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hwestiii··on Macrodata Refinement
Counterpart may be the best show of that sort I’ve ever seen.
hwestiii··on Macrodata Refinement
agree totally. Shane…OMG, Kenny….
hwestiii··on Nextdoor's Heisensubscribe (and Other Dark Patterns)
Nextdoor is a nightmare.
hwestiii··on On-demand JSON: A better way to parse documents?
On face it, this sounds kind of like the XML::Twig perl module.
hwestiii··on Most Video Game Artwork Will Never Be Seen
yes. AKA “business”
hwestiii··on Lisp Badge LE
I love this guy. I ran across him trying to self teach about embedded electronics and his site is one of the best I’ve found both for interesting projects and good instructional examples.
hwestiii··on New CEO took International Harvester from 4th largest US firm to bankruptcy
My favorite angle is he left Xerox to run IH. How does that line up time-wise with all the seminal developments at Xerox PARC? Did he also leave money lying on the table that would later be scooped up and parlayed into riches by Jobs and Apple?
hwestiii··on Lessons by 3blue1brown
Numberphile is good, but more "crowd sourced".
hwestiii··on Lessons by 3blue1brown
I really love that guy. Half the time I get completely lost, but when I can follow him, he's as good as it gets.
hwestiii··on CNET's AI journalist appears to have committed extensive plagiarism
There are ethics in tech journalism?
hwestiii··on Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made
How is it that this is news?
hwestiii··on Ask HN: Do you think Meta could compete with AWS?
Is "silicone" now an acceptable word to describe microprocessors? I'm familiar with its use regarding body modification, but...
hwestiii··on Privacy is ok
Ticking time bomb, 2022 Edition?
hwestiii··on The Secret History: A murder mystery that thrills 30 years on
By some measure Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" is the greatest American novel of the 20th century.
hwestiii··on Oppenheimer: Vacated but Not Vindicated
My understanding has always been that the case against Oppenheimer was primarily a hatchet job by Teller.
hwestiii··on I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free
Needs better headline.
hwestiii··on The Secret History: A murder mystery that thrills 30 years on
I think it is the favorite book of a lot of people who don't read a lot. It's a transparent soap opera that flirts with incest and skullduggery and a lot of dreck. I don't intentionally not finish many books, but that's in the list.
hwestiii··on The Secret History: A murder mystery that thrills 30 years on
Awful, awful book. I've finished a lot of bad books, but that one was too much.
hwestiii··on Electric car sales drive toward cleaner air, less mortality
Weird headline.
hwestiii··on Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting
This is why just about everything I see on the web that isn't static is just stupid mush.
hwestiii··on Open core companies are not incentivized to make their projects good
lol unicorns
hwestiii··on Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger
Someone’s job in PR is to get the facts right in the press releases. Like referring to first American President as “Gerald Washington”
hwestiii··on Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab
Never.
hwestiii··on Empty offices are becoming apartments in Texas’s big cities
I would certainly welcome some life returning to downtown Dallas. When I worked there in the aughts it looked more or less indistinguishable from a lot of the Rust Belt downtowns I visited during the same period. Skyrocketing vacancies and anemic accommodations because of all the the companies who fled to real estate deals in the burbs.
hwestiii··on The end of the manual transmission is near?
Yeah, this is a completely valid complaint. How in the world did automakers manage to get vehicles on the market that require you to look away from your 70 mph trajectory on a highway to visually confirm that you clicked "OK" instead of "Cancel"? Major safety design failures. You know it the first time you encounter it.
hwestiii··on The end of the manual transmission is near?
how is signaling different from "whatever you happen to agree with"?
hwestiii··on I was at Woodstock ’99 and it destroyed my innocence
Lol. Griffis AFB, recently retired by the US govt. and the home of Woodstock ‘99 was my actual birth place, 40 years earlier, nearly to the day. August 3, 1959. My dad was an enlisted man in USAF and base medical services was all they could afford.
hwestiii··on Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
Mary Schmich was the speaker at my graduation from North Central College in Naperville IL in June 2000. She gently prefaced her remarks with the clarification that she, and not Vonnegut was the source is the song’s text.
hwestiii··on Remote Attestation is coming back
I'm only here to say that I think Pluton is a completely ridiculous name.
hwestiii··on Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient
Is there a formal or informal test for sentience, or is it "I know it when I see it?" My IkiwIsi test would could tell an original joke, or communicate an original, mostly coherent dream scenario.
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