sharkjacobs

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by sharkjacobs 11d ago
I really expected this to be something from Brett Terpstra https://brettterpstra.com/topic/keyboard/
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by sharkjacobs 22d ago
And how do either of them relate to statistical literacy in the United States?
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by sharkjacobs 22d ago
> Classic scifi was optimistic and utopian Yeah for sure, science fiction used to be optimistic and utopian, like Planet of the Apes, Brave New World, Frankenstein, 1984, Earth Abides, The Martian Chronicles, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Th
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by sharkjacobs 1mo ago
It's funny to me, a Canadian, that this even warrants a did-you-know article because everything about the beaver fur/hat making industry is something I learned extensively about in elementary and high school because it was like, a
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by sharkjacobs 2mo ago
I would have been really excited about this circa 1999. I mean don't get me wrong, I was grateful for Unreal Tournament and Q3A, and I knew I'd be getting Halo soon, but this is the one game I was really jealous of my friends for.
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by sharkjacobs 2mo ago
I often cut + undo because seeing the cut is feedback which tells me the operation successfully put the content into clipboard. This is not always a guarantee especially in web apps, and sometimes I just have focus on the wrong window.
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by sharkjacobs 2mo ago
> # Etymology > Neither part of the monument's name is correct. ... was not a "castle" in the traditional sense, but instead may have functioned more like a "prehistoric high rise apartment complex".[8] My un
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by sharkjacobs 3mo ago
There's also a social component to blogging, right? When you post something it tells me about who you are. It helps establish my (probably parasocial) relationship with you. And when you post something, I might be interested in it, eve
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by sharkjacobs 3mo ago
> Developed from design to production in nine months, accelerated by OpenAI’s models > the use of OpenAI models to accelerate parts of the design and optimization process. I wish there was more about this. As is I kind of have to assu
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by sharkjacobs 3mo ago
> Currently both Gitoxide and libgit2's networking functionality is either partial, slow or non-existant. Both GitButler and Jujutsu rely on forking out to Git in order to push or pull data. A big reason for this is the incredibly c
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by sharkjacobs 3mo ago
> One of the main things I would like to be able to use it for is to be able to bundle complex push/fetch functionality into GitButler and other standalone Git tools needing network functionality (such as Jujutsu). > Having parts
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by sharkjacobs 3mo ago
> In a way, the Tokugawa system was a success. Japan experienced near-total peace between 1600 and the late nineteenth century, a remarkable achievement for a premodern society and a dramatic contrast to Europe or China, where tens of mi
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by sharkjacobs 3mo ago
How does any article or discussion about this get past 150 words. "There is no agreed upon functional definition of consciousness, and no way to measure or observe it outside of oneself. It is as impossible to detect consciousness in w
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by sharkjacobs 4mo ago
> a professional book reader who evaluates literature specifically for screen adaptation
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by sharkjacobs 4mo ago
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "unit of work" but I really like writing in Bike[1] for this reason, it's a hybrid text editor/outliner. It is simply my favorite rich text editor and the outliner functions pro
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by sharkjacobs 4mo ago
It's supported for Tahoe. It's still good functional software and this is the ideal right? They're selling finished software for a flat price without needing a subscription model to support continued development.
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by sharkjacobs 4mo ago
> RSS readers are generally automated. I know I've had them around for years pulling in articles that I never read They try to address that > I added RSS and Newsletter tracking. These data are very lossy. If someone is subscribe
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by sharkjacobs 5mo ago
Are you saying this because it's an evergreen joke or because you really think there hasn't been meaningful progress in the field since 1996? Duke Nukem Forever was release fifteen years ago. Some things never happen until they su
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by sharkjacobs 5mo ago
> For minutes at a time this kind of thing would be running through my head: ‘He pushed the door open and entered the room. A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half
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by sharkjacobs 5mo ago
There's a good post from Aurich in the comments of the article detailing the practical reality of how they (don't) use AI tools in their image work, but as a policy statement this sentence is 100% vibes, 0% actual guidance or rest
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by sharkjacobs 5mo ago
> Our creative team may use AI tools in the production of certain visual material, but the creative direction and editorial judgment are human-driven. As opposed to what? This is a little facetious, but what could it possibly mean to hav
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by sharkjacobs 5mo ago
It feels like the results stopped being interesting a little while ago but the practice has become part of simonw's brand, and it gives him something to post even when there is nothing interesting to say about another incremental impro
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by sharkjacobs 5mo ago
I agree with the sentiment, it is good to care, it is admirable and perhaps virtuous to care. But it is not cool to care. Cool does mean detached, offhand, poised, aloof, unperturbed. That's why it's called "cool". We do
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by sharkjacobs 5mo ago
I don't want to do the whole front edge but this has definitely inspired me to take a file to these notch corners
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by sharkjacobs 6mo ago
The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh came to be regarded as such a mistake and quintessential example of how misguided Apple was during the wilderness era that I'm not surprised they went in the opposite direction. Institutional memory
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by sharkjacobs 6mo ago
This is fantastically cool. I can't believe this is possible with such a small and narrow dataset.
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by sharkjacobs 6mo ago
> The New Mexico attorney general’s office created multiple fake Facebook and Instagram profiles posing as children as part of its investigation into Meta. Those test accounts encountered sexually suggestive content and requests to share
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by sharkjacobs 6mo ago
This is the funniest possible answer to "Sounds like you've never changed a tire. Or at least not outside of a very controlled environment." "Oh, you think I've never changed a tire? Well here is my abstract high le
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by sharkjacobs 6mo ago
Yes I agree. And I think that joining OpenAI will probably change their priorities, and that sucks.
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by sharkjacobs 6mo ago
Congrats to the Astral team, they've done great work and deserve everything. As a user of uv who was hoping it would be a long term stable predictable uninteresting part of my toolchain this sucks, right?

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