devindotcom

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by devindotcom 1mo ago
I don't think Gene Hackman was suggesting it was a Calvinist joint
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
no one uses ai for writing at tc. you're gonna end up chicken-littling yourself
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
funny to see you here rather than mefi jessamyn. thanks for everything!
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
"known" by whom, and documented where? if you're going to just parachute in and say this paper by domain experts is dead wrong, at least link to what you believe shows this to be the case.
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
accounts from ICE are not trustworthy or factual.
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
If you're at all interested in this stuff, Atmospheric Optics is a fantastic resource that illustrates and explains these phenomena with both depth and accessibility. Note that the menu on the left hides lots of layers. https:/&#
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
Oh, how wonderful. I've been meaning to pick this up but was worried about the accuracy and completeness of the old edition (not that I'd be able to tell, really). So this is great to hear: > This new edition – the publication
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
look up the actual origin and purpose of the turing test, you may be surprised
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
yeah, this is good advice unless you really want to get deep into it. the people doing the colors on these know what they're doing. that said it can be fascinating to look at the process and try it yourself so go for it. I bet it'
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
oh perhaps you're right. i thought they were clones, not alternative domains. i had that captcha issue as well, it disappeared through no action of my own. hope the same for you.
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
there are variations but some are shady... archive.ph, archive.today, etc. there's probably a central list somewhere.
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
heh yeah I ran into this with one of the few times I used claude desktop. it had no idea what features it had and didn't have, where buttons were in the app, etc. isn't that kind of a core category of knowledge you'd want the
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
no one understands what you are saying
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
your suggestion to cash strapped people who can barely afford rent is "just buy a house in new york"?
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
abominable
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
Lol. Imagining someone sneaking across the border from Mexico so they can work under the table to afford a $4k/mo 1BR in Hollywood
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
yeah this is what I heard from pretty much everyone in the business down there. since production has gone international LA can't compete with, say, Romania. You can ship out your must-haves and rely on locals for the rest, the savings
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
Excellent books, full of understated spectacle and really excellent wordplay. If you get into them you may want to pick up "A Sea of Words" as a guide to some of the more esoteric terminology. Pretty much guaranteed you'll be
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
this is a tangent but you should revisit your assumptions about giraffe anatomy. their necks actually weigh a tremendous amount and are kept upright by an interesting system whereby they actually stretch this giant tendon to bend down and t
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
"Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity and the less they are deflected by considerations of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare but to the equa
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
This is cool and I appreciate how compact it is. I'd love to have this as a regular load on my desktop. My only note would be that the precipitation graph feels unnecessarily bulky - wouldn't it work with the same type of horizont
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
Great book. But if you want some even earlier forward-thinking stuff, look up Forster's "The Machine Stops." It's not a full book, more a novella if it's even that. Extremely prescient! And of course if you haven&#x
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
the interface shows the top movies right now on https://www.themoviedb.org/
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
Looks nice. Personally I don't know I can go back to 220ppi, but if I did I would definitely pay for the touchscreen and light over the X4! Maybe you already have this, but I'd encourage you to put a "pure" reading mode
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
oh for sure I made no attempt to make them regular, not to mention some are Kare's. I was trying to make them as small as possible but that leads to its own kind of confusion.
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
had no idea, thanks for the link.
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
heh yes I do plan on doing something like that. it was just a little hobby thing I threw together last year. I've been meaning to harmonize the styles a bit and put small versions in the body text. Putting them at pixel-perfect size th
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
obligatory susan kare mention - her icons were amazing. I started making my own small, monochrome icons for a personal project ( https://anachronomicon.coldewey.cc/ ), trying to make them reasonably small while also intelligi
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
I know what you mean, but there is a reasonable distinction to be made especially for living persons. An "authorized" biography would be something like what Isaacson does, where they get exclusive access, anecdotes, and importantl
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
you are yourself commanding a well-meaning person to stop doing X, like some dictatorial authority, with no attempt at persuasion. I recommend reading past the headline before making glib dismissals - spicy but it turns quickly against you.

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