Procrastes

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by Procrastes 7mo ago
I'm going to assume you mean this seriously, so I will answer with that in mind. Yes, I can. - I can build an unusual, but functional piece of furniture, not describe it, not design it. I can create a chair I can sit on it. An LLM is j
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by Procrastes 9mo ago
Fun! Mine is https://billglover.com
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by Procrastes 1y ago
I have --- set to autocorrect to —. I've been using it in formal writing for 30 years. When we were in high school, we had a "Dash Party" in English class, where we ate Twinkies and learned about the different dashes. I would
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by Procrastes 1y ago
I'm a lifetime member and have enjoyed mynoise.net for many years. It's the best thing I've found for focus and distraction blocking. I have brain.fm, and YouTube music, but I keep coming back to his site because it's ju
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by Procrastes 1y ago
I loved my TI-99/4A. I used to think it was ahead of its time, but now I realize it was from an altogether alternate timeline where we built stuff to work.
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by Procrastes 1y ago
This captures something I've been struggling to describe, and "Whatever" is the perfect term for this. Private Equity & Financialization: Whatever for business Flood the Zone & Deadcatting: "Whatever" for po
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by Procrastes 1y ago
That's definitely how we worked at the Sun offices. And since we hoteled, I never knew where I would be sitting. I loved it really. It felt very minimalist and slick.
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by Procrastes 2y ago
It's interesting that your experience is different, but in my region and social circles, I haven't seen anyone wear a watch in ten years or more, other than the occasional smart watch. That habit doesn't seem to last long, ei
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by Procrastes 2y ago
> and leaves muscles alone But might destroy your bone marrow's ability to create blood cells[1]. 1. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/aplastic-anem...
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by Procrastes 2y ago
I'm someone who used to use this phrase frequently after reading Feynman, but stopped long ago after realizing how lazy the story was. It became a popular phrase with the same crowd it most closely described. That's about the time
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by Procrastes 2y ago
See also, the prophet Wovoka and the Ghost Dance in North America. 1. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wovoka
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by Procrastes 2y ago
New for me, I guess: - Doing a massive tech modernization for a global nonprofit. -Ghostwriting educational email courses for agTech founders who want to convert more customers or investors. - IF I'm good and get my chores done, I may
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by Procrastes 2y ago
I'm just glad I lived to see this.
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by Procrastes 2y ago
It took me one question to hit a censorship block. Do I win?
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by Procrastes 3y ago
I've published traditionally and it was a great experience. The publisher (O'Reilly) was great to work with, and the editors made a tremendous, positive difference in the finished work. That was many years ago. Since, I've mo
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by Procrastes 3y ago
This focuses on the argument that some hyper-sophisticated future LLM will not discover the secrets of the universe on its own. That's plausible, but beside the point when it comes to the potential dangers of A.I. Not all future A.I.s
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by Procrastes 3y ago
I've been trying out "Technical Wealth" for that purpose. I think it was coined by Andrea Goulet.
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by Procrastes 3y ago
I had so much fun reading and contributing to Orion's Arm when it first started. It still has some of the best SF world building I've ever enjoyed. I'd love to see more wide-open shared world fiction out there. SCP is a great
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by Procrastes 4y ago
My wife used to live on Edward's Air Force Base which has been a reserved sonic boom corridor all along. Just some learnings for that lifestyle. Don't keep fragile things on narrow shelves and you have to glue the bottom of every
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by Procrastes 4y ago
It's more of a windy plateau at high altitude, liberally decorated with tornados and nukes.
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by Procrastes 4y ago
Most are now out at the Mariposa Land Trust just north of town.
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by Procrastes 4y ago
My favorite story by qntm is "There Is No Antimemetics Division"[1]. It's disturbing in a cosmic sort of way. 1. https://books.google.com/books/about/There_Is_No_Antimemetic...
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by Procrastes 5y ago
My twitter is about 90% writers, mostly fiction. I find it pleasant and informative. I did alot of cleanup to get there. I do sometimes run into Awful Twitter clicking through from news stories and blogs, so I can see that not everyone&#x27
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by Procrastes 5y ago
I'm also impressed with the implementation for the blog itself. I love this sort of clean, version-tracked sort of implementation.
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by Procrastes 6y ago
Don't let those negative reviews get you down! I'm traditionally published. We get some amazing trolls. They're just noise. Great that you are making things and teaching, and even more awesome that you are giving back with fr
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by Procrastes 6y ago
Right there with you. At the time it was the saddest thing I'd ever seen. It's stuck with me all these years.
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by Procrastes 6y ago
Also see: Show HN: Real-time multiplayer games with cubes. Early feedback on dev docs?[1] 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26109153
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by Procrastes 6y ago
Alot of his books were published by Dorset in the 80s. He passed away in 2018. So I'm assuming this is his estate and family re-releasing the books. I'm not sure if the Indie covers are an intentional branding approach or an indic
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by Procrastes 6y ago
While I don't disagree with your main point, I think climate change mitigation is going to require great than 100% employment, moving whole populations, building dams and levees, digging super-tornado bunkers. Fun times!
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by Procrastes 6y ago
To celebrate, there should probably be some sort of dance or ball. It's coming up on Halloween; it could be a masquerade[1]! What could go wrong? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death

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