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So, I injured my left index finger to the point of tendon interruption. It was approx 2018. I was fortunate enough to have surgery that repaired it to near 100% extension. So, I cl…

You’re missing the fact that Ukraine desperately needs missile defense, and these incidents incentivize its neighbors to keep all their defenses to themselves. No one wants to be b…

I always love coming across a new site and it screams “org-mode”.

This is one of the things I keep thinking about. At the very least, these tools make prototyping and idea vetting remarkably cheaper. Then we go back to the old “the prototype work…

Why I like using AI right now is that I get to try out far more of my own ideas quickly (and find issues with them!) Before, it was like: "Oh, X idea is really cool, let me try it!…

To me the primary answer was a fully functional web browser. the mobile web was extremely limited; I know, I used to use it on a windows pda device.

This is true/valid in many ways, but the signs of significant AI gen are pretty obvious. And now I wonder how much of the overblown narrative is here. This reminds me of the slop b…

The iPhone was revolutionary. There really was nothing like it at the time. The closest thing (the PDA) was _nothing_ like it.

This. While I was in college, I worked for Circuit City doing tech support (the "IQ Crew", heh, later called "firedog". Memories). People would call/come in and I would try to gath…

This is generally a big problem in Pittsburgh where huge areas of the most valuable land is owned by “nonprofits”

IIUC the maintenance costs of suburbs is higher . Not sure if you meant that.

I mean I don’t know anything absolutely about someone else’s internal mental state. But I’ve just observed enough to come to certain conclusions, though not necessarily about any p…

I do think there are absolutely instances of people virtue signaling. But, after observing society over the last few years, I've come to think that people who _whine_ about virtue …

Don’t get me wrong, this is very interesting, but there is something very funny about the idea that “give a chimpanzee stuff and see if they like it” is academic research. This cou…

I’m not in favor of these tariffs. At all. However, it seems that they haven’t had such an impact yet on the economy, at least regarding consumer prices. You’d expect much larger i…

I'm less worried about the "vibe coded" than "vibe-language-learning" Though I do think there is vast potential for such things, it needs to be approached judiciously.

I remember using one of these tools and it falsely identified some other account as being mine. Of course, I only have just this account.

Oh wow this is a great reference/image/metaphor for "software engineers" who misuse these tools - "the great pakledification" of software

IIUC koka can apply these optimizations dynamically when it determines data is unique via reference counting. However the paper has more details.

Ditto. The entire issue with microplastics is that at certain scale they might have all sorts of bio-active aspects, like BPA and _other_ chemicals used in plastic. I wish we did m…

Yeah I figured that, but the combinations I was dealing with really weren’t that many. The problem was https://xmonader.github.io/prolog/2018/12/21/solving-murder-... and trying to…

Na each key press goes to a separate lambda invocation that gets submitted to a Kafka queue, and what happens after that is a mystery to all involved. We can make crazy latency our…

Yea I’ve wanted to try using logict to do some larger logic programming stuff. I’ve done it with list monad but found a lot of speed issues, never quite figured out why it was so s…

The only languages I know that can do prolog-like-constructs as-a-library are lisps, or at least langs that have reasonable symbol constructs. Usability is way way worse if you can…

oh my god, what a horrible but incredible idea