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Ben Creasy

@jcrben.bsky.social

Interests: public policy, business, Wikipedia, and software development

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i think this is how i finally learn how to make music

28.08.2025 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

It's got a lot of good features, but I've really struggled to find either of the two IBKR mobile apps intuitive at all. It's been a few years since I traded actively tho due to the day job. Can't bother with the desktop - now I'm a "retired" trader putting in maybe a dozen or two trades a year.

22.08.2025 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's the best alternative?

21.08.2025 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great job. Makes me want to pick up the piano

Here's a link to the original for reference - 31M hits www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZa0...

21.08.2025 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And the album release brings me to the arrangement I'd like to discuss today: "Guts' Theme" from the original Berserk series! This is a melancholic composition by Susumu Hirasawa, and it has risen to a sort of meme status.

Listen for yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2-...

#berserk, #anime

28.01.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Add wayland support via wl-paste by jcrben Β· Pull Request #3 Β· ChrisTowles/vscode-markdown-paste-image I'll be honest: I vibe-coded this and haven't vetted the code closely. I tested it on KDE Aurora https://getaurora.dev/en I originally didn't realize wl-paste was built into the above s...

hey @chris-towles.bsky.social pinging you about github.com/ChrisTowles/...

15.08.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone sooner or later cames to the same realization: deep risk in the global hegemon cannot be hedged

27.07.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I'm nostalgic for the days I'd go browse the rental options. It made it more of an event. Feels like the easy accessibility cheapens it.

But it's hard to split out that nostalgia from the general nostalgia of youth, when the world was more full of mysteries to be experienced.

29.06.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you, a business, are reliant on an open source project to function it is YOUR responsibility to assess and ensure the health of that project by either contributing to it yourself or by using an alternative if project health cannot be guaranteed.

22.06.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 371    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 7

We can imagine a world where we have $200 in capital chasing $100 in economic return. In such a world capital competes to lose less. In a world of demographic decline it's not impossible. The rise of crypto while people bemoan high valuations in stocks suggests there is excess capital.

24.06.2025 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I do agree that if the external inflow is maintained and there aren't treasuries being issued, if could result in a wasteful bubble.

That said, in the real world the external inflow declines. Also maybe a bubble is inevitable - there is certain capital chasing a fixed number of opportunities.

24.06.2025 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure how external inflow could drive the private sector into deficit. Some equation I'm forgetting.

Holding all else equal, if the government reduced its deficit by higher taxes, then someone is going to pay those taxes, so I can see how that reduces income.

24.06.2025 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"But if the government cut its deficit, while the external inflow continued, the outcome could be to drive the private sector into deficit, either via a slump in its income or a surge in its spending. The former means a recession. The latter means asset price bubbles"

Could use more unpacking

24.06.2025 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

These types of articles need to start by pointing to some sort of remedial macroeconomics textbook πŸ˜… - it's been about 15 years since I got my econ degree

24.06.2025 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

To a lesser degree than llms, self-driving cars can reach a point at which they're good enough. The difference between errors 0.00001 of the time and 0.0000001 of the time may not move the needle commercially.

Waymo seems to be good enough for many areas, unlike Tesla at this point.

19.06.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We need shareable block and mute lists. I understand that's got it's own disadvantages but ultimately I think it's worth it

09.06.2025 06:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Approval voting - Wikipedia

That's not the only solution. Approval voting would also solve the problem - and doesn't even need ranking.

Ranked-choice voting is viewed with suspicion among some voters, so something simpler could work. Easy to implement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approva...

04.06.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
Code for America Summit 2025 Code for America’s annual Summit brings the entire civic tech ecosystem together to work through our toughest challenges and celebrate the biggest wins in digital government. It’s an in-person immersi...

If you are going to #CFASummit this week, come to our session Thursday β€œYou can carry on where 18F left off!”

18F wasn’t just a box on an org chart. There were a lot of good people and we had a way of working that led to real results.

summit-widget.codeforamerica.org/agenda/sessi...

26.05.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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27.05.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 17729    πŸ” 2578    πŸ’¬ 443    πŸ“Œ 395

I just unfollow and if necessary mute the more noisy political accounts

Also I'll admittedly pop into Twitter sometimes, but keep engagement minimal to avoid feeding it

27.05.2025 05:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the performative and obvious lie that he β€œhadn’t heard about” a grotesque abuse of power

25.05.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Looks cool, sent it my brother who ran the games back when we played!

Might want to put something about how to get in touch w/ you if you're looking for work - I've got referrals to offer and also an open position altho it's just mid-level

25.05.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Muted - please don't just credulously parrot nonsense @barchart.com - also makes me disinclined to visit your site

25.05.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - bluesky-social/social-app: The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android - bluesky-social/social-app

The code is open source, could try to track it down. Chatpgt probably has all of that code inside it too so could try asking why github.com/bluesky-soci...

24.05.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I think you may be projecting from some concentrated talent in an urban area to the rest of the country

19.05.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Even more sad when you consider that the bad guys now have more capital to invest in even more schemes

17.05.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

arguing against birthright citizenship in front of the supreme court while at the same time pitching a netflix show where immigrants compete for citizenship is such a perfect microcosm of america right now that it feels fake

16.05.2025 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 7071    πŸ” 1525    πŸ’¬ 163    πŸ“Œ 49
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β€œ.. reminiscent of portraits of leaders hanging from public buildings, often seen in dictatorships, monarchies, and in descriptions in George Orwell’s 1984 of β€˜Big Brother.’”

@the-independent.com
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

15.05.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3561    πŸ” 925    πŸ’¬ 478    πŸ“Œ 167

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