Posts by clayfoot@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Aq6bNGDYKHL8FxATZI by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2025-01-15T11:58:58Z
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@futurebird > "Bird can fly"Reactions:"Yes, Larry Bird really flies down the court."-or-"Those Bird scooters are quick indeed"It sounds like the name of a person or company or a service, instead of the generic animal or object. So, then you have to specify "the bird" or something to clarify the generic noun, which is also done.
(DIR) Post #ArNrYehTYtT2WBuWEi by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2025-02-22T17:42:30Z
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@futurebird Could be the first protest in favor of keeping taxes high since the Boston Tea Party
(DIR) Post #ArNxymjOvNoAgEebEe by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2025-02-22T18:54:29Z
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@futurebird@sauropods.oh it seems like a good way to reduce congestion and raise much needed road work funds. Just don't often see people saying they won't stand for lower taxes.
(DIR) Post #Arv6wP4cfYHg1dmSJc by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2025-03-10T18:40:22Z
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@futurebird Maybe that skeleton is an actor, still getting cast in a few parts after passing. That's a good agent.
(DIR) Post #AsDsKlTLEgvJ8PjuRk by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2025-03-19T19:56:11Z
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@futurebird For sure! And there were a lot of them!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_villas_in_England
(DIR) Post #AwXV81UiXF9AVIJF8i by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2025-07-26T22:38:46Z
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@futurebird What might make the difference: Mandatory voting. Australia has it, and a low turn out election still has over 80% participation.
(DIR) Post #Ax9ELRrLhRagpB0UNc by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2025-08-13T23:32:07Z
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@purrperl @pluralistic @afx @evdelen @lizardbill My mother was one of those punch card programmers. She moved to Florida, tried to get a job, and was told, "We don't hire women as programmers." So, she took one of those keypunch operator jobs, instead.
(DIR) Post #Axk2yfJPbh99EuaH5c by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2025-08-31T21:46:41Z
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@futurebird We could bring back the Brennan gyro monorail to run both ways on a single existing pair of tracks. Maybe it'll make a comeback with batteries and electric motors and such.https://youtu.be/WVPqltM-Zbw
(DIR) Post #AxoXCs8MVVDUJhwgzI by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2025-09-03T01:44:13Z
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@futurebird Yes, the government can do that, and it's not necessarily a bad idea. For example, in Trump's first term, there was a proposal to buy Gilead Sciences, give away their outrageously expensive Hepatitis C treatment, then sell off the rest of the company. As a generic drug, the savings to Medicare alone would have made it a good deal for the government. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/520430944
(DIR) Post #AzXI3IhX7Ics45ZFIm by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2025-10-24T13:48:25Z
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@futurebird dwarf plant or dwarf planet?
(DIR) Post #B0BIxk3OphncJlpx0S by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2025-11-12T21:07:11Z
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@futurebird I hate it when people mistake my drunkard's walk for a systematic search. No, thank you; I don't need help looking for something; I'm just intoxicated.
(DIR) Post #B1g2e7cdwwnjWt0aTw by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2025-12-27T14:52:32Z
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@lowqualityfacts Oh, that is so unfair. Clearly, John Oliver suffers from the rare Foreign Accent Syndrome. He would much rather sound like Forrest Gump.
(DIR) Post #B1qIuetDZVy2BeGeDQ by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2026-01-01T13:41:57Z
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@futurebird The founder of Hinge left that to start over with Overtone-a generative AI powered app to put people together. I don't know how AI can fulfill the promise of Match's original algorithm (matching people based on factors shown to lead to lasting relationships), but perhaps there is a legitimate use for generative AI in there.
(DIR) Post #B1qMH4cKtgUQDHkcvQ by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2026-01-01T14:19:37Z
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@futurebird It is pretty normal. I'm skeptical that generative AI can do any better than algorithms and data at narrowing matches and getting people together, but maybe there's something related to it (like visualization) that gen AI can do better.
(DIR) Post #B1zYkLBBLXbVqlPZEe by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2026-01-06T00:51:41Z
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@lowqualityfacts Stephen Hawking threw a party for time travelers, but none showed up. Hawking concluded that time travel was impossible, but maybe future time travelers already heard what a lousy party it was.
(DIR) Post #B21mCatuqyW3UVNEy8 by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2026-01-07T02:31:58Z
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@futurebird some day I shall have my own great wheel of cheesehttps://www.costco.com/p/-/whole-wheel-parmigiano-reggiano-approximately-80-lbs/100096211
(DIR) Post #B23n46OKtJPGp02Lq4 by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2026-01-08T01:51:03Z
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@futurebird Until Fannie Farmer's cookbook standardized measurements and terms, there was just no wrong way to write a cookbook. There's a bold before/after line in cookbooks at 1896.
(DIR) Post #B27cM5l3fBzVCosdwe by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2026-01-09T22:09:45Z
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@Nonilex And he didn't even drop his phone. Bellingcat research:https://bsky.app/profile/bellingcat.com/post/3mbwmvhhv3k2x
(DIR) Post #B2IHWfCEnYjNiHLtrc by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2026-01-15T01:38:20Z
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@futurebird 4 symbols, so maybe base-4 number system24 "cards" so assume 0-23Only 1 base-4 number in that range has 3 of the same digit: 111 (21). So □ must be 1.Only 9 3-digit numbers in that range, and only 1 of them is 1 followed by 2 digits: 100 (16). So ▷ must be 0.Digits 2 & 3 will have to wait until I get home.
(DIR) Post #B2Iu6akCcpZQaWnXMm by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2026-01-15T08:50:37Z
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@futurebird I think assignment of ▣ and ■ is arbitrary, so I'm going to choose 2 and 3 just to make it easier to remember: 0 -> empty -> □1 -> partial -> ▣2 -> filled -> ■3 -> triangle -> ▷I can then sort the cards easily0 to 23 in base 10, or0 to 113 in base 4, or□ to ▣▣▷ with the cards