The invisible man somehow also possesses superhuman strength and anger issues? Hilarious.
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Wild how much this concept is resonating with me as a former Software Engineer now Professional Prompter. Very prescient.
Reading notesThe man do be invisible
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Fun short read for Halloween 🎃
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My contribution to the red rising discourse is as follows: - red rising is a 7.5 - golden son is a 9.5 - morning star is a 9 They will be extremely hard to adapt into movies or tv without watering them down so I'm optimistic but keeping expectations low.
It's wild to me that real-estate agents are allowed to run for positions in the city they operate in and actively make real estate deals while in office.
Models usually write way more code than needed for an elegant solution still. This makes perfect sense considering more output tokens = more revenue for the labs.
A really honest and fun read. Would recommend it to anyone who is early to mid career and wondering if any of it really matters.
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I've been putting this off forever. Seems like a slow start so I will probably keep putting it off unfortunately.
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Fantastic concept! It's not often I get so "addicted" to a book. Read it in around a day. The worst part by far was the ending which seems to be a trend with Blake Crouch's books in my experience. Recursion being the only exception I guess.
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A new favourite! A dreamy, psychological, and deeply human read.
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New job at Railway!
I've joined the team as a Support Engineer
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Another fun read in the DCC series. A slow burn as far as this series goes, and I'm starting to find the pace / themes a bit dragging at this point. The twist at the end is very fun, so I'm hopeful the next book in the series takes advantage of the opportunity
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outside of interview prep, this book does provide a lot of good distributed computing fundamentals and provides lots of opportunities to go dig deep on a specific topic. I've enjoyed skimming through it! I can't say I've learned a huge amount but that probably has more to do with my experience than the book! If you havent done much system design / distributed / async work in practice ymmv and this is probably a great resource for you to kick off from.
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Guiding principles
some questions that I hope will lead me to a full life
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[Spoilers] DNF on chapter 6. Couldn't take it seriously for a long list of reasons but it obviously works for a lot of people- just not for me I suppose!
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A solid book but probably the worst entry in the series. A more adult hunger games with some nuggets of very fun world building. The following books are so good it's worth a read
Reading notesExcerpt of David Foster Wallace interview from 1996
Helluva quote
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I read this to my son expecting yet another simple parable and was pleasantly surprised by the complexity. I remembered very little about reading this book as a kid; basically nothing besides the fact that it was on my bookshelf. the fact that I've been thinking about this childrens book for the last few days is enough for it to get 5 stars in my book. While the text is simple the emotions and actions of the character are very real and complicated. give it a read if you haven't since you were a kid. you might be surprised by how you feel by the end.
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Copying to the Windows Clipboard from WSL
How to easily copy content from your WSL shell to your Windows clipboard
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Setting up the 1Password CLI on WSL
1Password's CLI is great but their WSL docs aren't.
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automating setup of a windows machine via a dotfiles repo
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I really loved this story. It's shocking how prescient the author was considering this book was released in 1909.
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Great start and really strong world building but no satisfying ending is bringing this from 4 down to 3 stars. I'm left wanting more which is both good and a bit frustrating!
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Just a little too heady for me I think. I like my horror a little more fast and lose than this was.
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some stories are fantastic and new favorites. some stories are alright; a little dated or fall just short. none are bad! definitely worth a read.
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Loved this quick read in "The Captive's War" universe. As per the novella's from the Expanse, this does a fantastic job at building out the series universe all while telling an enticing story that explores the ever-encroaching impacts of technology on the human experience. The "Live Suit" tech in this book makes soldier's effectively super human, but it's not clear how much of their humanity the tech takes away.
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Cool Tools: CLI Edition
Some CLI stuff I've been using lately.
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While I loved the concepts in Alien Clay, it took almost half the book for me to feel pulled in. I'm not sure why it took so long for me to feel drawn in; This book has everything I love about scifi but I had to force myself to pick it up.
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Fantastic collection of short story horrors. I first heard of Christian from the Creep Cast podcast; they read a few of his stories and they were fantastic so I went looking for more. If you're looking for fresh ideas in the format of short horror, this is it! Can't wait to see what else Christian comes up with.
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