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armurray

@armurray@mastodon.social

Software Engineer developing tools to enable evolution, collaboration, and design (esp as pertains wicked problems)
I like motion graphics and films on parallel universes and time travel

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carnage4life, to random
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This is nuts to me. I’d never have predicted this outcome if asked on any day of the past twenty years.

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armurray,
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@carnage4life cheers to the investment advisors who talked me out of buying each stock 20 years ago

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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I don't know if we can really blame McDonald's for Morgan Spurlocks death, but it sort of feels like we should

armurray,
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@TheBreadmonkey i certainly thought about it! I also thought big shark (the industry) got to Rob Stewart when I recently heard of his 2017 death

GeePawHill, to random
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Some folks have been consistently rewarded for decades for doing things that, a) impress and please their peers, but b) simultaneously hold them back from the levels at which they could impress and please their peers even more.

They are basically caught in a classic hill-climbing problem. To get to the higher hill, which they are not even sure is higher, they will have to go down into the valley, and they can't see their way clear to trying that.

Self-awareness is a superpower.

armurray,
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@GeePawHill I live for the Valley, and i loath impressing and pleasing people

justinesherry, to random
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Lots of discussion about how Google has become garbage at pulling up helpful information... how are the alternatives doing? Does anyone actually use another search engine and like it? What do you like about it?

armurray,
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@justinesherry I’m using DuckDuckGo (for longer than I can remember) and the brave browser has started running AI on my queries (without my… prompting)… this has been a mostly positive experience. sometimes it’s not just wrong/hallucinating, it’s subtly, devilishly wrong, requiring deep insight to unpack… the kind of wrong that requires expertise, which is in direct conflict with the curiosity mode with which I search

My view is, we must accept, now is the worst time for interfaces in history

armurray, to random
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The year of Linux on the desktop!

armurray, to random
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I am excited for the Edmonton Oilers!

armurray, to random
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Today I learned everything there is to know about baking powder. Quite a chemistry (and cooking) lesson

ylegall, to random
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rubiks projection

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armurray,
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@ylegall @loosenut we’re not worthy

rit, to random
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My 12 year old nephew is doing a school project where he has to interview someone about their career and then do a presentation with graphics.

I ask what graphics he has so far. "I have a guy drinking coffee at a computer"

Perfect.

armurray,
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@rit Kurt Russell plays chess in The Thing .gif

kf, to random
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one of the weird things about walking and taking public transit for the past two years is that I now HATE cars

HATE them

not just having them, but being in one. you want me to get in a car? to go to a place? instead of a bus/streetcar/train? what if I just didn't

armurray,
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@kf best attitude to hold, really

armurray, to random
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Brawndo’s got what plants crave, and coconut is a food that ends in um, like bananum
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112411684628599192

nancycomics, to random
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 9,1947

armurray,
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@nancycomics love this one

lzg, to random
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i watched the apple ad everyone is hating on and I hate it too. it feels bad man.

armurray,
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@lzg just watched it (and heard it was taking some flack but haven’t seen what anyone is saying). Here is my take: most of the things getting crushed are things I love, piano, arcade machine, books, guitar, turntable… stuff I want in my home and life. Goals

mcc, to random
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I love Nine Inch Nails, and I love the Revolting Cocks, but I've never listened to, like, any Ministry. I wonder if I should. One problem is it's hard to know where to get started, there is a lot of it

armurray,
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@mcc the responses that said the mind is a terrible thing to taste are correct

armurray,
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@mcc the response that said, “with sympathy” is borderline insane

kf, to random
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this week really feels like the monkey’s paw is curling tbqh

armurray,
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@kf say more?

lzg, to random
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    armurray,
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    @lzg temptation does not exist, only pleasure, little godling

    armurray, to random
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    @kf somehow I wanted to tell you about the movie, “clockwatchers” (Parker Posey, Toni Collette), but think I failed to mention it. Hidden gem

    armurray,
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    @kf we were chatting the other day and Parker Posey came up (you’ve got mail), and well, you have a somewhat chaotic stance with work (not dissimilar to Posey’s character) and I thought you might like it… it has a certain distrusting vibe you might enjoy

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    @kf I laughed like mad, mostly by way of understatement; anyway, I loved it, now shared!

    davetron5000, to random
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    Is there an explainer for what is actually the point of all the AI stuff? For crypto I was fine ignoring it as it was stupid on its face. I would ignore AI too if it were just hyped by tech companies and VCs, but it seems to dominate everywhere. I’m in a “CTO club” and it’s nonstop AI.

    Internet search on this topic is, even via Kagi, tons of SEO nonsense.

    Don’t tell me about it writing emails or code. I understand that part. What actual problems is it supposed to solve?

    armurray,
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    @davetron5000 was just thinking about how incredibly limiting the actual results have been so far

    lzg, to random
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    armurray,
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    @lzg my go to joke: I used to think I was depressed, turned out I was just listening to Portishead

    Been revisiting lately

    armurray,
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    @lzg what a time to be alive! Teen angst for me, too

    grimalkina, to random
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    Lambda School /BloomTech is old news; always talked about like it was run by Satan himself by all of us who worked on actual education and learning access issues in tech.

    But what's not old news and will always emerge again is that probably now people will just be more biased against e.g. bootcamp learners who are trying their damndest to claw into a better life, rather than taking it out on the men who find toying with education a way to make their own terrible imperium

    armurray,
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    @grimalkina I hear you!

    raiderrobert, to random
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    I've heard many times that "billionaires should not exist."

    I've never heard of a viable idea to actually make this actionable policy. Every country I'm aware of with a wealth tax in Europe has repealed it.

    But suppose you just declare, "100% tax above $100M USD on wealth" anyhow.

    The ultra wealthy people can just leave and go elsewhere. If they can't just leave, it implies the freedom in their country is a sham like Russia or China.

    Anyone willing to thoughtfully weigh in?

    armurray,
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    @raiderrobert progressive flat tax for all, ultra simple tax code, shared by many nations. The rumour that billionaires will leave is supported by complex tax codes that promote havens and loopholes - the key thing to change is to make manufacturing and the use of physical resources and local staff to mean that corporate taxes are paid in the country of origin. Of course, impossible to achieve, because of the golden rule.

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