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My neighbor's house was awash in PBS recordings! https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/ https://www.pbs.o…

Yeah, I readily concede it's lesser. For me it was the moment that we stopped watching a particular thing and discussing it the next day. But maybe that's more personal biography t…

Another good one. My impression of the VCR is not too many people managed to use it for DVR-style rescheduling live TV. Although it did have that feature. We mainly used it to watc…

Good point! Interested to hear about the RoW. Where are you from? Was there pre-custom search results fracturing or did you have a (relatively) uniform national media before that?

It is an astute point. I agree that we have largely lost a lot of our shared reality. But as with any "beginning" of a long, diffuse process, people might quibble about the specifi…

Great story. I don't think you need to feel like a piece of shit for your brief defense of the student. Erasing and replacing the answer is unusual. As is photocopying all the test…

Indeed it described an output and was also a UI. I meant that describing the output could be the UI. I pictured a textbox or a whisper-style text to speech session. Basically an ai…

Wonderful question. I suspect it's partially the culture issue you point to, but also a practical issue of composition. If we decompose sound into the basic waveforms, similar to t…

It looks like the top 10% from 6th to 8th grade Society of Science fairs are invited to participate. They are then selected down to a top 300[1] and a top 30.[2] You can find a pro…

This is great. Asking questions of library code is a big pattern of mine too. Here's an example I saw on twitter. Asking an LLM to document a protocol from the codebase: https://am…