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by annzabelle 2mo ago
I guess I found the storage medium dated. Though, my understanding is that certain kinds of tapes are much better for true archival storage than HDDs or SSDs.
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
I'm not sure about currently, but up until very recently, the IRS did offsite backups by sending trucks full of tapes down the interstate.
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
It's a lot of why I got a Coros watch (the other reason is for running/health tracking). I stay in hostel dorms pretty regularly, and being able to wake up for that 6am flight without waking up the whole room is so nice.
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
People often exaggerate the necessary protein for an active lifestyle. High protein diets are needed for competitive bodybuilders or power lifters, but people who are active in other ways (running, cycling, hiking, climbing, yoga, more casu
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
The Māori ate all the Moa before Europeans showed up, and they had some pretty damn good boats before capitalism. Not disagreeing or anything, just thought it was a funny anecdote.
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
My brother's favorite book in 6th grade was Godel, Escher, Bach. Why, yes, he works as a compiler engineer.
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
The problem with common core is that it replaced building arithmetic fluency with less rigorous ways of building intuition, leading to a generation of kids who never gained the basic math skills that are foundational to actually understandi
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
I'd argue that mildly autistic people had much better outcomes decades ago before we started thinking it was something to diagnose. My grandfather was probably autistic, but there was no internet to sink into so he had to interact with
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
That's been an interesting thing for me with Claude Code and working with non-technical coworkers. Often they ask me to write something that could be a simple script and takes maybe 3 prompts to get it right, and I find myself wonderin
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
With em dashes in particular, a human would have to go to explicit effort to use a non-ascii character. I like a good em-dash myself, but I just use a hyphen because I'm not going to go to the effort of using a character that's no
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
I got a couple pairs at target - I think they're these https://www.target.com/p/women-s-everyday-soft-ultra-high-ri... For shorts: https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/products/E483295-000&#
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
I offer a nine fives colo.
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
I wear leggings that have elastic pockets down the sides for my phone. Perfectly comfy. Not sure what the men's equivalent would be.
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
This is especially bad in Northern Virginia, where there is a $4 toll road that saves 20 minutes pretty reliably, and also variable priced express lanes that will save time, but can cost up to $50. I want tolls on so it directs me on the Du
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
I live in Wānaka, a ski town about an hour from Queenstown, and locals aren't the happiest with the growth here. Peter Thiel was actually blocked from building a house on lake Wānaka over concerns it was disrupting the landscape. Overa
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
Coming from the state of Virginia, I might say that they're a perfectly standard way to govern.
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
Right after graduation, I worked at a large company that had Data Stewards whose job it was to enforce standardized schema registration for all company datasets following the standardized field names and descriptions from the ontology explo
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
> comparable if not better transit Yes, but Australian, (and Canadian, and New Zealand) cities are all in the same range as many similarly sized American cities. Maybe Auckland has transit as good as Seattle with half the population, but
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
In the countries that are closest to America's peers (Canada, Australia, NZ), the public transit is also lacking outside of a few dense cities.
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
I moved to New Zealand from the US recently, and the tech industry here is mostly on .NET and Azure. My coworkers keep looking at me like I'm a moron because I've always deployed to AWS via Jenkins and don't know their weird
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
Scott Alexander is a follower of Yudkowski and comes out of that general LessWrong space. This is the plural they, not the singular they.
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
I think I'm going through the same experience with my home country (USA). It has all kinds of issues that have been discussed at length, and I thought when I left I might be leaving for good, but I think I'm going to be back there
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
I've found Claude Code absolutely amazing for the sorts of 100-500 line data cleaning/analysis/visualization tasks that used to take me a couple hours to knock out. They're often self contained (boss wants a graphic for
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
Yeah, that was the main attraction of a mac for me. It Just Works, but enough stuff is packaged for it that it can drive like a linux box for a lot of coding tasks. I'm not going back to windows anytime soon, either. I remember getting
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
I dunno. They've been saying this for decades, including in a very well read Harry Potter fanfic, and I'd always dismissed them as kooks, but maybe they're right in the end.
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
I'm on the verge of swapping my macbook for a framework laptop. I never really bought into the whole apple ecosystem (I've got a pixel phone), and I find myself using the mac as a less flexible unix box. I'm mostly in the ter
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
The author of that post is a prominent Bay Area "rationalist," who have had a quasi-theistic relationship with the concept of all-powerful AIs for a couple decades now.
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
A $20 coffee gift card. Not really worth putting effort into, but if I'd been in charge of the contest I simply wouldn't have awarded the prize, let alone decided to award 3 of them (initially it was only supposed to be one prize)
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by annzabelle 2mo ago
My workplace did a sweepstakes for the world cup and there were bonus prizes for decorating your desk. All three winners had simply uploaded photos of their desks to an AI image generator and had it add flags etc to decorate and submitted t
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
What are you referring to with "such degrees?" Just the name of the credential would be enough. The closest stuff I can think of is a JD or an MD, but otherwise there's no common graduate credential in the US that takes 3+ ye

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