amccollum

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by amccollum 2mo ago
My uncle (John Monsour) worked on this movie as the “24 Frame Computer Sync Engineer”. Because film cameras and CRT monitors have different frame rates, you needed to use specialized electronics to synchronize them with the camera frame rat
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by amccollum 3mo ago
Ben & Jerry's actually adds/discontinues like 5+ flavors / year. I was told that flavors don't go to the flavor graveyard unless they have an interesting story, but it seems like they just haven't been adding an
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by amccollum 8mo ago
The standard tax deduction for car travel is $0.70 / mile in the US, which accounts for things like insurance, gas, maintenance, and depreciation. So $500 / month is around 700 miles, which probably around 90% of US drivers surpas
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by amccollum 8mo ago
I used to feel this way. In the early days of "ride sharing," I preferred Lyft and would sit up front so I could have a conversation with the driver, which they encouraged. It was really fun for a while, and I enjoyed meeting peop
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by amccollum 1y ago
They're not, at least not really. From Wikipedia: In April 2016, Rovi acquired TiVo for $1.1 billion.[8] In December 2019, it was announced that TiVo would merge with Xperi Corporation. The merger completed in May 2020.[9]
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by amccollum 1y ago
If everyone is using LLMs to write new code, and LLMs are trained on existing code from the internet, that creates an enormous barrier to the adoption of new programming languages, because no new code will be written in them, therefore LLMs
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by amccollum 1y ago
People were saying we would all be getting in our cars and taking a nap on our morning commute. We are clearly still a pretty long ways off from self-driving being as ubiquitous as it was claimed it would be.
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by amccollum 1y ago
The story of the bank built from bricks sent through the mail reminds me of the time I completed a move from Austin to Boston by packing all my possessions into rubber tubs and sending them by parcel post. The delivery date was a range, and
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by amccollum 2y ago
I don't know about the author's case, but often asset purchase agreements will make the principals / shareholders party to the agreement personally with specific liability provisions. If there are no assets left in the compan
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by amccollum 3y ago
This usage of "learnings", while certainly more common in "business jargon" today, was used by Shakespeare: https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view....
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by amccollum 3y ago
Take it up with Shakespeare? https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view....
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by amccollum 5y ago
Maybe because JS files (specifically add-ons) run from the local filesystem are given escalated privileges compared to normal usage, perhaps for ease of development. I'm just speculating, though.
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by amccollum 5y ago
If you're interested in these challenges (and trust me, these things all seem simpler than they are in practice), consider coming and joining us at Philo ( https://about.philo.com/jobs/ )! We're hiring for basi
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by amccollum 5y ago
Ha, yes — I haven't been at Facebook since well before they acquired Instagram, but you're right to note a certain amount of irony in the situation! Of course, I don't mind the comment, and happy to post another way to see wh
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by amccollum 5y ago
Yeah, totally, there are some pictures of the process and the final result here: https://community.glowforge.com/t/little-painted-lady-little... It shows some of the design elements, too, so maybe folks would be intere
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by amccollum 5y ago
We have a Little Free Library ( https://www.instagram.com/paintedladieslibrary/ ) that we painted/decorated to look like our house using a laser cutter and a lot of wood glue to mimic the decorative woodwork. Recent
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by amccollum 7y ago
At Philo, we believe so strongly that people need to take time off to do their best work, that we took it one step further — we pay people $1k / week to take at least 2 weeks off during the year. We also have unlimited PTO, and to my k
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by amccollum 9y ago
If they were going to do that, why wouldn't they just put it in the same bill? It would be extremely naive to assume that they are going to do anything on top of repealing the current NN protections.
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by amccollum 9y ago
From your post: It makes more sense for Congress to come up with a lasting solution that isn't subject to regulatory bounce-back, and this is what the bill being described in the article seems to do. From the article: But from what
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by amccollum 15y ago
I actually took this course in person when Professor Schocken visited Harvard. It is a fantastic course that is extremely valuable for everyone from those who only have basic programming skills to advanced CS students (I took it as a senior
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by amccollum 15y ago
I have pretty much moved to using CoffeeScript exclusively over JavaScript. One of the minor complaints I have (overall, it is magnificent) is that the looseness of the syntax sometimes leads me to doing a kind of guess-and-check style of p
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by amccollum 15y ago
Actually, it should be "Scott Adams's Controversial..." ( http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp )
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by amccollum 16y ago
Actually, Python does use a Boyer-Moore-Horspool variant internally for substring matching (I'm not sure about Ruby, though). See: http://effbot.org/zone/stringlib.htm Here's a link to the file in the Python SVN repo: http://svn.python.
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by amccollum 16y ago
Yeah, the title is misleading because really the problem described in the blog post is to store some unknown number of ints between 1 and 10,000. The better solution than a straight bitmap of 10,000 bits is to use all 4KB and devote three
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by amccollum 16y ago
I wager this system is very popular with house guests...
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Python Heatmap Library in OpenGL(pypi.python.org)
8 points by amccollum 17y ago|0 comments
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by amccollum 17y ago
Yeah, but their templates are specifically designed by them with this in mind, which is why there are only a handful to choose from and they aren't very interesting. Since we allow anything that can be done with CSS, and allow people to upl
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by amccollum 17y ago
Yeah, we implemented a build process that combines and minifies all the CSS and JS files, and also converts all the images to sprites to cut down on requests. The hash is to facilitate more efficient caching (you can set it to never expire)
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by amccollum 17y ago
Yeah, we're working on making "plaintext" styles right now. Even ASCII could use a little JobSpice love.
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by amccollum 17y ago
You can look browse the available styles in the Styles tab.

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