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alec

@alec@perkins.pub

Designer with a coding problem.

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skinnylatte, to random
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Colin Farrell’s ‘Sugar’ is one of the more interesting TV shows in a while

alec,
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@skinnylatte have you seen it all the way through? I was Not Prepared for where it went but still enjoyed it

danilo, to random
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Make the shit illegal.

Just make the shit illegal.

We already built out a goon squad for this, it's called the banking system.

You can just make the shit illegal.

But now it's IN the markets, so it's not going to happen.
https://historians.social/@tkinias/112283441665687815

alec,
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@danilo as soon as I saw crypto-backed ETFs I knew this crap was here to stay

mekkaokereke, to random
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People on Twitter are debating whether a person using uncommon words like "delve" are trying to sound smarter than they are, or worse, are ChatGPT bots, because "normal" people don't talk like that.

You don't have to get upset, or embroiled in the debate. Not worth the time or attention. But I'll share some important context as your friendly neighborhood Nigerian 🙋🏿‍♂️

Many Nigerians have bigger English language vocabularies and better command of grammar than the typical American or English person

alec,
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@mekkaokereke I wish “delve” were more common. Instead, Office Speak is using “double-click on that”.

beep, to random
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a conspiracy of spiteful clocks

alec,
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@jessamyn @beep some product manager decided my oven needed wifi and an app for some reason, but that it should not be useful and automatically adjust its clock

alec, to nyc
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In a civilized city, this would be a no-brainer. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/02/upshot/nyc-trash-rules.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE0.X99_.M7E_hIm872cS&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

compost, to random
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Somehow we humans are like a compost pile.

If we become anaerobic, we become nothing but evil.
If we stay balanced, we will have a rich and good experience to offer to this world.

The path of working with compost has shown me that the most interesting people are those who do not search for control, but those who try to stay grounded and balanced.

alec,
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@compost ha, “briefly sentient compost piles” feels like an accurate description of humans

shauna, to Dash

CAPTAIN BECKY. 😍 Savor it, it won't last much longer.

The starting XI. Let's play "who, if anyone, is the fourth defender"

@uswnt

alec,
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@shauna @uswnt quite a batty lineup!

polotek, to random
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Okay. I guess I'm gonna make this account a little more annoying. I'm gonna spend a little time each week exploring my mastodon experience and talking about how to make it better.

I say "annoying" because I'd rather be interesting than just useful. And I think this kind of content is the opposite. Potentially useful but overall not the most interesting. (It's okay if you disagree. We don't have to talk about it)
https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/111966798276024291

alec,
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@polotek
@jacob with such a disparity, maybe worth looping in @mastohost. I use them as well and know different app and db servers occasionally have issues, if it’s not a configuration thing.

danilo, to VisionPro
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Haters gonna hate, but I'm actually pumped as hell for .

Apple is adamant about their “Spatial Computing” frame because they badly need to position themselves away from the clunky headsets that came before.

Thing is, I think they've actually done the work to earn the distinction.

https://visionprototypes.com/resources/why-spatial-computing/?ref=masto

alec,
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@danilo in the same way we saw certain usecases and interactions for the iPhone only come about after it was in the wild and people could really feel liquid multi-touch, I’m hopeful we’ll see the same for the Vision Pro. Headsets could of course be an evolutionary dead end, but this looks like it’s an order of magnitude jump in quality, enough to remove the platform as a bottleneck.

alec,
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@danilo I also remember how at launch it was all about how you could still navigate desktop web pages on the tiny screen, because there wasn’t a responsive web yet. I wonder what the equivalent to responsive might be for headsets.

futurebird, to random
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I'm so sad all the companies and half the people are leaving NYC and the streets are crime ridden now. (but maybe I'll get a seat on the crosstown bus for once now?) I just came home via the streets so I probably experienced some of the crimes. I wonder what they were? (Maybe it was not getting a seat?? That feels like a crime to me.)

I mean a former president wouldn't just make something like this up, right?

alec,
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@futurebird big Ralph Wiggum energy with that one, but less innocent. “Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet doing crimes and I saw one of the crimes and the crime looked at me!”

janl, to random
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Watched Arrival for the first time. It’s pretty good! 🐙🥚⏳

alec,
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@janl have you read the short story it’s based on? I really enjoyed it and the others by Ted Chiang

alec, to random
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Couldn’t make the BikeJC light-up ride but glad the route came near so I could see it from the sidelines. Not as big a group in this cold evening but still a good showing!

