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got a friend with absolutely no technical background wanting some kind of "intro to the world" book. basics like how a fridge works, what a generator is etc I really don't know what to recommend here, feynman probably too theoretical, other things too obvious. bill bryson maybe?

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someone whitepill me on why this ain't happening?

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College isn’t some happy place to read and hang out and experience abstract personal growth. It’s supposed to be a full time job… Put 40h a week into your material and see where it gets you. Start taking your existence seriously. this is embarrassing.

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@weenreeno

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@pourfairelevide @hadeejasouffle With 3 other courses you end up having around 600 pages of reading to get through a week, plus weekly submissions and essays. You end up not even trying to read the material because there's no way to get through it. You end up just relying on summaries and external resources

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@coldhealing isn‘t dish soap for handwashing. and yk, that‘s why the dishwasher has a little place where you put the pod??? how has this apparently happened to MULTIPLE people.

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@eigenrobot isn't the first graph basically total BS when we consider the development of social technology plus the fact that the roman empire in ~400AD was in a decrepit state?

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3 months

@theojaffee Curious if it helds up for adults? I mean, it does seem geared more towards kids...

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2 months

never underestimate how good some people are at their jobs. it’s entirely alien. their expertise is so far from the median that you can’t begin to comprehend what’s going on, might as well be a different species.

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@Xilo_K

4 months

this one image has me saved hours and boosted my career. You cannot imagine what actually looking at this image for 1min will do for you.

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@Xilo_K

14 days

@LinkofSunshine This does make it so that politics is a total non-issue in Switzerland though. Basically no one talks abt it, people just go and vote a few times a year. Honestly, for a small and rich country like this one, it works incredibly well.

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@Xilo_K

5 months

yoooo isn’t this the dude that invented the heart rate sensors for smart watches? total legend.

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5 months

Why does UC Berkeley @UCBerkeley allow a professor to show up to teach dressed as furry? Extremely bizarre and inappropriate.

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Zero intellectual curiosity. No desire to hack on stuff. Of course the EE wants to see every circuit! Because he actually CARES. How do you think things get done… Is the iPhone designing itself? Is the RF work just guessing? Does solar get cheaper through divine providence??

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3 months

@tautologer imo the main reason why ppl are often like: "why didn't XYZ cause a boost in growth" is that what it actually did was just birth the next S curve that gave us a few more years of 3.5% growth while the old stagnated. AI probably just what will enable another decade or two.

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1 month

Auralize your crippling lack of computer skills.

jaivin 🎨

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1 month

uhh javascript???

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5 months

@airkatakana huh. isn't this like absolutely obvious to anyone who's done like 10s of debugging... this is why like compile time debug flags are nice (for decently small projects)

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3 months

@SwiftOnSecurity Thank you very much! There are some really great ones there! Technology connections is absolutely great, there's so much wisdom hidden in tech we use so often during the day, we forget the marvel of engineering they really are!

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6 months

I love the fact that we've managed to flood a city in the desert and somehow this is a bad thing. mfers don't realize that this is just the first attempt. In a few years we will green deserts at ludicrous rates. The way forward is tech. End of story.

mert | helius.dev

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This is the most dogshit thing I've ever seen lmao 0 police, 0 firefighters, 0 taxis — just yoloing the sea with a rental car after flight getting delayed by 6 hours

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3 months

@bmix012 u sure it's not just this? cuz that sounds like a skill issue.

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7 months

@TFSchizo The number of cs grads has increased inversely prop to quality. There are people in my second year engineering courses that have trouble using a command line. The best SWEs where never those who watched career vids but those who just had fun grokking hard concepts and liked work

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30 days

This is embarrassing for a company and shames your investors Deeply unserious

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2 months

If your office looks like how an overzealous teen would design a CSGO lan party I'm convinced that not a single second of work will ever be done there. This is absolutely atrocious.

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The most e/acc office I've ever seen. Are they gonna make it??

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7 months

@EsotericCofe highly disagree ngl C over C++ any day

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5 months

@burny_tech It seems very difficulty to reach over the human baselin. If AI improvements taper of in the next 3 years we will have succesfully commiditsed midwitism.

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2 months

@VictorTaelin this one?

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5 months

someone whitepill me on why this ain't happening?

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5 months

pushing a .DS_Store should result in no salary for a month. atrocious.

