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by jkmcf 5d ago
I'm reading Iain McGhilchrist's The Master and his Emissary. There's a bit about right brain damage correlating (fact?) to lacking empathy. Patients with right frontal deficits, but not left frontal deficits, suffer a c
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by jkmcf 5d ago
Besides API features, it won't require downloading 0.5 GB of web browser in order to run. Sure, you can make it smaller, but how many companies actually do this? Sure, you can make it faster, but how many companies actually do this? Ac
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by jkmcf 10d ago
Theoretically, Apple says you can now (or will be able to) write Android apps in Swift. https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1ogjkq7/developers_c...
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by jkmcf 1mo ago
Not upvoting because the comment is flippant, but pre-1990 you had the Cold War and a somewhat realistic threat of nuclear war, though I have no memories of ducking under my desk in 1970's NYC. Generally, the best time to live in is t
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by jkmcf 1mo ago
I'm going to use Flora Incognita if only because it's a 29MB download so even if it's offloaded, it won't kill me to retrieve it. Seek is 220MB...
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by jkmcf 2mo ago
I'm sorry this blog post was so long, I didn't have time to make it shorter.
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by jkmcf 2mo ago
Xcancel is your friend.
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by jkmcf 2mo ago
Like we need another reason not to write and publish!
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by jkmcf 2mo ago
Not to mention that car dealerships seem to resist providing software updates. You have to beg them and even show them proof an update exists.
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by jkmcf 3mo ago
And a bonus: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/classic-100-the-original...
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by jkmcf 3mo ago
Apple Playlists - [Classic 100 The Music You Can't Live Without]( https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/classic-100-the-music-yo... ) - [The Best Classical of All Time]( https://music.apple.com/us&
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by jkmcf 4mo ago
Technically people do benefit from having a dump or power plant. Very few people are affected by having a dump nearby or a nuclear power plant, whereas it seems like the power generators for these AI data centers really belong in an industr
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by jkmcf 4mo ago
On the website for the algebra I book: Grade Level US 6–8 / UK Years 7–9 "Asia 2-4" is missing.
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by jkmcf 5mo ago
It is chiefly concerned with the following question: how should interest charges on goods in transit be computed when the goods travel at close to the speed of light? This is a problem because the time taken in transit will appear less
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by jkmcf 6mo ago
I'm tired of long winded posts that bury the lead, AI or otherwise. Long form can be worthwhile, but many times it's just the writer performing an unnecessary guitar solo.
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by jkmcf 6mo ago
I was going to use this quote yesterday, but correlation is not causation. I prefer the one where the national debt increases more under "fiscally responsible" republicans. More correlation: more jobs are created and inflation is
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by jkmcf 8mo ago
The day before the night I first saw Office Space, way after becoming an underground hit, I had my first encounter with the TPS communication barrage. It made the movie funnier and my work life sadder. Similar thing happened with Idiocracy
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by jkmcf 9mo ago
Funny, I got it wrong because the reader view showed the equals sign, but I had to go to the website to check my answer, which does hide it.
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by jkmcf 10mo ago
Lots of complaints about Netflix, but for the money, combined with Prime, I only miss affordable NHL, which is split between too many providers. I agree that I wish Netflix had less lowbrow content, but they target a wide audience, and let&
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by jkmcf 10mo ago
I love to support creators, but I wish there was something common between free and significant subscription price so that I could show appreciation more readily. Examples I would use without thinking for worthwhile-to-me content: - &quo
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by jkmcf 10mo ago
Your first sentence is gold. It's only in the past few hundred years where focus actually matters: knowledge workers, and some factory work where lack of attention resulted in injury.
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by jkmcf 10mo ago
They were called Sophists in Ancient Greece and were despised by Socrates because their arguments were based, not on truth or facts, but whatever rhetoric would convince the audience.
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by jkmcf 10mo ago
We have similar problems in Colorado re: pipes leaking. People don't want to pay the full cost of water, which includes supporting infrastructure. Municipalities are caught between these unfunded costs and taxpayers refusing to pay 1¢
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by jkmcf 11mo ago
We replaced e pluribus unum with in god we trust. How's that working out?
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by jkmcf 11mo ago
I would add that these finds would, and many did, find there way to the black market, ending up in private collections, which is almost as bad as their destruction.
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by jkmcf 11mo ago
Contrary to what others say, I don't think MacOS is that bad. In general, it's perfectly stable. There has been an increase in situational paper cuts -- I haven't experienced any I recall, but one cannot discount that others
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by jkmcf 11mo ago
I love my merino wool socks and non-base layers, but my skin is generally too sensitive for most brands. I should try the smartwool underwear because there stuff is better than the competition, especially the small players.
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by jkmcf 11mo ago
My 2¢: Feedly's free plan is great and their web UI awesome. The features I want from the pro plan do not warrant the price. I've switched to using Feedbin. I don't mind paying for it even though I could keep using Feedly for
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by jkmcf 1y ago
I think the devil is in the details. There are some recent Rails conference talks on YouTube about adding "native" support. https://youtube.com/watch?v=VbMt_4STWIo As the other commenter said, it may not be as &q
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by jkmcf 1y ago
Gives me Rush vibes when Rolling Stone finally put them on the cover 41 years, 19 albums, and millions of sales and sold out tours later. Not to mention the R&R HOF…

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