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541.
by hinkley 8mo ago
I have a red flashlight I use at night to read books. It’s weird after an hour I don’t really see it as red anymore, just dim off white.
542.
by hinkley 8mo ago
I’m surprised by how may don’t have a dark mode though. I decided to do it for my blog despite not really using it myself, and ended up sticking with it on. Still getting blasted in the face by eggshell white everywhere I click.
543.
by hinkley 8mo ago
It’s the same thing. Keep doing exactly what we want you to do, or the money goes to someone who will. Which is also a message to the rest.
544.
by hinkley 8mo ago
He was gifted a motor coach worth $80,000, and that’s just one of the bigger things he can’t launder.
545.
by hinkley 8mo ago
Thomas isn’t a hack, he’s a shill. And he’s not even trying to be subtle about it. He’s somebody’s bitch and he literally drives around in the toys they bought for him as compensation. If any justice deserves to be impeached it’s him. I can
546.
by hinkley 8mo ago
Just the sort of qualities that are common preconditions for someone doing something that everyone else would think is crazy. Which is to say, on brand.
547.
by hinkley 8mo ago
So brave.
548.
by hinkley 8mo ago
One of the hardest hitting George Carlin observations: “Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
549.
by hinkley 8mo ago
That doesn't change the fact that it worked for fifty five years.
550.
by hinkley 8mo ago
We also have PBS as a model.
551.
by hinkley 8mo ago
It always sets off my spidey sense when people say 'leadership' because too many conflate management with leadership, and that is unfortunately not always true. Few managers are actually leaders. Many are trumped up scribes. And m
552.
by hinkley 8mo ago
Isn’t the origin story of Anthropic basically a bunch of disillusioned OpenAI employees fucking off and starting over? Like Runic Games when Blizzard first started turning into assholes.
553.
by hinkley 8mo ago
> In sworn testimony, Zuckerberg said Meta’s growth targets reflect an aim to give users something useful, not addict them, and that the company doesn’t seek to attract children as users. That’s a perjury. I suppose getting more ad reven
554.
by hinkley 8mo ago
Given the multiplicative effect of sedatives and depressants, do you have to factor in inebriation, for instance for a DUI in the ER? Or are the safety margins sufficient?
555.
by hinkley 8mo ago
> Daniels realized that none of the pilots he measured was average on all ten dimensions. Not a single one. When he looked at just three dimensions, less than five percent were average. Daniels realized that by designing something for a
556.
by hinkley 8mo ago
Alcohol reduces clotting factors in the blood. This is known. Doctors mostly tell you not to drink because it’ll fuck with the anesthesia math and bad anesthesia doses can kill you just as dead as a surgical mistake and probably moreso. But
557.
by hinkley 8mo ago
There’s a famous case study in design about the Average Pilot - they were making airplanes than nobody could fly well because nobody was average enough in all physical dimensions to be comfortable in the aircraft. They had to design for ran
558.
by hinkley 8mo ago
I wonder if he uses spaces or tabs in his source code.
559.
by hinkley 8mo ago
And I filed a PR because an author used yellow and hadn’t assigned orange to any purpose, which is actually legible on a white terminal where yellow never is.
560.
by hinkley 8mo ago
Probably help him land Foundation. The narcissism is its own skill.
561.
by hinkley 8mo ago
We don’t know if we are experiencing the same thing. Ultimately, muscle guarding can be bad for your health. I can only agree that I’ve experienced muscle unlocking, and the visualizations associated with that concept definitely facilitated
562.
by hinkley 8mo ago
How dare you sir. I am a high-functioning fungus.
563.
by hinkley 8mo ago
Deming’s revenge was the cratering of American manufacturing in the early 80’s. In one of Goldratt’s last books he confesses he refused to translate his books to Japanese until late in life because he feared if he did that the 80’s would ha
564.
by hinkley 8mo ago
Category error. You understand there’s a difference between thinking windex will cure viruses and thinking you have a chronic illness, right?
565.
by hinkley 8mo ago
I know an awful lot of people that have been diagnosed with diseases that they were told as recently as ten years ago, do not exist. If it was one disease, I’d be more sympathetic, but it’s more than half a dozen. The difference between god
566.
by hinkley 8mo ago
Even without incident, many movies with heavy special effects can take up to a year to finish the final draft. I kinda suspect it's by design. Get the studio hooked and ask for more money to increase the production values to match the
567.
by hinkley 8mo ago
A modern computer looks more like a worm that believes it is self-aware. There are so many SoC subsystems in a computer that the CPU only thinks it knows what's going on and can be catastrophically wrong about it in some cases. Brian C
568.
by hinkley 8mo ago
There's a healthy debate about whether the dantien is below the navel being mistranslated as near the pubic bone versus three inches toward your spine, either in your viscera or in the lowest layers of muscle in your abdominal wall.
569.
by hinkley 8mo ago
I don't know about chakras, but 'Chi' followed imaginary conduits through the connective tissue that... turned out actually there are conduits through connective tissue for lymph to move. They're just really really trick
570.
by hinkley 8mo ago
It really messes with me though when someone dies before their last film came out. I watched that Batman movie with a knot in my stomach the whole time. “He’s so good . But he’s gone. WTF.” I don’t recall who now but there was some actor w

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