microtherion

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by microtherion 7d ago
You can also readily find occasional videos of Steve Jobs throwing malfunctioning devices across the stage.
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by microtherion 9d ago
And yet, I have to dig my way through pages upon pages of AI trash sites for many Google queries. Somehow THOSE don’t seem to have a problem getting indexed (Maybe they run a sufficient number of ads?).
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by microtherion 9d ago
I wonder whether a “Ig Nobel Price Winner” sticker would provide marketing benefits for an urinal.
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by microtherion 13d ago
Exactly. It’s a collective action problem — every car dropping off a kid incrementally endangers the kids walking to school, so if there is no enforcement whatsoever, we’d end up with everybody driving, and a situation worse than in US scho
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by microtherion 13d ago
Yes, I’m Swiss and walked to school starting around 5. I was hit by a car (due to bad judgment on my part) on the way back from school at 6, though, so it’s not all roses. I also pulled one of my sons twice from the same pond around that ag
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by microtherion 15d ago
That might be the most embarrassing implication for OpenAI out of the whole affair: That OpenAI, supposedly one of the vanguards in AI, saw a need to appropriate intellectual property of Apple, supposedly a complete laggard in that field.
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by microtherion 28d ago
That’s 1.1% of ~1.1-1.2B Android phones sold per year. I dont’t know how long the average GrapheneOS user holds on to their device, but if 25% of them per year buy a new phone (rather than upcycling a used one or using their previous phone
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by microtherion 1mo ago
Steve Jobs seems to have connected having a vision in the metaphorical way you describe with his youthful experimentation with LSD.
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by microtherion 1mo ago
That does not seem to stop people from taking Ayahuasca, which seems to very commonly make people sick.
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by microtherion 1mo ago
I’m in the process of learning Sütterlin / Kurrent for genealogical purposes. While Fraktur is easy to learn, Kurrent is just horrible, even though the textbook I used, written in 1995, still declares it a superior handwriting cruelly
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by microtherion 2mo ago
Maybe the human profession of the future is some sort of “Shabbos Dev”, providing enough human intervention in the coding to make the code copyrightable.
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by microtherion 2mo ago
I could handle that, but reached my limit with Feersum Endjinn.
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by microtherion 2mo ago
“A Clockwork Orange” as “Old English” is an amusing anecdote, but it might be worth noting that the novel is written in deliberately nonstandard English mixing in Russian words, so it might be nontrivial to read for people lacking interpola
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by microtherion 3mo ago
> many of them don't look like word definitions ("a sharp pain in the back”) I had to look up the English word (lumbago), but German has the colorful “Hexenschuss” (witch shot). I suspect most people above a certain age can rel
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by microtherion 3mo ago
Yes, I experienced this a number of times in my life. Growing up in a small Swiss village I wasn’t born in, I had to learn that you basically greeted everybody you passed in the road, under the assumption that you knew them or were supposed
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by microtherion 3mo ago
Vinyl has the benefit that you can largely assume that it will NOT be listened to at all, cf. the studies showing that half of all vinyl buyers don’t even own a turntable.
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by microtherion 4mo ago
Absolutely! And I also click them to get an idea how good the source is.
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by microtherion 5mo ago
It's impressive that you've even managed to use an em-dash in spoken language. /s
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by microtherion 5mo ago
It also doesn't work on Raspberry Pi, though presumably it could easily be made to; it does replace the su binary, but the replacement is not executable.
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by microtherion 5mo ago
When I started studying CS, the "industry" thought students should be taught COBOL, and maybe some PL/I and Fortran, because obviously that was what the market wanted.
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by microtherion 5mo ago
I imagine Swift is also a very difficult language to compile.
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by microtherion 5mo ago
You could do the same in reverse as well. Many of the features listed in the first paragraph existed before in other languages, though probably not all of them in a single language. In fact, I believe the design process (sensibly) favored b
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by microtherion 5mo ago
I would argue the opposite: Being describable in BNF is exactly the hallmark of sensible syntax in a language, and of a language easily amenable to recursive descent parsing. Wirth routinely published (E)BNF for the languages he designed.
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by microtherion 5mo ago
Quarterly earnings will be released April 22. My impression is that in recent years, such rumors tended to cluster around earnings reports (which largely haven't been great the last 2 years or so), presumably as distractions.
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by microtherion 6mo ago
The way I remember it is that I used at least Lycos and AltaVista before Google. In both cases, a major reason for switching was that the search itself got cluttered up with ads. So Google's current trajectory does not bode well for th
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by microtherion 6mo ago
He may have been a bit of a Milkshake Duck
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by microtherion 6mo ago
I wonder whether that was the inspiration for the extensive use of green in the interiors of Severance.
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by microtherion 6mo ago
I've been wondering about that as well. It appears he & Vox Day were friends/collaborators and may have shared some political views: https://postcardsfromtheageofreason.com/2026/03/01/bpr1/
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by microtherion 6mo ago
stable as in "close the stable doors after the horse has bolted"
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by microtherion 6mo ago
It's sort of ironic that at the time, there were many complaints that Apple made its devices thin at the expense of more important features. Now that M series MacBooks are thicker again, there are complaints that they are too thick.

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