For future ref, script that claims to debloat OSX26's daemons. I haven't yet resorted to it. h/t Zooko for naming one of the daemons. gist.github.com/b0gdanw/b349...
Disable Sequoia Bloatware
Disable Sequoia Bloatware. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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February 2, 2026 at 2:27 AM
For future ref, script that claims to debloat OSX26's daemons. I haven't yet resorted to it. h/t Zooko for naming one of the daemons. gist.github.com/b0gdanw/b349...
Ahh, good to know.
btw this machine was the one I bought on the day of the tariffs to beat the price rise I expected (bsky.app/profile/abec...) but apparently Apple finessed that issue with some kind of bribe to Trump. Well, it's good hardware anyway.
btw this machine was the one I bought on the day of the tariffs to beat the price rise I expected (bsky.app/profile/abec...) but apparently Apple finessed that issue with some kind of bribe to Trump. Well, it's good hardware anyway.
Totally unrelated, it might be worth treating today as a kind of impromptu Black Friday, esp. if you live in the U.S.
February 2, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Ahh, good to know.
btw this machine was the one I bought on the day of the tariffs to beat the price rise I expected (bsky.app/profile/abec...) but apparently Apple finessed that issue with some kind of bribe to Trump. Well, it's good hardware anyway.
btw this machine was the one I bought on the day of the tariffs to beat the price rise I expected (bsky.app/profile/abec...) but apparently Apple finessed that issue with some kind of bribe to Trump. Well, it's good hardware anyway.
The hangup might've been Apple Intelligence turned back on by the upgrade. Dunno if I inadvertently accepted that change or they just snuck it in: but I just found that my iPad had also been Intelligenced without my realizing it.
February 1, 2026 at 11:58 PM
The hangup might've been Apple Intelligence turned back on by the upgrade. Dunno if I inadvertently accepted that change or they just snuck it in: but I just found that my iPad had also been Intelligenced without my realizing it.
I should dig up my 2021 comment I guess
January 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
I should dig up my 2021 comment I guess
like my mom was a Julia Child fan converted to the church of Weight Watchers in the 80s
December 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
like my mom was a Julia Child fan converted to the church of Weight Watchers in the 80s
counterclaim, American beef eating peaked around the 1950s or 60s and is way down (and quality seems down since mid-pandemic). Seed oils way up, both directly and by proxy in chicken/pork. I don't think it's that the replacement is more delicious or healthier, it's mainly bad epistemics. TBD though
December 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
counterclaim, American beef eating peaked around the 1950s or 60s and is way down (and quality seems down since mid-pandemic). Seed oils way up, both directly and by proxy in chicken/pork. I don't think it's that the replacement is more delicious or healthier, it's mainly bad epistemics. TBD though
https://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001812.html -- he used the word in a poem thinking it meant some kind of headgear, and maybe nobody told him otherwise for years
Language Log: Twat v. Browning
Well, the OED entry certainly suggests a story, but it's far from whole. In fact, the entry is a curious and interesting document:
itre.cis.upenn.edu
December 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
https://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001812.html -- he used the word in a poem thinking it meant some kind of headgear, and maybe nobody told him otherwise for years
it is easier, noninteractively, to be like Browning bringing up twats -- though yes in the limit we're all stuck in our skulls/datacenters
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
it is easier, noninteractively, to be like Browning bringing up twats -- though yes in the limit we're all stuck in our skulls/datacenters
fun fact, the hypertext system Xanadu used 'enfilades', like this SumTree scheme, in the 80s
December 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
fun fact, the hypertext system Xanadu used 'enfilades', like this SumTree scheme, in the 80s
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trurl_a...
the translation by Michael Kandel is extraordinary.
May be thinking of "Trurl's electronic bard" in particular.
the translation by Michael Kandel is extraordinary.
May be thinking of "Trurl's electronic bard" in particular.
Trurl and Klapaucius - Wikipedia
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December 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trurl_a...
the translation by Michael Kandel is extraordinary.
May be thinking of "Trurl's electronic bard" in particular.
the translation by Michael Kandel is extraordinary.
May be thinking of "Trurl's electronic bard" in particular.
atheist studying sources on the resurrection, concluding it really happened, and converting to satanism. I was wondering the other day if a conversion memoir ever went that way
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
atheist studying sources on the resurrection, concluding it really happened, and converting to satanism. I was wondering the other day if a conversion memoir ever went that way
sorry, been sick. *looks suspiciously at "low temperature pasteurized cream"*
This was ~a couple years later: web.archive.org/web/20001212...
