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by cpfohl 10mo ago
Someone figured out how to create a glider that starts and ends as a long string of cells on a single line. Gliders are figures in the game of life that move themselves in a direction by repeated patterns that result in movement. For more g
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by cpfohl 11mo ago
Sorry, my phrasing was off. I should have said, “you can opt out”
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by cpfohl 11mo ago
Class actions like this are opt in; by accepting the settlement you accepted the terms and lost your right to sue for a different (more appropriate to you) value. Planet money did a a great segment on how these work and why America is set u
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by cpfohl 11mo ago
Yep. But it's twice as expensive as the ones mentioned in the article. https://www.northshoreymca.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2...
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by cpfohl 11mo ago
I'm pretty sure the Y in my city (Beverly, MA) actually still has SROs. It certainly needs more options like this...
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by cpfohl 11mo ago
No call for talking down at people. No one has ever been convinced by being belittled.
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by cpfohl 11mo ago
This seemed so obvious to me…
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by cpfohl 11mo ago
As it's my son's health issues, not my own, I'm going to preserve his privacy until he can consent to sharing in...8 years.
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by cpfohl 11mo ago
This was before I started using it as anything but a toy. I had definitely not spoken about medical issues; it was on a whim.
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by cpfohl 11mo ago
Yes, I’m also on a Mac (for now), and I do make fairly minimal use of my mouse. My problem is defeating years of muscle memory
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by cpfohl 11mo ago
Ah, like my eMacs pinky and thumb? ;) I literally went to an orthopedic specialist recently for overuse of the left alt key causing me pretty notable pain in my thumb.
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by cpfohl 11mo ago
Yeah, my son's issue was rare and congenital. I wish I still had the conversation, but I can't remember which LLM it was and it's not in either my Claude or GPT history. It got it in two shots. 1. I described the symptoms the
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by cpfohl 11mo ago
We had the diagnosis before I started with the LLM. The radiology showed the problem and the surgeries worked. Down to an ultrasound a year now! We took him to our local ER, they ran tests. I gave the LLM just the symptom list that I gave t
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by cpfohl 11mo ago
I’m saying that is a great tool for people who can see through the idiotic nonsense they so often make up. A professional _has_ the context to see through it. It should empower and enable informed decisions not make them.
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by cpfohl 11mo ago
Tricky…my son had a really rare congenital issue that no one could solve for a long time. After it was diagnosed I walked an older version of chat gpt through our experience and it suggested my son’s issue as a possibility along with the co
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by cpfohl 1y ago
I was responding to the claim in the article: > Like Japan’s kanji alphabet, the oldest writing system in the world is syllabic. Memorizing thousands of characters is a lot more work, but the memorization isn’t the main part of learning
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by cpfohl 1y ago
6 years to master a syllabic alphabet seems like a stretch...They seem to be crossing learning the language and learning the writing system. I studied Greek and Hebrew in college, Latin in high school. In each the very first night's ho
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by cpfohl 1y ago
Yep!! It’s fantastic
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by cpfohl 1y ago
My custom prompt instructs GPT to output changes to code as a diff/git-patch. I don’t use agents because it makes it hard to see what’s happening and I don’t trust them yet.
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by cpfohl 1y ago
Yeah, there was definitely a communication gaffe on the part of the person trying to address OP's behavior. Some people (OP included it appears) need very direct communication that would be rude if directed at _other_ people. Unfortuna
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by cpfohl 1y ago
Saying/hearing is not the same. Parent struggles to hear the differences and says they can pronounce them. Polish has a retroflex and palatalized “sh” pair of sounds (Sz vs ś) that I can pronounce perfectly but not clearly distinguish
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by cpfohl 1y ago
So this is terrifying for all the reasons mentioned below, but the _core_ setup where it is not connected to the utility and acts (basically) like a solar powered UPS is really attractive to me. All the commercial solar setups out there spe
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by cpfohl 1y ago
Wow. I've moved away from places because of constant grey skies. The photos are beautiful, but while I'd visit I'd never be able to live there.
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by cpfohl 1y ago
I'd be really interested to see these costs averaged (like parent post) but then re-distributed by average income...
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by cpfohl 1y ago
This is responding to Food Lab.
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by cpfohl 1y ago
I hear your point on formalization, but I do find that understanding the science behind various techniques has helped my ability to Freeform in the kitchen significantly.
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by cpfohl 1y ago
This is how I lasagna. Warm water soak to rehydrate (I do use my kettle to speed things up). I realize baked ziti (your link) and lasagna are basically the same thing, but it felt worth calling out. It makes for a much faster prep stage. I
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by cpfohl 1y ago
Boy my experience with small chunks of translation between languages I know well is not the same at all. When prompted properly the translation quality is unbelievable and can absolutely catch nuances, puns, and add footnotes. That said, I
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by cpfohl 1y ago
“An h*” is regional. Had a professor who said “an historic…” all the time, never stopped noticing it, though.
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by cpfohl 1y ago
It's not the _water_ in the toilet that's gross to drink...

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