fizzledbits

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by fizzledbits 5y ago
You should aspire to be merely useless since by your own admission, you're even less than that. Every one of your posts is some dumbass movie villain cliché - "who cares that I'm a scammer, everything's a scam, maann.&qu
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by fizzledbits 5y ago
That’s the spirit
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by fizzledbits 5y ago
Keep working hard and maybe one day you’ll be one of those upper echelon sociopaths.
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by fizzledbits 5y ago
Ah the meth dealer’s ethic: “I just sell the stuff, they choose to smoke it.”
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by fizzledbits 5y ago
Unless you want to be one of the deservedly despised faces of a future economic crisis, you might want to get out now.
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by fizzledbits 5y ago
No shit.
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by fizzledbits 5y ago
The charlatan also “predicted” we would achieve herd immunity in April 2020. https://www.wsj.com/articles/well-have-herd-immunity-by-apri... His Twitter feed is a cesspool of motivated reasoning. Lazy people posting cr
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by fizzledbits 5y ago
Please explain why it is a straw horse.
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by fizzledbits 6y ago
It’s a false choice. Without a shutdown, do you think everyone will just start going back to restaurants? Will all businesses bring everyone back, filling up the elevators? The purpose of shutdown is to drive absolute case numbers low enoug
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by fizzledbits 7y ago
Ah, I hadn’t thought of the journaling idea. I do try to start and end my day with brief/debrief note taking to create more continuity in my intentions and memory, but that doesn’t address other sources of anxiety in between. Thanks ve
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by fizzledbits 7y ago
Much the same experience here, including the difficulty with memory which I find to be the most insidious thing. What have you found helps it, if you don't mind me asking?
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by fizzledbits 7y ago
I saw this in person yesterday at Siggraph and it works perfectly. No perceptible flickering, fully opaque images (when the alpha mask is on), cap touch, good color fidelity. It’s a simple, terrific idea.
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by fizzledbits 7y ago
I still don’t understand the derision. An athlete is indeed a useful analog. They speak of ‘winning,’ but we tend to assume they mean ‘be the best at the sport,’ not ‘be the most valuable human being’ or ‘dominate other people’, a sentiment
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by fizzledbits 7y ago
I used an ESP8266 and not the Pi for this, but a really really great m/c project is a wireless fan controller for a smoker or kamado (big green egg-style) grill. I made mine from scratch as an learning exercise, but here’s a similar pr
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by fizzledbits 7y ago
If I hadn’t started this startup and had time, I would want to start making this right now
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by fizzledbits 7y ago
When athletes speak in a competitive tone and express a desire to win, does it offend you?
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by fizzledbits 7y ago
> “I think the downvotes (that's what gray means right?) are people's way of saying that the personal narrative that defines your life is so boring that your job is the only place you can achieve feelings like that. I feel bad
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by fizzledbits 7y ago
I’ve said this before in another thread, that it baffles me how so many people in this community, who I presume are terribly rigorous about their degrees of certainty with various technical matters at work, nevertheless know exactly what e
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by fizzledbits 7y ago
To my mind that isn’t a meaningful distinction. If an artist is doing no harm, and is meanwhile enthralled by his work and his individual notions of beauty or truth or excellence, then I admire his vitality. I don’t know what OP does, but I
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by fizzledbits 7y ago
Most of us admire artists and musicians who have totally devoted themselves to their craft, and we don’t condescendingly pity their “unhealthy work life balance”. My hero growing up was Feynman, who was doing physics every waking hour (or s
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by fizzledbits 7y ago
I and my closet colleagues have the same attitude and can’t exactly say where it comes from. I feel incredibly lucky that my work is capable of fascinating me, and I want to become as good at it as I’m capable of being. A big part of that i
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by fizzledbits 7y ago
I had a similar experience until I realized how many other hobbies exist among friends and family that I could apply the knowledge to. I worked with my brother and cousin to add “push to” functionality to their homebuilt telescopes using IC
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by fizzledbits 7y ago
I think it’s a safe assumption that driver alertness positively correlates with lives saved. But it’s hard to market this product with the sort of rhetoric that would optimize for that, so they’ve found a few ways to console themselves as
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by fizzledbits 7y ago
Let’s withdraw the Nobel from Einstein while we’re at it.
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by fizzledbits 8y ago
As of this morning, I am still unable to reliably start my docker+machine autoscaling instances. In all cases the error is "Error: The zone <my project> does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request" An ins
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by fizzledbits 8y ago
same here as well, my us-central1 instance still will not boot
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by fizzledbits 8y ago
As of this morning, I am still unable to reliably start my docker+machine autoscaling instances. In all cases the error is "Error: The zone <my project> does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request" An ins
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by fizzledbits 8y ago
As of this morning, I am still unable to reliably start my docker+machine autoscaling instances. In all cases the error is "Error: The zone <my project> does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request" An
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by fizzledbits 8y ago
Some feedback: I have a project containing a large (multiple MB) text file. Running Ubuntu 18.04. When there is a change to that file, Sublime Merge's UI becomes fairly unresponsive, with many actions taking multiple seconds to complet
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by fizzledbits 8y ago
I work with emscripten and webgl and this looks like a fantastic tool for optimization in particular. Really looking forward to using it. Thank you!

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