lukewrites

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by lukewrites 6d ago
I'm sure you're aware of this website, but just in case anyone else wants to delve into etymology, the site etymonline.com is free and fantastic. https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=tariff Spoiler: the word is ori
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by lukewrites 3mo ago
Sorry, I edited out some context there. What I meant is that _at school_ there's less literature on offer; instead, kids are burdened with reading "instructional texts" that are as terrible and lifeless as the name sounds. I
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by lukewrites 3mo ago
I think the content of many books is much cooler than the crap on my timelines. There’s just higher entropy (or activation energy?) to get the book picked up and opened vs the serotonin lever in our pockets. I’ve just strived to read like h
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by lukewrites 3mo ago
FWIW my son went through the same sort of thing during emerging literacy and it drove me kind of crazy. He started with simple texts, then started coming home with “graphic novels”. I just let him do it. He was stuck on those for a bit, sta
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by lukewrites 3mo ago
This is a result of living in homes where parents neither read to children nor model reading for pleasure. Thanks to the various waves of “education reform”, there is less literature on offer and less time for pleasure reading. However, if
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by lukewrites 4mo ago
I’ve been using Little Snitch on my Mac for years now because I want to be aware of (and be able to turn off) the connections programs make. Probably the weirdest one I’ve caught was a new seagate hdd that required you to run an executable
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by lukewrites 5mo ago
Curious, In the repo you mention > Several rules come from 2025-2026 industry research on agentic coding failure modes What are some of the papers you read?
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by lukewrites 5mo ago
Depends if you want a FIFA Peace Prize or not.
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by lukewrites 7mo ago
I admire Anthropic for sticking to their principles, even if it affects the bottom line. That’s the kind of company you want to work for.
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by lukewrites 9mo ago
Somehow its target user group includes my father, who is 90 years old. As far as I can recall, we got him using Firefox years ago and he became a committed user. I wish more browsers would target seniors. Accessibility and usability is univ
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by lukewrites 11mo ago
I would commit to using Threads every day for the rest of my life if that meant the US had a sane health care system.
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by lukewrites 11mo ago
The authoritarian creep has certainly been facilitated by developing a culture of intellectual apathy.
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by lukewrites 11mo ago
There's really interesting research about children/people learning to read without formal instruction; as John Taylor Gatto points out in Dumbing Us Down, back when Thomas Paine was writing, there were ~600,000 copies of Common Se
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by lukewrites 1y ago
We are doing state capitalism without China’s “serve the people” bit. Hm, maybe there’s a name for that type of government, idk.
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by lukewrites 1y ago
Yeah, I have found it most comfortable to use two keys on each thumb cluster. Space, Enter, Layer 1, Layer 2. I also like how ZSA's thumb cluster it moved out (Keyboardio really did it the best imho), but for some reason the keywell on
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by lukewrites 1y ago
Others can make more informed recommendations; to the best of my knowledge it's going to depend on your keyboard and what firmware it runs. (There are some os-level heatmappers you can use, too.) When I used a Voyager I used the Heatma
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by lukewrites 1y ago
Reading reviews of this type of keyboard is really interesting to me because their use is such a subjective experience. I have found that the glove80 has far and away the most comfortable thumb cluster for my hands as well as the most comfo
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by lukewrites 1y ago
Yeah I stopped after that and still find myself thinking about it from time to time...if the book gets happier from there, I'll pick it up again.
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by lukewrites 1y ago
I put down a deposit for one. An EV that's designed to be user-serviceable, has modular upgrades, and isn't full of surveillance technology? This checks all the boxes for me. Can't wait to play with it.
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by lukewrites 1y ago
For wide cleats, check out Mizuno. I get mine on eBay from sellers in Japan. I tried literally every other wide cleat I could find in the US and nothing fit as well as Mizunos. The Monarcida line is less expensive and has 4E sizing (the SW
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by lukewrites 2y ago
Losing the museum was a real heartbreaker. To me it was a really special place because it captured that special feeling of getting access to hardware that isn't widely available and just fiddling with it. It's what I remember lovi
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by lukewrites 2y ago
Hi, Chip, what a neat device! I ordered one to use secretly. My dad’s 90 and was a working musician since he was 15 or so. He’s always wanted to make recordings of his playing but gets distracted by the technology, even something relatively
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by lukewrites 2y ago
If you haven’t read him already, I bet you’d like Saki.
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by lukewrites 2y ago
I should probably post on MobileRead with this question instead, but I wondered if you might have insight into this issue I've been having with my Kobo. I've noticed that when I read on my Kobo I run into issue with ebook files. W
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by lukewrites 2y ago
https://archive.is/DKOtf Archive.is snapshot of the article
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by lukewrites 2y ago
I love living in the land of opportunity to accrue debt. Student debt, medical debt, it's all Freedom Debt™ to me!
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by lukewrites 3y ago
> Also, if I were an advertiser, I would not want my ads shown by people using ad blockers, no? This is a good point that marketers will never accept because their livelihood depends on the proposition that what they push down the trough
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by lukewrites 3y ago
I’d love to learn about colors if you know any layman level books about it. I picked up something about color theory that was way over my head.
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by lukewrites 3y ago
This understanding of unions is as common as it is wrong. A union allows workers to negotiate contracts, meaning workers can have a say in how performance is assessed and how things like bonuses are handed out. I am in a non-union workspace
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by lukewrites 3y ago
Thanks. I'm glad nitter still works, and am increasingly frustrated with people who choose to post on twitter instead of somewhere that doesn't lock down content behind a login. Muscle memory lasts a long time, but there's a

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