shoopadoop

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by shoopadoop 15d ago
https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/gen-z-cheating-homework-schoo... Higher homework scores, but _substantially_ worse test results. About what you'd expect, right? Friction is important for learning. Make th
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by shoopadoop 15d ago
The $22M ballroom donation was a pretty sweet deal. https://patriot.university/knowledge-base/organizations/org-... "$22 million ballroom contribution — the largest single documented amount from any corporate
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by shoopadoop 15d ago
I like to buy raw pecans in bulk from Costco for cheap, lightly roast the nuts in the air fryer for several minutes, and then chop them and add them into the oats. Great delicate flavors and aromas that can't be replicated with shelf-
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by shoopadoop 17d ago
In France it is still "most doctors". They hand out benzos like candy there.
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by shoopadoop 21d ago
"Prolonged" is not a long time either. You can be ensnared after just a couple weeks. And even a safe taper is still pretty hellish. I had to wean off Klonopin, prescribed for a bout of COVID induced insomnia. Only on it for a mon
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by shoopadoop 23d ago
It's dishonest. On several occasions team members have asked Claude to do things like analyze Gitlab CI timings and a lot of the numbers are outright fabricated. Said team members assume the numbers are good and continue with their wor
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by shoopadoop 24d ago
Lawl, that's rich -- the buildout happened under his watch.
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by shoopadoop 26d ago
Well said. It's a psychological defense mechanism to cope with the anxiety of their existence. It makes no sense because it comes from the amygdala.
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by shoopadoop 26d ago
You can make a crummy TUI like you can make a crummy GUI...
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by shoopadoop 26d ago
Huh? Check out the Twitter feeds of your favorite Republican or Republican-aligned personalities. It's racial or nationalistic dog whistles all day every day.
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by shoopadoop 26d ago
Tariffs have been hell for marina renovation work I'm associated with. Things paid for well in advance have exploded way past their budgets thanks to all the raw material costing so much more. Thanks to Trump. Even the MAGA folks I hav
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by shoopadoop 26d ago
Modern TUIs aren't like the form-based TUIs of yesteryear, though! They're wannabe window managers.
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by shoopadoop 27d ago
Check out the Downs-Thomson paradox.
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by shoopadoop 27d ago
In my experience AI coding is often about making lots of additive changes without a lot of (or any) thinking in advance. Not sure how either of those things are conducive to performance
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by shoopadoop 3mo ago
Also, are these actions the expression of a coherent set of values?
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by shoopadoop 3mo ago
Her real boss is probably thrilled.
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by shoopadoop 4mo ago
Oh yeah. You can bang out your inputs so fast and with so much confidence on those keys.
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by shoopadoop 4mo ago
It's an obstacle when hiring people who are currently enjoying stable employment. Probably fine for juniors, but not for experienced people with families and whatnot.
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by shoopadoop 4mo ago
Musk wants all the money, but at the same time he also says that money is passe and that you don't need to worry about retirement in the upcoming era of Amazing Abundance(TM)
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by shoopadoop 4mo ago
You want to play some old classic games so you spend five days getting a Raspberry Pi set up just right with Retroarch and then when it's setup just right you do something else.
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by shoopadoop 4mo ago
For me everything moist smelled like seaweed. I could smell fats (e.g. a grilled steak) but anything vaporous just smelled like the sea. Even diesel cars smelled like low tide. Ugh!
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by shoopadoop 4mo ago
Please send me some gum
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by shoopadoop 4mo ago
It sure feels that way.
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by shoopadoop 4mo ago
The massive, destabilizing layoffs feel like AI psychosis to me.
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by shoopadoop 4mo ago
And so what, if the datacenters render the place uninhabitable? Even if its budget is in the black the county sounds awful to live in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAliBRyq_1c Look how close all these shrieking buildings
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by shoopadoop 5mo ago
Overwhelming abundance makes things boring. Just think of how you own ALL the games for your emulators and how it actually makes it hard to focus on actually playing them.
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by shoopadoop 5mo ago
You can replace references to "gay" to "Christian". and it works just as well. I think it's simply the role playing aspect that escapes the guard rails.