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pjot··on Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’
I can count all the way to schfifty-five
pjot··on Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’
Too Many Cooks, I think, originated on YouTube.
pjot··on Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth creation, says UBS
Your edited comment brings to light the concept of survivorship bias.

It’s important to recognize that there could have been farmers with superior skills and work ethic who, due to factors beyond their control like luck or chance events, still find themselves in poverty. To attribute financial success or failure solely to personal habits or skills is an oversimplification that ignores the multifaceted nature of wealth and poverty.

pjot··on Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs
Brb, about to start “Get a Free Truck, LLC.”

Wow.

pjot··on Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs
Can you explain more? Not sure how that’s possible
pjot··on ed.bf: text editor in Brainfuck
(true + false) = true

You’re good!

pjot··on ed.bf: text editor in Brainfuck
The project seems to use the “DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE“
pjot··on Fish – Update on the Rust port
Also for sanitizing user input.

  input=$1  # User input, potentially dangerous
  rm $input # Incorrect: Risky if input contains something like '*'

  rm "$input" # Correct: Safer, treats the user input as a single item
pjot··on Fish – Update on the Rust port
To illustrate why, consider a file name with spaces.

    filename="my file.txt"
    cat $filename   # Incorrect: Tries to 'cat' two files: 'my' and 'file.txt'

    cat "$filename" # Correct: Treats 'my file.txt' as one file
pjot··on OpenAI Shoves a Data Journalist and Violates Federal Law
This is like arguing that you’re a sovereign citizen.

What’s the end game here? Cops aren’t interpreters of the law, they don’t care about your statutes. And frankly, they could be out actually doing something instead of talking down knucklehead “journalists”

pjot··on ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis
Working in analytics long enough has shown me how often people will p-hack their data to support their desired outcome.

I’ve met many “data driven” teams that quickly turn their nose up at bad data

pjot··on Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT
I imagine it’s from a spike in traffic after dev day
pjot··on I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions
All decisions made seem to be very emotionally charged - you’d think the board would have been able to insulate against that.
pjot··on OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role
Yeah that will show ‘em!
pjot··on datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated
Seems like the ideal way to store them to me!
pjot··on Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck
That is an amazing commercial.

The dynamic steering is too

pjot··on Summing columns in remote Parquet files using DuckDB
DuckDB will work with polars

https://duckdb.org/docs/archive/0.9.2/guides/python/polars.h...

pjot··on Hyundai to Be First Automaker to Sell New Cars on Amazon
On the other hand, I could see dealers setting a hard price and claim “no negotiation”.
pjot··on Tesla Won't Sue Cybertruck Resellers Anymore
Cue Tennessee Ernie Ford

https://youtu.be/BSvORvIjZiU?feature=shared

pjot··on My favorite coding question to give candidates
I think these kinds of problems cause interviewee’s (under stress) to overthink the solution.

“Load to a relational store and use sql” would be a reasonable answer that, I’m sure, would be acceptable in most cases.

pjot··on Updates to the H2O.ai db-benchmark
I really like Motherducks hybrid execution model. My DS colleagues love abusing our data warehouse - bringing the data down locally to pound on is a win-win
pjot··on Cup Noodles are now microwave-safe
Microwaving Cup Noodles instead of pouring boiling water was like ordering your eggs over easy instead of scrambled. Both great, just different.
pjot··on GPT-4 Update: 32K Context Window Now for All Users
I seem to have this, but there’s a tag next to it that says, “confidential”. Anyone else seeing something similar?
pjot··on AI can catalogue a forest's inhabitants simply by listening
How does one become a volunteer birdwatcher? Who are you volunteering with?
pjot··on Panopticon
The animation[0] describing its construction was equal parts interesting and terrifying.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Panopticon_Animation_by...

pjot··on DALL·E 3 is now available in ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise
Strange. I’ve had this for maybe a month now.

Edit: it looks to be available in the iOS app now too - which previously was not.

pjot··on The case against AI everything, everywhere, all at once
There are add blocking extensions for safari available in the App Store that perform in line with uBlock origin
pjot··on New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly
I had a septoplasty and turbinate reduction. The recovery was pretty brutal - there’s many nerves and pain receptors in the middle of your skull apparently. In all it’s amazing to not have a “stuffed” nose all the time.
pjot··on New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly
Around 15 years ago I broke my nose which eventually led to a loss of taste and smell. Around 8 months ago I had surgery on the internal structures of my nose which in addition to allowing me to breath again, I can also taste and smell. The experience has been completely mind blowing.

On the flip side I can no longer order the spiciest of spicy Thai and Indian food from my usual restaurants. The owners poke fun at me now.

pjot··on Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
If he was instead featured in a haircut magazine on a table in a SuperClips, it’d be less jarring.
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