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by gcanyon 2mo ago
I read a pretty compelling argument by a lawyer that we're looking at this the wrong way. (I Am Not A Lawyer) Their point was that if the law is knocking on your door to legally search your house, and you have records of your criminal
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
It's a machine that has custom medallions in it, typically themed to the location. All but one that I've seen have been aluminum. You pay in, then you have an arm that you can spin around an alphabet to select a letter. Then you p
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
I'm much more interested in the metal typer(?) -- machines that have a custom medallion in them and you get to stamp a message into their circumference letter by letter. Is there any map that lists those?
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
For me it's one step removed from that: I'll remember exactly what I was told or what I read, but not at all who told me or where I read it. My brain does not care about sources.
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
I find my memory is very selective. I wanted to get in touch with a coworker from five years ago: I had to look up his name on linkedin. My wife texted me "Hotlips died" and with no effort I texted back, "Oh no, Loretta Swit
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
Seattle has wild (foreign, invasive) blackberries all over the place, and in Summer you can easily drive around a bit, spot them, and then spend twenty minutes picking and eating them. As someone from southern California, it's a marvel
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
So instead of training Air Traffic Controllers to play video games, you trained Gamers to direct air traffic? It's Armageddon! :-)
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
This was a core point of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Per that book you are asking for the impossible.
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
See if this works: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HUQV3IRNtTUt7sorTuJ3Wg6fqwQ...
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
I've seen potato guns (obviously much larger bore than this) and inflated bicycle tires to 100psi+ How do you imagine making the cycle time better "by a very wide margin" compared to lifting 100 pounds less than 10 feet?
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
I think the cycle time on this would be far superior to a pneumatic system: cycling this system effectively means lifting ~100 pounds ~8 feet, which a reasonably fit person (who could reach that high) could do several times a minute for ext
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
Not sure if this qualifies, but here goes: I wrote a hard science-fiction novella. It's intended to be scientifically accurate to special and general relativity, with just one tweak that permeates throughout. https://docs.go
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
It doesn’t matter whether it is a good move; just whether they think it’s a good move.
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
It seems appropriate to mention Jonathan Livingston Seagull here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull It's an allegory about personal development, told through the story of a seagull who loves
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
> My prediction: In a couple years, the main way we'll talk with our AIs is with our thoughts. They will not be a super-smart automated intern or coworker that you desperately try to keep up with. They will be a natural, joyful exte
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
Nice!
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
I also ride a recumbent: Catrike Expedition. I'm not sure I would get the subtleties of the chain guides correct. What's yours? https://www.catrike.com/expedition
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
Depending on how deep you want to go down the rabbit hole, that's possible-ish now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5xi3Usi0i8
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by gcanyon 2mo ago
It's funny to me, because I have a very strong spacial sense, and a lifetime of riding bikes. To the limit of my ability to draw, I can draw a flawless bicycle, down to the interlocked path the chain takes and the hanger on the deraill
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
I think you're underselling where we'll get to in the next 5-10 years. I'm thinking: Best Beatles song recorded between Rubber Soul and Revolver, composed mainly by McCartney but Lennon wrote the bridge and Ringo was feeling
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
Great, now all I need is (checks the closet) any of the dozen or so powermacs I owned over the years to not have left my possession...
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
For anyone working on a Mac, I highly recommend Sim Daltonism. It gives you an interactive display on your Mac that you can place over any section of your screen to simulate what it looks like to a colorblind person. It simulates several di
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
I'm not doing anything the government should be worried about. Nevertheless my pin has for a long time been longer than standard, specifically on the very long-shot possibility someone decides they want to crack it. Anyone know if this
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
> my memory retention of the work done with an LLM is worse than doing it myself self Do you think this is more because you are less close to the work? Or because there is simply more work being done/more to remember, so you're
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
The standards we set are off: I recently discovered 75 hard, and it's mind-boggling to me that the mental equivalent of "do two separate workouts, 45 minutes each" is "read 10 pages of a non-fiction book." If it&#x2
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
I guess I get the clarity (of vertical slides as you describe), but I'm wondering if two dimensions is limiting -- slides could be a flow chart, with various forks/side quests along the way. Obviously it would be possible to bui
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
This feels like it's a hair's breadth from being a Notion competitor with a very different set of page-design skills
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
Very nice! I spent something like 30 seconds scanning the top row of controls for the "Present" option -- is there logic to special-casing it by putting it (and zoom controls) at the bottom, away from everything else?
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AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals(theguardian.com)
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