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Chicago is there! Look in the cities dropdown menu. getting sources is the trick… I’ve made some discoveries about how to ‘reverse-engineer’ a city.

Automatic local events aggregator https://whatson.town/

I asked Claude which tools it would most want to add to a machine we were working on. #1 was DuckDB.

Here's my version with a key spline improvement. I should really write this up... #include #include #include /* Author: aam@fastmail.fm * * Apple M4 Max (P-core) variant of simd_qu…

Hey, show some respect, you’re talking about the first ever winner of the prestigious FIFA peace prize!

I knew that FSD was nonsense when I tried to use Tesla's autopark feature under optimal conditions and it failed to park the car satisfactorily.

https://youtu.be/aY985qzn7oI?si=PeS4Fn8G_6T7Iu79 Angela Collier has the final word on physics and crackpots. Hilarious.

You’re being facetious, but Peter Singer made this exact point about “ordinary people being evil” in a famous philosophy essay in 1972. https://youtu.be/KVl5kMXz1vA?si=F__kWUXkcu4h…

OK, nerd sniped. I bought an OpenGarage and then saw that it had MQTT integration. So... installed MQTT and got that working. Then asked how hard would it be to hook this up to Ale…

I was lucky enough to attend a lecture given by Dr. Sacks circa 1988. He was a resident speaker for the University of California campuses and had come to UCSC to talk about Awakeni…

Acaster’s brilliant, funny bit on this: https://youtu.be/x73PkUvArJY?si=eRB3RIuR7rjXvw_i

https://www.amazon.com/Lumenier-460mAh-45c-Lipo-Battery/dp/B... Done.

Yes. His most important point though is that things will not get better until a sufficient mass of public political pressure is brought to bear on the issue.

The poor keep voting against their own interests and installing Republican/Tory governments that work to actively increase inequality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4daYJzyls h…

Wealth inequality is tipping our country into oligarchy.

Here's perhaps a better link: Robert Reich refutes the top 12 myths about taxing the rich: https://youtu.be/pnoLAMHwf2I?si=SApa_u3PGUZ-Y150

Yes.

A common objection is that the rich will 'just move' to avoid taxes. However, he goes in depth in his response, pointing out that the source of the wealth can't move, you tax that …

Gary Stevenson, former top Citibank London trader, has a YouTube channel centered on taxing the rich as a solution to wealth inequality. Highly recommended. https://youtu.be/jFHGiq…

Topics like these are a footnote in the fight against wealth inequality, a fight we’re losing to the rich. Gary Stevenson is doing hero’s work on this subject and it is the whale i…

Perhaps this is a case of the opposite of love being indifference not hate.

This isn't the first time Texas has done something like this. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/was-an-innocent-man-exe...

I took Nature of Math from Lehrer in the 90s. He said on the first day of class that the class was for non-STEM majors and if any of us were science majors he’d find us and kick us…

I had an interesting experience in an Invertebrate Zoology lab class one summer. We students were brought into a lab, given specimens to draw, and the only instructions we received…

sum of i: 0,n = n(n+1)/2 not n(n-1)/2