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New comment by tookmund in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

tookmund — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:58:19 +0000

> I often see well-made books from the 17th or 18th centuries which are still in good nick

At the risk of stating the obvious, any poorly made books from then wouldn’t have lasted this long and so you would never see them.

Regular Reboots

tookmund — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:12:45 +0000

Article URL: https://tookmund.com/2024/03/regular-reboot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39840335

Points: 1

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Programmers are bad at managing state (2020)

tookmund — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 16:12:26 +0000

Article URL: https://nolanlawson.com/2020/12/29/programmers-are-bad-at-managing-state/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39808069

Points: 67

# Comments: 55

New comment by tookmund in "AAC and Debian"

tookmund — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:16:42 +0000

Huh I didn’t know about Dr Forest Radio that’s interesting! I’ll correct the “explicitly not grant” language, to me that seemed the same as it telling you to get a license, but I can see how that’s not the same.

New comment by tookmund in "AAC and Debian"

tookmund — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:04:28 +0000

The split approach is because the free version of the library is not yet in Debian. There’s probably some way to pull it from the new queue directly but cloning the git repo is easier.

New comment by tookmund in "AAC and Debian"

tookmund — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:02:30 +0000

It should be, but I’ve never gotten it to work with any Apple Bluetooth headphones. Only static unless I switch to AAC.

AAC and Debian

tookmund — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 18:20:49 +0000

Article URL: https://tookmund.com/2024/02/aac-and-debian

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39503266

Points: 51

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