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These seem to be made by artists trained on traditional drawing. All drawings show knowledge of cross-hatching or pointillism, correct use of values, perspective, and so on. That’s…

> Why would you want to “focus on the underlying content” here? Tab bars and toolbars still cover the underlying content, and the more transparent/translucent they are, the worse. …

Company takeover by bean counters and clowns. It happens with every company, sooner or later. Apple remains on the edge with hardware though. I guess the show is still ran by the e…

The Philippines has a story of foreign influence on their local politics. It wouldn't be crazy to expect this is just the latest chapter of the 3 letter using it as laboratory.

In other words, gravity would be explainable by statistical mechanics (like heat)?

This looks like a product evolution, but in reverse.

I suppose it takes a lot of deltaV to get a stable orbit over the sun poles?

Last I heard, workers were getting replaced by AI, so this will sort itself out.

The traditional methods of "carving" I know about are using an adze [1] and controlled burning [2]. [1] https://engineeringlearn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Adze... [2] https://…

This is the first chair one can make, it's a common pre-industrial chair design. Search for "tribal chair" or "2-piece chair" for examples. It gets even better with wood carving (r…

What once was old is new again. https://lisp-docs.github.io/cl-language-reference/chap-9/j-b... https://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-24-algebraic-effects-y...

Here’s one using Emacs’ Org mode built-in HTML publishing capabilities: https://github.com/hcarvalhoalves/org-mode-site-template

Is this what Stephen Hawking used at the time?

The "bean counters" always win in the current state of affairs. The pressure of the financial capitalism on the industrial capitalism is too high. Any company that produces anythin…

A much needed area of study. Companies and institutions are drowning on "data", but don't know how to organize information. It gets progressively worse with the ability to generate…

> Even if you are the biggest critic of AI, it's hard to deny that the frontier models are quite good at the sort of stuff that you learn in school. Write a binary tree in C? Check…

The problem is any discussion around this topic is tainted – these companies have to justify their valuations. Begins with the shift in nomenclature: "LLM" is now "AI".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

I login to Instagram and I see: - Ad promoting "investment" platform with deep fakes of personalities - Ad from radicalized politician promoting hate speech - Semi-naked girl promo…

When I first read the title, I had something in mind, but this is actually about structuring the code itself as a fixed-size table. Here's a different take on thinking about tables…

LLMs can’t do anything for my work besides being an alternative to Google, and even then I need to double check on another source. You get a lot of positive reinforcement from posi…

> LLMs are one of the biggest advances in technology in human history. See, that’s what the article is about. Saying LLM is on the same level of steam power, the computer, the inte…

Yeah, I miss buttons and VFD displays.

> REST (or, rather, how REST is broadly used) encourages you to think in terms of Resources rather than Models or ViewModels. At first, your Resources start out as mirroring Models…

The fact Windows 2000 was peak Microsoft and OS X 10.5 was peak Apple is proof that the golden age of software is way behind us, unfortunately.