flenserboy

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by flenserboy 27d ago
CIA agents also longed for a decent interface. understandable. relatable.
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by flenserboy 29d ago
impose universal health coverage & the jockeying will commence to see who is in charge of it. medical & diet fundamentalists will rejoice at the opportunity to seize control & force everyone to take certain drugs, eat or not eat
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by flenserboy 1mo ago
this is how we get under-the-radar marketplaces for llms
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by flenserboy 1mo ago
if you find this to be bleak, don't read his "The Small Assassin", or much of anything in The October Country .
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by flenserboy 1mo ago
there's yet to be a decent-looking SwiftUI app on the desktop. elements are always too small, spacing is wrong, & the keyboard is a second-class citizen. mobile-first is a disaster.
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by flenserboy 2mo ago
M4 Max, Brave — 93Hz highest, usually around 90Hz. On Advanced it started at 22Hz & steadily dropped from there into the single digits as it ran. Safari held around 62.xHz. On Advanced it started at 40Hz & also kept dropping.
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by flenserboy 2mo ago
the "safety" freaks are going to ruin the US industry, & with it a host of dominoes will fall.
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by flenserboy 2mo ago
A Turing-complete system open to LLMs will be a security hole.
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by flenserboy 2mo ago
which could, for the most part, be boiled down to 2 hour-long segments. so much is stretched out for the sake of padding. the good news is that scrubbing through shows is possible — it is usually painfully clear when to stop & watch at
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by flenserboy 2mo ago
they have little respect for precedent which they agree is wrong , which is a far better standard than letting terrible decisions stand because tradition or because popular .
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by flenserboy 3mo ago
There will be your internet-connected computer which will be assumed to be compromised, & which little, if anything of use will be kept on, & then there will be the airgapped system you do work on, which will probably be the last tr
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by flenserboy 4mo ago
Apple has a strange habit of making the first version excellent, then finding ways to degrade the experience. The grid pattern of spaces is definitely one; Spotlight, as it appeared in Tiger, is another.
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by flenserboy 4mo ago
It's clear they don't want stand-alone Office anymore. One gets the feeling, given how Windows has devolved, that they'd like to rid themselves of all desktop software so they can focus on the backroom, perhaps because the da
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by flenserboy 4mo ago
the ability to simply exclude such content from recommendations & search results would be welcome.
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by flenserboy 4mo ago
No problem! Myco Bliss has worked well for me.
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by flenserboy 4mo ago
I have added spores to my garden for a few years, & the results have been excellent. Not only have the plants thrived, the network spread through the lawn to a further extent every year, & the grass in that zone looks much healthier
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by flenserboy 4mo ago
We need a second, new internet that cuts these rent-seekers out. The backbone is there, we can use mesh, we could use Starlink (there's a real opportunity there) — locking out & starving the current titans of cash is where we need
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by flenserboy 5mo ago
Fun to have to spin up a whole VM just to use a particular website!
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by flenserboy 5mo ago
Efforts like this could be a nice way to get old apps to run "natively" on current hardware, as there are a ton of them out there which are perfectly good for work, but which cannot run today.
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by flenserboy 5mo ago
Speed certainly wouldn't be there, but capabilities would. Plenty could get done on those old machines — most of it had to do with programmers having the imagination & skill to be able to shoehorn their ideas into spaces they weren
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by flenserboy 6mo ago
this rhymes with the arguments for pullback at the end of Apollo, with the decades of stagnation that followed. doing things, & doing them at scale, is worth it if for no other reason than we can't know what spinoffs & useful d
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by flenserboy 6mo ago
but that isn't what would or will happen. at best there will be a wind-down where spending goes toward mollifying an aging, uneducated population with food & shiny baubles as infrastructure decays, access to resources & power i
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by flenserboy 6mo ago
not taking the chance is cowardly & nihilistic, & everyone who went up would know the score when they signed up. better to give it as much of a chance as possible than to give up & just watch the world degrade & rot around u
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by flenserboy 6mo ago
but this is the economic case for it — if things are as dire as you paint them, this is the last chance to get a toehold off-world for at least 3-4 generations, if ever.
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by flenserboy 6mo ago
the plan should be simple: fire most of your leads & new programmers. hire back anyone willing to come back with competence. return to the Windows 10 LTSC codebase. try again.
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by flenserboy 6mo ago
"safety breaches" is a deeply Orwellian term.
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by flenserboy 6mo ago
yes. this is why there's one box for work, & another for play.
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by flenserboy 6mo ago
This does look great for its use case, but I'd love a version as a latter-day eMate.
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by flenserboy 6mo ago
interesting. if this is to be allowed, it must be allowed both ways .
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by flenserboy 7mo ago
This sounds great, but it pains me that I can't dual-boot my iPhone 15 Pro as a lightweight Mac. Would be great with an HDMI connector & BT keyboard/mouse.

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