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Comment · 2 months ago

https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2090245922685063634

Haven't tried, because I have just been using 4.6 since 5 was released.

Comment · 3 months ago

I grew up in Joplin, MO which is part of this mining area. The remnants of that industry have left this region highly polluted. Much of the soil in these towns is contaminated and some places like Picher, OK have been declared superfund sites. Picher is a ghost town now, completely abandoned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma

The tailings from the mining operations are referred to as “chat” and were deposited into massive piles of small rock. We would play in these “chat piles” as a kid. Probably exposing ourselves to heavy amounts of lead and zinc dust.

The mines themselves were sometimes filled with water which became swimming holes.

Joplin has a decent sized population (50k) so much remediation has happend over the decades. Our lawn and many others in town were stripped down several inches and replaced. The chat piles mysteriously disappeared one year and the swimming holes have been filled.

Myself and my father have always complained of having memory issues. It could be genetic but I’m convinced it’s lead poisoning.

Comment · 8 months ago

The track is Jib Kidder Windowdipper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAYU4rlwmA

Comment · 9 months ago

> We have entirely focused our cities (especially Denver and RTD (Regional Transportation District)) around people commuting in for work.

This isn’t Denver-specific at all. It’s how every US city was built.

For ~100 years we planned cities around one assumption: work happens in a centralized office, five days a week. Transit, zoning, downtown land use, parking, even tax bases were optimized for the daily commute. Downtowns became office monocultures; neighborhoods became places you slept.

Remote work broke that model. The result is cities that are now unfortunately organized around a behavior that no longer dominates daily life - and we’re still trying to operate them as if it does.

Comment · 1 year ago

All those guys. Also, the daily visits to lnkedup.com k10k.net, designiskinky.com, newstoday.com were so influential and informative to me (wow, just did an archive.org lookup of some of those and got a nostalgic chill - https://web.archive.org/web/20050303092717if_/http://www.lin...).

Comment · 2 years ago

+1 for linear.app. It's somewhat similar in feel to PT. It's very responsive and has vim style key bindings. We switched a year ago and haven't looked back.

Comment · 2 years ago

This is a great point and I think the crux of it is - is ML going to be like the last crypto 'boom'?

I don't think it is. Investment is being made at an institutional level in a way that was not happening for crypto.

We are deep in the midst of the hype cycle right now, but if the hype pans out, ML will have a transformative effect on the tech market (or world for that matter) akin to the internet itself. In that scenario, ML expertise at any level will be a golden ticket.

Comment · 2 years ago

Linkedup, Design is Kinky, News Today. I miss those days of the web.

Comment · 3 years ago

Not quite: https://www.calculateme.com/area/acres/to-square-miles/50000

Comment · 3 years ago

They are going for some serious coin on ebay!

Comment · 3 years ago

They used to deliver your groceries in these (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan#/media/File:Webvan_tubs...) tubs, leaving the tub with you. You were free to keep them if you wanted. I had several for years which served as the best moving boxes I've ever had.

kozmo.com (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com) was another one that was ahead of its time.

Comment · 3 years ago

Does this need a citation? The car is the thing that brings the pollution. You live in the burbs, you drive the car, you pollute. You live in the city, you walk/bike/transit, you pollute less.

Comment · 3 years ago

There is a lot in this piece taken from Boom, but this article paints GoGo in a much worse light. It more or less says he's unscrupulous when it comes to the source of money (Russian Oligarch's) being used to buy art. It also makes him out to be a shadowy market maker, representing both sides of a transaction where neither buyer nor seller know who each other are.

Comment · 3 years ago

Thanks for this - what a great find this evening!