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by pcmaffey 5y ago
As you mentioned, I'd love to see the carbon that's captured from the air turned into something valuable like building materials. Or do something wild and have a worldwide monument building contest where captured carbon is used to
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
The website is totally broken for me on mobile safari. 1 and 2 don’t work, and the lack of overflow:hidden causes a huge horizontal scrollbar… I’d recommend more testing before using. Though the details element is great.
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
Does anyone else enjoy the 2d storyboards almost even more than the final 3d film?
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
End it already. https://www.pcmaffey.com/finally-i-closed-my-linkedin
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
Would love an invite to the Missoula slack... (email in bio)
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
Culture emerges from a set of protocols we use to collectively exchange ideas/information. Right now the protocols are Facebook, Twitter, tiktok, Netflix, WhatsApp etc. In the early web, the protocols were http and smtp. Now those are
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
I wonder what Claude Shannon would say about misinformation? Is it noise? Can its impact be modeled?
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Software is not eating the world. We are(pcmaffey.com)
2 points by pcmaffey 5y ago|0 comments
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
The challenging part of this is that knowledge work is intangible and uncertain. Showing progress is difficult, especially with low context. So we want things to be perfect or finished or at least to scope. There's a lot more that goes
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Softwareness(pcmaffey.com)
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
I wonder how much compensation is working as a proxy for appreciation, in this poll. That's to say, if your company really valued your contributions and made that apparent (but couldn't match a higher offer), would you still leave
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
Google is the best search engine for searching ads.
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
Nerds seek out constraints in order to unlock their private creativity is a really apropos observation.
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
There’s a case to be made that crypto is the trojan horse that brings down the house. The utility we’ve all been waiting for is manifest in its futility, which serves as a weapon, a negation of the status quo, sucking in capital and attenti
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
Yeah those are nicely done. I like my own implementation, which overcomes the problem of limited width for the aside. In effect, its like unfolding a longer bit of the article. For example, click on the dotted yellow links here: https:&#x2
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
On the web, inline/expandable “footnotes” are totally doable and provide a reader who enjoys sidebars and tangents the optimal ux, without jumping around.
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
I live in Montana. After a wildfire burned part of our house last year, my wife and I were living in our basement during renovations. It was terrible for some unknown reason… headaches, sharp dry skin. Couldn’t sleep. We had had a radon sys
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
I'll have to try out the bodymovin-SMIL plugin. I've long looked for a tool to generate SMIL animations, but I always end up just writing them by hand [1], which gives me much greater control... I've even wondered from time t
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
For some tasteful svg animation examples, check out my blog articles. [1] https://www.pcmaffey.com
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
Learning happens in the space in between words. Without time for reflection, people inevitably just mirror information instead of integrating new ideas into what they know.
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
All facts begin as observations. Not all observations are facts. All I'm saying is that the media operates on the level of "observations." That doesn't mean that some of those observations are not facts, just that the ve
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
There are no facts in journalism, only observations. The media is not a courtroom, it’s not science, it’s just humans observing each other.
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
I made an infinitely expanding tile-art game with the same general MMO principles. Kindof an evolution of r/place… except the canvas expands logarithmically every day. While the number of tiles you get each day grows linearly. It’s jus
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
Web2 was born from the ashes of Web1, which crashed under the weight of expectations, cash, and inexperience. Web2 is still booming. I don't see that bubble popping anytime soon, unless world governments get super serious about regulat
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
That's crafty. I put the peanut butter in a ring of tape hanging around the middle of the cylinder. I did this to keep it from falling off into the water and eventually, getting moldy (I keep the bucket permanently set). It also means
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
The problem with most traps is that they only catch one at a time. By far the most effective way to deal with a mouse problem is a bucket with a ramp leading up to a cylinder(bought online) that spins and drops the mouse into the bucket whe
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
Your regular reminder that Anathem is a fantastic book. It explores different (non-religous) ideas of monastic life, and also features time-keeping outside regular society's sense of time...
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
Is that making fun of his name? Or is it simply pointing out / wondering whether he a) chose a profession aligned with his given name, or b) chose a name aligned with his profession?
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
Is the author's name really Grady Hillhouse? Surely that's a stage name?
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
Here's a good "state of the art of geothermal drilling" article - https://austinvernon.site/blog/drillingplan.html

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