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heh yeah I ran into this with one of the few times I used claude desktop. it had no idea what features it had and didn't have, where buttons were in the app, etc. isn't that kind o…

no one understands what you are saying

your suggestion to cash strapped people who can barely afford rent is "just buy a house in new york"?

abominable

Lol. Imagining someone sneaking across the border from Mexico so they can work under the table to afford a $4k/mo 1BR in Hollywood

yeah this is what I heard from pretty much everyone in the business down there. since production has gone international LA can't compete with, say, Romania. You can ship out your m…

Excellent books, full of understated spectacle and really excellent wordplay. If you get into them you may want to pick up "A Sea of Words" as a guide to some of the more esoteric …

this is a tangent but you should revisit your assumptions about giraffe anatomy. their necks actually weigh a tremendous amount and are kept upright by an interesting system whereb…

"Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity and the less they are deflected by considerations of immediacy of application, the more likely they are …

This is cool and I appreciate how compact it is. I'd love to have this as a regular load on my desktop. My only note would be that the precipitation graph feels unnecessarily bulky…

Great book. But if you want some even earlier forward-thinking stuff, look up Forster's "The Machine Stops." It's not a full book, more a novella if it's even that. Extremely presc…

the interface shows the top movies right now on https://www.themoviedb.org/

Looks nice. Personally I don't know I can go back to 220ppi, but if I did I would definitely pay for the touchscreen and light over the X4! Maybe you already have this, but I'd enc…

oh for sure I made no attempt to make them regular, not to mention some are Kare's. I was trying to make them as small as possible but that leads to its own kind of confusion.

had no idea, thanks for the link.

heh yes I do plan on doing something like that. it was just a little hobby thing I threw together last year. I've been meaning to harmonize the styles a bit and put small versions …

obligatory susan kare mention - her icons were amazing. I started making my own small, monochrome icons for a personal project ( https://anachronomicon.coldewey.cc/ ), trying to ma…

I know what you mean, but there is a reasonable distinction to be made especially for living persons. An "authorized" biography would be something like what Isaacson does, where th…

you are yourself commanding a well-meaning person to stop doing X, like some dictatorial authority, with no attempt at persuasion. I recommend reading past the headline before maki…

by this standard no good faith criticism of anything musk-adjacent is possible

And there are others who left years ago and warned us. Back-patting isn't all or nothing, and I think it's reasonable to praise those who left when they saw the writing on the wall…

Bret previously on "statue pfps" https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-stone-faced-fascists-keep-g... and chatting with one directly https://xcancel.com/BretDevereaux/status/17429570313…

Guessing Vancouver WA (just north of Portland OR) not BC (Canada). For those not familiar with the area.

Piramidal was doing that last I checked: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/23/piramidals-foundation-mode...

the graph actually makes it look like the jump was due to Trump's policies, since the spike started in his term. if anything the graph shows that Biden policies arrested it shortly…