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wrote a blog post about transnational repression and why you cant skip over this term like its something egghead international studies people talk about ko-fi.com/post/Transna...

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

submitted 10 days ago • 105 comments

Lol. Lmao even

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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

submitted 19 days ago • 144 comments

Every time I accidentally get on quora it somehow has gotten worse with a somehow worse UX

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing turns me off of a movie more than seeing the characters in a commercial before the movie comes out

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Reposting with alt text for accessibility. I’m telling everyone: Do not open the door or say a word unless you’re expecting someone and know exactly who it is. Know your rights. Pass these around.

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

I wish this worked, maybe I'll learn how to run my own version of Ruby to figure out if it's even possible

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Reading 'Metaprogramming Ruby' by Paolo Perrotta and my brain is broken now

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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 28 days ago • 2305 comments

Introduced my developer team (of which I am the least experienced) to refactoring guru today and the concept of design patterns, which was not something I thought I would be 'introducing' tbh

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Something so niche I have no one to share this with so hopefully someone else can tear up a bit to Roller Coaster Tycoon youtu.be/gNty2y0DQN8?...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

My copy of Practical Object Oriented Design for Ruby should be arriving today! I've recently also gotten a few other ruby books that have been on my list forever. Any recommendations for other Ruby books to re-populate my list?👀

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

It's incredibly funny that DraftKings is legal but TikTok is not.

submitted 39 days ago • 69 comments

Was gonna check out Rednote but this was their interests page and I decided i'll hold off

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax” No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.

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submitted 51 days ago • 69 comments

when I die please let them know it’s ok to transport my body by public transit

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

It's very rare that I read an article/watch a video decrying "Clean Code" that isn't actually just mad at people who wrote bad code.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

we have already the web game of the year: neal.fun/stimulation-...

submitted 52 days ago • 27 comments

Yappy New Year

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Making deviled eggs so I can start the year off on the dark side

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submitted 64 days ago • 24 comments

This video on Honey is absolutely wild and worth a watch

submitted 67 days ago • 41 comments

Just heard a frustrated looking young guy adamantly say to his soon-to-be ex-girlfriend: "I don't care what anyone thinks, I say what I want"

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Just saw a refactor of an old class at work, and you know the old code was wild when one of new methods has 12 parameters

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Just found out my previous employer Tidelift (pay the maintainers) has been acquired and the ~$40k I invested in purchasing my equity on the way out is vaporized. I'm sure there's not much I can do but would love to chat with an attorney familiar with M&A/equity stuff, if you know anyone.

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

Lipstick on a pig

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How to turn off MS Word scraping your writing to train its AI medium.com/illumination...

submitted 101 days ago • 89 comments

Excuse me…WHAT?!?! 😭 www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/o...

submitted 76 days ago • 84 comments

NEVER CONCEDE LMAOOO my opponent thought they lost but didn't look at the energies, this deck isn't even running water energy I never plan on using Greninja's attack I just bricked super hard but still won 💀💀