Large group of people on bikes with varied lights on the frames and spokes and blasting music round a corner.

alec,
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@seachanger they are! especially when it’s warmer, nice slow summer night cruises through the city

daringfireball, to random
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CT Scans Reveal the Complexity of Apple’s $129 Thunderbolt Cable
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/10/25/apple-thunderbolt-cable

alec,
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@daringfireball alas, can’t see them without a Twitter account it seems

anthrocypher, to random
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What if instead of “non-code contributions” we called them “social contributions”?

alec,
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@kboyd @anthrocypher alas the source is lost to the burning embers of Twitter, but a related perspective I liked is code contributions are value-adds, and other contributions are more like value-multipliers. ie good docs and community can make a library 10x more valuable to its users.

futurebird, to random
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Will a new computer programing language take the world by storm in the next 8 years?

Or is the cycle of new languages being born slowing down? Eventually younger languages are just so much easier to use, and free of the structural problems from older languages that they end up taking over.

Or that's what I've seen during my lifetime. Does it go on forever?

alec,
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@futurebird @peterbautista I have access to GitHub’s Copilot through work. It has been surprisingly useful for filling out boilerplate code for one-off tasks, or dropping in blocks of code that maybe should be in a library but are a little too specific. I do still have to correct it and sometimes even fight it, but it still saves time by giving a good starting point. It’s like pairing with a programmer who has seen a lot but also isn’t really paying attention to your requirements.

futurebird, to random
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The news is like "one of the defendants in the RICO case filed a 'you can't prosecute me motion' AND a 'please go away judge you are scary motion' will it work? Stay tuned!"

No it didn't work.

How can you be charged with a crime and just... write a little essay that's like "please do not" and expect that to work? These people are crazy.

alec,
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@futurebird funny enough that feels like a reasonably accurate description of the practice of law really

drewphish, to random
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Okay this is messing with my head.

Arkansas borders 6 states and it's possible to travel south to enter all of them.

alec,
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@patterfloof @chloeraccoon @drewphish along those lines: most of NYC’s Upper West Side is east of the Lower East Side

alec, to animals
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World meet Boo Radley, half-Rottie half-Pitt rescue from Liberty Humane in Jersey City. She is just the sweetest, calmest dog ever.

Black dog with brown mottled paws lying on the floor, front paws crossed.
Black dog lying on the floor next to a bed.
Black dog, ears perked up, looking out a large window to a yard beyond.

jacob, to random
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I managed to get my wife hooked on soccer through the World Cup (yesssss). What’s the best way to watch the NWSL on steaming? Is it Paramount+ or the s there something else I need instead/also?

alec,
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@jacob Paramount+ does the job for those in the US, though occasionally games will be blacked out for the sake of CBS Sports cable, which is frustrating to say the least.

mekkaokereke, to random
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"Computer Science students should be required to take courses and lectures in ethics! That would fix everything!"

But who is teaching the courses and lectures?

https://stanforddaily.com/2023/08/13/s-b-f-is-leaving-campus-but-stanfords-ties-to-his-case-are-deeper-than-previously-known/

alec,
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@mekkaokereke I remember doing comp sci homework in high school next to someone doing homework for their philosophy & ethics elective: we were both surprised to see each was doing the exact same boolean logic tables.

alec, to nyc
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Rikers doesn’t need reform it needs dissolution https://gothamist.com/news/man-dies-at-rikers-island-7th-nyc-detainee-to-pass-away-this-year

seldo, to random

Summer road trip mode: activated.

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alec,
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@seldo that blue is remarkable

futurebird, to random
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Thinking back? it’s shocking Hamilton was a real musical— and a popular one! It’s almost too transparent with its weird liberal post-racial subtexts. The entire concept? a hot mess. But no one said “no. we are not doing this!”

The American zeitgeist had a hunger in that moment. Like John Henry & Joe Magarac… & the boy George Washington who could not tell a lie— we desperately needed a less ugly history for what looked to be (in the eyes of liberals) a nation that might just be cool after all.

alec,
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@siderea No I agree that if anything was actually bold about Rent it was the representation (never mind the People In Trouble issue). It was marketed as “tackling” AIDS, poverty, addiction, and it kind of held that legacy for a time. Looking at it now it’s only using the themes as an aesthetic. Rent did fill a need for the mainstream to see these communities. But its legacy as a radical production had more to do with its nature as a musical and Broadway at the time.

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