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tlholaday··on Anselm's Ontological Argument: A Guide for the Perplexed
1. A nonexistent god able to conceive, create, and maintain all that exists is greater by far than a god unable to accomplish anything unless it exists.

2. A god which necessarily exists is perforce an inferior being, from 1.

3. Ergo God does not exist.

tlholaday··on Infocom’s code-porting tools for Zork and other games have been found
How would you recommend interested low-vision persons keep abreast of audio version progress?
tlholaday··on Elon Musk Threatens 'Thermonuclear' Lawsuit over Reports of Antisemitic Content
Anthem: https://songwhip.com/thepassionateandobjectivejokerfan/dont-...
tlholaday··on Lenovo Unveils a New Legion Gaming Handheld Device and Accessories
AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2)
tlholaday··on Pointless Sites
Zombo?
tlholaday··on Opening of West Point time capsule reveals what cynics said it would: Nothing
http://images.google.com/search?q=Waynes+World+Fishing+GIF
tlholaday··on I cycled to all the villages in alphabetical order
Bowerick Wowbagger?
tlholaday··on Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro
Vision Pro is lower cost than two nano-textured Studio Displays.
tlholaday··on Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro
Apple’s consumer spatial computing devices will be Vision Air and Vision SE.
tlholaday··on Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro
The buyers of the first 150k units are overwhelmingly people who value Vision Pro as equipment and people who value Vision Pro as an Explorer’s Adventure. Both will be good customers of artisanal apps.
tlholaday··on Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro
Tens of hundreds of Innovator-category developers will build surprising, delightful apps for the hundreds of thousands of Innovator-category Vision Pro first-year buyers.

Early-Adopter-category developers and buyers will wait to see what the Innovators discover.

tlholaday··on Vision Pro
Zooming the screen 25% without having to scroll.
tlholaday··on Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit – and why users revolted
A highly profitable Reddit would be one whose product was reader-paid moderation service.

https://stratechery.com/2019/a-framework-for-moderation/

tlholaday··on Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
No, it isn’t a problem if the a CEO of Twitter doesn’t care about their tweets. The proper task of any CEO is maintaining the company as an immortal entity.

If the general public cares about the CEO’s tweets, then necessarily there will be a danger that the death of the CEO will ignite a crisis in the general public; e.g. Steve Jobs at Apple.

The producer is not the star.

tlholaday··on Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
Our old friend Singleton looks up from the bench, hope in their eyes.
tlholaday··on Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
> If the “normal way” of doing things worked then Twitter wouldn’t have been in such a bad state when he took over in the first place.

The normal ways of measuring the business, namely EBIDITA, DAU, MAU .., worked. They reliably reported the state of the business. Elon Musk was the only person in the financial market who looked at those measures and interpreted them as meaning “add US$1B annual debt service.”

tlholaday··on The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained
Compared to losing US$24B with Musk.
tlholaday··on Scientists developed simple way to cook rice that cut calories absorbed by half
And the trick to eating less is to reduce appetite, and the trick to reducing appetite is to chew and swallow plenty of resistant starch (which you can’t eat but which your one-hundred-trillion-cell gut bacteria eat with bliss) so that your gut bacteria stop demanding “feed us” through your vagus nerve.
tlholaday··on Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake
Policy solution to intractable social differences:

Fund UBI with 2.5% SALSA, problem solved.

https://www.radicalxchange.org/concepts/plural-property/

Yes, new problems appear. Maybe new problems are less vexing.

tlholaday··on Dark energy from supermassive black holes? Physicists spar over radical idea
> correct me if I’m wrong …

I think you’re oversimplifying, like seeing a forest and overlooking that it’s Prototaxites, not Malus domestica.

Here’s Sabine Hossenfelder’s curious-undergraduate-level history of Dark Matter theories:

https://youtu.be/4_qJptwikRc

Proper nouns include Renzo’s Rule and Baryonic Tully Fisher Relation.

tlholaday··on High-Earning Men Are Cutting Back on Their Working Hours
Ahh, "immortality" strictly defined.

Mayhaps you have found evidence that you are not the earliest-born person to have eternal youth?

tlholaday··on A Dynamic Forth Compiler for WebAssembly (2018)
These are three array programming languages. BQN was new to me so I did a web search:

BQN: finally, an APL for your flying saucer

https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/

Terse: a language where the fundamental type is an n-dimensional array, so integers are a subtype.

tlholaday··on Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings
Thoughtful people who want to get things done recognize that other people's time is a scarce resource that should be allocated deliberately, not routinely.
tlholaday··on Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings
It's worth experimenting with ...

- any team member can propose an ad-hoc whole-team meeting at any time.

- any two team members can propose an ad-hoc whole-team meeting at any time.

- any team manager can mandate an ad-hoc whole-team meeting up to four times yearly

The Shopify rule is "no team member and no manager can mandate a recurring meeting with more than one other person."

tlholaday··on TV disappears, but HBO Max removing shows feels different
The Criterion Channel.
tlholaday··on Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
If you ever consider a career change, the parasitology field could advance from your intuitions.
tlholaday··on Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
From my reading of the update log, it looks like the last change was from Candlej
tlholaday··on Robert De Niro’s Career in Five Artifacts
I wonder, is anybody training an AI to transcribe handwritten actors’ notes on movie scripts?
tlholaday··on The tyranny of the supertweeter
Is this tool feasible?

Block user @A, and also block any user who has chosen to `follow` user @A.

Ideally:

> twitprune --block --recursive --depth 2 @A

Edit: API Review Time!

tlholaday··on DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
What are some of the reasons you expect a $4.25/week digital subscription to have fewer ads than a $20/week newsprint subscription?
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