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You're weirdly concerned about how much I'm reacting, which is pretty minimally. Like, I can't imagine how I could have raised this while reacting any less. But yes, I also saw you…

The name they've decided to give these, "emergency" chickens, knitting them for hurricane survivors. It's all a step up from just "we like these and they're nice" and into "these a…

Huh, I'd liken school in those grades to a series of meetings basically all day, that are mostly presentations, every day of the week, with a lot of restrictions and harsh conduct …

I'm more stressed out than like... during Summer, when I was a kid. I've never, ever been as stressed out as during school, grades 7-12. If the rest of life had been that stressful…

Framing everything in terms of mental health is one of those things were I can't tell if people are participating in some kind of mass social joke, or are serious.

I'll still bust this out if it's some quick page that's not going to last long (like some kind of "service down for maintenance" page that's only going to be visible for a few minu…

I learned way more on most topics on my own than in school. Reading was the main skill that unlocked that, though things like PBS and (when somewhere with cable, and before these c…

It's funny how Nixon definitely was a crook, and a loon, and should have gone to prison, and his paranoia and shenanigans set the pattern for and gave license to things to come, up…

Too much of that should , but probably won't, set off every alarm and siren with the conservative justices, for stepping way over the line, after their reasoning on Chevron.

God. The WTO penalties are gonna be epic (if much of this stuff ever actually goes into effect).

I think the 3rd or so time that all the work I'd been doing for months or years just got thrown in the garbage, having never provided more benefit than it cost, or even without eve…

> Even companies don't really talk about the future anymore, just vague AI thoughts (and often crazy negative ones, witness the CEOs talking about the white collar bloodbath coming…

I think a lot of harm has been caused by "automation" actually meaning "distributing parts of the same tasks among a bunch of people". As far as I can tell that's one of the main o…

We must still not think cushioned chairs are that important, or we wouldn't make kids spend 13 years straight sitting 5+ hours a day in hard chairs.

It’s really just interviews, and even those are nothing like any exam I’ve ever taken. They’re closest, in terms of the kind of stress and the skills required to look good, to some…

A small set of professionals do, yes. A lot more stay near family and friends instead.

I used a really low-end system for a while some time back, running Linux, and WebKit-based browsers were the only ones with a mainstream (so: actually renders correctly for practic…

A lot of developers and “UX” “experts” really don’t appreciate how extreme these modals are. They disrupt everyone a little bit, and for less-technical users can throw them off ent…

Even with the social fix, there’s usually one person (sometimes two!) in a four-player game who does nothing wrong but is basically out by the second or third time around the board…

Monopoly’s maybe the only board game I prefer playing in computerized form. Even the one on the NES is totally fine. Rules enforced without having to remember them, auctions run fo…

I've been like fuckin' Nostradamus since early in the Dubya admin just because I skim GAO and CBO reports on big legislation sometimes, can read graphs, take the things Republicans…

Yeah the only thing I find surprising about some cases (remember, nobody reports boring output) of prompts like this having that outcome is that models didn't already do this (sure…

> it's not to stand out when every person types like this Yeah, OK, I should have written "for social signaling". > basically, it doesn't make it harder. Iassureyou,capitalizationi…

My newest router doesn't have any of that shit and works just as well, with at least as much range, as the one it replaced, which had six(!) of those insectoid antenna things. I wo…

Kids doing weird shit to stand out, like every generation. It makes reading harder, and with modern tools it certainly isn't any easier to write—with both those things working agai…