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I mean... isn't this the entire point of font-family fallbacks?

This article (saw it somewhere years ago) was a large influence on my emacs config. Because of it I discovered emacs' secondary selection feature, which I use all the time now.

They're interactive art projects!

I had no idea there were people this optimistic still left in the world.

Feelings about Palantir aside, this is a really misleading headline. The FCA has hired Palantir to "investigate the watchdog’s internal intelligence data", which presumably require…

Isn't that what the web is for?

Great write-up. But is the classified-network moat meaningful when the product is inference on a foundation model? The Last Supper primes locked in because the technology itself wa…

They also had to reintroduce motion blur since the per frame exposure time is half. A totally fascinating experiment.

I managed to build myself exactly this with Claude's help. There are 3 levels of protection. 1. I use an app called SelfControl, which blocks websites temporarily. 2. I have a scri…

Debevec tried a version of this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13702

Not just PR. I mean... they got fired over those limits.

A great point! I've experienced the same. We reshape reality to match the mental models we create. To the extent this has always been the case I have to accept it, but it feels lik…

I'm genuinely interested in the world around me, and I like being entertained as much as the next person, but the problem with social media for me is that it creates a simulacrum o…

I'm not 100% clear myself but I think that the criticism is that what was supposed to be a non-profit delivering world-changing technology for the public good was bullied/manipulat…

I should have structured my sentences a little better. I'm not confused about why he has detractors, I'm confused as to why people thought it would go any other way with this munch…

No, I'm saying I'm cynical because I assume that whenever this much money is involved there's no way events unfold in a fair, ethical, utopian way. It always turns into a knife fig…

Yeah, you're right, it's not a fair comparison.

I'm so genuinely confused by all this. It seems that Altman has a lot of detractors here, and I'm not sure why (my fault for not keeping up I guess). But a company that wants to sp…

The Politics of Succession, by Andrej Kokkonen, Jørgen Møller, Anders Sundell https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Politics_of_Success... > this book also shows that the develo…

History says: proved useful.

> It turns out hereditary succession is not a good way to choose a competent political leader. I'm not sure republics have cracked that one either.

Farcical aquatic ceremonies have their uses.

Hot take: hereditary kingdoms were a reasonably successful solution to curbing constant civil war in a time when representative democracies might not have been viable (for various …

I don’t agree with that. I see people carrying around iPads, clipboards, physical books, sheets of paper, paper notebooks, dedicated cameras, even walkie talkies. All of those peop…