stephenhuey

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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
Yellowstone park rangers killed the last wolves there in 1926, and by the middle of the 20th century, the total population in the Lower 48 had been reduced to a few hundred in Minnesota and Michigan. https://www.nps.gov/yell
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
Half an hour west of me. Here's a gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/us/tesla-autopilot-crash-... If you look at that doorbell cam footage, you'll see it's racing fast on a neig
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
I was one of the earliest on FB. It's mostly an address book for me now. I'm sad sooooo many acquaintances and relatives are there, and yes, it would be a lot of effort to get their contact info or get them to use other messaging
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
Good point. If only the evil we must fight was as simple as Skynet. Reality is much sadder since people are hurting people.
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
T2 and Abyss were trailblazers. I remember on the T2 director’s commentary how they were so amazed when they got the effects back months later because they’d never seen anything so good.
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
Yes, I’ve made multiple Jumpstart iOS & Android apps that work with Jumpstart Rails and the speed is awesome.
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
We must turn back the tide on American microwave culture. Life isn't just about my time, my money...we share life with others, and life is so much better because of it.
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
I also had an older relative who took me to a nice restaurant several years ago. He had gone to that same restaurant since the 1970s and even though it had changed names over the years, he usually asked for the same waiter, an older man who
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
There were some people living outside that perimeter, but I just included the Seven Hills and the Campus Martius because it was a typical border for the city and was densely packed with maybe a million people. Teotihuacan possibly had up to
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
Oh, didn't realize that. Any recommendation for mitigating that if deployed there? Had thought about putting something on Vultr in a few months. Also open to any other good recommendations for providers that have a managed Postgres.
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
It was a carefully planned large city with the road along the main axis pointed at 15 degrees east of north, and the large pyramids were integrated into the city's design, but we definitely don't know who did that planning. Hundre
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
I've been to Cahokia, and look forward to revisiting it in future decades since only 10% has been excavated so far!
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
Comparatively few historical ruins built out of materials that would have lasted this long, but a long history, actually, and some you can still see... Mexico City is a quick plane ride from the USA, and while some of their ruins are buried
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
Inching closer to Vultr prices. There are some Rails projects I might have later this year, and I had already been thinking of putting them onto Vultr via Hatchbox since Vultr offered a managed db. Maybe for some stuff that I can run a Rail
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
I'm ok with him being omitted from the film, but I'm glad the novel could afford more space for someone like him, a foil to the mood of impending doom, and also just plain fun. He rescued them and equipped them, and one of the wea
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
As I said, I didn't find the article or podcast I was thinking of. You're right that it may not be the tacked-on fees. Artists generally do not have much leverage against the monopoly (some artists get more say). It might be some
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
You know what? Might have been Freakonomics: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-the-live-event-ticke...
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
Just tried searching for a long-form article I read in recent years. Wish I could find it, but obviously the facts are not a secret. It explained in depth all the problems with the monopoly, but it also pointed out something very surprising
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
When a professor at Rice walked us through Don Tapscott's book Growing up Digital in 2001, we had such an optimistic view of the future. Don highlighted how with broadcast media in the 20th century, the viewer had little choice on what
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by stephenhuey 4mo ago
What was that mantra? Something about broken software is what they aim for?
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by stephenhuey 5mo ago
In the years before the subprime mortgage meltdown, I was writing code at a massive bank. Didn’t have an iPhone yet and Gmail was blocked on the work computers, so I’d step across the street during the middle of the workday to sign into a l
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by stephenhuey 5mo ago
Ah, I see. Pardon me making him a scapegoat. My rant in between bouts of wrestling with mobile sandbox subscription testing weirdness should have been directed at a vague cohort of less considerate SV folks, so instead I wish to thank him f
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by stephenhuey 5mo ago
Before Facebook, I used Friendster. Years later, I read how Friendster execs were too busy patting themselves on the back and flying around on private jets to get around to fixing the horrendous site lag of sometimes a minute to even sign i
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U.S. Seeks to Give Weapons-Grade Plutonium to Startups for Fuel(nytimes.com)
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by stephenhuey 5mo ago
As someone who remembered 7/11 commercials as a kid in Texas in in the 80s, I thought they had completely died out in the USA until I spent a summer at a university in Mexico and there was a local 7/11 which was surprisingly nice.
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by stephenhuey 5mo ago
Exactly. Early in this century, I was excited to be working on a Java shipping web app deployed to Tomcat running on Windows because it felt like cutting-edge technology! As an aside, thermal printers were fun to print shipping labels on. A
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by stephenhuey 5mo ago
So why not make the positive choice? Zuckerberg claimed time and time again he wanted to connect the world, and it was part of the earliest mission statements: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/0
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by stephenhuey 5mo ago
Just sent it to some developers who could really benefit from this! Please let us know when you have Codex and Gemini versions ready to rumble.
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by stephenhuey 5mo ago
When I was at Rice a quarter century ago, I can honestly say everyone I knew took the honor system seriously.
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by stephenhuey 5mo ago
Under the Bridge is still my favorite... Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner Sometimes I feel like my only friend Is the city I live in, The City of Angels Lonely as I am, together we cry

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