idreyn

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by idreyn 3mo ago
I'm rooting for this general class of technology as a platform for sensory augmentation for the blind. I don't know exactly what sonic encoding of spatial information is exactly ideal — I suspect it's something echo-like, onl
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by idreyn 5mo ago
Grok is that you?
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by idreyn 6mo ago
> He argued that Modern Chinese has become “lazy” by forgetting how to use its own verbs. instead of “researching” (研究, yanjiu), speakers “conduct research” (进行研究, jinxing yanjiu) I can't help but think of this classic essay about J
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by idreyn 6mo ago
I think the more mainstream understanding of transhumanism is closer to "post-genics" than eugenics.
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by idreyn 7mo ago
Flash created a medium. The particular genius of the authoring tool gave rise to a whole style of animation and game and thing-in-between that only existed in its time and could have only been created with the tool at hand. Software should
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by idreyn 7mo ago
did we read the same post? none of what was mentioned was even in the realm of entrepreneurship or anything ethically hairy.
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by idreyn 8mo ago
My word count has hovered around 100k for most of my three years of writing and revising. This does sometimes run up against limits on Claude (or recently, with Opus 4.5, compaction) but in the past the whole thing has fit just fine as a pl
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by idreyn 8mo ago
Yes. I am a novelist and I noticed a step change in what was possible here around Claude Sonnet 3.7 in terms of being able to analyze my own unpublished work for theme, implicit motivations, subtext, etc -- without having any pre-digested a
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by idreyn 8mo ago
NYC here, our three disconnected commuter rail systems would all like a word :)
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by idreyn 11mo ago
These maps are such a cool resource, thanks for sharing! "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson
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by idreyn 11mo ago
It is to render untrusted (user-generated) HTML without letting them slip in markup like script tags that could harm other users.
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by idreyn 11mo ago
Yes, it is. And yes, except that it wasn't. A SWF is about building common wealth inside the systems that finance capital built (in the same way that the 401k replaced the pension) rather than turning back the clock on them. How you ac
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by idreyn 11mo ago
This sounds a lot like a sovereign wealth fund. The government obtains fractional ownership over large enterprises (this can happen through market mechanisms or populist strongarming — choose your own adventure) and pours the profits on the
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by idreyn 1y ago
I would like a non-native speaker to weigh in, but I gloss it as "there are ONLY a few and this is ONE OF them" and have never found that confusing or contradictory.
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by idreyn 1y ago
It's a stereotype of his political opponents as adrift in selfishness, hedonism, and "gender stuff". When you find your thought patterns flowing through tropes this way it is a good sign to consider logging off for a long whi
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by idreyn 1y ago
This is clearly done by AI and I am disinclined to draw any conclusions from the anecdotes or data here because it all feels "synthesized".
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by idreyn 2y ago
On one hand, I wonder if a gradual transition would work. Spend enough time over the years mirroring your conscious patterns onto a computational substrate, and they might get used to the lay of the land, the loss of old senses and the appe
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by idreyn 2y ago
Been thinking about this. Do you have a snippet you can share?
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by idreyn 2y ago
this is very smooth and scratches an itch I didn't know I had -- to use a windowed OS on my phone
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by idreyn 2y ago
was also looking for some KEST GAK stickers
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Renders vs. real footage of The Ocean Cleanup waste capture [video](youtube.com)
2 points by idreyn 2y ago|1 comments
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by idreyn 2y ago
I have no affiliation with TOC; just thought this was neat.
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by idreyn 3y ago
Lovely. I've wondered about this for years but never knew quite how to frame a query to learn more.
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by idreyn 3y ago
WEI acts as proof that "this is a browser", not "this is a human". But browsers can be automated with tools like Selenium. I'd guess that with the advent of complicated, JS-based captchas, browsers under automation
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by idreyn 3y ago
I wrote to the FTC: https://gist.github.com/idreyn/a37e4249b326243e1714b14780717...
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by idreyn 4y ago
Hooks let you colocate logic that, in class components, would need to be split across multiple lifecycle methods. In practice you need to remove the event listener when the component unmounts. You can get reasonably close to a hooksy API fo
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by idreyn 4y ago
I have a hook that I copy around between projects called `useViewport()`. All it does is watch the current viewport size and updates its value when that changes. Because it's a hook, I can call this function from any component body:
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by idreyn 4y ago
I think that's basically right. They've been weaving "high-status outdoor adventuring" into their brand for a long time — think about the codenames High Sierra and Mavericks, or going to an Apple store and seeing a ski t
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by idreyn 4y ago
> there should be roving vans throughout the city moving and balancing the slots based on usage There are, and the system does rely in part on this rebalancing act to be functional. (Also to bring the E-bikes in for charging — sadly the
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by idreyn 4y ago
There was a recent article on a software-mediated version of (A) that seems to be happening all over the US: https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...

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