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How do people still use Windows?

Windows 7 was great, but after that it felt like someone scraped together bloat, telemetry and spyware and called it "Windows".

It is time to crack down on tech giants. Break them up already.

We can beat them, so stop joining them.

> These days only corporate or institutional-backed open source projects are allowed to propagate.

What do you mean? Can you unpack this?

What's a "real" problem, though?

Magnet is sweet. Magnet and Little Snitch are the only Mac utility apps I've bought.

Essential software with no bloat or stupid business practices I've encountered yet.

Sometimes for research purposes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release

I no longer feel like a crazy person for implementing other ML stuff in C some years ago.

How does one master this?

I haven't taken a test in years, but the number of abstractions my mind would cycle through was a major disadvantage on timed tests.

Why don't you counter knowledge with knowledge instead of profanity then? We're all waiting.

Painting features => back propagation => weights.

Yes it is.

If I compress an artist's painting into a jpeg and rehost part of it for individual t-shirt designs I am committing a crime.

If I compress an artist's painting into a model & rehost what's essentially a highly flexible complete version of their painting for infinite, perpetual use of any kind ... I'm not committing a crime?

All my life I wanted to fly like the birds that you see way up in the sky. Making circles in the morning sun flying high in the sky until the day is done.

It's weird having real spacial memory of places I've never been. From 30 years ago.

I’m commenting to bookmark this. It reminds me of Ben Stein’s “How to Ruin Your Life”.

These types of references are great for taking personal inventory. I can’t say I haven’t been doing a lot of these things unknowingly.

> when I am on this limited media consumption she always comments how pleasant I am to be around

IMO the news is little more than a sales pitch for antidepressants, life insurance and "retail therapy".

Don't conflate procrastination with note taking systems.

Ah yes, rule 2 of dating a narcissist.