sanj

2 months agodiscuss

And WTBS the radio station was also purchased by Ted Turner!

It was originally "Tech Broadcasting Service" and run by an MIT student group.

For the $50k purchase, the newly-named WMBR purchased a new transmitter.

https://wmbr.org/www/history

sanj

3 months agodiscuss

There’s something lovely about this.

To my eye, it is like the patina that your favorite tools get.

I’m looking at you, 40 year old tape measure.

sanj

3 months agodiscuss

I’ve noticed that this only occurs when I use a two-prong adapter for the power brick.

If I use the 3-prong, which is usually tied to a long cable, I don’t feel the buzz.

I assumed that the additional grounding helped.

sanj

4 months agodiscuss

> Branding is centrifugal; design is centripetal

So they’re the same thing but from two frames of reference?

I’m not sure this metaphor holds.

sanj

5 months agodiscuss

This is lovely! Can I suggest make sure that the board is solveable?

sanj

7 months agodiscuss

Can I suggest putting a strand of Christmas lights inside the completed structure? They get a little diffused and look really cool.

For bonus points, get pics of your kids' faces lit by only that light.

Boom: next year's card.

sanj

7 months agodiscuss

Hard disagree: https://photos.app.goo.gl/4ebBSjmfouGjcGqm9

sanj

9 months agodiscuss

> Yes, AI assistants can hallucinate and give you garbage. So I didn’t rely on it. I spot checked by looking up its big findings myself and found it was right.

sanj

9 months agodiscuss

Hahrie was my neighbor for many years! She's amazing. Completely deserved.

sanj

9 months agodiscuss

117 in libraries: https://search.worldcat.org/title/1068506288

sanj

9 months agodiscuss

Hard disagree.

At least in my domains, the "battle-tested" UX is a direct replication of underlying data structures and database tables.

What chat gives you access to is a non-structured input that a clever coder can then sufficiently structure to create a vector database query.

Natural language turns out to be far more flexible and nuanced interface than walls of checkboxes.

sanj

10 months agodiscuss

This reminds me of the (excellent!) book by Jamie Buck: https://pragprog.com/titles/jbmaze/mazes-for-programmers/

They write a maze algo in any new language they learn just to learn bits of the language.

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