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pnut··on Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
- Adult Women voting - Adult Black people voting - Marriage equality in legal rights

Conservatives fight long and dirty to prevent equality in all cases, I have no idea what you are thinking of when you made your statement.

pnut··on US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments
Please don't make us decode your acronym https://www.acronymfinder.com/ROW.html
pnut··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
I think you're not telling the full story with that chart. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-mix?tab=line&stack...
pnut··on Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago
It rained fish in my front yard in South Carolina back in the 80's, it's definitely a real phenomenon.
pnut··on Darktable
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, unusably slow.

Unless something has changed in the past few months, Darktable is dead on MacOS with no fix in sight.

pnut··on China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
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 economically prepared to take that to zero when push comes to shove.
pnut··on Harman and Dr. Sean Olive are reshaping headphone sound (2025)
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 perceptible only for the first few minutes of hearing a given sound source.

This is why mix engineers have multiple sets of speakers, so they can periodically reset their perception. Additionally, it is well documented that the top scoring speakers on Audio Science Review (where people who think linear reproduction of audio is the only job of a speaker) do not align well with the top tool choices for audio professionals, and this is not because they are governed by supersition.

There is not currently a metric for many of the things that become essential as soon as you start listening critically and having to make binding decisions from your perception - will it fatigue me, is the speaker lying to me, dimensionality, etc. Saying these are problems with your listening environment is punting on the problem of the actual duty a speaker is required to fulfil.

I don't see why an audiophile, who is a critical listener, should be any different. They're obviously doing it without a generated artefact from their listening, so there's no data based feedback loop for the quality of their experience, but it's a hobby, so everyone's preferences have value.

pnut··on Shepherd's Dog: A Game by Fable
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 those are also dimensions of personal productivity that can be amplified by leveraging AI tools.

If the end goals of programming is leveraging computer automation, then nobody actually cares how the automation infrastructure gets established, and the less distractions with low value implementation complexity, the better.

pnut··on Job: Head of Stonehenge
Sounds like VIP/head of state visit and terrible communication skills.
pnut··on Siri AI
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 organisation to be objectively well run..." or "In order for an organisation to equitably benefit all stakeholders at all levels..." etc

pnut··on Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem
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 my concentration and energy for matters of substance.

Why must moving slowly be stigmatised?

I am surrounded by people talking at such a high rate, they start responding before the other person's sentence or thought is completely expressed.

My value at work has become disentangling messes made by people failing to communicate effectively, and the first step in addressing that problem is always, slow down.

You will not get 10% further in life by going 10% faster. People moving quickly, failed at planning. The entire mystery of the universe is accessible to you in your current location.

pnut··on Leviathan (1651)
If you don't trust individuals, you're going to need an institution (or private security) to protect you from them. Police, laws, etc.
pnut··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
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 people's better angels as if it has a chance of influencing Trumps behaviour is a fool's errand. It's not derangement. His word is worthless.

pnut··on Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
...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 words have been made into epithets, or failed previously because they were solving future (now imminent) problems?

pnut··on The Waymo World Model
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 transportation infrastructure isn't happening, look around. Also personal agency limits public transportation as a solution.
pnut··on UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs
Counterpoint - Governments are attempting to wrest political control away from coordinated global corporate fascists.
pnut··on Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it
Does Rockstar count? https://codewithrockstar.com/
pnut··on The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice
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.

pnut··on A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera
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 of retaining archival copies of images... facepalm.
pnut··on The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn
I read that as "playing Grandma" and thought that was a pretty clever game concept.
pnut··on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
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 slushing around, seeing alpha.

It also certainly is not a cohort of accredited investors putting their grandchildren's inheritance on the line.

Misaligned incentives (regulations) both create and perpetuate that situation.

pnut··on Trade Chaos Causes Businesses to Rethink Their Relationship with the U.S.
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.
pnut··on RuBee
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 similarity.

pnut··on Can text be made to sound more than just its words? (2022)
An idea compressed down into a single character is elegant and efficient.
pnut··on Unexpected things that are people
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.

pnut··on I Am Mark Zuckerberg
Urbit IDs https://urbit.org/overview/urbit-explained/urbit-id
pnut··on I Am Mark Zuckerberg
Yeah but think of the automated age discrimination during resume/CV screenings.
pnut··on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
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?

pnut··on Meta Ray-Ban Display
Obviously, they don't have the gesture bracelet for the TVs yet.
pnut··on Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction
It's backwards? Republicans are actively trying to install a single party authoritarian government modelled after the Chinese system, they're as red as it gets in America.
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