yofuckreddit
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yofuckreddit
5d ago
An acquaintance put together a microsite for writing 100-word stories. The account creation is bugged (the modal doesn't close when you do, nor is there email confirmation) but I'm gonna be doing it every once in a while: https://hectalex.com/
yofuckreddit
9d ago
Nobody's storing their data rigorously enough to have a compelling product. The first generation of kids who are going to be able to digitally replicated were born in 2018, with auto-populating albums of videos and photos in cloud services. The adults aren't recording enough of their real thoughts and opinions.
Maybe me going through a couple days of interviews with an AI from my deathbed will be enough? But it'll be a pretty shallow copy.
yofuckreddit
9d ago
Whenever I meet young adult Catholics I have a great time. They're polite, open-minded, and not infected with the WMV like almost every other denomination. The older folks are often really tough to get along with.
yofuckreddit
9d ago
State of the Art was pretty awful and threw me off bigly. The only story I liked was about that suit from the crash-landed guy.
If I were telling anyone else new to the series how to read it, I would say "skip it".
I do think it's a bit "overrated" as far as sci-fi goes. None of the books is going to change your life like some other 5/5 sci-fi, especially not the back half of the series. However, re-looking at the synopses for Matter/Surface Detail/Inversions/Look to Windward, I will say you still have some exciting books left. Hydrogen Sonata was a bit weaker, but still worth reading to complete things.
All that said, none of them are set primarily in the culture. If that's what kept you hooked, then be warned.
yofuckreddit
9d ago
Shit, that actually sounds awesome. The awkward conversations that are sometimes a risk with loved ones when they're alive can be undertaken with a "rewind" button?
I'm sure a family could agree to have a merged copy of grandma. Something we should start specifying in our wills.
Don't get me wrong, I can absolutely see how this would potentially be awful, but being able to talk with your ancestors has been a strong human desire for a long time. It'll be cool right up until they lobotomize my model for problematic language 20 years after I pass.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
I've always thought this. Should be the same all over the world, if I'm king of it.
This country self-fetishizes enough that we may single-handedly resurrect the textile industry.
yofuckreddit
12d ago
I know it's a separate thing from what you're talking about, but you're a normal looking guy. Maybe a little crazy eyes? ;)
One thing I love about online ad-hominems is that they're just... inaccurate. Someone is stabbing completely blindly. Even here, my most controversial post basically had multiple users calling me a horrible person. It's Riddikulus. I know a lot about myself, and have compiled enough secondary evidence to support both the good and the bad. Just have to own the latter.
You can never eliminate the pain from a knife in the dark, but laughing at the absurdity of it all is a good protection mechanism IMO.
yofuckreddit
17d ago
I finished up Incurable Graphomania. After reading harassment architecture, I'm in a minor self-published author vortex. I saw this title....somewhere? Recommended? and bought it on only the basis of that, the title, and the cover art.
The blurb on the back is accurate. It intrigued even my wife. The writing is exactly what you'd expect based on the author's name. I see the same cadences, themes, and texture in many of the posts here from those who have hail from Russia or the baltic states.
This unfortunately means that despite the variety in subject matter, the short story collection felt very similar throughout. Anna did not utilize the technique I see from other collections like this where symbols are shared, or an overriding universe. It fixates on the geographic area near Washington D.C.. I've never considered it worth it to have a deep cultural knowledge of this region, so that effectively meant nothing.
The stories are consistently good. Light horror, dry comedy, irony, sadness. One of them was admittedly so awful that after a paragraph I scanned the rest, saw that it was just a jumble of meaningless words, and moved on.
For this post, I scanned another much more fawning interview/review to reference if you're on the fence. I have not finished it (longer than some of the short stories) but I respect her and enjoyed my time reading it.
4/5?
yofuckreddit
18d ago
I will always try to turn people onto Petey, who just dropped a new single Model Train Town.
It's great, but his best track (maybe?) is Freedom to Fuck Off.
yofuckreddit
18d ago
Mine around 2? Pretty much after walking. They go to daycare so I don't know when they picked it up. I'm a gun nut who wanted to wait till they're older but they've started having sticks and pistols and rifles very early.
yofuckreddit
23d ago
Will once again support this. The performance of my $200 bookshelves is lightyears beyond any soundbar I've heard
yofuckreddit
23d ago
I have to thumbs up this - those who have not toasted sweet breakfast breads like the above are missing out. A muffin cut in half and then fried in butter like this is absolutely sublime.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
I can tell you when I ruminated about this I wanted a person to make my interest, not a bank.
