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by bsimpson 5mo ago
That might be the worst take I've ever read on this website. It's just free hugs, but more theatrical.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
A friend introduced my to CouchSurfing in ~2009. The idea that a stranger would effectively be a free Airbnb host (back when Airbnb actually had hosts) was baffling. Turns out: 1. Travel is expensive in time and money. Hosting someone giv
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
It's bonkers that some of the most expensive gas you'll ever buy is in SF, and Martinez is right there . You could bike there, if they allowed bikes on the bridge.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
I usually use git and open source tooling, but I've been working with our internal tech stack recently. It includes an editor with AI-powered autocomplete, and it drives me crazy. It populates suggestions nearly instantly, which is co
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
That surprises me. I knew there was a hid-steam, but I didn't know its provenance. FWIW, it appears Valve is sponsoring development now. Vicki, one of the maintainers of the SteamOS kernel, is the most recent contributor to https:&#
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
It's an ecosystem problem though. If all the games respected HID and Valve did something proprietary, I would understand the skepticism. The truth is that most games are engineered with platform integration (e.g. for achievements, con
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
I'm not sure that's Valve's fault. Windows is designed for gamepads to emulate an Xbox controller. All those Steam Deck competitors are implemented as an Xbox controller with a partial keyboard grafted on. That's why y
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Fusion is a really cool tool to learn. It's a flavor of 3D modeling called "constraint-based." You've heard the adage that if you give a million monkeys typewriters, eventually one will write something coherent? Constr
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
TIL Turner was a creator of Captain Planet.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Turner also gave us Cartoon Network and [adult swim].
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
When I was in college in the 00s, there was a Hollywood theater that was renowned for having assigned seats and charging close to $20 per ticket. Neither of those is remarkable now, but they were both unheard-of then.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
I feel like Messenger was originally a new front-end for the send message feature of thefacebook.com's social network for college students. It was based on the PHP architecture where all the messages are in a database and you just ren
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
The overloading of return to either send a message or add a newline has become really annoying since chat apps (and then now AI) have become popular. You have to keep a mental context of whether you need to hold shift before you press retur
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
> The terms we use, like "thinking" and "reasoning," may look like reflection from an intelligent agent. But these are marketing terms slapped on top of AI. One of my AI epiphanies was the realization that when an AI
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
The coauthor (and presumably cofounder) is Clay Bavor. He's a Google exec who was the face of their VR efforts when he was there.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Vimeo was part of CollegeHumor.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Don't forget WebCrawler!
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
I only know them as a consumer, but IAC is truly one of the most scourge-of-the-earth companies. They're retreating to publish People Magazine now, but they monopolized concert tickets as Ticketmaster, and online dating as a rollup of
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Sounds like he lived to be 80 and died recently of cancer. That's a better outcome than I'd feared.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
So much of surveillance should be blatantly illegal/unconstitutional, but I really don't understand how there can be such a thing as documents that are illegal to possess.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
The US adopted credit cards before the rest of the world, so we ended up with a worse network (essentially ossified at v1 when later adopters got v2 or v3). Corona paranoia incentivized upgraded to tap-to-pay, but it was already prevalent i
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
I think I was one of the first people to try Flask. I learned Python so I could take advantage of AppEngine for free and easy modern hosting, which put me in the right spot when Flask launched. I've long been an admirer of Armin&#x27
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
…have you met Google?
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
Satya got his own line of "maybe Microsoft's not evil anymore" press cycles out of it.
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
The problem is that what users want GitHub to be and what their owners (Microsoft) want them to be are disjoint. If AI replaces software development the way that big tech company management wants it to, maybe they'll converge again. I
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
I feel like MS went out of its way to make a point that GitHub and NPM would be independent orgs that no longer had to worry about making keep-the-lights-on money. It was positioned as a benevolent acquisition for the good of the developme
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
926648 checking in. I had just tried asking Gemini to help me get there, and it kept telling me to read line 2 of github.com, as if they were serving JSON on their homepage. :facepalm:
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
There's also one at the entrance to Google's High Line Cafe in NYC (above the Chelsea Market).
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
Or as Daniel Tosh put it: "It buys a WaveRunner. You ever seen a sad person on a WaveRunner?"
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
Didn't Square do that a couple weeks ago?

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