aworks

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by aworks 4d ago
My dad put electrical tape over the check engine light in my car...
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by aworks 5d ago
Hah. I read that as pressing the "Digital Clown."
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by aworks 8d ago
Hardly any losses except for the violent deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis over a decade.
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by aworks 23d ago
Which reminds me of being at the SFO baggage claim. A security dog went straight for a person's bag. The security officer opened it up and found an old, stale sandwich. The person said they had forgotten their mother had stashed it
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by aworks 1mo ago
I'm retired now but it never occurred to me the vocational languages I enjoyed most were all respectable or false starts (or obscure): FORTRAN, Pascal, Icon, Ada, Tcl. And in hindsight, I only grudgingly accepted the immortals, althoug
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ChatGPT Knows Who It'll Recommend Before It Searches(suganthan.com)
23 points by aworks 1mo ago|6 comments
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by aworks 3mo ago
This mentions a piece by the guitarist Michael Hedges, dedicated to the minimalist composer Steve Reich. Interesting...
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'This Is Not Financial Advice'(noemamag.com)
3 points by aworks 3mo ago|0 comments
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Stochastic Parrots on the Palatine Hill: Monday MAMLMs(braddelong.substack.com)
3 points by aworks 4mo ago|0 comments
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by aworks 4mo ago
Excessive prompts as ceremony. That's an interesting idea.
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The Rage of the Billionaires Is Coming(thebignewsletter.com)
38 points by aworks 4mo ago|24 comments
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by aworks 4mo ago
It would also be an interesting job, even if off the beaten track. As a hiring manager, if I saw this on a resume interspersed with various web development work, I would be intrigued.
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by aworks 4mo ago
That's fair.
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by aworks 4mo ago
"Chat is a terrible UX General use needs ‘apps’" I'm old so my computer career has gone: punch cards => calculators => command-line => GUI => touch screen => voice => chat. Chat seems to be the best blend of
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by aworks 4mo ago
I hope Peter Zeihan lives a long life.
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by aworks 4mo ago
The three surprises for me: NV/Tagalog, AL/Korean, KY/German. The first two are presumably recent immigration. Kentucky in particular surprises me despite my German ancestors settling in Indiana during the 19th Century. I ha
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by aworks 4mo ago
This is why John Cage's 4'33" mentioned above is genius. If you listen to the composition with sincerity and seriousness, you get the full, unadulterated (non-silent) experience as opposed to an interpretation.
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by aworks 4mo ago
Codex has used Power Shell, C# and Python and I[m mostly none the wiser. Ok.
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by aworks 4mo ago
Companies have a long history of mis-management of their acquisitions (and mis-managing their portfolio of projects outside their money-making expertise). As you suggest, it's good that the alumni seem to be doing fine, although Harry
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by aworks 4mo ago
I, an American, was on a business trip in Sweden then a holiday in Scotland. It was easier to understand the Swedes than the Scots...
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by aworks 4mo ago
I have a computer science degree yet continue to use Windows. Is it because I have 30 years of experiece knowing what to ignore?j I do also use WSL for the command-line.
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by aworks 4mo ago
I lived in Silicon Valley without a car for 2 years. Commuted between Palo Alto and Santa Clara by Caltrain commuter rail. Took the local bus system frequently. Rented a car occasionally. It can be done but it's not easy.
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Thomas Massie Has Always Been a Pain in the Ass(motherjones.com)
3 points by aworks 4mo ago|1 comments
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by aworks 4mo ago
"Even as a child, he had that engineer’s directness, an innate distrust of authority, and the gifted kid’s impatience with lesser mortals."
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by aworks 4mo ago
> only safe place to be Originating from 17th century persecution for their religous beliefs and practices. I can't speak of modern-day mistreatment of the group.
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by aworks 4mo ago
The Fourth Turning argues institutional effectiveness is cyclical and that the US is headeds towards the end of tearing down institutions versus building them up (and towards the end of focus on self versus community). This does assume the
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by aworks 4mo ago
I had a boss who took his notes on loose-leaf notebook paper and would weed the notebook frequently. He had been involved in litigation in the past.
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by aworks 4mo ago
I have 220k unread items in my feed reader.
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by aworks 4mo ago
I traveled to Wuhan twice a year for business for much of the last decade (until the pandemic). China was a growing country that clearly knew how to build infrastructure. In Wuhan, they built an entire development intended to employ 100,00
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by aworks 4mo ago
I forgot it was even a thing.

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