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Your snipping is making it look broader than it is: you can’t misrepresent someone as being supportive of your product or cause, and you can’t distribute software that makes, or make yourself, likenesses of other people without their prior consent.

It doesn’t constrain what you do in contexts other than where you use someone’s likeness to misrepresent their position.

The harms are restricted to the scope above.

It’s an Easter egg, also for Times New Roman and a few others.

> This is a story about what happens when you ask a machine a question it knows the answer to, but is afraid to give

It’s a story about how humans can’t help personifying language generators, and how important context is when using LLMs.

On the island of Ireland those people _are_ the overbearing Brits.

The N900 was my peak “mobile computing is awesome” device.

I went to see District 9 in the cinema in Helsinki. Uh oh, the alien parts are only subtitled in Finnish and Swedish and my Finnish is not up to that.

I installed a BitTorrent client, found the release on Pirate Bay, successfully torrented just the subtitle file, and used an editor to read the subtitles for scenes with a lot of alien.

The N9 had much better UI, but there was something of the cyberpunk “deck” idea in that thing, it was great.

I'd guess every soda gun at every bar in the world would work the same?

> The commercial citizen, his goal is to make money, compete and to do so by bending the rules and using any means possible.

This conception of "citizen" is even more depressing to me than Homo Economicus. There are values aside from wealth, and not everyone is a money grubbing sociopath.

It's not that it's hard, it's that it's stupid - it's based on a misunderstanding of the physics involved which completely negates any of the benefits.

It's the opposite of engineering, where you understand a problem space and then try to determine the optimal solution given the constraints. This starts with an assumption that the solution is correct, and then tries to engineer fixes to gaps in the solution, without ever reevaluating the solution choice.

Caffeine is a weak base, the acidity in coffee is from other compounds in the bean. (Tasty, tasty compounds)

Really easy, I've just forgotten again.

I chose to read this as a really good satire on the Dunning-Kruger effect.

AI industry: please _please_ get it together with naming. There shouldn’t be this much overlap between this, a dataset, and a massive image model which was already given a garbage name to begin with.

Don’t get me started in how “agent” is a term of art that means absolutely nothing, encompassing everything from a plain old shell script to a full language model.

Data centers.

“You may not know about the issue but I bet you reckon something, so why not tell us what you reckon. Let us enjoy the full majesty of your uninformed ad-hoc reckon” - David Mitchell.

Pebble-bed reactors are incapable of catastrophic failure, and molten-salt reactors have negative feedback loops with increasing pressure. Nuclear doesn't have to mean the same designs that were used in the 60s.

I buy Gary Stevenson’s diagnosis that the root cause of the rising cost of everything is increasing inequality and industry capture by the wealthy.

There are two sides to this. The first is, hospitals are owned by investors, and have to increase profits. The typical playbook of trying to acquire at least a local monopoly to price-fix is in play everywhere.

The other side is: to achieve high profit margins chase wealthy customers and cater to their preferences. Headhunt star staff with increased salaries. Build shiny new hospitals and prioritize private rooms (HIPAA provided a great excuse here). To woo investors turn administrator into a CEO position with commensurate pay.

None of this incentivizes providing quality health care to non-wealthy people at a fair price. It incentivizes trying to get rid of lower income patients as quickly as possible to make room for high income or well insured patients who can be billed more.

Same as housing, this issue is everywhere in the western world. We can try to tackle it by itself (transparent pricing would probably help a great deal), but the root issue is bigger: the rich are getting what they want on both sides of the equation. They don’t want affordable healthcare.

It captures not understanding what you’re doing crossed with limited AI understanding which means the whole thing is running on vibes.

There’s that study that found Italian families who were wealthy during the renaissance are still wealthy.

Sweden had a very powerful monarchy (the dominant Baltic power at one point) and an aristocracy but never a revolution. I’d expect a lot of wealth inequality based on inherited wealth.

Good thing we're not doing anything silly like heating the entire planet. That would be a very alarming finding if we were.

I think _not_ having Elon Musk is worth a couple of hundred billion in 2025, the guy has become a random liability generator.

> Nothing in this is really difficult.

Providing drivers for all the hardware and peripherals that all work together in all the permutations is properly hard. I’d argue it’s the root issue.

Google can test each ChromeOS release against their Chromebooks to make sure everything works. If something fails, someone in Google can root cause on a matching hardware configuration easily.

This is not feasible for a general desktop Linux distribution because there are too many permutations. If the distribution is targeted at non-technical users the matter of root causing an issue on a hardware configuration the maintenance team can’t replicate becomes intractable.

A solution might be to literally only support Google Chromebooks, to constrain the possibility space, but even that is a big undertaking if the goal is to match ChromeOS for quality.

I worked on a project exploring this idea and an issue is that while each step in a user journey (get restaurants near me, show me menus, make an order, show me on a map) could invoke a distinct service, provided by different providers that just do that thing well, they all want ownership of the experience and the precious user data and prefer to consume input and render output rather provide output data for others to use - there’s no stdout to pipe. The upshot is apps do everything, which is the opposite of the Unix philosophy.

Ahhh! 15mg/kg is much more reasonable!

They gave the mice 15mg, which is about a low-medium dose for a human. But humans weigh about 2000 times what mice do, so the effects were observed at about 2k times a reasonable dose.

1) Those mice must have been completely out of it. 2) This probably isn’t helpful to humans unless given under sedation. Or maybe that extreme a dose is equivalent to sedation, I’m not sure anyone has taken 30 _grams_ of psilocybin to tell us?

> How do you know what chipsets are compatible with your phone? >Hearsay!

At least for straight USB-C to Ethernet adapters, despite all the manufacturers there are really only two chipsets, one by Asix and one by Realtek. If you manage to get one of each you cover all the likely bases.

Coordination Headwind: https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/

Valuably you also get demonstrable _insecure_ status - half the pain for our org of log4js was figuring out where it was in the stacks, and at which versions. This kind of accounting is really valuable when you're trying to figure out if and where you are affected.

There is a similar effect in parts of SFUSD where some of the schools with more poor students are bucking trends: https://sfparents.org/sfkidscantwait/

(SFUSD overall has something like a 10% poverty rate and a 3% marginally housed population, so I think the comparison is fair)

In our school, we saw a lot of outdated teaching materials - we got our kids hooked on Alphablocks - a BBC funded children’s education program that teaches phonics, because it seemed like there were no explicit classes in phonics. The debate over phonics is settled, they work - I understand the situation here is improving.

The math curriculum has improved too, they are adopting techniques from Japan, but I suspect the limiting factor there is teachers’ math discomfort.

In the end it’s been the parents holding the school system and elected officials accountable that has spurred change. I bet behind the great numbers in Mississippi is a sea of under-appreciated moms.

I will defend the honor of dotted zeros! I really like the zero in Space Mono, I think that nailed the retro future aesthetic.

IMH(and no design school)O when the character is oblong and the dot is a circle, it creates a similar contrast to the straight slash through an ellipse, but with less visual weight.

It’s not a sequence if you produce it by ordering aggregates. Next year no matter what happens the sequence will be broken until at best everyone advances one place (so best case scenario in 21 years), or a new team wins 21 straight titles.

Now if in twenty one years the distribution has been maintained, there’s one new team and all the other teams have won Fib(n+1) - Fib(n) titles, or one team has won 21 straight titles, reproducing the sequence, I’ll come back in 2046 and eat my hat.