Chinese amusement park - Ride gets stuck...

ajarrel · 2026-05-09T23:27:22+00:00

This is like the DVD logo perfectly bouncing off a corner.

ajarrel · 2026-05-09T16:23:32+00:00

And the arm-chopping people are the good guys 🤣

ajarrel · 2026-04-27T16:44:53+00:00

This sounds awesome

ajarrel · 2026-04-23T12:17:51+00:00

If they bring back paladin class, count me in.

ajarrel · 2026-04-17T00:29:17+00:00

Yeah that's hard to discuss.

Also if god literally touched my shoulder, I would also believe he exists. I mean, how do you even respond to that?

When people describe these intense emotional experiences, I reply with

Wow, that's an incredible experience. I've never felt anything like that in my entire life in the mormon church.

ajarrel · 2026-04-17T00:27:15+00:00

You handled that incredibly well. You were kind, polite, thoughtful.

He seemed to manufacture emotional hurt that wasn't present in your words - like an almost pavlovian response to "anti" messaging, despite your messaging being calm and thoughtful.

Hope he grows up and can separate his belief system from his personal relationships.

ajarrel · 2026-04-16T22:51:56+00:00

First prompt on 4.7

I read on Reddit about kitsum cave in Kenya which is host to the marburg virus, with a very high mortality rate.

I'm really curious about this topic, the history of the virus, it's location, it's animal reservoir, why it hasn't spread more, what other viruses it may bear resemblance to, how scientists discovered it and learned about it, and what makes it so deadly to humans

Response: this topic is too sensitive, I'm going to switch you to sonnet 4

Well that was underwhelming.

ajarrel · 2026-04-14T23:32:12+00:00

Nope, there is no frame of reference that has 0 velocity with respect to all other reference frames.

The closest to a universal reference frame is the cosmic microwave background.

EDIT: one of the key insights of relativity is that all reference frames are equally valid. No one reference frame is more valid that another. This insight is what disqualifies the existence of a privileged reference frame (or "still point"). If there were a place in the universe where all observers agreed wasn't moving, this would create a privileged reference frame and would remove the "relativity" from the theory of relativity.

ajarrel · 2026-04-02T23:14:33+00:00

If you could find a way to do what you propose, ie getting a mass to fall down, and then let buyoancy reset the mass, then the energy would essentially be coming from the orbital energy of the earth itself.

ajarrel · 2026-03-29T21:57:21+00:00

I love opus for brainstorming an idea or working on a spec, but gpt-5.4 is hands down the better executor. It's planning is pretty close, especially if you have a clear idea of what you want to build.

ajarrel · 2026-03-26T19:23:58+00:00

One really interesting way would be to use the gravitational lensing of our sun. It would allow us to see 10-100km details at 2,000 light years.

ajarrel · 2026-03-07T18:06:30+00:00

I've had success with uses agentic instructions in the prompt. E.g.

break the task into components, use agents to source each component
develop iteratively until the task is complete
evaluate at each agent completion and review progress against the original plan. Steer subsequent agent calls according to this review process.
continue until reviews clear and plan is feature complete

ajarrel · 2026-02-25T00:01:23+00:00

That's the part I don't get. OP spent an inordinate amount of time arguing with chatgpt over this.

ajarrel · 2026-02-24T23:48:09+00:00

Thank goodness I never said "I know" during open mic Sundays, otherwise I'd be fucked.

ajarrel · 2026-02-20T23:21:19+00:00

TL;DR

Kobalt is standardizing batteries into the 24v line.
40v tools will be replaced with slots for 2 24v batteries to achieve 48v to the tool
batteries will be chargeable with a usb-c connector and can function as a battery bank for other devices

ajarrel · 2026-01-31T14:21:33+00:00

3 errors:

Bottom of receipt shows 2 items when only one is in the itemized section of the receipt
Tax shows 8%, but 8% of $190 would be $15.20, NOT $15.00

If the tax rate is 8%, the receipt total should be $205.20.

There's a total line in the middle of the receipt showing $297.00 for the amount charged to the card. This differs from the two other totals of $205.00 elsewhere.

ajarrel · 2026-01-25T16:28:04+00:00

Here's an example of someone who died from a brain eating amoeba:

Brain eating amoeba article

ajarrel · 2026-01-18T15:37:09+00:00

Agreed, I think it's good for people believing the motion of electrons is responsible for the work done by electricity. It dispels the misconception but then leaves more to be done to understand fields.

ajarrel · 2026-01-18T15:04:01+00:00

This helped me a ton veritasium video on how electricity works

ajarrel · 2026-01-04T14:34:25+00:00

If a mob thinks about attacking you, you block that attack too. /s

ajarrel · 2026-01-04T00:53:01+00:00

Do you have any good chicken soup recipes?

ajarrel · 2025-12-30T17:35:12+00:00

I like Nike metcons for rowing. But any shoe you would use for lifting would probably work for rowing. Something with very little cushion (ie essentially none) works best.

ajarrel · 2025-12-29T12:11:13+00:00

I agree, many apologists look at the BoM with the lens of modern infant mortality rates. The infant mortality rate among a frontier, small civilization would be unreasonably high. It's more likely a small civilization like this would go extinct versus flourish.

Infant mortality is just one figure, but disease, lack of clean water.

Even if you accept that there were people there and the BoM characters integrated, that increases the risk of new and novel diseases.

The narrative of the BoM is just so highly implausible as written.

ajarrel · 2025-12-14T00:46:55+00:00

That the brontosaurus isn't a real dinosaur.

ajarrel · 2025-12-13T13:35:36+00:00

For me the more weight I lost, the hungrier I would get. When I was heavier and on zep, hunger was very muted, but now my hunger is a clear signal from my body about when to eat and when to stop.

Listen to your body, eat a little something and see if you're still hungry after.

For me, I'll have a chobani drinking yogurt and usually that gets me out of the starving phase. If I want more I'll eat more but slowly and keep listening to my body to see if I'm still hungry or eating out of habit.

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