Ty Webb
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Ty Webb
@tywebb82.bsky.social
Data, software engineering, politics, cricket. Temporarily Midwestern.
I think his former anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage views being purely transactional is part of why it was so easy for him (and some other neocons) to migrate away from Trump and the Republicans.
August 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
And yet faced with this existential threat the sensible centrists have coalesced around a corrupt sexual assaulter who killed a bunch of the elderly in their nursing homes.
June 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
What's it's pretty reliable for right now is writing small snippets of code that would take 20 mins to figure out yourself. Much easier to verify that's correct vs summarizing a set of sources, but chatGPT is confident either way. Very different user experience for programmers vs everyone else.
January 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Googling the name of the "PhD" before posting would have been a wise choice.

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Clifford Skridlow
Clifford Skridlow is the main protagonist in the 1983 comedy film Doctor Detroit. He is portrayed by Dan Aykroyd, who also played Ray Stantz in the 1984 film Ghostbusters and the 1989 sequel, Ghostbus...
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August 27, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Except for 1900, or any year ending in 00 that is not divisible by 400 (i.e. 2000 was a leap year, 2100 won't be).
August 25, 2024 at 8:51 AM
If we take Trump being 6'3" at face value, this will be the second largest height difference between Presidential candidates in history. Only Lincoln (6'4'') vs Douglas (5'4'') was greater.
August 24, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Sen's example of starving vs fasting has always stuck with me.
August 22, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Ah. That makes sense. Over rating how effective Ryan would be in a debate because he was able to sucker in enough of the DC journalist class.
August 19, 2024 at 5:40 AM
Are you mixing him up with someone else? For all his faults, Chait has consistently been a critic of bullshit Republican economics that Ryan exemplified nymag.com/intelligence...
Fanatic, Fraud, Factotum: The Rise and Fall of Paul Ryan
Requiem for the face and brain of the Republican Party.
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August 19, 2024 at 5:15 AM