Ah, fair point. When someone says “org-mode” I think of the file format usually, but I guess that’s probably not what colournoun was saying.

But also, apparently Emacs is on android

There are at least two org-mode apps on f-droid

We found “strong evidence” for pain experiences in adults of two orders, Diptera (flies and mosquitoes) and Blattodea (cockroaches and termites). There was also “substantial evidence” in adult Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants, and sawflies), Orthoptera (crickets and grasshoppers), and Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) […]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0065280622000170

The article is written by the computer scientist.

Typography instead of colour is used in the wild, in the Listings LaTeX package!

Windows 10 Home Edition famously advertised candy crush in it’s start menu

Ah got it. I was thinking about dense vs sparse arrays or containers

Sparse is better than dense?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35839912

This will not affect you directly. This is implemented via Google Play Services, any phone not running that will not verify signatures.

https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots

Specifically note the updates

(Added 2015) Some of the documents that we previously received through FOIA suggested that all major manufacturers of color laser printers entered a secret agreement with governments to ensure that the output of those printers is forensically traceable. Although we still don’t know if this is correct, or how subsequent generations of forensic tracking technologies might work, it is probably safest to assume that all modern color laser printers do include some form of tracking information that associates documents with the printer’s serial number. (If any manufacturer wishes to go on record with a statement to the contrary, we’ll be happy to publish that here.)

(Added 2017) REMINDER: IT APPEARS LIKELY THAT ALL RECENT COMMERCIAL COLOR LASER PRINTERS PRINT SOME KIND OF FORENSIC TRACKING CODES, NOT NECESSARILY USING YELLOW DOTS. THIS IS TRUE WHETHER OR NOT THOSE CODES ARE VISIBLE TO THE EYE AND WHETHER OR NOT THE PRINTER MODELS ARE LISTED HERE. THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE PRINTERS THAT ARE LISTED HERE AS NOT PRODUCING YELLOW DOTS.

+9 appears to be currently shivving +10, so my money is with them

I may have misunderstood the assignment

Github has recently dramatically reduced what you can do without logging in

You should be able to make continuous fibre-reinforced hot extruder filament, but you would either need to print very specific models or have a cutoff mechanism if you don’t want the mother-of-all-stringing

I did post this before reading the article, the entire premise of the (CEOs quoted in the) article is “AI more productive therefore less work required” which only shows that the several CEOs mentioned including Bill fucking Gates are all deeply and inexcusably ignorant of labour or even economic history.

Productivity has more than doubled since the 5 day workweek was introduced ¹. We could have that right now. At least a four day work week has been proven to be more productive in multiple studies.

So what can AI do that hasn’t already been done?

^{1 Fought and died for}

and a mew nozzle

Glad they were responsive, I’m used to customer support lines just pussyfooting around.

Hopefully they weren’t just trying to prevent you caterwauling

I wonder if the old fan failed due to tin whiskers?

I’ll see myself out

Been Emulating Every Radio-frequency-handheld-supercomputer

For non-fiction I’ve read Chokepoint Capitalism and The Internet Con. The Internet Con was a lot like his online essays, to the point where it felt redundant, but he does good essays so if you haven’t read them it’s a good way to get around his work. Chokepoint Capitalism was a little more novel (probably in part because he coauthoured). Neither were very dry, which is significant for the genre.

Fiction, I’ve read Walkaway and Unauthorised Bread. Walkaway is good worldbuilding with both fascinating and bizarre ideas, but I don’t think it’s good fiction. Unauthorised Bread is a short story available online and is excellent.