TomMasz

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by TomMasz 7d ago
This is good to know, but the kind of folks who use AI to create their posters and menus aren't going to be able to be so specific. They'll throw the details at an LLM and take whatever they get the first time. What matters is the
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by TomMasz 10d ago
I wonder how many of the competitions for new buildings include traditional designs as candidates. Are people picking modernist designs because that's all there is to choose from? Also, cost doesn't seem to be mentioned. Are tradi
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by TomMasz 1mo ago
Monocultures suck.
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by TomMasz 1mo ago
My mom never made this, though she did make some other Polish dishes. I just might try making some of my own.
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by TomMasz 2mo ago
This could be useful for reclaiming space when your disk is almost full, but $9.99 a month for a tool the average person isn't going to need very often seems a bit much.
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by TomMasz 2mo ago
The photos of stores and the paucity of merchandise available say a lot.
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by TomMasz 2mo ago
I don't need Pandoc often, but when I do there's nothing like it.
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by TomMasz 2mo ago
My mother smoked from age 12 until she was diagnosed with lung cancer at age 45. But the lung cancer was the result of metastasis from an advanced uterine cancer. A friend's mother, another long-time smoker, developed bladder cancer. S
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by TomMasz 2mo ago
When my wife died, I chose to have her immediately cremated. She was raised Catholic but wasn't religious and a viewing/funeral wouldn't have been appropriate. Her ashes are in an urn on the mantelpiece of the house we lived
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by TomMasz 2mo ago
I keep a handwritten journal and write in script. My penmanship isn't great, but it's good enough. For exams in my intro programming classes, I allow students to bring a handwritten notes sheet if they wish. I get anything from a
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by TomMasz 2mo ago
I'm an endurance cyclist, and I take 5g on ride days (4/week). I started based on this study ( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15502783.2023.2... ). In short, it does have some benefits f
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by TomMasz 2mo ago
I never had an LLM tell me my question was already answered and imply I was stupid for not finding it. SO dug its own grave and jumped in.
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by TomMasz 2mo ago
Social media isn't "social" anymore. It's algorithmically designed to keep you scrolling. Burnout is inevitable.
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by TomMasz 3mo ago
As the article points out, CPR really is oversold. I was a volunteer firefighter and did CPR multiple times, none of those people survived. I watched (and listened) as firefighters did CPR on my wife after she had a massive heart attack, ha
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by TomMasz 3mo ago
The LinkedIn post pop-up has an AI button at the bottom. It's no wonder people are using it.
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by TomMasz 3mo ago
I was around when blogging started and I've seen a lot of blogs come and go. The web was a much different place then and it was easier to attract and hold an audience than it is now. It's still possible to have a successful blog b
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by TomMasz 3mo ago
I was able to fly business class in 747s to Japan back in the 90s (it was coach to Europe, though). That meant the upper deck and amenities like a sandwich and snack cart that you could just help yourself from. By the 2000s, it was coach ev
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by TomMasz 3mo ago
Back in my running days in the 80s, the people who did the timing and race results had a van with a PDP-11 in it that I assume ran off a generator. I wish I had asked them more about it but I was too busy worrying about running.
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by TomMasz 4mo ago
I am shocked, shocked I say, that the head of a ransomware as a service group is based in Russia.
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by TomMasz 4mo ago
Homebrew has been a gamechanger for me, thanks for all your efforts!
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by TomMasz 4mo ago
The university I work at is heavily dependent on Google and its products, so I use Vivaldi for work. Otherwise, it's Firefox. I've been using it since the beginning and see no reason to change. If a site doesn't work with it,
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by TomMasz 4mo ago
I've worked on skunkworks projects. It's all fine and dandy until it becomes a product and the main company takes over.
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by TomMasz 4mo ago
I am currently in that situation, and I can tell you it's a battle to keep the darkness away when you suddenly find yourself alone. I'm managing, with help, but not everyone can.
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by TomMasz 4mo ago
Isn't this been what some (so far) unnamed Trump administration people have been doing?
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by TomMasz 4mo ago
It's interesting to see things from a senior manager's viewpoint, especially in comparison to what I experienced as a mid-level manager. But it's funny to see that they also end up in meetings that seem to have no reason to h
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by TomMasz 4mo ago
I was going to say the exact same thing. The only thing you might be able to count on is GMail, and I'm not sure even it won't go away someday.
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by TomMasz 5mo ago
I certainly teach that. When we work problems involving money, I always recommend students use integers for cents and only convert to dollars and cents when they have to print them.
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by TomMasz 5mo ago
My wife had the Costco membership and had a tendency to buy in quantities that were a bit much for the two of us. Our freezer was always packed. Now that she's passed, I went and got my own membership (and requisite Visa card), just fo
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by TomMasz 5mo ago
Unsurprisingly, it died out "mostly due to the high cost of replacing vehicles". Was it the inspiration for demolition derbies?
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by TomMasz 6mo ago
The "no one at Microsoft, not a single soul, could articulate why up to 173 agents were needed to manage an Azure node" really stuck with me. You have to wonder how many other parts of the code lack ownership and are in there just

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