hallman76
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Based in Boston. Director of Engineering for Breaktime Media.
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Comment · 3 months ago
Obligatory video from theonion: Blockbuster Offers Glimpse Of Movie Renting Past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TrPwOrf4sM
"What's so poignant about this time is the uncertainty"
Comment · 3 months ago
> a) a sizeable fraction of voters are not able to recognize AI-generated text b) many who notice don't care, or are willing to overlook it if the premise is interesting enough.
agreed.
For me, the issue I have is that a vocal group seems to despise AI-edited content and they can't manage to take their disgust eleswhere.
AI-editing is another tool, just like spellcheck.
Comment · 4 months ago
My brother in tech. If anyone wanted to prove voter fraud it's President Donald Trump. Trump's campaign filed 62 lawsuits. 61 were lost, dismissed, or dropped. The other was a technicality. IANAL.
Get the vagueposting out of here.
Comment · 4 months ago
I've always wondered if we could find a way to add content website's content without it turning into a shitshow. MLS listings / Zillow is an interesting use-case. A realtor might describe something as "sun-filled" but omit that the home is next to a 24/7 dump truck repair warehouse.
Comment · 9 months ago
Go a step further and switch to Mint, T-mobile's pay-as-you-go subsidiary. I'm paying $180/year for a single line. I've been on mint for ~3 years now.
On Mint your traffic is routed with lower priority than T-Mobile's main customers. In practice, I have only experienced this at busy airports and an MLB game - where basically service dropped to near zero. This is in the Boston area. Obviously not ideal if you're in those conditions regularly. Otherwise it's been awesome.
If the service is of interest my referral code is below. It gets you a $15 renewal credit for joining. Will the winds of votes love or hate a referral code? Who knows! apologies if I'm out of bounds. (I don't understand why it's out of bounds)
Comment · 1 year ago
I inherited an S3 bucket where hundreds of thousands of files were written to the bucket root. Every filename was just a uuid. ls might work after waiting to page though to get every file. To grep you would need to download 5 TB.
Comment · 1 year ago
There is a nascent movement of families bringing back landlines for exactly this reason
Comment · 1 year ago
We will never get back the collective man-decades of time that has been burned by this format. When will the madness stop?
Comment · 1 year ago
TIL that there is a W3C WebMonetization spec - thanks for sharing.
Taking a look, it seems quite underwhelming[0] :( Lack of monetization on the web gave us the ad-driven content model that LLMs are now hovering up.
Have there been any other proposals for monetization?
Comment · 1 year ago
For desktop folks, I use the Stylebot Chrome Extension
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbmk...
I crank up the font size and set a serif font on the index page to make it easier to scan.
Comment · 1 year ago
I had the same issue. Was able to use it to join via the discord app ("add a server").
Comment · 1 year ago
> because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President
OP didn't give say politics had anything to do with it. Let them nerd up if they want to.
Centralization around specific platforms has plusses and minuses. Having alternatives drives innovation.
Comment · 1 year ago
He's flooding the zone and media is once again failing us.
Comment · 2 years ago
I really like this idea! Could you share more about your letters?
What sorts of things do you include? I assume different topics for different people. Do the loved ones know that these letters exist?
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure that the owners of Belmont Books in Belmont, MA also opened their store out of a love of bookstores & the community surrounding it. Best of luck to you!
https://www.belmontbooks.com/ (no affiliation)