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completely anecdotally (sample size of one!) but I found big improvement in comfort and posture when i moved to the kinesis ergo (split, but joined) about 15 years ago. Eventually …

> Unfortunately, reading books for entertainment is ridiculous. You do not live in a log cabin on the prairie. You have Netflix, you have video games, you have TikTok, you have Twi…

Certainly one of the few podcasts that I've stuck with. I think I started about 15+ years ago, and I know it was running for a while before that. Can't say every episode is great (…

oof. Of all the things I wouldn't trust AI to hallucinate facts on, mushrooms would have to be right up near the top of the list

Not AI related, but the (hard sci-fi) book Blind Sight by Peter Watts explores this from a different angle. He posits that consciousness is expensive and some species may evolve to…

Well, that's some distopean shit right there ain't it

Obviously it's well over a year since this article was posted and if anything I've anecdotally noticed hallucinations getting more, not less, common. Possibly/probably with another…

Personally nothing - a one off payment for software is fine. Subscription based software - it's what I do for a day job but I'm not interested in any more monthly money drains than…

> This firm doesn’t care a whit about the impact on users - they are just too cheap to follow the rules. I'm old enough to remember when one of great things about the web was the l…

Hey, would be interested in checking this out when you release it

I was pretty late to the AWS bandwagon (maybe 2019ish) but I had no idea there was a point when your resources were directly addressable by other customers. I'm surprised they got …

This was true a few years back. Probably not been the case for at least the last 18 months. Curious what other professions you'd pursue?

I suspect this is the only way they can differentiate it from a phone, and it will be pointless. Voice-to-text is already as good as it needs to be now, and most people barely use …

I would consider not using a "smart tv" at all. I have had an old PC running my TV for many years now - it's fast, so doesn't get bogged down rendering applications, I can play any…

I was actually surprised to see that there's been a release in the last 12 months - I had thought it was dead. I used it extensively in the late 90's early 00's and really liked it…

I wonder how long before a freshly wiped phone or phone with only a few days of history is suspicious enough to cause entry issues in it's own right.

If you have a web browser on your android, you could try this one.

Hmm. Notably Farmers NZ recently had an extended unplanned outage, and has a 4 star app

this - I use atop heavily in my fleet for exactly this reason. It's really helped nail some otherwise hard to find root causes.

I've done this a lot - mostly with big machinery where the ANC on the earbuds, or the (not aviation quality) ear muffs alone don't suffice to bring the noise down to an acceptable …

Or beeper - its fully replaced messager on my phone with no issues from Facebook marketplace

I have stopped doing them altogether unless there is a known issue that I am trying to resolve. I have some "smart" devices like TVs, printers etc that require local area network a…

Why wouldn't you - the average person has few ways to influence big players and voting with their dollar is by far the most effective. I wanted a Tesla for years. I wouldnt conside…

> You could have been using something good for a year, rather than something designed to prey on your mind. Do you know of any good, free, alternatives?