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by tombert 4mo ago
I respect it honestly. The Simpsons used to be my favorite show, but I feel like the quality dropped dramatically after season ~13 or so. Part of that is because I got older, I'll admit, but even rewatching the older seasons, I stil
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by tombert 4mo ago
I mean, I think he was just afraid that the comic would become a merchandise machine instead of a comic, and I think he didn't want that.
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by tombert 4mo ago
I didn't read the comics when they were new, but I started reading the daily rerun comics of Doonesbury, and I hadn't realized how funny they actually are. I guess as a kid I always thought it was the comic that "old people&q
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by tombert 4mo ago
I use Cat 8. The cables themselves don't get too hot, but the dongles themselves seem to get really hot. I'm assuming that's a known issue given the size of the heatsinks on them.
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by tombert 4mo ago
There's even a Rails-like framework for Bash: https://github.com/jneen/balls
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by tombert 4mo ago
I have ten gigabits throughout most of my house, and you're right: copper is not happy pushing ten gigs. My 10 gigabit thunderbolt dongle weighs about a pound, and I think 90+% of that weight is just heatsink. If I've had it
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by tombert 4mo ago
I think about Bill Waterson a lot. I certainly don't blame Jim Davis for "selling out". He made a marketable character, and I don't blame him for trying to make his money because of it. I don't have a ton of art
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by tombert 4mo ago
During long road trips, back before iPhones and the like, my mom would have us pick out a book and buy it for us to read to keep us entertained while driving. That worked fine for me, I've never gotten carsick, but for my sister could
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by tombert 4mo ago
Tangential but it's a story that I find funny. At a previous job, my coworkers coined the term "Thomasing" [1], referring to me, as "the act of having a question explained so thoroughly, detailed, and long-winded that th
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by tombert 4mo ago
Same. When I first used Cursor, I hadn't used any of the "Vibe Code" tools out there, so it was pretty neat to have an assistant directly tied to the editor. Once I learned how to use Codex, I just used a tmux split with NeoV
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by tombert 4mo ago
You have to be kidding me. The AI that's best known for deep faking porn needs to be given carte blanche authority to destroy towns? Interesting that they're not building these stinky data centers in places where obscenely rich pe
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by tombert 4mo ago
Yeah, I wasn't really upset with the guy for reading his script. I'm sure he was doing what he was trained to do. I figured that if I gave the little diatribe then I kind of figured that he wouldn't get in trouble for just
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by tombert 4mo ago
I think they actually got in trouble with a lawsuit over that? FWIW I canceled my SiriusXM like a year ago and it wasn't too hard. Just a web form.
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by tombert 4mo ago
When I got my house, I needed to set up internet, and Verizon FIOS was what I went for. I called them to get it set up, and when I suggested the internet dude on the line kept trying to upsell me TV packages. I was polite at first but even
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by tombert 4mo ago
I've been keeping myself pretty busy lately. Con Edison keeps getting so stupidly expensive that I decided to use my backyard for reasons other than generating weeds that I have to pay someone to remove, and instead decided to set up a
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by tombert 4mo ago
I think with a fixed size problem, no we wouldn't be able to demand the same salaries that we get now. I dispute that the problem is fixed size. The people who are senior engineers now will learn how to think at a higher level with th
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by tombert 4mo ago
This is terrible. I never use em dashes!
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by tombert 4mo ago
No, they are a disclaimer that it's possible that the data isn't conclusive. Not the same thing as saying "it's all invalid".
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by tombert 4mo ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but there's gotta be a name for some kind of "infinite extrapolation" fallacy, where you assume that the current rate of progress will continue indefinitely. That might happen, but I don&#
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by tombert 4mo ago
I do think it's gotten pretty good. I'm just acknowledging my limitations in the matter. It's not a contradiction.
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by tombert 4mo ago
If you get to senior level then most of your job probably is not writing code, but planning things out. The code is largely an implementation detail. At least that's how it was for me, maybe other peoples' careers are different
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by tombert 4mo ago
Almost certainly correct, though I've noticed that these LLMs like to complain when you give it stuff that is still in copyright. The Three Musketeers is thoroughly public domain everywhere so in that sense it's a good test, but
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by tombert 4mo ago
Guess I have no way of proving it, but I pinky swear that I didn't edit it in later! But yeah, I broadly do agree; if I read other languages I could find a book that hadn't been thoroughly translated to English and then I could gi
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by tombert 4mo ago
Actually I was talking about tonally as well. A raw "word for word" translation (which I also tried) made the story somewhat hard to follow and very dry, but just asking it to keep the same kind of jovial swashbuckling tone of the
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by tombert 4mo ago
For Typst it's just a parameter at the end: --pdf-standard a-2u
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by tombert 4mo ago
Already mentioned in the comment lol.
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by tombert 4mo ago
Did no one actually finish reading my comment?
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by tombert 4mo ago
I mentioned this specifically in my comment :)
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by tombert 4mo ago
Read the last two paragraphs :)
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by tombert 4mo ago
Yeah, that's why I put the caveat in there. I have no real way to verify the result outside of checking against "known good" translations, though if the known-good translation exists then there's not exactly a lot of re

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