morley

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by morley 1mo ago
Have you seen this 1-acre Vermont farm? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT6O-4zbP6E I'm not a farmer so I can't speak to how much of this is unreproducible, but it does seem very interesting. The paper pot transpl
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by morley 3mo ago
Can I ask how you gained preview access to Fable 5?
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by morley 3mo ago
I didn't realize whistleblowers could recover part of fraud settlements: > The civil settlement includes the resolution of claims brought under the qui tam or whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act by Sholto David. Under
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by morley 4mo ago
Is there actually a shortage of usable farmland? (If anything, I think the world would be better off if farmers used their land more efficiently and sustainably.) If the cost of energy is a problem, I feel like we should fix that problem in
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by morley 4mo ago
I'm finding it a little hard to believe that GPT 5.5 is in 11th place for webdev, outranked by models like Kimi, Qwen, and Z.ai. I'm not saying it's not true (I have noticed GPT being less smart in recent weeks), but this is
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by morley 4mo ago
$2bn is their entire marketing spend, so it includes media buying, creative, in-store displays, PR, research, and anything else involved in the marketing mix. FTA: > The confectionery giant, home to brands like Reese’s and Skinny Pop, is
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by morley 5mo ago
For a more informed deep dive into data center water usage (albeit many months old): https://www.construction-physics.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-dat...
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by morley 6mo ago
"Leave them alone" is easy to type into a comment textbox but is much more difficult when it's a neighbor, or a family member, or someone else you have to interact with at a regular interval. I highly recommend the book Hidde
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by morley 6mo ago
Out of curiosity, what colors (or text treatments) do you personally prefer to confer "gain" and "loss"?
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by morley 7mo ago
In some cultures, you signal respecting someone's time by not bothering them. In other cultures, you signal respecting someone's time by making small-talk with them. Advice about making small talk vs. not making small talk is not
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by morley 8mo ago
I personally don't want to trawl through Twitter to find the current state-of-the-art, so I read Zvi Mowshowitz's newsletter: https://thezvi.substack.com/ His newsletter put me onto using Opus 4.5 exclusively on D
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by morley 8mo ago
I think this is a distinction between comedy and non-comedy genres. There are many examples of protags in American comedies who never get their way -- Party Down, Seinfeld, Always Sunny. Part of this is the need for American sitcoms to main
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by morley 8mo ago
I really miss gallo pinto. I went to Costa Rica in 2009, and since then, nothing has been the same (in NYC). It's mind-boggling that such a simple recipe can be so good in CR but so bad over here! I hear there are some Costa Rican rest
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by morley 8mo ago
Ah, I knew I recognized the friendship between Jeff and Sanjay -- they were the subject of a New Yorker article in 2018: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship... EDIT: And HN at th
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by morley 11mo ago
One number is not going to work for everyone. The only way to be sure is to get a blood test for Vitamin D levels. I get tested with my yearly physical, but if someone really cares they can get more frequent blood tests.
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by morley 1y ago
Privy just got purchased by Stripe: https://privy.io/blog/announcing-our-acquisition-by-stripe
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by morley 1y ago
By the way, if you liked this post, this taking-silly-things-way-to-seriously is the comedic wheelhouse of Nathan Fielder.
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by morley 1y ago
But the point still stands: if it's so straightforward, why give this person this treatment, instead of millions of other people?
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by morley 1y ago
I wonder how hard it is to change a game engine to render images like this, and if the effect would be preserved while panning.
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by morley 2y ago
I don't know why you've been downvoted so much. I'd expect a company to issue replacements, not refunds, when they're not the end retailer.
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by morley 2y ago
I was under the impression that Community Notes were designed to be resistant to sybil attacks, but I could be wrong. Community Notes have been used at Twitter for a long time. Are there examples of state-influenced notes getting through th
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by morley 2y ago
Some comedy works have endured, like Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (though it is helped by its huge influence on To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis).
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by morley 2y ago
It's moving to schedule III, though the new company it's in really highlights how it should be descheduled instead: > It moves pot to Schedule III, alongside ketamine and some anabolic steroids Hopefully the first step but not
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by morley 2y ago
I don't read "it exists because it has to exist" in the parent's statement. They're saying that there's an advantage one way and a disadvantage another, and evolution favors advantages. I wouldn't characte
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by morley 3y ago
I've played Textorcist! It's a solid game, and it's fun insofar as it's challenging and makes you want to play it more. (It's been a couple years since I've played it, hence the vagueness.) IIRC there's a
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by morley 3y ago
My first job out of college was at an ad agency. The level 1 playbook of all agencies is to find the "hot new things" in the zeitgeist and figure out how to turn it into advertising.
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by morley 3y ago
NYC is also interesting in that landowners are responsible for maintaining the sidewalks in front of their property instead of the city. Depending on your point of view, that's actually a solution to the problem you pose: the costs of
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by morley 3y ago
There's a bit of storytelling embellishment. I believe it's covered in the FAQ: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
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by morley 3y ago
This is such a great blog post. I wish I had read this ten years ago.
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by morley 3y ago
The "how" took some reading to find. Here it is: > They filled one field with water, as is common in Bali, but they drained the other, wetting the soil only when hairline cracks were spotted in the earth

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