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The NYT credits him with inventing the double click.[1] [1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technology/bill-atkinson-...

> Shorter, faster, and fastest time to completion is best. What about correctness, robustness, readability, clarity, maintainability?

Here is a video of Bill showing and discussing those Polaroids: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg0mHFcB510

"Am I the only one that is not worried at all about the camera and super concerned about microphones ? The camera may see me staring into the screen, woo hoo. The microphones will …

> Note he doesn't state whether the difference was positive or negative. But if taken (as it usually is) as a metaphor of life's choices, in this case his life choices made him Rob…

> my experience is that ChatGPT is dreadful at everything but the simplest anything. Have you tried Claude 3 Opus (or even just Claude 3 Sonnet)? https://www.anthropic.com/news/cla…

> What I do is take several diverse short video segments, like 100, concatenate them into 4 segments (example 23+24+26+27 since they have diverse lengths) and then xstack them into…

...in mice

> Citation needed? Brother HL-L8260CDW https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/B06XDS1XW7/R2MQHUVV9JX7N...

Some Brother laser printers have three serious downsides: 1 - They count pages printed and will simply stop printing when they've determined you've printed enough even if you still…

Downside is you have to email the documents you want to print to Brother (the company). Think about that before you email anything you want to keep private.

Despite Claude's reluctance to tread outside what it considers safe/ethical, I much prefer Claude over ChatGPT because in my experience it's better at explaining things, and much b…

> This looks like a terrible decision What did Sam Altman personally do that made firing him such a terrible decision? More to the point, what can't OpenAI do without Altman that t…

> They didn’t give any more shits about safety than OpenAI did Anthropic's chatbots are much more locked down, in my experience, than OpenAI's. It's a lot easier to jailbreak ChatG…

Is there a point to getting a rice cooker over an instant pot?

Isn't copyright about the final product, not how it was arrived at? If I independently come up with a song called "Let it Be" that has the same lyrics as the Beatles song and publi…