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being able to reply IS the ability to send to an arbitrary address, because the SMTP protocol makes it trivial to SEND an email from any arbitrary address.

You may also enjoy https://typeto.me/ (discussed 15 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2916453 ), a web version of talk/ntalk/ytalk

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I obviously meant "work with it" not work in general.

And as for old, I'm 47. I've been programming since I got my first C64 in 1985.

Bikers (my dad was one) used to be that. The culture has been almost entirely taken over by MAGA.

> old-school analog awesomeness of galactic empires that seem to entirely lack integrated circuits

Reminds me of Harry Turtledove's The Road Not Taken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_stor...

I would LOVE to use Opus 4.5, but it means I (a merely Pro peon) can work for maybe 30 minutes a day, instead of 60-90.

folk can return a 502 error, apparently.

FWIW i’m always using 5.1 Thinking.

I’m not uploading PDFs at all. I’m talking about PDFs it finds while searching than it extracts data from for the conversation.

And I’d really like for Gemini to be as good or better, since I get it for free with my Workspace account, whereas I pay for chatgpt. But every time I try both on a query I’m just blown away by how vastly better chatgpt is, at least for the heavy-on-searching-for-stuff kinds of queries I typically do.

I consistently have exactly the opposite experience. ChatGPT seems extremely willing to do a huge number of searches, think about them, and then kick off more searches after that thinking, think about it, etc., etc. whereas it seems like Gemini is extremely reluctant to do more than a couple of searches. ChatGPT also is willing to open up PDFs, screenshot them, OCR them and use that as input, whereas Gemini just ignores them.

I’ve done this as well. I’m only making twice what I was 30 years ago at 18. (Though to be fair, I was making a ridiculous amount of money for a 18 year old - my first job was in the Qwest network operations center.)

Hacker? Straight to jail.

Works fine in Chrome on both my W11 and MacOS 15.7.2 machines.

Not the same one all that time, but I've always exported/imported when I have changed.

For the same reason, I have every email I've ever sent or received, going back to my 1988 FIDOnet account.

As a very small (like, two digit spend a month) AWS user, I still have gotten a human to help me when I've needed one.

Amazon is amazing to be a customer of. Just not an employee of (not one, know many).

Exactly. I give services like this - generally coded as someone's first "wow I know PHP now!" or the modern equivalent - approximately 5 years shelf life, at best.

Whereas I have notes-to-future-me on my calendar that I put there 30 years ago.

The absolute best teaching of the Fourier transform I've ever encountered is the extremely bizarre book "Who is Fourier?"

https://www.amazon.com/Who-Fourier-Mathematical-Transnationa...

i can’t tell if your comment is satire or not

Not for quite a lot of people it isn’t, no.

I’m guessing you’re over 35 (as I am).

I know plenty of people in their 20s whose entire online life is centered on Reddit.

They make hundreds of comments a day. It’s where all of their social interaction is. it’s where they coordinate activities with people. It’s where they chat with people. it’s how they communicate with everyone.Losing that handle would be disastrous. You can’t just change it.

Replace “reddit” with “google” in your sentence. Now how does it sound?

I want to learn more about your definition of “everyone”.

Possibly, but given it can also read my handwriting- which is much, MUCH worse than Boole’s - with better accuracy than any human I’ve given it to- that’s probably not the explanation.

The film is really the best it gets. It's perfect.

You do know that the 'ozone hole' got fixed, right? It's not back to baseline, but the Montreal Protocol is one of the major achievements of collaborative science and eco-politics of the late 20th century.

There is some global thinning, but it's minor. If you don't live literally at the south pole where the actual hole is, it's not a huge change compared to most other sources of skin cancer risk.

You live in Antarctica?

Oh, then let’s just fix that then! Simple!

Growing up in the 1980s in suburbs of NYC my elementary school teachers always asked us to get our “tablets” out to work on math.

Mac, Windows, and most Linux desktops all support webdav for mounting folders.

That means you can mount, natively on your desktop, anything rclone supports.