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mouse_··on Top Scientists Deliberately Misrepresented Sea Level Rise for Years
The validity of someone's prior statements weigh heavily on the perceived validity of their future statements, no matter who they are. Wouldn't you agree? I'm neither attacking nor criticizing this guy, simply making factual statements about where his ideas are coming from.
mouse_··on Making a micro Linux distro (2023)
This entire, beautiful blog post scales wrong on my phone because of this one line of code near the bottom doesn't get wrapped or get its own overflow box: -device virtio-net-device,netdev=usernet -netdev user,id=usernet,hostfwd=tcp::10000-:22
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heyo
mouse_··on Show HN: I made an anagram word game for mobile in C++ and Go
Try wasm port? Getting someone to install your app is a huge barrier.
mouse_··on Talent is directed by capital, not the collective will of citizens
America today also uses mass violence to force people to do things
mouse_··on Top Scientists Deliberately Misrepresented Sea Level Rise for Years
Heads up, this guy doesn't believe in global warming and regularly criticizes "wokeism" and critical race theory on his Twitter
mouse_··on AI can turn us into a society of p-zombies
P-zombies are one of those inactionable inconsequential things people like lesswrong enjoy, because you can talk about it at great length (indefinitely, even) while sounding smart and not necessarily saying anything useful to the rest of us.

The problem with AI is not that it "steals our souls" or whatever you're trying to say (though I must say I do enjoy a bit of spooky sentiment near Halloween!) - it's that it kills mental model diversity. If everyone solved problems the practical and socially accepted way, the Earth would still be flat and hygiene would still primarily consist of covering up bad smells.

The hard problems we face are hard because our model is wrong about them.

mouse_··on Democratic candidates can win Rust Belt voters by attacking the Democratic party
But they won't get anywhere, as long as they're beholden to the DNC. See: Bernie
mouse_··on Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins
...Has that ever not been the case?
mouse_··on rlsw – Raylib software OpenGL renderer in less than 5k LOC
This will be perfect for Nintendo 3DS!
mouse_··on iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency
I'd love to see 3DS-style lenticular 3D display with the power of modern Apple hardware + FaceID hardware eye tracking. I bet they'd be able to do it seamlessly.
mouse_··on Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid
This should have been the end of it.

> The current NSFW anti-feature definition is listed here: Anti-Features | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository and copied below for reference:

> This Anti-Feature is applied to an app that contains content that the user may not want to be publicized or visible everywhere. The marked app may contain nudity, profanity, slurs, violence, intense sexuality, political incorrectness, or other potentially disturbing subject matter. This is especially relevant in environments like workplaces, schools, religious and family settings. The name comes from the Internet term “Not safe for work”.

> The key words here are the user. Apps should only be assigned this anti-feature if the app contains content that the user may not want publicized or visible elsewhere. Most, if not all users of Bible apps would indeed want the content of the apps to be publicized and visible elsewhere, so this anti-feature should not apply to Bible apps according to this definition.

mouse_··on Show HN: Notepad.exe – macOS editor for Swift and Python (now Linux runtime)
Don't name it that
mouse_··on Tinnitus Neuromodulator
You can do it.

It will be easy once you start.

mouse_··on Decomposed dinosaurs make Texas a top destination for AI bit barns
Remember the 2021 Texas power crisis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

In such a situation (pretty much guaranteed to happen again, things don't seem to be improving), who do you think will be afforded the power - homes, or data centers?

mouse_··on DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
It probably costs more
mouse_··on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones
Would you buy a hammer that can't ever hurt your thumb? What implications would that have? Would that be a good hammer?

Bad opinion time that I hope will maybe at least be thought provoking: I would hope a malicious app I willingly installed will be able to behave maliciously. Our security bureaucracy is going to grow exponentially and people are still going to be stealing people's shit, because people need to be able to access their shit and people are dumb.

mouse_··on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
Not if you don't have permission to install your own OS...

Didn't Google recently kill AOSP and stop providing board support packages for their phones?

mouse_··on Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)
Rainbow parentheses blew my mind. Why isn't every editor already doing this?
mouse_··on Quantification of fibrinaloid clots in plasma from pediatric Long COVID patients
Sample size of 59 also seems worse than useless; I'm no researcher so maybe there's something I'm missing here but, doesn't seem very good.

Junk science?

mouse_··on Are Electromagnetic Waves Real?
no, we've just been hallucinating the internet this whole time
mouse_··on Gen Z faces 'job-pocalypse' as global firms prioritise AI over new hires
When the system loses its need for humans, humans may lose their need for the system.
mouse_··on Learned pain as a leading cause of chronic pain
These people are not scientists. LessWrong is a cult.

Rationalism is more interested in making its ideas sound correct than it is in having correct ideas. They are very convincing but they have no accreditation.

Don't trust these LessWrong people, or waste your time with their "thought experiments".

mouse_··on WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration
native Linux apps also fail when it gets "tricky", so this isn't really that great of a benchmark, is it?
mouse_··on Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
It doesn't.
mouse_··on Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
Don't forget, Firefox didn't succeed because Firefox was good, it succeeded because IE was bad. People don't like having to choose between Google Chrome and Google Firefox.
mouse_··on It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead
the problem is greed.
mouse_··on The G in GPU is for Graphics damnit
It's not the numbers that freak me out, it's what they do to each other...
mouse_··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
We will learn nothing
mouse_··on YouTube is shutting down my channel (Davie504) [video]
They are not shutting down his channel
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