roombaman.bsky.social
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Every time I watch Blade Runner, I’m like this is kinda trash. But catch me a month later and I’ll tell you it’s a top 5.
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Stop booing him, he’s right
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It’s all been copied over to ig reels
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Also, even on the arguments own terms, run me the numbers on how paying police, judges, COs, prison maintenance, etc is gonna be cheaper than some paint and bollards
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Letterboxd’s popular with your friends section is a good example of doing it pretty well IMO, but it benefits from being a specific niche (movie nerds), and isn’t super accessible (what if your friends aren’t on it, and you don’t know what critics to follow)
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3. Social media has a winner-takes-all effect. A competing platform with a less engaging algo will be disadvantaged vs a more ruthless company.
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2. People like things that are familiar, or scary, or otherwise provoke strong basic emotions. Crime stories are the most popular local news. Sequels and franchises are topping the box office, while difficult creative stuff does way worse. Thus, different algos might not yield different results.
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But for social media, you get a few issues:
1. How do you tell what people like (cause you need the user to tell you in some way)?
That’s why view time, likes, rts, etc are most commonly used, cause you have a lot of signal and info there, which makes the algos better.
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In principle, and for a niche product, sorta? Like for all its problems, Netflix does an okay job at this. It picks up that I enjoy silly Korean dramas, and recommends more to me, to the extent their library supports it.
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Reminded of how 90s diversity on TV gave way to post-9/11 gritty white dudes
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Right wingers can’t do math
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Why are you dressed like Tim Pool
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It’s its own kind of American Exceptionalism to think American conservatism is wholly unique
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He’s the one with the movie where he’s a monkey I think
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Democrats should focus less on politics and more on policy. How to staunch the bleeding for the next 4 years, how to convince themselves and the public to make drastic changes in 2029.
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The GOP got swept way way worse in 2008, and look where we are now. The GOP majority is extremely thin this year.
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Like we all have better things to do than teach fellow leftists math, but I really don’t get the end game here. Yes, we still spend too much on big tanks and assault rifles. No it’s not 50% of government expenditure. What do you get by being bad at reading basic figures?
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The heat required for a 2 minute bake makes this feel like an especially bad idea
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Half of discretionary spending, but not half the budget
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The jollof in London was unreal. Haven’t found something comparable in NYC yet (but I’m a trek from Crown Heights and Harlem, so haven’t been to the good looking spots)
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This is why I ignore quantities and eyeball
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Half a tbsp of ground Sichuan peppercorn per serving????
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Yeah there’s an art to planning meals that’ll use up herbs and other specialized ingredients in a timely manner.
Takeout definitely has us so spoiled for choice that cooking feels limiting. Hard to have pesto one day and Thai food the next when those use totally different staples.
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Maybe it’s 15m if you have an electric mixer. Creaming sugar by hand is a pain in the ass. Cookies are a definite buy over make for me.
Ghirardelli boxed brownies though - extremely good on the time spent/dollars saved scale.
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I’m maybe 5 years younger than you. When I started following you on Twitter a decade ago, I thought of you as an old, and now I think of us as basically the same age
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My discord:
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Eggs are the one thing I always used up when I lived alone. 2 eggs Saturday morning, 2 eggs for a weeknight dinner, and they last 3 weeks easily.
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Unfortunately
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I ordered a digital one and got a disk one cause they ran out, for the same price. The best stock error of my life.
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The bio is sending me
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My dude, I already said frozen curry. Obviously those go together.
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Indian food freezes really well. Frozen naans and parathas come out to like 50c each at my local Indian grocer. Daal puris are also real good.
Frozen dumplings, better than delivery and cheap.
I like Jack Daniel’s pulled pork. Makes 2-3 lunches for me. You can add French’s fried onions.
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Honestly, I just think your math is off. For me, a $12 DoorDash (that’s a cheap banh mi for me) comes to $20 with tax, tip, and delivery fees. A decent meal with no real cooking can be had for less than $8 pretty easily.
But like, if takeout brings you $10 of joy, don’t let me stop you.
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Part of the issue is we hate on frozen and other pre-prepared food. 2 frozen Jamaican Beef Patties is like $4. 1 and some fruit is a whole lunch. A frozen curry is $5. A jar of Raos and Italian sausages is like 3-5 meals that keep for months, and costs maybe $20 with dry pasta?
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Also depends on which company you’re talking about. At the top of market (FAANG etc), H1B works well. But lots of people getting exploited at the low end, and not all H1B is tech either.
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It’s been about 8 years since I read it. Can you jog my memory on that revelation?
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I oscillate between working at orgs that don’t do this and having a chaotic lack of prioritization, and working at places that do this strictly that end up with clear priorities that are dogshit for the user (like spamming notifications to juice user retention numbers).
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Were you not on Twitter? People dunking on an article based on just the headline, and people (rightly) giving the Atlantic no benefit of the doubt are pretty classic 2016 Twitter phenomenon.
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For Good Health
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The online urbanist urge to debate everyone, quantify everything, and tunnel vision on robotic optimization is the most annoying shit
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Spicy chongqing chicken and a whole fish (I like the fish with pickled greens) never goes wrong
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How would Silicon Valley 23 year olds get toilet paper and deodorant without Amazon warehouse staff and delivery drivers living in California
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Billionaires complaining about the broken media system and rampant misinformation
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The most dangerous uses of that are already being deployed en masse. Heck, airports are using it for boarding. An opt in, locally stored face id using presumably Apples IR tech rather than camera based facial recognition is so far from where we need to raise alarm bells.
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The suction isn’t great but it’s so easy to reach for
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Dollar slices are ass. Would rather eat digiornos
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The first thing I do when I see a bad Atlantic headline is look up what war crimes the author has previously endorsed
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I wonder if he’s instead plotting a course that some other famous billionaire like Musk will try to follow
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Ironically, that guy was not white!
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Metroid Prime is a 3D platformer