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by tammer 3mo ago
I think the approach here where interfacing with a device is considered from first principles is one that is rarely taken on, and this is a thought provoking implementation. Kudos.
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by tammer 10mo ago
While you & I may find shoehorning LLMs into every nook & cranny distasteful, I worry Marl may think differently https://open.substack.com/pub/nothinghuman/p/the-tyranny-of-...
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by tammer 10mo ago
Recent history of Apple vs. sovereign states is a real time vindication of Polanyi. Capital is always subordinate to the state (even if it proclaims to be the opposite).
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by tammer 11mo ago
I will second the recommendation to start with vanilla emacs. That isn't to disparage releases like spacemacs & doom. I simply found those to be more useful once I fully understood the power that comes with a fully reprogrammable e
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by tammer 2y ago
This person is missing that modern global society is rigidly organized around principles of competition. It's not the case that people don't care -- instead we are systemically pressured into putting all of our care into getting o
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by tammer 2y ago
This demo is impressive although my initial reaction is a sort of grief that I wasn't born in the timeline where Alan Kay's vision of object-oriented computing was fully realized -- then we wouldn't have to manually reconcile
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by tammer 2y ago
This is likely the case in a lot of places. We're still in the midst of ransomware groups targeting hospitals.
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by tammer 2y ago
has anyone done an analysis on how much big tech revenue comes from the DoD, particularly as its changed over time?
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by tammer 2y ago
even the most secure outbound protection would likely whitelist the CrowdStrike update servers because they'd be considered part of the infrastructure
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by tammer 2y ago
When I saw 'Global IT Outage' trending I assumed it was another major cloud service failure. Obviously this has far wider impact because of the need for intervention on individual endpoints. The irony is dawning on me that for muc
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by tammer 2y ago
This had my attention at first but I’m not sure it led me anywhere. For discussion of the fundamental contradictions with the current structure of the Internet (that lead to the problems described herein & more), I highly recommend The
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The Most Exhausting Restoration I've Ever Made – Soviet Computer Control Panel(youtube.com)
3 points by tammer 2y ago|0 comments
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by tammer 2y ago
I’ve come full circle on this but I now think native applications on smartphones was a mistake. There is no technological reason why applications can’t be distributed as PWA packages similar to the days prior to the App Store. This would se
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Rep. Ro Khanna Has a Reminder for Democrats: Americans Love Money(nytimes.com)
5 points by tammer 3y ago|1 comments
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by tammer 3y ago
These types of articles come out periodically and annoy me quite a bit. iPadOS has been my interface to the digital world for going on 6 years. Here are the things I do exclusively via an iPad Pro: * administer a dozen HPC clusters *
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by tammer 4y ago
This is correct & I’ll add that reorganizing around sustainable ways of being is in fact an inevitably. And a result of this inevitably will be huge winners who invest in sustainable ways of being and huge losers tied to old ways of doi
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by tammer 5y ago
well that explains a lot
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by tammer 5y ago
as someone responsible for a small nonprofit that runs on google sheets, this product is super exciting. a suggestion: key to us adopting this would be the migration story. I’d love if that was clearly presented on the website.
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by tammer 5y ago
I still use it regularly. the app is my go-to calculator. it just hasn’t been updated in quite some time. there are a lot of ways the back end could support new UI features etc., but something seems to be holding it back.
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by tammer 5y ago
The resurgence of the email newsletter in recent times is a sign that, regardless of advances in web and web-connected applications, on a broad timescale open connectivity protocols ultimately hold lasting appeal. Open protocols and techniq
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Amplified Cactus(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by tammer 5y ago|0 comments
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by tammer 6y ago
I work for a big institution that includes a massively funded hospital network. I don’t actually work for the medical part of the institution. I am technically deemed an essential worker because we have servers on-site. Recently I had some
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by tammer 6y ago
I would argue that in a number of ways Apple Notes is one of the most advanced in terms of features. Yes, it doesn’t bombard you with its functionality and at first glance is a simple place to jot notes (perhaps its greatest strength). But
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Adventures in Collecting and Timing High Accuracy Quartz Watches(haq.watch)
1 points by tammer 6y ago|0 comments
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by tammer 6y ago
A friend of mine recently pointed out that until this point, we didn’t generally or commonly understand pandemic as a real possibility (even if we did historically & scientifically). The same is true for nuclear weapons.
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by tammer 6y ago
* https://special.fish/ This completely low-tech social network has taken off. My god i haven’t been so drawn into a website in a long time. I actually forgot what that feeling was like.
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Ask HN: Where to go for accurate information on Covid-19?
1 points by tammer 7y ago|0 comments
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by tammer 7y ago
I find it odd to the point of unsettling how fresh and unique XP’s design feels today.
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Alaskan permafrost warming experiment produces surprising results(arstechnica.com)
2 points by tammer 7y ago|0 comments
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Cat Detector(developer.apple.com)
1 points by tammer 7y ago|0 comments

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