chrisbrandow

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by chrisbrandow 1y ago
I'm so glad someone documented this. it's been driving me crazy. I was just in a serious crunch mode for a couple of week, so all kinds of minor speed bumps in my workflow have become really evident to me. The UI transition betwee
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by chrisbrandow 1y ago
There have been a lot of studies that show the correlation with lead up and down and varied by lead in different cities countries with different phaseout timelines. Kevin drum and Rick Bevin both did a ton to lay this out systematically. As
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by chrisbrandow 1y ago
Somebody once shared an Easter egg on an iPad, where they wrote a little code in the playground app and were able to pull up the next logo from the ROM, or something like that. I reproduced it at the time, but I’ve never been able to find a
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by chrisbrandow 1y ago
Why?
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by chrisbrandow 1y ago
This really resonates for me. I have been thinking for sometime that it would be much more useful than scratch, if we could have a simple programming language with a simple canvas next to a text/console output, both of which were separ
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by chrisbrandow 1y ago
No one bothers going downtown much. Too much bother when they can just fire up Netflix.
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by chrisbrandow 1y ago
this is so incredible. I'd love if it supported continents.
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by chrisbrandow 1y ago
I have dreamt of some entity trying to do this. A completely stripped down vehicle sold for a (hopefully) sustainable profit. I wish them as well as possible, and they will have my interest in purchasing one.
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
And every restauranteur I’ve spoken to uniformly describe the last few years as miserable
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
Such a good writer. He always challenged me. Even when he had conclusions, I disagreed with, he always provided data that often challenged my notions. It is very odd grieving the loss of writers in the blog era. The para-social relationship
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
This and insufficient taxation of higher income brackets is basically my entire politics these days.
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
Almost all legitimate scientific research can be accurately described either in a way that sounds weird, possibly useless, or in a way that sounds important and useful. The former is usually characterized by describing the details of the e
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
That’s not really its purpose. I think it’s makers are generally going for a cool device for geeks
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
I had one when I was like 11 or so. Loved its fake Pacman game. I learned some Basic. Such a distinct memory of spending a whole day copying a program from Byte magazine (or something like it), getting the game to run well after my bedtime,
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
Side note: Medicare advantage is the worst. If you have an elderly relative, make sure they stay on traditional Medicare.
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Kevin Drum Ailing(jabberwocking.com)
4 points by chrisbrandow 2y ago|1 comments
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
Not sure how many of you still read Kevin's blog, but as Calpundit he was a very early political blogger. Always rigorous and thought provoking, he had a knack for cutting through BS. He's ailing, and I just wanted to let folks kn
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
I for one remain incredibly grateful that they shoveled money out the door, and imperfectly helped lots of small businesses provide some cash to some employees. If they had sat around worrying about the critics or trying to prevent any poss
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
“Cali”? No.
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
would it be possible to trigger profiles with Bluetooth Beacons?
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
I wish someone more knowledgeable could explain how this is currently valued at $25 billion. Is that legitimately $25 billion “on paper”, or is that like an initial “stated value”? I don’t even have the precise language for the question. Re
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
Assuming the energy input is atmospheric warmth, then the real question is what volume of ammonia can you produce with this device per acre? Then how does that amount of captured energy compare with wind/solar in the same area? Otherwi
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
wow. that took a real turn! Using coal to amend soil. I have some serious question about the heavy metal contamination that might result, given that both Lead and Mercury occur at ~ PPM levels, not to mention Chromium.
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
I long ago noticed the early 70's divergence of income inequality. I didn't realize that there was a Breton-Woods angle that some were pushing. I have no comment on that. I have always thought this was more closely related to the
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
I’m sure Musk is non-trivia part of this, but also there haven’t been any significant remodel, update or new models (for typical consumers, cybertruck is fairly niche) released in quite a while. At the same time tons of new e-vehicles are c
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
I think the primary point is that until the 20th century, most people did not ever have a choice. Communal living was the only primary successful strategy for survival, so we are fairly hardwired for that environment. In that environment oc
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
I think that’s one beautiful aspect of the scene in Schindlers list when they are agonizing over the list of names in tedious detail. It’s rare that this kind of work is dramatized without altering its quotidien nature.
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
Every 80’s kid knows this trick from those old books where you cross your eyes to reveal images.
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
Interestingly this paper probably underestimates things since it is not evaluating food sources, such as lead sweetened wine commonly drunk by the elites. I suspect the effects were non trivial.
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
the example he gave was multiline with variables. That's somewhat different than what search engines do. Also, it's almost exactly what Solver has done for years.

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