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This was wholesome. I thought it might feel transactional, but it doesn't. Thanks for posting it.

Don't offer them your typewriter(s) yet. > The results reveal that it is possible (around a 5% chance) for a single chimp to type the word "bananas" in its own lifetime. https://ph…

This reminds me- I gotta go back and reread Borges's short stories with ML theory in mind.

I've read the latest Weir book (Project Hail Mary) and the two prominent Watts books (Blindsight and Echopraxia) recently and they were all memorable but frustrating. Weir writes l…

I did not expect to read such a great story in this thread. Thanks for taking the time to write that. It was great.

Agreed. Also, look who they're learning from. Growing up in the 90s, I had my everyday IRL friends but also some BBS friends. In that latter peer group--pseudo anonymous and extrem…

For any Sergio Aragones fans out there, the Cartoonist Kayfabe interview he did where he told the story of how he first got hired at MAD is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

The Corporate Memphis of AI models. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

Both sides of the RTO bell curve (the abusers and the hyper dedicated) are taking a hit here. For an example of the latter, it's the people who can stomach a long commute three day…

I like this. And there's a time and place for everything. If I were inclined to try this boiled chicken, hell yeah I'm going to appreciate that I'm getting served the real chicken …

I'm a big sci-fi reader as well, and I'm on a tear this year after neglecting the genre for about a decade. I find Stephenson's books to take a lot of headspace, and I don't always…

He knows exactly what owning a product means. His subtext is "if you're going to talk about owning something, please add specificity to your claim."

Interesting. I just found his channel. What does he lie about? Factual stuff or MS history?

Her Lucky in Love blog post (1) includes this premise: > Even after all her years of research, she’s still excited by love. “You’re trying to win life’s greatest prize — which is a…

I just finished Cahokia Jazz. Best novel I've read in the last few years. The prose, plot, and characters were all exceptionally excellent. And I was surprised to learn the author …

I think you mean perpetual license, unless you really do mean a license that covers the clitoris or penis.

Hey HN, I'm looking for some opinions and/or experiences with tracking metrics for work other than code. One thing I work on is a security guidelines wiki, which is read by other e…

Or accidentally let something egregious happen under his watch and then tried to cover it up, like a data compliance violation

Yes!! Chubby Emu is excellent.

> It costs how much?! The author's not wrong. Cost comes with lack of accountability in my experience. In turn, my devsecops dept (~20 people) has kept costs down by holding monthl…

Ha. The NSA or Amazon. Just log in through Amazon SSO and it matches your purchase history against a variety of candidates. Medical purchases excluded for a fee.

Such is the paradox of tourism. We want authentic experiences but depend on experts to define authenticity. Walker Percy captured this well in his essay "The Loss of the Creature."…

Your conclusion exemplifies the essay's argument that we pick facts that confirm our most compelling narrative.

Yes BUT it needs tuning. Splunk is complicated and takes continuous maintenance to optimize speed. I work as a Splunk integrator and here's what I often see: 1. Customer installs S…

> what I feel are the worst parts of the mythologized "Russian soul." I think I understand. I like reading postcolonial literary criticism because it asks us to consider any kind o…