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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.

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

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

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Who needed leaks to know that?

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

MaysonL

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

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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...

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

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Just wait ‘til Gas City ships.

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

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