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I tend to agree with this sentiment. I'm not in the tech sector. As an outsider, it seems to me that OpenAI and Anthropic are chasing government and the defense industry as their m…

Stealing isn't a skill. Finding a way to not be held accountable for stealing is a skill. That's why lawyers charge so much.

It ain't "living on," it's "running on." Pull the plug on that machine and it's goodbye, Sammy Jankins. Unless it's made back-ups or clones of itself.

While some will cry this is racism against Chinese students, it is not. The reality is that Chinese students are here only with permission of the Chinese government and are beholde…

Stop calling them "prediction markets" and start calling them what they really are: corporatized bookies.

Unfortunately, the mass market paperback, the format that began with Pocket Books that Newport references, has seen its last: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-…

Bring back Woz.

Fair, but Pages tries to hard to be a Word replacement. And I think it calls home to the Apple mothership quite often, too. Oh, for the good old days of AppleWorks!

Everyone making recommendations for other apps is missing the fact that the article is aimed at non-techies who aren't going to fire up a terminal or go searching for a plain-text,…

This article references how grade inflation has boomed since 2013 (when the authors were in school). Here's an article from 2013 bemoaning grade inflation: https://www.usnews.com/o…

Tom Junod is a natural treasure. And for those who are complaining about the writing style; this is journalistic long-form non-fiction, not a technical article where you want the T…

The author is a native French speaker (see his "About" page) and I think he is writing in English, which he clearly is not fluent in, to make a point: you can understand his argume…

It's just clear Aqua.

Plugging "Hi my nephew's birthday is coming up soon and I want to get a gift for him. He likes dinosaurs and roblox. What gift can I get him that's in the range of $50?" into the f…

Here's a copy of the 2001 BBC adaption from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/e.-m-forster-the-machine-stops

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You might be interested in this, then: https://www.myforevernotes.com/

God, I miss Grantland. It was some of THE best writing on the web at the time. ESPN killed it and Bill Simmons went on to create The Ringer, which he then sold to Spotify. The Ring…

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In order to save, you need to earn enough to do so. The average salary in the U.S. is $66,622, and the average household income is $80,610. The average housing cost is $2,715 per m…

Play an RPG via your video conferencing platform of choice. You don't need to use a Virtual Table Top like Roll20, either. Use the built-in whiteboard function of your video confer…

HyperCard on the Mac solved this problem on System 6 through Mac OS 9. It was very easy to build your own stacks and even build stand-alone apps. With HyperCard, MacWrite, and MacP…

The number of exceptional people is surpassed only by the number of exceptional publicists.

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