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by kixiQu 5mo ago
> If you work in construction, you need to lift and carry a series of heavy objects in order to be effective. But lifting heavy objects puts long-term wear on your back and joints, making you less effective over time. Construction worker
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by kixiQu 5mo ago
Young people have more poorly developed impulse control.
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by kixiQu 5mo ago
> To lambasting them when they express any desire to actually form a family. What is this referring to?
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by kixiQu 5mo ago
This person took a different attitude toward it and it was fine. Do you know someone who was attacked for interrupting a set or something?
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by kixiQu 7mo ago
> We don't have height categories, we have categories based on sex. I mean, we do have weight categories in combat sports, right? I don't see why we couldn't come up with similarly neutral categories if we think it's
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by kixiQu 7mo ago
I like the idea of various extensions of LLM context using transparent plaintext, automatic consolidation and summarization... but I just can't read this LLM-generated text documenting it. The style is so painful. If someone ends up
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by kixiQu 7mo ago
I'm always interested in write-ups when folks try new attacks on self-study. I will also admit that this part hurt my heart to read (vicarious embarrassment): > the recruiter mentioned I needed to pay more attention to code debuggab
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by kixiQu 7mo ago
So I know it's a little bananas to answer this with a link to material the length of a novel, but my feeling is that the real spirit of a postmortem is best carried across by: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/stamp
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by kixiQu 7mo ago
Maybe it's a silly question, but what are you using the assistant for? I love the idea of voice interfaces. Matt Webb's thing about distinguishing data and instructions by addressing "Diane" ( https://interconn
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by kixiQu 7mo ago
This is so cool! I would love to hear what stavros ends up using it for – actually, in general I'd love to hear more about how folks are using voice recorders. It seems like now's really their moment as STT finally doesn't su
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by kixiQu 7mo ago
> If the payment service went down because a config value was wrong, the incident report should say: the payment service went down because config value X was set to Y when it needed to be set to Z. The number of junior engineers I have h
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by kixiQu 7mo ago
"Daylight Saving Time" refers to adjusting the time in a way that noon does not try to track solar noon for a timezone in order to shift daylight later in the clock-day.
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by kixiQu 8mo ago
Maybe I'm stupid, but why is this tech needed now ? Whenever I watch movies (new to me) if they're from before ~2005 I never need subtitles to understand, never mind genre or origin... and if they're more recent I frequently
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by kixiQu 8mo ago
This is not a negative parallelism and the mid-sentence clause is awkward in a very human rather than AI way.
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by kixiQu 8mo ago
kind of a "yes, and", but: > such a degree of sacrifice wasn’t always associated with raising children To a certain extent I agree with you that lower standards in parenting made the whole project more doable. However, when my
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by kixiQu 8mo ago
FTFA: > By designing a precise diet-controlled setting to rule out the effect of appetite suppression and weight loss induced by SG, we demonstrate a weight loss-independent mechanism.
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by kixiQu 8mo ago
It's more complicated than that. https://acoup.blog/2025/08/08/collections-life-work-death-an...
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by kixiQu 8mo ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy (Not so ironclad that you're wrong not to use it, but I'm a fan of this term, so promulgating)
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by kixiQu 9mo ago
Yeah, a little bespoke editor is exactly the kind of thing I'd've been happy to fork over a one-time cost for, but never a subscription. Interesting!
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by kixiQu 10mo ago
I believe strongly in this counterargument: https://medium.com/better-programming/software-component-nam... Small summary: external identifiers are hard to change, so projects will evolve such that they are not accura
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by kixiQu 11mo ago
1 week is fascinating. Was it like – the missing piece was modern version control/CD? What kind of testing would need that? (We have configs at work where the system interactions are so unknowable and the financial implications of redu
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by kixiQu 11mo ago
An alternate take that I tend to agree with: https://medium.com/better-programming/software-component-nam...
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by kixiQu 1y ago
If you're in the mood to object to mischaracterization, maybe the best thing would have been to object to your piece being published with a headline including the phrase "brain drain" and a subheadline involving the phrase &q
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by kixiQu 1y ago
I seem to recall someone signing a name to the idea that the event was so bad because the smart engineers had left AWS, so my own expectations about the amount of bollocks I'm going to read about it have risen
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by kixiQu 1y ago
> a pipeline which pushes change to regions one at a time > When AWS deploys updates to its services, deployments to Availability Zones in the same Region are separated in time to prevent correlated failure. https://docs.aw
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by kixiQu 1y ago
For what it's worth Oregon and Washington are pretty much at the bottom of new renewable installs: https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-washington-green-e...
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by kixiQu 1y ago
I am a feminist here commenting in support of shared custody.
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by kixiQu 1y ago
Having a system as described where parents with evidence of abuse can't protect their kids from abusers seems absolutely unacceptable. Patching over that with the current unfair assumptions about men vs. women as suitable parents isn&#
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by kixiQu 1y ago
This is a great example of a piece with enough meaningful and useful content in it that it's very clear the author had something of value to deliver, and I'm grateful for that... but enough repetitive LLM-output that I'm very
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by kixiQu 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouthfeel ??

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