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Making beautiful graphics & doing cool things with computers. Obsessed with self-improvement. Furry Transhumanist | Libereco | Arto & Teฤฅnologio | $QRL ๐ฟ๏ธ๐๐
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Joined March 2016
Anyone vaguely within commuting distance of the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles currently looking for roommates or would be open to it?. I need to move out within the next 2 weeks and am currently looking for the cheapest sub-$1000 housing/home office options.
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@Jafpro_16 @micsolana Not a billionaire here. I'm not having any trouble either, and my profile picture is literally pixel art with a pride flag overlayed on it.
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@knowclarified Wasn't the orginal Manhattan Project secret? So how can we be so sure the US has not?.
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@iamcoriarnold How many of these are causes of being a millionaire and how many of them are effects? All those sources of income, for example, make the most sense after one has already made some money, otherwise at small scale it's often a better idea to invest in one's own skills.
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@prof1leCS @cigaM_88 @levelsio @larry0x Xperia 1 phones are more expensive than iPhones (at least new). I love my Xperia.
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@Jekred2 @CharlieJGardner Oh wow! Now that I see a zoomed in version of the road, I notice there's parking on it โ Even in the middle of the causeway, lol =(โขใฎโข)=
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@iamcoriarnold I don't wonder what habits millionaires have today. I wonder what habits they had, before they became millionaires, that allowed them to get there.
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@ZimmehlRily @ConcealedBones That one looks pretty big. Maybe it's larger than the 13oz selected, and when scanned the app said "no, this is the wrong item"?.
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@prof1leCS @cigaM_88 @levelsio @larry0x Sort of person to try to "win" online by blocking anyone who disagreesโฆ
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@d_feldman Imagine blindly pasting a question into ChatGPT without reading the text input at all! I feel like that would require being pretty inattentive. Then again, maybe the avocado white text part seems just plausible enough that one would not think to double-take.
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@DefenderOfBasic I've been millitantly blocking all ads for years now but sometimes, once in a while, want to see what ads are these days. I've searched for a website with just ads only, but did not find one. This reminds me, I should probably just create that.
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@Brouhandas @TJoanides @HomeDepot @Bubblebathgirl @libsoftiktok No. NEITHER side should do this! Pressuring companies into firing their employees for speech outside of their jobs is not right, period.
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@PstafarianPrice There is an alternative: Phones and apps that simply do not do any complex post-processing and leave the image noisy. These were taken on two different phones (Librem 5 in Raw, OnePlus One in jpeg) and both are simply noisy instead of AI-like.
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@BigDickBarclay @uncledoomer Creates COยฒ emissions, resulting in increased climate change; and more importantly, it makes you dependent on the oil companies instead of being able to charge from any random source of electricity (e.g, solar panels). Electric allows regenerative breaking too, which I love.
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@SmoothDunk I feel like this comic was written to portray the people in the boat as wrong, butโฆ it can totally be interpreted the other way too: If stonehenge ends up (via hyperbole) underwater, then clearly that was not a very effective method of climate advocacy.
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@GeorgistSteve Simply do not give covenants/HOAs the legal authority to control what other people do on property they own. If you own it, you should be able to do what you want with it as long as it does not violate the rights of others.
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@Pidud_ Thatโฆ makes so much more sense now. I always wondered how people were able to make so much money in 3D to afford these 3D asset packs. It makes so much more sense if the answer is "They don't"! Maybe I should just make 3D assets.
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@senn_twt This is great! I put this in Cycles and then did a few tweaks to the materials, lighting etc to make it more accurate but with also a bit of artistic liberty to try to get the mood similar to the original (instead of re-creating lighting setup exactly). The current result:
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@justksthings3 @plzbepatient Maybe it looked dated in the 70s, but in the 2020s it looks absolutely fantastic to me in a nice retrofuturistic way. I would love it if more architecture looked like that.
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@teortaxesTex Only until ~25 to develop oneself, to not be stuck in sub-optimal, obsolete ways? That is indeed terrifying!. It creates a lot of pressure to be the best one can be in any aspects that will become rigid by age 25. But how can one know how to do this correctly in-time??.
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@svpino @luiscarlossousa @GeorgeMKnowles Why in the world not?? Is not dropping it one of the best real-world tests of build quality and durability? What do you mean by "build quality" if what you're talking about isn't strongly correlated with how it survives a slight drop?.
