edbaskerville

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by edbaskerville 16d ago
Apple was at its best and most creative during the long Steveless interregnum. The inmates were running the asylum, so they couldn't ship products or make money. But it definitely seemed weirder and more fun, at least from the outside.
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by edbaskerville 1mo ago
Can someone answer this for wheels on luggage?
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by edbaskerville 1mo ago
Unsurprisingly this one generated a lot of responses. My working hypothesis for this question involves colonization, technologically driven scales of time and space, and selection. The essence is totally obvious: either you develop sustaina
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by edbaskerville 2mo ago
Exact same story here. Same age kids (well, one just turned 5). I wonder how many CDs are being sold just because of parents trying to protect their kids from device addiction.
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by edbaskerville 2mo ago
Emphasizing this response. Bayesian models can always produce simple probabilities if you ask them to. E.g., given this data, what is the probability that the next flip is heads? The fact that the model is represented as a distribution over
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by edbaskerville 3mo ago
I can't tell if you think this is a good thing or a bad thing that men use big trucks to compensate for a masculine sense of inadequacy. But I think this is a good point, and I think we need to fight against it. I don't think it&#
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by edbaskerville 3mo ago
I don't have perfect pitch—I can't name notes and chords instantly out of thin air—but I'm a musician and can immediately sense if the tuning is nonstandard. It can be trippy. I think that, yeah, it's basically a matter
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by edbaskerville 3mo ago
I find KDE to be a bit like using Mac OS 9 with extra customization--not in a literal sense, but in terms of the ethos. It looks more like, say, late-90s Windows, but the UX is more consistent in a old Mac-like way, albeit with some rough,
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by edbaskerville 3mo ago
Hoping to use this to reboot an ancient abandoned project. At the time there wasn't a mature P2P connection layer that took care of all the realities of the modern Internet out of the box. Now there is, and it's great to see. This
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by edbaskerville 3mo ago
This solution is a really great argument for Apple(/Google) just adding per-app color settings.
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by edbaskerville 3mo ago
It's Steve Jobs cargo-culting.
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by edbaskerville 3mo ago
Whoa, didn't realize that was Jony Ive! Good job Jony! Gave both Ferrari and EVs bad press with a single product launch! A good lesson in not messing with a good thing. If they had just put an electric motor in a classic Ferrari body,
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by edbaskerville 4mo ago
Indeed. Even positing an illusion seems like a contradiction. If it's illusory, doesn't there need to be a subjective entity experiencing the illusion?
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by edbaskerville 4mo ago
I think the point is that they took our collective knowledge without asking and are selling it back to us. We should own a substantial portion of it. (Not sure if this is the right approach, but the general idea seems rather important.)
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by edbaskerville 4mo ago
If you read The Mac is Not a Typewriter in 1992—thus burning Option-Shift-hyphen into your typing patterns for life, along with a dogmatic love for serif body fonts—you're the real victim here.
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by edbaskerville 4mo ago
and we will now hold you responsible!
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by edbaskerville 4mo ago
I just visited a McDonald's for the first time in a while. The self-order kiosk UI is quite bad. I think this is evidence in favor of the idea that an incompetent AI will soon be incompetently running a McDonald's.
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by edbaskerville 4mo ago
Thanks, that's interesting. & that is a great website...
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by edbaskerville 4mo ago
I'm also done with JetBrains—just tried them again (RustRover) after a hiatus. It felt much slower than I remember, even after changing away from the default theme as others have suggested. Having just made the switch to Kubuntu, I&#x2
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by edbaskerville 4mo ago
The Rwanda case cannot be told without Paul Kagame, one of the rare authoritarians who is also a real nation-builder, analogous to Park Chung Hee (South Korea, 1960s-1970s). He locks up his opponents but also has leveraged aid to really hel
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by edbaskerville 4mo ago
Maybe they mean Thiel?
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by edbaskerville 4mo ago
The road not (yet?) taken is the full flowering of the HyperCards, the Visual Basics, the Macromind Directors and Flashes... That is, the idea that a non-expert might create interesting software in an authoring environment with good, well-t
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by edbaskerville 4mo ago
An evolutionary biology professor of mine—a renowned and outspoken if often inscrutable guy—liked to say, facetiously, "everything is 50% heritable." I think he was getting at something along these lines.
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by edbaskerville 4mo ago
I think maybe they were saying that their personal AI slop detector had produced a false positive on "whole personhood", and they felt sad about that? Or perhaps I'm missing it.
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by edbaskerville 5mo ago
Interestingly, if you have one-dimensional observations f(t) of a k-dimensional strange attractor, the lagged vector time series [f(t); f(t - tau); f(t - 2 * tau); ...; f(t - (k - 1) * tau)] maps onto the full k-dimensional attractor. Speci
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by edbaskerville 5mo ago
Does anyone have good estimates of what percent of real production code is currently being written by LLMs? (& presumably this is rather different for your typical SaaS backend vs. frontend vs. device drivers vs. kernel schedulers...)
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by edbaskerville 5mo ago
Deep cut
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by edbaskerville 5mo ago
Solar and wind, with battery storage, can get you to say 90%, and then you only need 10% from other sources like geothermal and nuclear to fully decarbonize.
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by edbaskerville 5mo ago
& if they live in a cool place, they're getting a small space heater as a bonus.
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by edbaskerville 5mo ago
Can you give more details? It wouldn't particularly surprise me if Sam Altman were racist, but I'm curious what the specific incident you observed was.

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