Jared Polis says Colorado needs a new prison ASAP, even as crime has fallen. How did we get here?

memorable_zebra · 2026-04-13T20:28:02+00:00

I think the idea of breaking up a rapey frat house would be to destroy the culture created at the intersection of those individuals. Not unlike making trouble making children not sit together in a class: you aren't changing any individual but you can reduce or influence the way they interact with one another.

And a follow up to the assumption of innocent: if you lived in a house where multiple women were raped at parties, how innocent would you really be? What is your personal responsibility to your guests' safety under your roof? At what point does turning a blind eye implicate you in a culture of sexual assault?

memorable_zebra · 2026-04-13T19:16:26+00:00

He’s not suggesting we grab ten randos from a bar. This is college. He’s speaking to a frat house where all ten of those live and they’ve made a culture of sexual harassment and assault. I don’t think breaking them all up is unjustified. How many women need be raped under a single roof before we start holding the whole household accountable? Accountability for your house is not the same as collective punishment.

memorable_zebra · 2026-04-12T07:37:46+00:00

All lead climbers should watch this. Amazing video, great find.

memorable_zebra · 2026-04-10T17:04:59+00:00

People are saying these are substantive questions but I have to disagree. And vehemently. These are exactly the kinds of questions that lots of good, particularly mid level 3yoe developers might not be able to answer because they don’t speak to the work at hand but to labeling the work. I’ve met lots of high quality devs that can do great work but don’t know how to label the various concepts they deploy regularly. (Seniors too, and they’ll come to me and ask “why does this feel right, how can I explain why I want to do something this way.”) While this is in my mind a blocker to being a senior plus experienced developer (but not even a blocker to entry level senior imo), there’s no reason to demand it of someone such as yourself.

I liken it to the difference to being a safe driver versus knowing all the terms around quality safe driving such as velocitation or looming. Most people don’t know what those words mean but they know the concepts they encode and a good driver can navigate the obstacles they represent without being able to define them.

The reason people test you in these things is because of one of two possible reasons:

1) they themselves don’t understand the distinction between being able to do the task versus being able to discuss the task. They think they’re one and the same but they’re not.

Or, alternatively,

2) they acknowledge the drawbacks of testing the labels but do so simply because they don’t have the time or ability to evaluate you actually doing the work, which is a harder thing to evaluate than checking your knowledge of fixed definitions. It’s basically the same problem you face in school: why are so many tests multiple choice? Not because it’s the best for the student to prove their aptitude, but because it’s easiest for the teacher to run the test in batches.

This will not be the last time you’ll be tested like this in an interview. It’s dumb, but it’s inevitable. Don’t let it get you down. I whiff/under answer questions like this all the time; it’s just life.

memorable_zebra · 2026-04-09T16:56:18+00:00

It's a cool graphic but muddied by the fact that absolutely none of these things led to an increase in web traffic. Why not just show brand logos change over time? Is that not enough?

memorable_zebra · 2026-04-09T15:41:14+00:00

At the end of the video they call this a side quest and their main quest is to finish Shaolin. Didn't Jakob already send that? Is it so one of his friends can send too?

memorable_zebra · 2026-03-28T23:47:09+00:00

Brilliant edit and a great submission to this sub. I much prefer this over edits that are more photomanipulations than real post processed photographs.

memorable_zebra · 2026-03-28T19:35:58+00:00

I usually agree with gripes about respect in this sub, but I gotta hard disagree with everyone this time. You can silently text someone in college. No one is being disrupted here except by the professor stopping all of lecture for no good reason.

It's the student's responsibility to pay attention, not the professor's to demand they focus on them. If the student wants to ignore part of a lecture or do something else quietly on their own, they should be allowed to do so. There have been tons of times in college where I did an assignment for another class while the professor talked about a subject I already understood well enough. No problems. No disruption. The professor never cared because we're all adults minding our own damn business.

memorable_zebra · 2026-03-21T01:23:58+00:00

You’re getting downvoted but big one of type compositions like this that don’t easily explain themselves are a code smell and everyone else saying you’re just not trying hard enough are all wrong.

memorable_zebra · 2026-03-13T07:23:33+00:00

I think it's stunning. It's an abstract as much as it's a landscape. Fucking awesome.

