https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_FUt5S7j0s
― adam, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
oh, what a feeling / when you’re yelling at the ceiling
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
overvalued and unprofitable startups desperately latching onto half-baked ideas for generating revenue: a thread— sir this is a wendy 🌹 (@dellsystem) February 25, 2020
― maura, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:01 (four years ago) link
people are ruining the pivot moment, which was supposed to be realizing that you had developed a component that is useful on its own in the quest to create your original product
now it’s just “we can slap ads or loans in”
idk maybe the latter was the real thing and the former kismet
― mh, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:34 (four years ago) link
Or, you know, all this shit has just been a fucking obvious bubble to people who know how to read and do math
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 04:16 (four years ago) link
all these companies following ilx's lead. hook about 100 people. Then turn on that ad revenue, baby.
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 05:09 (four years ago) link
I feel so old about this stuff. My life is so lo-fi, i just would never be interested in most of these things.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 06:00 (four years ago) link
The Homepolish story linked in that thread is a good one, if you enjoy reading about clueless entitled assholes ruining other people's lives.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:20 (four years ago) link
I am seriously wondering what type of permitting / code compliance issues those things would require ... like, are they gonna fall down in an earthquake? What is the minimum ceiling height they require? What about fire safety ... what is the fire rating of these things? Normally, code stipulates that you can't have storage closer than 18" from the ceiling ... because it's a mechanical device, would it require mechanical permits? ...
― sarahell, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
"who cares just build it and then worry about that shit later!" = every tech company ever
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
It just seems like something that would be hard to integrate with a bunch of different pre-existing construction types -- like, apartments with 8' or lower ceilings.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
disrupting the building code "industry"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
a ceiling waterbed is actually safer than normal beds in the case of fire
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
there are so many small businesses that are the opposite of tech companies with the attitude of "who cares just build it and then worry about that shit later!" but maybe tech companies tend to grow more quickly, exposing the attitude in more dramatic fashion.
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:58 (four years ago) link
small businesses would run into the same problems if they were always trying to "scale up" and/or waste other people's money
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
One of the guys from Mad Men had his bungalow featured in Dwell and he had a bed that raised and lowered manually and I thought that was actually pretty cool in a tight space.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link
coming out of the floor is very different from coming out of the fucking ceiling
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link
This one raised up to the ceiling but it was done with a chain so it had a cool industrial feel
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
lol was this Pete Campbell's place
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
vince kartheiser def the weirdest person on that show
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:24 (four years ago) link
Yeah, that guy. Mr. Alexis Bledel
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
wasn’t that house pretty small for a named actor guy? seemed respectable
― mh, Thursday, 27 February 2020 00:30 (four years ago) link
I'm unwilling to put in effort to find a link that's not the Daily Mailhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2712131/Mad-Men-star-sells-cleverly-designed-tiny-bungalow-800-000-including-bed-pulled-ceiling-fire-pit-hidden-inside-coffee-table.html
Super nice, IMO.
The bed pulling into the ceiling isn't a dumb idea at all, if you can make it happen, beats a Murphy bed taking up an entire wall. Hydraulics or whatever are unnecessary (though let's be real about the energy cost of a 10 second raise/lower cycle - if you're living in few square feet you're more than making up for that energy).
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 27 February 2020 01:01 (four years ago) link
fewer square feet
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 27 February 2020 01:02 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERvx3A1UUAAPQfP?format=jpg&name=small
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 27 February 2020 01:49 (four years ago) link
i like that bungalow (except for the red curtain). I like that the bed is on a pulley system.
Although this is all reminding me of that earthquake proof bed (coffin).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slQwB0uCZkc
― Yerac, Thursday, 27 February 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
A panic bed.
― nickn, Thursday, 27 February 2020 04:08 (four years ago) link
I give myself three nights before I have permanent brain damage from hitting my head on the beam.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 27 February 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
Because I have these thoughts that seem really interesting, but they're not really good for real life.'
very relatable, Vince
― mh, Thursday, 27 February 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
Limited Series Based on Downfall of WeWork Coming to Apple TV+
we're just playing mad libs with these concepts now, right?
― mh, Friday, 28 February 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
👏 👏 👏 pic.twitter.com/SSob76cCN4— VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 (@VCBrags) April 4, 2020
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
is that sincere? jesus.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 4 April 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
lololol she went and edited it
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
quora is both the best and worst sitebest when idiots completely show their ass imo
― mh, Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYez1BSWkAceMAh?format=png&name=large
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
kinda chill but mostly lol
― sarahell, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
I think that's really an app for personal injury lawyers
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
oof
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 May 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
I keep seeing ads for this service called Block Renovation, which claims it is the "Amazon Prime of renovation" but seems more like, idk, the grubhub of renovation or something? I.e. it sort of pointlessly inserts itself between you and contractors to take advantage of the growing tendency of people to arbitrarily trust things more if there is some kind of tech intermediary.
Like they claim to also provide "design services" but AFICT all that means is you get a more generic bathroom by limiting your options to theirs, yet still pay a premium over what you would just pay a contractor. And then they work with contractor "partners" to do the renovation.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 May 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
The audio chat had spiraled wildly out of control from a broader conversation earlier in the call about the state of journalism and what VCs should do to receive better coverage. Srinivasan, formerly a general partner at Andreesen Horowitz, claimed that "the entire tech press was complicit in covering up the threat of COVID-19," and claimed that relying on the press is "outsourcing your information supply chain to folks who are disaligned with you," comparable to the United States having outsourced its medical supply chain. He proposed that the approaches to truth and accountability offered by GitHub, venture capital funding, and cryptocurrency all offer better models for journalism than "the East Coast model of 'Respect my authori-tay.'"
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 July 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
according to a friend of mine, his creepy behavior toward women online extends to offline as well
― lukas, Thursday, 2 July 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
i wonder if he would refer to white supremacy as "racial disalignment"?
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 July 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
The app was valued at $100 million after a reported $12 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz, and requires an invite to join.
That's a lot of money for "Zoom with no video"
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Thursday, 2 July 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
$12M at $100M valuation is like a Friday afternoon scratch ticket for AH, barely merits an all-staff email probably.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Friday, 3 July 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
Ba1aji S. 5rinivasan attended Stanford where he was awarded a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engin33ring, and Bioinformatics. He has taught statistics, data mining, and computational biology at Stanford University.
...
He proposed that the approaches to truth and accountability offered by GitHub, venture capital funding, and cryptocurrency all offer better models for journalism
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 July 2020 00:20 (three years ago) link
apparently he's seen South Park, tho
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 July 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
wah wah I’m a big baby who can’t take it when people cover my company criticallythis all reminds me of the villainizing of john carreyrou at theranos because he dared to write about how their company was a sham, when their company was, in fact, a sham
― solo scampito (mh), Saturday, 4 July 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
the endgame is in sight: https://jalopnik.com/this-blowjob-machine-designed-for-teslas-on-autopilot-i-1844296987
― rob, Friday, 10 July 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
"The San Francisco-based startup aims to upgrade the American trailer park, making it a network of intentional communities for the remote-working, previously urban professionals."https://t.co/JBjPczTK3n— Cory Weinberg (@coryweinberg) July 21, 2020
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link