throwforfeds

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by throwforfeds 14d ago
> Speaking only for myself, I was fully remote for a few years and that was a miserable experience. Just out of curiosity, what did you find miserable about it? I've been working remote since 2008 and just have no desire to ever be
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by throwforfeds 21d ago
Not sure why the down votes, having even just a simple bidet sprayer attachment is strictly better than toilet paper. It's not even close.
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by throwforfeds 23d ago
This made me super nostalgic as well. I've lived in NYC for 20 years, but spent a ton of time in SF early in my career (starting in 2008). I love NYC, but I've been sort of feeling like a change lately and this made me feel like s
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by throwforfeds 27d ago
> How would you know what the characters in Pride and Prejudice are worried about if you don't know how that society is? I remember when I was a senior in (public) high school they created a two period class for one of the earlier g
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by throwforfeds 27d ago
I was having a Slack convo with a dev on another team a month ago as I had a question about that system's support for OTEL, and it became clear really quick that I was just having a convo with an LLM proxied through this person. It was
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by throwforfeds 2mo ago
Oh yeah, absolutely. There were tons here in Brooklyn as well, probably because you could pick up a DX7 or a Juno for a few hundred dollars. No one wanted them. I remember one guy gave me a Wurlitzer 200 for free when I went to pickup a Rho
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by throwforfeds 2mo ago
I'm only just now realizing that Beach House [1] might also have picked up on that synth aesthetic because the lead singer's father is French and she was in Paris for school in the early 2000s before coming back to the states to g
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by throwforfeds 2mo ago
Water that's coming out of your tap is generally aiming for neutral (~7 ph). The alkaline waters in the store are using minerals to elevate it into probably the 9s. Like many hippie health trends that then go mainstream, a lot of it se
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by throwforfeds 2mo ago
I also drink a lot of water (always have). I also train Muay Thai and am in my 40s, which means an hour of 1:1 with my trainer would just leave me ridiculously tired. I started supplementing with creatine and immediately it was evident that
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by throwforfeds 2mo ago
I've never owned a car since I live in NYC (I'm in my 40s), so the only transportation numbers I'm vaguely familiar with are with the subway. The MTA budget has gone way up over the past 50 years [1] and the cost to build the
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by throwforfeds 2mo ago
I hadn't been out to a dark sky in years so I went out to a deep part of Joshua Tree (Bortle 2-3) one night not too long ago just to see some stars. Wow, I was not expecting that many Starlinks up there.
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by throwforfeds 2mo ago
Sure, but it appears as if the LLM just doesn't understand dancing and rhythm. I don't know why, but an old music video by the band Jungle came to mind -- just a kid dancing, and while it definitely cost more than $100 I'm su
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by throwforfeds 3mo ago
Yeah, I bought an ErgoDox EZ and tried to get used to the ortholinear layout, but after a couple weeks things just still felt off. It's been in my closet for years now. This UHK looks really interesting though, thanks!
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by throwforfeds 3mo ago
I've seen a lot of friends and family members almost immediately get offered surgery for shoulder pain. It's just often the default for people that do surgeries for a living. I also had a pretty painful shoulder issue at one point
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by throwforfeds 3mo ago
I haven't seen showtime on the subway here in NYC in a long time. And even when it happened more often, they generally would dance for all of one stop before moving to the next train car. So, what, like ~3 minutes of your commute? Much
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by throwforfeds 3mo ago
Were apartments $300/month in the deep suburbs of cities though? Because I'm always surprised to hear my parents tell me rents for 1 bedrooms in the place I grew up in outside of Boston are in the $2-2.5k range (confirmed just now
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by throwforfeds 4mo ago
I'm also wondering what effect it'll have on all the people that have been declaring their primary residence in Florida for tax purposes yet actually live up here in NYC a good amount of the time. My neighborhood in Brooklyn is fi
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by throwforfeds 4mo ago
FTA: "Although paying for excess hours can cost less than hiring new cops, overtime contributes to future pension costs. “If your last few years before you retire, you work 300, 400 hours of overtime and bump up your pay by $40,000, th
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by throwforfeds 4mo ago
At least here in NYC, a large part of a NYPD officer's pension is calculated based on a 3-year look back from their retirement date, so there is a huge incentive to work as much overtime as possible in order to bump that number in your
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by throwforfeds 4mo ago
Now do parking
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by throwforfeds 4mo ago
For sure, and if I'd ever need to use Python I'd want to strictly enforce that across my team (pre-commit hooks or whatever).
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by throwforfeds 4mo ago
> Code readability of Python isn't an advantage during write; it's an advantage while reviewing. This is completely subjective though. I personally find that Python's lack of static types makes code very difficult to reaso
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by throwforfeds 4mo ago
There's not a lot, unfortunately. This paper is a literature review and the claims are weak, but there's something there that should be investigated further: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12392120&#
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by throwforfeds 4mo ago
For sure, and lions mane is one of the three things Paul Stamets has been talking about for years to take in combination with niacin and psilocybin (microdose) to support neurogenesis. Low doses of psilocybin have only very mild perceptual
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by throwforfeds 4mo ago
There's (minimal) research on psilocybin doing just that. One of the tragedies of prohibition is that we just weren't able to study these psychedelic compounds easily for 50+ years.
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by throwforfeds 4mo ago
American productions constantly feel like they think their audience are idiots these days. It's nice to watch a European production where they don't assume their viewers are going to also be doom-scrolling and feel the need to sum
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by throwforfeds 4mo ago
We've had decades to do something about it, but if Trump deciding to step into a completely unnecessary war and blundering the entire thing is what makes everyone wake up then I guess that's a silver lining.
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by throwforfeds 5mo ago
There's a long history of doing yogic practice in the dream state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_yoga
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by throwforfeds 5mo ago
But Brooklyn is an old city that's hard to wire, unlike those new Italian cities... /s
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by throwforfeds 5mo ago
And here I am sitting in Brooklyn and haven't had one apartment that has had fiber as an option. I get to pay Spectrum $90/month for "400/20" and in reality get 100/10.

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