Lutzb

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big blue & startups & applied computer archaeology/necromancy
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Comment · 1 month ago
This was/is a long standing feature request to block podcasts and video podcasts completely. Even worse two years ago unrated podcasts were available to kids. Not quoting the stuff I could find there. Highly unsuitable to kids.
Comment · 1 month ago
Der See - the lake

Die See - the ocean

Comment · 2 months ago
I cannot empirically prove it, but I feel like Opus 5 has become more confidently wrong/inaccurate.

Discussing topics from nuclear physics to daily macOS questions, it gives wrong answers, leaves out important details, counterpoints. Only when specifically asked about the things it got wrong or glossed over it continues and adjusts its reasoning. I feel this is dangerous - before I could explore topics with Claude, now I have to know in advance that something is not correct to get more details.

Comment · 3 months ago
Maybe something like

> Mozilla/4.0 [en] (AppleIIGS; U; P3±1-emu; 1024x1; BoatMode; CapsLk)

Comment · 3 months ago
I would not be surprised if an easter egg exists on xkcd.com provided you satisfy these requirements.
Comment · 3 months ago
One of my relatives is one of those micro publishers. Selected works are printed and bound to extremely high standards and materials in a way that their customers are willing to pay 1k-25k+ per book. These editions only have a couple of prints and are mostly made to customer requests.

There is a market for these type of books, albeit a very small one.

Comment · 3 months ago
Super cool. I was thinking about using a ThinkPad trackpoint instead of a touch pad. But as far as I know there is no water resistant trackpoint device.
Comment · 3 months ago
Sorry, meant to say it's from the movie script. Need more sleep.
Comment · 3 months ago
It's from the book.
Comment · 3 months ago
ARTHUR I'm sorry -- did you just say you need my brain?

BENJY MOUSE Yes. To extract the question.

ARTHUR You can't have my brain. I'm using it.

FRANKY MOUSE Barely.

BENJY MOUSE We can replace it if you think it's important. An electronic brain maybe.

FRANKY MOUSE A simple one should suffice. Who would know the difference?

ARTHUR I would!

FRANKY MOUSE No, you wouldn't. We could program you not to.

Comment · 5 months ago
It's one of the devices I really regret selling.
Comment · 5 months ago
Maybe it was a test.
Comment · 5 months ago
Pensioners in most western countries are the second most affluent cohort.
Comment · 6 months ago
Working in IT and AI related fields I made the opposite observation. Taking as HR an example, professionals there wanted to keep the boring reporting tasks and automate the human part, e.g. career guidance, mediation etc.. At the time I could not understand the reason why. In hindsight it was a reward driven decision. Human to human interaction is rarely instantly rewarded. Producing reports on the other hand is measurable and mostly rewarded right away.
Comment · 6 months ago

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