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AlfredBarnes

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AlfredBarnes··on Dots
Muse and now Dot's emergence in popularity makes me think Apple's "lil Finder" will be their take on it.
AlfredBarnes··on Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time
https://xkcd.com/3290/
AlfredBarnes··on 9000 RPM is faster than your screen refreshes
i like going to https://makermotor.com/rpm-visualizer/ and bumping up the rate to multiples of my refresh rate and seeing the pattern change.
AlfredBarnes··on Casio F-B100W-1A
The only thing keeping me on my apple watch is the wakeup.
AlfredBarnes··on Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114,000 Lives a Year, Yale Study
.....yeah
AlfredBarnes··on Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
I like the way you think!
AlfredBarnes··on The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)
dont get to that level without being an asshole.
AlfredBarnes··on Airport Simulator
Fun how quickly i developed my own rules.

Yellow planes always get rerouted this way.

Put red in this circle to stay out of the way.

Thank you for sharing and thank you maker for makign!

AlfredBarnes··on Inkfield
Documentation seems to be here https://github.com/rioharper/Inkfield
AlfredBarnes··on Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
I could very quickly sus out what was on FOX news last night by the conversations my coworkers have.
AlfredBarnes··on CT scans of BYD car parts
Communist revolution put China behind, but they are realllly catching up fast.
AlfredBarnes··on Stop Advertising in Your Commits
I was gobsmacked when the Amazon share sheet put "or ask Alexa, your shopping assistant for more ideas"
AlfredBarnes··on Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline
They are floating this so get a pre reaction to see if they should go through with it.
AlfredBarnes··on When the Internet Was a Place
One could even argue that Google Search was/is THE platform of the internet. If you're not there you're not anywhere.
AlfredBarnes··on When the Internet Was a Place (2025)
"Everything's a product, nothing's an experience."

- Love that!

AlfredBarnes··on Claude.ai down
Is it important to be that self reliant? I wasn't in the workforce then, so I assume if you have an outsourced system with 99% reliability it would be an acceptable risk. Not sure if any AI system will reach that level, but for potential gains it could be worth it.
AlfredBarnes··on Just Put It on a Map
Was cool to see a few of the cities, and then cross reference with some searches on pricing to get a better understanding of the actual cost.
AlfredBarnes··on PeppyOS: A simpler alternative to ROS 2 (now with containers support)
https://xkcd.com/927/
AlfredBarnes··on The Waymo World Model
It has always felt to me that the LLM chatbots were a surprise to Google, not LLMs, or machine learning in general.
AlfredBarnes··on How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
While I don't disagree, that is unrealistic.
AlfredBarnes··on The Enchiridion by Epictetus
I enjoyed this book greatly, I do not enjoy how Stoicism has become the basic meaning of philosophy.

Meditations is also a decent read.

AlfredBarnes··on The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café
For me this is the running I do. No phone accessible (still with me for safety). Just the repetitive sound of my feet and breathing, lets my mind wander and enjoy the isolation.
AlfredBarnes··on Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
100% agree.

A little foil hat conspiracy i supposed, but the big companies saw nobodies become incredibly wealthy over the last decade, and this is the new companies protecting their position by limiting technology.

AlfredBarnes··on Editing Code in Emacs
How do you go about editing via ipad, I'm just getting into this whole world, and am finding it difficult to figure out a system.
AlfredBarnes··on AI World Clocks
Its cool to see them get it right .....sometimes
AlfredBarnes··on Create your first business email for free
Fair, thank you everyone below pointed out I was wrong :)

That's okay I'll try this out in earnest. Thanks for sharing

AlfredBarnes··on Create your first business email for free
This is cool, but feels like a work around that will be patched.
AlfredBarnes··on You are the scariest monster in the woods
Wasn't there a story about healthcare companies letting AI determine coverage? I can't remember.
AlfredBarnes··on The RSS feed reader landscape
I just made a python script that I keep running that updates when there is a new post from one of my feeds. Feed list is stored locally.
AlfredBarnes··on Apps SDK
People prefer no ads, that's why its easy to dip into chatgpt get a good enough answer and avoid the rest of the enshitification of every website.
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