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by parpfish 9mo ago
i wonder if a resurgence in social clubs like the Elks club/Moose lodge would ever catch on. i don't know how big they ever were in the past, but it seemed like it was commonly represented in media in the 50s/60s (e.g., the f
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by parpfish 9mo ago
it seems like a lot of locales that would have been third places in the past have been neutered because the people go there and then immediately put up walls. coffeeshops have become ad-hoc offices where people will sit there with a laptop
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by parpfish 9mo ago
They should’ve released the electric tuck for the segment that wanted the maverick. Even better would e been an electric lei truck, but I don’t know if you’d be able to stack enough batteries on one of their tiny li’l frames
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by parpfish 9mo ago
I’m still shocked that the CT went into production. I’m convinced that the CT could’ve become a legend if they had just done a limited run of like 500-1,000. At that level, nobody would care if it was poorly built or worked well as a truck.
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by parpfish 9mo ago
I think we need to start distinguishing between art-music and utilitarian-music. Art-music is made by humans as a way of expressing yourself and making human connections. Utilitarian-music can be made by humans or machines and is there to s
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by parpfish 9mo ago
Internally, they refer to it as “perfect fit content” (pfc). It used to just be stuff like white noise and rain sounds, but it has expanded to essentially be a modern Muzak replacement. For situations when people don really want “music” and
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by parpfish 9mo ago
this thread seems to be filled with a lot of folks that have read and understood actual stoicism but are unaware of the fact that a "pop stoicism" exists out in the world. this leads to a lot of people talking past each other.
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by parpfish 9mo ago
Toxic masculinity doesn’t mean men are poisonous. It means men are being poisoned.
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by parpfish 9mo ago
Oh yeah, what kind of exit did Rome get? They raised a lot of rounds, but did they ever go public? I heard they got acquihired and most folks got nothing
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by parpfish 9mo ago
The modern/online resurgence of stoicism isn’t driven by people that have studied actual books. It’s being driven by people that are making tiktoks after they learned about it by watching a five minute YouTube video. It’s a very lossy
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by parpfish 9mo ago
I can’t help but think that the rise in stoicisms popularity among manosphere types because it lets them repackage a lot of more undesirable masculine traits under a legitimate label— You’re not allowed to feel things. Emotions make you wea
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by parpfish 9mo ago
There nothing stupid about controlling for circumstances. As an analogy, let’s say you want to build a fun race car that you can take to the track. You go out and look at a bunch of used cars and you want to be qualitative so you measure ou
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by parpfish 9mo ago
Fuel for the “birds arent real” pseudo conspiracy
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by parpfish 9mo ago
Im convinced that Donnie would lose a lot of interest if we stopped using Mercator projection so Greenland looks smaller.
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by parpfish 9mo ago
The maga base would lose their minds. Stopping “Foreigners living off government handouts” is one of their founding tenets.
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by parpfish 9mo ago
Even worse: why do they use high/low based on calendar date rather than daily high and overnight low. During a cold snap one cold night will show up as the low for two consecutive days instead of a single “overnight”
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by parpfish 9mo ago
I just got a new phone which meant I had to read-login and set up every app and account. It was an intense deluge of SMS codes, flipping back and forth to the Authenticator, dismissing welcome popup modals, security email notifications. I w
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by parpfish 9mo ago
An easier routine for me to manage house cleaning is to set up a calendar with one little chore each day. List out what needs to be done every week, every month, every season, and set them up to repeat. Every day you do your little two minu
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by parpfish 9mo ago
I doubt that the 50k was given to the research as personal pay. It was likely a “research grant” that was used to fund the research and/or get swallowed up as “overhead” by the university
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by parpfish 10mo ago
If you are heavily using LLMs, you need to change the way you think about reviews I think most people now approach it as: Dev0 uses an LLM to build a feature super fast, Dev1 spends time doing a in depth review. Dev0 built it, Dev1 reviewed
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by parpfish 10mo ago
are the "reply guy" and "pet peeve syndrome" considered bad? because i think they're a big part of the value i get in the HN comments. my mental model of the comment section on any page is "let's get all t
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by parpfish 10mo ago
just saw that my phone keyboard corrected 'codetermination' to 'condemnation', which... lol
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by parpfish 10mo ago
“I’m a special rockstar guru ninja 10x dev, being held to the standards of the normals will just hold me back from my true potential”
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by parpfish 10mo ago
tech unions should be pushing for condemnation, which is the process of getting employees seats on the corporate board
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by parpfish 10mo ago
100% agree. Spotify likes to tell a story about how they “saved the music industry from piracy”… but piracy clearly won. Napster et al reset consumer expectations that you get everything for almost free, instantly. The heart of the artist p
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by parpfish 10mo ago
Here’s how SO could still be useful in the LLM era: User asks a question, llm provides an immediate answer/reply on the forum. But real people can still jump in to the conversation to add additional insights and correct mistakes. If yo
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by parpfish 10mo ago
Also: the bigger the corpus of already answered questions, it’s more likely that you can just look up an answer instead of asking. Eventually SO becomes a site exclusively for lurkers instead of a platform for active participation
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by parpfish 10mo ago
Widespread internet adoption created “eternal September”, widespread LLM deployment will create “eternal 2018”
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by parpfish 10mo ago
i think the press fixates on AI job losses for creatives (e.g., voice actors, designers, etc), but in absolute numbers the loss are going to be much larger for bullshit middle managers. the types of people who couldn't really explain
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by parpfish 10mo ago
A few years ago in my lefty friend circles, everyone was talking about grabber’s “bullshit jobs” and how we’ve built a system to keep us occupied with meaningless busy work. But now AI is threatening (promising?) to make those jobs go away,

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