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5 months

Whomst chad pushed this to prod

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6 months

holy shit lex has got to be SEETHING right now

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@Xilo_K

19 days

For 10k you can buy: - CNC Mill - 3D printer - Pick and place machine Your basic „home workshop hardware“ is changing significantly. You can actually homelab metalworking and scale up electronics. Truly the era of abundance.

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ok so the lumen is crazy fast now

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5 months

@sporadicalia This is a good point. I still see a large possibility for an AI winter happening to some degree. It took 4 years from transformers to today, I expect it to take similarly as long for the next developments.

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@Xilo_K

9 months

@Hatecraft333 @Soul0Engineer for the confused ones: this basically means that the big five traits are incredibly genetically determined not only does this impact the nature vs nurture debate but if this study is true it would cause us to have to rethink governance relationships and all the social sciences

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14 days

@vocalcry There seems to have been a small period of time where the right was focused on showing ppl how much wealth capitalism brought and how becoming more modern and more industrial is a good thing for a nation. Interesting to see this weird, almost hippie, trad angle come up.

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@Xilo_K

2 months

@keysmashbandit High acceptance rates and 70% first semester failure rate is kinda ideal. this is still present in switzerland f.ex. where you get a countrywide ban to study your subject if you fail twice. also:

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@Xilo_K

2 months

College isn’t some happy place to read and hang out and experience abstract personal growth. It’s supposed to be a full time job… Put 40h a week into your material and see where it gets you. Start taking your existence seriously. this is embarrassing.

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2 months

Just to make this perfectly clear. Never scream at your girlfriend. It’s not an emotional outlet, it introduces a layer of aggression, or worse, fear, into what could simply have been a heated argument. This will chafe at your relationship and makes you a less loveable person.

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Raising your voice is good for your relationships

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5 months

THIS. Go to a good college, sink 20h per week into the material, that's enough to be pass and be decent. Sink the remaining 30h of work into sth fun.

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@Xilo_K

2 months

@Zorvyyy absolutely. but that growth will happen MUCH more if you apply yourself, especially if you do it with a community of likeminded people that are there to learn.

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@Xilo_K

3 months

@arpitingle yeah I mean. this is kinda what I'm trying to avoid? Like, put yourself in the shoes of someone who's fluent in 6 languages but doesn't know what a binomial distribution is. Are you sure an encyclopedia is the right thing?

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@Xilo_K

6 months

@AnamarijaML I will never understand the vitriol some people have towards those that have reached the pinacle of human achievement and said: "you know what, I'll push a little further"

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7 months

@LinkofSunshine ok but the reason B answers this way is because a lot of communication is nonverbal and they want to understand the motives behind A… B is a person, not a chatbot without intuition. which happens to be what yishan considers B to be. totally inhumane take.

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8 months

@teej_dv perfectly intuitive if you consider a[i] to be shorthand for *(a+i) as it basically is. In most languages arrays specify offsets, in lua f.ex. they specify actual indexes. But tbh, in maths most thing are 0 indexed as well so who cares

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@Xilo_K

28 days

SF is lowkey amazing and all the european doomers that told me I’d get shot at should can it.

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@Xilo_K

30 days

I found the link between electromagnetism and Special Relativity to be counter intuitive when I first heard of it. here’s a great amateur friendly book recommendation:

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the conception of electricity and magnetism as separate concepts is an illusion you’re just in the wrong frame of reference

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Not very Dionysian of you now, eh?

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4 months

@skooookum huh. i always thought partner was super positive… like in a. “I’m by your side and support you” kind of way.

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2 months

@DeepDishEnjoyer Occam disagrees.

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@JabroniTV @coldhealing sure! but back then ppl also knew the difference since they‘d handwashed often enough to know how much it foams

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2 months

@MostlyMonkey Of course not. A sizeable percentage is also held securely in poopcoin, which is deflationary and will replace the dollar the moment Trump fires Gensler.

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@Xilo_K

5 months

@TradfiSchizo 26000 commits… that‘s like 2$ per commit. also; his commits:

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@Xilo_K

7 months

@riemannianmani some people turned off by the density. actually kind of like it. Wished more people in my org would write that way tbh… It’s probably the way most software will be written one day. autonomously, oc.

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4 months

@IterIntellectus I mean, technically this says "since they turned 18" but I'm going to assume that it's a super small amount that had something in HS and then like, didn't have anything any longer? This is seriously worrying. I mean, who are these people?

