JKCalhoun

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by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
FWIW, savings rates have been coming down.
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by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
"Here is what better advice looks like: don't buy/sell any securities unless you, personally, know exactly how and why you're going to profit from it." For people like Warren Buffett, that's his full-time job—f
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by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Yeah, that was fine. It meant I got out riding my bike more often.
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by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Oh, cool. If the car has ads it means it's free then. Right?
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by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
OP refers to details from the book that are not in either film. “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind”…
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by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Yep. Streetside Records in Kansas City, not that Tower Records crap. Employees got to put on whatever music they wanted. I should ask my friend who worked there—but there was a lot of fun they had with that. Perhaps, with their musical sele
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by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
"…the Sherman Oaks Galleria…" Yeah, there are some things I'm not nostalgic for at all.
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by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Yeah, the DMV is basically about it now.
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by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Without rephrasing it… I determined that Ann is 16. I'm not sure why it needs rephrasing—it seems pretty straightforward? What am I missing? 16 works (as another pointed out). Ann is 16 and Mary would have been that age 8 years ago—whe
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
The U.S. will have to come around to that. I'm not sure how low it has to sink relative to China , but there will come a time when it will be seen as the obvious strategy. Perhaps Great Depression II will be the spark as Great De
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
I had no problem treating raising kids as throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks—and to be sure, a lot of stuff did not stick. Of course I had the financial means, which my mother did not. And so I was raised playing with typing
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
When working on PDFKit for MacOS, one short-coming our implementation had was the lack of support for Javascript in PDF's. Oops. (I mean, I'm one engineer and I was not going to try and hoist a JS runtime in my little PDFKit frame
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
I don't buy that. You can't convince me someone shopping at Dollar General has aspirations of becoming Elon-Musk-wealthy.
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
Is it fucked up that we've become hyper-skeptical these days? I mean, skepticism to a degree has probably always been a healthy thing. And then of course there were the Conspiracy Theoreticians. Are more of us hitching up to the crazy
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
I'm increasingly okay with that. Like mom turning off the TV because I should be out running around.
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
Engineers of a certain age, sitting around, kicking around ideas for a modern Hypercard… what a great pass-time. Scripting language? Javascript? Python? SDL3 for cross-platform rendering, audio… Should the "cards" just be a subs
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
Agree. Apple Vision Pro was a dud because the whole VR category is a dud. People are starting to kinda hate tech. People don't seem to be looking for yet another "smart manacle". Time to move on.
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
Not OP, but I do similar. I only de-spine a book if it is in poor condition (and I have a nice copy). Some of the material I scan is stapled instead of glued and I can remove the staples, scan and replace with new (not rusted!) staples to r
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
Low-E glass in the U.S. is supposed to reduce this by blocking a significant amount of infra-red radiation.
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
In theory, houses are close to this. The attic is supposed to allow air to flow—the house itself having an insulating blanket on all sides. My home though appears to have very limited air flow in the attic-space. I'd like to get those
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
"he's not really anti Vax" Ha ha, what a glowing endorsement.
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
I highly recommend road-tripping to those that can. At least once a year I end up driving out from the Mid-Waste to the Bay Area or SoCal. A few years ago the wife and I traded duties to drive to various parts of Alaska and back. We've
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
People will tolerate a "daily run" (or walk). I noticed other co-workers going to the gym during the day and realized I could take a break as well. That's when I started to take walking breaks. No one ever said anything. (I q
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
I'm only counting 3 frontier models in the U.S.… Oh, Claude tells me Llama and Grok might count.
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
If they have a sort of "wander UI", that's cool. I'm not sure what that looks like though.
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
"…LLMs only exist in the virtual world, whereas we're interacting with a world that's richer and has much more to offer." I have a gamer friend that believes, having played 100's of 1st-person games, that he has had
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
"I'm not sure why it's such a popular narrative that all art is just some kind of recombination of existing things; it's not." I would like to see art that was "created in a vacuum" so to speak. I am not a
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
"…truly original in the way many high-quality fictional stories are." The older I get, the more "nothing new under the sun" returns again and again.
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
"Is a creative human then just not splicing and recombining their experiences into their creative output?" I do think so. The difference is that, even apart from synthesis, the creative human knows how to filter out the shit idea
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by JKCalhoun 3mo ago
"To avoid the tedium, I decided that I would also flip to a random page of every book I shelved and read a random sentence from it." Also, this is about the lost joy of "browsing". I wonder how much serendipity played wh

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