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My problem with deep frying (besides the points you bring up) is the waste. I can't stomach the amounts of oil I end up disposing even if I get several uses.

If it doesn't work try thinking in Russian

I think it is a net positive for me, because I am super unconfident by nature and the agreeable, almost sycophantic output from major LLMs give me just enough of a boost to debias …

I don't mind it so much, for example that is how I learned the word 'abaft' the other day.

Can I ask why :-) Sounds like an interesting project.

I like the term I've seen someone use for LLMs: a "thought partner." Truly it's the duck programming duck I've always wanted.

I sometimes wonder if it was all worth it. What if we banned/rolled back the internet? Would we go back to more small-town-like community, and again have the nerd minority who "can…

I imagine it wouldn't be nearly in the same ballpark, since one side does not perform the classic mechanical generation from temperature difference, and deal with the associated wa…

I wonder how much battery you could install in a typical nuclear site. Maybe even stacked; if we make an apples-to-apples comparison in materials and say we can use the same amount…

I imagine a Bernoulli pattern would work too

I took it to mean the frameworky coding you kind of get sucked into when you start a project when you realize off-the-shelf libraries are flawed or you could do so much better. Lik…

Part 1: https://www.salon.com/2001/03/23/wizards/ Part 2: https://www.salon.com/2001/03/26/wizards_part2/

I find the major/minor thing so fascinating. I remember it having the "happy"/"sad" vibes from my earliest memories and have a really hard time with the idea that it could be cultu…

Reminds me of that super cringy one that Wizards of the Coast did early on

The other neat thing is that in space, the background temperatures are a lot lower than Earth due to lack of atmosphere, and available potentially more often than 1/2 the day cycle…

Or, maybe the poisoner did it by releasing a jar of malaria-laden mosquitoes in the guy's bedroom. Such plausible deniability!

I feel like religion is the original corporation. You even have weekly 1-on-1s with your manager!

Sadly I have run into people like that. To this day I am convinced they paid someone to stand in for the interviews.

I'm unusually tall and flying has always been unpleasant no matter what. I can actually deal with the reclining because it's actually physically impossible for the person ahead of …

I wonder if Brandon Sanderson writes by hand :-D

We have some in northeastern US. However they don't necessarily sit on plot boundaries; I get the impression that surveyors put them wherever it is most convenient for them to bett…

It's too fast. There should be an artificial pause while adding to cart or capturing the payment

Article briefly talked about delivery, which is tricky to do precisely at best of times, but didn't really mention how to address delivery into a nuclear blast. Hundreds of meters …

Reminds me of when autotune came out and everyone and their dog had autotune songs

> but if I were on a university admissions team OK but what would your goal there be? What do you think an existing admissions team's goal is in various different universities? Wha…