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There’s no “maybe” about it.

maddening that you have to manually scroll

wow nobody but you has ever thought of this and certainly simonw has never addressed this

Yeah, the Culture is what happens when this transition goes perfectly right.

How does that even happen? HN software hiccup? Or what?

Er, that sounds backwards to me. I thought you put the a on the word because it is feminine. You're saying the word is feminine because there's an a on it?

Wow I’m sure glad that’s settled then.

I heard a speaker once say "that's a [obvious pause] question" and the audience giggled because it was obviously a really poorly thought out question.

I guess they didn't realize you're their only user!

You are aware that this is the theory of a single crank, and not supported by any modern scientific thought, yes?

I think there’s a difference between knowing you’re doing something wrong and not caring, and not even knowing you’re doing anything wrong. What you’re describing is usually the latter.

Love this. I had something almost identical on my Commodore 64 40 years ago that you could use with the joystick or KoalaPad.

One saved my aunt's life. But I suppose I didn't really need an aunt, right?

You said a bunch of statements about yourself, and then made a statement about me.

You should have concluded "I don't need a smartwatch."

Not everyone has the same needs.

Because then less stuff fits on my screen? What a question

And even if it weren't super weird and creepy, it's 15 seconds, right? So what, that waitress rolledup, read the menu for less than 10 seconds, and then zoomed away, giving you a couple of seconds to get to and run the replay?

Me. I love my Pro, and this year I'm switching to Max. My eyes (at 48) aren't what they used to be.

Was this made by someone who hasn't actually used any of these tools in over a year?

My guess is absolutely nobody on the team that made this is even old enough to remember Microsoft Bob.

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Literally everything you said is also true about me! and my name is also Daniel!

> far too much emphasis on the places you are not going

I have this issue with literally every modern nav system. They all make their fundamental display a line marked on a map, and most of the information on that map is irrelevant.

More than 20 years ago I had some kind of Verizon flip-open phone with a QWERTY keyboard. No idea what model, but it had this fabulous nav interface that just showed big arrows showing your next two turns and a schematic diagram of what the next turn would look like. I wish I could get something like that, but with Google's data as the back end.

I love this. I think you should be clearer about that - it's obvious to people who have experience doing this kind of data analysis, but a lot of people I've shown this were confused, as in "huh, load-bearing and genuinely makes sense but how'd he pick all these other words!?"

I think it should be made clear that the sorting is sort of Texas Sharpshooter-ish - the ones on top are on top because they sort that way.

The fact that load-bearing ends up on top is the proof that this works because we all know a priori that load-bearing is a Claudism.

Sol is pretty OK too. https://3e.org/private/comparison.html

Just a nitpick - by 1926, about 20-30% of Bell exchanges were already automatic, on Strowger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strowger_switch equipment.

Re the "land lines", I think the answer to that is not "keep 100+ year old copper infrastructure running" but "make our modern infrastructure as reliable as Ma Bell made it 100 years ago".

Of course, neither will happen, so there's that.

I'm envious of the time you spend where it wasn't already.

From the home page of turingtest.live.

“advanced LLMs like GPT-4”

I get this sort of thing constantly because my domain, 3e.org, which I have had for 30 years, is apparently impossible. It's either too short to be real, or starts with a number (obviously impossible).

And like the author, 90% of the time I can just disable their front-end validation and go on my merry way.