qntmfred

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by qntmfred 2y ago
the treatment was the same (steroid cream) but now that I know what it is and what causes it (for me it was probably too much sweat on the hands from wearing a baseball glove since baseball season was often when i'd get it) I can hopef
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by qntmfred 2y ago
not necessarily misdiagnosed, they just never were able to give me a proper name for it or an explanation for what might be causing it or how to avoid it in the future. they just said "not sure what to tell you but here take this stero
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by qntmfred 2y ago
ok thanks. that wasn't the case in the 2010s the last time i tried to use google to investigate the condition.
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by qntmfred 2y ago
when i was a kid pretty much every spring I would get tons of little blisters all over my fingers, arms and sometimes legs. It would last a few weeks and then clear up. My hands would get so swollen and itchy that I was basically useless fo
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by qntmfred 2y ago
I for one am quite happy with Windows these days. I started out on Windows (3.1!) switched to Mac in 2009 for over a decade and have mostly been back on Windows the last few years. I had a lot more to complain about in the last few years of
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by qntmfred 2y ago
Location: Raleigh, NC Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Pretty equally split over the years between .NET + Node backends but I've done Java, Python and PHP at a few companies. For frontend I've u
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by qntmfred 2y ago
I use a similar homegrown system. This approach has unlocked a lot of great thinking for me. I hope it catches on. fwiw yapthread.com is another product offering in this space.
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by qntmfred 2y ago
#YangGang
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by qntmfred 2y ago
I used Firefox before Chrome took over, and then stuck with Chrome until about a year ago when I started using Brave. Last week I switched to Edge. I know some people will turn up their nose at such a choice, but it turns out to actually be
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by qntmfred 2y ago
the other side of the pendulum is the people that for some reason think "free speech" means harmful speech. To them anyone who wants free speech must be trying to escape consequences their speech deserves.
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by qntmfred 2y ago
I remember a few years ago SPLC smeared a public figure I support not for anything they actually said, but for speaking at an event that somebody else that SPLC doesn't like was speaking at. I've since noticed a number of times th
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by qntmfred 2y ago
I get the hate, but I'd be open to trying out a social media experience that is a mix of human and bots, especially as the bots get better at acting like reasonable humans. Stack Overflow was great when it came out. But the whatever pe
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by qntmfred 2y ago
I was once a top 1% stack overflow user. I didn't start contributing to make money, just to share information and learn from each other. that can and should also be good enough for the AI era.
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by qntmfred 2y ago
And on earth peace, goodwill toward men
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by qntmfred 2y ago
I spent the first half of my childhood in Massachusetts and the second half in North Carolina. I say y'all all the time. Truly an excellent word.
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by qntmfred 2y ago
> You all understand that Sam, the gaylord of OpenAI, is here to control you, correct? I see this kind of comment from time to time. do you have any evidence to support this claim, or just paranoia vibes?
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by qntmfred 2y ago
this congress will be an extension of the executive, and you know this administration and his legislative and judicial allies don't care about the rules and norms anyways. they feel like their agenda was obstructed last time, they&#x27
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by qntmfred 2y ago
i also have a personal discord server, but discord is stuck being a text-first platform built for gamers around small/medium-sized communities. I want to see a video-first/text-second platform emerge that serves as a global public
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by qntmfred 2y ago
i've been playing around with a similar concept over the last year as well when i'm at my PC, I keep a google meet on all day. instead of slacking me, coworkers can go to my google meet link (which never changes cus it's a re
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by qntmfred 2y ago
I talk about it a little bit here (high level not technical) https://youtu.be/2zqXkNhaJx0 but it's basically private daily youtube livestreams whenever I'm at my PC (so like 8+ hours a day) + limitless.ai for real
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by qntmfred 2y ago
I mentioned this in another post recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41699265 but I've been using something of a homegrown equivalent of Recall most of the year and I really do think the concept has a lot of
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by qntmfred 2y ago
I use dual 43" 4k TVs as monitors. It's fantastic.
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by qntmfred 2y ago
Yet
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writing offers relatively high information density in a low bandwidth medium. but video offers high information density in a high bandwidth medium. the challenge in both cases is coming up with something to say that requires a high informat
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by qntmfred 2y ago
> most discussions are toxic af look in the mirror.
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and leerob did one a few days before that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIVL4JMqRfc
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by qntmfred 2y ago
That's pretty much what my youtube channel is turning into. just me talking to myself with chatgpt as co-host eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB59Bz-F04E
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by qntmfred 2y ago
> The Market (tm) wants to really just drive down the costs of developers more than anything else. well yeah. this wasn't going to last forever. in the US especially. Salaries here were bonkers compared to the rest of the global dev
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by qntmfred 2y ago
Any chance you've seen this, or have a personal take to add? https://youtu.be/QByN_XJIn8s

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