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In the article, Milton Friedman sums it up well I think by describing the attention is 'corrupting'. It cannot be good for you for everyone to assume that you are somehow omniscien…

Friends don't make friends read slop. If I have something Claude wrote then I will offer the LLM output. But I generally prefer to at least give the option. I have seen conversatio…

AI is a force multiplier. It multiplies both good and bad decisions. Both mine and it's 'own'. I can get some things done 10x faster and it might even catch mistakes or help me sol…

Sorry folks, my fault. I finally went from Pro to Max after hitting another 5 hour session limit today.

I really enjoyed playing with dithering to get good results from the eink spectra displays with 6 or 7 colours. They end up making good photo frames, especially for older digital p…

These bursts of downtime are one of the reasons I end up with multiple smaller subscriptions between providers. I'd just end up being really annoyed about the downtime if it lands …

Is death in old age a 'problem' to solve? Suffering, absolutely. But I think there is more nuance to death.

Didder[0] is a good tool for dithering. I use it to pre-process images for the 6-color e-ink displays. You can go down a rabbit hole of dithering algorithms too, like Floyd Steinbe…

Passkeys are a mitigation against users being bad at password hygiene and phishing being a real issue to users. You can't phish a passkey, and you don't rely on the user providing …

I think that an overview of how the machinery works and how it interfaces would be interesting. As a side note, I do enjoy the bizarre bowling animations that the screens come up w…

Net Zero isn't what sets the price of UK electricity generation. Marginal pricing means that gas sets the price. At time of writing, gas is only generating 6.9% of the UK's electri…

Unfortunately, any viral infection can leave lasting damage too. One of the outcomes of COVID was more awareness of post-viral syndromes.

I like the little Mini PCs. I have a GMKtec nucbox with an Intel N100 and an M5 Plus. The biggest issues with them are around firmware and power consumption, especially idle. It's …

As I understand it, it's a mix of factors. Charging Lithium, and converting to motive force in motors are both pretty efficient. (Both >90%). An ICE vehicle has an upper limit on e…

I really like the concept, but I think the restrictions are a double-edged sword. The form factor and Sailfish are a lot more appealing than 'apps blocked at a system level'. Can i…

I've just bought it based on the description. Minor complaint is that it steals Cmd-Shift-P (Firefox Private Browsing shortcut) by default. Easy to change in the UI though, so no b…

I have a mild distrust of some of the cheap IP KVMs. I don't think vendors are malicious, but I don't expect they get it right every time either. Admittedly, I haven't looked at an…

I'm not sure that the author's perspective that the I/O limits were a direct commercial decision is one I'd agree with. > Apple could have shipped two 10Gbps ports at no meaningful…

I think it's to do with the LLM prompt, which mentions 19th century, 1887 etc. https://github.com/BaderBC/halupedia/blob/master/src/worker/...

I asked about The IP over Avian Carrier Plague and got a whole history of the Data Dove Delirium too. https://halupedia.com/the-internet-over-avian-carrier-plague https://halupedia…