thejohnconway

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by thejohnconway 1y ago
In fact, it turned out that Darth Vader was Lukes father. Contextual fictional facts are really common in language. I remember doing it in philosophy first year. It conundrum-y philosophically, but usually understood effortlessly in normal
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by thejohnconway 1y ago
People are responding to you saying that it doesn't retain the yin-yang shape, but I've been watching for a while on 64x speed, and the yin-yang shape is one it repeatedly returns to. I'm not even a dimwitted individual with
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by thejohnconway 1y ago
I don't think that's a good way of stating it. You get the posts from the people anyone on your server follows. An admin can block or silence accounts, or run a relay, but these are edge cases.
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by thejohnconway 1y ago
Interestingly, in the Apple App Store, there is no option to filter by "paid". Only free. I want an option to filter by "paid, no IAP". Actually, I don't mind IAp for things like new levels and such. It's just
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by thejohnconway 1y ago
Free? How are the servers going to run? Syncthing is probably the closest bet. It doesn’t require servers, so it can be free. But it isn’t really a full Dropbox replacement.
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by thejohnconway 1y ago
I find it pretty mysterious, and am starting to think it's distributed bike-shedding. I'd wager most notes, if they are ever taken, are write-only. Seems like a distraction to me.
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by thejohnconway 1y ago
Evolution is not operating at the speed necessary on population to the change of circumstances we have generated over the last 15,000 years. Especially in the modern world, where it is hardly clear that the reproduction rates of the people
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by thejohnconway 1y ago
Because I usually don’t want to talk to computers in front of other people? It isn’t that it feels silly, but that it’s incredibly distracting for everyone to hear every interaction you have with a computer. This is true even at home. Maybe
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by thejohnconway 1y ago
> If I am factually correct, by definition, everyone who disagrees with me is irrational and can't be reasoned with. No, that doesn’t follow at all. Your arguments could be bad or irrational in themselves (right for the wrong reason
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by thejohnconway 1y ago
I don’t think you’re right about that. LLMs are very good for exploring half-formed ideas, (what materials could I look at for x project?), generating small amounts of code when it’s not your main job, and writing boring crap like grant app
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by thejohnconway 1y ago
I have a very similar frustration with the complexity here, and found that scrolling tiled window managers (like PaperWM, Niri, etc.) might actually be the answer. All your windows are in a line, press the shortcut until you hit focus the o
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by thejohnconway 1y ago
> What's the Civ VII dev team doing these days? Writing the last 80% of Civ VII I should think. I've never played such an unfinished version of Civ at launch.
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by thejohnconway 1y ago
That always struck me as pretty overblown, given that before map apps, people got lost all the goddam time. It was a rare trip with any complexity that a human map reader wouldn’t make a mistake or two. LLMs aren’t competing with perfect, t
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by thejohnconway 1y ago
I think the meanings are pretty close though? Not coincidental: to be prominent in an area.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
There’s plenty of replacements which are fine. Many are better to use for many tasks. The problem is lock-in in professional contexts. Having a problem with some feature in a PSD? “I don’t wanna pay for Photoshop” isn’t usually an acceptabl
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
There’s an open source menu bar manager called Ice. Works well. https://icemenubar.app/
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Interestingly, vertebrate palaeontology switched to clade-based taxonomy a while ago (although genus and species cling on). Wikipedia tries to attach ranks to the clades of extinct animals such as dinosaurs, which have no basis in the scien
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
There have been nuclear powered merchant ships. Probably the most famous being the NS Savannah from the 50s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Practically all painting or drawing includes some sort of symbolism. Sometimes it’s so obvious that we don’t recognise it as symbolism (picture of cow = cow), but other things aren’t (spiral = ?). The Wikipedia article on Rock Art contains
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Pre MacOS X did indeed crash all the time. I learned to only use one application at a time. It would still crash a couple of times a day, requiring a restart. On the other hand it was snappy and simple, in a way modern OSs just aren’t.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
They should have brought in nicer rendering with one of the HTML versions, or with a flag.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
I wonder if this misconception comes from jousting armour, which could be about twice as heavy as battle armour, combined with out-of-shape knights.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Hmm, my experience with Siri is that it's good for setting timers, okay at setting reminders, and that's about it. Even reminders is pretty bad: "Hey Siri, add celery to the shopping list" "Okay John, I've adde
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
I thought that’s what everyone did! Apple OSs have a setting to do this at sunset/sunrise or at certain times. I have mine go dark at 10pm and light at 10am.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
The whole point is that you don't have to parse different syntax, because you choose your syntax at the editor level.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
I don’t like that you’re being downvoted. I mean, I don’t agree with the hypothesis, but it’s an interesting perspective from a well known source.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
What do you think “controversial” means? Because it seems to be the correct usage to me.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
What does that mean? If you don’t want to follow accounts, I would have thought that sort of social media isn’t for you (which is a pretty valid stance!)
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Sounds like your friends are dodging bullets without having to do anything. I say this as an iPhone user.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Or will it be like self-driving cars? Early gains, but then a long plateau? AI is just not at the stage where outfits like the WP should be "pivoting" to it (whatever that means). I suspect it just means producing more "conte

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