Billy Harvey
@wehrv.bsky.social
Just another "loser and sucker" retired F-4G Wild Weasel fighter pilot. Retired-ish IT enterprise level systems engineer with Electrical and Computer Engineering degree, and Rust/Go/Javascript dev. AI dabbler, drooler, and dribbler. Building ker.ai .
Yes, I'm slightly bragging (*very* small blush), but I'm on target to finish the claude-week (reset) with less than 1% remaining on my $200/mo subscription.
"You are in a maze of twisty little passages. You drop a lantern to mark your spot." The web extension kanso allows you to drop a post direct from the page you're looking at to your blueSky account, or see if someone else has already started an engaging conversation worth joining. @kanso.ker.ai
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@mcuban.bsky.social Mark, please look into getting the Express Scripts contract of Tricare. They overcharge compared to my local pharmacy on many medicates by 3x or more, but have captured the market with Tricare generally not reimbursing if you use something else. It's over $500MM annually.
Stanford CS329A course on self-improving AI agents. #kanso
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My guess is the chick is just using what wings it does have at that age to stabilize itself to find its stall speed and get a little away from the cliff face and then adjusting for a little more speed once the forward vector is sufficient to clear the face.
Today I set out to understand how barnacle geese chicks, who launch themselves off of cliff faces hundreds of feet high within days of hatching, survive their extreme falls. Friends, I did not succeed. Let me tell you what I did find. 1/8 ⚛️🧪
So, working on an automated proof system, which is a subsystem for much more expansive project in my one man with an iPad retirement show: Claude: “…estimate half a day’s work for the primitive nats function set” Claude, 7m 30s later: “cogitated for 7m 30s, committed” Never change Claude.
Quote with the energy you bring to blueSky.
If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to BlueSky 🦋
So, bsky engineer types. I’ve stood up a PDS server and gotten it to connect to bsky, but my older (4 day old) test posts don’t show but if i create new ones do. I’d like to create a good deal of info in post form up to a year old. Is there a limit on the createdAt timestamps? cc: @pfrazee.com
He finally finished reading Lisa Simpson’s detailed review of his book.
somehow, Al Gore returned
pick up the nearest book, turn to page 42, and post the second sentence “Leveraging the enzymatic power of koji, you can coax flavors out of food you wouldn’t be able to use otherwise.”
pick up the nearest book. turn to page 42, post the second sentence "2. Line up the trigger hook with the notch in the cylinder stop and then lower the trigger onto the stud."
We should have infinite time zones since noon should be whenever the sun is directly overhead at any given location.
Hot take about time - we should have diagonal timezones since earth rotates on an incline
QOTD timeline cleanse: Post the first photo in your roll when you type in “blue sky.” … (I guess it picked up on the blue background, and it’s. a video clip, but still…)
QOTD timeline cleanse: Post the first photo in your roll when you type in “blue sky.”
You just opened a Star Trek themed restaurant. What are you calling it? Allamaraine‘s “So bad, it’s good”
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek-themed restaurant What are you calling it? Deep Dish Space 9
“Make a Bond movie casual” The Spy Who Blocked Me
Make a Bond movie casual Pewterfinger
“The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.” Cool.
“The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.” … Yeah, this feels about right.
Reposting this after the Rivian Autonomy Day, because I can’t wait to see the eventual Pike’s Peak time-to-beat run being set by an autonomous Rivian.
If you watch that very truck do the Pikes Peak run it looks like it was shot out of a railgun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS9d...
I don’t care what anyone says, I like that movie.
"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie."
You will be visited by three spirits.
You will be visited by three spirits...
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. Time for a deep cut: