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by sonofhans 1y ago
Oh for real. It sounds stupid, but I’ve done stupider things. And I’ve done them again and again. Any good design needs to account for dumb monkeys :)
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by sonofhans 1y ago
> I dropped from the Pro Max to the Pro last year because I was tired of how much it hurt when I dropped my phone on my face. Now this, good people, is a real use case. If it seems like an edge case to you, I guarantee Apple’s design and
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by sonofhans 1y ago
You know, for many decades — centuries, even — people have had ideas like you had here, mandarwagh. You extrapolate ideas into the future, think really hard about it, and try to lay out a compelling vision. Typically people also wrap charac
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by sonofhans 1y ago
No shaming in my argument, only pointing out that the “no harms” claim is bullshit.
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Moving the goal posts, IMO. The post I was replying to said “there is no harm.” That’s all I was contradicting. You can argue all day that the harm is _worth it_, but that’s not what OP was doing.
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by sonofhans 1y ago
> This paragraph really pisses me off and I'm not sure why. No hate, but consider — when I feel that way, it’s often because one of my ideas or preconceptions has been put into question. I feel like it’s possible that I might be wro
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by sonofhans 1y ago
> “… grandmother knows about AI energy demand.” Uh huh. Tell us more about how gramma should have planned for the AI future.
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Oh yes, preach the gospel of the W126. I had a 1986 300SD for a while, and I’d own one again in a heartbeat. I’ve never felt safer, or cooler, driving a car. You had a gasser, which I bet was faster than mine, but the sound of that diesel s
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by sonofhans 1y ago
An important side note is that Cooler Master’s “10-year Warranty” is garbage: > I looked at Cooler Master’s warranty, and for issues within the first two years you have to deal with the retailer. That would be Amazon in my case. So I loo
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Yeah, Rossman’s entire brand is being anti-Apple. If you think Apple’s engineering is poor, I’d love to know who you think does it better.
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Yes, the only sensible reply in the thread. Everything else is theory-crafting.
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Anecdote, but I’ve never read this anywhere — The day after he died Ursula LeGuin was supposed to give the commencement address at Reed College, in Portland. She started by saying, “Yesterday the greatest science fiction author of all time,
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Careful. It might drool all over, develop an unhealthy fascination with squirrels, or randomly forget its own name :D
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by sonofhans 1y ago
It’s basically a tabletop router for cardboard. That’s super cool. The free motion in two dimensions is better than what kids usually get with toy saws and drills. Routers are great tools but very powerful and finicky. This turns a router i
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Where by “real practitioner” you mean “human being” which is my point entirely, thus we agree.
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Your understanding is wrong. What you’re describing is executive coaching — useful advice for already high-functioning people. Ask a real practitioner and they’ll tell you most real therapy is exactly the thing you dismiss as a trick: human
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Preach it. I’d rather hit right bracket than right arrow.
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Actually, in this context, I believe it effing should be. These people are stratospherically wealthy, and they’re using so-called charity as nothing more than PR and political cover. Hundreds or thousands of people have made consequential l
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Yeah, you’re talking about money, but the important thing for a kid is losing their entire context. It feels like being fired, but without understanding why. Money is entirely beside the point.
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Yes, that feels like some sort of event horizon, doesn’t it? If you hook the humans up to a source of power it becomes self-sustaining … for the cats.
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by sonofhans 1y ago
> Its a matter of years until it can completely replace humans in any form of intellectual work. This is sensationalism. There’s no evidence in favor of it. LLMs are useful in small, specific contexts with many guardrails and heavy super
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by sonofhans 1y ago
It boggles my mind that you ever thought Trump had a principled stand on anything. Most of the world has known since the 1980s exactly who Donald Trump is.
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Was seeing The Who in their prime worth the tinnitus?
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Yes, that’s the meta-joke. And Facebook too, which is the META-meta-joke.
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by sonofhans 1y ago
You had cubicles? Luxury! Im my day, we put our spare-parts laptop on an old door for a desk and sat on a rickety metal chair on a concrete floor in an unheated warehouse. And we loved it!
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Most poets who make any money sell their work by publishing it as song lyrics, I think. I don’t think we have many rock star poets left, and I’d be surprised if many at all made a living at it. I’ve most often bought poems from people sitti
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Another observation? That seems rather the point of placing this article here on this date, yes?
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by sonofhans 1y ago
Thank you! My kid is one of the million. It’s a great mod. It took us a minute to figure out that it really is free. Is there a business model? Just Patreon? It seems unbelievable that’s enough.
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by sonofhans 2y ago
Yes, Arial is hot garbage. It’s a Microsoft-sponsored rebadge of Helvetica, made because Microsoft didn’t want to license an actual good type face. This is like calling beige office walls a “universal favorite.” And I bet people at Adobe to
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by sonofhans 2y ago
Oh wow. I remember the first time I played on an Amiga, freshman year college, 1988. Growing up on Commodores and Apple II and DOS, it looked like science fiction. I thought a 3.5” floppy was a hard drive. We played a lot of a split-screen

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