uncletaco

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by uncletaco 3y ago
Good ol’ Othello. I got an A in AI because I beat everyone else’s Othello player. You will always be the final boss of grad school.
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by uncletaco 3y ago
I honestly didn’t know anything about LotR, only the hobbit because the cartoon came on tv once. I didn’t even know it was part of a bigger story until someone in the movie mentioned Bilbo Baggins and I was like “wait, I know him!” I was ma
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by uncletaco 3y ago
I’m a 6’0 man who went up to 220lbs when I started working a desk job that provided sodas on demand. When I left there and went somewhere I needed to walk to eat lunch to I lost 30lbs and now hover around 190lbs. When I learned how to swim
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by uncletaco 3y ago
> Should every small town have a Tier 1 Hospital? A world-class university? A national sports team & stadium? An international airport? A symphony orchestra? This almost describes Alabama.
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by uncletaco 3y ago
You don’t buy it for nutrition. You buy it because it’s delicious and turns the milk into chocolate milk.
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by uncletaco 3y ago
There wasn't enough pain in his mac and cheese.
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by uncletaco 3y ago
The only time someone has refused to deliver to my door it was because they recently had surgery that amputated their leg. They called and told me the deal and I happily met them on the street.
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by uncletaco 3y ago
I always swap out the semicolon for the apostrophe because I honestly don’t think that key gets enough play to have its position on the home row.
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by uncletaco 3y ago
I’ve come home to a rat body missing its head and even letting my indoor cats into the backyard might yield a dead bird or lizard on the kitchen floor.
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by uncletaco 3y ago
In what cases of repair is having the right tools not a good idea?
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by uncletaco 3y ago
Feynman was famous for stealing his coworkers’ pens and pencils so I have to assume he was writing useful thing down.
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by uncletaco 3y ago
Because it’s not that deep and the realm of the possible shifts differently for scientists and writers and the general public. For a lot of people science fiction is defined by tropes and trappings but not so much the possibilities. For ins
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by uncletaco 3y ago
I love how “science fantasy” has shifted to the point where it is anything that includes FTL. Really shows what happens when we give nerds the internet.
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by uncletaco 3y ago
On the opposite end, two of the jobs I’ve had in the last ten years noted that they saw my emacs config (one interviewer admitted to borrowing from it) and I’m pretty sure it had a positive impact on my prospects.
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by uncletaco 3y ago
Separation and eventual divorce.
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by uncletaco 3y ago
I used to hide in the closet with one of those when my parents would argue, much easier to drown them out with headphones than just a tv by itself. Granted the selection was always something like Andy Griffith or primetime network. While th
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by uncletaco 3y ago
I both like and am afraid of a system where you can just continuously flip to the next show or tv series, browsing by clip until you find something interesting and choose to roll back to the beginning of the episode. Netflix almost does thi
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by uncletaco 3y ago
Ah Martha, I see you haven’t changed one bit.
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by uncletaco 3y ago
I think it’s fair to negotiate the use of actors’ likeness without consent. And given this isn’t the only grievance they have it makes sense to put it on the table with everything else because why not?
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by uncletaco 3y ago
IME most of the content I get from white creators is political in nature, for now. I somehow drifted away from BookTok into witch-don't-kale-my-vibe-tok. I'm too lazy to be intentional with the search function so I'm hoping I
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by uncletaco 3y ago
I’ve used Co-Star for years only because each day it gives me some vague advice in the morning and I use said advice to spice my day up. I couldn’t care less about the divine origins of astrology but the engine is written in haskell and tha
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by uncletaco 3y ago
I saw him in Machete and people were calling him the real life Tony Stark. With little other context I just assumed he was a cool guy. After all people were always super positive about his projects. In fact, I don’t think I actually heard E
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by uncletaco 3y ago
I thought it was obvious that what I was saying was Bay Area specific when I said Tesla drivers are like Nissan Altima drivers I’ve encountered elsewhere but go off.
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by uncletaco 3y ago
Not OP but Teslas I've seen around the Bay Area while driving around have Big Altima Energy. If someone's driving high above the speed limit, swerving through slower traffic like their life is in danger, or doing a U-turn on a two
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by uncletaco 3y ago
Right now my linux desktop uses comic Neue as system font along with comic code as monospace font. It's beautiful.
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by uncletaco 3y ago
Honestly my thing about buying a laptop for gaming is if you're gonna basically be plugged in to use it anyways you might as well get an itx case, throw in all the parts you need with a portable screen and keyboard and it will all fit
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by uncletaco 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the previous poster and those continuing the argument about Framework laptops didn't read the article fully because shortlisting it as a potential upgrade among other options is no where near shilling.
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by uncletaco 3y ago
For me the perfect laptop was actually the Chromebook Pixel LS from 2015. Retina 3:2 touchscreen display in a 13in aluminum shell with a really good trackpad, usb-c, and built in webcam. Could be configured with 16GB of RAM though the ssd t
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by uncletaco 3y ago
> This thread (edit: at the time I am posting this) is full of men with little real knowledge That’s almost every reply on HN that isn’t specific enough to let someone shine through with their tech experience. It’s been like this as long
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by uncletaco 3y ago
Terrible afternoon in war torn West Oakland. I only saw one shirtless guy walking his pit bull today. I’m used to seeing three before 5pm.

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