emacdona

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by emacdona 7d ago
I used to be one of those people that would countdown the hours to Apple's launch events and tune in for the live stream. I was never someone who updated my iPhone every year, but I _did_ update my iPhone every two years. Now, I can&#x
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by emacdona 15d ago
> Keep in mind the typical user doesn't care enough to go install any ad blocker I hate that you are right about this :-) It really hit home for me today. My project manager was sharing her screen so we could see the free planning p
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by emacdona 19d ago
Yeah, keyboard binding consistency is what I really want. Ideally, you could choose between Vim, Emacs, <whatever else> keybindings for the program you're using. I think what's also needed is a standard way of navigating wha
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by emacdona 21d ago
Many of these aren't animated... which gives me a great(?) idea for a new AI benchmark: "Animate the mechanical movement at this URL: ..." Way more telling that "draw a pelican on a bicycle"
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by emacdona 1mo ago
> The ad system they built isn’t illegal, but it’s pretty clear who it’s for. "If you're not the customer, you're the product". Well, Amazon actually did it. They made us the customer _AND_ the product. Hooray. Like L
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by emacdona 1mo ago
Oh, I hope you are right about cars. If one of the outcomes of the memory crunch is that manufacturers start making “dumb cars” again, it would almost make it all worthwhile.
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by emacdona 2mo ago
Sorry, knee jerk reaction any time I see “contact sales” instead of a price.
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by emacdona 2mo ago
Clicked on the link, ready to buy one. “Contact sales”. Ew. No thanks.
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by emacdona 2mo ago
> The US also sees AI dominance as critical for their national security, and relies on a market economy and non-state-owned labs. [...] > but the fact the discussion here ignores the fact that these concerns and dynamics are real just
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by emacdona 3mo ago
> When you know you're essentially babysitting the workhorse to ensure it doesn't go off the rails I don't have data to support this (other than, I guess, my LinkedIn feed), but my impression is that the management class i
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by emacdona 3mo ago
I appreciate you stepping in and clarifying. Thank you. But honestly, this feels like damage control. This is (to me) clearly an innovation on a dark pattern that is basically just "accepted practice" nowadays, namely the "su
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by emacdona 4mo ago
Additionally: If Nvidia is included, does that mean that the money Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle get for selling compute to the frontier models are included in their revenue? Because for Amazon in particular, the situation this pages shows
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by emacdona 4mo ago
Yeah, my first impression when I saw this was: if this is accurate, the situation is not nearly as bad as I thought. I do wonder why Nvida is included, though. If you include the company that all of the frontier models are pouring money int
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by emacdona 5mo ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification! Would it have been accurate then to have said: "iff it is bounded and has countable discontinuities"? Or, are there some uncountable sets which also have Lebesgue measure 0?
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by emacdona 5mo ago
> f is Riemann integrable iff it is bounded and continuous almost everywhere. FWIW, I think this is the same as saying "iff it is bounded and has finite discontinuities". I like that characterization b/c it seems more prec
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by emacdona 5mo ago
I think it's debatable whether or not it's an ad. I also think it's debatable whether or not the title of the post is sensational. BUT It truly warms my heart to see the level of mistrust the comments in this thread show towa
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by emacdona 6mo ago
> I think most people would interpret “scanning your computer” as breaking out of the confines the browser and gathering information from the computer itself. That is exactly how I interpreted it, and that is why I clicked the link. When
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by emacdona 6mo ago
> People are going to like this-especially the cohort that would buy a cheap TV at Walmart. What? If anyone truly believes that "People are going to like this", then just make it opt-in. There is a reason it's not "op
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by emacdona 6mo ago
I'm glad to see this comment and the parent comment voted so near the top. I've had the same experience. In my experience, Kagi used to be great... then it became good... and now it's "better than Google". "Bet
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by emacdona 6mo ago
I noticed this years ago with technical books. IIRC, Manning was the first publisher that I noticed doing it. Pages so thin that I could see the text on the reverse side as I was reading it - it drove me crazy. O'Reilly started doing t
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by emacdona 6mo ago
Okay, sure. But if I prefer the subset of CD sound that is the same as vinyl, and my favorite band comes out with a new album... I just buy vinyl, right? Or are you suggesting that I buy the record, a blank CD, and all of the high quality r
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by emacdona 6mo ago
I think we can agree that vinyl sounds different than CD, right? Is it so hard to believe that some people actually prefer the sound of music on vinyl? For such a person, that might be the only metric that matters. But, another example: whe
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by emacdona 7mo ago
First, I agree with everything you've said. But my question is, how long has this been going on for? I'm in my late 40s. I remember as a kid thinking Schwinn bicycles were the "cheapo" brand. My father, however... would
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by emacdona 8mo ago
Hah! I made a logical error. I should have said: Well, regardless... via the rules of logical implication, you can't be certain that you don't have it.
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by emacdona 8mo ago
>> So, my question is: are the people that are upset with the "ambiguity" people who neither (a) want to buy a license nor (b) be bound by the AGPLv3? > No and no. [...] >> If so, I have no sympathy. > Your sympa
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by emacdona 8mo ago
I am not a lawyer. My reading of the license is: either (a) buy a license or (b) be bound by the AGPLv3 -- with _very_ limited exceptions. So, my question is: are the people that are upset with the "ambiguity" people who neither (
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by emacdona 8mo ago
> On the other hand I am also a realist and I don't think that Linux will take over the Desktop, but it will certainly have its biggest growth year ever in 2026. I _love_ Linux, but I agree with this as well. I don't think Linu
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by emacdona 9mo ago
Yeah. I immediately went to the snowflake icon at the top of the page thinking it would turn the animation off. Instead, it changed the background color :-( I can't stand animations while I'm trying to read something, and this one
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by emacdona 10mo ago
I love Microcenter. Built my current gaming rig with all parts purchased there. It's been about 8 years, so not sure if they still operate this way... but when I built my PC, I: - Went online, ordered everything for pickup (didn't
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by emacdona 11mo ago
One thousand percent yes. And I'll repeat because people need to see it called out as often as possible: this is due to malicious compliance by websites. Period. I'm so cynical now that I can't read articles like this without

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