leethomas

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by leethomas 4mo ago
Not the OP but this line really got my attention > I'd love to see an LLM even fractionally capable of some of the things my job entails If you don't mind could you please elaborate on what tasks or knowledge your job requires
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by leethomas 1y ago
I regularly feel this connection to others in the past whenever I look at old photographs of people in a city I'm familiar with, and yes absolutely when I'm in historic buildings of any material. Often I've asked people I kno
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by leethomas 1y ago
Orrrrr just use a lisp?
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by leethomas 1y ago
> The paper also noted that although reading with children is rare, it has not changed much over time. This part really got to me, reading to one's children is rare? That's so sad. My toddler loves reading with me.
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by leethomas 2y ago
> That writing is the only way to do deep, clear, thinking simply isn't true. You're correct here. > Stephen Hawking is the first example that comes to mind. The post is obviously speaking of the general population or at bes
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Hobby Horsing(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by leethomas 2y ago|1 comments
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by leethomas 3y ago
If you enjoyed this post, you might also like these books that expand on the same concept: * _Hyperculture: The Human Cost of Speed_ by Stephen Bertman * _How to Do Nothing_ by Jenny Odell The first book more than the 2nd, but the 2nd book
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by leethomas 3y ago
Thomas Merton's _New Seeds of Contemplation_
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Ask HN: Parents, what's your iPad policy with your young kids?
11 points by leethomas 3y ago|15 comments
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by leethomas 3y ago
Hm, it feels like all of these except for number 2 and the last one can be solved by appropriate interfaces and documentation.
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by leethomas 3y ago
They said it's normal to faint after receiving a flu shot? Hasn't heard of that happening to people before. What was the explanation?
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Lighting an Incandescent Bulb [video](youtube.com)
2 points by leethomas 3y ago|2 comments
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by leethomas 3y ago
I've been using Lemmy and I've been pretty satisfied with it.
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by leethomas 3y ago
I like lisps syntactically. The only thing stopping me from using it more frequently is the lack of static typing. I wasn't always a stickler for static typing, but I've spent a lot of time working with Scala and TS and the main a
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by leethomas 3y ago
> The main benefit of knowing multiple languages is eavesdropping on people in the street speaking their language, but that's about it. Hah, that's the least of benefits IMO. I'm not sure if you have no interest in the fol
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by leethomas 3y ago
What do you figure is next for you?
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by leethomas 3y ago
Yup, Plex is the way to go for me too. I use plexamp as my client and it's been a wonderful experience. Really love the sonic analysis features, especially the guest DJs.
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by leethomas 4y ago
I disagree, I think a degree of homogenization is good for information heavy websites, like government ones [1][2][3] and sites geared towards documentation. Consistency here is good because it makes things familiar and therefore means peop
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by leethomas 4y ago
Something about "I've been around since 2009" is hilarious. Evokes "I'm 14 and I am very smart" vibes
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by leethomas 4y ago
I recently started using plexamp and it’s been fantastic. I only use Music.app on my machine to rip CDs to a directory on my NAS that plexamp is serving.
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by leethomas 4y ago
> Often these roles are far less stressful What did you have in mind specifically? I can’t think of anything myself that doesn’t seem just as or more stressful and with less flexibility.
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by leethomas 5y ago
So culturally which style of working do you prefer yourself? Or if it’s not binary, are there parts of how software was written yesterday that you’d like to bring into organizations today, whether mentioned in the article or not?
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by leethomas 5y ago
I agree that the article generalizes, basically to the point of condescension. Were you “there” though? I wasn’t so genuinely curious if his recollection reflects reality. EDIT: they responded to another parent comment I created and were de
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by leethomas 5y ago
Could someone of the appropriate age group with experience please confirm for me if everything this guy is saying was true generally speaking? I’m honestly curious as I’m too young to know myself and I have no way of knowing whether the art
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by leethomas 6y ago
Not the same thing, but I believe the parent commenter because I’ve seen multiple studies done where it was found that breathing exercises seemed to help with reflux: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC38
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by leethomas 6y ago
> functional-core/imperative-shell Lol I’ve been learning Clojure for fun these last few days and I had to read this twice because the first time I thought I was looking at a function from a module. > we can deal with state and I
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by leethomas 6y ago
While I haven’t read the announcement from Microsoft, it seems to me that the core issues he had were in the downplaying of AppGet and overall lack of attribution, compared to other package managers with less influence: > But the part th
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by leethomas 6y ago
While I’ll say that I do use Reddit quite a bit, there are still plenty of niche forums if you know where to look. I myself enjoy https://www.airliners.net/forum/ and https://forums.macrumors.com/
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by leethomas 6y ago
Thank you, I had recorded the definition of “whale fall” on October 16th last year in my log book as I had just learned about it, but I couldn’t remember from where or how.