Ted Herman @tedherman@social.cleverlibre.org

@NPR My vote would be "Spot" - traditionally a dog name, but suited for this situation.

@carnage4life https://www.tipranks.com/news/fedex-nysefdx-consolidates-operations-pilots-fear-job-loss Could be another boom-bust cycle coming.

SuperEgo trucking. https://superegoholding.com/ The logistics of holding and controlling the Id.

"dogs have a unique sensitivity to exaggerated prosody"

Some rude person on the radio played Kylie Pirogue's Padum Padum, prefaced by saying "this will be with you all day". Sadly, this is true.

moral : amoral :: capsize : ?

(this one is tricky)

#Stockfish (I'm only on level 6) just resigned on move 151 presumably because I was a pawn up and didn't take a draw by repetition.

sometimes spam is welcome https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/business/maui-fire-spam-hormel/index.html

@mimsical One of the signature products (this under Boring).

Human historical GPT: for each era, train only on documents produced in that era. On the X-axis, so to speak, are the GPT-eras, on the Y-axis, the cumulative wisdom of that era. Now plot trends over time.

@mimsical https://janefriedman.com/i-would-rather-see-my-books-pirated/

I never expected AI to automate prudishness.

@asymco When the iPad first came to market in 2010, I was "pressured" into purchasing one (by family) as a gift. Unhappy with the price, my revenge was to purchase shares of AAPL, which I have held ever since. Which was the better deal, the iPad or the shares?

What is the game-theoretic best time to respond to a doodle poll? Go first? Go last?

@mimsical I am addicted to mechanical switches. After using cheap keyboards that fail after ~yr, it is just cheaper to use an mx-switch model. My only trick was to replace the keycaps with round typewriter-like ones that remind me of my father's Underwood. Recently I did a deep clean, removing tiny detritus and scouring with alcohol. I could see the attraction of all glass keyboards (https://gett-na.com/products/kgl-b10010 "medical grade") however uncomfortable and error-prone they would be.

@arnicas Can't you just automate the whole thing with LLM tech?

recent painting by Ukrainian

@cstross https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Runcible

@guan unrelated, but you might enjoy https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001pfb7