russellbeattie

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by russellbeattie 17d ago
Agreed. I'm not a fan of Meta in any way, but I've had fun messing with the app this afternoon - both on my phone and the web version at muse.ai - to see what it could do. Like the announcement said, it's running in its own V
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by russellbeattie 22d ago
> "As part of the task, they were supposed to have the ability to read the internet but not to write on it." There's no such thing as only having "read" access with HTTP. If the website saves part of the GET UR
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by russellbeattie 25d ago
Agreed. Though apparently you're being downvoted for a legitimate issue. I'm laying down using my phone and it's not particularly enjoyable to read. It's 2026 - the site can look like an old-skool zine being displayed
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by russellbeattie 25d ago
Nice! I regularly do this with Claude to create little web apps on my phone, so that's great idea to create little Android apps instead! Amusingly, I started walking recently at a local track. One day while I was walking, I thought, &
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by russellbeattie 27d ago
Laws need to be managed like software: There should be a process for testing, user feedback, quick patches for bugs or conflicts, and regular updates to fix issues. If you think about it, both laws and software are called "code".
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by russellbeattie 1mo ago
> "It's a real time-portal to a pre-security internet." It wasn't that long ago where the network traffic of every website was transmitted in the clear via http, not https. Literally anyone at a coffee shop could
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by russellbeattie 1mo ago
> "Headlong is a complete agent harness with a core of less than 10K lines of Bash..." Wow. So, be nice or I'll replace you with a very large shell script?
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by russellbeattie 1mo ago
I was pretty surprised at how I both immediately recognized each desktop color, but also how each of them "felt". I could picture the icons and menus in my mind, and their location (left, right, top, bottom) and knew how the mouse
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by russellbeattie 2mo ago
An MBA's rule of thumb is that a full time employee's hourly cost to a business is at least 1.5x to 2x times their salary depending on employer taxes, benefits, offices, travel, training, hardware, perks, etc.
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by russellbeattie 2mo ago
> Then the dedup table, because deliveries arrive twice and the docs cheerfully call this “at-least-once.” Documenting unexpected or intermittent behavior: The easiest bug fixes of all.
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by russellbeattie 2mo ago
After 20 years my account on reddit was "permanently suspended" after some right wing nitwit reported a comment of mine as threatening. (It wasn't, though it also wasn't kind towards him and his ilk.) Happily, my login s
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by russellbeattie 3mo ago
Whoever decided it would be a good idea for ".well-known" to be a "hidden" directory is a complete fool. All it does is provide the opportunity for confusion, misconfiguration, skipped backups, missed git check-ins, for
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by russellbeattie 4mo ago
The ban is 100% politically motivated retribution because Anthropic told Trump and Hegseth to go pound sand. The US government is purposefully screwing with the company because they refused to play ball and embarrassed the administration. I
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by russellbeattie 4mo ago
I've found a fun and pretty reliable way to get Gemini to output incorrect information: Ask for a chapter by chapter summary of a book. I first tried it to remind me of what happened in a previous book in a series that I was reading. W
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by russellbeattie 4mo ago
I caught a live stream of Stonehenge during this past Winter Solstice (it was cloudy, naturally) and the streamer provided a bit of trivia that I hadn't heard before: George Washington's English ancestors, specifically Sir Lawren
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by russellbeattie 4mo ago
All I want is for iPhones to have physical keyboards. That's enough for me. Makes you wonder how much money Apple has poured into touch screens over the years.
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by russellbeattie 4mo ago
I do the same even though I never watch regular television where I live. But my disappointment with streaming TV is that it's not the same as actual live TV. I want to see local news clips and commercials, weather updates, announcement
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by russellbeattie 4mo ago
Amazingly, IBM is still making videos like this. You can find great videos online from them explaining the technical details of LLMs, ML, and the like [1]. The guy in this IBM clip is a progenitor of what they still do today. I've work
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by russellbeattie 4mo ago
It makes me angry that people are taking this seriously. Reading this screed would require having to continually parse out the generally loathsome Catholic ideology and dogma from whatever insight it might contain. I have no desire to even
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by russellbeattie 4mo ago
> "...like Formula 1" Or projectiles like bullets and missiles. A sniper bullet with nanoscale textured surface that's able to go x% farther due to reduced drag seems plausible.
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by russellbeattie 4mo ago
Wow, this is super interesting! Just checking out the Bay Area I learned a lot about the size and placement of the powerplants that supply the area. San Francisco has a power line going to it via the underwater "Trans Bay Cable (200kV
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by russellbeattie 5mo ago
As a 54 year old, viewing the grid with the Weber-Fechner "psychophysics" grid is depressing as hell. Thanks.
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by russellbeattie 5mo ago
> "Slashdotted" Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer.
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by russellbeattie 5mo ago
We need a Rich Text Standard akin to Unicode. It's truly absurd that we can universally read and write emojis with variable skin color across all platforms, but I can't send bold or italic text. If can use emojis in my terminal te
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by russellbeattie 5mo ago
Apparently, the shape of a peeled orange (a flattened sphere) is unrelated to a violin's f-holes. I had it in my mind that the S-shapes were similar for acoustic reasons. Looking it up just now, it turns out that, "Modern physics
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by russellbeattie 5mo ago
The climate concern pearl clutching is pure muckraking. The author doesn't care, they're just looking for some sort of controversy. Do they (or the other seemingly horrified commenters) know how much data is transferred during a s
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by russellbeattie 5mo ago
Agreed - I was waiting for a more insightful explanation. I'm not a scholar, but I associate Swift with hyperbole and this seems way too subtle, if not bland. Given how exact Swift was in terms of where and how the epitaph was placed,
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by russellbeattie 5mo ago
Here's something random about "Neanderthal". The word comes from the Neander Valley (Neander-thal) where their fossils were originally discovered. It was named after Joachim Neander, a 17th-century German pastor. Neander is a
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by russellbeattie 5mo ago
My ex-wife grew up in a small town in 1970s Francoist Spain, so I've heard these types of stories before. (Though she didn't have to crank her phone!!) She actually had two phone lines in her house: One for employees of Repsol - t
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by russellbeattie 5mo ago
Are you trying to say that you could dial a rotary phone by feel alone?? Please be real. It was super easy to mis-dial even when looking at the phone. Dialing in the dark would probably require counting finger holes and take 10 times as lon

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