crooked-v

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by crooked-v 4d ago
General-purpose layout engines are Turing complete.
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by crooked-v 4d ago
You're expecting consumers to be able to compare these anti-features that are actively hidden from them. It's like airline seats - airlines get away with continually shrinking them because consumers have no way to actually compare
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by crooked-v 4d ago
The game description on Steam even explicitly mentions "SCP Foundation", which the creator also doesn't have the rights to use unless the whole game is Creative Commons-licensed.
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by crooked-v 5d ago
Unless, of course, the terms of service require mandatory binding arbitration and bar you from the recourse of the legal system entirely.
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by crooked-v 5d ago
I've seen some people complain about the work of dealign.ai and similar groups, but personally, I fully support it. If LLMs have a lasting effect on society, I'd prefer to see some options that don't have generic corpo-speak
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by crooked-v 6d ago
The "what is" section didn't exist when they commented.
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by crooked-v 7d ago
I would wait until there's a display model at an Apple Store, then give it a week while it goes through approximately a bajillion fold/unfold cycles, then see what the crease looks like.
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by crooked-v 7d ago
It's to be distinctive in public from the square foldables. That's it. That's the reason.
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by crooked-v 7d ago
So where's the add-on that adds a thumbstick and some buttons so I can play DS games on it?
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by crooked-v 7d ago
The simple ctrl+C ctrl+V, for example.
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by crooked-v 9d ago
It reminds me of the people who reinvent some basic concept of physics with an LLM (usually, but not always, incorrectly) and think it's 'revolutionary'.
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by crooked-v 9d ago
Also see the 80-year-old woman in SF who killed an entire family at a bus stop, while speeding, while going the wrong way on a one way street, and was sentenced to probation and community service and banned from driving for three years.
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by crooked-v 11d ago
Of course, them doing it like that makes the security theater even more obvious, since they don't bother doing anything about it until renewal time.
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by crooked-v 11d ago
I think of the legal system in the US. It's easy to find statements about how the entire legal system would collapse if people stopped taking plea bargains because nothing is actually funded or operated in a way that actually guarantee
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by crooked-v 13d ago
> come up with a new company idea, Run that company So far nobody's even shown an LLM succesfully running a high-traffic vending machine for as much as 30 days at a time.
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by crooked-v 17d ago
Yep, any concern about text widows and orphans in modern app layouts becomes irrelevant as soon as you have to localize. Just build your layout so it can squash/stretch appropriately.
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by crooked-v 17d ago
I've got a bunch of BILLY bookcases that have survived several moves and are conveniently easy to mod with basic power tools. Sadly, I don't know if it's worth trying to keep them at this point, because they replaced the prev
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by crooked-v 17d ago
The same paper specifically notes that the increase of units affordable to very low income levels depends on there being any significant number of units affordable to very low income levels in the first place, and that's something that
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by crooked-v 17d ago
> The last place I worked created a team of principles whose whole goal was to create a system to turn jira tickets into PRs Demotivating work aside, that also seems like a complete dead-end to me, because somebody else who focused their
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by crooked-v 17d ago
Housing shortages are a result of local policies, and rent control makes housing shortages worse ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105113772... ).
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by crooked-v 17d ago
SF as a city has the fundamental problem that there's a huge part of the electorate will blame the housing shortage on absolutely anything they can find that's not the actual fundamental physical shortage of housing. That leads to
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by crooked-v 20d ago
It doesn't.
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by crooked-v 21d ago
Way back when I was in high school, the most important part of essay writing was figuring out how to expand the topic I cared nothing about to the required X pages. I'm unsurprised that college students would default to the same thing.
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by crooked-v 22d ago
The problem there is that not even the physicists completely agree on the details, because we know black holes definitely exist, but every explanation breaks one rule or another that should apply from different disciplines. It's part o
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by crooked-v 23d ago
Wild-ass guess: maybe the aftertaste of peppermint oil twice daily leaves people who are already unhealthy wanting to snack less, leading to minor weight loss.
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by crooked-v 23d ago
I suspect this case has origins less to do with the programming itself, and more to do with UK bureaucracy just not giving a shit, as with the post office scandal where authorities, including the legal system, blindly believing in the outso
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by crooked-v 23d ago
It's one of those items way down on the list of "Falsehoods programmers believe...", way below everything on the names list ( https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... ).
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by crooked-v 24d ago
That's some real nightmarishly passive-aggressive wording. It reads to me like the kind of thing intentionally structured to leave people confused until after the deletions are already done, so then it's too late to argue about th
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by crooked-v 24d ago
Apple is decent. The internal processes are opaque, but you can always pretty easily talk to a real person who can and will escalate things to real internal support teams as soon as the CSR scripts no longer apply.
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by crooked-v 24d ago
See also "Am I German or Autistic?", which despite the cheeky title, does a pretty good job showing the balance between cultural and mindset patterns and autism spectrum traits. https://german.millermanschool.com

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