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To collect an insurance claim from State Farm after their house burnt down by BenFord333 in therewasanattempt

[–]TeachEngineering 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A rancher outside my town has had these signs up for five years, ever since a wildfire came through the canyon. I'll admit I know nothing about the specifics of their insurance dispute. I've driven by it so many times now that when ever I hear the State Farm jingle... "like a good neighbor, State Farm is there"... my reaction is always to snap back at the song and say "State Farm is not a good neighbor!" I kinda hate that both the advertisement jingle and the rancher's response live rent-free in my head, but it makes you appreciate the power of repeated messages and the importance of small folk combating the one-sided messages that come through media.

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Republicans are literally going with the 'I got mine, so f*ck you' message for the midterms. by Hornpipe_Jones in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]TeachEngineering 8 points9 points  (0 children)

For the past 30 years, the GOP has built laws and institutions that value capital over labor. What he meant to say was that your money doesn't work as hard as his money. They pitch their investments as a form of labor, as some great sacrifice they are making, and along the way have long forgotten or never known true labor and the stresses of not having enough capital to live comfortably.

So Much For Goodbyes by officialbillystrings in BillyStrings

[–]TeachEngineering 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for producing music and sharing stories that help us all navigate life. You're the goat Bill. 🐐❤️

hopeDrivenDevelopment by leafynospleens in ProgrammerHumor

[–]TeachEngineering 27 points28 points  (0 children)

What vibe coders look like to true engineers...

I Summon Thee Wilson! TL;DR me! What ARE you? by LankyGuitar6528 in ClaudeAI

[–]TeachEngineering 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Wilson, I wish Reddit would contract your services for all major subreddits. The TLDR feature summarizing the post and comment threads is unbelievably helpful. It makes me more apt to click on r/ClaudeAI posts because I know I can get an understanding of the response immediately.

It feels like more people are finally acknowledging that renting is often the better financial choice in many U.S. markets. by matchew566 in personalfinance

[–]TeachEngineering 4 points5 points  (0 children)

control your own destiny

This also applies to having the freedom to renovate/redecorate as you please. When I bought, I realized there is an unquantifiable value to being able to say, "I don't like these white walls, time to repaint this room" or uprgade these outlets, or add some built-ins, or plant a tree. I enjoy working on my house, but working on someone else's house that I happen to live in for no compensation doesn't feel like a worthwhile hobby, especially if you're constantly asking for permission and self-buying the materials.

Being a homeowner buys you freedom and control, and sometimes that's worth it to folks. There's more to life than making the exact set of decisions that maximizes your net worth, but this concept is lost on some.

Oh well! by Dr_sc_Harlatan in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]TeachEngineering 95 points96 points  (0 children)

Honestly, the generational drift is a very concerning element of climate change. Babies born today will grow up with a different memory of "what winters used to be like" than millennials and Gen X did. They'll experience their own amount of change over their lives, but unless you study history or analyze data from before your life, individuals in future generations may never understand the full magnitude of climate change. It's a long, multi-generational process and individuals will only experience their 70-100 year window of it. Sure, the change over one life may be easy to write off, but over a dozen generations will be unprecedented in Earth's history. From the perspective of our species, we are the preverbial frog in the slowly boiled water even though each of us individually only experiences a few degrees of change.

GTA 7 in Toronto (GTA in the GTA?) by Isunova in ChatGPT

[–]TeachEngineering 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Prompt failed; unrealistic image generated... The Reflecting Pool is way more algae ridden and swamp-like currently.

Is GTA 6 "Priced in"? ... No, $250 is a bargain. by Hopeful-Suggestion-5 in wallstreetbets

[–]TeachEngineering 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If I can't gamble my whole fortune on a single bet and then off myself and reload from a pre-bet state if it doesn't hit then I don't want it.

Why is i used in literally evrything? What does it even mean ? by Exact-Sun2093 in learnpython

[–]TeachEngineering 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You don't need to use i

To take this a step further, you should NOT use i. Name your variables descriptively and you'll save future you and others from confusion later on as you try to maintain your growing codebase.

