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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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Is there a way to hint in the prompting what information should be retained in the attention sinks?

I wish there were an equivalent for ticks.

I love this aside:

* “Doom was developed in a really unique way that lent a high degree of portability to its code base,” said John Romero, who programmed the game with John Carmack. (In our interview, he then reminisced about operating systems for the next 14 minutes.) *

$2.50 per school day?

Sounds like a deal.

I've looked over my town's numbers: the big payments are teacher salaries. I'm happy to pay them and have great teachers. YMMV.

My town ditched almost all of the school buses and the kids ride public transit. I haven't lost one yet!

As a bonus, they learn that they can take these buses everywhere else and gain access to the entire city.

It is derived from the Census Household Pulse Survey which is designed, administered, and analyzed by the most sophisticated survey designers out there. They've had decades to create and refine approaches that deal with this problem.

I trust their interpretation over "throwaway13337" statements about what they find "obvious."

#gell-mann effect

One thing I haven't seen much coverage on is how to tap into the giant batteries we're driving around in our electric vehicles. These are much bigger than what's currently being deployed in houses.

The V2H standards are just now coming online: https://electrek.co/2025/02/21/nema-bidirectional-ev-chargin...

The marshmallow test without a control for whether the child is hungry and/or how recently they've been fed is worthless.

This is a really interesting insight. Drop me a line if you want to talk further.

Same.

I feel so strongly that I built a site to help with finding those prices.

https://directbooker.com

Fixed about a week later:

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/245861992/drive-for-...

Investors want to back us but, at this scale of capital, need conventional equity and less structural bespokeness.

This seems exactly backwards. At this scale you can establish as much "bespokeness" as you want. The investors want in and will sign pretty much anything.

It reminds me of the old joke from Paul Getty:

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

I had the privilege of working with the heart and soul of this solar rooftop work.

Carl is a mensch.

He's also the brilliance behind https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-airlines-contrails-clim...

What's weirdly still hard today?

Besides counting the Rs in strawberry.

citation?

At the time I lived next door to the “litebrite” bombers.

It was disconcerting to arrive home to that many news vans in front of my house.

Caveat: I formerly worked at Google.

What missing is that code being written by AI may have less of an impact than dataset that are developed or refined by AI. Consider examples like a utility function's coefficients, or the weights of a model.

As these are aggressively tuned using ML feedback, they'll influence far more systems than raw code.

Parenting.