[-] isosphere@beehaw.org 2 points 12 hours ago

me too!

admittedly imo they are being overused now though

[-] isosphere@beehaw.org 0 points 2 days ago

Mixed IMO. I think the intended audience is teens? Has a bit of a Prodigy vibe, so if you're into that it might be up your alley.

[-] isosphere@beehaw.org 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not qualified enough to say anything conclusive - I only have a bachleors in mechanical engineering - but this is giving real time cube energy. This is written more like a religious text than a mathematical one. Five separate LLMs are credited in the Acknowledgements as not just tools, but collaborators, and I can't find any record that you've studied physics. I'm concerned that you may be operating under delusions amplified by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot_psychosis

[-] isosphere@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

i've been too plugged-in to trump news. i've banned myself from my primary source of that unhappy chaos, and will get it from a news outlet instead which is much slower and less ragey

i've gotten into audiobooks again, and that has done a lot to lift my spirits. i've plowed through the lord of the rings and am now listening to the silmarillion. i've found the silmarillion difficult to read, but much more accessible as an audiobook - and it's giving me a deeper appreciation of the lord of the rings

eucatastrophe, where art thou?

[-] isosphere@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m trying https://zen-browser.app/ now. It’s an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.

[-] isosphere@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Librewolf has some trouble with some websites. For example, it won't load one of my own that makes a GRPC request over TLS, stating that the certificate issuer is unknown despite it being the same certificate used on the accepted-as-secure page the request is made from.

[-] isosphere@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've seen this sentiment, but I don't think it's credible. I don't think we should normalize legalese that explicitly enables bullshit; it's not like it couldn't be written any other way. It's written in English, though it has legal intent, and we have words and phrases to clarify such things.

[-] isosphere@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago

It's "rice" because it's asian; it's a derogatory term used towards people and their cars. When I was younger, this term was used against asian drivers and their asian cars - and it was not a compliment.

Looking at Urban Dictionary I see no mention of this anti-asian side of it, but it was there when I was growing up. Maybe others can chime in with their experience, I imagine it wasn't the same everywhere.

Not implying the people using it here are being racist, I don't think they are aware of what I'm recalling here.

[-] isosphere@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago

A borderline racial slur about making things look good without substance behind the appearance: e.g.: "riced-up Honda civic"

[-] isosphere@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago

Office is weird about it because of their OneDrive product

[-] isosphere@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago

most of the people buying these are buying a costume, not a work vehicle, if my neighbors are any indication

it's a status symbol

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The Wicked Problem of Trading (matthewscheffel.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by isosphere@beehaw.org to c/finance@beehaw.org

I wrote a farewell to the thousand plus hours I spent on trading

I traded futures in my personal account, worked for a small trading firm, and have always been into a rational, scientific look at evidence.

I gave it as good of a try as any retail trader can, and learned a lot. Mostly that it's a waste of time, because trading is a wicked problem.

This is a plea to others that might get sucked in to run away and touch grass instead.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by isosphere@beehaw.org to c/diy@beehaw.org

...

Luckily, I had some repair tools (specifically a hot air rework station), enough experience to make me cocky, and a general disregard for the risk of destroying the thing.

It's as good as new now! Details in the attached link, I hope it helps someone else; I was flying blind.

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Haloomi Salad (beehaw.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by isosphere@beehaw.org to c/food@beehaw.org

I made an arugula salad with a bell pepper, some cherry tomatoes, sunflower seeds, mushrooms, and ~~grilled~~ pan fried haloomi. Honey mustard dressing using fancy raspberry honey.

It was a nice light dinner!

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submitted 2 years ago by isosphere@beehaw.org to c/diy@beehaw.org

I'm grabbing every favourite piece of clothing I have around the house and mending it with a needle and thread

I'm not very good at it, but it's not terribly hard to close up broken seams good enough for some use. It sure as heck beats buying a new pair of jeans for $70 just because I somehow destroy the crotch every year

I'm finding this to be really satisfying and relatively easy to do. Certainly I can develop better stitching technique and use better tools and material, but it's easy enough to be good enough, or so it seems to me now

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