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This must be so disheartening. To take the time to create something complex and wonderful only to have a bunch of drive-by yahoos shout "LOL! AI!" out the car window. Creative work…

Here's the thing you missed: "A tree gets planted ". There's no guarantee that a tree planted to "offset" a flight will grow to any kind of maturity, let alone survive three months…

This book looks super interesting. I wish I was on a software team so I could justify buying it. But but my $DAY_JOB is answering phones and fixing printer-jams in a medical practi…

The Office. The IT Crowd. Red Dwarf. Coupling. Life on Mars. They even wanted to remake "Fawlty Towers" without "the tall idiot".

I find the preponderance of AI topics pretty dull myself. Doesn't interest me. Tell me about markup languages, weird science, fun games, interesting presentations, old programming …

Microsoft is not just no longer supporting publisher, the application will be just plain gone. It's extraordinary to me that a huge number of files representing many hours of human…

> nowadays it seems almost impossible to block everyone crazy on X/Twitter, perhaps more feasible back then 127.0.0.1 x.com Seems to block everyone crazy on Twitter-that-was.

> military is being used for bad things Seems that sending a bunch of people with guns/bombs/etc to another country is almost always bad. The military doing good things like ... um…

> last major source of instability in the region. Are you forgetting the bad neighbor that keeps attacking most of its other neighbors, even while under ceasefire agreements? And t…

Linux has this myth of being "community software", and if it really, truly is, then it should have better accessibility than Microsoft Windows. As far as I can tell from following …

Can't argue with the success of Markdown. It's still a lousy "spec", and, again, I often see people wishing for a Markdown web browser, but I don't see anyone implementing such a t…

There's a difference between push and pull for images. If you have to manually click a link to an image, and it's advertising, then there's a loss of trust with the rest of the lin…

Markdown? Terrible "spec". Browsers already support XML. You can spin up a HTML-but-restricted XML grammar (with extra stuff even, like footnotes and stuff) and a CSS file in maybe…

Sooner or later "inline images" == "advertising". And "tracking pixels". Keeping them separate was a smart move, and entirely consistent with the underlying philosophy.

Marginalia is almost already this. It flags sites that have advertising, javascript, etc. meaning that you can easily avoid those.

Gemini is cool for many reasons, but it fails in being able to encode complex documents, or use semantically or visually useful structures common to many documents. There is: - No …

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