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by djtango 1y ago
My first piano teacher was very artsy and whimsical, she and I simply were never able to establish any connection as I have always been a very logical learner. I suffered under her for almost 10 years as a child while she tried to teach mus
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by djtango 1y ago
I've seen people give weak in person coding interviews then done perfectly fine on a take home and went on to be fine on the job. To date, I've never gone on to regret hiring someone who blitzed the in person coding exercise.
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by djtango 1y ago
It's unpopular to voice anti-science sounding sentiments about medicine but it's worth noting that there is often a disconnect between known and practiced medicine. Optimal outcomes at the aggregate don't always translate to
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by djtango 1y ago
I can't remember where (maybe here) that you shouldn't use mouthwash after working out because of the effects on your oral microbiome. That fact shocked me just like this article does because it was unintuitive that your oral micr
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by djtango 1y ago
It's really worth noting that one of the biggest real world Haskell codebases in the world (ie Standard Chartered) wrote their own compiler to make Haskell evaluation strict and make it easier to do interop with C++ Laziness by default
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by djtango 1y ago
I've been doing muay thai for the best part of a decade now, the appetite suppression is always there
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by djtango 1y ago
Intensity of the workout matters. When I go wakeboarding with my wife I build up a nice big appetite. When I go to muay thai I get pretty severe appetite suppression and sometimes have to force myself to eat. The other thing is that if you
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by djtango 1y ago
When I did my first two fights in muay thai I wasn't watching my weight neither changing my diet during fight camp and came in 6kg underweight. I was absolutely shredded and still ate stuff like katsu curry weekly
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by djtango 1y ago
HEMA is great but I always find myself wondering what it would be like if there was no tennis and Federer, Nadal and Djokovic were all born into HEMA - like what would combat look like if we put weapons into the hands of the greatest 1vs1 a
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by djtango 1y ago
Kendo and Fencing are both sports. For starters a shinai is way lighter than a real sword, even an iaito is usually lighter than a real sword. The "meta" then evolves around a might faster and lighter style. Slicing with a katana
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by djtango 1y ago
I am curious how this will work in the wild. I believe the capability will exist but with things like body language and facial expressions, it can be really subtle and even if it's possible, I think that run of the mill consumer hardwa
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by djtango 1y ago
Assuming we are comparing ChatGPT to an in person therapist, there's a whole universe of extra signals ChatGPT is not privy to. Tone of voice, cadence of speech, time to think, reformulated responses, body language. These are all CRUCI
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by djtango 1y ago
If you have more than high 5 figures of money lying around, should you be co-mingling it with your everyday activities? I wouldn't feel particularly comfortable even having 5 figures of tradfi cash lying around in my house let alone ca
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by djtango 1y ago
As someone who is not very acquainted with blackhat or infosec, what is the priority list to do when you get an API key like this? Exfiltration? Access escalation? Presumably the hole gets closed so what do you do with that time?
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by djtango 1y ago
It's kind of their prerogative to spend their money how they like. If it's anti-competitive then you can hope that regulation exists to prevent that behaviour. As a shareholder you can complain that they will stop this value ignit
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by djtango 1y ago
Speaking about not outsourcing practice reminds me of the physical analogue... I have heard about people talk about "farmer's strength" to reference a very natural functional strength that is earned by the gruelling and diver
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by djtango 1y ago
Trial and error is not reproducible. Lack of a unifying theory also precludes reproducibility. We know better than that and should push other methods to these kinds of standards. But TCM practitioners of the past and present have "land
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by djtango 1y ago
Just because we have made innovations in the method of research and discovery doesn't mean that we should throw away everything that we had before. Around me I see practices like "gratitude", "meditation" and "
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by djtango 1y ago
In essence, a LLM is a crystallisation of a large corpus human opinion and you are using that to focus group your API as it is representative of a reasonable third party perspective?
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by djtango 1y ago
YMMV, I'm now at a stage where I am limited by my ability to play arpeggios and scales fast and accurately enough and tbh I think it's probably more productive to just practise scales and arpeggios than to practise the passage in
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by djtango 1y ago
> The best way to network well is to stop giving a shit about doing it well. As someone who has played piano for over 30 years and by any sane person's assessment I play at least "adequately", I can attest that worrying ab
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by djtango 1y ago
For me it feels like it was the perfect storm of games like this releasing at a time when a generation of gamers' attentions weren't saturated. I didn't play EQ but on FFXI airships ran on a 15min schedule and if you missed i
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by djtango 1y ago
Based on my experiences playing FFXIV, there's an entire generation of gamers now that get completely despirited by experiences like that and give up on the first sign of a wipe, even though these days there's no penalty for even
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by djtango 1y ago
Because the real world isn't "fun" and video games became more commercially successful when they realised that theme parks are more accessible than simulations. Gaming was more ambitious and experimental then. The FFXI docume
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by djtango 1y ago
This reminds me of some tech journo who lost all his iCloud photos including all his photos and videos of his newborn because some scriptkiddles wanted to pwn him and steal his Twitter handle. They basically used a series of escalation of s
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by djtango 1y ago
I do that a lot in English because English is so deep and there's a perfect word for everything. Recently I was ruminating on just how many ways there are to say "walk slowly" in English: saunter, meander, stroll, amble, shuf
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by djtango 1y ago
Well he is playing Viking. Sailing in that way was not only their living but it was also life or death for them. They struck out into the ocean without a map of the world, let alone GPS and satellite phones. They didn't even have life
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by djtango 1y ago
In December there was a large movement of physical gold from London to New York as banks closed their EFP arbs. This was enough to put a lot of pressure on the market. I imagine if Germany did that with their reserves a similar effect would
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by djtango 1y ago
Yes IIRC cutting with Tungsten is quite good at circumventing these tests
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I don't think we're in disagreement. In the past the environment necessitated that even scholars be fit and strong because they probably had to carry tomes around and fetch things from shelves whereas today we carry more than the

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