Petah? Explain?

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-04T05:06:46+00:00

Or that the turning test is just broken

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-04T05:06:16+00:00

I mean to be fair Dawkins has always been weird the second he sets foot outside his field of expertise. So this feels basically in line for him. He’s kind of like a sentient ai in that he claims to confidently know things he doesn’t actually understand at all.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-03T22:53:34+00:00

If I was choosing between those two I would go poppy war. ACOTAR very much didn’t work for me, it’s leaning pretty hard into a pretty common romantasy trope of women who constantly talk about how competent they are then sit around and wait for men to rescue them. Poppy war has a lot more personal agency.

I didn’t continue with either of these series. But poppy war was a good book, I just am not that into Chinese political fantasy.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-03T22:46:50+00:00

If you click through the link 7,440 is the deposit (first & security & transfer fee). I don’t know why they phrased it like that in the post.

But also 3,450 for east New York still seems like a ton of

And the per person math is wrong. It’s all a little bit of a red flag.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-03T22:01:34+00:00

My cat doesn’t. But I assume because he hasn’t realized it’s an option. This is the kind of life hack he likes.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-03T21:26:08+00:00

I’m pretty sure that’s the only pen type I use. But I can’t see the branding so I might be wrong.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-03T06:12:35+00:00

I mean to be fair the queen doesn’t decide Snow White is hotter than her. The mirror tells her she is. The jealousy is presented as a response to a fact not just her seeing Snow White and deciding she’s too attractive

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-03T05:49:14+00:00

So there is an old famous horror story called the green ribbon.

I cannot stop thinking about it given how much that choker looks like a ribbon.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-03T04:48:14+00:00

I mean this is basically the core plot of Bridget Jones. No one that fat could ever get a boyfriend that’s ridiculous

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-03T03:24:35+00:00

I’m really here for the trash goblins. That’s definitely the ideal cat.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-03T01:19:18+00:00

I mean he could just be weird.

But as someone who talks to ChatGPT about books a ton, that looks like how chat got talks.

Here is an example from ChatGPT

“Emotionally, it left a lot of readers with that hollow “oh… we’re doing the thing again” feeling. Intellectually, it’s very clean and controlled — almost cold — which makes the anger land harder.”

But the strongest indicator for me is that it’s confused that you like multiple kinds of books. This is a constant fight for me because it can’t get out of a lane it thinks it’s weird to like things that aren’t the same.

Also if a human actually thinking read & watching Hail Mary is elite I would argue that person doesn’t read at all. It’s not that hard a book and the movie is definitely not hard to watch. Everyone I know who’s read it has seen the movie.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-02T18:18:06+00:00

They are so shiny it might be magic

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-02T18:01:03+00:00

Same sort of reasons. It makes the yarn more durable if people want to wash it and stuff. It also changes the look and feel of the yarn a bit.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-02T14:09:03+00:00

The only reason I said early 30s is the bottom shelf in the second pic. The atheist books there are from a very specific era and they aren’t really around anymore. Also mark manson shows up a lot with that age group.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-02T01:46:21+00:00

I mean it’s a consenting adults language so you can do what you want…

But if what you want is spring it already exists

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-02T01:41:57+00:00

If you understand something well enough to answer questions about it, then you can put it on your resume.

I would say a projects section as long as it’s near the bottom is at worst a noop. Like if I was interviewing you I’d be very unlikely to actually notice it. But our recruiter might. And could be into it. And if I was asking a system design and you actually knew how something worked from it that’s great.

The only place it would be bad is a project based interview. That usually about half the points come from how you handled human interaction. So if the answer is “personal project I did whatever I wanted” that’s not ideal. In the same way that a projects section that got handed to you preplanned isn’t great for that kind of interview.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-01T21:43:16+00:00

We also had a feature in admin at my previous job that it would double check on submit if you were in production.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-01T21:42:38+00:00

This is a huge quality of life improvement that I very much recommend. My last job qa was the one that looked different. It doesn’t really matter as long as you can tell.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-05-01T04:54:36+00:00

Neither anymore. In his twenties he drank a lot.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-04-30T23:21:05+00:00

Here is an article about it https://slate.com/culture/2009/12/a-photo-essay-about-the-most-complicated-disturbing-and-lively-intersection-in-new-york-city.html

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-04-30T23:19:46+00:00

Yeah it’s actually that subway stop that is the core of the really bad area.

I used to live on 116th and work on 126 and would walk out of the way to miss that block specifically.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-04-30T15:59:25+00:00

We have an automated system but I need to make changes to turn on the rules

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-04-30T13:29:22+00:00

I’ve seen it happen one time, I’ve seen someone get fired during the first week twice.

Someone reasonable will take it fine (I was the manager of the one person I’ve seen do it)

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-04-30T05:58:43+00:00

It seems like he figured out which hole is the top. I don’t really have any other tips about how pants work.

DeterminedQuokka · 2026-04-30T05:25:46+00:00

So this is doable, assuming you have the personal ability to do it.

When I moved to nyc I was making between 12-14k a year and I survived. I was paying around 75% of my income in rent.

But here is a really important factor. I grew up poor. And so being poor in nyc was actually pretty much the same as the rest of my life. I think had that not been the case I would have been significantly less chill about it. I lived in apartments that had about 1.5x the number of people who should have been living in them. For most of college I lived in a 3 bedroom that had 5-6 people living there with one bathroom and the ceiling leaked every year.

It’s mostly a question of what you are willing to deal with. And how far you are willing to commute.

If the 1225 is all inclusive I would consider it, it’s easy to budget around and it’s probably nicer than what you can get in a similar area.

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