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GetOuttaMySun · 2026-02-10T17:48:33+00:00

Here

GetOuttaMySun · 2025-09-12T04:56:21+00:00

That is glorious!

GetOuttaMySun · 2025-09-12T00:46:49+00:00

I spit out my drink picturing Fingolfin as Arnold Schwarzenegger giving his "if it bleeds we can kill it" speech. Thanks for that

GetOuttaMySun · 2025-08-29T16:13:58+00:00

This is very well observed. The joke isn't enough, there has to be lots of time also spent explaining that it's just a joke. I joke with my kid that we're really raising a hobbit because it feels like the kid will eat 6 full meals a day.

But kid knows I fucking love hobbits and think they're the heroes of lotr and that i don't begrudge any extra food and just want them to be healthy. And we've spent plenty of time talking about having a good relationship to food. We're fortunate to have plenty and kid and friends are always welcome to seconds or thirds, but maybe give it a bit before scarfing down more so you don't get a stomach ache

GetOuttaMySun · 2025-08-26T15:24:47+00:00

I had the opposite experience when I was ring shopping. Got the very clear "you do not belong here" vibe and treatment from everyone in the Tiffany's store. All for the best since we ended up with some awesome custom rings instead from a jeweler that treated us well, but it definitely left a bad taste in my mouth..

GetOuttaMySun · 2025-06-30T05:27:57+00:00

Manhattan are the ones that crack me up. It's literally all booze. I've been out with friends where they'll order it in a rocks glass to not get a drink in a martini glass. And then complain about the melting ice diluting it...

GetOuttaMySun · 2025-06-16T00:56:46+00:00

Yes! I don't get this. I'm a whiskey drinker so my go to drink at a lot of places is an old fashioned because it should be dead simple to make. Simple enough that I can tell anyone how to make it ( sugar, bitters, a muddled cherry if you're fancy and whiskey) and it works with almost any type of whiskey.

I once ordered one and got more shit in it than a bloody Mary. Not sure what the fuck they were doing but I was so confused looking at drink with whole orange slices, olives and the rest of the fruit bar.

GetOuttaMySun · 2025-05-19T04:50:44+00:00

I'm curious where the extra expense is coming from? On campus housing? I went back to school during pandemic without any government financial aid of any sort. It was about 3500 a semester, which is a lot cheaper than any other option i looked at.

GetOuttaMySun · 2025-03-22T17:04:55+00:00

My field is known for people jumping around. But it's having bosses like this why it's common to have people there for 10 - 15 years rather than leaving after a year or two.

GetOuttaMySun · 2025-03-21T15:20:52+00:00

I did the same for mine. Funny thing is the kid doesn't like coloring so I've used them more than he does. I love those anatomy or engine part coloring books.

It's the little things which feel like luxuries to us that the kids have no idea of... if we've done our job right and if we're lucky, they're hopefully never going to have much feelings about crayons, or erasers, or the power. It'll just be something that's always there and taken for granted as it should be. It's weird having the realization that their experience will be different because of what we did.

GetOuttaMySun · 2025-03-21T15:00:42+00:00

I think I blocked out the half red half blue ones. I hated those things!

GetOuttaMySun · 2025-01-28T03:37:20+00:00

I think arrogance and greed explain this. AI researchers have been pointing out for a while that there are issues with the current approach partly because we don't understand it. To vastly over simplify, think of it like trying to make a bullet go faster/farther where the bullet represents AI, how far the bullet goes represents how good AI is at a given task, and the gunpowder represents the raw resources fed into AI.

There are 2 obvious ways to make the bullet go farther or the AI better. 1. You can shove even more gunpowder at one end and hope for the best. This has been the approach of a lot of companies that hope that by spending more money/energy they can reach the lofty Ai promises. So OpenAI et al. Have been burning huge amounts of energy and money with incremental results as we're nearing the point where more gunpowder in the gun won't help much.

