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What then do I gain by being wise?” I said to myself, “This too is meaningless.”

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@ArtemisConsort Isn’t there a causal link here, namely that pi is the circumference over diameter of a circle?

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@captgouda24 I’m curious how you got even the unfunded PhD seat at your undergrad? I also had poor grades in undergrad and no good professor relationships, and certainly would not have been able to continue there as a PhD student.

Love the ambition

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Training ChatGPT to summarize infinite jest in such an engaging manner that people never stop listening

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Best rule of thumb for keeping your team moving quickly: never criticize without an alternative

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So is the s&p 500

[Right Wing Cope @RightWingCope]

they're selling dollars for 92 cents

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Everyone: Gee, I sure hope no one builds it

Anyone:

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@sundarpichai why do I need backticks to command+click on a table name in the BigQuery UI? If the SQL compiler knows it’s a table without backticks, so should the UI

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This oneshots so many anti ai people. LLM skeptics always cite google search as why AI sucks, and you just can’t bridge the gap after a product experience that bad

[kache @yacineMTB]

really fucking tired of the google LLM generated search result. 90% of the time it's hallucinations

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uhh yes you can offer an entry ticket to the United States, it’s called h1b

One can debate its efficacy, but it’s certainly not entitled to say “This thing that currently exists in the status quo is useful to me”

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

The sheer level of entitlement displayed by San Fransisco tech bros is breathtaking.

Let's make this perfectly clear, @jarredsumner.

You can hire whoever you want, because the company, and the job, belong to you.

You may offer whatever pay you want, because the money belongs to you.

The United States, however, does not belong to you.

So you may not offer an entry ticket to the United States as part of the pay package. Because it's not your personal United States.

It doesn't matter if your rationalization of business need is 100% true or 100% bullshit. If you need foreigners, and they somehow can't code in "zip" without touching magic American dirt, that's a you problem.

A need in you does not create an obligation in the rest of us.

So hire whoever you want, build an office in Mumbai or Jakarta or whatever, then work on your thing for four years and sell it to Wibble dot com for thirty million dollars, just before they get bought out by Infoslop dot com for two hundred million dollars, which then goes bankrupt because it spent all its operating capital buying useless companies.

You might think you "need" to invite the entire world to America to execute this plan, you might even be right, but so what?

What's in it for us?

Why should we let you hand out tickets to our country?

We don't need a faster Javascript installer, or whatever exactly the hell it is you are making. We never even asked for one. We also don't need chatbots that can redraw the Mona Lisa in the style of Studio Gihbli and lie to us about Norse mythology and the Revolutionary War, or robotaxis that only serve twenty square blocks of San Fransisco.

What the hell has Silicon Valley actually built in the last ten years that benefits Americans? As far as I can see, your Ubers and Doordashes and Taskrabbits look like nothing more than a sad attempt by a bunch of overfunded manchildren to replace their mommies.

And before you tell me I don't understand the problem space, know that I spent twenty years writing low-level performant systems code in C++, before I quit because I got sick of sitting in meetings with human headaches like you.

Now I write science fiction, which doesn't pay quite as well, yet, but I am my own master, only answerable to an audience who doesn't hate me for being white and voting Trump, and isn't itching to replace me with an indentured servant who's not allowed to quit.

So, yes, I actually know what I am talking about when I say that your code-twiddling code isn't important enough to let you turn this entire country into a clone of the particular circle of hell that you voluntarily choose to inhabit, which I just got back from visiting and couldn't wait to return to Tennessee.

We have trees here.

[jordi @jordienr]

legendary infra dev pulling up to the office once every 3 years

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If you’re not tracking your startup’s burn rate in Hz, are you really locked in?

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The birth rate crisis will be solved by state-funded fluffing

[Romy @Romy_Holland]

all i do now is stare at my baby or stare at photos of my baby *while* holding my baby. it’s even better than ppl promised. the birth rate crisis is insane—this is the best drug ive ever taken, how is everyone not clamoring to get some of this stuff?

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Though it does make me wonder, is there an undiscovered superdiscipline for the ultra-smart where the professors would be mostly conservative?

“It’s called the free market” is maybe a reasonable answer

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I always loved how people would use this chart to justify that “smart people are conservative” when it shows a conservative majority in precisely 0 academic disciplines

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

Almost all popular critics of economics know basically nothing about it. Economics is predominantly left of center as a discipline. College econ departments have 5.5 dems for every 1 registered republican.

People just make up what economists are like for no reason.

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Just got fired from my job at google, I was in charge of making sure the “show more” button in the bigquery console took you to a random list of tables you weren’t searching for and have never seen in your life

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I have done literally thousands of tasks in my life where I think it’ll be done in an hour and an hour later it isn’t done, and somehow I’m still planning my day around my next task being done in an hour

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Whoops I didn’t pick the winning lottery numbers yesterday

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When I reply to a tweet I disagree with and they like my reply and I’m forced to grapple with their superior intellectual openness

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@stillestvibes @dystopiangf Exactly, I’m probably not interested in you

There are lots of people I’m not interested in

Why would I want you to have a mechanism to discover that

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Shift + enter and option + arrow key are the only S tier hotkeys