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New comment by blueline in "Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code"

blueline — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:56:34 +0000

If only the energy posting the 5 trillionth "ngmi" meme could be applied to achieving one 9 of uptime for claude

New comment by blueline in "Ironies of Automation (1983) [pdf]"

blueline — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 15:12:09 +0000

for a film interpretation of this paper: playtime by jacques tati

New comment by blueline in "Bullshit Jobs (2018)"

blueline — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 22:49:12 +0000

there's an interview with graeber about the book that covers a good deal of the book's content pretty succinctly:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-ja...

New comment by blueline in "India’s Tigers Bounce Back"

blueline — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 17:05:06 +0000

for more like this, cal flyn's "islands of abandonment" is an interesting read featuring several surprising example of how ecosystems have adapted to varying levels of human destruction

New comment by blueline in "Major shake-up coming for Fermilab, the troubled U.S. particle physics center"

blueline — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 14:34:02 +0000

Wilson Hall is the total opposite of depressing for me. Especially the interior is quite beautiful:

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UOpsfRLRr_I/VbhWuR4OeBI/AAAAAAAAB...

https://live.staticflickr.com/3800/33033871090_f658526696_b....

The art and architecture around the lab has a surprisingly rich history dating back to its first director who was also a sculptor/artist: https://history.fnal.gov/historical/art_arch/art_architectur...

New comment by blueline in "Facebook Gave Police Teenager's DMs in Abortion Prosecution"

blueline — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 19:21:35 +0000

not sure it's realistic to expect children to have the opsec of a tech worker

New comment by blueline in "Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’ (2015)"

blueline — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 21:08:44 +0000

Miami Vice has acquired a pretty substantial cult following in recent years, and among the people i know who are "into" Mann, it pretty commonly ranks as their favorite as well.

For me it's still Thief (or Heat) but MV is very close

New comment by blueline in "In 1791, enslaved Haitians ousted their French masters and founded a nation"

blueline — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:52:00 +0000

Did the Dominican Republic have to pay outrageous reparations to their former enslavers? You know, the thing this article was about?

New comment by blueline in "In 1791, enslaved Haitians ousted their French masters and founded a nation"

blueline — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:50:50 +0000

The article is about Haitian slaves having to pay reparations to their enslavers. Nobody brought up reparations being paid to slaves except you.

New comment by blueline in "In 1791, enslaved Haitians ousted their French masters and founded a nation"

blueline — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:30:22 +0000

They would have fared a lot better if … France didn’t saddle them with reparations for their independence … like what the entire article posted was about

New comment by blueline in "In 1791, enslaved Haitians ousted their French masters and founded a nation"

blueline — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:23:53 +0000

Do you mean to suggest they’d be better off as slaves?

New comment by blueline in "Covid and the Heart: It Spares No One – Johns Hopkins"

blueline — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:45:03 +0000

> This study was done before vaccination was widely available. Is there any indication that, for example, breakthrough infections would have a different result long term?

> Yes. We are [studying] this, but I think the jury is still out. We're certainly very interested in addressing that publicly as soon as we can.

New comment by blueline in "A framework for grading your performance on programming interview problems"

blueline — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 16:55:17 +0000

> P.P.S. The reason you don't need algos in your day to day is because you are not good enough at algos to get a funner, better paying, more impactful job where you do

there are a comically high number of jobs at "prestigious" companies where this is absolutely not true

New comment by blueline in "CEOs are at their wits’ end – they don’t know how to get their employees back in"

blueline — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 16:29:54 +0000

pretty interesting that nowhere in the article does it mention that any of these CEOs have tried, say, offering higher compensation/better benefits compared to similar remote-friendly jobs.

when i see "at their wits' end" i take that to mean "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"

New comment by blueline in "Twenty percent of a picture of a dog"

blueline — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:01:48 +0000

The article makes a pretty specific argument as to why those things are different.

New comment by blueline in "Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist"

blueline — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 14:59:07 +0000

What do I do when not a single candidate in any election that I can vote in has even heard of, much less taken my preferred position on, this issue?

New comment by blueline in "Black barbers have become mental health advocates for African American men"

blueline — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 15:56:05 +0000

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

New comment by blueline in "VCs are financing an economy of servants"

blueline — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 18:51:42 +0000

liberalism and marxism at the same time? impressive!

New comment by blueline in "Pitch doctoring should be the biggest scandal in sports"

blueline — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 00:04:05 +0000

Checking pockets isn’t enough. Pitchers have been hiding the substances on their hats or gloves or other sneaky places for years. It’s not like they just bring a jar of spider tack out there with them

New comment by blueline in "Tony Hawk on his skateboarding legacy"

blueline — Mon, 24 May 2021 15:02:13 +0000

learning how to fall is huge. of course falling down onto asphalt/concrete always carries some risk but once you get comfortable falling safely, it's pretty unlikely you'll do any serious damage to yourself if you're not straying too far outside your limits as you learn.