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It's a fascinating innovation, and I enjoyed the creativity on display in the article. That said, I have never minded the backtracking. For me, it is a feature. Having learned it from childhood, the backtracks happen unconsciously, and in fact, I enjoy how my muscle memory instinctively sends my hand dancing back over the word to supply all the missing dots and crossbars.

This is just a different flavor of comfort.

The last two paragraphs provide relevant context (as is often the case in news articles), which makes clear that this is another step in a series of political maneuvers, so wait and see how this pans out. The vote means service is "set to" be cut, but in the immediate term, it's SEPTA pulling a lever to put pressure on state lawmakers who are already negotiating a financial package for transit.

> “This is a vote none of us wanted to take,” SEPTA Board Chair Kenneth Lawrence Jr. said. “To be clear, this does not have to happen — if state lawmakers can reach an agreement to deliver sufficient, new funding for public transit.”

> Earlier this year, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro proposed a $300 million mass transit bill to help fund the system that was passed by the state House of Representatives on June 17. Negotiations on the bill are still underway.

After the shutdown of Dark Sky, I switched to Carrot, which added a layout that mimics Dark Sky's design (the layout option is called "Anubis" in the Carrot app). I've found it to be a largely seamless replacement.

I’ve played for a long time at BG Galaxy, judging by online backgammon forums (and activity on BGG itself), it’s a pretty popular place to play.

https://www.backgammongalaxy.com/

Edit: Hey tslocum, rather than downvoting anyone who mentions other sites where people can play backgammon, I’d love for you to tell us more about why you believe your site is or will become superior to the existing options. There’s room for improvement in this space, but you’re definitely not there yet.

Since you asked, a genuine answer. I suspect it's because Ben Collins is a veteran of the left-wing "disinformation" beat, most recently for MSNBC until he lost that gig -- so the admittedly cryptic parent comment is positing that as a seasoned culture warrior, Collins will likely apply The Onion as a tool in the culture war.

The Onion's comedic point-of-view used to be less predictable, but as the culture war as progressed, so too has The Onion's voice, and it's a more reliable voice for the left these days. If you rue that trend, for whatever reason, Collins provides little reason to imagine things will change.

This variation on the Vader meme still makes me laugh

https://vaderfortune.ytmnd.com

I'm with you! I thought it was a town for most of the release. I didn't know what "airside" meant either, pardon my ignorance. I've never encountered that word in American English.

The article touches on this:

> Studies have shown that infections with the really bad, nasty bacteria C. diff tend to be higher in people who have had their appendix removed.

Leno, sure, but Norm Macdonald is one of the most subversive comics of my lifetime. A few hours perusing the archives of “I’m Not Norm” on YouTube is time well spent!

https://youtube.com/@ImnotNorm?si=FNOHn2Azn-98HrKn

They look great to me. Thanks for sprucing them up

Perhaps the resolution to your cognitive dissonance is not to conclude that artists hate art. Instead I’d suggest that often, artists’ love of art doesn’t stem from concepts like “annihilating what came before” or “outcompeting hard.” Perhaps, like the parent comment said, it comes from self-expression — the pleasure, for both creator and audience, of the “mirage created by the writer,” to borrow your poetic term.

This is a 2023 article walking through the process for installing Mac OS 9.1, as a point of comparison to modern day macOS updates.

Page 1.2-2:

>Some day, the company might even want to run Pink on something really obscure, like an Intel processor ("bite your tongue!").

The email I received when I was accepted to the private beta in December said, "Kagi is free during the beta, but will rely on membership in the future." More recently, an email in mid-May notified users about the specifics of the shift to a public beta and the introduction of free/premium tiers. I feel they've done a decent job keeping their users apprised of the changes.

I've been part of the Kagi public beta for months now. I've been almost eager for Kagi to start accepting payments because the product has been such a great enhancement to my daily life, and I want it to thrive. I agree, $120 a year is nothing.

The contemporaneous blog posts of the software engineer featured in the story make for an entertaining read, as well: https://beyondcentralpark.com/BCPMarkersInNYCParks.php

Yes, that is explicitly part of the point Doctorow is making. It’s why the essay mentions the fact that humans see faces in clouds, etc. Humans typically know when they are “hallucinating” a face, and ML algorithms don’t. When humans see a face in the snow, they post it to Reddit; they don’t warn their neighbor that a suspicious character is lurking outside. This is the distinction the essay draws.

