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by bentcorner 4d ago
This is a habit tech people fall into. "Amazon deleted my book" -> well just strip the DRM off it. "My ISP monitors me" -> well just use a VPN instead. "Ads make it hard to use the internet" -> well
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by bentcorner 5d ago
Spotify works mostly fine for me but there's weird rough edges that I don't always see in "simpler" apps. Stuff like transitioning between desktop and mobile - it tries to work and most of the time it does, but sometimes
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by bentcorner 6d ago
Someone who flew this exact airframe wrote that this plane "likes to float when empty, so if you’re not firm with putting it down, especially with those winds, it’ll just keep floating in ground effect." https://www.red
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by bentcorner 7d ago
This happens to me too and I enable 'Live Captions' (not meeting transcriptions) so that I always have a scroll back in case I miss something. It's built into the meeting software I use and probably in most mainstream ones. I
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by bentcorner 10d ago
I think at best you could propose that public information be available without login.
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by bentcorner 10d ago
> An AI helps fill in the story from there. Fact checks each claim, connects the dots, makes it comprehensible. I think this certainly has some value but this claim in and of itself is stated like your hand-wavy step 3. How do they fact
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by bentcorner 18d ago
Reminds me of watching my wife use her computer. I'd help her with something and realize all the little things more regular computer users just put up with. Incorrect focus, focus stealing, windows popping up behind current windows, un
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What Is the "Bean Soup Theory" on TikTok?(insidehook.com)
3 points by bentcorner 1mo ago|0 comments
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by bentcorner 1mo ago
Probably because they used a secret third method and don't want anyone to know.
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by bentcorner 1mo ago
Deleting career fields in and of itself is not a problem with technology, but when it's like the eye of sauron scouring workplaces and snapping jobs away (pardon the mixed universes), it starts to become a little alarming. University g
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by bentcorner 2mo ago
The worst thing is that I know there's something interesting in there but I'm too arsed to take the time and decode what data the author must have used to generate that text.
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by bentcorner 2mo ago
> People don't usually remember the average amount of time they wait. They fixate on those times when the elevator took FOREVER, the p90 case. I would always get a chuckle out of seeing some poor soul waiting 3 hours to go down a
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by bentcorner 2mo ago
I spent about an hour in a VR entertainment space, where you donned a headset and played a game designed for a large play-space. It was incredibly fun, but afterwards driving my car home I felt like the driving experience wasn't "
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by bentcorner 2mo ago
xda is older than github and has a lot of institutional inertia. Also I get the impression that many of the people involved in the xda ecosystem are hobbyists that just kind of learn things as they go along and have less exposure to bigco
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by bentcorner 2mo ago
I've been using cmux for a long time too but am pretty happy with it. It's not perfect but much better than plain tmux/ghostty. I'll give herdr a shot too.
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by bentcorner 2mo ago
You can find drawstring threaders (bodkins?) on amazon pretty cheaply - if you have clothes with drawstrings it's handy to have one of these around the house.
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by bentcorner 2mo ago
Not just accidental, there are many tools/processes/weapons that are powered by software written by engineers who knowingly write their code to do harm. But people gotta eat and all so who am I to blame.
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by bentcorner 3mo ago
I am a casual American football viewer but my understanding is that the kneel ends the current play but keeps the clock running. Each team has something like 40s to setup their formation and snap the ball after the previous play has ended.
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by bentcorner 3mo ago
The conspiracy theorist in me says that LLM providers do this regularly (or at least, don't bother optimizing for it) beyond some arbitrary "$/task" metric. I am not sure of there is enough SOTA model competition to avo
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by bentcorner 3mo ago
My dad had a fairly sizable collection of C64/Apple games and I never really learned where he got them from. "Cracked by The Vulture" was something that I was very used to seeing upon booting up a game.
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by bentcorner 3mo ago
I've played a little bit of Dead Cell's but it hasn't stuck with me yet. I have to admit the game is a little overwhelming but maybe I need to stick with it a bit more. Part of PoP's charm is that the game is very simple
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by bentcorner 3mo ago
I will always have a soft spot for the original Prince of Persia. It was one of those games I played constantly as a child, although only when my dad would let me use his Apple ][c. I only realize it now but it had some very unique game mec
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by bentcorner 3mo ago
> Watching it do log file analysis in seconds that would have taken me hours (edit: days really), and which I would therefore never have done in the first place. Just today I had my agent diff two logs to find a very nitpicky difference
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by bentcorner 4mo ago
Anecdotally Windows ARM works fine for me, although to be honest most of my work is command line + browser anyway. WSL works like a treat. Steam installs and most lower end games also play fine on my ARM laptop too. Games that require ke
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by bentcorner 4mo ago
I'm trying not to spoil anything but this article reminds of this excellent short story: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/sins-of-the-children
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by bentcorner 4mo ago
> Also I just find it a little insulting if someone sends me an AI response I run into this with AI-generated PR comments. I think where I work we are still grappling with the "right point", because LLMs can certainly provide
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by bentcorner 4mo ago
I've come to the opinion that conflicts should be committed and merge fixes should be in another commit afterwards. Arguably even if the merge fix is trivial.
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by bentcorner 4mo ago
I'm certain there are a non-zero number of TVs that either attempt to auto-join popular wifi hotspots (xfinity/tmobile/starbucks/etc.) and/or have cellular connections for telemetry. Thinking more on this I think a
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by bentcorner 4mo ago
Anecdotally from people I know from MS is that adhoc slack usage was popular up until lockdown, at which point more resources was poured into Teams due to everything going remote and internal slacks were frowned upon. I see a parallel here
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by bentcorner 4mo ago
20 days is rookie numbers. I can get a million engineers to each review a single line and finish code reviewing the entire code base in a minute.

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