ABraidotti

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by ABraidotti 2y ago
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://phys.org/news/2024-10-m
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by ABraidotti 2y ago
This reminds me- I gotta go back and reread Borges's short stories with ML theory in mind.
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by ABraidotti 2y ago
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 like a blogger who also writes script treatments but doe
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by ABraidotti 2y ago
I did not expect to read such a great story in this thread. Thanks for taking the time to write that. It was great.
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by ABraidotti 2y ago
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 extremely online--edgelord morality prevailed.
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by ABraidotti 2y ago
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=vm5jk2RadxU
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by ABraidotti 2y ago
The Corporate Memphis of AI models. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis
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by ABraidotti 2y ago
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 days a week but not five.
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by ABraidotti 2y ago
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 saw earlier AND I believe in developing tha
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by ABraidotti 2y ago
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 have that. But I do like giving books a
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by ABraidotti 2y ago
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."
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by ABraidotti 2y ago
Interesting. I just found his channel. What does he lie about? Factual stuff or MS history?
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by ABraidotti 2y ago
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 life partner and a chance to send your DNA to the future
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by ABraidotti 2y ago
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 is British!
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by ABraidotti 2y ago
I think you mean perpetual license, unless you really do mean a license that covers the clitoris or penis.
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Ask HN: What are good documentation metrics?
2 points by ABraidotti 3y ago|1 comments
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by ABraidotti 3y ago
Or accidentally let something egregious happen under his watch and then tried to cover it up, like a data compliance violation
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by ABraidotti 3y ago
Yes!! Chubby Emu is excellent.
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by ABraidotti 4y ago
> 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 monthly AWS accountability meetings. "Who owns this a
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by ABraidotti 4y ago
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.
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by ABraidotti 4y ago
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." He wrote it in the early 20th century. Presently,
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by ABraidotti 4y ago
Your conclusion exemplifies the essay's argument that we pick facts that confirm our most compelling narrative.
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by ABraidotti 4y ago
> 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 of national literary identification with skepti
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by ABraidotti 4y ago
> Elves are almost eugenetically born all the same Elves are fictive and have a long literary history--mostly publicized by white Europeans. Originally, they were described as evil creatures who infected people with diseases. Tolkien ste
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by ABraidotti 4y ago
Never heard of this guy, but I LOVE Breece Pancake's stories. Just read the first few pages of Waiting for Nothing, and I'm hooked. Thanks for posting this.
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by ABraidotti 4y ago
This reminded me-- years ago, I ran into an old high school friend and asked him what he had been up to. He had gotten into graphic design and wound up partnering with a couple of guys who had a recording studio. They had a niche product an
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by ABraidotti 4y ago
To each their own! Before switching to app development, I was an English teacher. I moved several times with a ton of books and art and objects, but that shit is a bear to move with. So I gradually winnowed it all down to just a couple book
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by ABraidotti 4y ago
My wife and I learned on manuals and thought it would be fun to return to one for our car, back in 2013. Well, it was fun for a few years, but then I switched jobs, and my daily commute had regular bumper to bumper traffic. That sucked the
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Ask HN: Effects of antidepressants/antianxyolitics on your code output?
3 points by ABraidotti 4y ago|1 comments
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by ABraidotti 4y ago
Not with that attitude! I once got bedbugs at a hostel in Argentina. They were kind (?) enough to refund my money, but then I was left uncomfortably itchy and roomless. Plus I was freaked out that there might be bedbugs in my clothes and ba

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