jolt42

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by jolt42 5d ago
I don't think social media is inherently bad. For me, the measure is whether I'm wallowing in consuming rather than doing. Although, yes, it's easy to get lost in consuming, doing takes much more intent/attention.
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by jolt42 5d ago
Ecclesiastes would be an appropriate read.
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by jolt42 8d ago
Yes. The resulting LLM is much easier to find information than ever before. To me, that's an improvement on the source data, much like the hitchhiker's guide to the universe. If it results in breakthroughs especially in health, st
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by jolt42 10d ago
I think that's generally true. However, I recall from college more than one backpack company would give you lifetime warranties. They realized that at like $30 (at the time), they don't mind sending you another one if you bothered
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by jolt42 10d ago
When Newman and his friend A.E. Hotchner launched the company in 1982, it started entirely as a joke. They were mixing salad dressing in a barn using a canoe paddle, bottling it in old wine jars to give to friends for Christmas. Once they d
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by jolt42 11d ago
It doesn't seem they address the quality of the final products, just how the companies are run. Anecdotally, I know tons of nurses wear Hoka shoes and act like they are to die for, but yet Hoka is on the avoid list. It would be more in
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by jolt42 11d ago
I've heard the ratings on Amazon can make or break you, so I think most people are at least trying to get quality by taking the ratings into account.
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by jolt42 11d ago
I'll admit sometimes I like there is a cheap-o version as I'm not sure how much I'll end up using it.
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by jolt42 11d ago
It really pisses me off there are used car lots that obviously prey on the poor. I asked for their cash price and they wouldn't give me one, or it was ridiculously priced. They just want for people to pay off a debt and all the interes
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by jolt42 11d ago
Yeah, hardly anybody in it for the long-haul. I hear we might be living longer relatively soon, maybe that will change the mindset.
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by jolt42 11d ago
True, recently Rachel Ray sold her dog food brand. I didn't know until my dog started having digestion issues with it. That's how I found out it had been sold and other dogs were also having issues. Apparently buyer cheapened the
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by jolt42 11d ago
Pretty sure they have a "best" (top of the list) and a "best value" IIRC. So you are interested in the best, but even it is often not the most expensive. OK, i didn't do any statistics, but that seemed to be typical
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by jolt42 11d ago
I think it's interesting that very often the best rated one is typically not the most expensive (nor the cheapest for that matter).
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by jolt42 11d ago
10x is not a likely number for quality, but for status symbol cost.
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by jolt42 11d ago
I think 10x is quite rare. Quality ends up actually curtailing costs to some degree (eg. fewer returns, cheaper marketing - word of mouth). Buy a Weber grill, I had 2 grills before my Weber that lasted 3 seasons between them. I bought the W
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by jolt42 11d ago
Independent, non-profit, probably just two of the factors. They don't allow ads or ranking either. I don't think they've steered me wrong.
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by jolt42 14d ago
Is this still well recognized? ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MI
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by jolt42 16d ago
Is it super weird and creepy if you I tell you I remember the last 15 seconds of what you said?
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by jolt42 17d ago
I didn't find the original R.R. particularly funny like the other Looney characters, I was more drawn in by the cleverness or "what is going to happen next?".
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by jolt42 17d ago
The Looney Toons Show from 2011 - I thought the same about role changes, but the show is an absolute gem, at least the second season when they got the characters to gel.
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by jolt42 17d ago
It's now like coding using the socratic method. Knowing the right questions is now the hard part. And you need to know the context to ask the right questions. Yes, I'm not typing in as much code or reading as much code directly, b
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by jolt42 18d ago
That wouldn't bother me if it would just make bullet lists, which I think I'll start asking for. "Summarize", "synopsis", "brief", "concise" these rarely help I feel because its summarizing
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by jolt42 22d ago
one-off, LLMs killed it would be my take.
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by jolt42 22d ago
Seems pretty minor. It seems there is hope for quantum computing at IBM.
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by jolt42 22d ago
OS/2 was the only thing I remembering being great. If they practically gave it away I think we'd be living in a different world. Pre-emptive multitasking long before OSX/Windows. I mean Microsoft essentially had to force wind
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by jolt42 22d ago
I don't know what they had before but their identity seemed to be IBM's overnight (thinkpads and all).
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by jolt42 24d ago
The reason I was breaking the curve in my Data Structures class was because I was thirsty for that knowledge from working in Basic on my C64. My parents paid the original $595 price and definitely the best decision they ever made for me.
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by jolt42 1mo ago
In regard to heaven, you don't need to believe for her - she believed.
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by jolt42 1mo ago
The recipes are a little bit too clever i think. Turning the text on the actions saves space but it makes the instructions off-putting.
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by jolt42 2mo ago
I used to type in the programs from Commodore 64 Magazine back in the day. If you just touch type them in you learn very little. If I wanted to understand them, I wouldn't do it while typing. Sure a bit rubs off and probably more if yo

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