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New comment by krrrh in "Arm AGI CPU"

krrrh — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:04:47 +0000

I just listened to an interview with Carl Trueman about his new book which criticizes transhumanism.

New comment by krrrh in "Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives"

krrrh — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 12:50:15 +0000

This is funded by the mushroom dispensary stores operating in the open in Vancouver. LSD is very low risk for adulterants, partly because it’s cheap to produce and is somewhat separate from other supply chains, partly because the effective dose is so small, but it never hurts to send in a sample of anything, particularly white powders.

https://getyourdrugstested.com/

New comment by krrrh in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

krrrh — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 01:34:18 +0000

Also check Reduce Motion and the whole OS will feel more stable even if it’s only an illusion.

New comment by krrrh in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

krrrh — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:19:25 +0000

It makes sense when you realize that the US has a similar scope and a larger number of states in it than Europe did at the time.

Analogies between the United States and specific states in Europe often done work as well as US <-> Europe do.

New comment by krrrh in "U.S. Emissions Rise 4.2%, China's Fall 2.7%"

krrrh — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:37:40 +0000

Canada. But there aren't that many of us, and the absolute number and political units also matter if you care about warming as a practical problem. There are two interesting things about per capita CO2eq in this graph.

1. China is still trending up and the US is still trending down. It's dangerous to make straight-line projections but they are on trend to meet at some point.

2. The US per capita emissions appear to be on a steady downward trend since 1850. This is even more obvious if you discount the anomalous periods of the civil war and the Great Depression. You have to admit, that's something that demands unpacking.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s4fy286y7gwpqgmeltark/Screens...

Edit: Looks like Mongolia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE have the honour of being at the top actually. Might not be a comprehensive list.

New comment by krrrh in "Alberta separatism push roils Canada"

krrrh — Sun, 25 May 2025 04:38:39 +0000

All of Alberta was ceded to the crown through the numbered treaties prior to the establishment of the province. Are you implying that there’s something about treaty 8 that makes it different from treaty 4, 6, 7, and 10?

It’s all ceded territory, and assuming an independent Alberta retains the crown why would it present any issue?

> Indians DO HEREBY CEDE, RELEASE, SURRENDER AND YIELD UP to the Government of the Dominion of Canada, for Her Majesty the Queen and Her successors for ever, all their rights, titles and privileges whatsoever, to the lands included within the following limits, that is to say:

https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100028813/1581293624...

Even if Alberta became a republic or joined the US, its secession after all, a moment when old agreements which by their original text promising a fresh suit of clothes to each chief every 3 years and $5 per year to every band member are up for even more re-evaluation than they have already been subject to.

New comment by krrrh in "The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick"

krrrh — Sun, 18 May 2025 22:24:45 +0000

It’s fun to rewatch Days of Heaven once you’ve unlocked that each of the main characters is tied to a different element (earth, wind, fire, and water). That he could employ such a straightforward and have it all work so well is still astonishing to me. A nearly perfect film.

New comment by krrrh in "The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick"

krrrh — Sun, 18 May 2025 22:20:32 +0000

I saw it in the theatre and “what sort of animal is man?” has been one of my stock phrases ever since.

New comment by krrrh in "The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick"

krrrh — Sun, 18 May 2025 22:18:09 +0000

I love it too, I actually decided to never read the book because all the book readers I have talked to hated it.

Highly recommend the upscaled to 4k fan edit on YouTube. They splice in lost footage that was cut from Lynch’s initial edit.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=faHQA_0d9Mo

New comment by krrrh in "How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)"

krrrh — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:01:22 +0000

This sounds intriguing. Of note for anyone with an audible membership: The Goal is in the free library.

New comment by krrrh in "Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all"

krrrh — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 04:51:36 +0000

Labour won a majority of the seats but barely increased their percentage of the vote (33.7%) over what they managed in the previous election when they lost handily (32.1%). It was the most disproportionate election in UK history in terms of how popular vote mapped to seats won.

You may be technically correct but the comment above has a point. It’s not a strong mandate, and it’s more fair to emphasize that the Tories collapsed than that Labour won.

