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by alanh 6mo ago
Chesterton's Fence is the flip side of this
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by alanh 7mo ago
"Data has weight, but only on SSDs" - Not just SSDs! Unless you always hang the chad, surely writing data onto punchcards reduces the weight of that 'storage medium'!
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by alanh 7mo ago
10^–15 is not a negative number, just a small one. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=10%5E-15+
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by alanh 7mo ago
Apparently I can’t attach a cover letter, but I think I might be a better fit than might be obvious from my résumé. I do tend to "think like a product owner" (to quote the job desc) and love learning new tech on the job; I have be
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by alanh 9mo ago
"Cars now provide zero benefit..." "Gender-based discrimination..." "Fuck Brendan Eich [for opposing gay marriage at a time that Obama did as well]..." "As ever, unionize, free Palestine, trans rights are
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by alanh 11mo ago
The idea of changing what 'rm' does sets off all of my "foot-gun" alarm bells
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by alanh 11mo ago
Huh. I watched a lot, but not all, of the video, and I thought he made it clear early on that he was stitching together 1px videos & repeating the event for each pixel (about a million times for that 720p result)
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by alanh 11mo ago
And?
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by alanh 1y ago
Right? Google is dog caca now. Myself and everyone I know keep getting sent to AI-written garbage nonsense slop websites, or for some reason, to the Hindustan Times
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by alanh 1y ago
See my reply to parent. Reply to sibling: Whoa, I've seen the Sopranos 3 times and never caught that reference.
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by alanh 1y ago
Curious, I asked Grok: > Is there controversy over the true inventor of the telephone?Yes, there is controversy over the true inventor of the telephone. While Alexander Graham Bell is widely credited, several inventors and researchers ar
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by alanh 1y ago
"The message format is not dangerous. It is the message viewers that are dangerous in this particular regard." Ah, I see. We should allow HTML but display it as plain text.
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by alanh 1y ago
Oh, clever name. Typed Lua → TL → "Tee Ell" → Teal And the extension is .tl
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by alanh 1y ago
That’s great! ... Where are the downloaded models so I can delete them or at least exclude them from Time Machine backups? (Mac)
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by alanh 1y ago
I think you two are confusing Roko's Basilisk (a thought experiment which some take seriously) and Rococo Basilisk (a joke shared between Elon and Grimes e.g.) Interesting theory... Just whatever you do, don’t become a Zizian :)
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by alanh 1y ago
For a lot more specific suggestions on how to have actual arguments that can lead somewhere (not a tantrum) read “how to have impossible conversations” by Lindsay and Boghossian
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by alanh 1y ago
"And the reason avocados have exploded in the U.S. is that most of them are no longer grown in the U.S. "We have developed such a voracious appetite for this versatile fruit that the U.S. now annually brings in nearly 3 billion po
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by alanh 1y ago
I recently opined here that devs should really stop setting their blogs in monospaced fonts, and got downvoted to -4, which is very funny. It’s TRUE! Monospaced fonts are a thing for two reasons: 1. Historically, they were all computers did
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by alanh 1y ago
How does it compare to SiteSucker (< https://ricks-apps.com/osx/sitesucker/index.html >)?
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by alanh 2y ago
So interesting! The author doesn’t, I believe, yet cover how the first log tables were computed (by hand), so I asked ChatGPT. This may be of interest: https://chatgpt.com/share/67d3a64d-f8a8-8012-bde3-e80813b2b4...
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by alanh 2y ago
For readability: html { font-family: system-ui; } Consider https://alanhogan.com/bookmarklets#add_css to add this to the page. Code blocks are still shown in monospaced font. BTW, monospaced font for prose is an anti
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by alanh 2y ago
A bit off-topic, but I found it very dystopian a few months ago to ask ChatGPT to describe the game in some detail. It refused to, claiming it violated content policy. Chilling.
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by alanh 2y ago
Is it supposed to look like a Microsoft Word document from 1996? It’s all Times New Roman with 16-bit color highlights.
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by alanh 2y ago
I really doubt that. Coming out isn’t the same as “realizing.”
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by alanh 2y ago
This is self-evidently incorrect, for a multitude of reasons. Reason 1: Gay men do not wait to 'realize' they are gay until their 30s, 40s, 50s, or 60s. "Trans" do. Reason 2: Autogynephilia exists. Reason 3: Orientation
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by alanh 2y ago
Here's your clew (sic) that the article may not be so reliable: It credits the FBI's linguistic analysis for locating the Unabomber, when in reality, it was his own brother who said “hey, it sounds like Ted.”
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by alanh 2y ago
Voters do find it confusing. Not all of them, but enough that it matters. E.g.: In San Francisco, Chesa Boudin only won as District Attorney in the final stage of the final vote count because his supporters were more likely to know about an
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by alanh 2y ago
I DO NOT BUY IT. Plenty of sites use unique identifiers and other random hex strings all over, e.g., fingerprinted assets. If your explanation were accurate I would expect more kinds of sites to show up
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by alanh 2y ago
> 3-nanometer technology Wow. I remember being assured that we would never reach even low double-digit nanometer processes.
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by alanh 2y ago
Sorry, but is https://hnjobs.u-turn.dev/candidates working for anyone? I don’t know how to get it to say anything other than '0 results'

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