billbrown

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by billbrown 21d ago
For me, his best work was Muppet Treasure Island. I'm glad I watched this BTS video with him: I had no idea he had a stroke in 2012 and hasn't acted since. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzU8f4HaQw0
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by billbrown 1mo ago
I suspect it's related to EU-required watermarking: > Having said that, in areas where there is an arbitrary choice between particular words or terms within the code, the watermark can be used, such as comments within code. But by d
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by billbrown 1mo ago
You could create an output style to make this prevalent.
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by billbrown 2mo ago
Dust can reduce capacity by 40% in the desert. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40807-017-0043-y
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by billbrown 2mo ago
I wish philosophers—everyone, really—would provide a definition of their neologisms. I'd prefer a succinct, Aristotlian one but I'll settle for anything approximating it. This is probably the best source, but it's completely
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by billbrown 3mo ago
The guy who called the Federal Reserve the "penny in the fuse box" of the economy was not an "Ayn Rand disciple" by the time he took the chairmanship. Power as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under Ford really
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by billbrown 3mo ago
I didn't see that anyone had done it (and I think the commentary has died down entirely) but here's an Artifact that extracts Ries' responses plus the original question into a table: https://claude.ai/public&#
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by billbrown 3mo ago
100% this. People used to read newspapers and books on mas transit and Walkmans have been with us since the early 80s. I think it comes down to people not _wanting_ to interact with anyone outside of their circle. I pull out my earbuds _con
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by billbrown 3mo ago
It's normally been called a "white elephant" but this framing is a perfect completion to Torvalds' previously-two-part troika. Thank you for sharing it!
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by billbrown 3mo ago
I thought this seemed significant at the time: https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx/pull/1983
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by billbrown 4mo ago
And it blames the sidelining of more than half of LA's fire trucks at production delays for new fire trucks? Well, I say "blames" generously—what it really does is "insinuates" since it never connects the consolidat
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by billbrown 4mo ago
Everyone talking about "biff" should be aware that it's actually "bttf" like "back to the future"
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by billbrown 4mo ago
There was an effort to disinvite him as soon as it was announced that he was the speaker.[1] And then when that failed, activists passed out flyers encouraging students to boo Schmidt during his speech.[2] This all took place before he set
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by billbrown 5mo ago
Have you met shovelglove? https://shovelglove.com
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by billbrown 5mo ago
I've told everyone I hire that "I hired you for your mind so always use it." Push back on requirements, question my decisions, think about your approaches. I can''t imagine telling them now to stop—use the Ersatz In
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by billbrown 5mo ago
I use it both ways: 1) Day job 2) Side project It would be unprofessional to treat the first like the second.
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by billbrown 5mo ago
AI is Augmenting (Actual) Intelligence.
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by billbrown 6mo ago
Yes, underthinking is rampant. Glancing at "AI" output is not reviewing code: you have to grok it (in the Heinlein sense) in order to treat it as your own.
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by billbrown 7mo ago
One thing that I _love_ with the browser is this extension: https://github.com/timkuijsten/BoundedBikeshed It lets me see the top-level comments with some indication of the thread depth. Totally changed my post scannin
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by billbrown 7mo ago
Check out Wonderfalls, his first series.
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by billbrown 7mo ago
And Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies, two of my favorite shows ever.
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by billbrown 7mo ago
If you like Lee Pace, watch Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies.
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by billbrown 7mo ago
Dig up Wonderfalls, his first series, and Pushing Daisies. They form the Lee Pace Triumvirate (with Halt and Catch Fire) as far as I'm concerned.
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by billbrown 7mo ago
It's terrific. Just rewatched it for a third time.
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by billbrown 7mo ago
Also, if you loved Patriot, the creator has two podcasts stemming from it: https://www.lgclaret.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-techniques-in-mode... (And he's also done two ba
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by billbrown 7mo ago
I'll second Patriot and add Perpetual Grace Ltd. from the same creator. I'd also add the two other legs of the Lee Pace Great Television stool: Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies.
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by billbrown 8mo ago
He's the Chuck Norris of StackOverflow, maybe.
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by billbrown 8mo ago
I hate "vibe code" as a verb. May I suggest "prompt" instead? "I was able to prompt the React site…."
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by billbrown 11mo ago
I've heard it said that "work is not done until it's reported done."
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by billbrown 1y ago
What an odd response! I never mentioned ICE so I suspect you're arguing against someone else. The 40% "wasted sunlight" doesn't have a cost—sure, yes, kind of besides the point—but it also generates no electricity. That

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