pjbeam

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Comment · 4 months ago
I'm in the middle of it so don't have any conclusions for you, but I started mucking with building my own cli coding app and there are _tons_ of levers available that aren't apparent from claude code or codex.

Including altering the turn concept. I think it is still ultimately call and response but instead of everything is a quarter note you can get a little closer to a beat you like.

Comment · 9 months ago
My take was more a kind of amusing laughing-through-frustration but also enjoying the ride just a little bit insouciance. Tastes vary of course, but I enjoyed the author's tone and pacing.
Comment · 11 months ago
Huh, this always seemed like such an institution it never occurred to me that people have to produce Farmers' Almanac. Which of course they do. Didn't have this on my bingo card today, makes me a little sad.
Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe intended as wordplay with scrutable, which is a word?
Comment · 1 year ago
I like to think of continuity as always having more "resolution" available if a sharper "picture" is required. It is _weird_ though.
Comment · 1 year ago
For sure, I meant something more like a slot with a name.
Comment · 1 year ago
The issue there I think is the idea of two reals having a "between."
Comment · 1 year ago
(I work in social media content moderation.)

Echoing some other comments here, I highly recommend (in strongest possible terms) that you sit down with a lawyer well versed in Internet law wherever you are based out of and lay all of this out on the table for them.

All it takes is a bored official finding this thread or your site directly and your sincere effort here will transform into some kind of nightmare. Particularly given some of the major political swings recently, you have a target on your back and no megacorp legal team to protect you.

It is crazy easy to end up hosting an image known to NCMEC as seriously bad news and have no idea. Or NCII and not have an adequate reporting/actioning mechanism. Or someone tosses your user DB and people get harassed, swatted, or worse.

Not to mention you yourself are a target. By working on your passion project you've definitely already crossed lines that put you at physical risk if your info gets out. And over time the chance that it will climbs toward certainty.

I don't mean to dissuade you or wrap subtext in plausible corpolegal BS. I do mean, one human being to another, that you aren't merely building a fun community for people, you've also entered a field where very real, very heavy consequences--legal or not--now need to be a core part of your daily risk calculus.

Comment · 1 year ago
DPR is free!! I'm very happy for him and hope he makes good on this second lease on life.
Comment · 1 year ago
My read of the end of this is that the author of TFA replaces the "elevated" interpretations in the cited academic works with "the fly scene's purpose is the be awesome (Leonesque)"--is that right?

Love this movie and the scene but definitely don't relate much to more involved interpretations. That said, I'm the first to admit I'm no sophisticate and am interested in other takes.

Comment · 1 year ago
One _possible_ out for Snakey here is that in old percussion cap revolvers (like Colt Dragoon), the safe thing to do was keep an empty chamber in front of the hammer when not engaged in active shooting. It's been a while though, and my fuzzy memory leans more toward the guns supposed to be Single Action Army-esque and not cap/ball era so maybe no excuse for Snakey after all.
Comment · 1 year ago
Did your mechanic visit happen soon thereafter? Was it alive?
Comment · 2 years ago
My read of responsible people are corporate officers and executives--people who actually choose what to work on and are substantially rewarded by the corporation.
Comment · 2 years ago
Seems like the University of Northern Iowa's concern, no?
Comment · 3 years ago
If you do please advertise it on HN. I'll buy a copy.

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