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by mp05 3y ago
> "Town Council Debates Official Sock Puppet Recognition, Sock Population Remains Divided" These are all pretty unfunny but if this is the pun I think it is, not too bad though the premise is EH.
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by mp05 3y ago
I'm really disappointed that nth-century seems to have no effect at all. I'm expecting Kilts in Space.
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by mp05 3y ago
> "Generate a scene of a group of friends enjoying lunch in the park." -> Totally expect racial and gender diversity in the output. I'd err on the side of "not unexpected". A group of friends in a park in Toky
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by mp05 3y ago
> anachronistic sport Scottish kings absolutely played golf.
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by mp05 3y ago
> basically people behave like legal abortion means that women will have to perform it and that's bad So let me get this straight: you're suggesting that because abortion may be legalized at a federal level that religious peopl
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by mp05 3y ago
it's worth it, good product
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by mp05 3y ago
Zuck wrote a super hacky PHP script 20+ years ago and now he's a gazillionaire.
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by mp05 3y ago
yeah you're right, I guess I lump that into "academia and research" as opposed to "software engineering" where PHP... exists
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by mp05 3y ago
Perhaps the Scala ecosystem is where Haskell nerds all decided to settle into?
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by mp05 3y ago
> the likes of Python I've spent 15 years writing serious code and never ran into Python all that much until I went back to engineering school. I don't think a lot of people use it for their backend code, at least in my experie
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by mp05 3y ago
Think how much more the Romans would have accomplished with a great scrummaster versed in agile project management ceremonies and jargon.
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by mp05 3y ago
"People are innocent until alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity." - John Brennen, CIA Director Emeritus
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by mp05 3y ago
I don't disagree with the latter part, but if I planned a weekend in the Rockies and skied groomers the whole time, something went wrong.
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by mp05 3y ago
220 of the characters were AI-generated. The rest is my own sarcasm.
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by mp05 3y ago
> One of the things I have trouble understanding is why "rural mountain towns near large population centers" are exploding in the West, but not the East. The skiing sucks? Never skied out east, but I understand it's basica
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by mp05 3y ago
Volkswagen is not the same company as Toyota. For all we know, work conditions and benefits packages between the two organizations vary considerably.
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by mp05 3y ago
> They should unionize No one at these Toyota facilities has an appetite for that. The benefits package and overall lifestyle for a TMMK worker is quite nice compared to the average person in the Lexington metro and the jobs are competit
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by mp05 3y ago
> non-educated workforce Sorry, but to be frank, you just don't know what you're talking about. I did a co-op at TMMK in Georgetown, KY many moons ago and it was a short drive from Lexington where I was studying for my mech eng
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by mp05 3y ago
As others said, I'm not sure it's quite unsophisticated but you're not too far off. It's a specific jargon that comes from people I might perhaps consider unsophisticated if I'm in a bad mood, but more likely they
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by mp05 3y ago
Yeah I love those meetings where we have to double-click on a pain point and unpack what's going on so that we can do the work and stop treading water.
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by mp05 3y ago
This keeps coming up today!! >=[
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by mp05 3y ago
I see your point and relate, but had you asked me at 18 if I wanted to go so badly that I'd work my way through without loans, that would have been a hard pass.
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by mp05 3y ago
> Now if "maths" can prove da Vinci was a great artist Well there is that whole golden ratio thing, perhaps you've heard of it? While I personally find all of that a stretch, plenty of people find merit in it. And so far a
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by mp05 3y ago
If I were judged by my first year GPA I'd be homeless. Instead I'm really quite successful in spite of my first try (and miserable failure) at university. When I went back and was paying for tuition out of my own pocket as opposed
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by mp05 3y ago
That's a very generous assessment of Lehrer who is about as contemptible a person as I can fathom, but I agree with your take. Different strokes.
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by mp05 3y ago
Humans shouldn't be flying 600mph at 30,000 feet yet here we are.
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by mp05 3y ago
=] Nah it was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Lehrer I heard Murakami has some good stuff and I know my wife has some on the bookshelf. But I'm more commenting on the particular milieu, if you will, of a parti
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by mp05 3y ago
I had an ex that went to Bard and she adored this along with the zen motorcycle book, the windup bird book, and pretty much anything by Gladwell and his contemporaries (definitely that pretentious Lehrer guy). The comments in this thread co
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by mp05 3y ago
You're completely off the rails pal.
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by mp05 3y ago
When you're arguably an s-tier genius you can get away with it. Truth be told, I'm suspicious of very, very smart people who aren't acutely aware of it. Besides, did we not all just share a hearty chuckle over Linus Torvalds&

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