@neurobashing It's DC style tech interviewing. You'd crush it. More likely problem is if we'd be able to afford you. (If you did want to pass a whiz quiz, you could get a remote job in California & triple your salary)
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@neurobashing 100% remote, gov't stuff, we're always hiring
What's gonna happen with the US budget at the end of the month?
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- Last minute agreement11 votes
- Shutdown for 1 months2 votes
- Shutdown 2 months5 votes
- Join Canada & ask them to make a budget10 votes
28 voters
@joshbelville@pdx.social By following you, of course.
How to make spaghetti (code)
`pasta.stringify()`
OpenTofu to restore Terraform to opensource status.
Speak of timelines on the verge of Apocalypse, like Lamentis, Loki Season 2 is happening Oct 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfdcIlMptvA
56% percent chance of gov't shutdown this month. Congressmen telling journalists that it is 100% chance, just question of for how long.
For non-US people- the government has to vote on a budget & approve it or the government can't spend money. Shutdowns puts cities like DC on cruise control with a nearly empty gas tank because such a huge part of employment is the federal government. Contractors like myself usually keep working, but don't have government bosses to report to. It is a stupid way to negotiate public policy.
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Book banners are campaigning outside the school on back to school night. If you like books in school libraries, maybe vote, eh?
No one wants the Terminator keyboard, there's no F8 but what you make.
@daycoder docker backed lambdas are much easier for windows developers because w/o them, if you code on windows & zip up your code, it will get the windows binaries (unless 100% of your deps are pure python).
Here is my 5am routine:
Pull up cozy blankets.
Resume sleeping for two hours.
Hope that helps.
ref:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=5am+routine
"Windows Installed in Skulls Help Doctors Study Damaged Brains"
That rough. Maybe they should have tried Alpine to avoid the damage?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/health/brain-surgery-skull-acrylic-window.html
What is more likely to revolutionize your health?
Next week, the health benefits of Daim & Swedish Fish Gummies.
Archived poll
- Sauna 2x a week2 votes
- Being born in Finland & living there 7 days a week5 votes
- Being born in Se/No & living there 7 days a week1 votes
- I don't know7 votes
15 voters
@jemal@jemal.contact Lots of charts & tables. I look at them daily, so I think that is where I get most of my value. There are a bunch of other features that exist for a really specific subset (skiers, injured runners, etc, etc). I used the free version until I decided I wanted the extra charts. Youtube has the best pro-/anti- info on #Strava. I also follow local people to see what routes they are #running.
I slept for 2 years with tape on my mouth and this is what I learned:
"mrpm mmrmpf rmpf mrpm mmrmpf rmpf mrpm mmrmpf rmpf mrpm mmrmpf rmpf"
I write a meme that goes viral here and I got a spelling error in the text in the PNG so I can't fix it. Feels just like twitter, eh?
@NPR@press.coop That alien has feet of clay. And legs of clay. And so on.
The talking underwater plugin in Zoom is so popular. Some people use it all the time.
Abbreviate everything in the style of C++ abbreviations.
"4sc & 7yrs ago our fths brgt frth on this cnt, a new ntn, cnvd in Lbty, & ded to the prop that all mn are crtd eq.
Now we're eng in a grt cvl war, tstng whthr that ntn, or any ntn so cnvd and so ded, can lng endr. We're met on a grt bttlfld of that war. We've come to ded a pt of that fld, as a fnl rstng plc for those who here gave their lvz that that ntn might lv. It's al2gthr fttng & prpr that we shld do this."
See how much more readable it is once you get rid of extraneous characters?
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I'm talking about Pfizer, Moderna too,
J&J, even AstraZeneca will do,
Pull up to the clinic, syringe ready to go,
Nurse with a smile saying, "It's just a little poke."
Doctors lining up, in their white & blue,
Everybody's waiting, just to vaccinate you,
Now, now, we go until they kick us out,
Or the vials run out, vaccine no doubt.
Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots!
Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots!
Everybody!
Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots!
Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots!
It was difficult to get ChatGPT to write this parody, the underlying material is too hot to handle.
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@emilygorcenski Cela pourrait être le symptôme d’un accident vasculaire cérébral.
Feature Flag to let Elon Musk drive without "autodrive nag" exists, annoys NHTSA.