Then I realized that @Quantumfreakonomics had it right and nobody wanted to make less than the S&P 500 for 30 years, or if they did they'd buy bonds.
I also realized when someone asked for a seller's loan my very first thought was "fuck you, if you can't get a loan from a bank why would I trust you?"
I had my parents loan me part of a down payment at min interest and paid it back within 2 years. Your parents should be able to trust you enough to loan you the money and it's better for them to lever you up now than when they're dead.
yofuckreddit
26d ago
Semver is one of a couple programming concepts that are widely applicable. Mostly my field is full of cutesy bullshit that prevents the art from being taken seriously (PHP? Gulp/Grunt/JavaScript in general?) but yeah, it's awesome.
yofuckreddit
26d ago
Jesus Christ, BB replacement has been such a pain for me. I too had a square taper, but purchased one of the incorrect depth to start. The manufacturers don't even list what you have anymore since they use interchangable suppliers, and my budget hybrid bike had one that failed after a measley 2,500 miles which is absolutely pathetic for such a basic component.
Between the opaque nature of diagnosing it and the need for specialized tools, it's the bike repair job that gets the biggest thumbs down from me.
If you haven't checked out the park tool videos on YouTube yet for these things, do. They're awesome at least.
yofuckreddit
29d ago
This is exactly my thought. Building an encrypted message chat with superior data retention and querying capabilities for real-time comms like this is... not optional?
Why are they spawning off special chats for this one operation, for instance? That alone is a security/ops hole. My org has an entire policy to ensure our real-time messaging stays meticulously organized to ensure leaders and doers aren't overwhelmed with threads, context is maintained, the whole nine yards. Yet the executive branch has to hack with something like this?
The hypocrisy of Hillary's email whining is a bit strong. But it begs the question of how exactly government officials are supposed to communicate in real time, given the inadequacy of email as a format.
yofuckreddit
29d ago
I agree. I suppose it doesn't matter - the NPCs are going to read a headline instead of the conversation, and I doubt any of them have functional relationships with their bosses. But this seems like a total nothingburger. No way Vance actually shits on the president with 17 of his other closest advisors.
yofuckreddit
29d ago
I strongly disagree. If this guy was stupid enough to let in not just a journalist, but one part of an organization that is an ideological enemy of the administration, who's to say he can't be spearphished by an adversary with a passing knowledge of the English language?
It is an enormous fuckup.
yofuckreddit
30d ago
Good luck man, hope it's awesome.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
Dear Lord man.
It seems like a fully generalizable statement that more funding=on average better service
You can find dozens of graphs showing how much we spend on education vs the results we get. The relationship is almost the inverse of what you've said here.
Do you truly have no qualms with the explosion of over-"educated" people being churned out of universities? The outright fraud at community colleges where dropouts keep their grant money?
I understand the naive desire to have everyone go to college. It's an extremely fun part of life. Stupid people with worthless degrees being there to party with is part of it.
But the cost disease the fed government has wrought on every single stage of education is staggering. The music has to stop here. It's too obvious and too simple to fix, unlike problems such as healthcare.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I've been thinking along the same lines recently. All this power, and nothing to do with it.
I plan to leverage more translate technology this summer while traveling internationally.
Unique capabilities tend to be locked behind high-quality paid apps at the least it seems like. I have a digital reference for knot tying which is really awesome. It shows you a progression of how to tie a not, classifies them based on usage, and let's your rotate and adjust the view. Great for camping with a bunch of other idiot nerds.
PDF scanning has gotten great.
Someone went ahead and built the application I've dreamed about making myself for 3 years for managing trips. It's not the way I would have done it, and it needs some serious work in the desktop/web UX department, but even the free version is nice. I'll admit this is just a fancy spreadsheet so it's not a true net-new capability.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I cut down from 5 reading projects down to 2 and it's helped velocity enormously.
Worst case, do the "snowball" algorithm and finish what you're closest to finishing.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
Yes and I hate it. There's only 365 days in a year, and so especially with these examples (which are blown out of proportion on purpose) it's so obviously a technique to imply they're earth shattering events that will own a day for the rest of human existence.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
His sister is a psychiatrist not pharmacist
Really? What major were you? Because having an utterly worthless TA for 90% of my math and programming courses was brutal. The few that did have a native American TA were lightyears different.
Really? The number of Chinese students we retain is awful (under 50%, sources are all wildly different) and has been dropping continuously since 2004. We're not siphoning human capital at all! We're building it up in exchange for full-tuition cash and cheap bodies to fill TA positions!
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