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Platypus

@ platypode @sh.itjust.works

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  • I'm convinced it's magic

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  • In case anybody’s curious, buses are generally much wider than cars (my local buses are 8’6”, compared to the 6’6” Honda Odyssey); their seats are also narrower and the walls thinner, which adds up to a lot of interior space.

  • Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

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  • Yeah, this guy is either trolling or doesn’t have the faintest clue what a good education actually comprises.

  • Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

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  • Yes, wholeheartedly. They’re not cheating the school—they’re cheating themselves. If you’re paying 200k+ for an education, for what earthly reason would you then skip the actual education?

  • What's the worst "corporate speak/buzzwords" that you absolutely hate?

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  • Bio break.

    I don’t think I have to elaborate on that one.

  • Would you like to work for free to make ChatGPT automatically judge CV's?

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  • It’s a form of malware that exponentially burns through resources. The classic example is using the Unix fork command, which spawns a new process. You then program it so each process spawns several child processes, each of which spawn children of their own, and so on until the computer runs out of compute resources and freezes up entirely.

    In this case, the idea is to have the LLM query LLMs in the same recursive manner, burning query tokens almost as fast as OpenAI burns venture capital.

  • What is the lowest quality product you’ve ever purchased?

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  • A can opener from a convenience store. It was barely sharp enough to puncture the metal of the can and exploded the moment I turned the crank.

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    I love Lemmy. ❤️👽🥰 Do you love Lemmy 👽? 😄☀️

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  • Driving shoe recommendations?

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  • Maybe a weird take, but check out some fencing shoes. There’s a ton of variety but they seem to have the traits you’re looking for:

    • Rounded heel
    • Responsive up in the toes
    • Generally look like normal street shoes
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  • Those are arguably the most “made for humans” languages—they’re made to make humans laugh and/or headbutt a railroad spike in frustration

  • Ergonomics

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  • I stand all day. When I first switched I alternated when my legs got tired, but that only lasted a couple days.

  • Ergonomics

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  • Pure anecdote, but as someone with a long, shitty back, I definitely noticed a marked improvement in how my back felt when I switched to a standing desk.

  • just make more ozone by taping some oxygen together smh

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  • And put two thirds of our oxygen cutters out of a job? They have families, you know!

  • Rednote right now

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  • What's the dumbest argument you've ever had?

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  • What games bring you 'in the zone' / provide a 'flow' experience for you?

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  • Sekiro, and nothing else has ever come close. It’s so smooth and so fast that I drop into the flow state with no trouble at all.

  • Wondering if it's looking good for me on getting called back for a job based on wording?

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  • No way to know. All it tells you is that they probably haven’t discarded your application, which is certainly encouraging, but I wouldn’t read too much more into it than that.

  • What are some Must Know tips for dating?

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  • Unless your goal is to just get laid, don’t pretend to be anybody but who you are. If your date isn’t happy hanging out with your real self, there’s no future in that relationship.

  • Hitler uses Docker

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  • In my experience, very, but it's also not magic. Being able to package an application with its environment and ship it to any machine that can run Docker is great but it doesn't solve the fact that modern deployment architecture can become extremely complicated, and Docker adds another component that needs configuration and debugging to an already complicated stack.

  • What's the rarest animal you've seen in person?

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  • Probably Hercules the Liger. Terrifyingly enormous animal--pictures do not do justice to how intimidating a predator of that mass is.