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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
software engineering is a doomed exercise. the sheer hubris to think that things can be represented
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
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in disciplines that actually value knowledge and learning, teachers are elated to find students trying to reason through something from first principles. it demonstrates interest in actually understanding the fundamentals instead of just regurgitating whatever the book says
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
2 years
it’s over
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
ill put $20 on elon tweeting shape rotator or wordcel before 2023
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
going to start a 19th century cafe where you're only allowed in if you're dressed to the nines, we only serve coffee, absinthe, opium, and nitrous, and you're immediately kicked out if you start talking too much normie shit
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
1 year
he was on a call negotiating with a vendor today. it ended with the guy on the other end of the line trying to recruit him to do sales at their company
@_metallurgist
metallurgist
1 year
my brother has such insane rizz that despite only staying in this hotel for one night, the concierge is asking me where he is and if he’ll be back
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@_metallurgist
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3 years
mexican coworker: there is a lot of racism in mexico, kind of like a caste system indian coworker: oh? what’s the ranking of the castes?
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
it’s not common knowledge but secretly girls love massive basement hydroponics systems
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
hmm your app sucks. is it because you were dating a high IQ chick at the time or did you hire a hot girl before product market fit?
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
1 year
whoever did this should consider undoing it. this is not congruent with the norms that make this place what it is
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
1 year
my pastor was once asked why our church does not proselytize. he replied that we do, by living according to our beliefs we inherently attract those who recognize that our lives are good. it’s evident that the ideology this author professes does not result in a life worth living.
@DisgracedProp
Disgraced Propagandist
1 year
I went to Vibecamp
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
what idiot called it a datacenter and not rack city
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
preparing for work by consuming enough stimulants to wake a small village of my ancestors
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
crazy how the body just knows when you graduate from college so it can turn off your ability to function in less than 8 hours of sleep or heal from injuries in under a week
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
this qt is far more of an own on this guy and the people who associate with him than it is of anyone in the screenshot. imagine being so close-minded. hubris does no one any good.
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
“how do you take off your shirt?” “one arm at a time, but if i had more than two arms, you’d see that my approach is actually o(log n)”
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
the best antivirus is using your brain to not click on weird links or download random shit on your computer
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
2 years
at least therapists are done for too
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
bar concept: debate club. mandatory minimum number of shots required before you’re allowed in the debate pits. topics rotate every 30 minutes
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
spiritual but not religious == i believe god exists but im not afraid of him religious but not spiritual == i don’t need god to exist to be afraid of him
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
australians will really call chocolate biscuits "choccy biccy" and see nothing wrong with it
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
1 year
i soaked up all the ‘tism in our bloodline so he could rise unencumbered
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
1 year
my brother has such insane rizz that despite only staying in this hotel for one night, the concierge is asking me where he is and if he’ll be back
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
2 years
how soon are the feds going to send openai a subpoena for someone's chatgpt logs
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
seeking wife
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
the actual utility of ingroup is to erode the definition of autistic to include a large number of otherwise normal people
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
there is always alpha left in the banana stand
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
you: first date at a fancy restaurant, trying to paper over your lack of chemistry with money me: first date in an abandoned RV in the desert teaching her how to cook meth, i majored in chemistry
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
it’s actually really hard to not touch receipts
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
no laptops, phones, or notebooks allowed. we'll provide napkins and pencils if you find yourself having or capable of writing down a legible thought
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metallurgist
3 years
im not really a fan of saying “stay mad” but sometimes… clearly this person has never been a teacher (nor ever had an independent thought) and no one should value the opinions of someone with such a callous attitude towards learning
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
2 years
oh you use midjourney? that’s cool. i can generate infinite images for free in my head but your thing is cool too i guess
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
1 year
dating app for autists where the prompts are just topics to infodump about
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
2 years
what tweets are in the anthology of tpot
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
on the plus side, it’s easy to discount brain-damaged nonsense like this bc it’s p obviously coming out of status insecurity. kinda embarrassing for these quasi-mil types to be so afraid.
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
1 year
“dance like nobody’s watching”? i am always watching. your performance is being measured and evaluated along several axes. you are being scored and ranked. hips locked? that’s going to impact your rating
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
our family’s password management system is the family whatsapp chat
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metallurgist
3 years
@telmudic the basilisk will torture roko but for far simpler reasons than previously thought
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
a deer came to pay respects at grandma’s grave
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
1 year
if we define “ingroup” as “what outgroup is not”, this is outgroup behavior. this particular way of legibilizing drama indicates a failure to grok our norms. plenty of drama passes through tpot, either subtweet or attack in replies as is tradition. anon google form is cowardly.
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
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a few days ago at a church he joined a few people singing a hymn. later that day walking down a street a random guy recognized him and walks up to us to tell him how well he did. power level off the charts
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
1 year
“he just tips well” indeed! but even so, every place we’ve been in the last several days, people who know him have come up to us to greet him, at the mall, convention centers, random streets in foreign countries, tables in restaurants. in social capital a billionaire
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
2 years
psyopped myself last year into believing in the virtue of hard work and it’s making me a worse engineer. trying to unlearn and retvrn to lazy
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
You can just tell this is a very late 80s/early 90s physiognomy, do women still look like this?
