JKCalhoun

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If bots take the "internet down", alternatives?
1 points by JKCalhoun 1d ago|1 comments
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by JKCalhoun 4d ago
At least something of a twisted, artistic irony will have come out of 2026. (Put it on a t-shirt.)
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by JKCalhoun 4d ago
We're in interesting times . Trust in AI CEOs, just as an example, is likely about zero and so, unsurprisingly, people are increasingly skeptical of anything they say, question their motives, the timing of their announcements… Huge am
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by JKCalhoun 5d ago
"Now some people in our industry are telling us that programming is obsolete…" What Do You Care What Other People Think? —Feynman
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by JKCalhoun 6d ago
(30 seconds, I believe.)
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by JKCalhoun 6d ago
You could do a lot worse than starting with Popular Electronics . Unless you have a lot of antiquated components on hand, probably a good idea to work in reverse, chronologically.
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by JKCalhoun 6d ago
I'm with you. But Reddit has become so increasingly shit that it's easy to shove off from now. (You should try to do it too.)
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by JKCalhoun 6d ago
Sure. But it didn't used to be as pervasive or hateful.
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by JKCalhoun 6d ago
And I'm glad to have been gifted the privilege of having grown up before the internet (well, define growing up ). It's perhaps why I loathe it so much. For a decade now I have been scraping what I think I'll miss when eith
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by JKCalhoun 7d ago
I thought it was understood that Apple gives hardware 5 years. If the watch still works with the current OS on it, what's the issue?
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by JKCalhoun 7d ago
On some of my devices, I have stopped updating the OS.
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by JKCalhoun 7d ago
I think you nailed it. Before LLMs showed up on the scene, we had already broken society. (Thanks, Internet!)
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by JKCalhoun 8d ago
I'm old enough to remember when "vital infrastructure systems" were not on the internet.
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by JKCalhoun 9d ago
Would be interesting to see if it was logging hard to the Web Inspector console.
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by JKCalhoun 9d ago
What is this Tesla (or its non-driver ) going to get?
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by JKCalhoun 9d ago
Interesting. (Yeah, I kind of envy the "A-Frame" that I <rarely> spot in the wild here—so simple). I didn't know the manifold roof was an American thing.
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by JKCalhoun 9d ago
Well, class-action lawsuits are a thing.
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by JKCalhoun 9d ago
"…Tesla installed only about 3,000 Solar Roof systems across the US, peaking at just 21 to 32 installations a week — more than 95% short of Elon Musk’s repeated promise of 1,000 weekly installations by 2019-2020." What was he smok
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by JKCalhoun 9d ago
Interesting. They look great on a single-surface roof with 90° edges. It seems that as soon as your roof deviates from that the aesthetics begin to trend toward conventional PV panels (which of course also do not accommodate more complex ro
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by JKCalhoun 9d ago
Hundreds (and hundreds?) of tiles with twice that number of electrical connectors… what could possible go wrong? I mean vs. a dozen or twenty large, conventional panels. Maybe we need to adjust our aesthetics before we compromise the engine
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by JKCalhoun 10d ago
I've never wanted to learn music theory. I just want to play. I would write songs on my guitar when I was in college. A friend who was a guitar theoretician stopped by and listened. He said something like, "Odd, you went with a G7
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by JKCalhoun 10d ago
Been scraping the “good bits” ( bits , ha ha) from the internet for some time. I'm quite ready for the internet to go away (so long as my digital backup remains viable!). I guess I'll realize what I liked about it once it's g
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by JKCalhoun 11d ago
Maybe the lab enshittifiers can add imperfections! Win, win!
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by JKCalhoun 11d ago
Badass.
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by JKCalhoun 11d ago
Flock has become something like the Tantalus Field from the original Star Trek 's “Mirror Mirror” episode.
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by JKCalhoun 11d ago
From above: "…your neighbor's political views are an existential threat to you personally…" Feels like an edge case to me.
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by JKCalhoun 11d ago
Exactly. Bob and Van weren't hyper-political. Sure, there was the John Birch Society, but as a society we also kind of understood that they were nut-birds.
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by JKCalhoun 11d ago
U.S. Link (because I was initially baffled): https://www.amazon.com/s?k=greg+egan
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by JKCalhoun 12d ago
I threw together a logarithmic slider for HTML (when I knew little about JavaScript and HTML). I hoped someone would take it and run with it and we would see more logarithmic slide rule calculators on the web. (Top, yellow slider, cannot be
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by JKCalhoun 12d ago
The U.S. has a Green Party, a Libertarian Party. If they ever had a chance to take any serious votes from the other two, one of the two major parties would co-opt enough of their platform to make the threat go away. As we seem to be seeing,

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