Imagine going into a shop and cutting one out to pay for something.

Has to be a transition element.

I love selling things that have served me well - it feels better knowing that they’re helping someone instead of sitting in a drawer, untouched.

Same!

I had bought it, installed Debian on it, and had been using it for more than a week before I discovered that it has a touchscreen :-D

Very nice laptop.

Nano, srsly?

I typed into Google “potatoes pressure cooker” to get a reminder of how long to cook them. The AI told me, and correctly said that I should use the steamer sieve, but also told me to salt the water. The water that would be under the potatoes and that wouldn’t touch them.

I asked why, and the AI said that little splashes of salt water from the boiling would land on the surface of the potatoes and salt them gently, that the salt would increase the boiling temperature, and that the vapour would be aromatic.

I pointed out that the amount of salt landing on the surface of the potatoes would be negligible, that the vapour is distilled water in gas form, and that the increase in boiling temperature from salting the water is less than 1°C. The AI said, oh yeah, you’re right on all counts. Don’t salt the water.

What it has been doing was exactly what an LLM does. It gave me the received wisdom from the internet.

That aligns with what Cory Doctorow was saying here, namely that all the AI successes were from people who already knew what they were doing and could use the AI as a tool. Not from people who had no clue and just let AI do the job.

Shattered is good, but the original pixel dungeon was absolutely brilliantly done in the sense that it was kept so small and with such tight gameplay that there was no grinding, just a fun mixture between puzzle game and roguelike.

I recently had to uninstall Angband because I was spending too much time on it. I had never thought it would work on mobile, but it’s an amazingly faithful representation of the desktop version.

It’s a weird business where everyone is offering an environmentally unsupportable service at below cost, hoping to outlive the competition.

Market share of a negative profit market.

They should offer them a Music Dance Experience with Defiant Jazz.

There’s a big difference between moral and morale.

I loved Redmi last time I bought one, but now they’ve basically made it impossible to root or mod their devices. So I bought a used Pixel and donated my newish Redmi to my GF.

Should’ve *gone

There’s still the trace left showing the reasoning, which is harder to fake than a complete document. The commits and commit comments would show a human style of building a narrative.

It’s not word for word, but a git repository with frequent commits with meaningful descriptions is easy to do, and then you can push to codeberg or wherever to have backups. That’s cryptographically signed and therefore strong evidence of what you wrote when, and what you were thinking.

I first heard this joke in the 1980s

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

Emacs is a pretty nice OS - all it’s lacking is a good text editor.

I guess I should take another look at evil-mode.

git config --global core.editor "ed"

if you don’t like using vim.