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Why, really? Each pattern is barely a page or two long (well, with a picture it spills over). The point is already to be brief, but also provide some context. Just reading one lets you muse on the concept and see if it fits with gig. The same technique was used in The Society of Mind for the same reason.

I know you put work in, but your site is essentially a listicle, basically missing the purpose.

Christopher Alexander was very influential on the construction of our house, such as the recommendation against corridors and having any passages become living space.

Always confident, occasionally correct.

Apple was a key developer of USB C and used its experience from developing lightning. They were also one of the first (if not the first) to sell USB C devices (2016 MacBook, then across the whole Mac line). I don’t know how much the EU affected their timeline; it’s unsurprising they moved to USB C on their biggest volume product last. And the lifespan of 30-pin and lightning were about the same.

This was a repeat for Apple: the first iMac was the first production USB computer and they were pilloried for that too.

That’s quite unusual as the connection was specifically designed to sacrifice the cable rather than the port (unfortunately mini-A was the opposite which, when coupled with a small insertion lifetime, was pretty terrible).

I’m sure you’ve tried changing cables so you’ve had bad luck. I’m sorry for you, but you’re unlikely to have this happen again with another device

I don’t think the author meant it as an insult to Poland.

Apple is unusually centralized (they don’t even have different business units; the company has a single balance sheet at P&L) and corporate level decision making is pretty much all done by the same small team at the mother ship.

So while all sorts of decisions are made locally, a hire outside Cupertino (which all of Poland happens to be) is extremely unlikely to signal a corporate shift.

Even a job ad for a role in Los Angeles would be equally unlikely to signal such a shift.

Looks like that episode was a building clearance for a developer.

Because xargs is faster. Exec will invoke the command once per matching file (which is sometimes what you want, of course)!

While xargs will accumulate a bunch of file names, then when it as n names will invoke the command with those names, while continuing to accumulate names until n is reached or the pipe closes.

The size of n depends on the system, but is usually at least a thousand.

The hand tracking will be via your watch or a Rivin or passively from a down pointing camera on the glasses. The Apple Watch’s primitive recognition of a few gestures isn’t bad

I have to say I was distracted by the punctuation typo: (2022] means the range of 2022 including 2022. I never noticed before that when we write (2022) we are excluding the year 2022.

I know this really apply to the topic but hopefully I’m not the only one to have gotten a chuckle from it.

They should have chosen the domain goatse.ai

There are other alternatives like the bsds and if things become intolerable a switch is viable. It just takes work.

I remember the same at the advent of desktop publishing

This was the first link in. Quick web search: CBP claims about 3/4 of deportations were self-directed (CBP was paying $1-3K per self-deportee). This does not include people who simply leave on their own which ICE tells people to do.

https://theworlddata.com/self-deport-statistics-in-us/

I’m surprised this comment was downvoted.

I know it’s bad form to discuss that, but this is a completely normative comment, with no opinion given so far from being a flame. And it adds to the technical discussion!

I went to a lot of work to adopt a “neutral” American accent, with some success. Perfectly adequate for casual conversations.

Why? You run across many people with accents every day, right? Well, it’s a problem; people definitely treat you differently.

This issue isn’t specific to the USA btw, it’s just I’ve been working in the USA for a long time.

Politicians, celebrities and wealthy people often have staff who accompany them to collect this info and to remind them as you approach who you are and why you might want to talk to you.

This is extending it to more people, not just those who can afford it. And if you have an aging parent you’ll probably understand why this can help. It’s why I called it a prosthesis.

You already collect data on some of the ppl you meet (messages, contacts, LinkedIn connections etc).

But the face recognition, memory of interactions etc should stay on device. That why I said I don’t want it to,take pictures I have access to.

I sometimes have trouble recognizing faces and sometimes it’s quite embarrassing (like when it’s one of your in laws or running into an important customer at a conference.

However yes, I usually do that.

The real killer app form me requires a camera (though it doesn’t need to record photos or video for me to access — I have a phone for that).

I need a device that tells me who I’m talking to if I’ve been introduced to them before and tell me how I know them (This is Bob Dobbs, you first met him in Texas in 1985 and he saved you at that party when you needed some Slack)”. Especially great when I meet someone out of context.

But bad actors mean I’ll probably never get this prosthesis.

The LLM is the next generation of 20th century culture. Until the early 20th century, all stories (from before homer to Shakespeare, through Dickens and so on), music etc we continual remix and interpretation. But as recording became possible and then film, cultural elements mixed with law adopted expensive production and started to become more locked down. Corporations (which are just machines themselves) made musical acts whose members were just actors playing a role (still happens today with K-pop being the most successful). Disney colonized the public domain and drowned out the origins, with their versions becoming canonical

But consumers were willing participants. Rather than make a costume of your favorite character people now preferentially seek out licensed versions of dolls, costumes, “official” soundtracks etc rather than treating it all as just more raw material for your own imagination.

I’m not saying there isn’t fanfic and remix culture as well but when was the last time you saw a kid with a home-made “character” T-shirt? They even buy sport jerseys with the ads included!

So the mechanical slop infiltrating culture is just the current apotheosis of this process atrophy of the imagination. Truly it is degenerative AI

I fed your comment into ChatGPT and asked it to answer your question. It told me that <a> starts an html anchor.

Which while absolutely correct does not at all address your question.

Pretty sure the alif/alif had upward prongs because it was the head of the ox (so the triangle is the snout or head with two prongs above. Phoenician alif has the upward prongs. It may have come from Egyptian which would have been a definite ox head.

The Greek/Latin A is the symbol inverted — those are not legs.

That’s what user groups are for.

TBH, the calculator example isn’t an encouraging one. I use a calculator (these days N PP, or spotlight). But by the time I do that I already have an approximate ide of why the answer is, so if it’s way off, or the sign is wrong, I see it immediately.

Same with GPS, though many folks have no idea how to navigate on their own anymore so often don’t notice when they’ve accidentally had a typo or chosen the wrong Springfield.

So I find using an LLM can be useful when I already have an idea of that the problem is.

At their request I reviewed a colleague’s plan for a project. I looked up some of the baseline parameters so I could understand the plan, than I made some comments w/questions about things I didn’t quite understand.

A couple of minutes late for our morning mtg I came in while my colleague was saying that I had found a bunch of things that Claude had not.

This is why they are bad news for new grads who haven’t yet learned the and pitfalls of their fields. And this was a senior person who just outsourced the work to the LLM.

Why is type erasure useless?

You need the flipped chirality which in extensive use and is a Unicode code point.

Thankfully I’ve never encountered one. But I’ll check before discarding if I ever get a device that comes with one, thanks!

Yeah. They want and need the “executive summary” level of resolution and don’t have time to immerse themselves sliver of high resolution data.

It’s a cool model but the training is so slow it feels like years!

This is a success! USB-C was designed so that the part most likely to fail is the inexpensive plug, not the socket.

One of the problems with USB mini-A was that the socket would fail, meaning the device had to be repaired or discarded. Combined with the short lifetime (about 300 insertions) it was a disaster which is why you almost never see it.

You’d be more unhappy of those failures had happened in your expensive device rather than your cheap cables.