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Sep 08 2025

People in the Middle East Disagree About a Lot of Things, But I’m Quite Sure That They All Agree That This Is the Silliest Android Bug Ever

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There’s a popular podcast produced by the New York Times: Hard Fork. It talks about technology, and since a lot of people these days find it difficult to talk about technology without mentioning “AI”, the two Hard Fork hosts make two disclaimers in almost every episode: That the New York Times is...

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Jul 17 2024

“The fix is to complete the localization”. Not letting people do it is a bug. (Also, some non-standard observations about American health insurance.)

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It sometimes happens in people’s lives that someone tells them something that sounds true and obvious at the time. It turns out that it actually is objectively true, and it is also obvious, or at least sensible, to the person who hears it, but it’s not obvious to other people. But it was obvious...

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