jpk.is
If sand can think, can we all go to the beach?
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SWE by day; mostly still a SWE by night. 🧑💻
Shitty latte art. ☕
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A sufficiently stupid ban could catch both.
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Accidental birb
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Imagining the host would be a stone cold robot of a man who calmly asks the guests questions about their upcoming film as they sob through their answers.
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Which on a dreidel would be end-over-end, about the axis passing through the edges (rather than the faces)? Not sure.
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Hah, same! I forgot why this happens, so I looked it up again and I think the dreidel doesn't flip because it's being spun about its first principal axis, which is stable. It's rotation about the second principal axis that exhibits the flip.
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Do I spy a Sun Type 6 👀
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To the immense detriment of my physical and mental health, I held it.
I did encounter some annual diaper enjoyers, though.
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lol I did the Times Square NYE one year, also an intense pvp zone. never again 😅
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I do this with screws, nuts, bolts... In the era of hand forged nails, it was inconceivable that these could be so precise, exist in such great number, and manufactured en masse for countless applications. Now I find them in the couch and just throw them away, but not before marveling a little.
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Oh that's absolutely a thing in the mid-west US, at least.
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$10k is pretty dope considering the response for disclosures is too often, "hi, thanks for the report, we'd like for you to go to jail now."
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Great point. In a contrived, fictional setting, it's easy for a writer to just make things fall into place for a jerk-but-right character to give the audience a satisfying resolution. But if you're not also winning hearts & minds IRL, you're just leaning on luck that it'll work out in your favor.
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I worked around a guy who would do this. He honestly had great ideas. But nothing he proposed ever got done because when it came time to hash out details of system design, he was a cunt to anybody who wasn't 1000% on board with his idea.
Humans are the Great Filter of good ideas.
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This is the recipe: www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/cinn...
I used butter in the filling instead of egg to make it closer to a cinnamon roll thing. Came out *really* tender, bordering on underdone? Probably could have used extra time in the oven because of the added moisture in the butter.
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I think they're basically all bad math. If you need that in an LLM your best bet is probably one that can call a tool for it. Like a Wolfram Alpha integration, etc.
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I can certainly see why commit message content isn't considered valuable if you don't read them! But to be fair, you're right that it can vary by team and workflow. It's a bit of chicken/egg thing because if you don't read them, others won't write them, which means you won't read them...
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If you need to write up a high level description or justification for a change, then I agree a PR description is a good place for that. If the change involves multiple commits, the commit messages are like inline comments on each diff. Both are helpful in different ways to a reviewer!
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Commit messages are comments on the diff, for the benefit of reviewers. Code comments are comments on the code after the diff is applied, for the benefit of developers.
The difference is subtle but important, and there's a place for thoughtful verbosity in both.
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o_O
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Anyway, I'm a hair's breadth away from founding a defense startup with a misguided LotR name, so wish me luck.
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But, I'd be lying if I said I didn't fantasize about, ahem, active countermeasures. Like, some real ITAR shit. That would, of course, be Actually Illegal™, but an engineer can dream.
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So I went down the rabbit hole of reading FAA regs, learning how to identify and track craft that transmit RemoteID, etc. Mostly to understand if this person was doing anything Actually Illegal™, and what to report if so.
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Ah, Huston, we've had a problem.
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Originally I had wall plates with a patch cable from wall to device, on both ends, but realized the signal loss through the couplers in the plates was too much, so I had to cut out the wall plate on one end.
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I did an HDMI/USB run recently! Used an active optical HDMI cable to make the distance. The USB cable was this goofy thing with what I think are repeaters powered by the 5V every so many feet. It behaves oddly with a USB hub at the end, but otherwise works.
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You can tell how good it was by how gone it is.
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I know it's a typo but "compostable moderation" is really funny to me.
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More like, "A bot that detects if ChatGPT is down *by* sending a basic computer skills quiz..."
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ABP, always be ponderin'
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lol ☕
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Man, everything is just files. Sometimes the files are on another computer. Sometimes the files are in Hell. But it's just files all the way down.
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A hi-vis vest also works wonders in this regard. Significantly decreases chance of even being asked.
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Q: Is it lupus?
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The important thing was always the learning going on under the surface, and not the impressiveness of the output along the way.
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Like, the Mercury and Gemini programs were important pathfinders on the way to Apollo, but the goals and outcomes of those missions were kinda whatever if viewed outside the context of the ultimate goal.
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Def look at it from the angle of "project for learning a thing" and not "project I wanna build". It's ok if the end result is shitty compared to where you want to ultimately end up, if you learned the things you set out to learn.
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Yup, bad things happen when you outsource your critical thinking. Terrible things happen when everyone does.
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When I was a kid we had one of the hot ones, but it would grow some kind of slime on the steam outlet unless you cleaned it every refill. 😬
Are the steam ones better now?
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I think an ultrasonic cold humidifier might be the least icky, but the downside is you should use distilled water in them. The mist they make carries any minerals from the water into the air, which turn into fine particulates upon evaporation. My IAQ sensors go nuts when I use tap water in those.