jimmyjazz14

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   by jimmyjazz14 3y ago

   I personally never found "programming" difficult, the difficult part is understanding large systems and finding the correct abstractions and most of all communicating these thoughts to other programmers. If programming starts to
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   I don't really think good artist are that common, then again I guess we are talking about anime here (jk, I appreciate the art of much anime).
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   by jimmyjazz14 3y ago

   I am still using a PC I built in 2012, that is over twelve years of daily use. Honestly for 90% of task I do I see no reason to really upgrade it, though I did put a newish GPU in it last year because the old one was failing. I feel like p
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   by jimmyjazz14 3y ago

   Oh man I was just thinking that would make an awesome t-shirt, wish it was still available.
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   by jimmyjazz14 3y ago

   Man that's some pretty badass BSD artwork too.
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   If the author hasn't heard of it surely nobody else has right, this from a paper that still writes breathlessly about the latest SNL episode that probably gets less views than the average semi-popular youtube channel get on a good day.
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   by jimmyjazz14 3y ago

   I believe the Silmarillion was really more of reference type book originally so yeah not particularly something you sit down and read all the way through.
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   by jimmyjazz14 3y ago

   yeah same experience for me, my wife bought me one kinda randomly as a gift and while I'm not a huge gamer I've kinda fallen in love with the Steam Deck. It works well with my lifestyle since I can just kinda pick it up wherever
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   by jimmyjazz14 3y ago

   Probably the best answer I can think of is to just stop caring what people think (about your work/code), I know my work is never perfect (or even good) but I show up anyway. We are not defined by the code we write or the work we do bec
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    by jimmyjazz14 3y ago

    Yeah totally what worked best for me was leaving my phone in my trucks glovebox most the day, not having the phone even nearby seemed to make a big difference for me. I wasn't a huge phone user but even so the urge to just check if I
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    by jimmyjazz14 3y ago

    It only took a couple of weeks going without a phone for me to see a marked improvement on my outlook on life and the world, so to me the correlations between phones and mental health are pretty clear.
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    by jimmyjazz14 3y ago

    I have a number of fountain pens but the one I keep coming back to is the Pilot Kakuno, they are super cheap but they just feel so good in hand especially for sketching and drawing.
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    by jimmyjazz14 3y ago

    I think the tropes are what people find refreshing honestly, tropes are often what the audience wants to see.
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    You are right that I shouldn't lump all Asian media together when I meant Japanese and South Korean. Also I said cynicism is less present not all together missing. I think there is a difference between portraying cynicism and espousi
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    by jimmyjazz14 3y ago

    yeah I think there is absolutely a way to do a good show and have a social/political message and it usually comes down to tone and respecting the audience. Studio Ghibli is known for there positive and even relaxing tone but underneat
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    by jimmyjazz14 3y ago

    When you were a kid and coming up with fun creative stories or just playing creatively did you inject a level of authenticity and realism to that play? Probably not because you were just being your authentic self, unedited and unspoiled, h
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    by jimmyjazz14 3y ago

    I feel like there is a certain level of cynicism and/or irony in much of western media that is not as present in Asian shows (I think this is a big part of anime's popularity). Strangely while over acting and over dramatization i
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    by jimmyjazz14 4y ago

    I love Lex Friedman interviews personally, he tend to just kinda let the person he interviews talk a lot and his follow up questions tend to lean towards exploring things the people he interviews are passionate about. I think the criticism
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    by jimmyjazz14 4y ago

    What is art but communication, the best art is communicating the feelings and emotions of the artist, I think an AI can create content that emulates art but without the artist there isn't any communication of emotion. Much modern musi
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    by jimmyjazz14 4y ago

    To me this says less about how impressive AI has become and more about how low the bar for music has gotten these days. Franky its not a very good song but most stuff by Drake and the Weeknd is so bland and commoditized that it can easily
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    by jimmyjazz14 4y ago

    I think this article ignores a lot of realities of the market to reach its conclusion. Many of these companies did record hiring during the pandemic while there stock values have plummeted and while we may not yet be in a recession its pre
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    by jimmyjazz14 4y ago

    "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
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    by jimmyjazz14 4y ago

    North Carolina by chance?
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    Well I don't know that Seiko has been directly involved in whaling in any way and some of the proceeds from the "save the ocean" line are given to divers that work to remove marine debris so that seems like a really odd conne
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    by jimmyjazz14 4y ago

    They are often quite similar in design though I'm guessing the Rolex uses quite a bit higher quality materials.
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    Citizen has a quartz movement that is rated to only drift plus or minus 5 seconds a YEAR which is quite impressive though they cost around 2000 dollars and are exclusive to the Japanese market. Several other brands out there make high accu
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    by jimmyjazz14 4y ago

    I don't really understand your comment about avoiding Seiko (and yes as a Seiko collector I'm a bit triggered). In my experience Seiko makes absolutely great quality watches still with maybe the only issues generally being the oc
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    Is this for real, it almost seems to shocking to be true.
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    There are plenty of reason some may choose to stay, refusing to hire someone because they wanted to keep a good job seems silly.
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    by jimmyjazz14 4y ago

    I feel it was more around 2015 or earlier Jonathan Haidt took a stab at explaining what he thought has been going on here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-...