edbaskerville

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by edbaskerville 5mo ago
& if they live in a cool place, they're getting a small space heater as a bonus.
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by edbaskerville 6mo ago
Can you give more details? It wouldn't particularly surprise me if Sam Altman were racist, but I'm curious what the specific incident you observed was.
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by edbaskerville 6mo ago
The good news is that the Trump regime is unpopular, and doing crazy things is making them more unpopular. The bad news is they keep doing crazy things.
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by edbaskerville 6mo ago
Political donation spam is a plague. I ran a donation website in 2018 and 2020 that split up money among many candidates, and by far the biggest complaint was the flood of email that came after using my site. In 2018 there wasn't even
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by edbaskerville 6mo ago
Mountains Beyond Mountains was an incredible recruiting tool for health equity work, inspiring a huge number of people (including my partner) to try to follow in Paul Farmer's footsteps. (Farmer himself died a few years ago, at only 62
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by edbaskerville 7mo ago
I'm really starting to hope the costs are unsustainable and semiconductors hit a brick wall. But I'm not optimistic.
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by edbaskerville 7mo ago
Switched to this from Apple a year and a half ago. Works for most things. Unexpectedly, replacement apps lack polish. Also, RCS works very inconsistently (been without it for months), seems to be Google's fault. There may be workaround
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by edbaskerville 8mo ago
Old Macs in the background. Electronic soundtrack reminscent of Chariots of Fire, which played during the Mac intro.
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by edbaskerville 8mo ago
Worse is better. Because better, it turns out, is often much, much worse.
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by edbaskerville 8mo ago
It is possible for a devoted individual to do this, but it is not possible to solve deep societal problems one devoted individual at a time. We still need massive regulation of addiction-based business models.
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by edbaskerville 9mo ago
Drove through SF this evening. Most people treated it as a four-way stop! I was generally impressed.
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by edbaskerville 9mo ago
TikTok (along with the other platforms) is more like cigarettes, or sugar. It's highly addictive. The negative effects are somewhat diffuse and may take a while to really impact your life, but they're very real. And, rather import
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by edbaskerville 10mo ago
Other folks have given general answers, but I'm wondering, what ISP do you have, and where? (I'm lucky to have Sonic, in the SF Bay Area. A local ISP that actively campaigned for net neutrality and has 1Gps symmetric as the standa
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by edbaskerville 10mo ago
Clever! But I think you might have forgotten to simulate moderation/dang. Sex and Nazis on there already.
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by edbaskerville 10mo ago
In the US (edit: and elsewhere!), "beaming" worked great between Apple Newton devices, including the pretty cool eMate 300 (an early Jony Ive creation, I just found on Wikipedia). In 1993.
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by edbaskerville 10mo ago
> As an outsider looking in I'm starting to wonder if this world is just a bunch of academically capable but socially stunted individuals being preyed on by socially voracious people like Epstein with no morals? The present-day tech
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by edbaskerville 10mo ago
Oh man. It's not just Apple. I've had months of RCS not working on GrapheneOS, and have no idea who to blame. The first time it stopped working, I fixed it by switching carriers (AT&T -> T-Mobile). Maybe I'll try switc
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by edbaskerville 10mo ago
Indeed. In the not-too-distant future where renewables are the vast majority of generation (sooner in China than in the U.S. at current rates of progress), the weather matters more and more.
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by edbaskerville 11mo ago
You can blame Chuck Schumer, but I agree that it's wrong to blame the rest of them.
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by edbaskerville 11mo ago
Bill Kristol has come a long way! He would vote for Mamdani...over Cuomo and Sliwa anyway. https://www.cmcforum.com/post/bill-kristol-says-he-would-vot... You can hear him discussing it here: https://www.the
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by edbaskerville 11mo ago
They were! Typing...in Haskell...on a keyboard...on their screen...
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by edbaskerville 11mo ago
To summarize: the ear does not do a Fourier transform, but it does do a time-localized frequency-domain transform akin to wavelets (specifically, intermediate between wavelet and Gabor transforms). It does this because the sounds processed
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by edbaskerville 11mo ago
> One thing to keep in mind when using the connection pool: the connection pool needs the ability to track which connections are currently being used. To do this, the connection pool does not return Connection but ConnectionRef, a struct
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by edbaskerville 11mo ago
I think the really interesting problem in this space is designing UIs and data structures that, on the one hand, capture as much user intent as possible, but, more importantly, make it easier for users to manage conflicts. I.e., if there&#x
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by edbaskerville 11mo ago
Robert Dinero?
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by edbaskerville 11mo ago
For a second I thought you were citing some special mythological timeline from AI folks. Then I got it. :) Something so mundane that maybe the AIs can help prevent it.
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by edbaskerville 11mo ago
This argument seems right to me. Old ICE cars are basically the same as new ones. EVs are getting better quickly, so fast depreciation makes sense. I avoided a used Leaf for exactly the reason you cited...2.5 years ago, and have been very h
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
Craig Newmark was...checking Wikipedia...42, 45 at incorporation of craigslist.
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
Oh hey Balateros!
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
Both are true. The cello wasn't a popular solo instrument. Pablo Casals was a celebrity who made the instrument a much bigger deal. The cello suites rode on his celebrity.

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