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  There's one reason I've lost all respect for Christopher Nolan: In the scene where Odysseus kills everyone, he's supposed to be completely nude, his beautiful godlike body on display. Where the hell is your courage, director?

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  I cannot get behind the idea that kids need to be reading things in school from topics tailored to their interests. That's what they should be reading outside of school. You have the entire rest of your life to read whatever you want.

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  Christ I forgot why I hate high school athletics. Just watched our football team get crushed 20-0 at the half by a bunch of kids half a head taller than them. There's no way this could be fun for anybody

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  Replaced my oven's gas igniter for the second time. I am sick of owning appliances

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  We've decided that public job postings are more or less unusable now, because they just get flooded with AI applications. So, get #FediHired - US remote senior engineer position on my team. Full stack haskell+typescript working on practice products for k-12 students, salary range 100-150. Happy to chat or get on a phone call to discuss.

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  https://spacey.space/@nyrath/117283353851792616 But Clarke himself wrote novels in which things move faster than light

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  The dream is that you're a company following commonly accepted practices that aspires to be more innovative, but the reality is usually more like you're a company with a combination of bespoke and outdated practices that aspires to be more normal

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  I don't understand the racial aspect of birth rate discourse at all. If there are places that systematically people into move into to get a job and then never have a family, doesn't that mean the place is a bad place, that the city is a humanity crusher where people aren't thriving and living full lives? Isn't it bad for the surrounding country, to have children only to throw them into the meat grinder of a nyc?

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  disappointed to learn that old man ear hair doesn't serve any, like, biological purpose

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  Somebody once called this the Martin anti-establishment reflex, but being immersed in all the complaints on here (some of which are quite over the top) has turned me into a claude code defender and that is not a position I ever wanted to find myself in

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  Apparently it is possible for a person to go half their life seeing various medical professionals, including a physical therapist, without a single one of them ever noticing that the patient has normal balance but cannot stand unsupported with their eyes closed, an observation which takes about fifteen seconds to test and is by itself 90% of the way to a diagnosis for a treatable condition that results in a debilitating complex of consequences

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  sort of bullshit that you can't pay for papers or books with an HSA

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  There's a lot I like about the show Alone, but honestly it's probably the closest thing to Squid Game that exists in real life. The last few contestants on every season are always literally starving and not quitting until they're about to die, and at times talking about how it's so awful but they desperately need the prize money

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  https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116692225180685734 But then all you would have is free software, so there's no point. Nobody's here trying to make computers work better, the game is capturing value in proprietary ways

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  I wish the san francisco software developers would understand that maps zoomed in at this scale on rural areas contain no information

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  I got more different general purpose message queue services than I got javascript frameworks

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  The thing about "replace AI with humans" is do you think they'll be hired employees in places with labor protection

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  you can request information from NOAA and it comes to you in an email... slow web goals

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  nobody talks about how many documents you have to falsify nowadays

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  given the state of AWS documentation honestly I think throwing an LLM at it is the only rational response

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  the metric to watch is how often someone can look at the software, think about how it can be improved, and make the improvement in a single sitting

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  RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116576410223519555 This isn't even a situation that calls for the law to catch up, atlanta already has "no-cruising" rules

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  It's not unusual for people to become so enraptured with a technology, like electricity, that we become immediately willing to destroy all sorts of shit with massive projects for it

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  I wish people would stop using the word "epstein" to mince words about the president's sexual abuse

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  Part of the problem with the incentives about how to write in essays and stuff I guess is that if you explain anything, it seems you're perceived as mincing words, as not taking a hard enough stance. People love the "real talk, come right out with it, guns blazing" but what it actually means is just opening with a page full of contentless vague positioning

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  TIL the Mennonite family we get milk from also does solar panel installs

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  Meta put out a little promo demo video for their glasses, and it shows people playing blockbreaker and snake. How embarrassing

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  the convenience of LLM interactions has made me utterly unwilling to deal with everybody's software's petty bullshit anymore. oh you wanted me to type "OPTIONS_GHC" instead of "GHC_OPTIONS"? Fuck you, just understand it!

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  https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout "1. Things that are worth doing are worth doing well.
2. Things that are done well require time and effort.
3. You make meaning through the doing.
4. Ideas are common; effort is not.
5. There are no shortcuts." Great! Now tackle agriculture automation

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  be maximally terse with chatbot commands because it is wrong to treat machine like humans