fatbird

14 ms·

271.
by fatbird 2y ago
Honeywell, for one, with whom I worked for eight years. It's incomprehensible, the wasted money I saw, easily reaching to billions over the same time frame. The difference is that you hear about large gov't spending initiatives,
272.
by fatbird 2y ago
Whether state-funded institutions and unions are more corrupt than private enterprise is an empirical question. Do you have empirical data to back this up?
273.
by fatbird 2y ago
It's a good article, and proper scholarly study by this woman is revealing a lot that legions of amateurs never figured out before--such as the strong case that there are five different scribes involved (based on handwriting analysis).
274.
by fatbird 2y ago
There's wanting a Tesla and ignoring Musk, but there's also "should we consider a Tesla?" answered by "No, I don't trust him and anything he's associated with." We didn't look at Tesla when we b
275.
by fatbird 2y ago
Every time this topic comes up I point to the fact that the television industry makes gigantic volumes of content, reasonably on-schedule and on-budget. Movies have somewhat different math, but there's a huge economic segment routine
276.
by fatbird 2y ago
Force replenishment in the event of nuclear war is a moot question, but if someone can go from 100 to 1,000 warheads in a couple months, that has a lot of relevance in a growing crisis--what would Russia have done in 2022 if Ukraine had kep
277.
by fatbird 2y ago
Technology advances by supplanting human mechanisms, not by amplifying or cheapening them. A loom isn't a more nimble hand, it's a different mechanical approach to weaving. Wheels and roads aren't better legs, they're
278.
by fatbird 2y ago
In my mind LLMs are already fatally compromised. Proximity matching via vector embeddings that offer no guarantees of completeness or correctness have already surrendered the essential advantage of technological advances. Imagine a diction
279.
by fatbird 2y ago
Torrenting becomes a moral imperative.
280.
by fatbird 2y ago
Not in the least. LLMs don't introspect. LLMs have no sense of self. There is no secondary process in an LLM monitoring the output and checking it against anything else. This is how they hallucinate: a complete lack of self-awarene
281.
by fatbird 2y ago
I would argue the opposite: a good therapist isn't just offering back-and-forth conversation, they're bringing knowledge, experience and insight into the client after interacting with them. A good therapist understands when one a
282.
by fatbird 2y ago
I think you're mistaken, at least in a lot of cases. All CBT based therapies I've had have started with a clear discussion about what the problem is, and what the solution looks like in terms of my happiness and mental well-being
283.
by fatbird 2y ago
This is very true, and I would add to it that the dominant paradigm in most therapy these days (at least those forms coming from a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy background) have "graduation" as an explicit goal: the client feels l
284.
by fatbird 2y ago
I work for a digital services consultancy handling large gov't contracts. It has all the problems of every large organization, public or private, but it's not overly demanding. The work is more challenging from a people perspect
285.
by fatbird 3y ago
Needs knurling.
286.
by fatbird 3y ago
What's crazier is that my grip on the push stick never wavered, and still managed to knock my other hand into the blade!
287.
by fatbird 3y ago
It wasn't the push stick hand (that was actually holding a push stick). It was the hand that was standing in for the feather board I should have had.
288.
by fatbird 3y ago
Intuitively, the table saw seems more dangerous to me (and I'm typing this with a finger with three pins in it from a table saw injury) because you're manipulating the circular saw directly, and thus more consciously. With a tabl
289.
by fatbird 3y ago
Yes, exactly. And carrying it just a little further, the missing million idea has been around a while and actually accounts for quite a few observed discrepancies. A new interest formula plausibly explains one, but then has to tackle the
290.
by fatbird 3y ago
If we're going to correct our metaphor, it's like saying "when we add up the balances of all accounts, we're missing a million dollars, but when we add up all the interest earned on those accounts, total interest only ma
291.
by fatbird 3y ago
How much of a difference is there between dry land arresting and carrier arresting? I would guess some since the carrier represents a somewhat dynamic surface, and flight conditions might likewise vary. Is there enough that a second round
292.
by fatbird 3y ago
I've run into a few contractors who have Ryobi as well, and are fine with them. They're sufficient for a lot of tasks, and most contractors end up with multiples of any tool anyway. One actually said "I may go through two Ry
293.
by fatbird 3y ago
The cordless work site is entirely about contractors, who have to haul tools to every job. Once you have a sufficient battery fleet, everything is much easier at a jobsite. No looking for outlets, no running extension cords, and the tools
294.
by fatbird 3y ago
You offer "years of walnut experience" as if it's patently silly to do so, but woods vary quite a lot by many relevant characteristics, and if someone showed up for a walnut job having worked exclusively with maple, I'd
295.
by fatbird 3y ago
Also, this brilliant mockumentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Negro_Space_Program
296.
by fatbird 3y ago
You wouldn't, the Safari is too light and plasticky feeling. But the Pilot Metropolitan has a metal body that gives it a comparable heft to more expensive pens, and writes beautifully. You might look at TWSBI fountain pens. They&#x27
297.
by fatbird 3y ago
My friend, you owe it to yourself to try Platinum Carbon Black ink. More permanent and waterproof than Noodlers, and a black so dark and dense you'll think you can see the end of the void in it. Ignore the haters who claim pigmented i
298.
by fatbird 3y ago
Budget fountain pens fill a niche of “spend a little more for something nice, but not so much I’ll worry about losing or wrecking it.” Fountain pens that work well without fuss, like Lamy Safari, or Pilot Metropolitan, really are nicer to u
299.
by fatbird 3y ago
I can't believe this is still up, but it's amazing: Russian lolcats. https://rolcats.wordpress.com/
300.
by fatbird 3y ago
We replaced our electric with induction instead of gas, which my wife much prefers to cook on. One of my best arguments against gas was that every gas stovetop available has a heavy iron framework over the flame to hold pots, and it's

More ›