dr_analog
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
35m ago
The alarming part of the story is that one went to HR and HR sided with them, resulting in their caseload being reduced and moved to other attorneys. This person is now being paid the same as those other attorneys to do much less work, and because of the way it all went down, all those other attorneys are very aware of everything that happened.
Are you serious? I... didn't think it was possible for lawyers to hate money like this.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1hr ago
The FBI only recently got the go-ahead to use Palantir technology on the giant NSA databank of all internet activity to find the suspect.
'they kept clicking "solve case" with every new release of the FBI crime database software and this time it finally worked' is the most reasonable guess
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
I've been reading Verner Vinge's a Deepness in the Sky and it's quite... slow.
Someone suggested I read it because they have interesting takes on dealing with software that's thousands of years old. About 150 of 500 pages in and I'm still not really seeing much of that.
Anyone else read this thing?
Same. I do want to make it a point to show my kids TNG. Although the first few seasons when Gene Roddenberry was still alive were pretty wild. I think it came into its own better later on.
I like the new Star Trek series. At least, Picard is better. The acting, cinematography and editing are good. And they involve a bit of swearing and a bit more sexually explicit content. And more realistic combat.The plots are pretty good too. Each season of Picard has been excellent and nail biting.
They're a bit over-the-top with the girl bosses but it's just background noise you get used to after awhile. I do like Jeri Ryan as 7 of 9 and don't mind seeing her deck people in the face.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3d ago
I've been catching up on Star Trek: Picard
I have to admit seeing all of the crew of TNG get back together hit me in the feels pretty good.
I'm kind of bummed that Star Trek is declining in popular culture. On the Dwarkesh podcast recently, he had Andrej Karpathy the brilliant AI researcher and educator on. He asked Dwarkesh if he had seen Star Trek and he said no. If you ask most teens and twenty,-somethings, even if they're nerdy, they'll say no 😭
One issue I have when I solve math problems is that I've found that I have two threads going on at once. There's my primary thinking thread where I'm writing the problem out and evaluating it, but there's also another thread going on where I'm "voicing" the numbers and symbols in my head. Like it's just background babble. The problem is I frequently voice the wrong number or symbol and it confuses me into writing the wrong thing down.
I make so many stupid mistakes this way. I can't make it stop. The more I stress about it, the more I concentrate really hard on the problem, the worse it gets.
It's a genuine defect in cognition, IMO.
I kind of thought everyone struggled with this. And that this is what they mean when they say they hate math, but I had a professor point out that he saw I suffered unusually from stupid mistakes like this. It's not common but it's also not rare. He thought the fact that I wrote so big on my scrap paper to try to avoid getting confused was a tell-tale sign.
This isn't holding back my career or anything, but I did start doing mathacademy.com recently for fun and find I'm struggling in this way again.
Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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