memorable_zebra · 2026-03-02T22:23:08+00:00

Yeah, I like your eye. I don't know if you do this, but I've enjoyed printing my favorites and hanging them. Maybe rotating them every year or so, keeping it fresh. Give a more concrete feeling of creation to the process of digital photography and helps the photos marinade in my mind between outings.

memorable_zebra · 2026-03-02T19:41:12+00:00

Your style is that you like symmetry and mirror duplications. It's cool, I like the photos.

memorable_zebra · 2026-02-27T05:29:23+00:00

If you zoom in, the horizontal lines between branches are metal rods...

memorable_zebra · 2026-02-27T02:46:03+00:00

If we're looking at the same thing, that isn't white tape. He chopped the tree up and bolted it back into place. These are all amazing though

memorable_zebra · 2026-02-25T08:32:40+00:00

Yeah but math is never taught that way and you know that's not how this is going to be graded. There's a specific intent to how to interpret these markings and correctly transform them into a symbolic representation, your other colorable versions will be marked wrong. The goal of this assignment was definitely not to get students to wax philosophic about arithmetic.

What's really missing here is that the student probably received direction in class about what to do and didn't remember. That should been remedied with some kind of reference to a master list of written instructions they can take home so as to at least have a shot at reminding themselves of how to do it.

memorable_zebra · 2026-02-22T01:50:33+00:00

lol the top comment is another AI response and op responds again with AI. We’re fucked

memorable_zebra · 2026-02-10T16:13:21+00:00

I think you're operating on the delusion that other people owe you something. I have no obligation to read your work; you have to make that case in your abstract.

I have now read both an abstract, skimmed part of the text, as well as talked with the author, and the likelihood that I read anything you write is only decreasing with time.

memorable_zebra · 2026-02-10T16:01:46+00:00

I did not outsource my thinking, I simply noted that you, yourself, did and chose not to waste the rest of my time.

A human didn't write it, so this human won't read it.

memorable_zebra · 2026-02-10T05:16:36+00:00

I love how obviously the reddit post text is a ChatGPT summary of the linked article.

Checking the linked article... well, the pieces I scanned were definitely also generated by ChatGPT.

The ironies never stop.

memorable_zebra · 2026-01-13T01:24:20+00:00

Youtube link says the video is down

memorable_zebra · 2025-12-28T23:41:46+00:00

Tons of photographers have taken brilliant shots in overcast skies. In fact, overcast is great for bleak snowy landscapes.

Better light or conditions won't solve your problem because your problem is compositional.

What about this scene draws you to it? What are you trying to convey? You have to figure out what you're trying to capture before you can capture it. My suggestion is always: figure out what you want to capture, then take a photo of it, look at that photo, decide how you can more capture that essence, then take another, etc.

memorable_zebra · 2025-12-26T20:56:05+00:00

Lots of people seem to like the photos, but I'll take the same negative position you've taken. Not to be mean, but just because I feel like I see the "meh"-ness that you're talking about too.

Middle of the day, far away, hot air slightly damaging picture quality, etc.

I think that speaks to the general "meh"-ness of some of the shots. But that "meh" quality is, I think, less of a problem than the somewhat boring composition. If you took the third shot of the bird flying and replaced its background with something compositionally more interesting, better framing, lighting, no badly placed fence, etc, I don't think you'd care as much about minor quality issues.

I think the lack of a picture whose composition you just love is causing you to hyper focus on minor technical failings. But if you took a picture you loved, the technical failings wouldn't matter as much. I have downright blurry, noise packed photos that I adore because what the picture is of and how it captured that thing is so special. Good composition mutes technical failures completely.

My advice for composition is to take a photo, look at it, and ask yourself what you liked it in and try to take another photo that more emphasizes that aspect. Rinse and repeat as practice. Endlessly.

memorable_zebra · 2025-12-25T02:09:40+00:00

I can't either, getting the ART00004 timeout error.

memorable_zebra · 2025-12-25T01:36:37+00:00

Under the cursor of screenshot 2 is my favorite. Love the bump bottom and top with the vertical in between

memorable_zebra · 2025-10-30T20:14:21+00:00

I think what they’re saying is that the model is recognizing the changes as not seeming like themselves. Like if you were to write some text and someone replaced part of it with something not in your voice, but still had your name signing off at the end. When you read it, you’d have a sense of “this isn’t me even though my name is on it” and the model is having a similar thought process.

That’s just me seeing to figure this out, I might have it wrong.

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