MarkLowenstein

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by MarkLowenstein 1mo ago
Made-up term. Like an alpha male or apex predator, the kind that are 10x and companies are often created around.
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by MarkLowenstein 1mo ago
Real question: is there anybody that is both maintaining alpha-dev capability by keeping abreast of all these daily changes, while also reserving enough time to actually work? Seems like we've reached the event horizon of whether AI ad
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by MarkLowenstein 1mo ago
Surprised no one here just does the outside border and spirals in (pinching off and immediately finishing irregular bulges). Looks neat, though more organic than rows, and is naturally motivating, as the second "half" always seems
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by MarkLowenstein 2mo ago
It will continue to be a mystery only solvable by the dwindling number of people clever enough to combat the problem with strategies like the many offered here. Until the real problem is identified...which IMO is that programming itself is
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by MarkLowenstein 5mo ago
My suggestion is always to look at what colors people think "go together". A Westerner looking at a Chinese temple will say "ugh, saturated red, light blue, and gold, all together?" My own self looking at a shirt my East
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by MarkLowenstein 5mo ago
YES! "Deletability"
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by MarkLowenstein 8mo ago
This is the only site I go to without fear of having to wait for page load.
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by MarkLowenstein 8mo ago
The real trouble is knowing what being heard, means . For me, as long as no one's intending to make this situation better, I'd like to go do other things. How long do I have to stay there pretending to lament that her life is so
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by MarkLowenstein 9mo ago
I've got a "smart" TV that I didn't want, but that's the only thing they offer in my price range anymore. Maybe 5 years old. Stopped connecting to Wi-Fi, an actual hardware problem. Bricked. Opened the TV, cleaned t
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by MarkLowenstein 9mo ago
It's unbelievable that we try so hard to solve this problem even after CRTs are extinct. Every LCD-type screen is easily made to refresh at any rate below its max. If we can't show a 24fps movie at 24fps on our TVs (or smoothly sm
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by MarkLowenstein 9mo ago
Something about people successful with computers makes them quick to claim something is easy based on the number of steps needed, without regard to the ease of remembering all the arbitrary or sometimes contra-pattern steps required.
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by MarkLowenstein 9mo ago
The dream never dies, possibly because people remember when class time was supplanted by a movie. Anyone remember "I Am Joe's Heart"? Those movies showed that you could just sit and watch passively like TV, and you'd lea
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by MarkLowenstein 10mo ago
According to demos, AI coding tools are allowing neophytes to instantly create working apps and websites with mere descriptions of what they want. According to devs, they're 10x as productive because certain time-consuming tasks are co
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by MarkLowenstein 10mo ago
Example: new Yahoo! Mail AI summaries helpfully added to the top of each mail. Thanks, now I get to read each email twice! With the original text now placed in a variable location on the screen. Unfortunately it's the coders who are mo
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by MarkLowenstein 10mo ago
Spot on. The home computer never became accessible from the kitchen, and the storage system most anyone uses for recipes, if not paper, is the web or some other internet-accessible source. (Don't know for sure but I'd bet photos o
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by MarkLowenstein 10mo ago
The spirit of GWBasic lives! How do you view them when you're cooking? Do you print them from your home computer or do you use a mobile screen?
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by MarkLowenstein 10mo ago
Reliving the days when the possibilities were endless and we weren't already captured by an entrenched computing path is important. 50 years ago, every marketer intuited that a home computer would be used for storing recipes. It never
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by MarkLowenstein 10mo ago
It was always just an estimate but today I verified it with a chatbot before I made any claim about the time. Caught it in a mistake too, which I untangled by reminding it that food calories are actually kilocalories.
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by MarkLowenstein 10mo ago
I always pick them up. Every penny buys enough pasta to keep you alive for another 15 minutes. So in case I ever go broke, I've staved off my eventual starvation by 15 minutes.
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by MarkLowenstein 11mo ago
Enlightened take. For similar reasons I often say that going meta and fussing about your own happiness--literally basing your happiness on whether you are happy--is a doom spiral. If you're asking yourself "Am I happy?" I can
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by MarkLowenstein 11mo ago
These words aren't apparent in the post. The post asked a hypothetical question about human motivation. "Why would I..." It came as a question but presumed that the answer was so obvious that the point would be clear without
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by MarkLowenstein 1y ago
I figured it was going to be about WeWork circling the drain. Thankfully it wasn't.
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by MarkLowenstein 1y ago
My peeve: electric cars that make noise to make sure that blind people around them can hear them like they hear gas-powered cars--except they make it 10x as loud as any gas-powered car.
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by MarkLowenstein 1y ago
I love the basic point. Timing based association is fundamental to thinking, across species. How does the bunny knows that you're stalking it? Because your eyes move when it moves. I had no idea that LLMs missed all this. Plus the poli
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by MarkLowenstein 1y ago
This is the mistake allowing this phenomenon to continue. It is not a "Boomer" or old-person thing. It is a thing for people who enjoy other things in life than electronics. We've already wasted years of our lives learning ho
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by MarkLowenstein 2y ago
Interesting because I've always been the picky eater (in Western food) which is why ordering exactly what I like is especially appealing. You must have grown very weary of the substitution process.
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by MarkLowenstein 2y ago
Seems like a mode of thinking that is appearing everywhere, not just on social media. Go to MOD Pizza. You can order any toppings you want--your favorites. Yet many if not most people will go through the menu of preselected toppings combos
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by MarkLowenstein 2y ago
Perhaps a nice short summary would be "facts you can rely on". Because the benefit comes from reducing the cognitive load juggled by the programmer. The more possibilities you can eliminate by identifying invariants, the quicker y
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by MarkLowenstein 2y ago
It makes things in the foreground have very sharp edges and seem brighter than the things in the background. They call it "soap opera effect" because it reminds you of the way those sets and people are lit. But also--never seemi
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by MarkLowenstein 2y ago
This presumes that a very large fraction of Roku users asked for motion smoothing/soap opera effect. I would be surprised. (1) Most people I've pointed it out to say "I can't tell the difference". (2) None of thos

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