MetaWhirledPeas

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by MetaWhirledPeas 5d ago
As someone who has watched a team battle Xamarin and now Maui, and all the painful upgrades in between, I agree with you. Sure they never had the pain of supporting two separate codebases, but they also never had the luxury of doing anythin
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by MetaWhirledPeas 7d ago
Well there are options. https://commodore.net/callback/
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by MetaWhirledPeas 8d ago
I like "tersely". "Tersely, what are today's headlines?" I admit I don't personally orchestrate agents, but I imagine something like this would work: "Tersely, write up plans for agents to implement this f
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by MetaWhirledPeas 8d ago
> imagine RCA started selling televisions with microphones in them that recorded what was in your room and radioed it back to headquarters for some reason The problem is that there are real use cases (whether you want them yourself or no
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by MetaWhirledPeas 9d ago
The law has been unable to keep up with tech changes. Let's hope for the irony of AI helping them figure this stuff out.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 9d ago
Not a valid critique when dealing with an oligopoly (YT, Tik Tok, Insta, etc.). You use the platform or you get ignored. Using the platform to criticize the platform or other platforms like it is possibly the best use of the platform.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 9d ago
100% agree. There are a million reasons people come up with for why this will never happen, but pardon me if I want to see us try first and then fix the mistakes we made after. Right now we're living in one big dystopian mistake that n
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by MetaWhirledPeas 9d ago
Smarter people than me are usually pretty good at guessing what PCB components do just by looking at the shape of them. I guess that's not proof but it's enough for me.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 17d ago
> whitelist IPs instead blacklisting I think I agree with this. There will be difficulties though: - Will likely have to be pay-to-play. No point in whitelisting IPs if you are bombarded with whitelist requests by a bot. - Will come with
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by MetaWhirledPeas 22d ago
> robotics + AI will brutalize countries with very large populations > The US for its part should be focused on rapidly shrinking its population Interesting to hear a new take. Not what you commonly hear. Most focus on the damage caus
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by MetaWhirledPeas 23d ago
> The fact that AI models can be so easily distilled and replicated is such a stroke of luck. Sort of. It means the country on the verge of monopolizing all aspects of hardware production (China) doesn't need to rely on outsiders fo
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by MetaWhirledPeas 26d ago
For me this is what I use Git for, even if I have no intention of pushing to a remote repository. So I suppose some of Git's functionality could be considered redundant if only the applications would be generous about saving history an
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by MetaWhirledPeas 1mo ago
> For anything I missed, I set gmail to forward everything to my new host This is one of the big reasons I switched to GMail when it was new. Most free alternatives like Yahoo would lock forwarding behind a paywall. A very transparent at
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by MetaWhirledPeas 1mo ago
> Webpages dying is probably one of the biggest design flaws of the original web. Let me introduce you to the alternatives: print media, film, stone engravings. That stuff tends to get burned and shattered and it takes FOREVER to make co
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by MetaWhirledPeas 1mo ago
Here's a contrarian timeline: maybe the old web will return? My reasoning: when the "old web" was great, most people thought the internet was for nerds. Sure even casual users would forward funny emails to their friends, but
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by MetaWhirledPeas 1mo ago
> ban advertising I think advertising runs a little deeper into our identity and history than you are thinking. If you have a sign in your window describing your wares, that's advertising. If you're standing on a street corner
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by MetaWhirledPeas 1mo ago
A person can choose to ignore or avoid ads, but having their data bought and sold is solidly out of that person's control.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 1mo ago
Stop the purchase and sale of user data, period. Kill the weed at the root.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 1mo ago
Pretty much. When the Texas grid was failing during ice storms they were trying to blame wind farms IIRC. I suspect the success of renewables in Texas has more to do with the bottom line than anything else. They certainly get a lot of badmo
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by MetaWhirledPeas 1mo ago
The naming could be better for sure.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 1mo ago
Funny you mention Apple because they are proof that taste can be king. Yeah they also kidnap their users into their ecosystem and make smart business decisions, but what really differentiates them is taste. And Microsoft is sort of the coun
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by MetaWhirledPeas 1mo ago
I was on a NYT page and used Firefox mobile's "Summarize" button... it spit out some sort of unrelated cooking recipe. I'm guessing this type of bot interference will become more and more common.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 2mo ago
> For years I heard people arguing that wider aspect ratios were preferable because they afforded a wider view > Now we're being told the opposite. I agree with you, but I must also make a special case for IMAX 70mm. It's ab
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by MetaWhirledPeas 2mo ago
Only if the media is published in that format.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 2mo ago
I was asked to zap some characters which I did. Then I realized I zapped the wrong character... and that's when I realized I'm in a text editor and I have no clue how to type text LOL.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 2mo ago
I'm all for the people who want to use nerdy software like Vim to do things in their own special way without ever touching a mouse, but I'm amused thinking, how dense is the UX of your text editor if people are coming up with cre
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by MetaWhirledPeas 2mo ago
Are you saying demystifying music is as important as understanding physics?
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by MetaWhirledPeas 2mo ago
I don't think I want a scientific theory of music. That would take the fun out of it. I like music that matches my tastes while still managing to surprise me. What else do I need to know about music? And what about the discovery that h
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by MetaWhirledPeas 2mo ago
Because one is a clear intent to mislead while the other has plausible deniability. "It was there in case of robbery."
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by MetaWhirledPeas 2mo ago
Casio also has cheaper "wave ceptor" models that do this. If you get one from Japan you can get a nice-looking rectangular model.

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