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Most non technical people in my circles lose their messages every few years, when they change phones.

A lot of open source projects suffer from “pet project” syndrome. Some maintainers have very strong opinions about how/what things should be done regardless of actual user demand o…

Honestly, the real mystery is why so many people are confused about “why, despite universe seeming so vast, there are no signs of other alien civilizations” in 2023. We have all th…

Exactly this. Even to this day, Nintendo is very smart about almost never discounting their flagship games - and when they do, it’s by a small percent, sometimes with strings attac…

commercial design needs to hit a set of 2 contradictory goals: 1) be as boring as possible so people can make sense of it quickly and efficiently in a world where there are countle…

It might well be intentional. Scientists like those weird double entendre titles; it's especially noticeable in paper titles in academia, which often follows the format ("project n…

> I think a simple piece of advice (stolen from Tuft) is to not use colors unless you really need to. Funny, read your comment as my copy of Tufte's VDoQI is open to page 154: "Col…

The classical optical camera does not capture anything. It is a light sealed box, with a pinhole for a lens. As an optical system, it interacts with electromagnetic waves that go t…

“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us”

I'm a photographer, and for years I've been pixel peeping at photos taken on phones with "portrait mode"; many years after the first introduction of the feature, regardless of the …

It's funny how these things work. There are many inventions that, looking back, could've happened centuries earlier purely from a resource/physical constraints point of view (of co…

I do visual work (graphic/UI design, photography, video editing) along with programming and there is no display with the resolution and color fidelity of the XDR at its price point…

This is why the reductionist argument of "your brain is reducible to a computer with inputs/outputs like any other, all we have to do is reimplement it" of AGI proponents always fe…

The link points to an article titled “ Greening the Void: Climate Change and Political Legitimacy”, the submission is titled “ Ridley Scott: Our Anglo-Saxon Maximus”.

It’s a big deal because he’s extremely charismatic and well connected and that matters much, much more for a tech company’s success than some programmers like to think.

Thinking you can develop AGI - if such a thing actually can exist - in an academic vacuum, and not by having your AI rubber meet the road through a plethora of real world business …

This article: https://www.noemamag.com/ai-and-the-limits-of-language/

Right now this requires API tokens and being dependent on third party companies that will cut off your access if they decide they don’t like you. The moment these models can run lo…

Walls and floor/ceiling not being parallel (old house) tripped me up when I modeled my perfect kitchen in abstract 3D software land and then tried to make it happen in real life.

The premise reminds me of this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29429385

Link?

+1 The switch has really proven that this hybrid handheld formfactor is the future. On the software side, Proton has been the savior that liberated PC gamers from Microsoft’s iron …

Quite a few bridges were burned to form the company, an acquisition would be a surprising development.