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   by gcanyon 2y ago

   Not really -- the videos have brief glimpses of UI, but are mostly film clips and vague and pointless diagrams.
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   by gcanyon 2y ago

   I didn't say it wasn't interesting, but I'll take the bait: the article is light on details and misleading. Light on details: the article is almost 3000 words, filled with vague and low-effort content: a lot more "We&#x2
3. 663.▲
   by gcanyon 2y ago

   I read through that whole article thinking, - I wonder what the UI looks like compared to tools I use now - I wonder if there will be a free tier, since my video needs are modest It never occurred to me until I reached the end
4. 664.▲
   by gcanyon 2y ago

   They're already pitching the idea that the 22nd amendment only prevents someone who had two consecutive terms from running again. Looking at the language of the amendment, I have no idea how they can justify that. But stranger things
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   by gcanyon 2y ago

   The studies in 20-30 years of the consequences of this will be fun.
6. 666.▲
   by gcanyon 2y ago

   I've had a soft spot for Botswana ever since I read The Cry of the Kalahari. Go BOTSAT-1!
7. 667.▲
   by gcanyon 2y ago

   Thanks for that list/link. It's so easy to forget how awful the past was.
8. 668.▲
   by gcanyon 2y ago

   Yep, the idea is older, I have vague memories of reading about it ~twenty years ago, but that video was the first thing I found in google so I went with that rather than overstate the case based on memories.
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   by gcanyon 2y ago

   The first image, with the photographer holding the phone reflected in the white board. Angle of incidence = angle of reflection. That means that the only way to see yourself in a reflective surface is by looking directly at it. Note this re
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    by gcanyon 2y ago

    > we see the photographer's reflection Am I the only one immediately looking past the amazing text generation, the excellent direction following, the wonderful reflection, and screaming inside my head, "That's not how refl
11. 671.▲
    by gcanyon 2y ago

    The idea of using gene drive on mosquitoes has been circulating for at least 8 years. [1] In that time, something like 4 million people have died of malaria, many millions more have been infected, and it is significantly impacting the econo
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    by gcanyon 2y ago

    I'm not diagnosed anything, but I'm a paid user because of Magic ToDo -- and I don't even use it that often. It really is magic, and I use it most often as a demonstration of what LLMs are capable of in somewhat unusual use c
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    by gcanyon 2y ago

    Wow, that's more of a rabbit hole than I realized. There are more claims to first flight than are even listed in these threads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_to_the_first_airplane_f...
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    by gcanyon 2y ago

    > we don't know what could have happened if USGOV had properly funded NASA Sure we do, just watch For All Mankind :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(TV_series)
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    by gcanyon 2y ago

    Yep, Atari was always a challenge to us on the vector front. I think the most drawing we ever did was the center of the Cosmic Chasm, about 2 minutes in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ0Szz8gpiE Fun fact: at the end
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    by gcanyon 2y ago

    The actual quote (from memory, but I just listened to the monologue a minute ago): "Do you know what they call alternative medicine that's been scientifically proven to work? Medicine!" In other words, the quote is exactly re
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    by gcanyon 2y ago

    Tim Minchin! (about 4 minutes in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtYkyB35zkk
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    by gcanyon 2y ago

    I'm more influenced by this passage: Means withdrew from her medical residency at age 30. She has attributed this decision to the lack of training she received about nutrition and the underlying causes of chronic disease. Means dedica
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    by gcanyon 2y ago

    My experience with vector displays is <that> years old, but as far as I know it was functionally impossible. Granted Cinematronics was using even older hardware, but literally the refresh rate became a consideration doing the equivale
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    by gcanyon 2y ago

    Good lord, you'd think I could remember how to spell Cinematronics since I worked there. Hell, I created the wikipedia article on it! <grumble> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cinematronics&old
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    by gcanyon 2y ago

    For all the people recommending/considering going to a 2-year college and transferring, some advice based on something that worked very well for a friend of mine: He talked to his desired 4-year college admissions team and told them he
22. 682.▲
    by gcanyon 2y ago

    I got to play on a Vectrex back in the day, it was super-fun -- especially because I had worked at Cinematronix before that. I really wish Vectrex was more successful, but vector displays were just super-limited. The positive of being pseud
23. 683.▲
    by gcanyon 2y ago

    HA! I used REALbasic a bit back in the day, then spent my time comparing it to LiveCode, back then called Revolution. Geoff Perlman and I once co-presented at WWDC to compare the two tools.
24. 684.▲
    by gcanyon 2y ago

    > PPC chip Pizza box? I loved the 6100.
25. 685.▲
    by gcanyon 2y ago

    I'd love to read that file. Of course, we're close (really close?) to being able to just ask an LLM to give us a personalized version of the script to do away with whatever set of flaws bother us the most.
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    by gcanyon 2y ago

    Funny, I literally just two days ago asked Claude to provide an outline of the functionality of a product, giving it the web site. It of course refused. So I downloaded the text of the site and passed that in, and got mediocre results. The
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    by gcanyon 2y ago

    I read an article once that claimed an early draft/version that was cut for time or narrative complexity had the human brains being used as raw compute for the machines, with the Matrix being the idle process to keep the minds sane and
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    by gcanyon 2y ago

    For comparison, "Write a set of alternative lyrics to the theme for Gilligan's Island based on the two astronauts that went up in the Boeing Starliner and were supposed to spend about 8 days in the ISS but ended up spending about
29. 689.▲
    by gcanyon 2y ago

    For comparison, "Write a set of alternative lyrics to the theme for Gilligan's Island based on the two astronauts that went up in the Boeing Starliner and were supposed to spend about 8 days in the ISS but ended up spending about
30. 690.▲
    by gcanyon 2y ago

    For comparison: "Write a set of alternative lyrics to the theme for Gilligan's Island based on the two astronauts that went up in the Boeing Starliner and were supposed to spend about 8 days in the ISS but ended up spending about