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I clicked on the article to find out what a splash pad was too lol I was still confused for most of it until I realized the first picture wasn't a kid throwing up it was a kid standing on one of those things where water shoots up from the ground, which is apparently a splash pad.


Would you say the book ventures more into the practical side of learning this stuff or is it closer to the tone of this article? I found this article hard to gain anything from. A lot of just motivational cliche statements and nothing really groundbreaking or mind altering. If the book is better at that, I'd love to read it. If it's stories and a lot of fluff, I'd rather skip. So I'm curious what you are getting from it and how practical and applicable it feels to you?


Agree. The article turned me off as well. No specific example, felt like an ad.


Yeah, I quit reading it because it didn't talk about the book, it felt like a meta article.


Man this makes me wish it had been this sub haha


Absolutely my first thought was "Huh, I wonder what it smells like"


It smells exactly like acetic acid, only a lot stronger than you’re used to.

You may find after a few tries that it smells just like the split second before vomiting.


Clearly placebo for me, I guess? It's wild how many people are saying phenylephrine is completely ineffective. It saved my ass during a really long COVID stint. It was impossible to find by itself but when we finally found it we bought 2 boxes because we use it and, for us, it works wonders... Hope they release something else better I guess.


The better thing is the original: psuedoephedrine. It was never impossible to buy, it just required going to the pharmacy counter and showing ID. I knew about this when it happened in the 2000's because my dad needed Sudafed often, but the changeover was almost certainly invisible to most people given that the packaging is essentially identical between the two versions of the product.


I did something similar to this once and used a similarity algorithm for fitness. The result was really neat, the output image looked very similar to the input image when you were zoomed out but when you zoomed in it was unrecognizable. It was a really interesting result!


Your comment kinda reminded me of "Rasterbator", a software I used 15 years ago to decorate a wall at my uni dorm. It took an image and a size, and gave you back a pdf with a4 pages to print. The pages were just dots up close, but when arranged in the grid with the other papers and looked at from afar it would be the original image.


I actually wrote a (not so polished) clone of that in Ruby, way back when...


Same here. I ask it to search all of the time. I guess maybe now it is required to provide sources? It usually did before but there were times it didn't so maybe the update is that it's required to?


Agreed. Crunch times at work, 10+ hour days for years left me burnt out even after being out of that for 5 years. Too much edge of your comfort zone can ruin your life!


For me, the work was so easy, easy things became impossible, and I, complacent.

  >Too much edge of your comfort zone can ruin your life!
too much comfort can lead to not being able to deal with trivial, and more trivial, tasks.

its the easy tasks, procrastinating into a wave, that accumulate exponentially the quickest.


For me it was not crunch time but constantly challenging myself. Did I hope to see something on the other side?


I chuckled at "The 8K display is only $1500 at BestBuy!" the "only" lol I spent $400 on my projector that I use for my main screen and it works great. But when I did that I had previously only bought $200 projectors. So even that was not an "only" for me.


Reality warps when you and everyone you know pulls $200k+ annually.


I've never spent more than $75 on a monitor. I only buy used. Monitors depreciate like crazy and businesses are constantly getting rid of them, even when they're only a few years old. Yeah, you aren't going to get some 9001Hz 10K giga-OLED whatever, but I'm a programmer. If it displays text with reasonable contrast without hogging my whole desk, it does everything I need it to do.

The most expensive one - the $75 one - is a 24" 1920x1200 IPS display with HDMI, DP, VGA, 2x DVI, S-Video, and YPbPr composite. Never seen those last two on a monitor before, but there they are. I don't use that display as my main one anymore, but I keep it around because it's awesome and it plugs into literally anything.


It's an 8k projector?

Remember dropping a grand on a 30- inch 2560x1600 on the day and thinking that was the ultimate.

I The 40 to 45 inch is the ideal, otherwise screen real estate goes too far in the peripheral vision.

The other issue was a lot of really big screen. Real estate is managing lots of Windows. With dual screens you can usually been in Mac's ride of applications more easily than with one cuz when you Max on the super big screen it just takes up everything.

And pushes the usually the most relevant stuff is the upper left hand corner that goes to the upper upper left left corner, which actually is pretty far out of your main field of vision.

But I still love the 43-in 4K TV I've been using since 2010 or so


No, I wish! It's 1080 the picture isn't amazing but it works fine and it's 100" on my wall across the room from my couch, so I'm happy. I've toyed with the idea of 4k projectors but they're usually magnitudes more expensive than 1080 projectors!


May I ask what projector? I’m thinking about getting one as well


Sorry, this recommendation will probably disappoint, it's from Walmart. It's a Vankyo Performance V700W. I can't necessarily recommend it.

I have a problem with over-shopping for things, such as spending too much of my life researching and frustrated before either never buying, buying above budget, or just impulse buying making the research time wasted. So, if I can instead work with something I can drive to Walmart and spend $300-400 on, I am happy.

It's been fine but it's nothing special. Does the job and the picture is pretty clear when focused properly. It's bright enough and has good color and picture quality for my purposes. It's 100" on my wall across the room from my couch so we use it a lot for gaming and watching videos. For programming stuff it works but can't optimize for space in the IDE by bumping font size down like I would with high DPI monitors.

I'm also on my second one as the first was left on constantly and started to develop dark spots. They were kind of fun to watch as they'd start really bright and then fade but obviously only in hindsight because it made the screen hard to see. The last time I bought it, the price was dropped I think it was <$200. I have had it for about a year and turn it off when I'm not using it and it's holding up a lot better!


Is it a dumb projector?


It is and not very high quality. Sorry I didn't mean to recommend everyone get a projector here or pump projectors. I just enjoy my setup and it was relatively cheap!

It will do screen mirroring though. It has 2 inputs and I use those directly and it doesn't offer apps or anything from what I've seen.


The only one I use regularly is object replacement in photos. It's great for editing a street sign out of a picture of the sky or something, especially if you just don't want to dox yourself posting a pic. It's definitely not high quality most times. Just blurry redraw of what the background might look like.

Otherwise, totally with you. No idea why my phone needs AI. I can just open the ChatGPT app if I want to have a discussion with ChatGPT about something. I'm so tired of apps updating to "Add a new AI assistant!" like why do I need to talk to an LLM in most of the apps I use?


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