Jon Shea

@lunarchstudios @Kotaku They canceled Battle Aces by Uncapped Games last spring, after a closed beta. gamespot.com/articles/this-…

@Kotaku Pretty sure Tencent did the same thing to at least 2 other companies they invested in. Artillery?

Highguard developers reportedly thought the game had more runway before Tencent pulled funding. Some blame hubris for not beta testing the game ahead of launch. kotaku.com/highguard-deve…

@ouranometrian2 It’s random. You play at an effort level that is fun and challenging, but sometimes you land wrong or twist badly and you’ve torn your ACL. It’s not like there is a dial you can turn on how you play to stay safe. Unfortunately, women are biologically predisposed to ACL injuries.

Honestly crazy how many girls in sports have to wear knee braces. It was the same when I was a teen. Why blow it out when you weren't gonna have a chance at even the collegiate level

@jkimballcook My understanding is that border crossings have dramatically decreased, and so CBP is catching far fewer people at the southern border that they could easy deport. It looks like we went from 150,000-300,000 CBP “encounters” per month down to 10,000. cbp.gov/newsroom/stats…

my knee-jerk response to stuff like this is to dismiss it as hyperbolic but it does raise the question: if the goal is to deport, why are they, even after expanding ICE operations, still deporting fewer than Obama did?

@Andercot @GregNotSure @peteoxenham Why is an infinite sheet equivalent to a restriction? Imagine an annulus with inner radius r_i and outer radius r_o. Does r_i grow when heated for all finite r_o, and shrink iff r_o is infinite?

@GregNotSure @peteoxenham hell yeah

anybody on here have a PhD in physics? 1,600 people on this app need someone to solve the mystery of how a 45lb weight can weigh 45lbs with a hole in the middle

@JesseTayRiver How do they fail?

It would be better if the local people I know with ground source heat pumps simply told the truth about their catastrophic failure instead of continuing to promote them as magic boxes

@JesseTayRiver I am. I live in Brooklyn and train at masterskya.com in Chinatown.

@jonshea I'm going to try to run 6 miles midday Saturday and Sunday while I'm there. I live <90 minutes away so I'll just catch a morning BJJ class Friday and skip my usual Saturday class unfortunately. Are you in NYC?

Overheard some guys at jiu jitsu complaining that Joe Rogan has got to stop being political which can only mean he's come out with some center-left positions recently

@amyquispe A lot of places ask BS behavioral questions too these days.

@dissproportion @webdevMason I would take a friend to the ER even if I had plans with my wife.

@webdevMason My friends are non-hierarchical, but I would still take a friend to the ER even if I had plans with a different friend. That guy is just a psychopath.

I do not understand what a marriage is supposed to mean if it does not mean you take your cancer-stricken wife to the ER instead of going on a date with someone else

@BenShindel Near the top of the spine of Griffiths.

Sorry for cat-posting. I will not stop, though.

@steeve @li_haoyi does this regularly on his own repositories by adding the bounty to the issue title and keeping a list of open bounties on a discussion page (github.com/orgs/com-lihao…). He seems to get good results. I don’t believe there is native support for any of this, though.

Are there any ways to attach bounties to Github issues ?

@gnostrils It is a hard movie to recommend, but if this topic interests you, consider watching Conspiracy (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspirac…). It is one of the most affecting movies I have ever experienced. I think about it often.

A little bit about the story of Adolf Eichmann: In 1960 Nazi hunters and Israeli intelligence finally tracked down (and captured/kidnapped) Adolf Eichmann, a senior SS officer who was present at the Wannsee conference, a meeting called by Reinhard Heydrich (more on him later) to plan implementation of the Final Solution. Eichmann was responsible for planning transport logistics for the Holocaust (i.e. how to transport millions of people to extermination camps). During the highly publicized trial he repeated said that he didn’t know Jews were being killed, that he was just following orders, that the decisions were all made by his superiors so he bore no guilt, etc. (He did, however, repeatedly refuse to answer the question of whether he regarded those involved in the killing of Jews as criminals, eventually saying something along the lines of “I will not discuss my innermost feelings”.) He was convicted and hung, but his legacy as a faceless bureaucrat persisted, in part because of Hannah Arendt’s famous book The Banality of Evil, which she wrote after witnessing parts of the trial. She proposes the notion, based on Eichmann’s case, that many people who do evil are ordinary people who fail to think critically about what they’re doing. All of this was later undermined by new evidence, such as the Sassen tapes (which were known at the time of Eichmann’s trial but not admissible as evidence). While living in hiding in Argentina, a Nazi journalist named Willem Sassen extensively interviewed Eichmann about his involvement in the Final Solution. Besides conclusively demonstrating that Eichmann was well aware of the planned fate of the Jews, the most damning quote (translated) is this: “I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.” Unfortunately, this evidence undermines the original basis for Arendt’s concept of “banality of evil”, and to me throws the whole concept into question. Perhaps there are other, better exemplars which can rescue the concept.

Meandering thread of notes about Nazis, the Holocaust, postwar Europe, and related topics, having been in a wikipedia hole about this stuff, since I’m visiting Berlin 🧵 (Most of this stuff is new to me and selected for being interesting)

@dissproportion Congress did that exactly in 1983, gradually raising the full-retirement age from 65 to 67. See ssa.gov/benefits/retir…. But the retirement age stops increasing next year, maxing out at 67. I have no idea why continuing this reform is now anathema to many people.

Yeah my parents didn’t save anything either. Because they knew they’d get SSN. The age is 66 if you were born in 1967. Let’s make it 67 if you were born after 1972, 68 after 1974, and so on. Just rip off the bandaid.

Raise the social security age to 80. People can save their own money to retire earlier if they want. This has gone on long enough.

@pescami I strongly suspect that Sweeney’s hair color is not the result of her genes.

Oh I wasn't understanding until this clarification.

@adrusi Even if the LLM can easily understand CSS and selectors, you still have to hope that your agent puts both the HTML / JSX and the CSS in context, or you have to burn tokens on tool calls to grep for the CSS. With Tailwind, it’s all right there in the HTML / JSX.

@jonshea hmm i can see llms having some trouble with more elaborate css selectors. maybe. but matching css blocks for a class with jsx tags marked with that class is observed on literally the second layer attention activations in small models used for mechinterp

can someone explain to me why anyone uses tailwind?

@mccue As far as I can tell, there is no reason to think the canine vaccine is unsafe or ineffective in humans. But maybe the reason I think this is because I don’t know anything. Maybe I should talk to someone who actually knows things.

@jonshea You might have better luck joining a clinical trial for the new human one. You’ll have to weigh the uncertainty of maybe being in the placebo arm against the certainty of getting a vaccine for dogs, though.

Does anyone have experience, good or bad, with buying a canine Lyme disease vaccine and then administering it to themselves?

It looks like you can get it a Tractor Supply Co. tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/sp…

I worked valet for a party at Brian Wilson’s house in Aspen in the winter of 2004. An Australian coworker drove a brand-new Range Rover into a new Jeep Grand Cherokee, was fired on the spot, and had to walk a mile back to town. Later, the chef brought us leftover foie gras.