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by roughly 2mo ago
Oooh that’s interesting - I’d been aware of the color space encoding, but hadn’t fully grokked how it manifested. It’s interesting because it straddles analog & digital so many times - film is a chemical process, broadcast is an analog
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by roughly 2mo ago
Creating the title cards is a process that involves a thousand different decisions, all of which feed into each other. Design of this isn’t any different than design of software or design of anything else. The “feeling” comes from all of th
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by roughly 2mo ago
I’m actually curious if they made these black on white and then inverted it in post - the red is a little too deep, and there’s some interesting shadowing on the text, whereas if you invert the video, it’s incredibly crisp. Hard to really t
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by roughly 2mo ago
What’s sort of funny about that is there’s a normal thing whenever anyone who hasn’t seen it watches Blade Runner for the first time - often they come out feeling it’s kind of derivative, when the truth is that it feels that way because eve
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by roughly 2mo ago
Every time a tech company lobbies against taxes, they’re fighting public transit. Every time they spend the exact same money they just argued shouldn’t go to the state on privatized busses, they’re fighting public transit.
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by roughly 2mo ago
That’s a policy decision, don’t let them convince you otherwise.
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by roughly 2mo ago
> Then again, gassing rats and taking biopsies is not something you can do with AI. Also, like, let’s maybe _not_ make the “gassing and cutting living organisms open” AI? Let’s just leave that particular genie in its bottle?
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by roughly 2mo ago
Two to keep in mind with these kinds of things - 1. There’s some irreducible costs in terms of time and material in the physical world that are not amenable to the kind of optimization or parallelization or even just the raw speedup from Mo
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by roughly 2mo ago
The article indicates that the department responds to crises, it did not indicate that was its only function.
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by roughly 2mo ago
The thing about crises is by the time you’re in them, they’re gonna cost way more to clean up than just not getting there in the first place. Sounds like the lag time between going from 11 to 3 employees and having an outbreak was ~a year,
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by roughly 2mo ago
And sometimes you burn a bridge to keep anything from following you across it. At a prior job, I wanted that door good and shut after I left.
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by roughly 2mo ago
Right, and remember how getting the rhythm right was the whole trick of it? Learning when to bend back and when to lean forward? When to pump your legs, so that your relatively small inputs were additive to the momentum of the swing, not fi
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by roughly 2mo ago
Ok yeah, that’s fair. I missed the distinction.
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by roughly 2mo ago
It's all physics at the bottom. Nature doesn't have APIs.
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by roughly 2mo ago
I love these kinds of tales of cultural fusion, because they're so much the norm in human history, and yet we've got this weird idea of fixed identities, categories, and cultures - trace any food, any dance, any music or art back
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by roughly 2mo ago
Unless they’re also coming out with painless permanent tattoo removal as well, this seems like one of those things where removing the friction isn’t actually a good thing. Door knobs and warning signs on one way doors are a design feature,
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by roughly 2mo ago
No, I read your post, it was just asinine. There's nothing intrinsic about Oakland - the homeless racial makeup stats roughly persist across urban areas - but there is something intrinsic about the entire rest of the system we have, wh
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by roughly 2mo ago
It's a shame it became such a weird political football, because the story of the mRNA COVID vaccine is absolutely in the "we are as gods" pantheon - the virus was sequenced, and 3 days later two separate labs had sequences fo
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by roughly 2mo ago
Oh, I see the confusion - in America, we use the word “free” to mean both “allowed to” and “doesn’t cost money,” which leads to the kinds of odd circumstances where one is “free” to do something, but that thing isn’t “free,” so if they lack
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by roughly 2mo ago
I feel like “outsiders” is the key word here. Y’all can just go home, that’s cool. Tourists coming in and saying “the taco trucks are a menace” ain’t helping, especially when combined with an ongoing critique of African American fashion and
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by roughly 2mo ago
So you don’t believe in, like, history? Or what’s the argument here?
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by roughly 2mo ago
No, Appalachia's sufficient to negate that hypothesis, but it doesn't mean the people currently complaining about homelessness aren't also making judgements on racial grounds. A large part of the illegibility of Oakland to ou
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by roughly 2mo ago
I'm curious where you see the levers of individual agency here, and to what degree you think the affected people have tried to pull them. What's _your_ underlying thesis?
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by roughly 2mo ago
I live in Oakland. Something I've noticed in a lot of the "THE CITY IS GOING TO HELL" commentary is that often people are pointing at visual symptoms - a homeless encampment, graffiti - as a proxy for "things are bad,&qu
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by roughly 2mo ago
I don't know what the local fauna looks like, but I'm curious if it'd be possible to start training trees or vines across the bridges as a way to gradually replace the ropes with something more durable - I'm thinking som
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by roughly 2mo ago
Christ, man, hasn’t the McStabberson family been through enough? Do you not have the decency to finally bring this witch hunt to an end?!
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by roughly 3mo ago
You’re going to need to prove that one
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by roughly 3mo ago
The court system is the system built for dealing with this indeterminism in human affairs. The question is not whether imperfect systems are useful, or whether there are ways to construct a system to accommodate those imperfections - both o
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by roughly 3mo ago
The only socially appropriate ways to inconvenience other people are to build dark patterns into your app to juice subscriptions, dump VC-funded detritus on the street and call it a startup, or take their life’s work and create an algorithm
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by roughly 3mo ago
One of the better moral philosophic suggestions I’ve heard: “imagine you don’t know who you will be in the world you are trying to create.”

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