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@allgarbled
gabe
6 months
one of my worst fears is somebody telling me we don’t need to eat because there is going to be “food” at a party, and then we show up and it’s actually a block of brie and 10 slices of salami
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@allgarbled
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15 days
“bro the CIA couldn’t waterboard this out of me” well first of all, yes they could
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@allgarbled
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10 months
> guy chatting up a girl on the train > both smiling, flirting > 4 or 5 stops go by > “this is my stop” > she gets up, hesitates > he doesn’t ask for her number > awkwardly waves bye > watches her the whole way as she walks out of the train and across the platform heartbreaking
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@allgarbled
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1 month
@alexthegrreat this is maybe the greatest food packaging of all time. i’m being serious
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@allgarbled
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3 months
by 2029 the only jobs left will be bank robber, robot supervisor, and sam altman
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@allgarbled
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1 year
why did human beings stop building things like this?
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@allgarbled
gabe
10 months
hi, scientist here with a PhD in turtle biology! this is actually a sign the turtle is dying of a disease called CFS. it’s infected with a bacterium that emits a chemical similar to many floral nectars, which is what attracts the butterflies. sorry to ruin the cute story 🫤
@shouldhaveanima
why you should have an animal
10 months
the cutest video you will see today
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@allgarbled
gabe
4 months
we are going to reach rates of attention deficit disorder beyond human comprehension. attention spans must go to zero
@thekitze
kitze 🚀
4 months
ok this demo is better than apple's actual ads for vision pro 🤯
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@allgarbled
gabe
10 months
i cant stop imagining a spanish guy who comes to sf, and it’s 9pm and he’s ready for dinner and he’s really excited and he opens up his phone to see what’s around only to realize that every single restaurant in the bay area is already closed
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@allgarbled
gabe
18 days
we should bring back kierkegaard jurassic park style and give him a twitter account
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@allgarbled
gabe
2 months
this is gonna be so clutch for when you want to watch 37 pieces of stock footage strung together with a voiceover
@shykids
shy kids
2 months
'air head' is one of the first short films made using #Sora by @OpenAI . the response so far has left us floating.🎈
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@allgarbled
gabe
5 months
did you ever live in a house where you have a bunch of random silverware and you got 5 types of spoons and some are better than the others and sometimes you pull out one of the good ones and you’re like, no not yet, this is a high value spoon i need to save it
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@allgarbled
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5 months
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@Molson_Hart
molson 🧠⚙️
5 months
I dare you to go to China, go for a walk, look around, and tell me: "Yep, US GDP is higher".
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@allgarbled
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10 months
you were so close man. just a little bit more
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@allgarbled
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30 days
this doesn’t look very exponential to me
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@jxmnop
jack morris
1 month
yearly reminder everything looks exponential from the middle of a sigmoid
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@allgarbled
gabe
10 months
saving my info to my twitter circle in case i forget any of it. social security number: 456-23-5933 address: 401 geary st, apt. 1509 san francisco ca 94102 phone number: 415-885-6407
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@allgarbled
gabe
10 months
insanely high IQ outlier people love to tell you that anyone can do what they did, it’s really all just about hard work, not talent
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@allgarbled
gabe
3 months
this reminds me of the time i posted on twitter about learning matrix multiplication and somebody dunked on me. well, guess what? im now a world class linear algebraist, and i’m a consultant at several of the top math companies as a specialist in basis vectors
@spooky_stokes
𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕜𝕖𝕤
3 months
unfortunately not satire
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@allgarbled
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6 months
man cannot live on girl dinner alone
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@allgarbled
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3 months
a software engineer is like if you mixed a lawyer with a plumber
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@allgarbled
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6 months
every time i go out with my gf she looks like an elegant princess and i look like a guy who definitely knows what a microservice is
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@allgarbled
gabe
11 months
i think that a lot of people are making up social rules in their head that they never tell anybody about but then get upset at people for not following
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@allgarbled
gabe
7 months
my two cents: as a FAANG hiring manager, when i see a developer resume that has open source contributions, i put it in the discard pile. to me it’s a red flag. how dedicated can you really be to your job if you have this much spare time to write code for free?
