MengerSponge

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by MengerSponge 11d ago
> early, powerful ranged weapon Indeed, we've largely missed the point of the "David and Goliath" story. David rolled up to a sword fight with a handgun.
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by MengerSponge 15d ago
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260811-memphis-ai-da...
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by MengerSponge 17d ago
https://xkcd.com/977/ I have a Waterman on my wall :)
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by MengerSponge 18d ago
Have you seen Finding Forrester? It's a lot easier to write once you've got a frame and a few sentences you don't like on the page! It's great to use these tools to give you more time to be a human, but the ReadMe is for
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by MengerSponge 21d ago
You can tell it's slop because of the way that it is. The heading "The type system is gradual, and that is the whole design" is a dead giveaway. Actually the whole "How young this is" section reads very LLM-y. Claud
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by MengerSponge 23d ago
Well as an economic solipsist, I do believe the world has been built and operated fully for my convenience and entertainment
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by MengerSponge 23d ago
But I won't. From the deepest depths of my heart and my soul, I will not and I will never return something I bought for a competitor's product because I was served an ad. It's not a positive signal, because for the lifespan o
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by MengerSponge 24d ago
I understand why it's hard, but it's very funny to get ads for a product I've bought for weeks/months after completing the purchase. I looked for rain boots, and I bought a pair of rain boots. Getting ads for rain boots
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by MengerSponge 26d ago
"THE UNREASONABLE EFFECTIVENSS OF MATHEMATICS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES" https://webhomes.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf
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by MengerSponge 1mo ago
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1248664709 Well-meaning activists lobbied to make toilets free, but they didn't build a base to support the continued use and maintenance of those now-free toilets.
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by MengerSponge 1mo ago
Interesting that it's the influence/disinformation that caused this, not the open secret that they're a rogue nuclear armed state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option "Most European capitals
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by MengerSponge 1mo ago
> fundamentally different fundamentally different how? Because they use your visual cortex to trigger neurons?
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by MengerSponge 1mo ago
I'd love to be wrong, but I fear I'm not: https://www.wired.com/story/real-reason-data-center-gas-powe... It's absurd, cruel, and criminal that any hyperscalers are using fossil fuels of any kind, much
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by MengerSponge 1mo ago
Can we also talk about the sheer madness of using single-cycle natural gas turbines to power these things? It's tragic.
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by MengerSponge 1mo ago
Very solid? Bro. GitHub is at what, one 9 of reliability? That's a disaster. That's a mess and an embarrassment in any professional sense. I use GitHub a lot and it does what I need well enough, but I wouldn't spend money on
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by MengerSponge 1mo ago
I bet they don't see a line-item deduction, but they're paid a lot less than they should be for their work. What about Amazon's business and subcontracting practices makes you think they're willing to eat any operating e
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by MengerSponge 1mo ago
Most likely they're sticking it to a delivery contractor. Amazon gets paid, you get your free stuff, and some working class stiff is peeing in a bottle driving a leased truck and not getting paid for their labor. Win win win, right?
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by MengerSponge 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_People
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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
The book title is a reference to The Great Gatsby: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them to
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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
Would you say those badass engineers were/are managed by Careless People?
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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
In that way I'm like a bacteria. "Ah beans, gotta undo all this work"
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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
Necessary reading: "Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime" https://ir.law.utk.edu/utklaw_facpubs/468/
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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
I remember reading about a personal CRM project called Monica years ago. Does anyone here still use it? Is there an actively maintained alternative?
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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
With the right podcatcher* settings the back-catalogue issue goes away. It's still annoying when you want to share a particularly moving story with friends. *) Overcast user here: "Smart Speed has saved you 419 hours beyond speed
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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
https://wnyc.org/story/bradbury-centennial-with-neil-gaiman Yetide Badaki's marvelous reading begins at 3:50
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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
That's slick. I use papermodel+Blender for my models, but I haven't bit the UV mapping bullet yet!
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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
I have both a stovetop cooker (Zwilling) and an electric (Instant Pot). The stovetop gets hotter faster, so it cooks a lot faster too. The trade off is I can't leave home while it's cooking. The electric lets me set and forget and
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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
Plug-in pressure cookers like Instant Pots don't run at the same pressure/temperature as stovetop models. Electric models apparently run at ~12psi on high pressure mode, while stovetop models can run at 15psi. This means the timin
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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ I'm very jealous of everyone who gets to read this for the first time this weekend.
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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
It may be hard to find in print, but it's not hard to find! https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12328

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