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@anon45343 @kinocopter @JadenPMcNeil Easy to stop that from happening:.- Use a VPN that saves no logs, like Azire.- Use another VPN (or other proxy) to access the VPN.
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@AlexGDimakis @DimitrisPapail Crazy how I could immediately tell it was ChatGPT within the first 2 or 3 sentences!. How is it so obvious?? There's not even any obvious giveaway there โ it just really, strongly, feels like ChatGPT!.
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@testaccountoki A more capable model means you do not need so many messages to do the same thing!. GPT-4 needs to be hand-held for many steps and often needs to be ran multiple times to get the best result. Whereas GPT-5 is much more reliable and can do entire projects well in a single prompt.
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@pli_cachete Well, they did say 5 years. Seems a pretty good prediction given how things are turning out 10 years later!. (Also, woah, 2014 is 10 years ago now!).
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@Viper_png Aren't mixels when the "pixel" art isn't on the actual grid?. For the block placement, I think I can see what they might mean. The "blocky" arch, for example, has extremely large blocks that don't seem to be on a real grid at all. Basically voxel equivilent of 2D mixels.
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@levelsio @larry0x I refuse to use any platform that doesn't let me root it to get updates years after manufacture support and do things like system-wide ad blocking, and where you have to pay for super basic things like terminal emulators and RAW photography.
Today, we are launching something unlike any tech product in 2024: a product that uses zero AI and zero computational photography to produce natural, film-like photos. We call it Process Zero.
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@rustbeltenjoyer These are NOT the same fight. It is possible to support some without supporting the others if your principles are based on anything other than traditional party lines.
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@prof1leCS @cigaM_88 @levelsio @larry0x So, anything said by @prof1leCS should be taken with a grain of salt, at this point. Due to blocking anyone who disagrees, you will not get the full picture in regards to anything they say.
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@JazzmineBudge @seconds_0 They don't think it's actually easy. That's why they said:.> This is not a dunk this is a request for clarity.
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@lisatomic5 Makes me think of my dashboard photos. I take a LOT of photos of everythingโฆ but have especially many photos of this since I use it to document mileage. Don't even have to search hard โ 1st photo I selected was of dashboard without even previewing! Also my random street photos.
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I have now went there!
@happysmash27 The R3X will be available at Pasadena for viewing! ๐ฅฐ.
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@somewheresy Half the reason I am so pro AI is for contests like this โ particularly ones with less large prizes โ where doing things manually does not make that much sense in terms of hourly pay relative to the prize.
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@prof1leCS @cigaM_88 @levelsio @larry0x โฆSuch that when they throw an ad-hominem or similar response, the person targetted is not able to respond to it.
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@Lord_Shmesh @Ir0bokeNeko That episode aired on January 17, 2000, which would mean he was 13 years old at the time of airing (not 14 yet due to the month), if I'm calculating correctly.
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@Duriaann_ @rustbeltenjoyer No way! They are more energy-efficient and do not need to be replaced remotely as often as environmentally-unfriendly halogens. People should NOT be forced to planned-obsolete bulbs that fill up landfills and waste electricity!.
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@browserdotsys This is the same input, right? I have thus far not been able to spot any differences. Or maybe I can only see in sha256?.
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@levelsio Why exactly are they protesting tourists? Degrowth seems too vague โ are they really targetting tourists in particular because of climate change and perceived natural resource scarcity???.
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@anpaure In your opinion, which counts as reading more?.- Listening to a book.OR.- Reading ๐ feed.?.
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@ilyamiskov @Songzeee I do not have a physical phone keyboard, but I do have a physical computer keyboard. This is the result of me typing with my eyes closed on it.
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@KennethCassel I sure wish!. But I do not have enough capital to build a factory and hardly know where to even start on how to build these things IRL. I want to build physical things but find myself quite constricted to the world of digital only.
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@levelsio For uploaded images, the largest dimension must be no larger than exactly 900px. For profile pictures, the limit is 400px. If neither dimension exceeds 900px (or 400px for profile images), then transparency will work:.
Okey, okey, 801px works. But does 900px work? How about 850?
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@strangestloop @nosilverv If subject of a photo is an object and not a person, I would rather look at just the object without the person blocking it no matter what the person's gender is. If there are any people in the frame (which can help give context in some cases), they should never block the object.
