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well done. :)

and at the same time the chop becomes long-form slop, stretching out a little seed of a human prompt into a sea of inane prose.

same. it is showing how many people are not trying to participate - just appear to. I want to read from and write for my peers, but it seems we are just awash with fakers

Not new. No. But will be more.

how do you not think the internet is a military technology? i mean (waves hands) like it's from ARPA, the military paid for it, it integrated cold war air defence, it made global comms resilient to attack, and made information non-local on a massive scale

GP's assertion about tech revolutions making wars doesn't make any sense to me on any level, but it's not just because the latest revolutions were 'not military tech'

i'm liking william spaniel's model : wars happen when 1 - there is a substantial disagreement between parties and 2 - there is a bargaining friction that prevents reaching a less-costly negotiated resolution.

I don't see how a technical revolution necessarily causes either, much less both, of those conditions. there sure is a lot of fear and hype going around - and that causes confusion and maybe poor decisions - but we should chill on the apocalyptics

what are a couple of those alternatives?

how do you contrast this with https://picocss.com/ ?

I like your presentation of the components, but i'm having trouble finding the essential distinctions

wow.. "who would you hide" - christ. thanks for posting that - it's powerful.

async is the big one. it was half-baked

it _is_ the airframe that was rebuilt to support this specific function

so extortion, not blackmail

just missed it - but that does seem to be a good add.

Hey everyone - learn how to spot a Russian propaganda account. Yikes!

he's angry at being misunderstood and is acting rude, but your comment is right on. It's such a commonplace thing to say (even if they don't really mean it literally) that I wish there was a really quick and clear way to reply. mainstream news, for instance always summarizes market moves in number of points on the DOW which is the same sort of thing if you don't all know the denominator.

maybe saying it's comparing +1 Euros to +5 Yen? of losing 1 tablespoon vs 2 teaspoons? or 5/10 to 1/2?

name checks out

we're all here to communicate with each other - please hear us : you are using this in a way that is preventing your meaning from getting through because of a technical (the best!) error. we're gently trying to correct the misunderstanding (if that's what it is), or give you the feedback that you're not making sense otherwise.

I worked with a lot of Israelis and Eastern Europeans - They's say no and argue even when they agreed :) it was fine.

there are definitely cultural issues you have to be aware of, and it's not just India, there are many cultures where questioning authority or admitting to uncertainty are less welcome - and some companies and managers reinforce these.

Always consider relative status and power imbalance regardless of nationality too. If someone is afraid to say no you have to factor that in - and 'calling them out on it' is maybe not the most effective reaction, especially if in public.

I always had frustrations with this as a manager until I could establish a personal relationship. Sounds extra hard with short-term remote contractors!

that's not how stock prices work. look at the market cap or the multiple of it over revenue / profit / employees / whatever comparable metric

I liked "The White Album" even more! Beyond those two I can't universally recommend.

I read those around the same time as I re-read Neuromancer (written only 15 years later) -- i found a similar descriptive style and sense of detachment from their characters set in deeply changing worlds. might have just been my mood.

Then there's Fear and Loathing - same time and place as Didion and also an author whose personality is as important as the writing. quite a different vibe, though

The PS-85 is a rugged barebones slate-style portable computer inspired by the Alien universe.

huh. I don't want any of those things and i do have a porsche.

What is "ASR" - automatic speech recognition?

do you have 10 plants per square-meter?

it's unlikely that you can add enough to make a big difference. plants are nice, but people often ascribe far more to them than is really happening - have you improved the ventilation too?

https://www.lung.org/blog/houseplants-dont-clean-air

Really hoping Slate works out! The modern pickup is usually a tuba for assholes not a working tool.

it's only 250 miles

most of your comments start by objecting to the person you reply to - that sets most people on edge and they are likely punishing you for your tone as much as the content

- "negative" here means evaluative or critical, not hostile.

this is so far from how people are interpreting your results that I'd say it's busted. your work might be high-quality, but if the semantic choices make it impossible to engage with then it's not really a success.

i thought it was very funny :) - try the dark mode

nah. the technical semantics is absolutely the point when we're talking about code. HTML is thing distinct from javascript and CSS and it's very useful to be precise about it in our context.

I would like to opt out of your theocratic ideocracy