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kaechle
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Comment #49135348
You're arguing semantics; maybe missing the point entirely. The writer is using the analogy to emphasize personalization, not quality, or some other nebulous characteristic applica…
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Comment #45704931
Correct. To decimate is the infinitive form of the verb decimate .
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Comment #45704890
Using "literally" figuratively or, more precisely, as a hyperbolic intensifier [0], is a tradition employed by notable English writers who lived and died long before you were born.…
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Comment #45328356
Those are some bounding leaps you made without much context. Are you in sales? Kidding aside, my first reaction was: perhaps the occasions they were aware of their own influence we…
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Comment #45184480
I’ll see your pedantry and raise you ... more pedantry. The sentence may be a bit clunky, but there’s nothing grammatically wrong with it. And you’re leaving out the first sentence…
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Comment #42585763
SEEKING WORK | Remote Preferred | US/Brazil Technologies: Python, asyncio, Pydantic, LLM integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic), Meilisearch, WebSockets, Redis, Postgres, REST/HTTP APIs,…
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Comment #42585355
Location: Brazil (US Expat) Remote: Preferably Willing to relocate: Never say never Technologies: Python, asyncio, Pydantic, LLM integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic), Meilisearch, WebS…
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Comment #42341814
This is the way. Blending two or more styles also works well, especially if they're on opposite poles, e.g. "write like the imaginary lovechild of Cormac McCarthy and Ernest Heming…
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Comment #41712199
Location: Brazil (American expat, legal address in Las Vegas) Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, Asyncio, Jav…
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Comment #41564291
Great points. We're pattern-matching shortcut machines, without a doubt. In most contexts, not even good ones. > When I go to the doctor, I don't study medicine first, I trust the …
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Comment #41564014
Every time I read "stochastic parrot," my always-deterministic human brain surfaces this quote: > “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their l…
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Comment #41533184
This. Em dashes are—as punctuation goes—downright sexy, so I committed shift+opt+- to muscle memory long ago. And it's arguably less work than a bucked-toothed double hyphen. Btw, …
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Comment #41407954
:clown + :pointright + ?! (Surely, you jest?!)
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Comment #37436959
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Comment #37368048
Location: American living in Espirito Santo, Brazil (with residency) Remote: Preferably Willing to relocate: Never say never Technologies: HTML, CSS, Tailwind, Svelte, JS, Python, …
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Comment #36665031
Trite and rehashed groupthink—marketing garbage at its finest. But you should still write. As should every other human being, vocational identity notwithstanding.
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Comment #36664940
> Sums up 94.7% of the internet. Fixed.
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Comment #36664906
I'm still in the early stages of learning how to code, but I've started doing something similar to help me get into the right mental state. As someone with severe ADHD, it takes se…
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Comment #36438684
The test states at the end that dogmatism is measured based on the answers to a subset of the questions—the game is simply a correlate.
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Comment #36429140
Likewise interested and exploring the same area.