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Good ol’ Othello. I got an A in AI because I beat everyone else’s Othello player. You will always be the final boss of grad school.

I honestly didn’t know anything about LotR, only the hobbit because the cartoon came on tv once. I didn’t even know it was part of a bigger story until someone in the movie mentioned Bilbo Baggins and I was like “wait, I know him!”

I was maybe 12 when the first movie came out.

I’m a 6’0 man who went up to 220lbs when I started working a desk job that provided sodas on demand. When I left there and went somewhere I needed to walk to eat lunch to I lost 30lbs and now hover around 190lbs.

When I learned how to swim last year that dropped to 175 ish and would’ve probably kept dropping if I spent more than 3 months going to the pool for an hour a day twice a week.

> Should every small town have a Tier 1 Hospital? A world-class university? A national sports team & stadium? An international airport? A symphony orchestra?

This almost describes Alabama.

You don’t buy it for nutrition. You buy it because it’s delicious and turns the milk into chocolate milk.

There wasn't enough pain in his mac and cheese.

The only time someone has refused to deliver to my door it was because they recently had surgery that amputated their leg. They called and told me the deal and I happily met them on the street.

I always swap out the semicolon for the apostrophe because I honestly don’t think that key gets enough play to have its position on the home row.

I’ve come home to a rat body missing its head and even letting my indoor cats into the backyard might yield a dead bird or lizard on the kitchen floor.

In what cases of repair is having the right tools not a good idea?

Feynman was famous for stealing his coworkers’ pens and pencils so I have to assume he was writing useful thing down.

Because it’s not that deep and the realm of the possible shifts differently for scientists and writers and the general public. For a lot of people science fiction is defined by tropes and trappings but not so much the possibilities. For instance when I was a kid Star Wars was still considered sci-fi because it had lasers and spaceships. For a lot of people that’s all sci-fi means. But language evolves and so does our understanding of what a genre should include.

Like my favorite novel accelerando is about the singularity, a concept many nerds were interested in about 20 years ago. These days we’ve all kind of accepted it’s a silly thing that doesn’t make sense but does that mean we should reclassify all of the fiction written around it as a concept as science fantasy? At one point tech has advanced to the point where they’re cloning humans so cheaply that politicians are cloning multiple versions of themselves to go campaigning. Does this impossible scenario make those books science fantasy, even though they get a lot of the science right elsewhere? Because if the answer is yes then we’d probably need to rename all sci-fi sections in bookstores to science fantasy because that’s the majority of what’s in them: fun shit with a veneer of science behind it.

I love how “science fantasy” has shifted to the point where it is anything that includes FTL. Really shows what happens when we give nerds the internet.

On the opposite end, two of the jobs I’ve had in the last ten years noted that they saw my emacs config (one interviewer admitted to borrowing from it) and I’m pretty sure it had a positive impact on my prospects.

Separation and eventual divorce.

I used to hide in the closet with one of those when my parents would argue, much easier to drown them out with headphones than just a tv by itself. Granted the selection was always something like Andy Griffith or primetime network. While the circumstances surrounding why I needed that little thing are terrible I'm still happy I had it and its still floating around in a box somewhere in my current home.

I both like and am afraid of a system where you can just continuously flip to the next show or tv series, browsing by clip until you find something interesting and choose to roll back to the beginning of the episode. Netflix almost does this but it's not seamless enough due to the menu still being there and the variety of shows still being curated.

Ah Martha, I see you haven’t changed one bit.

I think it’s fair to negotiate the use of actors’ likeness without consent. And given this isn’t the only grievance they have it makes sense to put it on the table with everything else because why not?

IME most of the content I get from white creators is political in nature, for now. I somehow drifted away from BookTok into witch-don't-kale-my-vibe-tok. I'm too lazy to be intentional with the search function so I'm hoping I will eventually get back to the part of TikTok that's talking about something besides politics.

EDIT: I want to throw out there that Belatown is the greatest soap opera of all time. Its a TikTok exclusive.

