Billy Harvey

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 .

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Billy Harvey
@wehrv.bsky.social

Bathroom janitor. Gerbil cage cleaner. General Carpenter. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Fighter Pilot. Theater level wargaming expert. Flight Instructor. Private Investor / Public company CEO. Aerospace startup / Capital raiser. Systems Engineer. Cybersecurity Engineer. Retired(ish).

Lorna Gibb@drlornagibb.bsky.social

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: Shop assistant, Dancer, Video shop owner Computer Programmer,

Billy Harvey
@wehrv.bsky.social

What was your first computer growing up? Mine was a self-built Z-80 with a custom OS burned into an EEPROM from paper tape, written using a PDP-8 with a teletype interface. This image is someone else's, with cleaner work than my little monster. OS also scanned the keyboard, with Nixie tube output.

The old internet@theoldinternet.bsky.social

What was your first computer growing up?

Billy Harvey
@wehrv.bsky.social

But what if our thinly disguised goal is to create impossible regulatory barriers for competition, and we'll just luxuriate in having the only systems capable of solving complex problems - all we need do is freak out enough people and ever willful short term shallow thinkers will do our work for us.

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Billy Harvey
@wehrv.bsky.social

and my blocklist grew three times this day

philpax@philpax.me

incredible that you can thanklessly work on something for 22 years and then be retroactively declared a hack because you used AI to do something that would otherwise be intractable for a single human to do in a timely fashion lotta cutting off your nose to spite your face in the replies here

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kanso
@kanso.ker.ai

"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

chromewebstore.google.comkanso - Chrome Web StoreBluesky-powered comment threads for any web page. Click the icon to see the Bluesky discussion of the current page and add your own.
Billy Harvey
@wehrv.bsky.social

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.

Cara Giovanetti@idontevencara.bsky.social

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 ⚛️🧪

Billy Harvey
@wehrv.bsky.social

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.

Billy Harvey
@wehrv.bsky.social

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

Billy Harvey
@wehrv.bsky.social

To follow up, backdated posts are allowed. My problem seemed to be rKeys being generated by my app instead of letting the PDS do it, since it appears to require the embedded timestamp. PDSing is fun as you learn the limitations. I keep thinking of new stuff to build in the future.

Billy Harvey
@wehrv.bsky.social

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.”

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Billy Harvey
@wehrv.bsky.social

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…)

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Billy Harvey
@wehrv.bsky.social

You just opened a Star Trek themed restaurant. What are you calling it? Allamaraine‘s “So bad, it’s good”

Bobby Silverman@robertsilverman.bsky.social

You’ve just opened up a Star Trek-themed restaurant What are you calling it? Deep Dish Space 9

Billy Harvey
@wehrv.bsky.social

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.

James Petruzzi@hawaiianimages.bsky.social

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:

Billy Harvey
@wehrv.bsky.social

Well, *now* I want one.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net

Which is more likely to be effective: -pfc smith trying to pop a headshot on a guy in a concealed position at 500yd -JTAC officer saying “Spooky 3-2, fire for effect”

Billy Harvey
@wehrv.bsky.social

Statistical evidence of cloning.

Grant Tanaka@granttanaka.bsky.social

As an avid concertgoer and amateur statistician, I have noticed that, with every year of concertgoing since I hit my mid 40's, the percentage of thin bald men with black frame glasses and short graying beards in attendance has increased by an estimated 3% with every show.