minorninth

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I think it’s more that it’s hard to understand when you’re extroverted and your job depends on talking to people all day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’m sure this is true for some businesses, but there are also tons of businesses that have no vested interest in commercial real estate. It doesn’t explain all of it.

Honestly I think a much better explanation is that on average, bosses like being in the office and they don’t understand why everyone isn’t like them. Top leadership tends to be extroverted and they got where they are by lots of networking. They don’t have enough appreciation that for a lot of other types of people and types of jobs, being in the office just makes things harder.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think there are different aspects to it.

Amazon’s delivery service is better than ever. You get products in half the time, with less packaging, and fewer miles traveled to deliver it to you, without any significant increase in delivery fees.

Price is still competitive when you take into account delivery cost and speed. If you don’t care about those, Amazon isn’t the cheapest.

Search and reviews are down the tubes. It’s like Amazon no longer cares if their site is overrun with crap products as long as people are buying them.

Amazon still works great if you only buy name-brand products that are fulfilled by Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It explains the answer is 4 before the 5 minute mark.

Part of the reason is because it goes into the story of the SAT being wrong and a student being the one to catch it, which I found interesting.

After that it mathematically proves it several different ways and then shows how it relates to some real problems in astronomy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate on what happened when you tried to search? I’ve never had trouble.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Those are all protocols for accessing an entire calendar or sharing your whole calendar, not for general-purpose inviting one user to one event.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ask it to come up with evolutions too. I tried and this was my favorite:

Breezling (basic) • Evolution: Gustoon • Final Evolution: Cyclown

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m talking about using the ChatGPT API to make a chat bot. Even when the user’s input is just one sentence, it can cause ChatGPT to forget its prompt.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is it possible to be a productive programmer with slow typing speed? Yes. I have met some.

But…can fast typing speed be an advantage for most people? Yes!

Like you said, once you come up with an idea it can be a huge advantage to be able to type out that idea quickly to try it out before your mind wanders.

But also, I use typing for so many others things: writing Slack messages and emails. Writing responses to bug tickets. Writing new tickets. Documentation. Search queries.

The faster I type, the faster I can do those things. Also, the more I’m incentivized to do it. It’s no big deal to file a big report for something I discovered along the way because I can type it up in 30 seconds. Someone else who’s slow at typing might not bother because it’d take too long.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

GPT-3.5 seems to have a problem of recency bias. With long enough input it can forget its prompt or be convinced by new arguments.

GPT-4 is not immune though better.

I’ve had some luck with a post-prompt. Put the user’s input, then follow up with a final sentence reminding the model of the prompt and desired output format.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Also, did you fully cream the butter and sugar before adding any other ingredients?

If you just dump everything into the bowl and then mix, this is what happens

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Did you scrape the bowl while mixing?

KitchenAid mixers are great, but depending on what you’re mixing you need to scrape the sides of the bowl with a spatula and then mix some more.

I don’t think it’s over mixed, I think the cookies made from the batter that was stuck to the sides are under mixed.

 

I'll start:

4yo: Knock knock! 9yo: Who's there? 4yo: Banana! 9yo: Banana who? 4yo: Banana you glad I didn't say Orange?

 

Just posting this because I didn't realize it! It was shut down for several years due to Covid and actually taken over as a Covid vaccine site, but now it's back.

 

VASAviation is a great channel, it's all real air traffic control radio communications. They've got everything from pilots landing on the wrong runway, sick or injured passengers.

If you haven't checked it out before, I think this is a great one to start with: a 17yo student pilot flying solo loses a wheel, and flight instructors provide guidance and moral support to help her land safely.

The channel is full of ATC communication from other similar incidents including everything from other successful recoveries to some fatal crashes.

 

At California's Great America theme park

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My 4yo is just starting to get the hang of knock-knock jokes. She told this one this morning that I think turned out unintentionally pretty hilarious.

4yo: Knock knock

9yo: Who's there?

4yo: Banana

9yo: Banana who?

4yo: Banana you glad I didn't say Orange?

 

All of them!

It's not a holiday...but they have a 4th of July.

 

One of the most common questions that comes up involves trouble setting up VS Code - in particular if you want to not just use it as an editor, but set it up to fully run and debug your code.

Obviously the details vary by platform on language, so I'd welcome any resources you think are particularly good that specifically walk a beginner through how to set up VS Code on Windows with Python, or how to set up VS Code on macOS with C++, etc.

 

I love the drawing and the spelling

 

I grew up going to church but I'm not religious now and I never really understood this part.

Please, no answers along the lines of "aha, that's why Christianity is a sham" or "religions aren't logical". I don't want to debate whether it's right or wrong, I just want to understand the logic and reasoning that Christians use to explain this.

 

Tears of the Magic Kingdom

 

I've got a table saw, a cordless power drill, and wood screws. I was going to run to Home Depot for the wood and any other supplies I might need.

Any tips?

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