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by mathgeek 1y ago
There's a popular subculture moment happening where non-diabetic folks are tracking their glucose since it's now possible to do without great expense. Similar to recent trends with step counters, heart rate monitors, etc. The nece
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Interesting to hear how others use these tools. I often phrase things as “this line/method” which implies the tool knows where my cursor is.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> Kinda feel like the content is a much better reason to visit than the pelicans. That's how the pelicans get ya.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Some of the ones in the Bay Area do. Sometimes they don’t realize it’s not the norm.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
You can’t block all of it all of the time, and children (some of the most vulnerable) especially can’t.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Anecdotal but Amazon tends to notify me when something is recalled. They do not, in my experience with battery packs and children's toys, replace it themselves (they defer to manufacturers).
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Agreed here. Every time my kids bring up tier list rankings I have to again explain this to them.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> That’s why people listen to Chappell Roan, and near-instinctively belt her songs out out after a few drinks, instead of Beethoven symphonies or Mozart operas, even if the latter may be “superior” in nearly every measurable way. As some
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Perhaps some examples would help? The human-centric web I remember was centered on sharing things you found.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Better than moose and squirrel.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> The LinkedIn Queens seems to be a much easier version of this puzzle. This is exactly it. Queens is an “under two minutes” version.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
No worries. Just context to help with why they did it. Similar situation would be that we would expect ancient Roman writings to refer to their gods as matter of fact.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> "I will fix the potholes on 1st ave." I hear Dominos is hiring if you want to leverage the power of the private sector for pothole filling. ;)
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Some relevant context here is that this paper was published in 1980 by the Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. I would expect such references to be pretty common in such works.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> Their tech teams should know better, but it’s hard to say “no”, when it feels like your salary depends on you saying “yes”. There's some truth to the difference between "short term profits" and "my salary depends on
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> In the meantime continue expecting mediocre results from mediocre people feeding LLMs mediocre context. I can't even with the ego here. The best teachers practice humility.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> So how do you ensure everyone keeps to that agreement? There's nothing specific to using Claude or any other automation tool here. You still use code reviews, linters, etc. to catch anything that isn't following the team norm
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by mathgeek 1y ago
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by mathgeek 1y ago
I believe we already have the correct word (agent).
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Can you elaborate? You've made a claim, but I really think there'd be value in continuing to what you actually mean.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
That’s also what the Looking to be Hired thread is scraped for.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Sid’s biography is a great read if you are interested in the details behind these things.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
They tried with Skull and Bones, but it didn’t hit well. Closest I have found is Sea of Thieves.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
I think it's worth differentiating between value (i.e. having value) and valued (i.e. the people who control your future at a company seeing value in your work, whether or not it reflects reality).
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by mathgeek 1y ago
No need for personal attacks. Let's keep the discussion friendly.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> I an curious about seeing an age breakdown, but that is hard to get. Not difficult as all, as there are plenty of studies and research in the area. Quick google gets a bunch of results, and of course you can ask Perplexity or any LLM t
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Thankfully Comcast’s minor holding in Dropout hasn’t resulted in anything too terrible thus far.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
The discussion is specifically talking about watching on TVs. Those (usually) don’t have ad blockers natively. You can of course block outside of the platform.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Requiring a company to tell you whether you’re having fun or not is certainly a take.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> I'd be prepared to argue that most humans aren't guessing most of the time. Almost everything we do is just an educated guess. The probability of it being correct is a function of our education (for whatever kind of education

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