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It rained fish in my front yard in South Carolina back in the 80's, it's definitely a real phenomenon.

Pretty sure Darktable only supports openCL and not Metal for MacOS. OpenCL is unsupported for M1/2/3/4/5, which makes RAW file processing, batch workflows, basically everything, un…

We just did this song and dance with the tariff war between US and China last year. It was revealed that 3% of China's exports are purchased by the US, and that they are fully econ…

Anyone who has ever mixed music seriously knows the effect of psychoacoustics - your brain is such a proficient signal to noise optimiser, that differences in audio quality are per…

More deeply than programming being a search problem, programming is a means to an end. If the end is a combination of education and product discovery, then yeah maybe, although tho…

Sounds like VIP/head of state visit and terrible communication skills.

Pretty sure unaccountability is a desired feature of management decisions in most organisations. That quote has an unexpressed precondition to the effect of "In order for an organi…

I walk slower and talk slower than I used to, and do both way slower than people I interact with. I can appreciate things better by moving slowly, with more intention, conserving m…

If you don't trust individuals, you're going to need an institution (or private security) to protect you from them. Police, laws, etc.

The president of the United States sets the tone that hated without reason or explanation is the way the system works now. Belligerence and power are the currency. Speaking to peop…

...and when your labour, and the labour of 90+% of all humans on the planet have no economic value, we'll do what? Continue to avoid exploring obvious solutions because certain wor…

Nope. Humans are statistically fallible and their attention is too valuable to be obliged to a mundane task like executing navigation commands. Redesigning and rebuilding city tran…

Counterpoint - Governments are attempting to wrest political control away from coordinated global corporate fascists.

Does Rockstar count? https://codewithrockstar.com/

Rule of law and precedent are considered quaint and optional now. But this centuries-old decision not encapsulated as a constutional amendment is binding? Nope.

I don't doubt this description of what happened, but the sad irony in a company whose product was producing tools to generate archival copies of images, not recognising the value o…

I read that as "playing Grandma" and thought that was a pretty clever game concept.

Is that true, that it's money that belongs to people? OpenAI isn't spending $1 trillion in hard earned cash on data centres, that is funny money from the ocean of financial liquid …

Right, because that is a national emergency on the level of severity and immediacy of a foreign military invasion - which is the actual legal arguement put forward.

Google says > RuBee is an acronym for "Radio U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing", Weirdly not related at all to Zigbee's naming origins, in spite of their technological similari…

An idea compressed down into a single character is elegant and efficient.

And be completely unaccountable in criminal court, for the consequences of their actions. Don't forget that one. All the rights, none of the responsibility.

Urbit IDs https://urbit.org/overview/urbit-explained/urbit-id

Yeah but think of the automated age discrimination during resume/CV screenings.

Why do we encourage microsecond scale HFT and tout its virtues, yet shut the market down for the majority of every day? Why not go all the way and have markets running 24/7/365?