wanderingstan

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by wanderingstan 21d ago
I used it to have people transcribe my dad’s handwritten letters and journals. It was touching to get notes from a “Turk” saying how much she enjoyed his travels and following the cast of characters in his life!
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by wanderingstan 2mo ago
I worked on a family archiving product (which dead ended) and dealt with this problem. My hacked solution was to repurpose the seconds value to encode precision, as you generally don’t care about seconds. I forget the exact scheme, but it
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by wanderingstan 5mo ago
I chose a toaster specifically because it's about the simplest electrical device out there, and thus pushes the thesis to the extreme. But smart toasters are pretty common: https://revcook.com/products/r180-connec
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by wanderingstan 5mo ago
Yes! Continuing on thoughts of LLM compression, I'm now convinced and amazed that economics will dictate that all devices contain a copy of all information on the Internet. I wrote a post about it: Your toaster will know mesopotamian
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by wanderingstan 5mo ago
Mine as well. 2 years ago my mind was blown that I could code in a language I didn’t know (scala) while on a log train ride with no internet (Amtrak) using a local model on a laptop. Couldn’t believe it.
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by wanderingstan 6mo ago
Here is the Dave Barry column mentioned in the obituary about George’s barbecue lighting: https://www.davebarry.com/misccol/charcoal.htm
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by wanderingstan 6mo ago
Exactly. To refuse the “gift” is an explicit statement of “I know I could do this silently but I want to bother everyone around me.”
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by wanderingstan 6mo ago
My go-to technique has been to offer the offender a pair of headphones, saying something to insinuate that they must forgotten theirs or be too poor to afford them. Most of the time they say “oh I have headphones!” and then realize that the
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by wanderingstan 7mo ago
I concur. And would just add two points: (1) Make it that you’re not asking for anything / don’t open with something that could be perceived as a setup to asking for money, or pushing a religion. :) 2) be sensitive to social cues or th
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by wanderingstan 7mo ago
The site seems to be getting crushed. Can someone summarize what it did?
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by wanderingstan 7mo ago
What motivation would the Supreme Court have to get “back on Trumps good side?” If anything, after his recent name calling of them I’d think they’d be less inclined to appease him. The can’t be fired.
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by wanderingstan 7mo ago
> Just what the process was in the scam that snared Mr Williams remains unclear but it appears the scammers were able to access his card details and add them to a new Google Pay wallet on their own phone. > "We're never goin
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by wanderingstan 8mo ago
And to give them credit: WhatsApp also had brilliant engineering that was able to scale with their popularity.
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by wanderingstan 8mo ago
Might you be mistaking Orkut for Google+? Orkut was the social network (owned by Google) that was hugely popular in Brazil.
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by wanderingstan 8mo ago
This is more akin to a race car driver give a review of, for example, a new type of electric car. It doesn’t matter that the driver is not a domain expert in electric motors and regenerative braking; what matters is he knows how to operate
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by wanderingstan 8mo ago
For me, I recently wanted to assemble a “supercut” of my videos of attempts at learning to bunny-hop a bike. The tool was able to craft a python script that used ffmpeg to edit out the no-motion portions of the videos and stitch them togeth
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by wanderingstan 8mo ago
> Attend every week. In my experience, this is the key. “90% of life is showing up.” If you are around the same people every week, for whatever reason, with even a minimal amount of openness and friendliness, you will get community.
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by wanderingstan 8mo ago
Yes, for years now I’ve had this creeping feeling that it’s a social version of the prisoners dilemma: if you’re the only one that puts down the phone (or gets off social media, etc) then you’re just left behind. It’s a coordination problem
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by wanderingstan 8mo ago
It’s the 2nd paragraph: > Methods We used a retrospective matched case–control design in a preregistered study to compare famous singers with matched less famous singers (total N=648) based on the matching criteria of gender, nationality
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by wanderingstan 8mo ago
Yes. And it’s so easy: `<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">`
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by wanderingstan 9mo ago
This is someone retelling a story they were told by a co-worker of an event over 20 years prior. It’s not surprising that he doesn’t go into the details of exactly what was tried, beyond the key parts of the story.
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by wanderingstan 9mo ago
It’s an interesting theory, but I had to downvote as you didn’t provide any references for your bold assertion. Is there data that bears this out? And even if there were, how could it be distinguished from more expensive lawyers simply doin
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by wanderingstan 9mo ago
I’ve gotten in several arguments over the years where webdevs insisted on showing tabular data using flexbox or hardcoded div widths or worse. They insisted that html tables were never ever to be used and couldn’t be persuaded.
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by wanderingstan 9mo ago
Related self promotion: this factoid about spaces, along with other fun slices in the evolution of writing, features in my decade-ago Ignite talk “For the love of letters” https://youtu.be/g1Rko-LG6aY?si=SbLDRnORPnKiXCxu
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by wanderingstan 9mo ago
There were specs competing for adoption, but only tables (the old way) and CSS were actually adopted by browsers. So no point trying to use some other positioning technique.
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by wanderingstan 9mo ago
Indeed. I just wish we could get a better sense of the scale, which is always hard in nature shots devoid of trees or human structures. A productive use of AI would be to place some houses and automobiles in the video for scale.
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by wanderingstan 10mo ago
I used this extensively in a past job where I had to have have a ton of terminals open and monitor/use them all, with each one serving a different role. (We were prototyping some really complicated experiences) I used this tool to give
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
I empathize. My dad is 98 and can mostly use his iPhone fine, but I just wish I could turn off all the “shortcuts”: He doesn’t get swiping down from different edges of the screen for control panel vs notifications. He doesn’t get hard-press
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
I agree that you should always have a pre-recorded version as backup, but live demos communicate a confidence in your product, and that can be worth something. Whenever I see a pre-recorded demo I wonder how many takes it took them, or how
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
Citation is needed for this: > It's not starving, not having healthcare etc that makes you sad so much I think as thinking others are getting it while you are not… While social comparison is proven to be part of happiness, the sci

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