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by gdubs 2y ago
Watched it again recently — still great. Alec Baldwin is a great Jack Ryan. It's such different role than what he's become known for since.
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by gdubs 2y ago
I keep thinking about Tim Cook's words years back about manufacturing in China, and how there's a talent density there that just doesn't exist in the United States. That within a three block radius you can find people with de
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by gdubs 2y ago
I can confidently say that the vast majority of this skill I have in my career came because my side projects were interesting and sufficiently hard and, here's the important one: general. There's so much specialization in our era
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by gdubs 2y ago
One of the reasons I'm a big fan of Montessori especially in early childhood education is that it's really good at fostering the kind of intrinsic motivation that leads people to want to learn because they have some kind of projec
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by gdubs 2y ago
The flip side of all of this is that so many products fail because development on new features becomes unbelievably slow. Either because of a kind of process paralysis or because things are over-engineered. Don't get me wrong - there a
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by gdubs 2y ago
Thanks! "If an advanced thread existed in the historical archives of Hacker News, would the user who forgets to search before posting even know it existed?" :)
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The Silurian Hypothesis (2018)(cambridge.org)
1 points by gdubs 2y ago|3 comments
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by gdubs 2y ago
Reposting because somehow the first url ended up as a Google link rather than to the Cambridge site. I think about this paper a bunch because it really challenges some assumptions we have about time and how long things stick around. It&#x27
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by gdubs 2y ago
My initial response to this was to think of all the artists who don't actually create their own work. Lots of contemporary artists have assistants that do the actual painting, sculpting, installation, etc. Even way back a lot of master
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by gdubs 2y ago
I live on a farm and there are a lot of things that machines can do faster and cheaper. And for a lot of tasks, it makes more sense from a time / money tradeoff. But I still like to do certain things by hand. Both because it's mor
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Behind-the-scenes look at making Vibescape 3 for Apple Vision Pro(youtube.com)
1 points by gdubs 2y ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 2y ago
Nobody wants to see grift, but we should also normalize non-profit employees and CEOs making a good living.
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by gdubs 2y ago
Right - this is a big point of what I'm saying which is that people are skeptical that "this time the automation will work out really well for everyone, trust us!" Depends on your timescale, I suppose. But if AI is really abo
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by gdubs 2y ago
Something I've been saying for two years now is that AI is the most over-hyped and the most under-hyped technology, simultaneously. On the one hand it has been two years of "x is cooked because this week y came out..." and on
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by gdubs 2y ago
I'm kind of obsessed with old formats and how they are like a fossil record of a period of computing that's gone, and that I have nostalgia for. Wavefront was such an alluring application when it was around. The peak of Silicon Gr
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Ice Moon: building an immersive experience for Apple Vision Pro(youtube.com)
1 points by gdubs 2y ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 2y ago
It's basically the Back to the Future II world / timeline, which makes sense when you consider who Biff was based on.
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by gdubs 2y ago
Feels like Bluesky would be a good home for an org like this
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by gdubs 2y ago
NOAA is a crown jewel of the American experiment. Agencies like this don't exist to turn a profit — they are there to serve the public interest.
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by gdubs 2y ago
I've mentioned it everywhere I post recently, but I just read Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan as a bedtime book with my kids and it's phenomenal. One of the central themes is his belief that we should someday become world movers, give
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by gdubs 2y ago
Definitely experienced this in the Los Altos public library - one of my favorites. Combing through a stack and really feeling that a librarian's mind had placed these particular groupings together.
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by gdubs 2y ago
You just have to look at similar computing applications like 3-D rendering to realize that as things get more efficient, we will absolutely find ways to continue to make them take on more and more.
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by gdubs 2y ago
I definitely do but what's interesting in doing this is that it actually reveals to me how much each app really has its own culture. Sometimes I cross-post if it's a big project that I've been working on. But, I've found
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by gdubs 2y ago
Yet on this very website it's likely majority opinion that if you want to start a startup you should move to SF. A lot of those people have actively tried to build communities on those other platforms, but those platforms algorithms ac
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by gdubs 2y ago
If Hacker News disappeared, would Reddit be an adequate replacement?
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by gdubs 2y ago
One of the coolest things for me was seeing a musician start out, and then several months later seeing that they'd blown up. And this happened often! There are a lot of musicians (artists too, etc) who never would have surfaced. People
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by gdubs 2y ago
This is so flippant. I do read. And I've been online long enough to know that things disappear. I read slashdot in the hay day and was on Friendster, and MySpace. If Hacker News disappeared, people would be sad because it was a unique
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by gdubs 2y ago
It's not like people aren't trying other platforms — but those platforms don't surface the same kind of content, don't provide the same reach, or are actively pushing their own agendas.
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by gdubs 2y ago
The question is: what prevents creators like JohnSavesEnergy from emerging on other platforms.
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by gdubs 2y ago
Fair enough — was wrong on that point, and happy to be corrected.

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