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"How many cucumbers can be pickled in a washing machine?"

Not pianists in Chicago, but you can get there, and it cant do it.

So is it like plugging in a normal distribution into some arithmetic?

Consider maybe 1 + 1 ~ +-2 like Q factor, if you know what I mean.

That would help to filter out more probabilistic noise in using it to help reason with.

That's a windows-ism, we don't like that kind of stuff. Not on any other OS we don't.

Aha. So he won his prize by his alonesome. With no exchanging of any ideas to any other party. Like, in his parents' basement, right.

Eh, this is poll data, is it not? So it's more like 46% admits they did not.

You got to adjust for shame and such. I'd bet it's up to twice as much in practice, that is 92% did not actually open a book. I'll give you that 46% do not own one, that sounds reasonable.

People are interested fundamentally in other people. That is why we read, listen, watch the Internet. It connects us to a mesh of person-hubs where you can find out more about or vibe with the people and ideas that you are attracted to. Maybe you could contribute something.

If the trend continues with LLM-related bullshitting technologies I will stop being interested in the Internet. I will stop coming. Many of us will.

Generated music is as far removed from jamming with friends as kissing a girl you like is removed from gang raping her with five of your teenage comrades over Twitch. Is that a good analogy? I think it is.

How about a Do-Not-Track alternative where I can specify what kind of ads I'd be OK to show up alongside my browsing? It could be a header with a hash of an entry in a public list of lists of interest. Cars, travel, fashion, whatever; any order or preference you might come up with. I could flip a switch or install a plugin in the browser to help learn from my browsing history locally, and populate that list accordingly.

Adsense needs to respect that header, is all. I'd ditch ad-block if that happened.

Provided ads are alongside my content and don't replace it's space and time.

I'd use that.

EDIT: apparently, the basic idea is there; but also cookies will now only come from the website being viewed, not tracking you across the whole Web.

Sure, long as the sorting is also done by an AI. Like an AI category cloud. No changes to HN needed. Go for it.

if there were indeed hundreds of thousands of text editors, then yes, the way your thinking flows would be warranted

but in reality there are less then a hundred alltogether for all time

each is a project of passion, and all are resultant in a peculiar, particular and special kind of thing to do a special kind of thing

you can't select a thing the VIM way and then do something to it the Emacs way

you can't eat Catholic while working Maori

or you can, but then it is just another special thing that you made up

text isn't a thing

code is a thing (many ways, depending on the approach), prose is a thing (many ways), poetry is a thing, legal writing is a thing

text is not a problem that can be solutioned, it is not a question that has an answer

What is? Tap to that, hold to this?

In Mac? Never.

Shame tho...

You're stuck using things like that. For work, you're stuck choosing from what's available, because the work is to be done now, not later.

If choosing I'd go with Mac for work. They have hardware that is reliable, and software that is approachable. Unless it's 3-4 levels deep into MS tech, I'd be confident the Mac can handle it.

If I was starting a new project for myself, like a game or a SaaS thing, then I'd go with some Debian or Arch peppered with a RoFi search/command thing, and a window manager akin to i3. A development machine, entirely geared towards looking at and making of code.

But if time wasn't an issue I would not jump on any of the things available to me. They are all largely misguided with relation to my goals. None of them are particularly enabling. All of them are better than center-aligned Comic Sans in a Word.app document, but none of them integrate my prior knowledge, or even the projects I previously did. Every new project is entirely new anyways.

Computers kinda went the sellout route circa 2012, the PC makers do what they understand will sell well, and there aren't any projects that are different enough to warrant an interest. The commercial offering is geared towards the common journeyman programmer, in it's entirety. There are no niche computing devices, I'd expect to see thousands of those, but still there are a handful at best.

There is like one model of a 3-year old Thinkpad that I'd buy, but it doesn't get me excited enough to actually do that. I'd put some Linux on it, with flare.

I have strong opinions. I have the 20+ years of experience to have formed them.

If I were to take a job or a gig in coding ever again, I'd ask the employer for a machine and figure it out from there. I don't care what it is. As my employer, you make these decisions and suffer their consequences.

I'm just here to figure it out, clock out and go home, where you will never, ever call or message me. You got your 8 hours, and they are as you made them come out. Get screwed.

Thanks. Now having installed it a couple of months back, I'll actually try to figure it out. That's the motivation I needed.

TLDR: Apple is not handling the bugs and security issues well for it's OS releases. It does not mean that you should stop updating your software.