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I had a _really_ in-depth conversation with a friend with multiple interesting lines of thought going at once that only worked because the chat we were using had a per-message reply feature. The conversation would not have been as meaningful to me otherwise. I'm not sure IRC could have supported a chat like that...

(admittedly I haven't tried anything other than a few basic IRC chats, never really getting deep into IRCv3 or new features and stuff)

Didn't even realize this was a thread and not a single tweet until you posted this link. Guess that's the downsides of not having a Twitter acct anymore.

What's the point of using videos like this if it's a risk to reputation just to use them?

> Most date parsing woes (in my opinion) come from ambiguity: from supporting too many formats or attempting maximum flexibility in parsing. ... There is a maintenance freedom and simplicity in strict parsing requirements ...

Is this the endgame of "be liberal in what you accept, but strict in what you output"? You end up supporting an untold amount of usage patterns, not even chosen by yourself if you use a library like `luxon` to handle the "be liberal" part for you.

"Cost is rapidly coming down" but capital expenditures are still high. They'll have to charge for this eventually, no?

What were you looking for that was prone to scrubbing? Just curious because I have a collection of historical data to go through and don't know what to expect

> Lost around 14kg using GLP-1s from a D2C provider (no detail on their electronic health record)

Huh? How would one get these electronic health records? I thought each provider keeps these and there's no public database except for vaccines? And it doesn't exist because HIPAA would make it hard?

And even that's wrong. There are places in Michigan where I've seen it allowed, either in local ordinances or de-facto

I hate articles like these. Every city and township has their own set of ordinances that makes generalizations like this not possible. They might define RV differently, or they might only allow it for a limited amount of time, or only during the building of the dwelling. I've looked a lot in Michigan, and it's definitely possible in some places.

You have to go to the source yourself, per city, and figure it out. And the ordinances change over the years too. Something I wish someone would solve with an LLM and the mountain of data companies like LexisNexis have on local ordinances.

> But we judge places by the people who go there. We always have.

Does anyone do this for a restaurants? That's not something that ever really factored into my food habits

Didn't this already happen? It just seems like it was only progressively rolled out to Chrome browsers. My work PC was hit with this about a month ago, and now I get ads there...

No. This is incorrect. OP explicitly mentions "jumping through bureaucratic hoops"

> Not long after, I had jumped through the relevant bureaucratic hoops, and subsequently found myself cycling home from the pharmacy

Untrue. I find problems with niche knowledge, heavy math, and/or lack of good online resources to be troublesome for AI. Examples so far I've found of consistent struggle points are shaders, parsers, and streams (in Nodejs at least)

Context window will solve a class of problems, but will not solve all problems with AI.

And the opposite is true. There's a balance. For some that authenticity really works for them at work (those with a general curiosity, an interest in how groups interact and work, who are workaholics) and it aligns. For others it does not and is unfortunate in its requirement of more energy to suppress and lack of natural culture-fit.

Very true, there is a balance to be found. The suggestion from OP to leave it all at home, to focus purely on skill and merit is too black/white.

But this is how people really are. Being authentic is easier for some because the corporate world more closely aligns with the dominant culture. Take the casual ignorance of an employee PC background of a sexy woman, because that's just how the boys are. Or how women are meant to breastfeed out of sight.

People do present differently in different contexts. But it is a requirement to file off all your sharp edges to participate effectively in the workplace. Intentionally limiting yourself, your output, to cater to the social conformity of others seems to be an anti-goal. But it is what we do.

I like keeping _all_ my shell history, with timestamps. Even the fuckups. It's come in handy a few times now

* Looking back at my old process for onboarding into some new technology. I can easily see how my technique evolved as I optimized for more correctness (e.g. cp -r vs cp -rp vs rsync with whatever flags does everything I want, I know I want the most recent incantation)

* Figure out the exact process I did for a backup or other movement of data when I want to ensure I have copied X, Y, and Z. Sometimes my shell history has saved me where my notes have failed.

What kind of life is that? To be a sterile, subservient entity for the majority of your existence.

Being authentic in the working world helps in so many ways. And it works when your goals and the goals of the company align. The advice to just shut up and code leads to no good outcomes for anyone.

> It’s been incredibly demoralizing to discover what the tech industry actually did was to invent surveillance capitalism, create exploitative “gig economy” business models,create a new generation of robber barons, enable the rise of global fascism, facilitate genoicde,

Is the world actually good?

I struggle with this idea that if you actually create some sort of game changing tech, the business incentives will eventually use it to cause net negative harm for society. At best this takes the form of just resource extraction of customers. At worst it will be twisted by societies current power centers to further each of their collective tragectories (not net positive)?

Why create things for a society that will abuse them.

It's been so much more rewarding playing with AI coding tools on my own than through the subtle and not so subtle nudges at work. The work AI tools are a walled garden, have a shitty interface, feel made to extract from me than to help me. In my personal stuff, downloading models, playing with them, the tooling, the interactions, it all been so much more rewarding to give me stable comfortable workflows I can rely on and that work with my brain.

The dialog around it is so adversarial it's been hard figuring out how to proceed until dedicating a lot of effort to diving into the field myself, alone, on my personal time and learned what's comfortable to use it on.

Migrated off of Gmail a few years ago and the gains of not having to worry about Google's direction keeps paying off.

Go with a provider who's actually focused on email, you'll thank yourself.

If that is the case, isn't the future more private code? The producers realize that public release is no longer in their favor and will keep it in their groups (until they leak or whatever)?

A friend's relative was detained at the border and had their phone searched on political grounds. There are multiple videos of people being whisked away by masked police and government. Not to mention all the other screws that have been turned on academia that I've heard in countless stories from people in my circle.

The media is not doing us any good, but the fear is not imagined.

Any idea on how to segment a VPN between friends? I have a few critical servers on my VPN I only want one or two devices to access, but no other devices. Mostly so that in case a rogue device enters or a friend gets hacked, there's no access to my sensitive services.

Depends what it is. IKEA stuff goes quick if priced right. Everything else is harder

Nope, this was CEFAS

This was in Manchester, UK

I had this experience too. Booked on AirBnb with someone who was about the same price as the hotels. Turns out the hosts were just employees of some letting company. They wanted photo ID, a deposit, and sign a second contract in a _separate website_, which I declined. Contacting AirBnb support they said this was fully allowed and I should have read the description harder. I did get a full refund but was told it was only because it was "my first time" and I've never had other issues.

I'm glad I turned around and booked with a hotel. It was very personable, good value, and better than what I would've gotten for the same price on AirBnb for that city.

What your describe is the same concept as what https://hash.ai purports to be

Try a game jam, I've never been to one with a sponsor and they were much more interpersonal and social with the participants than you describe.