New comment by krrrh in "Heartbroken by the Sonos App Disaster and What's Happened to the Company"

krrrh — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 21:35:32 +0000

I was going to do the same thing.

I posted elsewhere on this thread how the third party app Clic for Sonos has saved me. Might be worth a try before you go through the expense of changing over.

New comment by krrrh in "Heartbroken by the Sonos App Disaster and What's Happened to the Company"

krrrh — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 21:31:30 +0000

The debacle caused me to try out all the third party apps and I finally found Clic (iOS only), which is made by an indie developer and implements lots of modern stuff that the official app will probably never get around to (live activities on the Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, an actually decent watch app). It’s such a great experience and I’m enjoying and using my Sonos system more than I have in years now.

This has been a great example of how a company culture can go off the rails, and management can chase dubious ideas that sound good, like cloud mediated controls or a unified react native codebase, while a single dev can make something many times better by working off more pragmatic assumptions.

New comment by krrrh in "In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)"

krrrh — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 18:44:36 +0000

I don’t understand this sort of comment. The warning windows aren’t “huge”. In practice is clicking through the dialog any more cumbersome than typing sudo and entering your password? In reality is the dialog any less appropriate for the average Linux desktop user?

Is locking down the System folder any more problematic than app armor, and any less useful for system integrity? Putting everything from brew under /opt follows UNIX conventions perfectly fine, definitely more than using snaps in Ubuntu for basic command line utilities. And installing whatever you want on macOS is just as easy as it is on Ubuntu.

This sort of complaint just gets so boring and detached from reality, and I’m not saying that you don’t use macOS but it reads like something from someone who couldn’t possibly be using it day-to-day. For me it’s a great compromise in terms of creating an operating system where I can do anything that I would do in Linux with just as much ease if not more, but also not have to provide tech support on for my elderly parents.

New comment by krrrh in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

krrrh — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 04:26:36 +0000

I’m curious if simply running the proton mail bridge on a Mac at home would allow the native mail app feed “semantic” context across devices to iOS.

New comment by krrrh in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

krrrh — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 04:19:32 +0000

I already linked to this article on Advanced Data Protection for iCloud (e2ee for most things) in a different comment, but it feels like a lot of people don’t know about this feature. It literally has zero effect on the user experience (except janky access to iCloud via the web, but shrug). Apple’s competitors don’t have anything close and their business models mean they probably never will.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/102651

New comment by krrrh in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

krrrh — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 04:08:07 +0000

> Apple is very intrusive

> Apple uses your data.

> they do other things too, a different way

What specifically do you mean? Their frankly quite paranoid security and privacy white papers are pretty comprehensive and I don’t think they could afford to lie in those.

> Apple should allow a personal you-have-all-your-data iCloud

Advanced Data Protection[0] applies e2ee for basically everything, with the exception email, and doesn’t degrade the seamless multi-device experience at all. For most people this is the best privacy option by a long shot, and no other major platform can provide anything close.

They’ve hampered product experience for a long time because of their allergy against modelling their customers on the cloud. The advent of AI seems to have caught them a bit off guard but the integrated ecosystem and focus on on-device processing looks like it may pay off, and Siri won’t feel 5 years behind Google Assistant or Alexa.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-ca/102651

New comment by krrrh in "Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute"

krrrh — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:34:59 +0000

Vancouver until fairly recently had the same thing. I remember a hostel downtown that had a boisterous bar where one side had the license and one side didn’t for some arcane reason and they had a three foot fence with a swinging door separating the two sides. Hostel stuff still tried to happen, one night I was there and a guy stood up and started playing saxophone and a bunch of people started dancing and the poor staff had to go into panic mode trying to get everyone to stop.

New comment by krrrh in "Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right"

krrrh — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 21:08:38 +0000

Can’t you just use a mouse and keyboard as controllers? It’s hard to imagine any hardware peripheral that would improve on them for making a keynote or we’d already be using it on our desktops.

New comment by krrrh in "The Best Essay"

krrrh — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:11:13 +0000

That’s a really great endorsement. I had Zinsser as a textbook for a non-fiction creative writing class in university. It was one of the only textbooks I never had a compunction to sell. Haven’t read it since then, but your comment will make me give it a re-read.