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The computer / phone should auto-detect and tell you on-screen

Today my phone said "Charging slowly" and it wasn't charging at all. I miss MiniUSB. MiniUSB was always good to me.

Hm. I wonder how many relays I'd need to make a physical MNIST classifier. That'd be dope

It's a subscription service! When the vinyl wears out, buy another!

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those

An actual utopia would require never-before-seen democratic mandate from people who are currently on the brink of hot civil war

They make all the sports games. Have you noticed all the sports and Mr. Beast type slop that's like "Wow and here we are inn Dubai / Saudi Arabia whatever and it's beautiful and lu…

I loved that book! Was it that book or its sister that had an image of the pole and said "Spin the Earth the correct direction"? That and "How Things Work" kicked so much ass

I don't even use Wikipedia anymore, I use the free online P2P encyclopedia. It's called

Just run Rust compiles in the cloud. Really, if you're using a SaaSS LLM like Claude or Copilot or ChatGPT, which already sends all your code to someone else's computer to run on a…

Kinda like how there's no average-sized airplane pilot

Remember to use LOCKSS, everyon

Glad the news broke. Now the market price for old books will shoot up

That's why we should enforce copyleft

How it really feels to change gender

Wouldn't this add a ton of complexity for anything that extends DNS, like DoH, DoT, VPNs, firewalls, etc., and you'd still need to connect by IP for LAN connections or P2P? Cause w…

> Everyone already knows floating-point operations are imprecise and it wouldn’t be fun to blog about. Wellll... Yes and no. And I want to nitpick "FP ops are imprecise" because it…

"The Table-Maker's Dilemma" https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/LOG10HAF.TXT This is the best source I could find, funny enough the author doesn't explain the name "table make…

"hooked" is right. I'm trying to tell people, you have to take initiative, you have to have agency and be responsible for your own attention. If you are being "fed" from a "feed" y…

"I invented a new algorithm" "New algorithm, or fmadd?" "... fmadd."

That's no good, I need cybersecurity for groundhogs

Finally, an LLM that can run on my i5

GUI design, just like music and film, peaked when I was about 15.

If you see a library that's full, find the worst book, walk a ways, and throw it away.

> Dithering can reduce file size Yeah, if you're using lossless compression like PNG or GIF, adding a lossy step to reduce the number of colors in the palette can help. If you're c…