phrotoma

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   by phrotoma 6mo ago

   Thanks. I knew I'd seen this idea before but couldn't remember the project name.
2. 62.▲
   by phrotoma 6mo ago

   It is very close, but what's more interesting to me is that it's actually amusing. I've yet to see an LLM actually be originally funny (entirely possible I've missed the crossing of that line) and the opening lines put a
3. 63.▲
   by phrotoma 6mo ago

   Er shit, thanks for the correction. That's what I thought I was linking to. I'm not good at reddit.
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   by phrotoma 6mo ago

   For completeness, x-maxxing morphed out of "minmaxing" in gaming culture. https://old.reddit.com/r/rpg_gamers/comments/kew14o/ok_what_... It was fine before they got hold of it.
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   by phrotoma 6mo ago

   Yesterday my google home mini gave me the current temperature in farenheit. I live in Canada and use a pixel. Dumbest fucking AI going. May as well give it to me in coulombs per hectare.
6. 66.▲
   by phrotoma 6mo ago

   Upvoted because you're correct.
7. 67.▲
   by phrotoma 6mo ago

   Hey I get it, we all gotta sleep at night. Tell yourself whatever you like to get them zzz's. As far as ticket scalpers and domain resellers go, my assessment stands: they are bottom feeding zeros providing nothing of value and they ca
8. 68.▲
   by phrotoma 6mo ago

   And extreme sleep deprivation.
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   by phrotoma 6mo ago

   IIUC it's not the model of buying domains from registrars which stinks of crap, it's the buying from registrars by domain squatters who then flip them for a profit having provided zero value that bears a whiff of shite. These tick
10. 70.▲
    by phrotoma 6mo ago

    Allow? I understood tiny VM's to be something (at least AWS) added to try to squeeze more utilization out of idle hardware.
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    by phrotoma 6mo ago

    The last time I mentioned this I got downvoted into a crater, so maybe ppl hate it (I'm open to hearing counterpoints!) but there's an army of tech freelancers swapping advice in a slack called "Rands Leadership Slack".
12. 72.▲
    by phrotoma 6mo ago

    Don't let me deprive you of a laugh, god knows we could all use one. But software developers are stuck on the benefits of source control and the workflows it provides. I'll take a pull request and a code review over "normal p
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    by phrotoma 6mo ago

    Your story is a nice succinct version of the "Business of Authority" strategy. Establish yourself as an expert, work finds you. https://thebusinessofauthority.com/
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    by phrotoma 6mo ago

    I have seen Wiggtenstein's language games invoked to explain this "your red isn't my red" possibility, but I've never really been able to follow the reasoning. Perhaps some philosophically inclined HNer who passes b
15. 75.▲
    by phrotoma 6mo ago

    > “An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.”
16. 76.▲
    by phrotoma 6mo ago

    I didn't use this app, but I did happen to make a paper moai mask recently using a pattern purchased from etsy. https://ibb.co/BHcG4BkB
17. 77.▲
    by phrotoma 6mo ago

    Hell yeah this is weird af! I love it <3
18. 78.▲
    by phrotoma 6mo ago

    Ooh! Were you happy with the results? If so would you be open to sharing the pattern you used?
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    by phrotoma 6mo ago

    Glue gun. I've made probably a dozen paper masks in this style, patterns purchased from Etsy shops and printed on heavy bonded paper. I like hot glue for this type of work because it gives you a _little_ bit of leeway to make mistakes
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    by phrotoma 6mo ago

    thank you, this comment helped a great deal.
21. 81.▲
    by phrotoma 6mo ago

    The extremely uninformative website isn't helping much. There's a more info button that provides no info whatsoever.
22. 82.▲
    by phrotoma 7mo ago

    Man ... this question hits me really hard. I was absolutely miserable by the end of my years at the bank, and the part that really fucked me up was that (at the time) I could not understand why all my colleagues weren't. Huge generaliz
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    by phrotoma 7mo ago

    Yeah it's hard to say but I believe there's at least some truth to that. I took COBOL off my resume over a decade ago just to combat the volume of recruiters trying to drag me away from the cloud back to on-prem land. A good frien
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    by phrotoma 7mo ago

    Early in my career I spent some years working at the biggest bank in Canada, they were (and still are) an enormous IBM customer. Hardware, software, consulting, and probably lots of other things I had no visibility into. Beneath the countle
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    by phrotoma 7mo ago

    Aye, I've seen these both in kramdown and quarto.
26. 86.▲
    by phrotoma 7mo ago

    > arrogant to the point of being almost hostile First encounter with geohot eh?
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    by phrotoma 7mo ago

    On the landing page one can find: - a list of AEPs (explore the AEPs) - a link to the AEP ecosystem - a description of how AEPs are built - a list of AEP clients - something to do with open standards and versioning - a blog and - a single s
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    by phrotoma 7mo ago

    Some years ago I commuted to work by subway in a city that had turnstiles at all transit stops. Having earbuds unceremoneously ripped out of my ears by spinning metal arms sent me straight to bluetooth and I have never looked back. Wires su
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    by phrotoma 7mo ago

    I realize it's not your app, but damn I have never seen a landing page with so little information about the featured product. "200 additional features" Such as ... ?
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    by phrotoma 7mo ago

    > it'd be very cool to be able to have a google-street view style experience of areas before google street view existed. Now do Kowloon Walled City.