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@Xilo_K

2 months

@fluxtheorist Just bought Landau Lifschitz for a kindergartener. I was worried about delaying it this much, but your posts have made it clear that I should take my time.

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@Xilo_K

3 months

@andrewglynch actually might just pick this up for myself! looks like a fun weekend read. Thanks1

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@Xilo_K

2 months

@DaBigCutie drop out and become a carpenter or learn to code or whatever. college is a ENORMOUS opportunity cost. u need to think for yourself if it’s worth it. for me it is, but for many it may not.

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@_deepfates I mean, most of them where early crypto/nvda... made an absolute killing there. many are highly successfull engineers. Probably difficult to find an open community with better median success than early OB...

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@Xilo_K

7 months

@ctjlewis verbose, overcomplicated, off topic?

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@Xilo_K

5 months

@tautologer fwiw there's some guy who built a massive lore around a bunker or sth? There's a bunch of them.

From the Everexpandingbunker community on Reddit: IT'S HERE! THE 9X9 SUPER COMPASS!

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@Xilo_K

3 months

BGP was designed on 3 paper napkins over lunch by a bunch of cracked engineers in Austin as a temporary measure. We still use it today. SCION when?

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@Xilo_K

3 months

@norvid_studies isn't there just very few people that read in general, then even fewer people that read stuff that isn't slop. and then there's actually a lot of very well known non-slop to read first, which will mean it can be years before you even get to Wolfe? Unless you're very online oc

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@teortaxesTex isn’t the QT easily falsified by just looking at high performing undergrads from top 10 engineering programs? probably over half are 130+ and a lot of those are perfectly normal well adjusted people. At the end of the day, 130 “only” filters you into the 98th percentile…

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3 months

@SanjayNadaraja @theojaffee Thanks!

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@Xilo_K

5 months

@PradyuPrasad seriously, no. get the book. sit down, read it. do the exercises. You'll have a much deeper understanding than going through it with chatgpt. Aftwards anki it for sure, but in general I fear there's a lot of "pseudo-learning" that happens when people use LLMs for studying.

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@anpaure yeah honestly when this came out I legit thought we're a year away from AGI it's the best thing ever.

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@Xilo_K

5 months

@58hws84x4b Thank you. You're correct. God's in his heaven. ALl is right with the world.

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@Xilo_K

8 months

Decided to drop this on the TL as well. Would love some feedback if anyone has something to add:

not a sloth

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ok so what kinda books should i actually read to brainmaxx

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@Xilo_K

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This man is 80, looks like 55 and no one knows what his company does. Also he owns half of hawaii. How did we settle on zuck to be the reptilian??

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Larry Ellison of Oracle, $ORCL, has become the world's second-richest person, dethroning Jeff Bezos of Amazon, $AMZN.

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@_Defeatable_ how'se what I'm saying not just this?

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@busgus swiss politics? or international. we talk a lot of international stuff and maybe some economics. but very little internal swiss.

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@QiaochuYuan this is 100% coming across wong but, isn't that "just" the quote from dune? (btw, great article. Been very much enjoying your writings since you're back)

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Have you heard of any of the following: - HPMOR - Orthogonality Thesis - Gwern - Busy beaver numbers - Marginal Revolution

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the fact that such a meme has the potential of vitality and isn’t some niche in-group thing is hugely worrying.

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@radshaan honestly, what do you want out of it? is it more like societal stuff and social contract etc. or is it more in a direction of consciousness stuff? I've read solely based off of friends going "this is good, give it a try" and it's worked wonders, tho it was very all over the place

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@Xilo_K

3 months

just leaving this here

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This is big: "Taiwan said the Chinese coast guard boarded a Taiwanese fishing boat Tuesday before steering it to a port in mainland China, and demanded that Beijing release the vessel. The Tachinman 88 was intercepted by two Chinese vessels Tuesday evening near the Kinmen

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@Deltanomicss her, but thanks! Manual to spaceship earth is a good start then probably. Great advice as usual ;)

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brooo‘s hiring is kinda fun. get to interview cracked people and swipe left/right on them. Becoming recruiting pilled.

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@Xilo_K

3 months

Don't romanticize wealthy and powerful people grabbing even more power and wealth

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3 months

We live in a timeline where Trump, Thiel, and Musk have teamed up to take on the Cathedral. It almost seems like a sci-fi plot.

