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michaelterryio commented on Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)   openculture.com/2020/03/p... · Posted by u/rbanffy
excalibur · 3 months ago
> It’s fair to say that few of us now marvel at moving walkways, those standard infrastructural elements of such utilitarian spaces as airport terminals, subway stations, and big-box stores.

You've gotta be referring to escalators here. Never seen a moving walkway in a big-box store, or a subway station for that matter.

michaelterryio · 3 months ago
Notwithstanding the people responding, yes, it is extremely uncommon in "big box stores".
michaelterryio commented on Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally   timelinize.com... · Posted by u/mholt
sureglymop · 4 months ago
This is great. I want this but for much more. I want it to also be a nextcloud and zotero replacement, storing all my documents and books and documenting when I added, opened, edited them. I want it to store all notes that I write. I want it to record and display all browser tabs I open, when I do so, everything I copy and paste, every key I press. I want a record of everything I do in the digital world that is searchable and that can answer the question: "what was I working on 2 weeks ago on this day?" and bring back all the context also.

For obvious reasons this has to be self hosted and managed. I'm not interested in creating surveillance software or technology.

It sounds extreme but whenever I have seen peoples obsidian set ups with heaps of manual and bidirectional linking I always thought that time is the one thing we should look at. If I look up some concept on wikipedia today, there is a higher chance of me looking up related concepts or working on something related to that around this time also.

michaelterryio · 4 months ago
I can never find it now, but someone had an idea for a computing system which was purely temporal for every object and then you'd only access outside of temporal by filter.

I wish I could find it again.

michaelterryio commented on Observable Notebooks Data Loaders   observablehq.com/notebook... · Posted by u/mbostock
michaelterryio · 5 months ago
How does this fit with Framework? Is Framework still part of the plans?
michaelterryio commented on Pentagon Docs: US Wants to "Suppress Dissenting Arguments" Using AI Propaganda   theintercept.com/2025/08/... · Posted by u/Qem
cookiengineer · 5 months ago
Imagine an AI impersonating your friends and relatives and trying to tell you that you are not trans/gay/green/vegan or whatever the president doesn't like that very morning.

They're building the Ministry of Truth.

If you need an AI and propaganda to convince someone instead of neutral, rational, and educational means - then guess what, you are in the wrong.

michaelterryio · 5 months ago
It's a bit strange you think the government has a problem with any of those things. Those are not the right examples.
michaelterryio commented on Every champion needs a rival   tombrady.com/posts/every-... · Posted by u/pbardea
lordnacho · 6 months ago
What I find interesting about American Football is that the QBs are considered rivals, despite never being on the pitch at the same time. Messi and Ronaldo actually appear on many images contesting the same ball, Peyton and Brady you'd struggle to find pictures other than the post-match handshake.

Why isn't the rivalry considered to be between the QB and someone on the defense? There's actually two matchups in an NFL game (plus specials but whatever), the two offense versus defense pairings. It's odd to make the rivalry about two guys who aren't directly tackling each other, when there are people on both teams who really are tackling those guys.

michaelterryio · 6 months ago
In football, the QB generally decides the outcome of the game and their performance is directly comparable.

I admit there's some weirdness that they don't face off directly, but that's why.

michaelterryio commented on Covers as a way of learning music and code   ntietz.com/blog/covers-as... · Posted by u/zdw
michaelterryio · 7 months ago
Benjamin Franklin talks about this in his autobiography.
michaelterryio commented on Why Elixir? Common misconceptions   matthewsinclair.com/blog/... · Posted by u/ahamez
Einenlum · 7 months ago
Am I the only one who never tried Elixir just because it has no strict typing? Seems very hard for me to go back to a language with dynamic typing. Maybe I'm just wrong and I should give it a try.
michaelterryio · 7 months ago
I mean, lots of extremely talented and successful engineers, e.g., DHH, think strict typing is actually a negative. I think if you think strict typing is an absolute disqualifier, you should steelman the opposing side.
michaelterryio commented on The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)   nautil.us/is-this-new-swi... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
chongli · 7 months ago
It’s not strange at all. People want to see records broken. Levelling the playing field works against that goal.

Sports is an aspirational medium of entertainment. People want to see excellence. They want to see dynasties. Too much fairness and balance leads to loss of interest.

Look at the NBA. We’re in a period of unprecedented parity and balance. It seems like every year brings a different championship team. Ratings are way down and loads of people are complaining about the CBA which was written with the goal of bringing more parity to the league, a goal it’s quite obviously achieving!

michaelterryio · 7 months ago
On the other hand the NFL’s hard salary cap and consequent parity is what has made it the most popular US professional sporting league. People in the US don’t want to see big markets buy their way to championships.
michaelterryio commented on A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits   ianvisits.co.uk/articles/... · Posted by u/edward
lionkor · 2 years ago
Yeah, this isn't trolling, it's enforcing
michaelterryio · 2 years ago
Even enforcing has a dumb ring to it.
michaelterryio commented on A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits   ianvisits.co.uk/articles/... · Posted by u/edward
avereveard · 2 years ago
I mean is it copyright trolling if the organizers are actually infringing on copyrighted photos?

I wonder what people living off selling photos think about that.

michaelterryio · 2 years ago
It’s trolling because the photos are easy to substitute or not use at all. No one is going to knowingly post a blog photo costing them 400 quid. It’s a gotcha.

u/michaelterryio

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