flkiwi

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by flkiwi 15d ago
My wife, upon seeing the pictures of this ridiculous contraption I gleefully waved in her face, described it as "a Sonicare on a steampunk bender", so arguably there are already pretty good options.,
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by flkiwi 25d ago
It's helps to remember that most of the folks pushing this are ambitious but fundamentally lazy.
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by flkiwi 27d ago
It's quickly getting to the point for me that "find the thing I want locally and buy online if it's cheaper" is reversing. I've actually been to one of the few remaining electronics retailers to look for a PC for my
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by flkiwi 29d ago
Creating a sentient person and equipping him or her to exist in and affect the world is by definition world changing, and to a far greater and more sustained degree than almost any entrepreneurial activity. The usual construct is “I thoug
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by flkiwi 29d ago
No, but the conflict between significance and kids, a variant of the opportunity cost of being a parent, was clearly there.
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by flkiwi 29d ago
First, I respect anyone’s choice not to be a parent. It’s constant, demanding work, far more intense than any job I’ve ever had as a baseline. Second, this is the third time in two days I’ve seen some variation on “I dreamed of doing someth
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by flkiwi 1mo ago
No, it’s people in the industry correctly using a registered trademark. Sometimes you’ll even see someone say “I’m a Realtor®”. It’s all proper. It’s just funny because they’ve put so much effort into being perceived as a legitimate profess
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by flkiwi 1mo ago
Completely frivolous comment: people who insist on capitalizing “realtor” are hilarious. I know “Realtor” is a registered trademark, but that just makes it funnier to me. On topic, we’ve stopped going to a popular pizza place near us becaus
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by flkiwi 1mo ago
Let’s say you’re a musician and pay to go to a concert. What do you get out of it? Profit can come in many forms, including simply seeing that a thing is possible.
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by flkiwi 1mo ago
Or, and I know this is novel to the subliterate Wall Street types, just show me my network. I'll even give up on chronological feed if they'll just show me the people I want to see. I don't care what an HR Recruiter for a reg
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by flkiwi 2mo ago
> "I made the wrong decisions and I want society to bail me out of them". The irony of you using this in a negative sense when capitalism has profited mightily from exactly this dynamic is not lost on me, in that insurance comp
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by flkiwi 2mo ago
It's the perfect juxtaposition of stories.
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by flkiwi 2mo ago
The Creator Studio is a pretty big miss for Apple. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote have always been productivity apps, not creativity apps (and there is a difference). Of the remaining apps, Pixelmator Pro is the only one that is remotely relev
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by flkiwi 2mo ago
For me, Trillium is far too busy, and it’s not an outliner. It’s great software though. (Believe me, I have tried the whole universe of these apps.)
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by flkiwi 2mo ago
Fable has some Marvin the Android vibes going. It just sounds depressed all the time.
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by flkiwi 2mo ago
We do find it irritating at times. Office jargon, corporate buzzwords, etc. Claude communicates like the worst, most irritating project manager I’ve ever worked with, obscuring the most straightforward conclusion with layers upon layers of
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by flkiwi 2mo ago
Aside from not wanting to take notes on a test subdomain, it's still local to the machine. I can fire up my notes from literally anywhere, any device and see a consistent state without having to sync anything.
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by flkiwi 2mo ago
Same. And it's been fascinating to watch the genuine gap between people in our camp and people who really, really want "local-first" (which, to me, translates to inconvenience and otherwise unnecessary sync requirements).
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by flkiwi 2mo ago
After Logseq moved to an app focus and abandoned the "edit anywhere" convenience of being browser-based, I lost interest. I liked the original Logseq/Roam/Athens model, and I couldn't find anything similar elsewhere
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by flkiwi 2mo ago
Constant battle in my (American) house. I set my digital devices to 24-hour time years and years ago, because I ran into situations where there could be genuine confusion about which "4:32" someone might be referring to (global co
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by flkiwi 2mo ago
This reminds me of how my wife absolutely thrives on gamification and the social competition of things like Peloton, while they destroy 100% of my interest in the thing. We’re both intensely competitive people but in completely different wa
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by flkiwi 3mo ago
A guy across the street from me has a new one. It's loud as hell, but this guy is the type to remove his muffler to make whatever car he has this week sound "cooler". I'm not ready to blame the scooter yet.
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by flkiwi 3mo ago
I hope so, but I work with people with exactly this attitude and approach.
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by flkiwi 3mo ago
I'm not particularly anti-AI. I have some concerns about the intellectual property aspects of it, but my opposition is really the (a) functionally illiterate MBAs who think (?) that AI is a thinking machine that will take them right to
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by flkiwi 4mo ago
LLMs write like that because people wrote like that. Enough, unfortunately for my remaining love of humanity, to cause the LLMs to adopt the quirk.
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by flkiwi 5mo ago
I didn’t say he said it was privileged because he consulted with Claude for legal purposes so I’m not sure where that came from. Re: Mitsui, it’s not the same case. It’s the same paragraph. And it’s pretty clear from the context that, if I
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by flkiwi 5mo ago
I gave it a good minute of reading and re-reading because I thought it SURELY was meant tongue in cheek, but I couldn’t make it work.
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by flkiwi 5mo ago
I agree with you, but I actually understand the issue they're raising. Counsel sends a draft demand letter to client and says "Please review and let me know of any issues with my description of the underlying claims." Client
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by flkiwi 5mo ago
> My code is perfectly secure and bug-free. I mean, bold statement but statistically speaking it's almost certainly incorrect. I will say that, irrespective of whether source is open or closed, I would be deeply skeptical of a proje
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by flkiwi 5mo ago
Obviously this (along with the original unwritten order a few weeks ago) is causing a stir, but this decision isn't as weird as it sounds. The defendant's assertion was essentially a retroactive application of privilege: he didn&#

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