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@kitten_beloved I mean, I'm willing to agree. But no way that say 50k words is 99.9%... Bilingual people should have that by default. Knowing french or german enhances your english vocab. IQ Correlation ought to only hold within two sigma here (conjecture)

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@Xilo_K

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@nearcyan may the crumbs that fall off their table be enough to feed my kin

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@Xilo_K

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You guys can get annoyed at *boiling water* all you like. But have you SEEN the actual turbine? It's a 20m collection of magical spinning disks and it's beautiful.

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finding out nuclear power is just boiling water to spin a turbine is an adult version of learning there’s no santa

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@Xilo_K

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@8chabard what you want is love and passionate spontaneity. at that point complexity and interest is inherent to it and secondary to what you‘re actually doing.

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@Xilo_K

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@QueerIvy @peak_transit behold. the joke.

0 And 1 Are Not Probabilities — LessWrong

One, two, and three are all integers, and so is negative four. If you keep counting up, or keep counting down, you’re bound to encounter a whole lot…

www.lesswrong.com

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@Xilo_K

3 months

the way to improve is to recover agency. wallowing in your own filth and regressing to a child will not help you. if someone is sustaining you, they’re enabling this. Pity and inaction will not help you.

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@Xilo_K

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@BasedNorthmathr @Rahll but if you do care, you're still perfectly capable of doing it yourself! you can have the most elaborate coffee setup, write letters to your friends, go to farmers markets these things have just stayed the same price while the rest gets cheaper fucking decels man

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@Xilo_K

5 months

@michaeltastad bro fuck if I know... elon ban me if I do a wrongthing. First post to hit more then 10k views anyway lol.

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@Xilo_K

7 months

@qtnx_ Is this cringe: Yes If this is actually revolutionary, will it matter: No unironically, 50% of people will walk our going e/acc dead and the other half going e/acc won

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@Xilo_K

5 months

the box of newports and a choker on top… rust developers whyyyyy

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@vmfunc

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me and @kennethnym were slightly bored.. buttplug support for the rust compiler.

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@Xilo_K

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I had an incredible time in SF! I’m glad to have had the opportunity to meet so many wonderful people, to even have made some friends. It’s concretised my plans to come here; The future is being built, and I’d rather watch up close than from afar.

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3 months

do not cry. The man has gone farming. I wish to one day buy his potatoes.

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@tenobrus I was flying with my then-gf and she rested her head on my lap and i started fiddling with the tray on the seat which then crashed open and hit her on the forehead. I don’t deserve love.

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@Xilo_K

3 months

@DeepDishEnjoyer this is executive branch coded

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@Xilo_K

3 months

@mister_shroom @formermissNJ probably a materials thing? Can't imagine that the treatments they do on sailing rope are body safe probably this is just cotton or sth? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Am I the only person who tried viet coffee and didn't like it? Far too sweet, condensed milk tastes off... Plain espresso any day.

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@tenobrus yeah. here’s him “arguing” under a post:

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7 months

god I hate unambitious people. fries my brain to work against them. anyone have experience dealing with them? especially in a context like FSAE

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@Xilo_K

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@servomechanica yes but also they don't scale as well. like, have you looked at ship engines? we ain't electrifying that any time soon.

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@PaulSkallas Specializing and massively profitting from a very narrow thing is deep lindy. It's basically the story of human progress.

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@visakanv The damage that the entire "what if you hadn't eaten breakfast" narrative has done is truly tremendous it allows for the dehumanizing of most people in your life which to some is the tread of self confidence they cling to

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@a_musingcat wait wasn't the entire point of this place that we actually get some accomplished people here? like, I don't get the entire gifted kid nonsense... If you're 20 in a good school with good grades and great project experience you're probably "gifted" and haven't failed?

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6 months

@EsotericCofe donut. OpenGL has a marginally higher skill floor I’d argue. now go try a vulkan triangle ;)

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@sporadicalia very unfortunate... The way forward is probably to simply use it as an output mechanism. Write a small article? post about it. Building cool stuff? post about it. don't interact, just live.

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stop hating on "normies". Start loving people. Be elitist on the things that matter to you, if you must, but don't complain about how you're "too smart to make friends". the dude who just sold you a bagel is probably a great person. talk to those around you.

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@Xilo_K

25 days

no shade but why does this look like a highschool?

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no standing room in the deep generative models lecture at mit today

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