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Listen, I just had to go through numerous prompt cycles to 'prove' to 5.1 that we had a new Pope. ChatGPT was dead set that I was reading 'unreliable sources'. The data is _old_.

I love Cory’s writing, but this piece leans a bit too much on the metaphor lacking a bit in the mechanics. The walled gardens, DRM, and jailbreak bans long predate the last two adm…

In my adult life I’ve owned four cars, three of them Honda Accords. Each Accord had around 85-100k miles when I bought them, and I’ve driven each well past 200k miles with no major…

It's the psychology. Every sat phone and laptop is being opened up right now...

“If you must mark and sort young people, gross, but OK. But why do it at 18 rather than 22?" Because success, outside entertainment, is oft detectable through cultural mores; well …

Shh. We don't talk about that "here".

The other elephant in the room is hardware acceleration in browsers. Fire up a Google Meet (or YouTube for that matter) on your distro of choice using Chrome/Chromium/Firefox and w…

Pg. 211 - Battelle Labs researching Credit Cards with built-in microchips. 1981. Guess sometimes adoption is ... slow

And has since the beginning of time. Adam Smith discussed such devaluations and the incentives in his seminal work back in the 1700’s.

"The worker will be free to move to the room or zone that fits the mood they’re looking for." No need for my company, or any company, to build this. As it turns out I already have …

SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity: ponzi schemes that have a little tech behind them and pull on our heartstrings.

Couldn't the government paint a pretty accurate picture using IRS data? Title and earnings via W-2 is at least a start.

Absolutely fabulous. Best part: "NSA hoard their knowledge of weaknesses in Microsoft Windows, a vitally important piece of their own nation's infrastructure, in case they'll come …

Diplomacy alone doesn't afford us the lifestyle we so enjoy. I believe we are lucky to even have the option to ignore the where and how our privileged position in global society is…

Politics, period, has further turned the platform in to a cesspool. Removing a single account is not going to correct that course. I guess this is just what happens when a social o…

+1 on the X1 Carbon. I made the switch this year, too, post MacBook Pro announcement. Have been running Fedora flawlessly. Cheers.

I just recently broke down and picked up an X1 Carbon 4th gen in lieu of a new MBP w/ TouchBar. The 14" display is a sweet spot for size and resolution. I run Fedora, and everythin…