brianary

@brianary@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dan Dare by Art of Noise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the spherical chicken of legend! Somebody get the frictionless vacuum!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess the chicken and egg may have appeared at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers Always Innovating⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always called Word documents and PDFs “dead-end formats” (DEF). Once you export your data to them, there’s no reliable way to retrieve your data from them for further transformation like you can for YAML, JSON, XML, HTML, Markdown, &c.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are stardust.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I learned this from Professor Moby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially EVs, or especially Teslas?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Research shows more than 80% of AI projects fail, wasting billions of dollars in capital and resources: Report⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When did brute force switch from being an antipattern to the preferred pattern?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All of their code and specs should be required to be put into escrow in case they go out of business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MBFC Credibility - High⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is some George W Bush doublespeak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sam Vimes boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a whole book about this: # Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.

  Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly “unskilled,” that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.

  bookshop.org/p/books/…/9836607?ean=9781250808318

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Aquaman movies were laying some groundwork for the Warlock comics to maybe be included, which is a hollow-earth reality. It’s too bad they did such a terrible job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes fishing as a hobby so appealing that people will fish all hours of the day and in nasty weather?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually meditation, isn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The safest way to travel⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I came here the easy way: down the stairs.” “Down the stairs? To Ursa Minor‽ Wow, you must be unbelievably fit.”