I could elaborate on my first reaction but, like, the principal component is I'm a lot more with him than his haters
This was ~a couple years later: web.archive.org/web/20001212...
I could elaborate on my first reaction but, like, the principal component is I'm a lot more with him than his haters
The Low Beyond
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November 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
sorry, been sick. *looks suspiciously at "low temperature pasteurized cream"*
This was ~a couple years later: web.archive.org/web/20001212...
I could elaborate on my first reaction but, like, the principal component is I'm a lot more with him than his haters
This was ~a couple years later: web.archive.org/web/20001212...
I could elaborate on my first reaction but, like, the principal component is I'm a lot more with him than his haters
there was a good argument against "poverty of the stimulus"-type claims 30ish years ago, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rethink... (changed my mind somewhat)
and arxiv.org/abs/1104.5466 from 2011 was also forward-looking though it didn't envision pure Stack Moar Layers vs. trying to understand the workings
and arxiv.org/abs/1104.5466 from 2011 was also forward-looking though it didn't envision pure Stack Moar Layers vs. trying to understand the workings
Rethinking Innateness - Wikipedia
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November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
there was a good argument against "poverty of the stimulus"-type claims 30ish years ago, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rethink... (changed my mind somewhat)
and arxiv.org/abs/1104.5466 from 2011 was also forward-looking though it didn't envision pure Stack Moar Layers vs. trying to understand the workings
and arxiv.org/abs/1104.5466 from 2011 was also forward-looking though it didn't envision pure Stack Moar Layers vs. trying to understand the workings
It’s actually short and I thought rather sweet, if you enjoy an absurd setup. I don’t remember it clearly. Different topics afair
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It’s actually short and I thought rather sweet, if you enjoy an absurd setup. I don’t remember it clearly. Different topics afair
can't deny this sound inductive reasoning. (personally wouldn't call the source 'God', that character gets mixed up a lot)
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
can't deny this sound inductive reasoning. (personally wouldn't call the source 'God', that character gets mixed up a lot)
so much more lyrical! I'll check it out.
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 AM
so much more lyrical! I'll check it out.
I'd side with him though that it'll all be populated in the future (wish I were confident they'll be us)
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I'd side with him though that it'll all be populated in the future (wish I were confident they'll be us)
when I read what I guess was Eliezer Y's first webpage in the 90s I was like, well... what a strange mix of obviously bright and... foolish. Heard a bit later he was 17
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
when I read what I guess was Eliezer Y's first webpage in the 90s I was like, well... what a strange mix of obviously bright and... foolish. Heard a bit later he was 17
oh, great! this one? web.viu.ca/johnstoi//ka...
Kant: Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens
web.viu.ca
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
oh, great! this one? web.viu.ca/johnstoi//ka...
Opus 4.5 needed one hint, and didn't confabulate a different error. Really good by past standards.
(I haven't tried recent OpenAI models.)
This was an easy-to-grade test whether these AIs are good enough to improve my own work. I don't employ them that much so far.
(I haven't tried recent OpenAI models.)
This was an easy-to-grade test whether these AIs are good enough to improve my own work. I don't employ them that much so far.
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Opus 4.5 needed one hint, and didn't confabulate a different error. Really good by past standards.
(I haven't tried recent OpenAI models.)
This was an easy-to-grade test whether these AIs are good enough to improve my own work. I don't employ them that much so far.
(I haven't tried recent OpenAI models.)
This was an easy-to-grade test whether these AIs are good enough to improve my own work. I don't employ them that much so far.
curious remark from a writer imaginative enough to compose en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...
(which admittedly I haven't read; all the Kant I've cast my eyes over was as much of a slog as everyone says)
(which admittedly I haven't read; all the Kant I've cast my eyes over was as much of a slog as everyone says)
Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens - Wikipedia
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November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
curious remark from a writer imaginative enough to compose en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...
(which admittedly I haven't read; all the Kant I've cast my eyes over was as much of a slog as everyone says)
(which admittedly I haven't read; all the Kant I've cast my eyes over was as much of a slog as everyone says)
fwiw Feynman apparently took something close to that as a goal: digital.archives.caltech.edu/collections/...
Richard Feynman’s blackboard at time of his death
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November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
fwiw Feynman apparently took something close to that as a goal: digital.archives.caltech.edu/collections/...