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anArbitraryOneon Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

What do you mean, "broke" it? What they do is always correct, and it's the user who doesn't understand, is attached to legacy technology, lacks the courage to make the change, and doesn't understand Apple's vision for the future.

anArbitraryOneon "Traditional, but Puzzling"

I read the title as "traditional butt puzzling" and expected something slightly different

anArbitraryOneon The engineering that allows articulated buses to bend

Truly a hub for circular reasoning

anArbitraryOneon The engineering that allows articulated buses to bend

I relate more to the inarticulate bus

anArbitraryOneon Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

I thought ⌘ denoted a place of interest. I found many an interest spot just pulling off the road when seeing that

anArbitraryOneon Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers

The article explains precisely how I feel about MacOS

anArbitraryOneon English: A vs. An

Good, but having a plot subtitle "Tree style visualization of the first two letters of a word Visualization showing whether the first two letters of a word are enough to determine whether it should have “a” or “an”" isn't very informative. Tell me how to read it

anArbitraryOneon Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs

I'm glad the abominable child sexual predators were mentioned. Poor Aisha bint Abi Bakr

anArbitraryOneon Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

My username checks out

anArbitraryOneon GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

So it's the opposite of smartphone, where keyboards are UI driven

anArbitraryOneon Intriguing stories in computer science

I disagree with the author about Black Lives Matter and abolishing ICE (more like abolishing the leaders who enable ICE to do terrible things - maybe there's some common ground there)

anArbitraryOneon The End of Mathematics

Seems like clickbait so I'm not clicking it

anArbitraryOneon Terence Tao: Mathematics in the Age of AI (Lecture)

You beat me to posting this. Our YouTube recommendations must share some latent features

anArbitraryOneon As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program

I'll never forget the first time that dreadful window appeared. I was frustrated for 10min, eventually turning to my phone to search for what to do.

anArbitraryOneon Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation

I was hoping this was going to be about french fries, but I'm not disappointed

anArbitraryOneon The Voice of Google

I'm glad James Damore's arguments were correctly strawmanned

anArbitraryOneon An interactive explorer for Benford's Law across real datasets

It's interesting how all base 10 numbers identify as non binary

anArbitraryOneon Everything is logarithms

I can't believe he called normal logarithms 'based'

anArbitraryOneon GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

It's fine if it hallucinates, as long as it sounds overconfident

anArbitraryOneon Dopamine Fracking

I don't really think bro dude understands any of the environmental effects of fracking, especially compared to other drilling mechanisms. But it's just a metaphor.

anArbitraryOneon Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms

Wow, things operate according to lists of instructions. What a concept.

anArbitraryOneon Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book

I got it down to one, and then remembered I'm not a great chess player

anArbitraryOneon What's a mathematician to do? (2010)

Good question, but I'm offended by the egregious misuse of a semicolon. My JIT compilation is throwing an error.

anArbitraryOneon Local AI needs to be the norm

Just let me turn it off to preserve battery life

anArbitraryOneon Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores

What about just setting the stores in high income areas to have higher prices?

anArbitraryOneon It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)

What if your side-project has a side-project?