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by jihadjihad 6d ago
> Why would you put money into something knowing that there are people who already have the absolute answer? https://youtu.be/Hm3mDatFpNE?is=vKkBJs6XsypuD833
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by jihadjihad 6d ago
> I loved using it while watching Season 50, and it identified several interesting threads early on. The ideas in TFA are interesting, but it’s important to keep in mind that when we watch Survivor, we’re not watching something that happ
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by jihadjihad 10d ago
> Who found it > I didn't. I gave Claude Code the guest's screenshot and asked whether the problem was ours or his phone's. It answered that in twenty minutes and, while verifying the deploy, noticed the ten-second floo
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by jihadjihad 12d ago
Timely for me since I’m in the middle of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel [0], and there’s a lot of backstory and historical context that I never learned in school. Certainly a fascinating time to read and learn about. 0: https://en.
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by jihadjihad 14d ago
My condolences to your tooth enamel.
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by jihadjihad 15d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standard...
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by jihadjihad 17d ago
We've been over this for a couple decades now. The average consumer simply cannot tell the difference between lossless and compressed codecs. Even back 20-25 years ago when people carried around CD players, vanishingly few people batte
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by jihadjihad 17d ago
This is a hard truth many wish to deny. An article published every month decrying the poor habits or lack of good habits of children, with a not-so-subtle implication that it is the fault of the children themselves . It is 100% true that &
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by jihadjihad 24d ago
This appears to be the relevant blog post by DHH, from last month: https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a
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by jihadjihad 25d ago
OT, but Azriel/Azrael translates to the Grim Reaper/Angel of Death [0]. 0: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Azrael
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by jihadjihad 28d ago
The images are awesome, in an “I cannot believe someone would upload this to their site” kind of way. The blueprint with the “LOAD-BEARING WALL!!!” includes nonsensical labels like “Dining Broom” and “Witchen”, and I am supremely disappoint
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by jihadjihad 29d ago
> A remarkably detailed image I know it's 600 ly away but my eyes kept waiting for the images to crisp up anyways, spoiled as they are.
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
It makes me want to find a way to boot up The Incredible Machine [0], so many hours spent on TIM and TIM2 back in the day. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
Brian May, too.
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
The Band’s cover of Springsteen’s “Atlantic City” is superb, particularly the addition of the accordion. A band called Lake Street Dive has a phenomenal cover of Hall & Oates’ “Rich Girl”. Scary Pockets is a group with rotating artists
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
> I often work with data scientists and have to productionize their jupyter notebooks At least it’s Python/Jupyter and not R, SAS, or MATLAB.
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
Dolly wrote the lick herself, and when she was in the studio with the session players, they wanted her to show them how to play it [0]. She ended up having Chip Young lay it down on the record since her long fingernails made it difficult to
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
Her vocals were exceptional, too. One of my favorite videos I've randomly come across on YouTube is "Jolene" slowed down to 33 RPM [0]. The comments are hilarious as well, but the clarity of her vocals and the vibrato that ca
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
Caroline Ellison, Sunny Balwani
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
Enpissification?
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
> anything short of putting your life on the line for profit Why should they put their own life on the line when there are so many others whose lives could be used instead?
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll fi
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
Is it bad that I was disappointed after reading this, hoping for a library that handles callbacks, called NickelBack?
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
> probably some weird ai mix of quiche and cake Quike? Cache?
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
It's always funny to me how often comments like yours show up, despite a long history on here of diverse thoughts and intellectual curiosities, technological or otherwise. But especially funny and bewildering in this case is that you h
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
> Is this going to be the best thing I read all month or all decade? Many times it is only possible to know that post hoc . There are several books I've read that, in the moment of completing them, stand as the best I'd read i
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
> before the 50s and 60s everyone knew you should cover up and women wore bonnets. That too much sun was bad for you. I'd say partly true, mostly false. As sibling comment mentions, much of this was driven by fashion and class etc.
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
For the graph database idea in Postgres, PG 19 has native support for property graphs [0]. You can set up your tables and their relationships as nodes/edges, then query against them using Cypher-esque [1] syntax. 0: https://
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
Sinister mode: Romania versus Chad, Monaco versus Indonesia, Senegal versus Mali, Egypt/Syria/Iraq/Yemen, etc.
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
> The idea that anything other than my needs should factor into the generation of text for me is patently offensive. And this attitude is incompatible with any models produced by frontier labs. Your needs will always be subordinate t

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