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   David Hembrow (hembrow@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 20:56:03 JST David Hembrow

   This is the peak of bicycle technology.

   It's a bike which a local customer brought around yesterday because it's been a few years and she thought it was about time that someone had a look at it.

   I know it looks terribly old fashioned, but hear me out:

   This is a reasonably light-weight, efficient bike, with effective gearing and brakes. Nothing on it is unmaintainable.

   This bike came out of the factory in 1982 (May 1982 according to the stamp on the rear hub). It has admittedly had a fairly good life, always having been kept indoors, but it's been ridden a lot yet needed almost no work.

   The front rack had a broken non-essential part which I removed. The rubber strap / snelbinder over the rear carrier rack was broken so I replaced it, and the skirtguards were perished and falling apart so I replaced those as well. Otherwise, I've just checked that things were working and added a bit of oil. One of the pedals was running roughly until I oiled it.

   Bike shops don't sell bicycles like this any more. Modern bicycles are not designed to last a whole lifetime, like these were.

   https://www.dutchbikebits.com
   #bicycle #BikeTooter #cycling #repairability #righttorepair #netherlands #ProperBicycle #NotAnEBike #dutchbikebits

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   Alan Johnson (acjay@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 02:45:08 JST Alan Johnson

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   @clive @thomasfuchs @Gergovie It reminds me of Prolog a bit. When I first learned it, I was like "holy shit, this is incredible". But then you learn the fundamental limitations, and how the workarounds to those limitations undermine all the good parts. Then you understand why it remains a niche technology.

   It's possible we're already pretty close to the local maximum of LLMs as a technology. If so, I still do think it's pretty impressive.

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   Dana Fried (tess@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 05:05:39 JST Dana Fried

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   It's okay to be an evangelist for good technology.

   It's okay to turn off a feature like motion smoothing on their TV where there's really no downside.

   But going and changing the software they work with in a way that will affect their workflow materially is not cool. It's the kind of weird "I know better than you" consent violation we see all too often from people here on Mastodon.

   (I've also heard of people switching out Windows for Linux and I hope those people enjoy their eternity in hell.)

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   volkris@qoto.org's status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 02:51:25 JST volkris

   @thisven

   The exact same approach can be taken on Twitter, though.

   Yes, Twitter does provide the additional official option, but this out-of-band approach is also available, just as a matter of knowledge and using available technology.

   It doesn’t rely on any particular ActivityPub functionality.

   @briankrebs @jerry

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   Carl T. Bergstrom (ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 09:07:12 JST Carl T. Bergstrom

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   @waldok l

   This story follows a previous @arstechnica story that somehow managed not to notice that hard drives sent to a data recovery company are not a good sample from which to estimate hard drive failure rates and instead blames SMR (shingled magnetic recording) technology.

   It even notes that the previous study sounded too bad to be true, but then takes the Backblaze results as evidence to the contrary.

   https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/hdds-arent-as-durable-as-they-used-to-be-study-of-2007-damaged-drives-suggests/

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 19:14:33 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   Daily Inspiration: "Maybe it's a good time to put some intelligence around your artificial intelligence strategy!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   I built a new little microsite through the weekend - give it a look at https://jimcarroll.ai

   Why did I do this? Because it's becoming pretty clear, pretty fast, that there is so much FOMO-driven momentum around AI right now that CEOs and senior executives are quickly coming to get to the 'WHY' of the AI-related action plans they are hearing from excited staff.

   "WHY are we doing this?"

   The page intro captures the essence of what I've been thinking:

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   The acceleration of AI is not just about technology.

   It's also about the promise and the peril, the opportunity and the challenge, the disruptive impact and the strategy. It's about leadership.

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   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2023/04/daily-inspiration-maybe-its-a-good-time-to-put-some-intelligence-around-your-artificial-intelligence-strategy/