Brian Slesinsky

(Not actually about baseball.)

I think I want something like a github repo where you can send pull requests. Reading the changelog and issue tracker helps me understand if they know what they're doing.

Also, release notes and maybe not automatic upgrades.

True, but maybe it would be better if it were a built in feature? People might use it more, instead of multi-post threads.

Maybe split posts into an "above the fold" section which is limited to 300 characters and an optional "below the fold" section which can be blog-sized?

Subscribing to block lists maintained by anonymous strangers seems kinda weird. I don't know where to find trusted moderators, though.

"Even as tech stocks have skyrocketed since 2022, the companies’ share of net profits from S&P 500 companies has hardly budged."

They might be overvalued, but could this be seen as a good sign? They're investing billions in data centers, but somehow without losing money doing it? (Unlike solar.)

"OpenAI likely made $4 billion last year but lost $5 billion." Uh, what? (Looks like the first number is estimated revenue.)

The article seems to be more about boggling at big numbers than really understanding them.

For those of us just tuning in, I believe this thread is in response to this article:

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But someone you copied the image from might? (I didn't know where you got it.)

Popular Mechanics Handbook for Women

Found it. (I was kind of wondering if it was AI.)

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Brightline is Actually Pretty Dangerous Per the Atlantic's A 'Death Train' is Haunting South Florida: According to Federal Railroad Administration data, the Brightline has been involved in at least 185 fatalities, 148 of which were beli...

When I saw the recent Atlantic article on Florida train deaths I guessed we were making a big deal over it because it was the train was big and new, and actually we're better off overall. Turns out no: Brightline is just really deadly, not just for a train, but even relative to driving.

What happens when you turn a designer into an interpretability researcher? They spend hours staring at feature activations in SVG code to see if LLMs actually understand SVGs. It turns out – yes~

We found that semantic concepts transfer across text, ASCII, and SVG:

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After the pandemic hit: all sorts of craziness. How did that play out for Ag?

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.

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Your -> you're?

Have you ever tried playing a melodica? The keys are smaller, and I think they're quite fun!

Insurance is unknown, but with a low accident rate and Google having lots of cash, they could probably self-insure?

Maybe it's a way to spend over a hundred grand on self improvement? It seems like a bad deal if you're not going to get it back somehow.

Nobody gets a job taking SAT's. It's supposed to predict if you're ready for college. Seems like a better way to test that would be to have the "AI" try to do undergrad-level coursework?

But college is preparation for a career. So maybe better to try the "AI" on the actual job you want it to do?

When prototyping I often don't know what size I want, but no-name brands on Amazon sell hardware assortments pretty cheap in a handy case. So now I have boxes of assorted springs, metric bolts, spacers, nylon washers, etc.

I admire McMaster-Carr but they're pretty pricey.

Top funny thing from @adapalmer.bsky.social ‘s INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE: “Filippino Lippi’s Saint Thomas Aquinas Interrupts the Annunciation to Introduce the Virgin Mary to Cardinal Carafa who paid for the painting, while patient Archangel Gabriel just has to wait.”

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A high-resolution astrophotograph of the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula, a vast column of cosmic gas and dust set against a deep star field in the constellation Cepheus. The central “trunk” curves gracefully upward like a celestial tornado, glowing in intricate shades of gold, green, and blue — the result of mapping sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen emissions into the Hubble SHO color palette. Wisps of illuminated gas stream away from the trunk’s rim, sculpted by intense ultraviolet radiation from massive young stars nearby. Fainter tendrils and filaments of dust fan outward into the surrounding nebula, giving the impression of motion frozen in time. Tiny pinpoints of starlight pepper the background — some crisp and brilliant, others faint and ghostly, scattered across the dark expanse of interstellar space. The entire scene feels alive, like a galactic storm caught mid-creation, revealing both the power and elegance of star formation nearly 2,400 light-years from Earth.

First narrowband image: The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula.

25 hours of integration in the Hubble SHO palette using 6nm filters.

This one taught me how patient you have to be to see color in hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen — but when it works, it really works.

#Astrophotography #photography #bluesky #beer

Hubert's assets, created as decorations for cyberpunk cityscapes, are used especially widely in animations that the IDF released during their strikes on Iran in June.

Ripped assets from Hubert are shown here in stills from IDF animations, with blue highlights:

I wonder why they don't block it? I block people after the first toxic reply. Seems reasonable?

Maybe it's the wrong tool for popular accounts.

What is shelf life like? I sometimes buy disaster supplies that expire unused, which is good since it means disaster didn’t happen, but also means I need a procedure for rotating inventory.

People often ask why we don’t act on off-platform evidence when investigating reports. Here’s an example of how complex that can get. 1/9

Less of this dumping on the ignorant, please? I like your educational content better. That's what I'm here for, to learn stuff.

I was a subscriber for a while and bought his first book which is pretty good, but there was too much complaining about bad takes by writers I don't care about, so I rarely read him these days. There are good articles, but I'll wait for someone to link to them.

It seems like the prestige newspapers such as the New York Times have declining influence on what the masses think, compared to social media and blogging? And yet, Freddie deBoer thinks they're the ones who matter? Maybe that's true in some circles.

nic carter on X: "The stablecoin duopoly is ending " / X The stablecoin duopoly is ending

Stablecoins are simpler, interest rates higher, and governments are less inclined to oppose them, so lots of companies are getting into the business.

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