foobarian

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1. 31.▲
   by foobarian 2mo ago

   I don't mind it so much, for example that is how I learned the word 'abaft' the other day.
2. 32.▲
   by foobarian 2mo ago

   Can I ask why :-) Sounds like an interesting project.
3. 33.▲
   by foobarian 2mo ago

   I like the term I've seen someone use for LLMs: a "thought partner." Truly it's the duck programming duck I've always wanted.
4. 34.▲
   by foobarian 2mo ago

   I sometimes wonder if it was all worth it. What if we banned/rolled back the internet? Would we go back to more small-town-like community, and again have the nerd minority who "can't wait to get out of this place?" It f
5. 35.▲
   by foobarian 2mo ago

   I imagine it wouldn't be nearly in the same ballpark, since one side does not perform the classic mechanical generation from temperature difference, and deal with the associated waste heat.
6. 36.▲
   by foobarian 2mo ago

   I wonder how much battery you could install in a typical nuclear site. Maybe even stacked; if we make an apples-to-apples comparison in materials and say we can use the same amount of concrete and metal, could probably have several levels o
7. 37.▲
   by foobarian 2mo ago

   I imagine a Bernoulli pattern would work too
8. 38.▲
   by foobarian 2mo ago

   I took it to mean the frameworky coding you kind of get sucked into when you start a project when you realize off-the-shelf libraries are flawed or you could do so much better. Like the old trope of getting a task to write a billing system
9. 39.▲
   by foobarian 2mo ago

   Part 1: https://www.salon.com/2001/03/23/wizards/ Part 2: https://www.salon.com/2001/03/26/wizards_part2/
10. 40.▲
    by foobarian 2mo ago

    I find the major/minor thing so fascinating. I remember it having the "happy"/"sad" vibes from my earliest memories and have a really hard time with the idea that it could be cultural. But if it's not cult
11. 41.▲
    by foobarian 2mo ago

    Reminds me of that super cringy one that Wizards of the Coast did early on
12. 42.▲
    by foobarian 2mo ago

    The other neat thing is that in space, the background temperatures are a lot lower than Earth due to lack of atmosphere, and available potentially more often than 1/2 the day cycle depending how high you're prepared to orbit.
13. 43.▲
    by foobarian 2mo ago

    Or, maybe the poisoner did it by releasing a jar of malaria-laden mosquitoes in the guy's bedroom. Such plausible deniability!
14. 44.▲
    by foobarian 2mo ago

    I feel like religion is the original corporation. You even have weekly 1-on-1s with your manager!
15. 45.▲
    by foobarian 2mo ago

    Sadly I have run into people like that. To this day I am convinced they paid someone to stand in for the interviews.
16. 46.▲
    by foobarian 2mo ago

    I'm unusually tall and flying has always been unpleasant no matter what. I can actually deal with the reclining because it's actually physically impossible for the person ahead of me to recline since my knees are in the way. What
17. 47.▲
    by foobarian 2mo ago

    I wonder if Brandon Sanderson writes by hand :-D
18. 48.▲
    by foobarian 2mo ago

    We have some in northeastern US. However they don't necessarily sit on plot boundaries; I get the impression that surveyors put them wherever it is most convenient for them to better triangulate the land. We found one in our front law
19. 49.▲
    by foobarian 2mo ago

    It's too fast. There should be an artificial pause while adding to cart or capturing the payment
20. 50.▲
    by foobarian 2mo ago

    Article briefly talked about delivery, which is tricky to do precisely at best of times, but didn't really mention how to address delivery into a nuclear blast. Hundreds of meters behind the craft about once a second doesn't seem
21. 51.▲
    by foobarian 2mo ago

    Reminds me of when autotune came out and everyone and their dog had autotune songs
22. 52.▲
    by foobarian 2mo ago

    > but if I were on a university admissions team OK but what would your goal there be? What do you think an existing admissions team's goal is in various different universities? What if some desire to build an elite club but can&#x27
23. 53.▲
    by foobarian 3mo ago

    I grew up in an environment that valued education over all else, so I pursued post-grad stuff starting 1997 or so and stuck to my guns until way after dot com crashed. Turns out I hated it and ended up wasting a bunch of time and missing o
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    by foobarian 3mo ago

    I've been wondering how to move past the "Slack and occasionally Zoom/Google Meet for meetings" phase of remote work we've been stuck in since Covid hit. Some teams tried to set up optional social hours but they fee
25. 55.▲
    by foobarian 3mo ago

    Wow that's wild. Our org spent years playing jotto on office whiteboards before Covid. There would just be games going in random places.
26. 56.▲
    by foobarian 3mo ago

    Wait a second. Do you actually keep "surfing" down it for miles?? I thought that was only done near shore where waves break. If so that's the most amazing thing I learned this year yet :-)
27. 57.▲
    by foobarian 3mo ago

    I feel like it exploded after the cheap integrated sensors came on market that were easy to DIY with. It's nerd catnip, it makes you feel like you're discovering some hidden truth and makes it very tempting to blame the readings f
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    by foobarian 3mo ago

    I've been starting to think of LLM as a great tool for "lead generation," borrowing a term from sales. Most of the things it comes up with don't pan out, but in many cases it's things we wouldn't have thought o
29. 59.▲
    by foobarian 3mo ago

    Huh, I'm reading and looking up these words you guys are saying and it is starting to look exactly like the symptoms I have been having with my own right shoulder! I feel like a giant gaping rabbit hole just opened up next to my desk.
30. 60.▲
    by foobarian 3mo ago

    This started out fine for us except that int32s were a bad idea and upgrading was painful