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Chesterton's Fence is the flip side of this

"Data has weight, but only on SSDs" - Not just SSDs! Unless you always hang the chad, surely writing data onto punchcards reduces the weight of that 'storage medium'!

10^–15 is not a negative number, just a small one. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=10%5E-15+

Apparently I can’t attach a cover letter, but I think I might be a better fit than might be obvious from my résumé. I do tend to "think like a product owner" (to quote the job desc…

"Cars now provide zero benefit..." "Gender-based discrimination..." "Fuck Brendan Eich [for opposing gay marriage at a time that Obama did as well]..." "As ever, unionize, free Pal…

The idea of changing what 'rm' does sets off all of my "foot-gun" alarm bells

Huh. I watched a lot, but not all, of the video, and I thought he made it clear early on that he was stitching together 1px videos & repeating the event for each pixel (about a mil…

And?

Right? Google is dog caca now. Myself and everyone I know keep getting sent to AI-written garbage nonsense slop websites, or for some reason, to the Hindustan Times

See my reply to parent. Reply to sibling: Whoa, I've seen the Sopranos 3 times and never caught that reference.

Curious, I asked Grok: > Is there controversy over the true inventor of the telephone?Yes, there is controversy over the true inventor of the telephone. While Alexander Graham Bell…

"The message format is not dangerous. It is the message viewers that are dangerous in this particular regard." Ah, I see. We should allow HTML but display it as plain text.

Oh, clever name. Typed Lua → TL → "Tee Ell" → Teal And the extension is .tl

That’s great! ... Where are the downloaded models so I can delete them or at least exclude them from Time Machine backups? (Mac)

I think you two are confusing Roko's Basilisk (a thought experiment which some take seriously) and Rococo Basilisk (a joke shared between Elon and Grimes e.g.) Interesting theory..…

For a lot more specific suggestions on how to have actual arguments that can lead somewhere (not a tantrum) read “how to have impossible conversations” by Lindsay and Boghossian

"And the reason avocados have exploded in the U.S. is that most of them are no longer grown in the U.S. "We have developed such a voracious appetite for this versatile fruit that t…

I recently opined here that devs should really stop setting their blogs in monospaced fonts, and got downvoted to -4, which is very funny. It’s TRUE! Monospaced fonts are a thing f…

How does it compare to SiteSucker ( https://ricks-apps.com/osx/sitesucker/index.html >)?

So interesting! The author doesn’t, I believe, yet cover how the first log tables were computed (by hand), so I asked ChatGPT. This may be of interest: https://chatgpt.com/share/67…

For readability: html { font-family: system-ui; } Consider https://alanhogan.com/bookmarklets#add_css to add this to the page. Code blocks are still shown in monospaced font. BTW, …

A bit off-topic, but I found it very dystopian a few months ago to ask ChatGPT to describe the game in some detail. It refused to, claiming it violated content policy. Chilling.

Is it supposed to look like a Microsoft Word document from 1996? It’s all Times New Roman with 16-bit color highlights.

I really doubt that. Coming out isn’t the same as “realizing.”

This is self-evidently incorrect, for a multitude of reasons. Reason 1: Gay men do not wait to 'realize' they are gay until their 30s, 40s, 50s, or 60s. "Trans" do. Reason 2: Autog…