birb_cromble
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Most of what I've read from him steers clear of anything sexual. I hadn't really noticed the lack until you mentioned it
birb_cromble
18hr ago
You can do that, but most of my repertoire these days is bluegrass or rock, so it's not the right call for me particularly.
birb_cromble
20hr ago
That's funny. "Pizza delivery" is close to the top of my list.
birb_cromble
20hr ago
Bass isn't too bad if your technique is good, but it's definitely much more physically intensive than other stringed instruments. I think my DB's string tension is probably 2.5x my guitar for any given string. When you couple the tension, the high action, and the sheer physical size of it, it can feel more like a sport rather than an instrument.
birb_cromble
23hr ago
Let's assume roughly as many hours as you're working now.
birb_cromble
1d ago
If you could maintain your current standard of living with any job, but you had to have a job, what would you choose to do for work?
birb_cromble
1d ago
Congratulations. Which piece?
I understand the joy. I play bass, and Bach pieces are not written for instruments that are tuned in fourths. Finally getting it feels good.
birb_cromble
1d ago
Would you say it's as much as 30% worse?
birb_cromble
1d ago
I'd look at the lockout periods for shareholders and see if you can get out right beforehand. Increasing the number of shares tends to drive the price down some.
birb_cromble
1d ago
I'll probably retire when I can manage a consistent inflation-adjusted constant annual withdrawal rate that's equal to 85% of my income.
As for leave it to my partner - she's probably going to outlive me, so I'm trying to make sure I have enough for her to be taken care of if something happens.
birb_cromble
1d ago
My plan is to aim for 85% of my income. In an "expensive" year, I usually spend about 50%, so it seems like a decent aim. If I don't use it all, I'll leave it to my partner.
birb_cromble
1d ago
So it's a bet between you and the insurance agency that you're going to live longer than they think you will?
birb_cromble
2d ago
Can someone more knowledgeable than I am explain what the purpose of an annuity is? They seem like a fixed income investment bound together with a life insurance policy. Is that the whole point? Am I missing something that makes them more attractive than that?
birb_cromble
2d ago
On the other hand you'll be inundated with a glut of courgettes that nobody likes eating that will quickly turn into a glut of giant marrows that nobody likes eating.
Zucchini bread is a godsend when this happens. It turns out people love zucchini if you bake it into a cake that's full of sugar, butter, and sour cream.
This is honestly hilarious in the context of Anthropic's own writing from a few weeks ago.
It looks like they're getting what they asked for, and they're getting it good and hard. The admin simply took them at their word.
birb_cromble
2d ago
You should branch out, man. I've heard good things about a band called Lynyrd Skynyrd.
birb_cromble
2d ago
birb_cromble
2d ago
Another unconventional right here.
I think that's shorthand for "doesn't particularly like rapidly metastasizing federal government but still has a soft spot for the unions who had the balls to shoot back at Pinkertons".
birb_cromble
2d ago
After a few friends and family members overdose or blow their brains across their living rooms, that kind of argument becomes abstract enough that it doesn't really impact my decision making.
birb_cromble
3d ago
The small client didn't set a limit because another salesman/contractor set it up for them without a limit. They are not technical people.
The other company was pushing a tokenmaxxing scheme and got burned by their own choices.
birb_cromble
3d ago
I already donate to my local homeless shelter and animal shelter. I guess I could do more.
For now I'm just saving like crazy and trying to speed run retirement.
birb_cromble
3d ago
The problem is that a token is cheap, but the amount of tokens you need to do useful things can be very high.
For agentic programming, the agent needs to hold a non trivial amount of the codebase in the context. That can easily be millions of tokens. Then you have whatever pile of "skills" (read: markdown files) you use, then add the various layers of prompts, then add reasoning chains. It adds up very quickly.
Once you start adding parallel agents and loops, it can get insane.
birb_cromble
3d ago
I'm ... skeptical to endorse line-of-code as a measure of programmer time
Hell, I'm at negative LoC for the year so far.
birb_cromble
3d ago
A good mental model for a token is 3-4 characters. I'm assuming somebody will come in with an example of how it's wrong, but it's not a terrible heuristic.
A line of code is usually between 1 and 200 characters, with a fat part of the curve sitting around 80-100 characters.
It's going to sound odd, but I don't like to play bluegrass so much as be playing it. The bass mostly functions as a rhythm instrument that occasionally leads chord transitions in case people get lost, so it's not complex. That said, the overall experience is wonderful.
I'm particularly partial to up tempo versions of ain't no grave, like this one.
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