jonahrd

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by jonahrd 1mo ago
There are definitely downsides to office work, but this post really implies to me that you don't actually personally know anyone who works in the trades. The amount of body pain/damage, extreme conditions, and ridiculous schedulin
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by jonahrd 1mo ago
Am I crazy if for something like an online purchase, I kind of expect it to take a second or two to process the payment, so I would assume something went wrong if it was 200ms?
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by jonahrd 2mo ago
What about the fact that "What is the weird band from the early 2000s in Michigan who wore colored ties?" could be a bar trivia question (challenging enough to recall to be fun), while "Who are Tally Hall?" could not
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by jonahrd 4mo ago
I overall agree with this article. I was mostly raised in the US but spent time from ages 7-9 in Finland, where I took the metro to school alone, so I see myself reflected in this statistic: > For example, in Finland, the majority of 7 y
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by jonahrd 5mo ago
I looked through and found one rejected video from Montreal. It's crazy to me, to reject someone with a French accent. It's how people talk here! Many consider themselves perfectly bilingual and grew up speaking both languages. Ev
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by jonahrd 5mo ago
Can you explain to me what it means to try to get the traffic light to change on Bush street? I tried searching for it but couldn't find anything.
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by jonahrd 7mo ago
I disagree, Greta Thunberg's whole thing started in 2018, leading to larger and larger climate protests and action globally... ..until about 2020, with COVID/russia-ukraine/Oct 7/trumps re-election following and burying
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by jonahrd 7mo ago
I'm not so sure I agree. To me it's somewhat magical that I can write even this amount of code and have this stuff just magically work on pretty much every platform via docker, the web platform, etc. Maybe this again is me havin
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by jonahrd 7mo ago
I agree with your comment. While reading the article, I had sympathy for the author, but also unintendedly pictured them as a mix of all of the "wizard" seniors I have worked with over the years. These are the type of people who w
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by jonahrd 7mo ago
I might be able to shine a little light on this. I came from embedded, where I wasn't able to use agents very effectively for anything other than quick round trip iterative stuff. They were still really useful, but I definitely could n
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by jonahrd 7mo ago
Dear author, I suggest trying out a job in a niche part of the field like firmware/embedded. Bonus if it's a company with a bunch of legacy devices to maintain. AI just hasn't quite grokked it there yet and thinking still rei
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by jonahrd 8mo ago
I think you misunderstood GP's point, that it's now the _influencers_ and social media stars who are shaping culture. Not Hollywood or its stars.
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by jonahrd 9mo ago
this became extremely apparent for me watching Adam Curtis's "Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone" series. The series documents what it was like to live in the USSR during the fall of communism and (cheekily added) democracy. It was
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by jonahrd 9mo ago
I found an interesting bug: https://webpiano.jcurcioconsulting.com/play/fvT2WvzCT1SybhNp... If I'm playing a quick pattern like this and holding down some bass note, depending on where the pattern starts, the mi
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by jonahrd 9mo ago
I'm a much more auditory/visual learner, so these videos work really great for me. I'm glad that reading works for you!
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by jonahrd 9mo ago
yeah I'm not gonna open some paid trail map or buy a paper map so I can walk across my local city park and give my friends a pin to find me...
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by jonahrd 10mo ago
Yes, people can and do recreationally take GHB quite often. (also commonly used in date rape cases) The same can be said for MDMA, and others
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by jonahrd 10mo ago
Well.. deer, for one. It's much easier to spot animals crossing the road with bright headlights than without. I still also agree headlights are too bright, by the way, but I'm just providing an example for your question
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by jonahrd 11mo ago
That would be 300 micrograms
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by jonahrd 1y ago
The author lives in quite a bubble if he thinks people would be excited to fund this kind of research. People want to be able to afford the cost of living, not fund extraterrestrial research. (I'm saying this as someone who would be ex
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by jonahrd 1y ago
I found it incredibly confusing to read the following: > Once the federal government gets into the business of allowing free speech, it can define what’s allowable free speech. And you need only look at our northern neighbor or our frien
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by jonahrd 1y ago
I know this is super late and nobody will likely see it, but the population of Quebec + Ottawa together is 18% of the population of Montreal + Toronto. And the amount of track to connect the 4 cities together is double the simple Montreal-T
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by jonahrd 1y ago
this is actually exactly what has been happening over the past few decades, and with the current proposal, for HSR from Toronto to Montreal, two of the largest cities in terms of both population and economy in Canada. Ottawa felt excluded,
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by jonahrd 2y ago
This is because the T is not a "real" transit system in the way that it's simply not designed to move enough people fast enough to compete with cars.
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by jonahrd 2y ago
The game truly doesn't function without stakes. With no bets, the only stakes are losing your entire stack and not being able to play, so it pushes the game very early on into all-in territory. With small sums ($5), it's too easy
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by jonahrd 2y ago
I used a string of KaiOS devices mostly as my primary device from ~2017-2023. I loved the battery life, the lack of distraction, the size and portability. I liked KaiOS because I could still chat via Facebook, Whatsapp, check email, maps, w
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by jonahrd 2y ago
I don't mean to be nitpicky, but you specified the difference between a theoretical impossibility and an engineering impossibility in your parent comment. I assume the reply is just referring to the fact that technically getting to a s
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by jonahrd 3y ago
Wait but driving cars is pretty much the classic example of how learning to use tools can become an "extension" of our visual, motor, spacial perception. It's why a new driver feels so uneasy while a seasoned driver can almos
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by jonahrd 3y ago
There's an interesting dichotomy: As a single user, you must assume that anything you upload to the Internet will be there forever, because anyone can download a copy and maintain it. This means users need to be careful about privacy-s
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by jonahrd 3y ago
I absolutely understand why NVIDIA is incentivized to maintain CUDA dominance, and I absolutely understand that within these market parameters, AMD/Intel/others have dropped the ball. However it's worth noting that in the end

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