Wow! Thank you for sharing this. The simplicity (yet versatility) of your 8 rules appeals to me.

I appreciated the rules as you wrote them. The important thing is to get started and see how it works. Thank you for keeping it simple.

Heh, it might also be hard to swallow because this rebuke puts words in the parent commenter’s mouth — they are not the “Chinese nationals” commenter. Your original point remains, of course, and thank you for saying it.

I thought so too, but then I re-read the article and the original report linked from the article, and they both seem to use “video” and “photo” interchangeably. Whenever specifics are given, though, it’s always a photo. Despite the headline, the reports provide no evidence that there were actual videos involved, AFAICT.

They seem to be suggesting that the L1 cache is obviously a different story. Source: sentence immediately after the one you quoted

The writer purports to make a case about the profit motives of the New York Times, but the graphs are presented without broader context. A more convincing graphic might be to put these graphs side-by-side with Google Books Ngram Viewer graphs of the same terms, since the Google Books data would presumably represent a wider sample of the culture at large.

The writer of the Twitter thread does mention Google Trends in passing, but only to hand-wave it away by saying that we "don't see corresponding spikes." Citation needed, I guess, since the Google Books data (which strikes me as a better comparison corpus than Trends) often _does_ show a large uptick, suggesting a given trend is more cultural than specific to the NYT. And in many cases, how could the data _not_ show a spike, given that a lot of the words on the graphic (e.g., "intersectionality," [1] "mansplaining," [2]) were not part of common parlance a decade ago?

That said, there are certainly also cases where the slope on the NYT graph for a given word is much steeper than the corresponding uptick in the Google Books data (e.g., "sexism" [3], "patriarchy" [4]). To some extent, I think this is to be expected, because the respective publication schedules + subject matter of news sites vs. books leads the former to react more quickly and decidedly to short-term linguistic trends. Nonetheless, I think singling out cases where the NYT clearly diverges from the culture at large would go further to make that author's point -- which, I should be clear, I think is reasonable one and strikes me as basically "right," and I believe it's an argument that could probably be illustrated by data. I'm just not convinced that the data presented in the Twitter thread makes the powerful case that the author claims.

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?smoothing=3&corpus=26&...

[2] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?smoothing=3&corpus=26&...

[3] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?smoothing=3&corpus=26&...

[4] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?smoothing=3&corpus=26&...

There is a name for this phenomenon, “bike-shedding.”

Thank you for sharing this. Your step-by-step worked perfectly for me (on Mac), and now I've got the OBS -> Hangouts setup I was looking for.

Okay, turn the hypothetical around. Let’s say you (generic “you”) had an insurance policy that covered you for loss caused by insect and vermin infestations, and the insurance company refused to pay after a spider infestation. Would you stoically accept the insurance company’s position? Maybe you would wouldn’t even file a claim in the first place, to demonstrate a commitment to scientifically precise language in insurance policies.

Perhaps. I suspect many of us would reasonably argue, in such a situation, that the category of loss described in the policy is obvious to a reasonable observer, and if, say, an ant infestation is valid grounds for a claim, a spider infestation should be too.

I’m no great fan of the insurance industry, but putting that aside for a moment, it does seem that in terms of the contract language, a sensible conclusion was reached here.

Yes. This is a charming story of kindness, community, and cultural heritage. It is not a business story.

This is the new article from Motherboard. Motherboard = Vice

I was also frustrated by the article's lack of elucidation on that matter. I think this is about as close as we come to an explanation:

>[T]here is a discrepancy between your biological clock and social clock, which researchers refer to as “social jet lag,” Dr. Roenneberg said. Permanent standard time is closer to the sun’s natural time so social jet lag is reduced, he added. “Daylight-saving time means that we virtually live in another time zone without changing the day-light cycle,” Dr. Roenneberg said. “The problem is the misalignment."

Which makes sense on its own, but it doesn't account for the variance within time zones. A Chicago resident experiences sunrise and sunset about an hour earlier than a resident of Lubbock, Texas, even though they are in the same time zone (Central). So you can't really say that Standard Time is the one-size-fits-all solution -- and indeed, the Illinois Senate just passed a bill [1] to make DST permanent in that state (although it is hamstrung by the same federal regulations that other states face after passing similar bills).

[1] https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-senate-passes-bill-t...