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@allgarbled
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4 months
i can’t imagine an easier business to run than a wine bar. everything comes already bottled up, you literally just have to open it and pour it for a 3x markup. need to serve food? pop open a package of prosciutto, some almonds, put it on a wooden board—$18 right there
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@allgarbled
gabe
5 months
i don’t understand how people are capable of quiet quitting without taking massive psychological damage
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@allgarbled
gabe
1 month
went to the gym with my friend who just broke up with his girlfriend and we didn’t say a single thing about it. i love being a man
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@allgarbled
gabe
4 months
maturity is realizing that most books can be judged by their covers because the cover was in fact deliberately selected to be representative of the book and often even contains a description of its contents
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@allgarbled
gabe
1 month
retweeted by the humane head of product. absolutely 100% this company is gonna fail “you don’t understand our interface, you lazy idiot?”
@raywongy
Ray Wong
1 month
It seems to me that a lot of reviewers just simply don’t want to deal with a learning curve for a new interface that takes more than 5 seconds to master? There is a learning curve to using the Ai Pin’s hand gestures to control and navigate Cosmos but it took me 5 days to get
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@allgarbled
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1 month
low value women are impressed by amex platinum. high value women are impressed by this
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@allgarbled
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9 months
my friend just sent me this video from the subway in yangzhou china, a city most americans have never heard of. he says it’s safe, clean, and reliable. no drug addicts or criminals. in america this would be unthinkable. what is the sickness that has infected our democracy?
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@allgarbled
gabe
10 months
@Rich_Springs generally speaking they die
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@allgarbled
gabe
4 months
was looking up travel medical insurance on reddit and noticed a bunch of really negative reviews for all the companies. it fooled me for a second until i noticed the names and how similar the reviews are. realized it’s bots. LLMs have fully poisoned the internet, it’s so over
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@allgarbled
gabe
1 month
why are they opening an office in japan? what’s in japan?
@OpenAI
OpenAI
1 month
Introducing OpenAI Japan, our first office in Asia, along with a new GPT-4 custom model specifically optimized for 日本語 (the Japanese language).
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@allgarbled
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1 year
go fuck yourself, bill i’m not a tech twitter “big account”. i’ve literally been a software engineer for 9 months, self taught without a CS degree, and have never pretended otherwise
@Goon_Brah
Bill
1 year
No hate on this guy at all: but when you read an opinion on tech twitter, remember that there are big accounts here who don't know how matrix multiplication works
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@allgarbled
gabe
2 months
girlfriend “borrowed” my airpods and when i asked for them back she handed me an empty case
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@allgarbled
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16 days
it’s cool how every google search now starts with a wall of LLM slop that is completely useless and takes up half the screen
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@allgarbled
gabe
10 months
@VividVoid_ ah to be picked apart by butterflies
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@allgarbled
gabe
6 months
@seenjimmons pales in comparison, honestly
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@allgarbled
gabe
1 year
i thought this was probably bs so i tried to reproduce it with midjourney and i am not even kidding you it produced these freakish body horror hybrids
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@drfrensor
Dr Frensor
1 year
This is what AI thinks of us. 1. “Democrat protestor” 2. “Republican protestor”
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@allgarbled
gabe
15 days
@growing_daniel please respect our boys in suits
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@allgarbled
gabe
10 months
@nmehrotra we can only control our own behavior, sadly
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@allgarbled
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2 months
there are only two types of acceptable straight man instagrams: - 1 picture ever 2.5 years, mostly with family - boring but nice cityscape pictures that he took for his Photography Hobby anything else and that man is not to be trusted
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@allgarbled
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4 months
the horniest thing a mid 20s man from san francisco can do is move to new york
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@allgarbled
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11 months
before i started programming professionally i thought reading a large codebase would be like looking inside an enormous, well-oiled machine. now i know it to be more like descending through the circles of hell
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@allgarbled
gabe
10 months
not sure why people are acting like this is chump change. $1000 per day comes out to $365 million per year, which is a lot of money even for a billionaire
