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Money is deep on both "sides". It didn't help Harris to have the most either. But you can't deny that some political steerage toward donor agendas occurs.

It couldn't have been Teenage Engineering: the keyboard was priced less than $999

Caps Lock is such a tragic throwback. Even after decades of ridicule "Caps lock is cruise control for cool" keyboard designers don't get that we don't want it.

I actually like the number font, the presence, but the loss of visibility for the shifted symbols is a huge loss. I know where the numbers are -- I admittedly need more reminding f…

Cramming the fn key into the sacred ctrl-alt-cmd triumvirate is disagreeable. Would require learning and remapping. I prefer fn to be distant as I have chorded for decades with the…

I live in an American city. I have a yard large enough to play frisbee with my dog. I walk downstairs to go to work. I can walk to a good taqueria and take pole dancing classes a f…

It sickens me when people use the word plagiarism to describe LLMs. Particularly when they use words and language that they themselves have plagiarized -- words like "love" and "ec…

I don't think the open source models are anywhere near ("we’re talking around four months of lead time") Anthropic's Fable for long-horizon context planning. Sol isn't either. The …

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This article is revisionist and lost -- it decidedly disagrees with my direct memory. I had Snow Leopard on a vm for years -- not because I was misguided, but because it was a very…

I am much later in my career, and I have established many skills that have atrophied which I have restored in need and/or desire over a span of decades. I think it is fair for youn…

I have not worked on a project with 20 AI-assisted contributors. I have worked on a team with 4. While smaller, I can already see that the code churn, and conflict resolution is mo…

Hmmm, I use Claude Code to make those two worlds work together -- where a GUI is an obvious complement (visualization, discoverability)

I think people have forgotten what year it is and how ubiquitous SoC and unified memory designs have become.

I was hand-rolling NEON SIMD 15 years ago, and in many cases the compiler (clang/llvm) simply out optimized me. I kept the attempts that were better than what the compiler could al…

The cumbersome and poorly designed workflows surrounding passkeys are a significant hindrance to their adoption as well. It surprised me how bad they were when they emerged -- it w…

The "race" has multi-dimensional impacts. This story parallels only some of them. "Nobody wins from the race" completely ignores the generality of AI. Xi Jinping highlighted this w…

You can't be blind to training costs. And you can't be blind to Meta dabbling in the openish strategy (Llama) before the Chinese labs did.

Babashka is really nice indeed. Am hopeful for the C++ hosted Clojure dialect, Jank ( https://jank-lang.org )

A and B examples are convincingly "human". It is complete nonsense to say otherwise. The AI versions are simply giving the music a kind of commercial streamline production treatmen…

$20.3B is far from the trillion+ investments that are causing enormous societal contention now.

> when OpenAI imposed ChatGPT on the world... OpenAI offered ChatGPT to the world. A large, monied cross-section of the world had yet to throw its capital behind the Large Language…

I have flirted with the idea of returning to Slashdot, as I have noticed a few examples of suspect conflict-of-interest moderation occurring here on HN, given its y-combinator host…

For typical listening (though humans can perceive bone-conducted vibrations up to 100 kHz or even 120 kHz) 16-bit-fixed/44.1kHz is a high-fidelity transport format. As a DSP resear…

"An LLM predicts the next word based on all the words before it. That is the whole story. There is no idea sitting underneath." At most, and I will argue for less, that is half the…