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lwansbrough··on Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021)
Like SF, you can pick streets in Vancouver and sell whatever story you want about the city. You won't find many film cameras on East Hastings unless it's a documentary.
lwansbrough··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
You don't think there's a difference between passive entertainment and a conversation with a sycophantic enabler?
lwansbrough··on Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July
They actually do mind, which is why they don’t do it. Did you forget the reality of the situation?

They mind because they are completely outnumbered. Policing only works if you can point out a small minority and say “these people are causing harm to the majority of us”. With something like fireworks (or cannabis protests in many places) the police are severely outnumbered and they don’t have enough room in their jails anyway.

lwansbrough··on Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July
If they did this people like me would start setting off fireworks in protest.
lwansbrough··on Fable created novel 4D splat format
A$AP Rocky did it for a music video. Granted, it was only used for the editing process and not the final video, but it still presents some interesting opportunities, though it doesn't really look real so the applications may be limited.

https://radiancefields.com/a-ap-rocky-releases-helicopter-mu...

lwansbrough··on Dispersion loss counteracts embedding condensation in small language models
What does it cost to train a model like 1-bit Bonsai? Anyone know?
lwansbrough··on Dispersion loss counteracts embedding condensation in small language models
Anyone with a billion dollars want to try this and report back?
lwansbrough··on DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]
Not a greed thing. It’s a national security thing.
lwansbrough··on DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]
No idea I don’t work there.
lwansbrough··on DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]
Chinese labs are also still behind, so they’re incentivized to collaborate and have no reason to do it in private.

I suspect their tune will change if they ever take the lead..

lwansbrough··on Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
I feel like going with Space + Latin is LLM-level creativity.

Edit: yeah. https://claude.ai/share/06fefe02-4299-44da-8c5a-42607f54ca77

lwansbrough··on Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
Just buy an AC unit.
lwansbrough··on Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
You can buy a portable unit for like 300e and seal the window with a piece of plexiglass with a hole in it. It's a pretty low barrier.
lwansbrough··on Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
I realize you're aiming at Americans in general, but I'm Canadian. Most developed countries outside of Europe have AC readily available these days. The governance is a reflection of the people. Same can be said about the Americans.
lwansbrough··on Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
Europeans don’t get scolded enough for their resistance to air conditioning. In terms of accounting for preventable deaths, Greece has 2x more heat-related deaths per capita annually than Mississippi has gun deaths.

By comparison, the worst US state for heat related deaths, Nevada - a literal desert - has >10x fewer deaths per capita than Greece.

lwansbrough··on Deno Desktop
Yes, thanks.
lwansbrough··on Deno Desktop
Web devs are used to their target being evergreen, so I suppose you could opt in or out of that model: "just give me what you got".
lwansbrough··on Deno Desktop
It's all so bleeding edge right now. It also depends how deep you want to go. An increasing number of languages support wasm as a compile target, which is helpful.

Bytecode Alliance do semi-regular streams on Youtube. I think reading (recent) material on WASI (0.3) and the Component Model would be a good start.

Understanding the relationship between a host and a guest is valuable. Learning what wasmtime is and how it works is also illuminating: https://docs.wasmtime.dev

lwansbrough··on Deno Desktop
Similar to something I'm working on for games: https://jumpjet.dev

WASM you can bundle for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and web. Unlike Deno Desktop, it doesn't rely on a browser engine.

lwansbrough··on Never talk to the police
No you got the order mixed up, you back the blue first, then this stops happening. Just don't forget to apply your bumper sticker.
lwansbrough··on Never talk to the police
If a state does not have a law regarding stop and identify, that does not mean they do not have a law about identifying when operating a motor vehicle.
lwansbrough··on Never talk to the police
And again, this is about stop and identify, which again covers both pedestrians and motor vehicle operators but does not preclude the requirement to identify oneself when operating a motor vehicle, which is covered by different statutes.
lwansbrough··on Never talk to the police
That’s not the point. The point is that a traffic stop is a traffic stop. Traffic stops, while they are Terry stops, also have separate governing rules, such as the fact that there is a failure to identify while operating a motor vehicle statute in every state.
lwansbrough··on Never talk to the police
Again, this case is about Terry stops. Not traffic stops.

If you have been detained in a motor vehicle you are in control of, you must identify.

lwansbrough··on Never talk to the police
Yeah you’re doing the thing I suggested people don’t do.

It doesn’t matter if they have RS for the detainment (a reason for the stop), once the traffic stop is underway you must identify.

If you feel as though the detainment was illegal, you can sue after the fact. There’s no point in trying to litigate the situation with the officer.

lwansbrough··on Never talk to the police
That case is about Terry stops, not about failure to identify when operating a motor vehicle.

A Terry stop includes detainments of pedestrians, who do not have an obligation to identify in most states.

lwansbrough··on Never talk to the police
This sounds obvious but a lot of people don’t understand this.
lwansbrough··on Never talk to the police
You are detained any time your freedom of movement is interrupted. If a cop calls to you and you turn to face them, that’s a detainment. So you’re correct, you can be detained before they’ve even questioned you.
lwansbrough··on Never talk to the police
If you match a description and are in the general vicinity of where the crime took place, it’s enough reasonable suspicion for a detainment. Whether or not you need to produce ID at that point may vary by state but it’s likely the case in every state. If it’s legal for the police to demand your ID and you don’t, you can be arrested for failure to identify.

Now they don’t have probable cause for an arrest based on the original crime they stopped you for, but your day is still ruined.

lwansbrough··on Never talk to the police
It’s really important to know your rights. A lot of people think they know, but often times they don’t. And it gets those people in trouble.

For example, you are required to provide identification when operating a vehicle at a traffic stop. No exceptions. Don’t get hung up on the reason for the stop, it doesn’t matter. Additionally, police can articulate in virtually any situation that they fear for officer safety, which is reason enough in many states to order you out of the vehicle. At this point they have a foundation to frisk you for a weapon.

Resisting at any point of this is very risky.

Understanding when and where an officer doesn’t have the legal authority to do the above gets very nuanced. But generally I encourage Americans to learn the rights they have when operating a car seeing as their lives revolve around driving.

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