@devahaz
Deva Hazarika
10 months
SF Department of Building Inspection: this sign violates code, you will be fined $1,000 per day until it’s removed Elon: 😂🤷🤣
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@allgarbled
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6 months
how about you go fuck yourself instead
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@allgarbled
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10 months
@ctjlewis is this supposed to be better or worse
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@allgarbled
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8 months
when i was younger i was in a “band” with 4 people. one day we played a game where everybody tried to play everyone else’s instruments, and there was one kid who was better than all of us at every instrument. drums, keyboard, guitar and bass, just mogged us. anyways i found out
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@allgarbled
gabe
5 months
men pass the age of 40 and begin to sneeze at ear shattering decibel levels. science cant explain this
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@allgarbled
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10 months
imagine you have one life and you spend it aligning stakeholders
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@allgarbled
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1 year
most drugs are bad because they’re too good, which means that unless you have exceptional self control (and we both know you don’t) then you should stick to only the very mid drugs: alcohol, weed, caffeine, etc
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@allgarbled
gabe
6 months
creepy to post this tbh
@m_franceschetti
Matteo Franceschetti
6 months
Breaking news: The OpenAI drama is real. We checked our data and last night, SF saw a spike in low-quality sleep. There was a 27% increase in people getting under 5 hours of sleep. We need to fix this. Source: @eightsleep data
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@allgarbled
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2 months
i love the implication that AI will be advanced enough to replace all employed software engineers but definitely not the indie hacker who makes like an AI headshots app
@levelsio
@levelsio
2 months
This means there REALLY is no reason to remain a 9-to-5 NPC drone anymore because you'll be unemployed in the next 5 years If anything you should be starting a business right now and get out of the system of servitude that will just spit you out once AI can do your job
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@allgarbled
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11 months
i will never forget the hubris of some engineers at the height of the ZIRP era who were convinced that their 5 hour workweek adjusting the CSS for a single button actually produced so much value that it justified their $300k salary
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@allgarbled
gabe
6 months
the pipeline is unfortunately very real
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@allgarbled
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6 months
>wake up >do leetcode >go to work >8 hours fixing cursed microservices >come home >more leetcode >sleep how will i ever have time to live laugh love?
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@allgarbled
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3 months
reading this exchange makes me feel like i’m having a stroke
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@allgarbled
gabe
9 months
the way this guys snaps his fingers at 9 seconds is something that only hucksters and con artists do you will say i’m overanalyzing but this is actually true
@anothercohen
Alex Cohen 🤠
9 months
My guy just invented mornings and afternoons
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@allgarbled
gabe
7 months
you see, ever since i was a child i’ve been passionate about cloud infrastructure solutions
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@allgarbled
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6 months
it’s so beautiful to see someone who is deeply passionate about their boring job. i went to see the dentist today and that guy is genuinely excited about teeth. he basically explained all of dental care to me from first principles. it’s inspiring
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@allgarbled
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9 months
how much longer do we have to wait before people are willing to admit that psychedelics don’t make the majority of human beings happier, wiser, kinder, more insightful, or more enlightened?
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@allgarbled
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9 months
i’m reading slaughterhouse v and every time somebody dies horrifically and the narrator says “so it goes” i mentally substitute it with “many such cases”. helps give it that contemporary relevance
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@allgarbled
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9 months
you see so many SF couples where you can just tell she assigns him jira tasks for household chores
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@allgarbled
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9 months
note to all the new yorkers….. this joke would have been impossible to make in your subway, because every one of your stations looks like a post apocalyptic steampunk rat cave hold this L bozos
@allgarbled
gabe
9 months
my friend just sent me this video from the subway in yangzhou china, a city most americans have never heard of. he says it’s safe, clean, and reliable. no drug addicts or criminals. in america this would be unthinkable. what is the sickness that has infected our democracy?
