Interesting Monkey / is on Nostr

Professional Canadian monkey, who likes tech, sports, and science.

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2025-04-11 01:23:53

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@nprofile…gw4z oh man. I’m twitch city. Mainly started when I started playing drums. I’ve got music going through my head 24/7.

2025-04-11 00:51:32

I call this “anti-drummer syndrome”. https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/114316538201290453

2025-04-09 01:08:52

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@nprofile…gw4z It’s weird, my students are using an IBM quantum computer over the internet. I don’t know what’s happening.

2025-04-09 01:08:04

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@nprofile…gw4z yes, well put, and that’s a pretty good def of supernatural that is more nuanced than mine.

2025-04-08 19:45:08

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@nprofile…gw4z Physics feels sort of supernatural to me though. The whole process of entanglement is mystifying to me and I wouldn’t guess that it would be true if people didn’t tell me so. Even quantum computers, which really do work and we can use (students here use them), kind of feel impossible to me and I don’t have any intuition for them at all.

2025-04-08 19:41:19

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@nprofile…gw4z he he. I guess so. Part of me defines “natural” to just be everything that is really happening, so supernatural is sort of impossible because whatever is happening is happening. But I know that’s not really what you mean in this case.

2025-04-08 16:30:48

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@nprofile…gw4z For what it’s worth (not much), I’m definitely in the first camp.

2025-04-03 14:14:37

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@nprofile…gw4z that’s my most frequent interaction when trying to figure out how to do something in software with an LLM.

2025-03-28 20:27:11

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@nprofile…gw4z @nprofile…52mh I could see the Apple Watch charger. But could you use it while connected to the cable?

2025-03-16 14:17:04

This is the kind of classic CS that made me love the area. https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/114172081965815764

2025-02-28 15:26:15

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@nprofile…gw4z I’m still not at all worried about Apple’s ability for Siri to be good within a year or so. These other guys don’t really have a moat. I was way more worried about iCloud after Mobile Me etc. than this.

2025-02-27 17:05:17

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Search string for Google web with no AI is “https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&client=safari&udm=14

2025-02-27 17:02:50

A month ago I posted about a userscript that allowed Google search in safari to redirect to the “web” tab which has no AI. I found a more general solution. There’s a Safari extension “xSearch” (a few dollars to work on all Apple platforms) that lets you change default search engine to eg Google with no AI (need to make a new search string with the appropriate Web URL) and let’s you make shortcuts like “g x” to search normal Google with “x”, or any other search engines like chatGPT or Wikipedia.

2024-11-07 20:09:35

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@npub1gnv…9uv2 That's too bad - I visited Singapore in 2005 and again in 2023, and the hawker food wasn't quite the same.
There is still something endearing about the small shops with actual people running things in Singapore, as opposed to North America where all the stores are the size of neighbourhoods, and there are more and more self-checkouts and the only humans left are those stocking shelves and checking that you aren't stealing anything.

2024-06-25 16:31:08

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@npub1l8q…f4up problem is, very few accounts bother to opt in to the feature.

2023-11-13 17:30:38

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@npub15x4…3p3l @npub1xzm…eykm that’s from early September.

2023-10-18 21:51:16

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Me too. I hate the "unexpected item in the baggage area" and similarly dumb messages. If a person has to come over and enter a username and password 10 times when I'm cashing out, something ain't right. The only time I use self-checkout is when there's a massive lineup at all other person-cashes, which tells you everything that you need to know about it. They need more people cashiers.