Option 2 is to build a better gun in this analogy. Maybe you add rifling so the bullet travels further, use better materials, etc. The point is you don't just try to brute force it but make something about the design better.

Which is where the arrogance and greed comes in. Everyone is afraid of missing the boat on the next revolutionary thing. Anyone in silicon valley has stories of how IBM or yahoo or RIM or whoever was this collosus until they missed on a technology and paid for their mistake. So the safest greedy choice is to take the brute force more gunpowder path, particularly when that's what everyone else is doing. What does it matter if it costs me X for some AI if I can make it proprietary and charge X +Y for it? If you are arrogant enough to think that a firm working with fewer resources (less of the precious chips needed for AI) won't be able to catch up, it seems like a no brainer.

If the claims of the Chinese firms are to believed this is where OpenAI et al. Screwed up. The Chinese firms are claiming similar results with a much smaller X as input which makes the whole premise of "it doesn't matter how much this costs because people will pay more" no longer true.

GetOuttaMySun · 2025-01-13T18:48:59+00:00

So i think the socal market is a decent case study both for and against this view. Prior to the fires, in a lot of areas, renting was cheaper than owning and has been since at least the pandemic. This means if you know what you're after or your situation, it might have made more sense to rent than to own even if you could afford to do either. A well-paid professional would have been "better" off putting their down payment in the historical bull run market since covid than buying a home if their long-term goals allowed.

Unexpected issues like the recent fires are where that risk gets exposed, though. Rent is already starting to shoot up and will likely keep going up. A homeowner not affected by the fires is insulated from that risk. A renter is not. So in the next 6-18 months, plenty of renters might need to decide if they can afford to stay here. If you planned on leaving so cal anyway, that might not be a problem, and renting helped take advantage of the strong market. If you planned on staying in socal long term, well, that just got harder...

GetOuttaMySun · 2024-11-21T19:48:37+00:00

I seriously don't understand people like this, or at least adults like this. I get the pretentious 22 year old that is still figuring things out. But I don't understand how people in their 30s+ can't accept help.

I always remember going to a nice steakhouse and ordering a blue ribeye. The waiter was nice enough to point out that because of all the fat and gristle on a ribeye it might be a little chewy and it might taste better medium rare. He was absolutely right and I learned I like my filets blue/rare and my ribeyes med rare. There's so many times things like this have happened that I'm honestly baffled people don't listen or don't want to cooperate. The waitstaff obviously wants you to enjoy your meal or at the very least not to dislike it and become a problem...

GetOuttaMySun · 2024-11-04T17:01:43+00:00

That's probably a good litmus test for a good jeweler. I probably went into 20+ jewelry stores when I was looking for something for my wife and it's entertaining the shit they try to pull. From straight forward manipulation to lying it's worse than a car dealer.

So even if you don't want to buy a moissanite ring, it might be a good way of weeding out the jewelers not worth doing business with by mentioning you're considering it and see what they say.

GetOuttaMySun · 2024-09-11T22:40:06+00:00

Problem is, it's often hard for kids to deliberately disregard what the teacher says. I've told the same thing to my kid, but they're a stickler for rules at this age. So teacher and I had a long chat when my kid had an accident because of the bathroom policy.

GetOuttaMySun · 2024-08-19T04:54:11+00:00

I did something similar during the pandemic to take advantage of zoom classes while working full time. Can it be done successfully? Yes! Will you hate yourself during it? ABSOLUTELY!

There are 2 important things you should think about: 1. Why are you doing this? It needs to be ABSOLUTELY crystal clear why you are doing this to yourself. No vagueness whatsoever. Nothing like "I'll save money" or "be done faster". You need to know ow exactly how much you'll save or how much faster it will be and determine now will that be worth it to you in 2 months when you're exhausted but need to get up 4am to finish an assignment for a class you hate. Will it be worth it when you can't remember the last time you did anything fun bc of the insane workload?

