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by gnatman 9mo ago
>> “You keep holding on to hope, then breaking it, and moving forward by picking up ideas from the ashes,” [Baek] said in an interview with a web magazine published by Korean Institute for Advanced Study. “I’m closer to a daydreamer b
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by gnatman 9mo ago
Are there really that many “things to do” that anyone, let alone everyone, will need to work that way?
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The Lottery in Babylon – Jorge Borges (1941) [pdf](web.itu.edu.tr)
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by gnatman 10mo ago
I think they probably mean “article that’s meant to share research but mostly shares anecdotes”. It’s a common framing for this kind of thing though, so they probably have to close a lot of articles after the first sentence.
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by gnatman 10mo ago
well they did say >>If the CIA wants to track me, they are going to have to work for it. I hope to waste as much of their time as possible.
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by gnatman 10mo ago
what if you tied it tightly beneath the mic with a rubber band, and then attached a weight 2-3 feet down the cord? that way the condom/mic floats end down and keeps things dry.
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by gnatman 10mo ago
Fred Eshelman founded Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc in 1985. In 2010, he became the founding chair of Furiex Pharmaceuticals. Currently he is chairman of The Medicines Company, CEO of Innocrin Pharmaceuticals, and founder of Eshelm
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by gnatman 10mo ago
Wonderful quote in there from James Joseph Sylvester: >>... a prolonged meditation on the subject has satisfied me that the existence of any one such [odd perfect number] —its escape, so to say, from the complex web of conditions whic
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by gnatman 10mo ago
Computer, load up Celery Man please.
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by gnatman 10mo ago
It’s ok to search for a unicorn! Writing out a list of criteria for your ideal role, and seeking out companies that meet your criteria, actually gives you an advantage. When I interviewed at my current position I had just such a list, and s
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by gnatman 10mo ago
The article linked in the OP, and many posters in this thread, present arguments to the contrary. The main one seems to be that although institutional investors are happy to let people “benefit” from renting their homes, they are precluding
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by gnatman 10mo ago
the J D Great Responsibility award
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by gnatman 10mo ago
I think if I was actually shipping a real product to real customers I would avoid bragging about how I vibe-coded it. Seems like that would bring up some quality / security / pricing discussions that my salespeople would have a to
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by gnatman 10mo ago
I think I’ve seen people on here describe Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick in similar terms—- or at least in the sense that DC’s culture infected & somewhat replaced Google culture. I may be misremembering though.
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by gnatman 10mo ago
I’m pretty surprised they haven’t been doing that for years already tbh.
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by gnatman 10mo ago
Pretty bleak, and describes my experience to a T (although involving other companies). Has there ever been an example where a company has been acquired and culture/morale/conditions have actually improved rather than dissolved?
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by gnatman 10mo ago
Long live the zine!
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by gnatman 10mo ago
Exotic? At least in every microsoft product i.e. word, outlook, etc. that I’ve had to use for school and business for the last couple decades does it automatically just by typing “—-“.
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by gnatman 10mo ago
Every time I see the em-dash call out on here I get defensive because I’ve been writing like that forever! Where do people think that came from anyway? It’s obviously massively represented in the training data!
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by gnatman 10mo ago
I was hoping to see a revenue estimate for injecting affiliate links on 4M browsers for 7 years… that must’ve been a lot of money!
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by gnatman 11mo ago
sounds like a Brian Jacques superweapon
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by gnatman 11mo ago
Like Ender’s Game but instead of intergalactic shooting war it’s international chip war.
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by gnatman 11mo ago
visiting the 2018 Guggenheim exhibit was a peak art experience for me, so thankful to my girlfriend at the time who insisted we see it!
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by gnatman 11mo ago
what kind of stack do you use instead?
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by gnatman 11mo ago
I didn’t understand the angle of this article until I realized it was “Times Insider”, a sort of behind the scenes. The actual story is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/arts/design/florentine
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by gnatman 11mo ago
Finally, the records everyone has been asking him about!
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by gnatman 11mo ago
Substituted amphetamines were already very popular in the 1950s.
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by gnatman 11mo ago
Vulfpeck performing their song “Barbara” ft. clips of that Jobs interview: https://youtu.be/npqD602G90o
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by gnatman 11mo ago
there’s a bunch of them, but we haven’t agreed on which one is best, yet.
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by gnatman 11mo ago
this is the type of important work that transformer LLM’s are actually really good at, I think

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