Posts by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
(DIR) Post #APhNZ6kB856piYfPV2 by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
2022-11-17T01:54:43Z
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Exploring those classic questions of journalistic ethics, like “if a guy you barely know confesses to embezzling 8 billion dollars in your DMs, are you allowed to do your job?”
(DIR) Post #AQ09sHbREmNAT2tcAq by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
2022-11-26T16:42:05Z
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I am truly heartbroken by what the internet has become. A vast trove of free knowledge is now almost entirely a series of aggressive trap doors waiting to capture your email address and break promises.
(DIR) Post #AQ5DC2vgm1C0P4HcS8 by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
2022-11-29T02:13:45Z
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The hardest lesson I have to learn over and over is that caring what other people think of you almost always backfires.
(DIR) Post #AQx5kgsASs2Z28TsbQ by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
2022-12-25T02:52:15Z
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The BBC has to be one of the most bizarre public institutions I’ve ever seen because it funds history programming, but also game shows where if you get the answer wrong, you are squirted with a garden hose.
(DIR) Post #AR6SyqTRbvlMEYH5bU by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
2022-12-29T15:39:08Z
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There is nothing less real than a BeReal cross-posted to Instagram.
(DIR) Post #ARNp1PnqjNBTQLC2dM by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
2023-01-06T21:26:36Z
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Everything in computing is eventually either an acyclic graph or hash table.
(DIR) Post #ARNp1SIPSiol9hVTXs by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
2023-01-06T21:27:21Z
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Usually, both.
(DIR) Post #AReN8ZXDyqldZubfLE by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
2023-01-14T19:31:17Z
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The American educational system’s conflation of the literary idea of a “theme” and a “moral” has really hurt English-language storytelling.
(DIR) Post #ASf0qOtlxVGkUBJ1k0 by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
2023-02-14T05:31:47Z
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The last few years in tech really feel defined by everyone who actually understands the technology begging executives not to do something that will obviously not work, then all of us having to watch as they do it anyway, and it doesn’t.
(DIR) Post #ASf1PJpimdQwuZ3rVI by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
2023-02-14T05:33:04Z
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“Large language models will accidentally lie to users and destroy your credibility as a search engine” is not a surprising revelation for anyone who has spent time with generative text. Yet here we are, billions of dollars later.
(DIR) Post #ASj4gHrmQTa6EGe9gm by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
2023-02-16T04:13:22Z
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Looking at hotels in Seattle and the upgrade room from in one of them is called "King Size, with Peloton"
(DIR) Post #ASj4gKDTgm7rW8oVmq by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
2023-02-16T04:27:07Z
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Imagine getting upgraded and instead of a view they hand you a bicycle.
(DIR) Post #ASj5TUHn2UdwwAGzg0 by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
2023-02-16T04:36:22Z
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Also a compelling option.
(DIR) Post #ASj5TWIvXEk1CGovj6 by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
2023-02-16T04:42:28Z
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Is it better or worse once you know the boardroom/bedroom combo is on the first floor?
(DIR) Post #AT1dlklDQ5xUX1CFoO by nathan@breakpoint.cafe
2023-02-24T20:13:54Z
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Whoever came up with this localStorage key name will have to forgive me for being a little skeptical.