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by anthomtb 1y ago
> skeptical of slathering something all over my body just to go outside Missing nuance: Outside for how long? And how strong is the sun? Even with my pasty Northern European complexion, I'm skipping the sunscreen for a 20 minute wal
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by anthomtb 1y ago
> Humans can still enjoy the land without roaring across them in 4x4s. To clarify: In your view, someone using a vehicle to access a remote area is not "enjoying the land"? Perhaps you mean that the presence of a motorized vehi
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by anthomtb 1y ago
I live in a suburban American neighborhood, built in the mid 2010's, which has ample walking paths and wide sidewalks. In fact, I cannot think of any newer neighborhood in this area which lacks walking infrastructure. Good sidewalks ar
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by anthomtb 1y ago
Big O was introduced in my Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) class which was nominally a second year undergrad class. In practice, most Computer Science (CS) students were far enough advanced to take DSA in their first year. I took DSA a
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by anthomtb 1y ago
Does running a Claude Code command in VSCode's integrated terminal count as leaving your IDE? (We may have differing definitions of "leaving" ones IDE).
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by anthomtb 1y ago
> One of the biggest fallacies in coding is that dependencies have zero downsides. Am I the only one who hates when articles start with a strawman like this? Or does the author of TFA really know people who think dependencies have zero d
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by anthomtb 1y ago
"Not Invented Here". My American brain, of course, immediately went to "National Institute of Health" and thought this was a software developer opining on the current administrations distaste for federal funding of anyth
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by anthomtb 1y ago
Being completely sedentary was not my suggestion. My intention was to re-frame the asker's question from "how can I make this exercise tolerable" to "how can I maintain good health without engaging in this miserable acti
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by anthomtb 1y ago
> I tend to stop running just because I want to work on something more mentally stimulating and tangibly productive Maybe accept that running, or perhaps exercise in general, is not your thing? You clearly have more pressing interests an
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by anthomtb 1y ago
Horses for courses. It's silly to as ask a web dev these questions and expect these XOR approaches. Low-level developers ("bare metal" as the kids say), on the other hand? They should have a deep enough understanding of binar
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by anthomtb 1y ago
I find it surprising that theatre would be harmed by a congestion charge. It seems like the cost of paying or planning around a congestion charge would be small relative to the cost and planning required to go to a live show.
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by anthomtb 1y ago
The ball for soccer/association football is fairly pliable and headers are not that common. You also don't see players obviously dazed or knocked out after heading the ball. I have to think the damage from soccer headers, if any,
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by anthomtb 1y ago
In my lived experience, public transit is not actively avoided by so-called upper castes (I am not convinced you know what a caste is). Rather, it is so straightforward to take ones own automobile that you don't even consider public tr
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by anthomtb 1y ago
I like it. Grug is grammatically incorrect but concise, which forces my Big Brain to step back, allowing my Grug Brain to slowly absorb the meaning of each word.
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by anthomtb 1y ago
So many gems in here but this one about microservices is my favorite: grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem, factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too
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by anthomtb 1y ago
This just does not sound right to me. I want mentally ill people committed when signs of potential violence are evident, before they cause harm to themselves or anyone else.
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by anthomtb 1y ago
The article you linked quotes Mr Clarke's father: The hardest thing in my life was to sign a committal form to send Niall to hospital. And follows with Irish health authorities refused to commit Clarke That sure sounds like Mr Clar
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by anthomtb 1y ago
> difference between treatment at a pyschiatric center vs the offer of psychiatric treatment in a prison? The first was rejected by Mr Clarke's own country before committing any crime. The second was offered following a crime which
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by anthomtb 1y ago
In the pre-online sports betting days, was there a legal way to bet on a game besides going to a casino and visiting the sports book? I remember newspapers publishing odds but still have no idea how people made wagers (other than physically
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by anthomtb 1y ago
> Huge amounts of white collar jobs have been automated since the advent of computers One of which was the occupation of being a computer!
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by anthomtb 1y ago
And before doing any of that, get it tattooed onto your own forearm.
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by anthomtb 1y ago
Thank you, that map is fascinating. Jamming in and around conflict zones (Ukraine, Myanmar) and in China make sense to my Western brain. But why so much interference in Japan?
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by anthomtb 1y ago
Actually, this sounds like a great use for an LLM or even boring old machine classification. I am sure Prague and Beautiful are commonly found a few tokens apart in a training set of say, TripAdvisor forums. While "LA"/"
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by anthomtb 1y ago
I am not sure you are interpreting the map correctly. The red-brown tones are less-dreary, while bright red is more-dreary. L.A. is squarely in the less-dreary area. See also the numerical rankings. Your point stands though. L.A. is one fug
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by anthomtb 1y ago
That's the thing. It was not noticeable at the time. No heavy breathing, no pain in the legs, no sensation of "this is hard" that you get with most formal workouts. But I have no doubt that my heart rate and adrenaline/c
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by anthomtb 1y ago
I figured out in high school/secondary school that doing strenuous exercise within a few hours of bed time would kill my chance at a decent sleep. I have always found it easy enough to do formal workouts in the late afternoon or early
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by anthomtb 1y ago
If you are a Reddit user r/MaliciousCompliance is full of stories* of people follow orders to the most exacting and absurd extent. Most of them are peon-level folks so I am not sure how those actions would map to a person in a position
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by anthomtb 1y ago
We are in for this ride, at indefinite intervals, for the next 3.75 years. Well, unless congress grows a collective sack (unlikely) or President Trump comes to his senses on macro economics (past experience suggests this is impossible). &gt
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by anthomtb 2y ago
I use Strava for mountain biking and the Athletic Intelligence is just comical. "This ride was longer and harder than usual" - no sh*t, the map, elevation profile and my legs have already informed me. "You set 3 new PRs"
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by anthomtb 2y ago
"If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'" Reminds me of an incident early in my career. I was developing embedded software and needed an expensive, specialized signal analyzer. Management refused to purchase or

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