Michael Pipolo

Base-model Montana farm kid somehow now working on AI and data infra in The Swamp.™ Opinions my own.

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

November exercise: every day this month, I’m gonna post about something or someone I’m grateful for. Conventional wisdom is that hedonic adaptation comes for everything eventually, but that hasn’t really been my experience: sometimes I feel almost overflowing with gratefulness for the things that surround me. But I’m not good at all about expressing this stuff out loud, so people who know me often get the impression that I’m severe and critical. Let’s go!

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

@cynlioness You might enjoy Andy Matuschak’s “unusual applications of spaced repetition”: https://t.co/9szBwb0cdn

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

@MarsmanMelvin @SteelCityClaire Park County, right where it really starts to flatten out into the plains of eastern Montana. So that dense deciduous forest canopy in the South was something else to see. Somehow the evergreen forests never seem quite as thick.

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

@brian_balster Yup. Haven’t done a lot of backpacking myself, but I was well acquainted with a hand pump on a well as a kid!

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

10/30. I’m thankful to have running potable water on demand and at trivial cost. I don’t think a week passes in which I am not struck at one time or another—filling a glass, washing a dish, taking a shower—by what a remarkable and historically anomalous gift this is.

[kepano @kepano]

Reacting to whatever the latest models are stuck on is too schizophrenic. You're working within their shadow, too influenced by what they would do or not do.

It's better make decisions with a longer term view, and follow what's right for your product, tastes, brand, etc.

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

And this is me, an ultra-conscientious person, treating it with the utmost care because I didn’t have a case yet. Setting it only on clean surfaces, being careful never to slide it but pick it up vertically from the edges…

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

I’d read that Ceramic Shield 2 is really tough, so for the first time ever, I decided to go without a screen protector when I got an iPhone 18 a week ago. Uhh guys, this thing already has like a dozen fine scratches, two of which I can feel under a fingernail. What on earth.

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

@ArakiRenka https://t.co/p8CUPBSdYB

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@joshuaprichards Epilogue: We talked later that day, during which convo I formally friendzoned her. But we ended up hooking up a few months later and dating anyway. 😬

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

I’ve never told this story cuz I still feel badly about it, but…

I’m a 21-y.o. in college, and a good friend (foreign exchange student, ESL) shows up at my dorm room on Valentine’s Day morning with a candy apple and card:

me: Wow, thank you, this is so sweet of you, etc. etc. But…
she: ??
me: Well, I feel like I have to tell you this: friends really don't exchange V-day gifts in the U.S. It’s pretty exclusively seen as a romantic gesture.
she: *stares*
me: … But seriously, thank you, I do appreciate it! See you in the cafeteria later?
she: *continues staring*

So yeah, a lot of us are genuinely and utterly clueless.

[Ann ❤️ @Annie_Modiba]

Men please be honest. Are y'all really clueless when a woman is into you, or do you pretend like you don't know because the feeling isn't mutual?

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

@image_heist Well tbh I’m basically asexual so… “undefined”?

But I’ve had a lot of female friends, many of whom I find attractive, but I usually want to remain friends more than I want to throw the dice, even if the opportunity arises. e.g., https://t.co/r0eS8pcHAW

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

flashback to that time a good female friend was like “I really wanna have sex with you” and I was like “that’s ok, don’t worry about it”

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

that slight tension you can feel in your body when you've got something important hanging out in your clipboard

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

@ifeigen_ Truth. It took me a few more years to figure that one out

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@qdrgj3 Exacto! Tienen que batirme con uno de estos ladrillos

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

Vibecamp 6 idea: bring a bunch of these double-sided foam bricks for general distribution. Lot of us need all the help we can get.

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

@cryptobruh117 Exactly… it takes a lot of experience w getting hit on to develop the intuition, and we don’t get that experience

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

@0xIQzz Oh my

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@joshuaprichards Epilogue: We talked later that day, during which convo I formally friendzoned her. But we ended up hooking up a few months later and dating anyway. 😬

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

@PsyberverseGM Quite a baddie in fact

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@MOnyiyioza There’s a reason I don’t tell this story

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@peterneil62 Oof. Bro.

I think I still have ya beat though:

https://t.co/r0eS8pc9Lo

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

flashback to that time a good female friend was like “I really wanna have sex with you” and I was like “that’s ok, don’t worry about it”

[Michael Pipolo @mapipolo]

@yuarecold Always the punching the arm! I guess… that’s a thing too?