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  gosh I can finally delete my linkedin. This is a happy day.

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  haha yeah, liking chocolate is such a white people thing.

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  It's kind of funny, and kind of sad, that the people who predicted LLMs would plateau as a technology just underestimated how many resources the powers-that-be were willing to throw at them.

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  @coolbean sssh, nobody tell her about lasers...

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  I wonder if it'll ever be revealed that the most popular 1/5 of leftist social media accounts are actually CIA plants sent to sow division and ensure that The Left remains powerless forever

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  TFW your cheese tastes fungal but it's actually kind of a good taste

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  I should start a blog about the math I read on any given day.

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  "Many people do not know that TeX predates, and in fact caused the Big Bang. The universe is typeset in TeX" - my friend

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  fuck now I'm over here sweating over rsync commands and wondering if it's going to wipe my server or something

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  The fool has a job and gets excellent performance reviews. The acolyte has no job. The wise master has a job and gets terrible performance reviews.

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  I made more progress today on my project than I have in the past month. I also jerked off a lot. Coincidence??

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  i listened to a grateful dead concert recording last night now I'm feeling upbeat for no good reason.

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  it's kind of funny that on my last trip to New York, I got every single negative stereotype about the city confirmed to me within just one day: -I saw a guy pissing on the metro -the streets were full of garbage -there were cops with rifles at one of the metro stops for some reason, just standing around -my friend, who I was visiting, lived in some hipster ass part of Brooklyn that was somehow both sketchy and insanely upscale

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  god my desktop is so fucking jank. I really should just wipe it and start over.

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  *chokes down unrelenting hate* haha yeah I think LLMs can have some use in programming. I'll say any bullshit you want if it means I won't get auto-rejected for the work lottery.

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  I wonder what JRR Tolkien would do if he found out about Palantir. Probably write a scathing letter or something.

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  I never got around to reading part 3 of A Canticle for Liebowitz, I should probably do that.

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  @wizard@xyzzy.link as soon as I ran in to a build script that downloaded mksquashfs from some random AWS provider, instead of using the one already installed in my system, I noped out of that ecosystem.

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  wow, I feel very called out

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  @dpiponi I really like this! I too am often frustrated by the "just do analytic continuation" argument there, but this feels much more physically motivated. Perhaps I should get around to properly reading Tao's stuff on the subject.

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  "no one sees themselves as the bad guy" -- WRONG! Depressed people do!

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  @ids1024 The weird part is, you can still upload an album to bandcamp or play shows as a non-professional. A lot of people do it. Music recording did make the role of musicians in everyday life less necessary (because now you can just put on a playlist for your party, for example), but didn't make them obsolete. A party with live music is very clearly better than one without, even if the musicians are not pros. Ironically, we often find ourselves in a situation where there are fewer musici...

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  @evgandr @LordCaramac @Aleums Oh, I don't mean to diminish how destructive nuclear weapons are. Believe me, I live next to a major military base, I regularly think about how my entire city could be flattened in an instant. There is this belief though that fallout permanently makes an area uninhabitable wasteland, when really it is only dangerous for a few weeks.

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  @prettygood It's funny and kind of sad that what you're describing is the basic purpose of education. Fact is that "education" is only rarely education. Most "teachers" are not teachers and never have been.