MaysonL

24 days agodiscuss

Then again, different people’s minds work very differently. My verbal SAT was low 790’s, yet some of my best thinking is purely kinesthetic.

MaysonL

24 days agodiscuss

Different people’s minds work very differently. More differently than most people imagine.

MaysonL

24 days agodiscuss

AI is currently a massive money sink. Yes or No?

MaysonL

24 days agodiscuss

Who needed leaks to know that?

MaysonL

24 days agodiscuss

It blocked me, because I was running an ad-blocker. Then I got around the block. Safari’s Reader mode is often useful.

MaysonL

2 months agodiscuss

I remember walking the last couple miles of the Garden State Parkway a week or two before it opened. Could a youngster do such a thing today?

After checking the Wikipedia page, I realized that I was only 10 or 11 at the time. Somehow I remembered it as having been older – high school age.

MaysonL

2 months agodiscuss

Actually, the product they should build is an ebike. They should buy Weel.[1]

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/614379/weel-evb-electric-concept-...

MaysonL

3 months agodiscuss

Note that the title is probably an allusion to Ray Bradbury’s collection “The Illustrated Man”.

MaysonL

3 months agodiscuss

And, before major purchases, check to make sure that private equity firm has not bought them.

MaysonL

3 months agodiscuss

First iPhone had no App Store: no third-party apps.

MaysonL

3 months agodiscuss

Apple _is_ a software company: everything it sells is based on a Mac OS X foundation.

MaysonL

3 months agodiscuss

“Make people want something, and sell it to them”.

MaysonL

3 months agodiscuss

Is there an open—source Swift IDE that can modify itself without restarting? (written in Swift) I loved Oberon µSystems Oberon/F aka Component Pascal for that capability.

Or am I going to have to vibe-code one.

MaysonL

4 months agodiscuss

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

MaysonL

4 months agodiscuss

I prefer Richard Hamming’s take: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30

MaysonL

4 months agodiscuss

Interesting: 1729 gave me a Database Error the first time, then came back with 34 previous searches

MaysonL

5 months agodiscuss

I remember being shocked, albeit not surprised, when I read that he had quite a lot of contact with Ron de Santis.

https://americanoversight.org/email-suggests-that-supreme-co...

MaysonL

5 months agodiscuss

Except for both its legs being on the same side of the bike.

MaysonL

6 months agodiscuss

Just wait ‘til Gas City ships.

MaysonL

6 months agodiscuss

It depend upon how many agent workers they allow per coder…

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