timewizard

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by timewizard 1y ago
> short-lived movements of social energy It's hard to imagine an energy that's apparently existed for 12 years and still going being described as "short-lived." Perhaps it's really just unfamiliar and that'
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by timewizard 1y ago
Was it ever? I honestly think you could have used almost any icon, given the limited screen real estate, and the tendency to put menu buttons at the corners of the interface. I think we spend too much time pondering "semiotics"
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by timewizard 1y ago
> The README being stuffed with political dogwhistles is downright weird For reasons I've never understood politics started invading open source about 10 years ago. What's weird is that these political ideas all seem to be hig
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by timewizard 1y ago
Impurities as well.
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by timewizard 1y ago
My friend Andy smoked weed with us once. He disappeared about an hour after. We found him a day later at his house. He let us know he was okay, and everything was "cool and stuff", because the ice dogs didn't manage to catc
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by timewizard 1y ago
I didn't say it wouldn't sound good. It wouldn't sound right, as in, not what was intended. In particular, think of how this would play out if you had never heard that song before, would that be what you were after?
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by timewizard 1y ago
Managing subscriptions and blocking (or unblocking) channels are subpar. Watch history, search history and comment history are all afterthoughts and it shows. Managing playlists and watching through playlists are unusual and glitchy. Se
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by timewizard 1y ago
SMP took a long time.
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by timewizard 1y ago
> Such a strange business model, making the free version below acceptable. That's because the core product is not anywhere near worth what they charge for it. The youtube interface is a nightmare for users and creators alike. I ha
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by timewizard 1y ago
> crowd is mostly all-talk. I want to pay the small fee, through a simple to use portal, that makes it obvious how to cancel, and if I'm being obligated to a multi month term or not. I also want my payment card details to be per
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by timewizard 1y ago
> No easy undo > Finally, it is too easy for users to navigate themselves into a dead-end. For example, once the user has blocked access to a feature, it requires them to be aware of the site information drop-down where they can eithe
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by timewizard 1y ago
I can play the guitar parts on a banjo but it ain't going to sound right.
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by timewizard 1y ago
The world Lisp was born in is more like your iPhone example than the intervening years were. Lisp is older than POSIX by 20 years.
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by timewizard 1y ago
Very wrong, you are.
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by timewizard 1y ago
> since LLMs have commoditized something that used to be gatekept to the teeth. I don't see any LLM commoditization and I can't apprehend your point of view that programming was guarded by gatekeepers. The past 20 years have b
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by timewizard 1y ago
That's not a serious question. Of course people do. Your inability to understand the language does not impact anyone else other than yourself. This should go without saying. I'm also an expert in C, Go and JavaScript. Ruby is
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by timewizard 1y ago
> base their answers to any questions on economic risk on their own best interests and a pretty short view of history. We used to just call that lying. > When AI finally does cause massive disruption to white collar work It has to exi
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by timewizard 1y ago
As a general rule it is hard to measure lost opportunity costs. That doesn't mean they don't exist or shouldn't be considered. I mean.. why do humans even acknowledge efficiency at all.. let alone almost always as a virtu
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by timewizard 1y ago
I wonder if that simulator was OV-095 at SAIL. https://spaceflightblunders.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/ov-095-... EDIT: Ah. It almost certainly was: https://www.superstock.com/asset/oct-as
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by timewizard 1y ago
A robot can be programmed to do that. As soon as they're economically incentivized to do so someone will write that code.
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by timewizard 1y ago
You can't destroy liberty to create peace.
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by timewizard 1y ago
So unless we recruit Silicon Valley CEOs into the military these nations will suddenly have to find peace through extraordinary means or face sudden death? Are you familiar with brainwashing?
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by timewizard 1y ago
> Maybe it's her baby? Well it's the "TTAM Research Institute's" baby now. They have an office above a UPS store and not much of a website. https://ttamresearchinstitute.org/
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by timewizard 1y ago
> so the U.S. needs to keep pace. Yea! We can't fall behind as the worlds leading weapons manufacturer. It's important that we tap even Silicon Valley to continue producing weapons of war and death. > This announcement doe
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by timewizard 1y ago
I think you're genuinely forgetting how starved people were for phone applications when these devices first came on the market. Developers were absolutely willing to make the investment. Billions of devices were about to come online.
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by timewizard 1y ago
We say all of this on top of a mountain of open source software. This isn't about market love of "indie developers." It's the basic software economy we've known and understood for decades now. It was 30% commissio
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by timewizard 1y ago
> is years of investment. Or just don't be greedy and have an open store ecosystem that doesn't seek to extract money from it's own developers. > to get a lot of apps Phones are computers. For some reason all the manuf
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by timewizard 1y ago
> What are we really checking? That the security policy for the user and the resulting access key hasn't changed their level of access? Identity, while the most common use case, is only half the system when federating logins.
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by timewizard 1y ago
Other than purchasing her work how will this news be put to use by you? Were the resources of the New York Times well invested by procuring this news? How do you suppose they "got the scoop?"
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by timewizard 1y ago
> As the size of the black hole goes up, its overall density must decrease. The center of a black hole is infinitely dense. That's why it even exists. The event horizon is not the black hole. > and the fixed density of our obse

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