curtisblaine

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I don't think you're "absolved" if you don't know you're harming, in fact, yourself. Guilt is all about intention.

"The honest caveat"

I have this in the greenhouse that came with my house. Seeing its roof closed in fall after it had been open all summer made me question my sanity.

I'm always wary of colleagues like that. They start doing everybody's job (worse) and immediately management expects everybody to do the same ("there are no excuses..."), with terrible consequences. From experience, they need to be recognized and isolated soon.

Isn't inherent impermanence one of the factors that make street art art? If we treat graffiti like museum pieces exposed outside instead of inside, we don't do justice to them (and we end up in these kind of ridiculous situations). Graffiti are defaced, painted over, repainted, even modified over time. They're intrinsecally not immutable. If we think of them as immutable, they're just spray-painted art brut that happens to be on a wall instead of a picture panel - not very interesting.

By the name, I thought this was gonna be a lightweight AI vector distributed database with data science analysis baked in (for AI, of course) at the minimum.

Imagine my relief when I discovered this is... an atlas of actual bird feathers.

> It still means something different because you took it.

Well, no. At least, for me this cheap "feel good" stuff never really worked. It means something different if you made it different in some way. Could be a different technique, or different focus. If it's the same stuff that everybody else does it's worth less than nothing, and I can't see how me being the author changes that.

Isn't this basic enshittification? Offer a really good product to get users, use number of happy users to get funded, then once you're funded you gut the product, you raise prices and you hope not all your customers flee.

Not for a company app, where support and maturity count.

It depends how you define "named", but for example, not all the grain of sands you see on a beach are named (yes, they are named collectively, but not individually. If "collectively" is valid, then that's further proof that "unnameable" things can't exist, because they already have a collective name).

How is it a paradox? Isn't this just a proof that there are many unnamed things, but no unnameable ones?

What does nostr have to do with crypto?

Why is it not? I'm sincerely curious. It seems to include users that were excluded from other platforms, by virtue of making centralized censorship impossible, so I would argue it's more inclusive than anything else. Or do you mean its follow-based mechanism doesn't allow you to silence users you not only don't want to hear, but you don't want anyone to hear? This, again, makes it more inclusive to me, not less.

I really like nostr because it gives you freedom of association. You can unfollow other users and, if you run a relay, you can refuse to accept content from users you don't like, but you can't ban other relays (like mastodon does) and you can't refuse content based on relays other users use, because you don't know. In other words, you only can ignore people you don't like but you can't meaningfully deplatform them or prevent them from looking at or following your content. That's how it should be and, incidentally, that's what makes people in favour of deplatforming furious, which can only be a good thing :)

Unfortunately nostr has little network effect because the current ecosystem was stood up by bitcoin enthusiasts, and there's no much generalist discourse on it. Luckily, it's a simple protocol and it's really hard to kill protocols in the first place. Maybe the next censorship debacle on the current alternative social media platforms will give it a boost, or maybe it will remain a small niche group of ecosystems for specialized users? Who knows, but I'm glad it exists.

It was pretty common with the IRA, apparently. They hid bombs in metal garbage cans and used the shrapnel as a damage multiplier. I think they did that at a commercial center and killed several people. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23695239

In city centers it's usually counter-terrorism: it's easy to throw a timed bomb in a metal garbage can and flee the scene, so they got rid of them (London did because of IRA, and of course now they have Islamic terrorism). Outside of city centers it's about (lack of) recycling: it's easier to check if you're recycling correctly in your home bin than public bins.

Fun that this article concentrates on gay sex restrictions and pressure by temperance advocates - two "enemies" that conveniently serve a certain social agenda - while public toilets, at least in Europe, died because of heroin users in the 70s and 80s (they used bathrooms to inject, often leaving their syringes behind, and that became a real problem and society-wide panic during the AIDS boom) and because of the increasing number of homeless people later - who used to clean themselves in public toilets with a sink and more often than not left them in terrible conditions.

> Neurodivergence does not require a diagnosis.

It does if you require to be treated specially.

Clickbaity title. Boring show off of vibe coded apps that only make sense to the author, disguised as think piece. This post has it all.

Actually a bad result for Binface: you'd have expected the whole opposition to converge on him (they would have had nothing to lose), but many non-reform didn't vote at all, giving Farage the absolute majority.

Those animations are... series of steps, each with a description? How different is this from a plain text list? It's not that you can see forks or that the layout of the assembly line gives you more information. If anything, a plain text list is easier to scroll backwards and forward?

Sigh, I expected some crazy project like hooking a big Xeon rack to batteries, running Graphite or Android on it and sticking it in a backpack to use as a primary phone. That would have been glorious.

Instead, I got the same old post of someone serving web pages from a mobile phone :(

The discourse is nuanced, but isn't CD standard sampling rate greater than anything that's obtainable in practice with vynil?

I might be weird, but I love phases 2 to 5 and I hate phase 1 with a passion. I hate speaking with people to see what their problems are. I want to solve problems, not user surveys. And all the itches I have are either already solved, not itchy enough or too wide / ambitious to approach them solo. If LLMs solved exclusively 1 and told me "this problem is actually valuable, go and solve it", I would be the happiest person in the world. It's not true that ideas are cheap. Or better: ideas themselves are dirty cheap, good ideas are invaluable.

Didn't we say a thousand of times that local apps are not "winning" because they can't be monetized (a bit like web games)?

The more sophisticated magazines had CRC codes after every line, so you could know where in the code you has mistyped.

This reminds me of https://github.com/electric-sql/d2ts. Not sure they're comparable, but they seem to be aiming at the same problem.

Question: aren't you allowed to photograph or film anyone you want in public? Or the target being underage somehow removes this right? I always thought you can film whoever you want, but you can't publish what you filmed in some cases.

> the cultural values that a detached elite wish to impose on their offspring for life have been transposed into law, policy, and regulation, and from there, into the personal lives of young people

Isn't this what happens in Islamic countries all the time though?