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"The best nootropic is getting up in the morning and getting sunlight. Then you sleep at a reasonable hour and wake up fully rested."

North and South both screw each other over. And people of the same race / region / caste / creed screw over others belonging to the same group. This is universal and will never cha…

Yup, because that works out really well in India...

Funny how the United States is speedrunning ""sensible"" legislation without considering what it entails in the country the practice originates from. And yep, once enforced it's ne…

>Have you _used_ ChatGPT? I have, and I didn't find it to be useful for anything I did. I can do what it does with a search engine and trusty C-f. Also, TTS exists. It's 50% tech a…

The adoption of the so-called "Software 2.0" depends on how influential OpenAI is as a company. The majority of the use-cases of GPT-3 are only about "remixing" information, and th…

They don't. It's you who gives it meaning. Also, it's trained on trillions (gazillions?) of man-hours of data, so even if it's an antiquated "algorithm" it manages to be authentic.…

Companies either want you to be technically proficient or to support the hierarchy. You need to suss out what kind of company you work for and act accordingly.

They exist to propagate good feelings amongst management and to ensure a fat paycheck keeps coming though, even if it means sabotaging the company.

IT Consultants =/= Standard Consultants from Big4 and the like

No, that's just the business tagline. Consultancies purity spiral on Goodhart's law. They're worse than useless, and it's their "cult"-like behavior that is the basis of their enti…

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.gnu.emacs/ Repository: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/?h=feature/android

Thinking hard and pausing before writing: If you can suss out the pitfalls for some program before you write a significant amount of it, it'd save you a lot of time. The way you've…

> The newer research papers coming out are where I would focus if I'm really worried. Great reply, could you expand on this?

I think that's more representative of tabloid writers than anything, haha. Understanding text is difficult, and scales with g. GPT-3 can make us believe that it can comprehend text…

Arranging books in shelves by color is the biggest pseud tell out there.

You know what would REALLY be a cool competition? Who can build [X] the fastest, from scratch. Could be a house, clothes, food, etc. Known objective, and meritocratic.

Hey, you're right -- this is a bargaining chip for BigCo, but the "invisible" factor here is that the economy is clearly in freefall and no one is ready to call the emperor naked. …

Starting early trumps everything else. You can still try and be competent in a year or two, but you'll sound weird saying certain words. Read more, speak more, and try to not trans…

"A boy gassed you up" I've never heard about this before. Seems like gen Z (gen alpha?) is increasingly tech illiterate and tech-dependent. Not ten years ago, most kids weren't giv…

SQLite. Were it a corporation, it'd be a FAANG.

No, it's "PEBKAC", so we need multiple AI personalities even if they're connected to the same backend.

What ice-cream flavor is best? Chocolate Chip or Strawberry?

It's the managerial pipeline! Handle it with care because it will never be abolished.

Because google searches show results from many people, and so disregarding results (and people) is easy. This is ONE machine, in a take-it-or-leave-it scenario. You'll either like …