kevinmchugh

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by kevinmchugh 8d ago
I agree, with the caveat that it probably matters how novel the paper is, the effect size, and the confidence interval. A reputed new psychological phenomenon I'd be more skeptical of than, idk, a newly detected exoplanet. That alleged
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by kevinmchugh 18d ago
There's a few modernist cooking tricks that require small amounts - tenths of a gram - for big impacts. Sodium citrate can make any cheese melt beautifully into a smooth sauce, using something like 1% of the weight of the cheese. Any j
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by kevinmchugh 2mo ago
If a drug is compatible with a healthy social or productive lifestyle it would seem unreasonable to ban it. Danger of withdrawals might be a consideration. Caffeine is pretty safe. The withdrawals, for those of us who experience them, are s
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by kevinmchugh 2mo ago
That's my understanding. Decompilation is legally protected in the US, and you can do a reimplementation based on a decompilation. Sony v connectix is aiui the precedent. Theoretically you could clean room by having different agents&#x
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by kevinmchugh 3mo ago
JJ Abrams, Rian Johnson, Dave Filoni, Jon Favreau: all big Star Wars fans. Tony Gilroy is not!
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by kevinmchugh 3mo ago
It was remade in 2006
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by kevinmchugh 7mo ago
Dennis Rodman grew up overshadowed by his sisters' basketball skills, and then had some unheard of growth spurt of 8" after finishing high school. He hadn't even played much high school ball.
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by kevinmchugh 7mo ago
There's a story about, I think, the kickboxer/fighter Alistair Overeem that he was playing Connect 4, and lost, and kept demanding rematches until he had the winning record. Just a refusal to be the loser. That matches every story
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by kevinmchugh 8mo ago
We also have a treaty with Canada about the usage of water from the Great Lakes.
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by kevinmchugh 8mo ago
Higher rise pants help. I have a long torso and started buying higher rise pants for the aesthetic difference, but they also make me less concerned about a t shirt becoming a belly shirt
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by kevinmchugh 9mo ago
I occasionally forget to add a new file but don't mind it much. I consider it a significantly smaller problem than committing a file that shouldn't be. CI is gonna run and my tests are surely gonna fail if I didn't commit som
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by kevinmchugh 9mo ago
I almost exclusively use add -p. It's another moment to review my changes and it saves me from having to type out the names of the files I've changed. I don't know if I've ever committed a file unintentionally since adop
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by kevinmchugh 10mo ago
I went to Bentonville, Arkansas a few years ago. You'll see every major consumer packaged good company represented in the skyscrapers there, because Walmart is hq'd there. They want to have people close to Walmart, since Walmart i
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by kevinmchugh 10mo ago
You mean the casual sense of "innocence", but they are literally innocent in they they've not been convicted of the crime they were killed for allegedly committing.
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by kevinmchugh 11mo ago
Counterfeit Monkey is very high up on my favorite games of the 2010s: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl The puzzles are all excellent, the writing is remarkable, both for game and fiction.
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by kevinmchugh 11mo ago
Apple announced M5s recently, so these are the old chips.
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by kevinmchugh 11mo ago
Fun fact - there's no Boolean class in Ruby. True is an instance of TrueClass and false is an instance of FalseClass
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by kevinmchugh 11mo ago
Aiui the New Yorker has always been the most rigorous in its fact checking.
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by kevinmchugh 11mo ago
Reddit has an easy way to choose moderation, just stop going to the reddits that are poorly moderated.
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by kevinmchugh 1y ago
Yes - I call them "the other cake" demos
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by kevinmchugh 1y ago
I quit caffeine with no withdrawal symptoms by reducing my intake by 10% every day for 10 days. I weighed how much iced tea I drank on day 0, then had 90% of that on day 1. The last day was just a shot glass full. I probably picked the idea
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by kevinmchugh 1y ago
Well that's one hole plugged
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by kevinmchugh 1y ago
I saw this the other day: https://www.reddit.com/r/chicagofood/comments/1na3fer/commen... So some places are optimizing their fries for delivery. I've also noticed some restaurants are better at ada
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by kevinmchugh 1y ago
https://youtu.be/oqrtoFWglMY?si=dF70gTql9TwYi4iB
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by kevinmchugh 1y ago
In no particular order: LLMs seem, for some reason, to be worse at some languages than others. LLMs only have so much context available, so larger projects are harder to get good results in. Some tools (eg a fast compiler) are very useful t
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by kevinmchugh 1y ago
De minimis also impacts all goods, including those made by well-paid laborers and from countries that meet our exceed American labor standards.
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by kevinmchugh 1y ago
(Gen-Z/Millennial/Gen-X) This covers like sixty years?
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by kevinmchugh 1y ago
Yeah, I have a rule to tell the agent to not write to any of our OpenAPI specs, it reliably mangles them and then gets stuck trying to unmangle them. I get better results modifying the specs myself and using that as context for the agent so
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by kevinmchugh 1y ago
MAGOG, certainly.
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by kevinmchugh 1y ago
Magazines were so flush with cash that Vonnegut was paid $750 for his first story. That's unadjusted for inflation. I'm no expert, but I think a first time author getting $750 from a magazine would be doing pretty well these days.

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