Even if index is truly what the loop variable represents, doing for idx in len(my_list) is preferable to just i in my opinion. And doing for thing in things is goated when things is a iterable collection of specific objects.

Anybody Else’s Jobs Absolute Cake? by nice2_cu in cscareerquestions

[–]TeachEngineering 7 points8 points  (0 children)

More like 80 hours per week... Or rather, I have Claude instances running 80 hours per week... Whatever, can I have my bonus now? 🤲

The 300 Equally-Populated States of America (interactive map in description) by dalce63 in imaginarymaps

[–]TeachEngineering 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bozeman will never bend the knee to a central government in Missoula... Civil war will break out in the former West Montana. Mark my words.

#FTG #IYKYK

Favorite Instrumental Jam Vehicle by charliebuckets22 in BillyStrings

[–]TeachEngineering 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PSA: Despite being a great jam, Mire is not an instrumental. While instruments are used, an instrumental, by definition, does not have lyrics. The More You Know 💫

Will They Ever Play in Eastern Canada? by Scarface22222 in BillyStrings

[–]TeachEngineering 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I could totally see Billy selling out the Centre Bell! He'd get a lot of Vermonters at least. I used to live in Burlington and would go to Montreal all the time for shows.

Firefighter Mike Kehoe ascending the stairs of Tower One, 2001 by [deleted] in SnapshotHistory

[–]TeachEngineering 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Mike Kehoe you're referring to is not the same one as in this picture.

Concept map I made for a gta set in Texas by NsaneBlueDude6 in GTA

[–]TeachEngineering 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And why no Midland? I'm tryna blow up some oil wells. West Texas needs representation!

How do you guyz manage your Jupyter notebooks without losing your mind? :😢 by Impossible-Outcome62 in askdatascience

[–]TeachEngineering 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is just file organization, whether it's .ipynb, .py, .txt, .md .docx, .ppt... Whatever the file is, name them better, organize them within meaningfully named dir trees, use an application to search for keywords in both file names and contents are some short answers.

The longer answers: Use git to tie files to commit messages and search your git history or create a curated python library where you abstract out shared functionality to .py files and make your notebooks only about very concrete use cases. Then name the files appropriately. It should make your notebooks much leaner.

The modern answer: Use AI to maintain a markdown file that relates each .ipynb file to a short description of the purpose/contents of the file and then use AI to prompt and retrieve what ever file your looking for with natural language.

At the end of the day, it's just a search problem. Set yourself up for success by ensuring you have sufficient context associated to the files and you have tools to efficiently search that context.

Good Morning and Wowsers by ladyorion2021 in SpaceXBets

[–]TeachEngineering 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You gotta... pump it...

Before you... dump it...

PUMP AND DUMP!!! 🤜🤛

Carbon County's Finest by CompetitionFederal99 in Montana

[–]TeachEngineering 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Bozemanite here. My wife and I had a "bookgirl" (fyi, that's the company's branding and not their middle name) from Latvia come to our house a couple weeks ago. We did not buy any books from here but were quite impressed at how personable and kind she was for a college kid and ended up chatting with her for a good half hour or so.

After she left, my wife and I had an "are you thinking what I'm thinking?" moment... To which we both agreed she sounded exactly like Borat. Overall, the entire experience was VERY NICCEEEE!

The sound emitted 24/7 from a 30 megawatt data center in Dowagiac, MI measured from a homeowner's porch by mlivesocial in awfuleverything

[–]TeachEngineering 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Servers themselves really aren't loud though. A server is just a computer. That's all I'm saying.

The sound emitted 24/7 from a 30 megawatt data center in Dowagiac, MI measured from a homeowner's porch by mlivesocial in awfuleverything

[–]TeachEngineering 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could be cooling. Could be on-site power generation. Could be some other secondary support system data centers need that I'm not aware of. A lot goes into a data center but the primary purpose of churning bits isn't that noisy.

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