britzkopf

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by britzkopf 4mo ago
Funny that you're accusation of snark was not without snark itself. I'll take your word on it for the level of discretion on some public building, though I would have thought/hoped that whimsy would play no more role than a
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by britzkopf 4mo ago
What is the alternative to buildings? Outdoor schools, factories and dental offices?
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by britzkopf 5mo ago
> And before anyone accuses me of being some "vibe coder", I've built five nines active-active money rails that move billions of dollars a day at 50kqps+, amongst lots of other hard hitting platform engineering work. Serio
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by britzkopf 11mo ago
Every time I try to get some handle on the essence of this topic I fail. No different here. In the second paragraph it defines manifolds as "... shapes that look flat to an ant living on them, even though they might have a more complic
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by britzkopf 11mo ago
So another strategy to do well might include tempting your classmates to distraction or perhaps offering to "help" them but in fact feed them misinformation? Got it.
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by britzkopf 11mo ago
I was a customer facing employee for a company whose underhanded policies caused me to face a lot of (legitimate) hostility. I eventually quit for this reason, and I know at least one other employee who did. That company lost two otherwise
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by britzkopf 1y ago
Great, this is a universal solution. Let's all make it an integral part of our digital security, and in 5 years or so hope that bitwarden doesn't leverage it!
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by britzkopf 1y ago
Framing is skilled, but landscaping and pest control are unskilled? Are you living in a well framed house overrun with mice and a terrible yard? I've done some framing. With a communicative foreman and a straightforward building desig
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by britzkopf 1y ago
"latent mental illness" sounds like a tagline for the human condition.
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by britzkopf 2y ago
Who the hell, in today's market, is going to hire an engineer with a tenuous grasp on foundational technological systems, with the hope that one day they will backfill?!
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by britzkopf 2y ago
How does this rule get circumvented?
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by britzkopf 2y ago
In Canada, there is no longer any special wage below the minimum for servers. They receive the same minimum as many other blue collar workers. It's over, there is no longer any reasonable argument for tipping servers but not a whole h
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by britzkopf 2y ago
Yeah, normies suck. I totally only want to hear from people obsessed with the latest computer Science minutia!
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by britzkopf 2y ago
Get enough researchers to train their metaphorical microscopes on it and it's interaction with any dimension of human biology for long enough and I have to think the answer will eventually be no.
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by britzkopf 2y ago
I've often wondered if it having a reputation as being hard is accurate. Not necessarily because of syntax etc. but because of you don't already have a grounding in programming/engineering/comp sci. it can be difficult t
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by britzkopf 2y ago
That actually points to the problem I have with it. I don't think many jazz lovers would balk at reference to a performance as a "jazz performance" without a specification of which one of its subvariants (which by the way are
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by britzkopf 2y ago
Whoa there. I've not done the polling but I suspect most EDM consumers think of themselves as music lovers the same way other people like jazz etc. I tend more to agree with your assessment that the vast majority of it is not in the sa
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by britzkopf 2y ago
Zero? Doesn't seem a very good faith assessment of the concept proposed.
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by britzkopf 3y ago
It's for a similar reason that I find eReaders to be so disappointing. I have no interest in color or other aesthetic innovations, but I'm very interested in speed . I feel they have yet to reach some threshold such that I can co
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by britzkopf 3y ago
But if we accept the mathematics of poker are not that complicated, then are those other skills not highly generalizable to any job requiring extraordinary insight into human behaviour?
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by britzkopf 3y ago
I've had a very long standing debate with friends about the nature of poker. I'm neither a statistician, game theorist, nor mathematician so I'm very open to being corrected. My intuition having played recreationally is that
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by britzkopf 3y ago
Can't be that old. I had bed bugs in 2012 I believe. I bought some of the recommended insecticide and sprayed a small perimeter and released a couple that I had captured into the middle. They then crawled outward and I was shocked how
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by britzkopf 3y ago
Having recently listened to the freakonomics episode on the same thing I'm mystified by something that podcast and this article do. They state that they're is an estimated 2% of bunk papers or there but then also that they are &qu
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by britzkopf 3y ago
I've bad hay fever, for which an allergist prescribed corticosteroid nasal spray. When I told him I didn't want to take it until allergy season because of dependence, he told me that's not a problem and the drug will work bet
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by britzkopf 3y ago
I'd agree, but then the number of people that I meet who are otherwise intelligent and thoughtful, but have a casual, uncritical belief in the ability for Elon Musk to lead humanity forward on multiple fronts is shocking. Have you eve
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by britzkopf 3y ago
If Steven Pinker is reprehensible, what kind of adjectives do you bust out for actual villains?
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by britzkopf 3y ago
Was this like a puzzling garden path sentence to anyone else?
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by britzkopf 3y ago
> Just some combination of lazy, greedy, and ignorant. In other words, very standard human behaviour, irrespective of any racial considerations.
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by britzkopf 3y ago
What's the most parsimonious take. 1) at the inception of ubiquitous photography there was a path of equipment development that allowed for equal quality images of any skin tone, but those in charge spitefully decided they didn't
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by britzkopf 3y ago
"Cannot be successfully photographed" Um... What? I may not be a professional photographer, so perhaps there are some color correction nuances I'm not detecting, but I've been seeing pictures of very dark skinned people

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