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Xerox to Apple

I wish sports would be sports, business be business, and politics politics. Whenever they mix, it is for the worse.

You don't have to combine work and personal stuff in Emacs. You can for example set it up to just connect to work email and work jira and work slack and work clankers etc.

Oh wow that really drives home how bad agentic ai is compared to what most people use it for

> The catch is where the book begins, not what it is about.

> one of its most prominent users Was this written by AI?

Even without considering vibecoding, compile time and compiler/lsp memory usage are my main concerns with Haskell. In fact, I'd say they're even more of an issue if you're going wi…

NPM

There was researcher who said that democracies are strengthened by * Good libraries * Local news papers * Volunteering which all have to do with increasing community, seeing real p…

Bookshop.org lets you filter by drm when you search. https://www.bloomsbury.com has drm free stuff, and after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42811332 i respect them even more…

Can one buy Tor books without going through Amazon? I had trouble doing that last I tried.

Same here. When I was younger I liked imagining having conversations with people from the past like Plato or something, thinking about their reactions to The Future. (Though I gues…

Add in a zip bomb or two?

"Trophic" typically means nutritional, what's the connection here? Fascinating stuff regardless.

For me the biggest blocker is just picking a task from my todo list when I don't have someone asking me (today) and I didn't leave a task half finished. If it's been >1d since some…

Good to hear I'm not the only one.

How would you know? What evidence can you put forth that say a dog or dormouse does not have a conscious experience, but your next door neighbour (presumably human) has?

Is there a plain pdf? That page was extremely hard to read and Reader mode doesn't seem to handle it in Firefox

Hm, I wonder if these sections could be made to fetch things async (and collapsed by default so things don't pop up in your face until you click). I also suspect timings will be ve…

Do you pronounce it like uruk hai?

> Thiel clearly loves the sword for its sharpness Palantir ceo too: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/alex-karp-wielding-a-sword

2016: this monstrous intellectual creature, through devious modeling of what our emotions and intellect are like, will be able to persuade us to do things like give it access to fa…

Go go Streisand effect. This gag order will be great for her book. She should do a tour of the US with someone asking her questions and she just not responding.

> the new parts probably won't work in the old machine Except with framework, where you can actually upgrade it piecewise. The CEO had a video showing of them doing it in like 10 m…

Ad for Huawei?