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suroot··on How does AI impact my job as a programmer?
This sounds like a coping strategy with a bit of “trust me bro” sprinkled in. I would hope Rubyists and shitposters don’t form a Venn diagram but here we are.
suroot··on Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma
That doesn’t sound surprising in light of people setting obtuse goals like reading N books per week/month/year.
suroot··on Turning psychiatric labels into identities
> complete lack of familiarity with being alone with only ones thoughts for company for any period of time.

Riiiight…

suroot··on Antarctic Ice Shelf Spawns Iceberg A-83
Please don’t cuss, we are not that kind of a message board. Thank you.

- Person looking forward to more ice shelves breaking off

suroot··on Cloudflare took down our website
Didn’t they also deplatform stormfront and a few others they didn’t like?
suroot··on So good, it works on barbed wire (2001)
In light of me prefacing electronics by saying “somewhere down the line,” I don’t see the quality in this comment.

While there are professions where half-way through you kind of have to go back to the early things you thought you knew, and examine them in a more educated light, I’ve yet to see one as egregious as this. Nobody past a certain very early cut off limit benefits from using water analogies, and there is a push in education right now to move past water analogies because too many students enter first year post secondary with, simply put, incorrect ideas, and it has teachers baffled.

suroot··on So good, it works on barbed wire (2001)
I’ll beat a bit of a dead horse with this one. This is why I’m not a big fan of water/pipe analogies when it comes to the study of electricity, electromagnetism and somewhere down the line electronics. While I understand early pioneers used “fluid” as a kind of hypothesis, I do not think they used them as analogies. I think they were trying to derive what was happening by comparing and seeing if their observations matched their line of thinking. All analogies break down relatively quickly the moment you attempt to work upwards from first principles (as we presently understand them which for all intents and purposes is “good enough” given we got many things to work just fine.)

The reality of the situation is far more impressive and engrossing if we attempt to truly get a handle on what is happening. Only then can we have a clearer idea of the nature of things like impedance and where/why/how the formulas that we use are derived from.

suroot··on Cannabis use linked to epigenetic changes, study reveals
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suroot··on Cannabis use linked to epigenetic changes, study reveals
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suroot··on Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees
Wait til you hear what happened to Michael O’Church.
suroot··on Ask HN: Hacker News-like forum, specific to game development?
RIP GDNet, what a slow motion train wreck.
suroot··on The War on Weeds
It’s not intended to.
suroot··on Spider-Man (Neversoft) Decompilation Project Progress Checkpoint – May 2024
Which decompiler?
suroot··on Breathwork supports emergence of altered states of consciousness
My buddy goes into schizophrenia episodes every time he goes for a long run. Any ideas?