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@mickeyxfriedman @flairAI_ I wonder if this could work with clothing made from scratch in 3D, and if so, which angles and such one would need to render it from.
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@chxryoung Howโฆ How are you writing with italics in a way that is not affected by the recent ๐ Premium change where italics are not shown unless directly viewing the post, and which is still visible when pasted into applications that do not support italics??.
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@Echoochoomander @chxryoung No clue. It annoys me greatly that my reply was hidden. The answer to me question appears to be that they are mathmatical sans-serif symbols, by the way.
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@iamaheron_ I would probably notice since I run Linux and unless the attack is targetted at me specifically with lots of research behind it it is unlikely the website would be able to tell the correct window decorations to use.
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@nsjames_ 48 hours as in, 2 days, or 48 hours logged in my time tracker? . Either way, if I knew something I thought could make $1000 that quickly I'd probably do that right now! That would be a great period of time to make money compared to everything else I'm doing.
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@wordgrammer Getting money in some sort of unrelated job like truck driving is my main plan right now. The money to pay for that comes from a retail job, which came from a Supportive Employment Services agency. Also, I should in theory be able to do some machine learning even just on CPU.
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@nomanautomata I don't understand what this means. It is possible to have not started something in their 20s (or even much older!), and then start building and achieve it later. Lots of people have done this, even many notable ones. Is that not potential?.
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@levelsio @MUTD_Arnav Soโฆ does that mean that by sleeping without a blanket one can get the same effect but cheaper? What is the optimal temperature without a blanket?.
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@The_AdProfessor I do not understand the Nutella one without further context. What is it trying to say?.
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@shauncooley @anothercohen Sounds like a good area to start a business in, if demand outpaces supply by that much!.
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@UnpluggedTesla When was this video taken? I've noticed these Tesla police vehicles going around South Pasadena for a while now.
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@generativist Because most people buying Bitcoin have been using it as a speculative "number go up" asset instead of a safe haven or as a currency, resulting in a severely inflated price that has lots of room to crash. I wish people would use cryptocurrency for currency instead of speculation.
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@linedupjuju @Yorishiriamori @Tweets_of_Oscar I'm chronically underweight (I do not like eating) and much prefer the nice cool night to mid-day in Los Angeles, and prefer LA's "winter"/wet season to the super hot summer by a very wide margin.
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@forestking @BrianRoemmele FINALLY someone posts a link for which house this is! I had to look through quite a few comments to find this.
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@dlberes Youโฆ weren't sincere?. IMO making random silly things that would not justify a ton of work otherwise is one of the best uses for current, unreliable AI. So, this seems a pretty good as an example of a use case to me.
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@ShinyQuagsire @8chabard @goblinodds "Collate" is definitely a more unknown, more confusing word than "compile" is for me. I use and read "compile" all the time, but am only barely familiar with "collate".
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This is incredibly relevant to my current situation and I wish I had seen it when it came out in 2020 or even just a few months ago. Great thread with really great linked threads too!.
the big lesson of survivor bias is that you should optimize for being a survivor.
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@Kei0x I hate it when I get in a paralysis loop like this, where no option (such as for what to do first) is obviously better than the others and I just freeze entirely. It's always so hard to break out! Not my most common failure mode, but very frustrating when it happens.
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The nice thing about GPT-5 is that you don't need so many messages to get good results. It's so much more reliable with a huge context length that you can just do entire projects in a single prompt and it will do them extremely well and without error.
honestly so sick of these limits wth am i supposed to do with 10 messages
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@d_feldman No way! That's right on the intersection with the crazy road damage the news uses on articles about it sliding into the ocean!
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@GnomeGnawArt @nellucnhoj Even if you don't approve of social ostracism (sometimes referred to as "cancel culture"), the threat of being sued seems enough to avoid using that term nevertheless.
ATTENTION ALL ARTISTS!.No longer participate in #inktober. Jake Parker (person who started the tag) has Trademarked it and their lawyer is shutting down ANYONE who is selling things like sketchbooks of their OWN artwork using the word.
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@var_epsilon Now I'm wonderingโฆ is the image @yacineMTB's profile pic is from from some existing source, or is it OC and/or commissioned?.
