parpfish

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by parpfish 5mo ago
as somebody with attention difficulties... every college/gradschool lecture i've ever attended has been: 1. pay attention for the first 5-10 minutes. I'm really going to try this time! 2. hear something interesting, and your
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by parpfish 5mo ago
He claims that dickovers aren't as bad as the dickbars, but I think they're equal. The dickover is a big, immediate distraction that you can't help but deal with. But the dickbar is insidious because you forget it's even
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by parpfish 5mo ago
Do you LOVE this app? [ ] Yes, and obviously I want to leave this app I like to write a review RIGHT NOW [ ] I'm a mean bad person.
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by parpfish 5mo ago
from what i remember about toy trends as a kid, it wasn't about wanting to have the thing . it was about not wanting to be the one that didn't have the thing .
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by parpfish 5mo ago
i always suspected that chemistry was up to something, but never thought it'd be behind something like this.
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by parpfish 5mo ago
an eletric lotus would be a blast, but having a big heavy battery seems antithetical to their entire car building philosophy
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by parpfish 5mo ago
but sometimes I need a little burst of the phone/music to serve as a distraction and force me to unplug from the hard problem that i'm fixated on. once i've successfully started thinking about something else, phone/music
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by parpfish 5mo ago
i remember downloading an mp3 of a songs that claimed to be collab between hendrix and jim morrison. just found it on youtube now ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSRLf30lj0M ), and i'm excited to see another commenter
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by parpfish 5mo ago
but once you improve the product, you need to tell people that you've improved it.
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by parpfish 5mo ago
i could see this being the thing that pushes the US toward licensing softeware developers like other engineering disciplines. gotta get a PE to stamp your LLM-generated code in sensitive environments.
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by parpfish 5mo ago
Eventually there will be an incident with bad software at a hospital or bank that leaves some people dead or broke. Then regulators will take things seriously.
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by parpfish 5mo ago
i think the enforcing the type system is good with AI for a couple reasons: - (speculating) typed language have faster/better LSPs that can be used to more efficiently modify code with tool use. - when a human DOES need to step in and
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by parpfish 5mo ago
i blew up my tv and threw away my paper. i was working up to eating peaches. i'm sorry.
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by parpfish 5mo ago
so why don't you share who it is with the rest of the class? why help perpetuate his (her?) secret identity mystique
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by parpfish 6mo ago
I've got a color question that I need some opinions on: When I look at the green/blue boundary region on an HSV color wheel like the ones in this S/O thread [0], it appears as a white un-saturated region. If I look at similar
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by parpfish 6mo ago
Were they worse off in the 90s than they were in the late 70s? Because I’ve heard that the entry model 924 saved them from the brink in that decade. Funny that each end of the transaxle lineage were saviors
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by parpfish 6mo ago
no, i think they're just going to start a podcast.
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by parpfish 6mo ago
yeah, these big layoffs don't add up to me right now. if you're making money and you feel that these are good employees, why not take them off the core products and ship them to some other ambituous R&D proejct? making core pr
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by parpfish 6mo ago
My local town Facebook group gleefully mocks local solar each time it snows/is cloudy, as if. There’s never been anything (eg, a war in the Mideast) that could disrupting fossil fuels pricing and availability…
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by parpfish 6mo ago
Don’t underestimate how politicized renewables have become. You’d think essentially free energy would sell itself, but any time solar comes up in a rural community there’s a whole host of bad faith “but what about x?” comments
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by parpfish 6mo ago
I always thought that the biggest benefit of normalization was deduplicating mutable values so you only need to update values in one place and everything stays nicely in sync. Classic example being something like a “users” table that tracks
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by parpfish 6mo ago
Product reviews from real people are useful because they are allowed to say negative things. Once you bypass the real reviews for a summary, all those useful negative signals get glossed over because the host platform doesn’t want to piss o
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by parpfish 6mo ago
I have Taco Bell here in the USofA and it is also delicious. Delicious slop that has sadly become overpriced, but I love it.
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by parpfish 6mo ago
I hate how scrolling through a list of years to enter my birthday forces me to confront my mortality
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by parpfish 6mo ago
Id like to say that I made a ton of typos to prove I’m not ai, but it’s usually just because autocorrect on my phone is going crazy
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by parpfish 6mo ago
Is this Nathan Fielder?
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by parpfish 6mo ago
Young academics try to signal that they know what they’re doing so they end up cargo-culting dense technical writing that they can’t yield well and just end up with bad writing. It takes a lot of confidence to write academic material in a n
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by parpfish 6mo ago
Same. If this counts as math, anything and everything is connected to math. Everything has patterns or structure that can be described.
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by parpfish 6mo ago
Woah, don’t be so hasty. Those were just folks that take email security really seriously
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by parpfish 6mo ago
on a roadtrip i stopped in a small town for lunch with street parking paid by app. super frustrating that i needed to sit in my car and download an app and set up an account just to park for an hour in a town i'm never going back to

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