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sandyarmstrong commented on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost nbcnews.com/politics/poli... · Posted by u/jnord

pavluha · 24 days ago

If I remember that right. It is not that easy to get into the state school in our state. UW engineering departments required GPA 4.0 last year. Kids who had GPA 3.9 or less had 0 chances getting into the UW engineering schools.

sandyarmstrong · 23 days ago

That is probably not true if you are transferring from a community college after two years. It's entering as a freshman direct from high school that has all the barriers.

sandyarmstrong commented on Maybe you’re not trying usefulfictions.substack.c... · Posted by u/eatitraw

y-curious · a month ago

People in the ADHD community are outspoken about a tangential concept: cleaning. Cleaning your friends place is a fun, novel, non-emotional activity. Cleaning your own space is a mental slog, boring and often painful due to having to rid yourself of mementos.

In that case, my theory is that you get to shed your learned helplessness about how things look. I suspect it’s similar with giving advice.

sandyarmstrong · a month ago

A line I always remember (from Babylon 5) is: "When I clean my place, all I've done is clean my place. But when I help you clean your place, I'm _helping you_."

tl;dr you should ask your badass partner for strategic help when the entire galaxy is under threat, even if she seems busy.

sandyarmstrong commented on Ultra efficient vector extension for SQLite marcobambini.substack.com... · Posted by u/marcobambini

fifilura · 3 months ago

I figured it would be something like this. And vectors as rows in a regular table would be too slow then?

sandyarmstrong · 3 months ago

sqlite does not have native support for a vector-like column type. Extensions like this and sqlite-vec build on the BLOB column type, and provide additional functions to let you efficiently search and manipulate this vector data.

sandyarmstrong commented on Ollama Web Search ollama.com/blog/web-searc... · Posted by u/jmorgan

langitbiru · 3 months ago

How much is the generous free tier? I couldn't find it in the website.

sandyarmstrong · 3 months ago

I believe it's free.

sandyarmstrong commented on Xogot: Godot for iPad blog.la-terminal.net/xogo... · Posted by u/goranmoomin

sandyarmstrong · 8 months ago

It's been really fun following the development of this, Miguel et al have been really open about the design process. A really cool journey for both the UX and the backend. I recommend reading through past blogs if you're interested in Godot or SwiftUI.

Congrats folks!

sandyarmstrong commented on Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365 techradar.com/pro/mozilla... · Posted by u/bentobean

intellectronica · 9 months ago

Is this an April Fools leftover?..

sandyarmstrong · 9 months ago

Gmail was also announced on April Fools'...

sandyarmstrong commented on Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game shalzuth.com/Blog/IFoundA... · Posted by u/eugenekolo

zwily · a year ago

I have a related question for you... my kids like Marvel Rivals, but I also use Microsoft family tools to limit their screen time so they don't have Admin accounts. However, the Marvel Rivals anti-cheat makes me enter my password every time they launch. Is there any way for me to create a shortcut or something so Rivals will launch without my password?

I'm not a Windows guy and trying to figure this out has been extremely frustrating...

sandyarmstrong · a year ago

I just had to fix this for my kid over the weekend. https://steamcommunity.com/app/2767030/discussions/0/5962604... was very helpful:

You can also skip the UAC prompt without editing the registry, by adding the following to the game's launch options in Steam:

cmd /min /C "set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER && start "" %command%"

sandyarmstrong commented on Google Cache is fully dead seroundtable.com/google-c... · Posted by u/r721

sandyarmstrong · a year ago

This was really useful when looking for product support, as companies regularly pull down or move around pages on their website. Seeing the version of a page at the time google associated it as a result was something I did all the time.

sandyarmstrong commented on Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak washingtonpost.com/health... · Posted by u/howard941

mock-possum · a year ago

> There is something "cheap" that I find hard to quantify in the taste of generic grocery branded deli meats.

They tend to be watery and under seasoned. I can only assume it’s to make them as inoffensive as possible to accommodate the widest possible audience - but there’s no character to cheap deli meat, no striking taste.

sandyarmstrong · a year ago

Watery, yes, that's definitely a component of it!

sandyarmstrong commented on Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak washingtonpost.com/health... · Posted by u/howard941

AlexandrB · a year ago

Not to discount your experience, but taste is so context sensitive and subjective that just believing that you're consuming a higher quality product is often enough to make it "taste better". There's a great Penn & Teller's Bullshit episode that illustrates this phenomenon for fancy water[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2qydjVbLJk

sandyarmstrong · a year ago

Yup, that's completely true. But as somebody who typically prefers to buy "cheap" brands, and is usually completely satisfied by them, the fact that I experience such a wide gulf between Boar's Head and other brands makes me think it's not a marketing mind trick.

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