pevohr.bsky.social
Dad, startup guy. Ideas matter. Design matters. It's about we, not me.
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Tip: When preloading videos (to make the swipe UX seamless), be sure to include a reason tag in your local cache so any negative signals can be honored immediately (without having to wait for the algo to rerun)
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1. easiest = make other explicit choices from the set of recommended videos (harder in swipe UX)
2. subtler = pivot to a favorite category (immediately reweights that higher)
3. cold turkey = prune bad signals from my "recently watched" list (don't even start)
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You may need multiple ways to give stronger "not that" signals to the algo (beyond just view times)
For example, the algo for YT also strongly overweights whatever new/different stuff I watched recently, but I have several ways to keep that in check:
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Picture the 1000 hypothetical best people to run the United States. About half are men. About half are women. Some are non-binary.
But almost all of those women have zero chance of ever being elected president. Because sexism.
So the adjusted top 1000 lets in about 490 under-qualified dudes.🤡
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Blech. According to court filings by the State of California, they're being told it's the latter:
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the reason I liked Harris's statement was it said "the vast majority of the protests have been peaceful" rather than "we condemn burning and property destruction" because it doesn't Streisand Effect what you're trying to avoid
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At its crudest, most sociopathic formulation, rule of law exists so society doesn't blow its top off at bullies who are never punished.
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Plausible speculation by @bcmerchant.bsky.social that the summonable surveillance capabilities of these vehicles made them a target:
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... because there's a steep gradient between:
• staying put in DTLA to protect a single federal building during protests, vs.
• accompanying ICE agents on raids throughout LA County at Home Depots, worksites, or elementary school graduations
... none of which should involve Marines, of course
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... especially if there's any overlap with this other request:
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Thunberg’s message of logic and the basic belief that humanity is capable of moral action lands precisely because we are living in a time dominated by a man who continuously spews nonsense based on the premise that the world is rancid to the core.
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Liberals, leftists, conservatives, and fascists all want *engineering* to provide toys, but they're not so chill with *science* because of its tendency to reach invasively into your head and demand you update your models of reality -- much less science as a value set, as an ends-unto-itself.
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Not only does every factual claim link back to the underlying news article or court case, but the entire overlay (data + code) is Open Source
So if you have facts or design tweaks to help improve the presentation, you know what to do!
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The design pattern here is well-executed + more powerful than many realize:
• every facet is a summary
• sparse per-category templates, with nifty icons for core concepts
• canonical URL for every name or acronym
Just linking that all together lets you switch perspectives quickly
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Fess up, now. This was your nerd-sniping content strategy all along
As long as you keep describing React-adjacent bikesheds, they're gonna debate 'em. Can't be helped!
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TBH, I wouldn't advise using this service to try to assemble the kinds of overlays I was asking for
Between rate-limiting + potential TOS violations (I didn't look), it just doesn't seem worth working against the grain + pinging around the planet to do so
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However, the StreetViewSource enums provided make it clear that this was never intended to steer folks towards (rather than away from) UGC imagery
developers.google.com/maps/documen...
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... and bingo!
Turns out there's a StreetViewService endpoint where you can make an async StreetViewLocationRequest for copyright information on the "best fit" panorama near a given location:
developers.google.com/maps/documen...