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“Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it.” — Kermit in The Muppet Christmas Carol 🎄

Going through more of my mom’s things, still miss her every day. And thinking of my dad often too, even though it has been many, many years now.

Every now and again, a post I read on Mastodon weeks ago pops back into my head. It said: We should keep the bigots out and let all the good normal folks in. It does sound simple, doesn’t it? Everything is such a shitshow. Why don’t we simply keep the bad ones out and let ...

Here's the transcript of the conversation. One thing it is not good at is being reliable at saving transcripts. I find a lot of times people can't read it. Reminds me, this is the kind of thing Firefox could be excellent at. Give it a way for an app to say hey the user asked for a transcript. Here it is. Save it where they're expecting to find it. No reason the browser can't have a JavaScript accessible API, or is there some rule they can't add functionality to their APIs?

For years, the AI race was defined by a fierce competition to hire and retain a small group of elite

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Watch sports for long enough, and you will come to learn an ironclad yet vague rule: There are some things that a man simply cannot say to another man.

This law of dudehood is most often invoked by a player following a game in which there was a particularly spirited bout of shit-talking. One party will sometimes end up more aggrieved than the other in these circumstances, and it is when they are asked to explain their ire after the game that you can expect to encounter this particular talk about guy talk.

ChatGPT is getting smarter. Just did a project, where I was setting up a playground just to ask ChatGPT how to get it to do what I want. Because CSS is impossible imho for me to ever understand, it has mastered it, and was able to answer the question I brought before I asked it. It got it right. I asked how did you figure out that's what I came here to ask you about?? It gave me an exact technical reason. If we keep going this way soon we're going to wonder at the human hubris to think we could develop systems that could in any way equal to the systems it can develop. We've been thinking about this eventuality for my whole life, now it's here.

Scott Jenson is sad over the stagnation of computer desktop design, a field with still-untapped potential for making humans way

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How much you will or won't enjoy the Caleb Williams experience depends almost entirely on the timing of your dosage. Catch him during one of those quarters when the Bears can't buy a first down and all Williams seems capable of doing is avoiding pressure and throwing the bal...

Before we get into the review of ObsidianOS, let’s talk about A/B partitioning. It is essential to everything about ObsidianOS.

The post ObsidianOS, a Challenging but Reliable Linux Distribution appeared first on The New Stack.

For this year’s holiday celebrations, Hallmark made a special Christmas tree ornament, a tiny monitor displaying screens from the classic

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The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better.

The Mac Mini is a fantastic little computer, but you'll need one of these great monitors to complete the setup.

Lossless audio is the first step toward audio nirvana. But what is it, does it really make a difference, and how can you get it? Here’s what to know.

I'm told there are now over 4.5 million podcasts in existence.

The industry is worth 40 billion dollars, 158 million Americans tune in monthly, and the medium has finally achieved the kind of cultural ubiquity previously reserved for terrestrial radio or the evening news.

But if you

My year in review:

Some things worked. Some things didn't. The kid grew taller. The work got harder. I wrote the words anyway. Drank the coffee. Paid the rent. Lost a few people. Found myself still here.

That's the year. That's every year. That&

Wander into any bookstore (I dare you.) 

The non-fiction table will be all but dominated by the usual suspects: Malcolm Gladwell's latest exploration of how some counterintuitive thing is actually the opposite of what you'd expect, a David Brooks meditation on character and virtue, something

In these final weeks of 2025, The Sunday Special is looking back at the year in culture. Today, we’re talking about the TV we watched this year — the best shows, the most popular ones and the ones that allowed us to just enjoyably veg out. Gilbert Cruz talks with the TV crit...

To celebrate the holidays, we’re looking back at four archive Fresh Air interviews discussing popular Christmas songs: First, jazz singer Mel Torme tells Terry Gross about co-writing “The Christmas Song” on a hot summer day, in an interview from 1977. Then we hear from songwr...

A tiny tool for checking if an email domain is disposable.

We are witnessing a strange paradox in software development. Thanks to AI code generation, more open source code is being created today than ever before. Yet, s