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by jamestimmins 1y ago
I'm working on 1:6 size furniture. There's not much woodworking I can do outside of the shop, so I've been trying to shrink full joinery techniques down to dollhouse size.
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
To sidestep the partisan side of this, I encourage everyone here to read about other regimes in the past century and how they came to power in order to build up your pattern matching ability.
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
I think money is the wrong thing to focus on. I've found that if you want to identify your talents, don't think about what you're good at. Ask yourself what easy thing everyone else is inexplicably bad at. That's all OP
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
When I research Reddit recommendations I always click into people's accounts to see old posts. If they have non brand safe posts (nswf, politics, profanity), I view them as more likely to be real. Unclear if this is actually a good heu
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
I actually have the Mzoo sleep mask he mentioned and I quite like it. Wirecutter recommends it and Reddit seems to agree. Doesn't negate the article, but just clarifying for anyone in the market who thinks it's a lemon.
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
These kids are (typically) in some of the best colleges in the world and in incredibly high demand. They have lots of options and enormous amounts of agency. Hard to buy that "here's another option" is predatory.
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
Mind clarifying how that's bad? It sounds just like a driver or something similar.
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
What is their bait and switch behavior? I'm not familiar with anything shady they've done but am very curious as I've had my eye on a Bambu.
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
That's very exciting to hear! I'd be delighted to be wrong about that. Edit: Although, just to clarify, I didn't really mean that I think I won't change as I get older. Moreso that if growing a mustache or getting involv
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
I always half-joke that I gave up on my hopes of being a child prodigy when I turned 30. That was a major milestone not just for realizing that there was no future "grown up" version of me, but also seeing how much time had passed
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
I like this interpretation, because my experience seeing the northern lights was similar to OC's. I had such high expectations from photos, and then I saw them and was somewhat underwhelmed. My friends are photographers and they took v
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
Interesting question. I described what I liked about his character, so maybe it's just using that and is nodding along to the character's name. Maybe it has access to the script or some analysis of the character.
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
With Claude I often say “no glazing” and have told it to take the persona of Paul Bettany’s character in Margin Call, a nice enough but blunt/unimpressed senior colleague who doesn’t beat around the bush. Works pretty well.
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
This is really exciting. The world of non-electronic computer interfaces has a ton of potential, so I love seeing people build them and write up their experiences. Congrats OP!
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
I spend all of my free time woodworking; thankfully it only took me 10 years to find the power of hobbies.
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
That'll give you a totally different drink. Chartreuse and absinthe both have strong but different flavors; not to mention that a bijou has 3/4oz of chartreuse but that much absinthe would totally overpower any other ingredient.
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
Such a fun and entertaining read. I'd never suggest someone give up a software career to become a food writer, but I'd love to read more of OP's writing as he pursues these goals.
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
I like it from the standpoint of kids not being afraid of power tools. Plenty of adults would never do woodworking because the tools seem too scary. Teaching kids that power tools don't need to be scary as long as they're used saf
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
Curious about your thoughts on homebuilt AI tools for dealing with ADHD side effects. I've identified a handful of habits I struggle with but want to do, and thought processes that can be challenging. I've planned to plug these in
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
Thought similarly. It looks very clean, is well lit, the decisions look purposeful (no random crap on the shelves), and the materials wear well (wood vs e.g. cheap plastic chairs).
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
I don't quite follow this logic. Nearly all SaaS has ongoing costs from the provider: hosting, support, r&d, etc. How is that rent seeking?
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
If you're interested in the US war build up in general, Freedom's Forge is an excellent read.
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
That's an interesting dynamic of the training data impacting the architecture. I wonder if this is a one-off or we see that in other areas as well.
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by jamestimmins 1y ago
What’s the purpose of Jupyter here? Isn’t that optimized for notebooks, which presumably wouldn’t be relevant on the server?
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Cancellation fee higher than remaining months is extremely shady. Very possible that the current pricing/wording is the result of being sued by the DOJ.
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
If you look at their plans ( https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html ), and select "Annual, billed monthly", it pretty clearly says "Fee applies if you cancel after 14 days."
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
This seems like a common misunderstanding. Lots of SaaS have cheaper annual pricing. IIUC Adobe lets you get the cheaper annual pricing and then pay for it on a monthly basis. If you cancel early, you have to pay out the rest of your annual
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Sadly they have a waiting list
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Same here. Tonight I added Whatsapp to Claude Desktop via Luke Harries' https://github.com/lharries/whatsapp-mcp . Very solid intro into how it all works.
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
It's a pretty classic canary trap/barium meal test, no? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap#Barium_meal_test

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