I'm reading a book that involves hypnosis* and it occurs to me how similar this feels to coming up with prompts for LLMs: maybe "prompt engineering" is just hypnosis for spicy rocks.
@dev@ricci as soon as I discovered my bank could issue checks for me I destroyed my checkbooks and never looked back. These days it's about once a year, but it was several per month for a while.
At this point I'd rather pay for money orders and cashier checks than deal with personal checks
Took almost an hour, but I finally won a battle of will and wits against the cat, with the help of the kid. NOW I'm ready for anything today can throw at me
Update, learned that a tornado went through my brother's neighborhood (they are OK) and winning the starting contest with the cat did not in fact prepare me for that
On graduation day, a reflection on why I'm a professor:
I am where I am because of people at every stage of my life who have given me the opportunity, the support, the resources, the environment, the encouragement, to be successful. They've shared their knowledge, their experiences, they have been patient with me, and they have believed in me. Teachers, parents, friends, community, professors, mentors, colleagues. You bet I worked hard, but that hard work was possible and fruitful because of the environment that was built around me.
And now I get to do that for other people - AS A JOB. How fucking cool is that‽
@AlanSill@ricci The quantity of stuff that's not in the job description (not just bureaucracy!) is ... staggering. Some of it is super rewarding, but a lot if it is just not. The students are worth it, though.
@elb@ricci@aburka I'm also in the awesomewm world. I3 and sway are close enough... But I still find myself missing some layouts I use for focus sessions. I really want a center focused window for certain types of work, and can't replicate that anywhere else.
@pmonson@ricci@aburka my trouble is that I said "oh, this is trivially customizable with code", and then I went and wrote my own layouts, so i3 and Sway definitely don't have those.
I took some film classes in college, and this movie got brought up a lot, but I've never seen it. When I search for it on Kagi, it suggests this as a frequently asked question, so looks like we might be in for a good time
I secretly hope that someone has forgotten to replace the placeholder text in some of the real reports, meaning there is actually paperwork on file somewhere in the dusty archives of University bureaucracy claiming that a faculty member has taught "CS 1234 Second Breakfasts and How to Eat Them"
@ricci My experience with, in particular, full professors suggests that there is a nearly 100% chance that if there are not MULTIPLE such filings it's only because some long-suffering admin staff member knows to look for it.