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Presumably not. Whether he has any acts to keep secret is not relevant to whether he'd like to have any money left in his bank account tomorrow.

imo it's best practice to not use light/dark themes. The site looks the way I want it to look. This isn't your site, it's mine.

Thank you for illustrating the fact that the phrase "best practice" means nothing, and is little more than a synonym for "I heard this somewhere."


The deorbits are controlled to occur over nonpopulated areas (i.e. the middle of the ocean). I don't think it amounts to much of a concern, compared to, say, the sum total emissions of all factories, power plants, ships, airplanes, and vehicles.

People used to think the oceans could just slurp up all of our garbage and plastic forever without a problem. Yet, here we are.


The Dogs of Amazon are still a thing. I saw one a few weeks ago.

If you have a spec and a test suite, shouldn't you really be passing all the tests before shipping this stuff to a user?

Have you seen the state of the tech industry?

"Ship it, then fix it" is considered normal now, for some reason.


If you take a browser for example, you shouldn't be using any current browser. This is the best example of why this isn't always the way to go

"Indefinite backpack travel." We used to call this being a hobo.

The only difference here is that this person is well-funded, so uses the latest high-end gear to do it, instead of a bindle.

Yes, hobos do still exist. My recently deceased cousin-in-law was one, and proudly called himself a "hobo."

Yes, they have smartphones.


Hobo to me suggests lack of access to transit and housing on demand.

To be fair, most developers I’ve worked with will have a meltdown if I try to start a conversation about Unicode.

Why are we being "fair" to a machine? It's not a person.

We don't say, "Well, to be fair, most people I know couldn't hammer that nail with their hands, either."

An LLM is a machine, and a tool. Let's not make excuses for it.


> Why are we being "fair" to a machine?

We aren't, that turn of phrase is only being used to set up a joke about developers and about Unicode.

It's actually a pretty popular form these days:

a does something patently unreasonable, so you say "To be fair to a, b is also patently unreasonable thing under specific detail of the circumstances that is clearly not the only/primary reason a was unreasonable."


I think people are making explanations for it - because it's effectively a digital black box. So all we can do is try to explain what it's doing. Saying "be fair" is more colloquial expression in this sense. And the reason he's comparing it to developers and unicode is a funny aside about the state of things with unicode. And Besides that, LLMs only emit what they emit because it's trained on all those said people.

Don't hold up for furniture, though.

You pay a premium for mid-century furniture. Even reproductions. Some furniture of that era never stopped production because the design keeps it in demand.

There will always be a market for bland IKEA/Target/whatever. But not everyone wants to sit on a log like a caveman.


This summer it took Amazon 74 days to deliver a book. Not even a new book.

A book sold and fulfilled by Amazon.

Amazon's online system kept pushing back the delivery date one week at a time, so it couldn't be canceled either online or by the phone drones.

After the second delay I just went to a local bookstore and bought it right there.

When the book from Amazon finally arrived, I took it straight to Whole Foods for a refund.


A low-res display would be fine. In fact the same display as the original Model 100 would be great.

Use one for a while before you decide.

I still use mine every couple of weeks for distraction-free writing, and to read the news. The display updates VERY slowly. So slowly that you don't have to be a very strong typist to get way ahead of it.


The display worked better 40 years ago. They lose contrast and responsiveness with age.

My favorite calculator is an HP-28s and it too has become slow and hard to see.


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