thenoblesunfish

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by thenoblesunfish 14d ago
It's the same problem as when a journalist or nonfiction author writes a thoughtful, nuanced piece of work, and some editor slaps a catchy title and subtitle on.
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by thenoblesunfish 25d ago
They are rich. But then again plenty of people have multi-million dollar homes. I am sure there are some in your city. In some cities a million dollar home is becoming a normal price. Many people have hobbies and pastimes that they spend ma
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by thenoblesunfish 1mo ago
I hope that this will expose the true value of education. It's a new scale perhaps, but not a new problem. We sit in classrooms even though books and YouTube videos make available the teachings of far more illustrious teachers than the
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by thenoblesunfish 1mo ago
My point is that nihilism and egotism are coming for you with or without children. (And I, like many more than will admit, didn't want children, but my partner did)
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by thenoblesunfish 1mo ago
Yup. Several of these people I know left it too late and went through a lot with IVF or adoption of just not having the kids they wanted.
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by thenoblesunfish 1mo ago
True - ultimately I will have to, as that is the only escape from suffering.
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by thenoblesunfish 1mo ago
You are probably right! But you might be assuming I wanted kids before I realized it wasn't all I'd hoped. I never really wanted them but said ok to my partner. I figured that most of the nicer and more fulfilled older people I kn
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by thenoblesunfish 2mo ago
One is 6 years, the other is 6 months.
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by thenoblesunfish 2mo ago
Once you have kids you quickly discover that you get forced into it. You have to engage. If you don't, they scream. They get in trouble at school. They are unhappy and it breaks your heart. Once you have no choice but to do something,
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by thenoblesunfish 2mo ago
I feel a lot of regret having had children. Not 100%, but it's always going to be more than 0%. I adore my kids but it's too much for my brain and it makes me miserable a lot of the time. I don't bring it up except to counsel
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by thenoblesunfish 2mo ago
I think it's social pressure in some cultures, but even in those (sub)cultures which don't have the explicit pressure to have kids, people have a drive to procreate. I cannot tell you how many couples I know who decided they woul
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by thenoblesunfish 2mo ago
If we are talking about points people don't make, how about this: your life is going to get harder and worse as you get older. Your dreams will very likely die. Having kids will make that more clear, but honestly I know plenty of peopl
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by thenoblesunfish 2mo ago
I got a new MacBook Pro recently. Sure seemed expensive to get more RAM. But actually I don't know enough about the chip - it's an M5 system on a chip - is Apple ultimately buying the RAM parts of that from the suppliers AI is ove
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by thenoblesunfish 2mo ago
"Just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that statement! Many people struggle greatly with falling asleep. Personally, while I agree with you, if you are the type of person who struggles with clearing the mind, it's hardest
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by thenoblesunfish 2mo ago
It's a catchy but, yes, inaccurate term. Then again, this is an area which ultimately wants to escape terms (enter infuriatingly meaningless other terms like "ineffable"), so consider letting go of linguistic pedantry part of
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by thenoblesunfish 2mo ago
Fun! I hate those new kiosk style elevators, because I can't reconfirm that I actually pressed the button, remember which one I am supposed to wait for or press the button again while I'm waiting to make sure I really pressed it.
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by thenoblesunfish 3mo ago
Agreed, and (especially if you are a nerd who is good at tests) the description of the levels always seemed to me to imply more ability than what you really need to pass the test. OP, just study for the test and pass it. You can, and you wi
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by thenoblesunfish 3mo ago
What are the numbers for context? How many people come? How many leave? In what jobs do they work? How does that compare to other countries?
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by thenoblesunfish 3mo ago
What's the technical definition of loudness that applies here? Is it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUFS ?
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by thenoblesunfish 4mo ago
Never frobnicate without a flangleharp, says the flangleharp salesman. He could be right, but you would probably want to ask someone else.
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by thenoblesunfish 4mo ago
You are going to be asked to do your job, faster, and you are going to have a massive headache managing a bunch of machines mostly doing your job.
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by thenoblesunfish 4mo ago
Because a lot of us are engineers. It's our mindset and our job to question hype and broad strokes and easy solutions, to go a few levels deeper and ask "okay but does it really work?". I don't think most people are an
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by thenoblesunfish 4mo ago
When a junior engineer first sent me something that looked good until I realized it had been vibed, and thus their understanding of what they were doing was too shallow to answer questions and improve on it. That was a doc, but it happens w
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by thenoblesunfish 4mo ago
A terrible example, because chess is very, very simple - deterministic, rules fully specified in a few pages. We're talking about how you operate in a "games" which, among other complexities, involve the economy and human soc
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by thenoblesunfish 4mo ago
True that AI lets you get information fast an efficiently. But it might just make you feel like you understand, even if you don't have the kind of hard won domain intuition that this article is talking about. I certainly often get delu
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by thenoblesunfish 4mo ago
Perhaps part of the issue is that people feel compelled to respond, even though they don't have anything to say. Maybe people think if they burn some tokens for you that's somehow a more polite way to ignore you and hope you go aw
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by thenoblesunfish 4mo ago
To make sure this opinion is here: The fact that they get to make this announcement is probably the biggest upside. Their base loves it. It makes people think they are doing something. There is an asymmetry in that if they quietly roll this
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by thenoblesunfish 5mo ago
It's annoyingly huge, but is this worse than that? It's software - it does stuff and takes up space. If it takes up more space than you think the stuff is worth, then complain it's bloated, sure, but I am not sure why "s
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by thenoblesunfish 5mo ago
It's true but then again, for most things, the correct answer is somewhere there, amongst the BS, so if you have a good BS detector and want some ideas, you could do worse. You can't outsource the part where you see for yourself i
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by thenoblesunfish 5mo ago
Charming! Reminded me of "Naive. Super" by Erlend Loe, which I loved.

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