maroonblazer

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by maroonblazer 2y ago
If you enjoy this style of writing - TFA's, not D Brown's - then check out The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest[0]. Here's a sample: "Space Fleet Commander Brad Brad sat in silence, surrounded by a slowly dissipating cloud
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
Per the below, seems it's not available to many yet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42913575
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
I was raised Catholic but no longer practice. Many Christians don't believe they choose Christianity. They believe they are 'called by Christ' to serve. So, I think the analogy, at least for those people, holds.
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
I don't think this gets mentioned enough. Rush Limbaugh was the result of the doctrine's abolition. You can draw a straight line from Limbaugh to Fox News, et al.
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
https://imightbewrong.substack.com/ It's not focused on tech, but occasionally touches on policy issues that are tech-adjacent. It's a refreshing, often insightful, and usually very funny take on current events. T
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
Yeah, I was going to comment that doing volunteer work in some form could go a long way towards curing what ills him. Surprised that that wasn't even mentioned in TFA.
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
"Five Characters in Search of an Exit" was always a favorite episode of mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEpaq332pmI (just a snippet of the intro, with Serling's iconic introduction)
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
Just tried this with an interpersonal situation I'm going through. The default seems to be Claude 3.5 Sonnet and ChatGPT-4o. I got the results I've come to expect from those two, with the latter better at non-programming kinds of
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
Hmmm...I'm now worried about my Aeropress, which I love. Perhaps it's time to switch to a french press.
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
Does the native file tagging see much adoption? I'm a lifelong Mac user and tried using the tags when they first launched, but eventually it was too much work and I resorted to using search to find what I'm looking for. Not macOS
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
Some of the friends I have now, in my 50's, are due to them proactively reaching out to me to get together. Had it not been for them making the effort, our friendship, likely, would've never materialized. When meeting new people w
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
I'm not sure when the NFL started doing this but you can now watch highlights from seemingly every game on YT. These highlight reels are edited quite well, capturing the significant moments of each game. I'm not much of a football
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
> https://youtu.be/vtIzMaLkCaM?si=PI-_9M8ZxmBrJW2K Larry McEnerney's (U of Chicago) "LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively"
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
> Do you consciously do this? I listen to podcasts in a very passive way. This caught my eye. What does it mean to listen 'passively'? Meaning it's just 'on' in the background? I.e., you're not paying attent
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
Compared to Anthony Braxton, "Kind of Blue" is elevator music.
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
>I saw you in the documentary! I presume you're referring to this one: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/power-on#watch
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
https://github.com/omnibrain/svguitar/ looks great! I recently built a small web app to help me drill some specific jazz voicings and wrote a rudimentary version of something like this. If I end up expanding it I&
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
I skimmed the documentation and didn't see any reference as to whether Markwhen supports dependencies? I.e. MSProject-style make one event dependent on another task ending or starting. Did you need/use that functionality?
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
+100 for "City Lights". I used to not really consider myself much of a silent film fan, except for a few Harold Lloyd comedies. "City Lights" converted me. Truly a masterpiece of filmmaking.
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
From the end of TFA: >The book is not without its weak moments, although they are few. One in particular which I recall is the treatment of A/B testing. Essential to any hypothesis testing is the matter of how to reduce the sampling
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
Tangential, but TIL there exists a journal of audience & reception studies.
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
Only the OP would know for sure, but it might be the case that this never would've come into existence were it not for the project to land the messages about the company.
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
This describes my study perfectly. It truly is a sanctuary. For the most part I avoid using it for work, so that it can serve as a complete escape from that part of my life.
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
Perhaps make it such that once you've completed it at 'normal' speed all the marketing messages are disabled, enabling the speedrun.
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
But the bacteria isn't only getting on your phone. It's getting on your clothes and skin and other parts of you that you also come into contact with.
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
I'm not following. You're saying people who spread fecal matter on their phones don't wash it off their phones? That seems hard to believe, if for no other reason that the smell would be repulsive.
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
Is there another book you'd recommend - more recent than SICP - for how to avoid programming yourself into a corner?
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
I have the Quest 3 and Arkham Shadow gives me all the same feels as Half Life Alyx. Before AS dropped I hadn't turned on my Q3 for over 6 months.
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
All the waste from this mass consumption is what makes "the globe" unhappy. How do we solve the "waste" problem?
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
I think lawyers do a really effective job of offensive communication. Their job essentially boils down to redirecting the conversation. One side poses a question that the judge or jury needs to answer. The other side then responds with: &

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