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> I've never been able to use a smart phone with one hand, even an original iphone

The original iPhone is tiny. Are you misremembering?

How is this coded to baby boomer? Honest question; I want to understand the post-war generational perspective.

Obviously a personal anecdote and YMMV, but I have several nieces and nephews, and I've gotten to watch them grow over the last ~15 years. During this time, I've tried to spend as much time with them as I can.

But I'm a new dad as of this year, and it's totally different. It really doesn't compare.

There's only so much time you can spend with someone else's kid, even if they're family. Even seeing a niece or nephew every week doesn't compare with waking up with a newborn at 3 AM and seeing them stick their tongue out for the first time, or seeing the squinty face they make when they try a strawberry for the first time at 5 PM on a random Tuesday.

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The parent I replied to said frontier weights were “being stolen” which is not the literal case. I think precision is important here.

How are weights stolen from the frontier model developers? What is that actual mechanism?

This is how I worked with LLMs originally, and I much preferred it. This gave me a much better understanding of the code that I was adding. But, there's no way to keep up with my team like this anymore. It's just too slow when everyone else is working directly in Claude Code.

Imagine if this were built into browsers and you only had to serve a SQLite file.

And the United States Digital Service (USDS) aka the thing they renamed to DOGE.

Ironic, the picture on this article appears to be AI generated. I thought the Sony CD player looked neat, and I'd never seen one like it before. I thought I might try to buy one on eBay, that's how cool I thought it was. But Google says "Digital fingerprints embedded within the file verify that this is an artificially generated rendering."

Well, not exactly. He did say that the hiring process at Geoworks was incredibly rigorous, and that he passed that.

I know this author’s name but not his whole life story, but it reads like he got hired at Amazon before they acquired Geoworks and brought all of his former colleagues over.

The conscious, rational part of the psyche that defines an individual's sense of self-worth and identity, mediating between reality and instinct.

I had a similar thought at first, and then remembered the steady technical progress of the Shuttle era (at least from my recollection).

This seems to be a distinction without a difference. The buck stops with them.

Since you've drawn the comparison, it's worth pointing out that a notable difference is that Nancy Pelosi was not (nor was running to be) POTUS and could not have unilaterally gotten the US into a war in the middle east.

A place where We all work. Call it a WeWork maybe.

iCloud Private Relay (at least for Safari).

Do people say .net in some way other than "dotnet"? Or did I misunderstand?

Brain/computer interface that completely simulates inputs which drive perceptions which are indistinguishable from reality. At least, that’s what is portrayed in the movie. I’m not OP but this to me seems far off.

I wonder how it avoids pipes stubbed up through the slab, or electrical EMT, etc. or how it avoids mistakes made during the rough-in.

What if the plumber missed a drain or supply by an inch? Guessing the robot doesn't adjust its outline. I.e. if a sewer stub is wrong by a few inches, the wall needs to be moved to fit the toilet, or the slab needs to be busted up and the sewer line relocated.

I suppose if it gets some of this wrong, it'll be obvious, and a human can correct it.

> because you almost certainly weren't watching those shows on linear television anyways.

I'm just one person, but I definitely am watching the local PBS over an antenna, and so do several members of my family (living in different households).

The local broadcast is excellent quality, I get a good signal to it, never any glitches, and I enjoy the local news and other programming too.

It's 15% for PBS, and CPB != PBS and CPB != NPR.

As an American, having traveled in Europe a few times and dined out a lot, I much prefer the culture of just leaving me alone and letting me signal the waiter to come over when I need something.

I’ve been to the beach more times than I can count, over a lifetime living in Florida . Loud music, yes, cars and especially big trucks, yes. But I’ve never seen people just pack up and leave their trash when they’re done. There are ample trash cans and they get used. Take this anecdote for what it’s worth.

Deleting USAID may have escaped “cultural war” containment and gone on to becoming something with real, material impact.

If I remember right, win2k had the dog. It would appear during Explorer search.

I recently revived a web app I wrote in 2006, my first startup. It was a social media site focused on media sharing. A pretty simple LAMP stack for the time. PHP 5, MySQL 3.2, but it has all of your typical (for the time) social media features. I revived this app because I wanted some hands-on time with new CI/CD tech that I don't get to use at my day job, so I'm working to extremely over-engineer the app's deployment process as a learning project. I could have used Wordpress or some other Hello World app, but this is a lot more fun.

I had written nearly all of the PHP from scratch. I wrote libraries for authentication/authorization, templating, form processing etc. I used one PEAR library for sending email. The frontend was vanilla HTML and there was barely any JavaScript to speak of. We used Flash for media playback. In other words, myself and my small team built nearly all of it ourselves. This was just how you did most things in 2006.

It only took me about an hour to get the 19-year old app up and running. I had to update the old PHP mysql drivers to mysqli, and update the database schema and some queries to work in MySQL 8 (mostly wrapping now-reserved words with backticks and adjusting column defaults which are now more strict). The only thing that didn't work was the Flash.

An hour to revive an app from 2006. Contrast this with my day job, wherein we run scores of Spring Boot apps written in Java 8 that have pages of vulnerabilities from tens of dozens of dependencies, which are not easy to update because updating one library necessitates updating many other libraries, and oh my goodness, the transitive dependencies. It's a nightmare, and because of this we only do the bare minimum of work to update the most critical vulnerabilities. There's no real plan to update everything because it's just too tall of an order.

And the funny thing is, if you compare what this PHP app from 2006 did, which had truly, barely any dependencies, to what these Spring Boot apps do, there is not a lot of difference. At the end of the day, it's all CRUD, with a lot more enterprise dressing and tooling around it.

I have two Commodore 64 Logo books, sadly none for IBM.

I think the Xbox naming is all because the PlayStation came out before the Xbox and if Microsoft would have used a similar version-incrementing naming convention they would have always been one version behind Sony. Thus the second generation of the Xbox being the 360, which competed with the PS3: the 360 had a “3” in its name, so to a consumer’s mind they were comparable.

Solitary thinking and reflecting, I guess.