during his recurring Q&As; e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw88-0ofBs0&
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by shervinafshar 9mo ago
> One thing I am curious about is whether there is a different kind of science fiction out there. One recommendation: Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora: We went there. It didn't work. We came back. We did good and bad things to each othe
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Ontology and Information Systems - Encyclopedia of Philosophy(plato.stanford.edu)
3 points by shervinafshar 9mo ago|0 comments
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The Well: State of the World 2026(people.well.com)
4 points by shervinafshar 9mo ago|0 comments
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by shervinafshar 10mo ago
All these "have died"[1] and yet Claude the alligator "passed away". RIP. [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=has+died
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by shervinafshar 11mo ago
But if you'd like to see a sample of _Old_ Farmer's Almanac, their 2026 issue could be accessed here: https://reader.mediawiremobile.com/TheOldFarmersAlmanac/issu... I always enjoy reading through those tabul
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by shervinafshar 11mo ago
> At a 2017 conference, MBS illustrated his vision for Neom by comparing two phones. [...] a Nokia 215 phone next to a traditional city layout and an iPhone next to The Line’s vertical layout. I think there is a lot to be learned just fr
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by shervinafshar 11mo ago
Not to be confused with Old Farmer's Almanac (est. 1792) and yet sad to see a 200 years old periodical closing up shop.
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Wikipedia: Ship of Thesus: Edit Analytics(xtools.wmcloud.org)
2 points by shervinafshar 1y ago|1 comments
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by shervinafshar 1y ago
Harper's Index [1]: > Number of times the Wikipedia entry about the ship of Theseus has been edited since it was published in 2003 : 2,052 > Number of sentences from the original entry that remain today : 0 [1]: https:/&#x2
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by shervinafshar 1y ago
```It's just a feeling I get when I think about it.<｜beginofsentence｜>``` Definitely not human; the bug is though.
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by shervinafshar 1y ago
Ditto about the quality of intro. One way to show that "meat" without sharing some arbitrary number of chapters could have been to also include some of the back matter of the book (index, bibliography, etc.) in the sample. For exa
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by shervinafshar 1y ago
On desktop on 133% at the moment. Can tolerate 120%, but the default is too small of a text size for me.
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by shervinafshar 1y ago
Thanks for your volunteer work for Standard Ebooks!
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by shervinafshar 1y ago
Tangential: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Memory_Systems - https://i.imgur.com/vNQURE3.jpeg
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by shervinafshar 1y ago
Not quite in agreement about using this quotation in this context, but for those who care about attribution and credit and such, this is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World
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Literacy and AI: Soul-Craft with State Tools(jacmullen.substack.com)
1 points by shervinafshar 1y ago|0 comments

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