

Screw that ephemera
I mean consume entertainment you like no matter
But don’t waste your time getting familiar with pop culture for socializing.
Instead geek out on whatever truly interests you. Find those people
“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”
-R B Fuiler


Screw that ephemera
I mean consume entertainment you like no matter
But don’t waste your time getting familiar with pop culture for socializing.
Instead geek out on whatever truly interests you. Find those people

said nothing at all instead of praising him
She praised what was praise-worthy: public service generally
This is how you focus on shared humanity, foster inclusiveness, and turn down the partisan tribalism

No matter what you think of Kamala, this kind of adult behavior is to be encouraged – no, demanded – of the political class


The hyperscalars have a simple vision that’s easy to state:
“Agentic AI at ~$200/mo is coming to replace all your white-collar jobs”
“I love being at the podium. If I can’t be erect, at least I can be upright!”
-Christopher Hitchens (RIP)


amoral and/or evil
Yes there exist bona fide diagnosable sociopathies and psychopathologies that can lead to “amorality”. But they’re pretty rare.
Much much more common is the insular thinking of an in-group in an information bubble. Especially, again, when that group values faith above reason


“sitting US Senators were being surveilled”
That’s his indignation. That Senators were being investigated! By the formerly independent non-political office tasked with doing exactly that, in the context of an investigation where each request required justification and evidence.
And if James Comey is allowed to present his case in open court, as he is requesting, we’ll actually see that evidence.


They’re on a mission from God. It’s faith-based.
Once it’s no longer evidence-based and all actions are moral because God is on your side… there is no evil you won’t do, while feeling righteous the whole while.


Ouch!
okay that’s … abusive (on her part)
and definitely never bed an abuser.
I guess the trick is finding the right kind and level of emotional issues


In my experience the greater the emotional challenges the person has to face, the more amazing they are at sex
Can be != will be
You’re looping over 50M records, extracting into your csv. Did you bother using the appropriate library, or did your little perl script just do split(/,/,$line)


Desperate enough to give the President an earful not just a graze?


“Never sit down to program without a crowbar close at hand.” -Stanislaw Lem


Still not Bloons Tower Defense 4 😢
Edit: stupidly did not give the version number of one of my favorite games and a cherished childhood memory of my children
Had no idea like every other version is Proton :/


For low power neural nets look up “spiking neural networks”

Faith.
Belief without evidence.
This is what we engineers call the Root Cause of the Problem


Just the ones in USA


“the spiders are eating each other in a jar” Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba
(Different jar; similar spiders)


At least one Nobel Laureate has exactly the opposite opinion (see the Hinton lecture above)
This pr0n is making me hard