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by wwweston 5mo ago
I absolutely said that about cheese. Then something happened I probably should have died from (80-90% of people don't make it). High blood pressure turned out to be a contributing factor. High salt consumption much of it from my fa
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by wwweston 5mo ago
The only thing I've targeted as wrong is how you argue. That's what I hate, and with amply described reasons. I've spent a lot of words on it under the charitable assumption that you were truthful in your desire for better
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by wwweston 5mo ago
> Perhaps you can start with the ones stated in the memo. You could have done that in response to the person who asked you what reasons they had not considered. That would have been one reasonable way to engage, it would have mildly tr
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by wwweston 5mo ago
> What "evasions"? You kicked off this subthread by saying (among other things): > the other side actually has reasons that you haven’t bothered to consider? In response, it's entirely reasonable for someone to ask you
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by wwweston 5mo ago
No matter how many times you repeat your evasions, they are unlikely to persuade anyone that you’re simultaneously entitled to your bailey (disavowing any investment in defending the new policy) and your motte (“maybe they have honest reaso
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by wwweston 5mo ago
This may not be the intent of some conservative voters, partly because some are plausibly immigration friendly, partly because many movement conservatives have more of a opinion-vibe than a policy position on immigration (among other things
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by wwweston 5mo ago
Effective collective action is impossible without both real self discipline and meaningful engagement in life. Your point has value to the extent that it’s reminding people we can’t just retreat into personal satisfactions. But to the ext
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by wwweston 5mo ago
And it just so happens that one of the things the new tech is good for is astroturfing.
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by wwweston 5mo ago
HTML is content because it inflects content with structure and meaning. It may be fair to say it carries less of the semantic weight than the language and other media it marks up, but it’s content at least to the extent that punctuation is,
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by wwweston 5mo ago
> it is important to make the distinction between inlining the implementation of some behaviour and inlining the invocation (or declaration) of some behaviour tailwind’s biggest problem is that it doesn’t make this distinction well. In a
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by wwweston 5mo ago
Not with that attitude: <style> @keyframes blink { 0% { opacity: 1; } 50% { opacity: 0; } 100% { opacity: 1; } } blink { animation: blink 0.7s infinite; } </style> &lt
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by wwweston 5mo ago
The curious thing about that is the transformation of the feed — it’s long since stopped being majority friend/follow posts and clearly is the algorithm picking whatever else it can come up with that will engage. This should mean perso
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by wwweston 5mo ago
I only hope this eventually reaches enough coverage to support media production. It’s the last commercial area I care about. I’m entirely willing to pay for good work here (and have) but both major commercial desktop OSs are exhibiting sign
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by wwweston 5mo ago
interface and architecture may influence each other, but interface doesn’t determine architecture
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by wwweston 6mo ago
And here I thought I was safe from losing months to escapism like I did in the 2000s (learned to ascend with every class though!) Anyone know why the skip over 4.x, or have any insight into how much play has changed as well as infrastructur
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by wwweston 6mo ago
This one has somehow found its way into the iOS photos app of all places. Something is deeply amiss in the industry if the corporate avatar of design misses that one.
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by wwweston 6mo ago
I’ve been using macOS because its creative ecosystem for decades. And over the last 10 years, it’s started to be apparent to me this is an expensive and unstable place to be. It will not be a place where tools find longstanding stability me
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by wwweston 6mo ago
No. So much no. It utterly destroys the “quick incremental adjustment” that taps are better for. It makes it more involved to even complete maximal adjustments, which are just press and hold. It makes all adjustments more involved, it’s not
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by wwweston 6mo ago
Embodiment, social context, and focus. I’m discovering a renewed appreciation for libraries — never lost in theory but in practice. I’m lucky my community has a good municipal public library nearby, a good university library not too much fa
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by wwweston 6mo ago
The word most relevant to this conversation is “influence.” Influence is possible and users observe it and use it to increase margins of useful outcomes. “Control” is incorrect.
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by wwweston 6mo ago
You’re right that this has always existed and at times even driven governance and society in the US. There’s also been times when other values more like what the GP implies have driven governance and social direction in the US. There was a
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by wwweston 7mo ago
Thanks. Not the author (the person who's participated elsewhere in thread with an account of the same name as the site probably is). But I appreciate the elaboration. I don't generally use LLMs for writing, but I'm interest
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by wwweston 7mo ago
Personally I just don’t believe “data centers in space” is a sincere goal. There’s no way any of the cooling benefits or whatever offsets the additional layers of significant construction and maintenance challenges, collision and other env
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by wwweston 7mo ago
Being someone who’s used to the “typical REPL” flow, I’m not sure I grasp what’s going on with the no-restarts. The implications I think I see are: * Clojure is built different in terms of hot code reloading * the REPL is its own applicat
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by wwweston 7mo ago
> Because this is awful writing. Can you describe what you think is awful (beyond rhetorical choices that have become LLM markers)?
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by wwweston 7mo ago
I wonder if how we build/cycle software would change if we stopped calling it "backward compatibility" and started calling it "future availability."
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by wwweston 7mo ago
I realize this is probably said in jest, but just in case there are readers who don’t take it that way: * someone has to write language specifying a program, natural language or programming. * a programming langugage is a handle with specif
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by wwweston 7mo ago
Easier to run your todo list at the same time as applications that need the RAM for raw function. Maybe that’s CAD, maybe that’s A/V production, maybe it’s a context window. It’s been convenient that we can throw better hardware at o
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by wwweston 7mo ago
There’s a lot of good points in your comment, but fwiw it’s not clear whether they exist to dismiss a complaint or muster focus on the issues. You’re right to point out that we’re all opted in at multiple levels to tech dependent on mining
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by wwweston 7mo ago
More elaboration on what’s involved in “correctly” would probably drive the point home — “this works because” vs “works for me.”

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