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@_metallurgist
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it's weird that people will interpret a largely negative reaction to some thinkpiece as "wow everyone's so triggered, they must have said something true" but no one looks at an abysmal rotten tomatoes score and expects to see a good movie
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
gaslighting other drivers by carefully matching their speed when they try to pass me
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metallurgist
3 years
@thesravaka mexican coworker had just asked if the caste system was still a thing in india, to which we had to reply that it’s still a thing among indians in the US
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
mfs replying threadreaderapp unroll under a 6 tweet thread
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
1 year
living in the bay area makes you forget that the rest of the world still considers faang employment somewhat prestigious
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
i only trust highly-cited research (tweets with many RTs)
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
2 years
i don’t understand this at all. the capabilities didn’t exist before, why would i feel like my time was wasted? there wasn’t an alternative. the time was spent the best it could have been given the circumstances
@chr1sa
Chris Anderson
2 years
I've reached the "anger" stage of coming to grips with life in a ChatGPT world -- I'm angry about all the hours I've spent over the years trying to do hard things in code by searching StackOverflow, random blogs, obscure documentation etc. Feels like all that time was wasted
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@NotTuxedoSam humanities prof said she expected me to fail her midterm. read the entire reader over night, got a perfect score, then dropped the class
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
vibecamp 2023 i will be teaching the few tpot members who don’t already know how to assemble and maintain glocks and AR15s
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
2 years
it’s odd that for a group that prizes clear thinking, internet rationalists are far more experienced at getting into cults than getting out of them
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metallurgist
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“damn bitch you live like this” but it’s the nicest apt you’ve ever seen
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
guy who has high executive function but uses the dumbest sources of information for making decisions
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
2 years
@GergelyOrosz imo hard to compare colocating, or even leasing prebuilt DCs, to building and running one’s own custom DCs from the ground up. orders of magnitude more complexity at the level G/FB etc are operating at vs tw/uber beyond just the raw scale
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
they salting your ass on roman twitter rn
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
need dopamine to fall asleep so please engage with this tweet at a measured but consistent rate until i knock out
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metallurgist
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sydney is committing the cardinal sin of scaring the hoes
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metallurgist
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a dating service for people who have the same targeted ad profiles
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
thanking the lord and praying that the PM who has so far managed to keep a working product unmarred by demand to “innovate” stays strong
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metallurgist
3 years
taking Ls upon Ls at the eye doctor today
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
2 years
it’s a natural reaction to think “i can fix her” when meeting a new codebase. unfortunately she often fixes you first
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
@nvpkp in freshman year of college a suitemate equated a gf with a 4 unit class and said bc he was already taking 3 classes that semester a relationship would be too difficult to fit in
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
<upon meeting another software engineer> Are you a friend of Bill? or a friend of Steve?
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metallurgist
3 years
what if your high status problems like “girl with tattoos are loose” are actually low status problems like “tfw no gf” “need pierced tattooed domme mommy”
@erin_nerung
eris
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when a man posts "girl with tattoos are loose", what he means is "need pierced tattooed domme mommy"
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"im not legible! im not legible!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into the target of yet another hit piece
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i have no patience for cynics. complex problems are difficult to solve not an excuse to give up
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texting while driving is how one demonstrates mastery as both a shape rotator and a wordcel
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@_metallurgist
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not often that you see career suicide happen in real time
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metallurgist
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it’s performance review season which means my vocabulary is developing a preference for vague gerunds
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metallurgist
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flipping the script on my manager by supporting and advising him during our 1:1s
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
1 year
what’s google’s moat? just a wrapper around reddit
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
how many explicit decisions do you make per day
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
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enraged? unfair advantage? smh brits stay losing
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
1 year
which idiot called it tpot instead of autists anonymous
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
due to overcrowding the tree of woe is currently down for repairs. please contemplate elsewhere.
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
2 years
software engineering is incredibly easy up until you have to open a text editor
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
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the author describes this piece as “a mirror,” which is correct: just one pointed at himself.
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
3 years
unironically where can i get a cloak
@PubicZirconium
PubicZirconium
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fall 2021 we bringin back the cloak
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if your app didn't evolve out of a spreadsheet ngmi
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metallurgist
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men will get violent but women will plan revenge on a generational scale
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
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so dumb that you still have to read huge amounts of philosophy to understand basic questions about what’s going on. you’d think evolution would have baked some of that stuff in by now
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metallurgist
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popping an addy to help me fall asleep
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@ctjlewis ideal 4y experience. amazing tradition that we give 18yos a free four years before tossing them into the impact mines
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
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starting a charitable program to teach people even the most basic facts about computer networking
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are these “zoning laws” in the room with us right now
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getting increasingly living-in-SF-pilled
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metallurgist
1 year
recruiter i like cheerfully saying good morning and asking how their candidate did solemnly deliver the bad news “Thanks for letting me know. (edited)” :(
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@_metallurgist
metallurgist
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when we change the parameters the outcome is different and other news at 11
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metallurgist
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why are you, as a man, not living in a wooden cabin in the middle of the forest
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metallurgist
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starting a consulting company where the competitive advantage will be hiring all the "software engineers" who think they are overpaid for the salaries they believe they deserve. insourced labor for outsourced prices
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my favorite metal is copper
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@redoatz she is now 2% pizza
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metallurgist
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what the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you fucking wordcel? ill have you know i graduated top of my class as a shape rotator,,,
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@_metallurgist
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thinking about her
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