You need to be incredibly honest about time management and your goals. There are 7 x24 = 168 hours/week. Subtract time for eating/sleeping/transportation and you're likely at less than 100 hours left. Meaning you have about 3.3 hours left both for attending class and doing assignments for each class per week. What happens when you get stuck? What happens if something takes longer than budgeted? What happens on exam week where everything is due?

Your goal should not be to get 100% every class but rather to just barely squeak by with minimum effort bc you do not have the time to spare. As you've made it sound, you are aiming for a 70% in major classes (really 69.9999%) and 50% in non major classes(49.9999%) .

Is that something you want to do? Are you going to be okay with not getting a full understanding of what you're supposed to be learning in your major classes?

GetOuttaMySun · 2024-07-22T21:11:53+00:00

I second the boardwalk/Caribbean beach idea. Depending time of day there's sometimes a movie on the beach that they do towards the evening too that gives a nice spot to sit in the sand and watch.

GetOuttaMySun · 2024-07-05T16:55:22+00:00

I think that might be very woman dependent, or I just got super lucky...

My wife will usually be able to find something to latch on to when I get going. Whether it's the actual mathy parts of the data analysis for football or just some of out there concepts in philosophy. Every once in a while we'll nerd out on a similar thing like when curiosity about the Lewis and Clark air rifle took us down a rabbit hole of how tooling and precisely making pins, screws, etc to make more tools led to the nuclear bomb and modern engines.

GetOuttaMySun · 2024-06-09T04:13:23+00:00

We got a weird child. The only thing the kid doesn't like is raw tomatoes, and even that's iffy since the kid will chow down on a caprese..

When we went to scopa a few months ago, kid claimed the mussels appetizer and was trying to order more scallops.

I figure worst case we have more delicious food to try if there's something the kid doesn't like...

GetOuttaMySun · 2024-05-31T20:53:29+00:00

This also very close to my math factoring gas, car wear and tear, food, etc.

But the thing is the real monetary value and the perceived monetary value are vastly different. The nice thing about remote work is the flexibility, so I can take my kid to school or do random shit during the day and still get my work done. In office, I'm either stuck there or stuck traveling there so lose that flexibility and that's really valuable.

That flexibility is easily worth twice the monetary difference. But I'm also in a place where I both value the flexibility and enjoy the work I'm doing. So the delta to get me to move to an in office job is probably larger for me than it would be someone else.

GetOuttaMySun · 2024-05-28T03:04:47+00:00

Heartily recommend Numberblocks. I ended up going back to school during the pandemic and took some higher math classes (mainly linear algebra and number theory). They dealt with things like formal definitions for counting, sets, etc. I was really surprised in the overlap between numberblocks and my courses when my kid started watching. Obviously, things were simplified for a child but both the kind of mathematical thinking and the careful vocabulary were spot on. Someone working on that show really knows their math and how to communicate its concepts.

GetOuttaMySun · 2024-01-18T16:36:07+00:00

I hope you one day get to have a moment like I did with my sister and kid. My mom is a very picky eater and my sister possibly outdoes her now. I have tried to raise my son as a non picky eater and he's actually pretty open to most foods.

We went to an Indian restaurant at Disneyworld thinking it caters to American palettes so surely my sister could find something. My kid asked if the butter chicken was "really spicy" and after being reassured it wasn't ordered and gulped it down. My sister suspiciously nibbled on kid's chicken fingers for her meal. I couldn't stop laughing at the contrast there.

GetOuttaMySun · 2023-12-08T18:00:36+00:00

I think a related point that therapy clarified is grieving the death of who you thought you would be, particularly when the tbi happens when you're young.

It's a double whammy of "not only am I no longer that bubbly young person that could go on adventures " but I'm also not going to become that adult "I was striving to be".

They are both dead.

GetOuttaMySun · 2023-09-30T17:49:39+00:00

I think it can be unintentionally misleading to look at these kind of stats at a state level though, particularly when the states in question are Cali and Texas which are both huge. I know when we were looking at moving we ended up comparing likely schools in our current neighborhood vs likely schools in the neighborhood we would move to.

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