I’ve used Co-Star for years only because each day it gives me some vague advice in the morning and I use said advice to spice my day up. I couldn’t care less about the divine origins of astrology but the engine is written in haskell and that’s about as much divinity as I need. If a company is so obsessed with types that they even go hard on them at the code level I can’t help but want them to succeed.

I saw him in Machete and people were calling him the real life Tony Stark. With little other context I just assumed he was a cool guy. After all people were always super positive about his projects. In fact, I don’t think I actually heard Elon Musk speak freely until the cybertruck announcement. By then he started appearing on YouTube channels I watch and my opinion of him has done nothing but lower ever since.

I’m wondering if my experience was only my experience, was Elon Musk surrounded by good marketers who made sure the right things were said 10 years ago but he somehow lost them along the way? Because he is definitely not the man with the mystique he used to have for me.

I thought it was obvious that what I was saying was Bay Area specific when I said Tesla drivers are like Nissan Altima drivers I’ve encountered elsewhere but go off.

Not OP but Teslas I've seen around the Bay Area while driving around have Big Altima Energy. If someone's driving high above the speed limit, swerving through slower traffic like their life is in danger, or doing a U-turn on a two-lane street in the middle of rush-hour its usually a Tesla Model 3. On the other hand, where I grew up it always seemed to be Nissan Altimas that had this kind of energy. I think the stereotype is not really about individual drivers so much as its about the popularity of the vehicle and its performance characteristics.

Both the Nissan Altima and Tesla Model 3 sell very well and are entry level ("entry level" here meaning entry level for the class of vehicles one is looking for, there are entry-level Mercedes' for instance) sedans with power behind them. So you have a lot of them both on the road, and thus more people who likely treat them as disposable and thus drive them recklessly. Any car that is super popular usually is popular enough that enough of the wrong kind of drivers have it, and so you can start stereotyping them. I think Model 3s have a lot of the wrong kind of drivers on the road. Maybe many of them care about saving the environment but they don't drive like they care about the car.

Right now my linux desktop uses comic Neue as system font along with comic code as monospace font. It's beautiful.

Honestly my thing about buying a laptop for gaming is if you're gonna basically be plugged in to use it anyways you might as well get an itx case, throw in all the parts you need with a portable screen and keyboard and it will all fit in a backpack for you to carry around. Granted there aren't as many console style cases around as there used to be. I think I ordered the last Skyreach 4 Tiny.

I'm pretty sure the previous poster and those continuing the argument about Framework laptops didn't read the article fully because shortlisting it as a potential upgrade among other options is no where near shilling.

For me the perfect laptop was actually the Chromebook Pixel LS from 2015. Retina 3:2 touchscreen display in a 13in aluminum shell with a really good trackpad, usb-c, and built in webcam. Could be configured with 16GB of RAM though the ssd topped out at 64GB, but it was a laptop, I wasn't going to be storing games or media on it.

However that generation of the Chromebook Pixel had a defect of some sort where the adhesives in the screen breakdown after about 6-7 years and leak into the display, causing discoloration. In fact if you have one of these and have left it untouched for a good amount of time you should check it, there's probably adhesive that has leaked onto the keyboard.

This single incident where my favorite laptop is basically unusable after 6-7 years with no way to raid another one for a spare display (they all have this problem, and their display isn't interchangeable with the 2013 model)is why I'm an even bigger proponent of right to repair and easily upgradeable or interchangeable parts. If I had my way of things, I'd simply open up the computer every few years and replace the motherboard with something more modern but keep the shell. If I knew how to design motherboards or replace laptop displays without completely destroying or scratching the chassis I would. Watching the screen slowly discolor and turn to a milky blue is almost like watching a beloved dog get old and develop cataracts.

> This thread (edit: at the time I am posting this) is full of men with little real knowledge

That’s almost every reply on HN that isn’t specific enough to let someone shine through with their tech experience. It’s been like this as long as I’ve been here.

EDIT: It occurs to me that I've been here for just over 10 years as of last month. Time really flies.

Terrible afternoon in war torn West Oakland. I only saw one shirtless guy walking his pit bull today. I’m used to seeing three before 5pm.