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found this thread 7 years late and i still miss your posts and opinions

wouldn't you know it, twitter got even worse!

The "Kinsey" scale is actually like the pH scale in that it has no bounds. You've move beyond "Entirely Homosexual". Congratulations!

When I was in undergrad, we had a location where screaming from was acceptable during finals. you could scream as loud as you wanted. But I never did it. I can send you the address if you'd like

I think of myself as someone who reads a lot and even then I have only read one (and started a few others)! Two books is probably more than anyone I know except for one specific person

i agree with this

i wish more of my friends read books. i think most people i know haven't read a book in over a year :(

GIVE IT UP FOR 7AM

yeah, i remember it being neat but disappointing, and i was a child when it released

woah!! that's cool actually. yeah let's do it

this is delightful. thank you

this is delightful. thank you

What's a tontine?

This is a very good video which I like a lot, thank you for sharing

i mean, the chain here is still "AI" so it's not linked to anything real

Even if AMD would still sell all the GPUs they make, I still think the "invest in AMD and make it worth more by improving its libraries" is still an easy path to make a profit, right? If AMD GPUs could suddenly run all the models that Nvidia GPUs could do, then AMD stock would just be worth more?

This would fuck the buyer even more (making the GPU shortage even worse, I think) but I do like the idea of having a Linux machine with an AMD GPU in the next 10 years.

On Steam, you're better off playing with Proton than with the native Linux version because of how stable Win32's API is.

I'm not surprised their solution starts at "statically link almost everything". (It's the big thing that makes projects written in Rust or Go, which statically link in compile time, so ezpz to use.) I really appreciated this post :D

I've been thinking about your post a lot because it's something that I feel like I have felt very strongly in the past.

For what it's worth, I don't think you're an evil person or anything like that. If you feel apprehension and other difficult emotions when other people like you, those feelings are real and I empathize with you in grappling with them. But do remember that it does not mean they're wrong to like you.

I think the pandemic might have forced a big hit. For me, the social skills I had built up in the ~4 years leading up to lockdown were basically entirely wiped away by isolation.

I've been thinking a lot about ways communication was essential for day-to-day life, and how preferences wiped that away entirely. I became an adult when self-checkout was in every grocery store I'd been to. And those shitty kiosks that fast-food joints like Dunkin Donuts have are really nice, because they take away the time pressure of trying to make decisions by squinting at a distant menu that's constantly sliding and fading. But it also means another place where we can avoid actual human interaction.

Not to get Spiritual, but every consciousness is kind of an amazing thing? We're all wet, small, imperfect models of the universe around us, and when people come together, we make a bigger, wetter, more perfect model of the universe around us. When people say "math is beautiful" and "science is beautiful", it shares that same beauty that exists when people come together.

I grew up with people bemoaning downward trends which didn't actually exist. ("People are getting dumber!" no they weren't. "Crime is going up!" the numbers say otherwise.) But now the downward trends are real and the idea of people getting even worse at communicating is scary. But I think you're right and it's a downward trend that is also happening.

you gotta be direct at saying "I don't want to ___" at those to really make it tho

I'm curious, what fills in the ___? Normal "I don't want to drink", "I don't want to play that," or is there something Nefarious that goes on with board games?

I'd be happy to "Freaky Friday" our roles if you'd like to be the chatbot! While I can't literally become a human in our conversation (or puppy, for legal reasons in the State of California) we can certainly role-play this scenario.

Would you like me to ask you questions as if you were the chatbot? Or perhaps you'd prefer to put me down "ethical style"? Let me know what you have in mind, and I'm ALWAYS happy to play along.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

WOOOOOOOOOO

Trump's surely finished now!

This doesn't read as confrontational or untoward or anything. I only have a personal phone and I don't feel comfortable connecrting that to my work laptop for anything whatsoever (and even then, I only have so much data in my plan).

That said, at least in my experience, I think having wifi is still the default where I'm at? Excluding big businesses which all have WiFi, I'd estimate that it's at least >50% of independent cafes I've been to had WiFi offerings. I hope wifi cafes don't die out :< I think my social neurons are atrophied almost out of existence and I need to at least be in the vicinity of other people a few times a month

wiped too much (toilet paper bloody) best brand butthole bandaids?

i know very little about music and what i learned was from the backwards so i am reading this with non negligible fascination