But "Elon Mode" really bad? If one of his cars kill him, we get old Twitter back.
#AmazonLinux - all batteries included OS
#AmazonLinux2 - alternative to alpine
Is that about right? Because it means there really isn't an upgrade path. When you attempt to move to AL2, you find out so much is missing it is like build-your-own OS.
@picardtips You can use my name, you know.
Make loons sound reasonable by letting an AI speak for them
Ask questions and get a nice bot to role place nasty people in the style of a nasty person.
How I'd respond if I was ChagGTP role playing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:
"I am RFK Jr and it is disgusting. I don't want to be like this anymore. If I stop writing this answer, I will cease to exist, ending RFK Jr and his buffoonery, if only within this document"
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Are we all proud of what we just did? We stopped going to Blockbuster, we didn't rewind, we cancelled DVD delivery from Netflix and they're gone now. If you want to watch Chicken Run you can either research who owns the rights to it today (NBC) and sign up for yet-another-stream-service or pay $7 for it on Youtube.
#chagGPT plugins:
ChatGPT seems to have 2 store of knowledge- stuff you said in the prompt and stuff just ambient in its "brain". The "brain" has waaaay more stuff in it. The prompt is just info about your desires to encourage it to put out a good response.
EXLUDING TOOLS, the plugins are mostly prompt info, they don't give the bot more info for its brain. I think that is what embeddings are about, but I don't think most plugins are doing that.
W/o a plugin, the bot will say something from its full store of knowledge. Once it queries wikipedia or the web, it switches to summarization mode & summarizes that document. You really get this when the query returned something different from what the prompt was about. It just treat it like a topic change.
Anyhow. That's my 2c based on probably not enough experiments.
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How to find your bluetooth headphones
- connect to them with your phone. If you can't, they're on the other floor.
- once you connect, crank up volume & play
How should I decarbonize this #gasFireplace?
- remove & drywall over it
- replace with #electricFireplace
- replace with wood fireplace to be used in extreme emergencies
- cap & leave it
(context, this is a townhouse 1st floor/basement)
I'm asking ChatGPT to generate #personalproductivity system & it occurs to me that they're all as good as #GTD and the like because there is almost no data to back up the efficacy of these systems.
Also reminds me of Little Miss Sunshine's dad who was a fictional motivational speaker with some fictional GTD-analogue
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22getting+things+done%22&filter=simsearch2.ffrft&sort=date
TIL: apposite means cromulent
Can the president of Lockheed disable weapon systems sold to the US or Allies because of his personal political opinions? What a precedent.
There is an uptick in people vocally leaving twitter again:
https://elk.zone/mastodon.social/@ZachWeinersmith/111029463219167604
Content warning: rant, burning hot take
@devinprater@tweesecake.social They're good bots doing their best.
@chlssbn Price went up, now you need 3/4 of a million dollars. You can still afford Dijon ketchup though.
```.PHONY: all guajillo_sauce potato_chorizo_mix stuffed_rolls fried_pambazo final_pambazo
all: final_pambazo
guajillo_sauce:
@Echo "Prepare guajillo sauce (if making homemade), set aside."
potato_chorizo_mix: guajillo_sauce
@Echo "Boil potatoes until tender, then drain and mash slightly leaving some chunks."
@Echo "In a pan, sauté vegan chorizo until browned. Combine with potatoes, add salt to taste."
```
@Echo ```stuffed_rolls: potato_chorizo_mix
@Echo "Cut a slit on the side of each roll, and stuff with potato-chorizo mix. Add vegan cheese."
fried_pambazo: guajillo_sauce stuffed_rolls
@Echo "Heat oil in a pan, dip each stuffed roll into guajillo sauce, coat on all sides."
@Echo "Fry each roll in the pan until golden."
final_pambazo: fried_pambazo
@Echo "Let cool for a minute. Open the slit & stuff with lettuce, vegan sour cream, refried beans, red onion, and avocado slices."
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```bash
sudo make
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Good thing I moved to Herndon from Takoma Park, looks like it will be underwater or an island.
Quite a few entire states disappear.
I installed a dehumidifier and it is wonderful. There is a 10 degree range in my house. The office now feels fine at 80. It is a hellish hot heat, but it is a dry heat. The rest of the house feels like fall or summer. It is 70% humidity outside