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by cmpalmer52 5mo ago
Would this work for fragile shells and things like sand dollar “skeletons”? I usually use thinned white glue, but it’s less than ideal.
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by cmpalmer52 8mo ago
As much as we’d like to say “Make me a website that does X, Y, and Z” and then taking a nap, I’ve found breaking it down is best, even if each step is done by AI. I started with just ChatGPT for the preliminaries. I wrote a description, loo
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by cmpalmer52 8mo ago
I used the Junie AI coding agent by JetBrains with Claude and ChatGPT engines to create a utility web page and service to track PRs by devs across multiple repos and tied to our ticketing system. I did it as an experiment with my constraint
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by cmpalmer52 8mo ago
There is no “social” media anymore, there’s just algorithmic feeds of dubious news, memes, ads, AI generated content (and AI generated ads), promoted content, and short form videos by people you don’t know. You have to really dig to keep up
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by cmpalmer52 9mo ago
I just moved to a house with a barely finished basement. White walls, white painted floor, exposed ceiling joists and ductwork painted black. I’m experimenting with cheap projectors and lighting effects (using clamps to attach to the joists
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by cmpalmer52 10mo ago
It would help you if I were doing the interview…
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by cmpalmer52 10mo ago
Only if the goal is to run the result and never have to update it or add features. Several of the good test projects I’ve made from scratch with AI (my title at work needs to be “Speaker to Silicon” because I’m usually tasked with experimen
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by cmpalmer52 10mo ago
I haven’t done any serious web coding in years, so when I needed a little web page dashboard, I thought I’d do it 100% vibe coded. Problem statement: We have four major repos spanning two different Azure DevOps servers/instances/t
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by cmpalmer52 1y ago
My rule is that if other human beings eat something for pleasure (and not out of desperation, a dare, or to show off), then I should at least try it a few times as long as I don’t have ethical qualms about it.
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by cmpalmer52 1y ago
I tried salted licorice. Granted, I don’t really like sweet licorice, or anise, or fennel, or any of the liquors that use that flavoring, but I tolerate them. The salted licorice was the worst thing I’d ever tasted. So I bought a whole bag
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by cmpalmer52 1y ago
With me, it has been story/novel ideas. The AI is a genuinely useful tool for brainstorming through ideas and giving historical and scientific background. I don’t let it write the stories, but I throw ideas at it and it riffs on the id
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by cmpalmer52 1y ago
Just an anecdote, but back in college, I had an algorithms professor who gave us a classifier problem like the square and triangle boundary problem. His English was poor and nobody understood the problem as he stated it. I got an okay score
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by cmpalmer52 1y ago
WDE! I remember calling the Foy desk one night (this would have been late 80’s) because someone at a party said “It says Crun-chy” in a Paul Lynde voice and we couldn’t remember the name of the rat from Charlotte’s Web (Templeton).
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
Reminds me of the time I turned myself into a Van de Graff generator at work. I was a theater projectionist, back when you had 20 minute reels you had to constantly change, while babysitting two high-voltage, water-cooled, carbon arc projec
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
Yeah, completely automatic DMing just makes it like an open-ended computer game. On the other hand, the AI generated NPC responses are better than I could have come up with quickly, which makes me think co-DMing with an AI partner might be
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
I think this last election has confirmed that.
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
I don’t think it would have an impact great enough to explain the discrepancies you saw, but some chess engines on very low difficulty settings make “dumb” moves sometimes. I’m not great at chess and I have trouble against them sometimes be
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
I found the audiobook to be a superior experience to reading the book as well. It think PHM is an excellent primer on that type of SF for someone who hasn’t read something like it before. My daughter, who never reads hard SF, loved the audi
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
I read Solaris years ago and was unimpressed. The philosophy and science’ish elements were poorly described and it felt like a lit-fic attempt at trippy SF by someone ignorant of the genre. Then, a year or two ago, I read about how bad the
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
It just completed filming, coming out in 2026.
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
I am a professional writer (in the sense that I have published short stories that were paid for, even though it is a hobby). Recently, my wife was participating in an event where she had to portray an historical figure and she had a fact sh
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
Damn, that article was interesting, but too hard to read on my phone with the ads jerking it around.
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
The Grep Console plugin for JetBrains IDEs lets you do this.
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
I use a plugin called Grep Console in my JetBrains Rider IDE. It lets you auto highlight, color, or play a sound when certain regular expressions are found in the log output. So I set it to play an 8-bit sounding “thump” sound whenever it
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
So, one LLM is hooked up to sound and vision and can understand speech. It is directed to “free associate” an output which is fed to another AI. When you ask it things, the monitoring AI evaluates the truthfulness, helpfulness, and ability
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
Yes, we see that, too, in the natural gas industry. The old engineering guys are retiring and being replaced by technicians who can implement a design, but not design something new. One of the reasons our firm provides engineering services
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
A friend of mine is a wonderful musician who never “made it”, but continues to play bars and restaurants and small venues weekly, as he has for 30+ years. He’s done some session work as well. Another friend said he feels bad for him because
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
Learned the basics in college. Refined my skills writing Perl utilities.
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
Sorry for the late response. It may have been culture brainwashing, but we definitely felt more of an ownership vibe. We awaited the periodic valuations that the ESOP share price was based on and the process seemed relatively transparent. A
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
There was an AI picture someone made of a typical person from Huntsville, Alabama. It showed an ~60 yo guy with glasses and a NASA shirt. Someone on the local subReddit said, “You’re looking at the world expert on the maximum bend radii of

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