jonbell

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by jonbell 1y ago
The exact same thing jumped out at me, for the opposite reason. I have unlimited data + tethering, so I can use my laptop with fast internet anywhere. That's the big breakthrough for me, not the glasses+phone combo. Working in a park i
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by jonbell 2y ago
For me it was more than my first scan. I understand the word is Majorana, but when I go to pronounce it or read it, my brain reports back "Major-auwana." The people who signed off on this name a) do a lot of drugs or b) didn'
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by jonbell 2y ago
Funny side note: he was paid $1 of salary
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by jonbell 3y ago
1) More spam on Android by far 2) Spotify not blocked There’s a bit of religion happening in both directions. iOS has, objectively, fewer problems than Android in these regards and part of that are the policies.
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by jonbell 3y ago
Yup. Weird internet never went anywhere. You’ve always been able to find bespoke, organic, locally owned, premium grade A hipster indie stuff online. It’s just not as popular to as many people.
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by jonbell 3y ago
There was a whole trial about this. If Apple had these deals, it would have come out. Google and Apple ran things differently.
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by jonbell 3y ago
Fair. This paper found the same thing. Women on teams leads to better results. But “token” members of teams do not. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01389-w
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by jonbell 3y ago
These are all reasonable questions. Here’s one paper of many that explains why the answer to your question is yes. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01389-w
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by jonbell 3y ago
If you know that putting four wheels on a car works better than putting three wheels on a car, that doesn't make you biased against three wheels. It makes you biased towards better results. We know that "thought diversity" on
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by jonbell 3y ago
[Late update: I am a genius]
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by jonbell 3y ago
I love Pi, but I'm not on the market for asking it to act like Hitler or talk about relating to Mother Teresa or not. The ability to say "Hey what's happened in the OpenAI saga in the last 8 hours" or "How did <m
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by jonbell 3y ago
In that spirit, here are some thoughts. * Sam goes to MS * Sam stays at OpenAI * Sam starts his own thing His own thing feels super unlikely because he’s said he’d go to MS. Staying at OpenAI feels super likely since the staff revolted. 50%
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by jonbell 3y ago
You win
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by jonbell 3y ago
It’s not 1998 anymore, you’d be surprised
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by jonbell 3y ago
Correct answer
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by jonbell 3y ago
It’s possible be extremely smart in one narrow way and a complete idiot when it comes to understanding leadership, people, politics, etc. For example, Elon Musk was smart enough to do some things … then he crashed and burned with Twitter be
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by jonbell 3y ago
Impossible challenge
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by jonbell 3y ago
It’s a bit long for the TLDR crowd, and it was passionate. But no, it was a good post and the cultural expectation to keep things shorter and more buttoned up has some real downsides. I would have written this with more punch, but, well, se
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by jonbell 3y ago
This entire thread should be saved in the Smithsonian. It’s the most epic bikeshedding about the stupidest idea, with people emotionally tying it to their pet peeves. Capitalism! Walled gardens! Free software! No, it’s just a bad idea becau
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by jonbell 3y ago
TIL the term “brown study”
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by jonbell 3y ago
You know, I had learned POSSE a long time ago but forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder!
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by jonbell 3y ago
Hi, I'm the author! * Instagram makes you log in after swiping a few screens * Twitter used to do the same thing, probably not anymore The argument isn't rss versus not rss, or logged in versus logged out. I'm arguing that sp
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by jonbell 4y ago
I love this! Robin Sloan has been encouraging people to think in these directions this year, and is trying to help these inventors find each other: https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/ I have my own contrib
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by jonbell 5y ago
lol
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by jonbell 5y ago
Anyone want to join me? Let's try it out! https://live.skittish.com/event/jon-flash-mob
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by jonbell 5y ago
Replay’s designer here. Bingo! We’ve been iterating on our story for a year, and the “let’s refer to Learnable Programming” angle felt like a huge breakthrough. So glad it resonated with you, thanks for letting us know!