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by parpfish 1y ago
one thing i've noticed about scientific writing: many early-career folks are afraid to make things too simple and easy to understand because they (subconsciously?) fear that it makes their work seem simplistic or trivial. when you&#x27
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by parpfish 1y ago
i have a hard time feeling sympathetic to some of these stories. their buy-back prices dont let them reap the windfall from the wild growth of housing prices? or that they're complaining about too many "old people" in a retir
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by parpfish 1y ago
another therapy-speak term that has spilled over is "masking". apparently, any time that you need to politely smile when you dont feel like it is "masking"
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by parpfish 1y ago
my family had a little portable TV (GE 7-7150B, link below) that we'd usually only use down in the basement during severe weather. one day I learned that you could tune in all sorts of non-TV frequencies. In particular, you could tun
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by parpfish 1y ago
I remember lolling when the razor companies ACTUALLY went to five blades https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-...
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by parpfish 1y ago
Then there are the “artist statement” ladies on some exhibits where artist get to describe their work on self-aggrandizing terms that only make sense to people with a graduate degree in the field
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by parpfish 1y ago
Agreed. They make it into a space for adults by simply removing kids and adding beer. It’s good for a casual date, but you don’t actually get adult level content. I want the actual exhibits and content to be able to teach things to adults a
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by parpfish 1y ago
One of my longstanding peeves is that art museums are treated as serious places for grown-ups but science museums and zoos are treated as places for kids.
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by parpfish 1y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think we can every really go back. It wasn't just that kids had autonomy, it's that they also needed to take the initiative to fight boredom and go do something. Let's say that you give kids today
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by parpfish 1y ago
same. it happens to me all the time on HN. on one hand, i feel like this is a text-book example of the Bader-Meinhoff illusion [0]. but... there's an actual causal mechanism that could drive it. show an interesting article to the HN
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by parpfish 1y ago
that’s what onlyfans is predicated on
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by parpfish 1y ago
yeah, but those aren't the guys i'm thinking about. i'm not thinking that it's a startup model where every employee gets equity. it's more of a law-firm model where once you prove your worth, you get to become a par
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by parpfish 1y ago
The idea would be to give it to older players on their way out for one final contract. Not guys that are early in their career and need to keep their options open.
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by parpfish 1y ago
i feel like it'd be great if players could get comped with equity in their franchises. for an aging star that's on the downhill side of their prime, it'd help with salary caps and letting them build new stars around them. and
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by parpfish 1y ago
Not only is it a terrible term, but it describes a concept that isn’t really worthy of having its own term. It’s really just a way of saying “people will make things worse over time”
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by parpfish 1y ago
i've found that something even better than excessive preparation (excessive prep is great -- specially pay attention to transitions and segues!) is letting yourself be honest about the content. my most stressful talks were the times
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by parpfish 1y ago
"ask your doctor" is more widespread than tthat. if you look up any diet or exercise advice, there's always an "ask your doctor before starting any new exercise program". i'm not going to call my doctor to ask
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by parpfish 1y ago
I always thought “ask your doctor” was included for liability reasons and not a thing that people actually could do. I also have good insurance and a PCP. The idea that I could call them up just to ask “should I start doing this new exercis
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by parpfish 1y ago
Batteries are good, but you can’t repair a broken battery with odds and ends you find at the hardware store. If you’re living off grid space isn’t really an issue.
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by parpfish 1y ago
I visited a pumped storage facility a while back that stored electricity by pumping water uphill to store it and then draining it past a turbine to reclaim it. Ever since I’ve been intrigued by using gravity instead of batteries. For home u
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by parpfish 1y ago
most exams aren't about solving a problem, it's about demonstrating that you've learned something.
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by parpfish 1y ago
My ideal social media site would be a slight modification of the link aggregator model. Instead of a centralized repository of links with comments, it would be a sort of overlay on top of every other website that would create a comment sect
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by parpfish 1y ago
the trouble is that even if people embrace that thinking, the ORM encourages them to pull entities out of the db and do a bunch of computation in the server that would be much faster to do in the db.
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by parpfish 1y ago
Also good for “hey whatever happened to that guy from high school”
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by parpfish 1y ago
I like it as a “place that hosts resumes in a standardized format that can be imported to other applications correctly”
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by parpfish 1y ago
i wish we could go back to a pre-streaming version of netflix. the near-infinite library and lack of algorithmic nudging resulted in an era where i had healthy view habits. reasonable levels of screentime and VERY diverse content. i add so
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by parpfish 1y ago
i dont care if the code is elegant, i care that the code is consistent . do the same thing in the same way each time and it lets you chunk it up and skim it much easier. if there are little differences each time, you have to keep asking yo
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by parpfish 1y ago
i don't know if anybody else has experienced this, but one of my biggest time-sucks with cursor is that it doesn't have a way for me to steer it mid-process that i'm aware of. it'll build something that fails a test, but
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by parpfish 1y ago
Project manager: “great news! Our model can count Rs in strawberry!” Dev: “What about Bs in blueberry?” PM: “you’ll need to open a new jira ticket”
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by parpfish 1y ago
conventional wisdom would say that cults are formed when a leader starts some calculated plan to turn up the charisma and such in some followers. but... maybe that's causally backwards? what if some people have a latent disposition tow

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