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You are painting the mentally ill with too broad a brush. There is a difference between 'ill' and 'dangerous'. We should not engender a society that encourages people to toe that line.

If not for suburban zoning laws from the 20th century there would likely be more midtown-style skyscrapers in NJ/LI/CT.

> I don't think [things created by humans] would contain anything novel.

That's quite a proposition.

both can be true.

Android has a 70% global market share. You really only communicate with one person of that 70%?

Any good resources on screw-cutting? That sounds like a rabbit hole I'd like to lose a few hours in..

I do that somewhat often but I started mainlining gratitude a few years ago so I might be an edge case.

Same! The camera is the only part of the phone I want to spend real money on.

Beyond personal preferences, I live and work in an area of California where people could greatly benefit from easily accessible phones so I'm interested in what's possible.

But AI can never replace the human dorkiness I bring to a project.

I want to research this route more but the camera is an important component to me. I suspect their is a model of phone from 5-10 years ago that has a an under-the-radar stellar camera and I would find "perfectly adequate". ("perfectly adequate" is my favored state for most tech solutions.)

Are the rates comparatively expensive?

Try this on either your favorite GPT or favorite kid learning stats..

"What are the actuarial odds of an American male born June 14, 1946 in NYC dying between March 17, 2024 and US Election day 2024?"

Hi Ron! In ~2000 I drove from south Jersey to deep Long Island and only realized while staring at a server rack that I brought the bag o' CDs that we used for windows deployments, not *nix. Thanks to Robert Moses, the drive in the middle of the night actually wasn't that bad!

A broader goal is to have the kind of society that engenders large vibrant research communities and the benefits that come with them.

> Long-term they will likely make no changes because human desire, habits and behaviors are rarely unknown to us.

It seems like this thinking leads to desires, habits and behaviors remaining a mystery to us.

Do you retain after effects on behavior from the zeal phase?

Yes, But for "confidence in inputs" the difference doesn't matter.

I was perhaps broadening "skin colour" to include "ethnic" or "national" or "racial" distinctions, but I think that's a distinction without a difference.

If we want to say "The US has been bad", I'm on board and wholeheartedly agree. But using "The Rest of the World" as the counterexample, I'm not sure that will hold up.

I imagine we broadly agree and would love to have a cup of coffee with you some day!

Wow, that's a great way to phrase it. I'm currently setting up a basic laptop with speed like you're describing as a goal. "Confidence in my inputs" is an underrated value in HCI. Of course websites have to implore users to not click on this again while it loads, they don't have confidence in their inputs!

I would like to hear more about your trajectory. I'm in a similar place.

> Also: I know it's trendy to make everything about skin colours these days, but that's a distinct USA-ian bias. The rest of the world doesn't work that way.

Europe's industrialized genocidal tribalism of 20th century, the modern islamic experience as an immigrant in Europe, 21st century genocide in Africa and the Middle East, Japan's war crimes in east asia during WW2. Where is this rest of the world you speak of?

took a contract job where I was writing a thing in perl to connect a billion dollar collection of ecommerce sites to facebook ads in 2019.

A good summary. I would add, mental health illnesses tend to present themselves in high stress situations. So while not the cause of the illness, being unable to afford reasonable housing while also being unable to find work with reasonable wages can cause illness to present.

What takes up most of your time? Do you work with vendors to create and then produce the product or just do the design phase?

Any recommendations for books on the history of computing from that period?

"The art in the Fountain" is an interesting construction to describe the piece.

I agree. In the CLI I have a blinking cursor. If I press keys I see characters. If I press enter I get a response[0]. I do need a further invocation to get help, but that's easy enough.

[0] admittedly a holdover from the typewriter, but even presented only a keyboard and a screen I've had a kid realize that one special key makes the words go vertically instead of horizontally.

Even if it's a closed system (I'm not sure it is), it's definitely not a zero-sum system.

ah yes, I am decent Vim user but hadn't thought about it in that context. Thanks for the context!

Count me as another who would be interested in this youtube/blog post. I'm currently at the beginning of a similar project.