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Phones were getting too thin anyways.

As far as I know, the UK styles that recommend spaced dashes are using en dashes where US English would use em dashes, and the ones that actually use em dashes, like Cambridge or O…

MLA and APA as well as Chicago.

I think offsetting the em dash with spaces is contrary to almost every style guide.

I think parenthesis are ideal for a parenthetical aside.

>"cool snap shot system you got there, id hate for it to be use to take a bunch of incremental snap shots with specific notes attached to each one. Why don't you let me bundle thos…

If AI is better at being (or simulating; I think the distinction is irrelevant in this context) curious, better at examining that curiosity, better at pursuing it to discovery, bet…

Plus interest

And it’s my understanding that, auditory vs visual processing aside, studies demonstrate that the brain activation is essentially identical between reading a book and listening to …

Git is the one treating code like a text file instead of code.

As always, the relevance of any given benchmark depends on how similar what it’s testing is to your workload.

Sure, but we didn’t go from physical media to online delivery of outright purchased digital goods. We overwhelmingly transitioned to subscription streaming or “purchasing” revocabl…

Any service or product delivered at a loss seems pretty plainly anti-competetive. Whether it is actually subsidized to that extent, I’m not sure.

I would argue that it is likely fraudulent to sell with the intent to later reappropriate but separately illegal to actually do so. It’s some manner of theft or destruction of prop…

I’m not nearly so optimistic. I think we have a generation of kids now who mostly never owned any physical media, having grown up with Netflix instead of vhs/dvd, Spotify instead o…

>Yes AI scrapers can easily spoof user-agent, but they fall out of date as the browser updates. It’s a hell of a lot easier for a company to ensure that its scrapers all report the…

I think you're missing the point. A lot of basic mechanics actually isn't especially intuitive because things like work simply do not map well to everyday experience. I'm not sugge…

Holding that block stationary at arms length then. 0 work.

>you're confusing legal ownership with physical ownership and only one can be guaranteed with reasonable certainty. You mean legal ownership, right? Because people can illegally ta…

It's not really a problem. The alternative is to grind it up into fine dust, spray it into the air, and call it "clean coal".

Last time I looked, I couldn't find an OLED commercial display like that.

As a painting enthusiast, I say that's way too many. One should be enough for at least a few minutes.