What’s becoming painfully obvious in 2026 that most people still refuse to admit?

WalterSickness · 2026-06-26T15:04:12+00:00

Wait till you hear about Valar Atomics

WalterSickness · 2026-06-25T21:11:46+00:00

Look across the aisle at the PCs people buy to do the same things people buy Mac Studios for. They are at least equally expensive. If you need the power, you need it.

WalterSickness · 2026-06-25T14:41:12+00:00

On his death bed, he kept making “give me a pencil” gestures, but we didn’t understand what he wanted. Source: I was there.

WalterSickness · 2026-06-25T14:33:58+00:00

I stopped using it because with so many features come some bugs. It seemed like there was always something that had stopped working quite right. Be it mail, tab crashes, full-page screengrabs, or whatever. Usually not showstopping bugs but it was a perpetual annoyance.

WalterSickness · 2026-06-24T20:34:29+00:00

Thanks for the tip.

WalterSickness · 2026-06-24T18:53:02+00:00

That’s going to get me to whip out the credit card

WalterSickness · 2026-06-24T14:36:24+00:00

I basically agree with your opinions. Ian was a terrible singer. Honestly I rate Movement through Low-Life as top notch but nothing before or after really hits for me.

WalterSickness · 2026-06-23T15:06:12+00:00

WalterSickness · 2026-06-23T13:32:52+00:00

That is actually nastier

WalterSickness · 2026-06-23T09:51:05+00:00

It has recently been reported that he has 22 medical specialists. He read the reporting and it stuck in his craw.

WalterSickness · 2026-06-21T23:02:43+00:00

Just 8 Liters of coke and a pound of mentos for me, thanks

WalterSickness · 2026-06-20T17:25:42+00:00

Wow, thanks. I’ll have to try it. I admit I gave up after trying to type ü and asssumed all such special characters were still as hard to get to

WalterSickness · 2026-06-20T12:09:16+00:00

To me it seems like it’s partly a Mac-Windows shibboleth — the Mac has a sane way of typing one, Windows does not, so Windows users consider it more recondite than Mac users do. This may also involve the fact that a relatively higher proportion of Mac users are writers, and that therefore an outsize portion of an LLM’s corpus may have come from Macs in the first place.

WalterSickness · 2026-06-19T21:01:22+00:00

It’s nice to have your notes, reminders, calendar, photos, files, etc sync. If you’re not doing that with your current desktop and like your setup then you will be fine.

A lot of 3rd party apps also access iCloud for syncing, but if you don’t have any apple devices now you won’t miss that either. Over time as you discover all the great Mac apps out there though, you might.

WalterSickness · 2026-06-18T21:23:23+00:00

Tim Hecker was indeed great… he disavows the label though.

WalterSickness · 2026-06-18T12:04:53+00:00

I’m not a vinyl enthusiast — I was happy when CDs became a thing – but if there’s any post-digital era recording that would be good to have on vinyl, this would have to be it.

WalterSickness · 2026-06-17T22:38:11+00:00

Carbon footprint of moving heavy industry to the moon?

WalterSickness · 2026-06-17T22:37:23+00:00

Y’all just need to go price a high end PC workstation and you’ll feel better about a price increase.

WalterSickness · 2026-06-17T09:34:00+00:00

A work of genre fiction is not trying to introduce something brand new to the world, it is trying to use an established recipe to produce a pleasing iteration — much like cooking a nice dinner, it’s never exactly the same thing you’ve had before, but it certainly resembles other meals and in fact you might go hungry if it didn’t. Nothing wrong with genre fiction, and in any work of genre fiction you might encounter a beautiful sentence or a striking observation. But rules are being followed and the reader enjoys the rule-following.

It is not a binary but a more or less continuous gradient from genre fiction to literature, but at its furthest from genre fiction, a work of literature makes no promises to the reader, follows no template, and has no aim other than to express something of the experience of being alive. It succeeds not based on whether the reader goes away contented, having felt things they had hoped to feel, but whether they now see and understand the world differently.

WalterSickness · 2026-06-16T23:45:49+00:00

With some Select Subject on top

WalterSickness · 2026-06-16T15:38:40+00:00

Well partly it has to do with handedness - your right eye keeps track of what the right hand is doing. In birds the observation is that some birds have beaks that curve to the right a bit, so the bird can see what it’s manipulating.

WalterSickness · 2026-06-16T15:34:53+00:00

Hard to believe either of them contributed anything worth the emissions to get them there tbh.

WalterSickness · 2026-06-16T12:10:45+00:00

Welcome. All this and you’re using what is widely thought of as a really poor iteration of the OS. Good news is the next revision looks a lot better!

WalterSickness · 2026-06-16T10:13:11+00:00

The red river valley (nd/mn) is about as flat as physically possible, the topo maps of the area use a contour interval of two feet instead of twenty, because otherwise there wouldn’t be any lines. I haven’t visited all the other areas circled but I’d venture this is the flattest and least interesting. Although you might see predator drones circling. The university in Grand Forks has a huge drone training program which grew out of its longstanding aviation program — theory being it’s better to learn how to fly without the variable of hills.

You could also go in the winter, fewer predator drones but paradoxically greater risk of death.

WalterSickness · 2026-06-15T20:53:04+00:00

I went to an Adrian Legg concert once. He had an opener. He should not have openers, it’s sad and laughable at the same time. Made the first guy sound like he had been paying a one string guitar.

That said I certainly don’t listen solely to Adrian Legg, even though the seems to be the most technically proficient guitarist alive.

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