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It's interesting you say "just" a tool - I think the median reader here sees tool as an inherent part of what "computer" means. I'm not trying to dismiss your perspective here, I t…

More personal in terms of use case, sure. And it performs computations - but it's pretty clear most mobile devices are not really your computer, when push comes to shove. So, it's …

Human art most definitely can be reduced to tokens, since that's also essentially how we compress and transmit it. Now, whether a statistical token generator makes "real art" is su…

Sure - but it could still be pretty relevant if we want to ask about the future of beverage making and consumption, especially if new technology enables everybody to mass-produce l…

The takeaway (that obfuscation is bad and specificity is valuable) is clear and uncontroversial. But an issue is that nearly every suggestion entails lengthening your prose. There …

If it truly worked as a series of incremental improvements, and considered total carbon footprint (transportation costs etc.), then sure. Those are two pretty big "ifs" - people ca…

As most of the messaging on this page implies the release will occur in 2023, I figured it was worth noting this excerpt towards the bottom: We will be exhibiting the Omnichord OM-…

Whatever the default is in this Nikola theme - https://themes.getnikola.com/v8/hack/ I tweaked the theme just a bit, to add the faux scanlines, URL mouseover highlight, and backgro…

https://gallant.dev Haven't had the chance to write for awhile, but been wanting to get back to it. In addition to normal static site stuff it has webmentions/pingbacks, comments, …

I also make music, and have found the Fediverse to be a far more welcoming and varied place than commercial social media. Sure, I'm only getting maybe hundreds of impressions - but…

https://gallant.dev/ A straightforward blog (static site generated by Nikola), but I had fun styling it to look kinda like an old CRT. I also loaded it up with IndieWeb goodness (w…

Laptops from the same series are still offered, and (for good or ill) still pretty similar to 2019 - https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/workstations-isv-certif... I have a 2020 m…

It's perhaps worth steelmanning the argument here - though technically one can release an app for free, it is generally the case that any app with significant investment (warrantin…

I agree that it's similar to a hard fork (and has similar problems), but would argue that (due to the "interdisciplinary" nature of fintech) it's not incompetence or laziness but r…

True, but it was also relatively harder for pictures to become famous, and there wasn't massive face recognition systems to use the data in unexpected ways. Also, a lot more people…

As another example "fake news" isn't new either, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism However, I'd suggest that the new challenge isn't simply scale and omnipresenc…

From the registrars I've checked, many are passing on a slightly larger price increase (e.g. a nice round number like $1). Granted that's on them as well as Verisign, but as others…

I'm a huge fan of lifelong learning, and overall agree with this post. But, from a hiring perspective, it is missing a few important details: 1. Sometimes you have things that need…

So, you're saying because past research has been correlated with causality fallacies, we should just assume it's the case when we see claims of this sort? ;) More seriously - I'm w…

The sentence you're concerned with is the headline of the article, but isn't found in the original paper. Here's how they close their abstract: This result supports the notion that…