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@RandomSprint They should have a control group of normal weight (and/or even underweight) people for those studies. I am underweight so any effects where the active mechanism is losing weight probably wouldn't work for me.
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@GrantSlatton @mbusigin That means you specifically want Apple to allow iOS to have 0 animated transitions, not that you want someone new to invent an OS like that. Plenty 0-animated-transition OS's already exist; they're just not made by Apple.
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@eigenrobot Does this happen if one uses a third-party camera app like OpenCamera or only in the official app?. Either way, still possible to get an unmodified photo depending on phone. My Librem 5 has an entirely open source camera stack and takes photos in RAW. Grainy, but not AI-like.
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@BenjaminDEKR I've reached ChatGPT's 50-prompt limit several times trying to get the best result for an image. This image is the last out of 59 attempts, for example. But even with 50 takes of every single sceneโฆ $5000 and time for iterating is STILL vastly more attainable than $1,000,000+.
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@ScottBalkum @ZacksJerryRig The thing is literally designed to be bulletproof! Pulling via chain is not proper, but a vehicle that's supposed to be so absurdly tough should be tough in this much more common situation, too.
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@BrianRoemmele @zuki_kizami How locally are we talking?. If they're not producing and bottling at every store, it still needs to be shipped from the factory to the store, and that still has some distribution cost too even if it's in the same urban area (especially a really large one like Los Angeles).
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@nearcyan Couldn't they at least release the GPT-3 weights at this point, given that it is now old, superceded, and not even supported anymore?.
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@_rbart_ @flaviocopes I'm too young to have ever used MySpace personally and am still interested. The site looks really lightweight and fast to browse from the image, and CSS customization sounds really nice!.
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@nearcyan Low birthrate isn't so much of a problem if Longevity Escape Velocity is achieved and there are vastly less deaths than there were in the past.
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@xsphi Is this really related to age, like, at all? I was taking pictures of my desktop cube in KDE in 2020 (and was born in 2001). This continues to be a thing that exists if one explores enough to find it.
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@PixelArtJourney A good photographer doesn't just press a button just as a good AI artist doesn't put just a simple prompt to generate something in 5 seconds. Both usually require more work to get something really great.
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@kennyfellows @BrassBruton @growing_daniel In Los Angeles, it often takes well over twice as long to get to places if going far enough โ more like 3 times as long or more. And yes, this would qualify as a place without a good metro system โ although part of it does have good metro, most does not.
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@moultano I just saw this in my "For You" feed despite not even following you yet, so if it is suppressed it is not very vigorously.
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@gfodor [1/4] I'm not convinced there is no motive to expand in order to escape bad government. Even if it was not 100% effective, if there's even a *small* chance it helps do that while the government is too authoritarian in any way at all, I will still want to leave for that purpose.
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@CreepEntertain @archer_uwu I don't think even that is necessary โ When I visited the site I did not see the message at all. IIRC uBlock Origin includes some rules by default which block adblock blockers.
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@AstralLaVista @SmoothDunk One reason that makes sense is that our food supply and infrastructure is adapted for this climate and not a warmer one, so changing it too quickly brings tangible risk not just for other life, but for humans, too.
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@Techniacus Do you have any advice you would give to yourself in your 20s? I am in my early 20s and have been struggling to use my time more efficiently for quite a while now.
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@filipwinter @stalman I think that's the point. More change is not necessarily better for professional hardware.
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@tulpapilled Why is the third Linux person so angry? Loving and liking things is a happy emotion, not angry.
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@iamaheron_ I just realised โ the URL is not censored so I can just test it to see exactly what it looks like. This is what it looks like on Linux on my VPN Firefox profile. Very obviously not matching the rest of the system at all! Even the font is wrong.
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@culturaltutor Ooh! Is THAT what I saw?!??. I was so baffled when I drove past this on the freeway, on why/how there was this huge ancient-looking construction I had never heard of in a random part of the greater Los Angeles area. I think this is it!.
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@xlr8harder That sounds amazing! If conditions were more like that I might be a lot more likely to have a job now, one that better utilises my skills than gig delivery does. I know Linux very VERY well.
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@Hellachans I often feel the same, especially with how many people still manage to be employed while not necessarily being all that good at the jobโฆ I often suspect I could do better, but have always struggled with that initial step of getting any W2 job in the first place.
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