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@allgarbled
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7 months
@DThompsonDev i would rather they spend their time on something more directly applicable to the job, for example practicing leetcode contests
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@allgarbled
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1 year
i found out that if you make good enough challah it will literally get you a girlfriend
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@allgarbled
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25 days
sorry but i saw this pic and i don’t believe in AGI anymore just something not right. no offense
@gdb
Greg Brockman
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First @NVIDIA DGX H200 in the world, hand-delivered to OpenAI and dedicated by Jensen "to advance AI, computing, and humanity":
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@allgarbled
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10 months
some people really carry that “if the teacher doesn’t show up in 15 minutes we’re legally allowed to leave” mentality with them for the rest of their lives
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@allgarbled
gabe
1 year
when you remember that this is the bar for AGI those timelines start to look a lot shorter
@DavidWolfe
David Wolfe
1 year
Can you explain this?
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@allgarbled
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1 month
we had to move our standup an hour later because an engineer on the team said he was diagnosed with hypersomnia and needed that as an accommodation
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@allgarbled
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1 year
i’m starting a silent group chat. if you ever send a message, we will kick you out. silence only. it will be a refuge, a holy place. reply to this tweet if you want to join
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@allgarbled
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6 months
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@allgarbled
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1 year
the belief that advertising doesn’t work is one of the great, enduring midwit beliefs
@LRH_Superfan
Chairman
1 year
I have yet to meet a person over the age of 12 that actually bought a product because of an ad. Surely they must exist, advertising is a 600 billion dollar industry after all. It can't just be all fake and wasted money, right? (It probably is)
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@allgarbled
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1 year
“Parenting has almost no impact on how kids turn out” is one of those beautiful takes you can only find on twitter
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@allgarbled
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3 months
how cool would it be if mental effort made you sore in the same way that physical exercise does “you gotta try this problem set bro, totally shreds your cortex”
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@allgarbled
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5 months
what’s my biggest weakness? that i care too much that im too dedicated that i grind too hard
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@allgarbled
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5 months
one truth that i think everyone knows but is afraid to admit is that people with following to follower counts like this are 100% of the time narcissists
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@allgarbled
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8 months
if you say that germans are weird, 99% of people will agree with you. it’s obvious. but what explains this? their whole folklore is dark and creepy, and they seem to have many offputting interests (not to mention the whole hitler thing). what is wrong with the german mind?
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@allgarbled
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8 months
@growing_daniel i saw this one earlier
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@allgarbled
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1 year
i recently got a medical diagnosis that two primary care physicians in a row couldn’t figure out. only the third doctor, a specialist, got it. today i typed my symptoms into GPT4 and it correctly diagnosed me on the first try.
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@allgarbled
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2 years
i think half the reason people smoke cigarettes is because it gives you a socially legible reason to stand around outside for a few minutes. im sure i’m not the first to observe this.
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@allgarbled
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8 months
listening to your airpods max in the grocery store is deeply ipad baby behavior
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@allgarbled
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9 months
gigabrain nerds are mad at people for not picking red because it’s The Rational Choice. meanwhile the rest of us used our superior understanding of humanity to know that most people don’t think that way, so we picked blue
@lisatomic5
lisatomic
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Poll question from my 12yo: Everyone responding to this poll chooses between a blue pill or red pill. - if > 50% of ppl choose blue pill, everyone lives - if not, red pills live and blue pills die Which do you choose?
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@allgarbled
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7 months
a few days ago i took a medium dose of acid and wrote for several hours straight and admitted some things to myself, mostly about my job let's start here: last august meta offered me $900,000 TC for an M2 role. i resented them for this and also suppressed the resentment
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@allgarbled
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7 months
i wonder what the world would look like if software engineers had the work ethic of biglaw attorneys
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6 months
software engineers work 9-6 for one day and decide that’s a toxic work environment
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8 months
this is funny because every parent i know who has used this is like a highly highly involved upper middle class parent who probably gives more attention to their kids than 99% of parents in history. reads to them, makes them nice food, and yes even hugs them
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@allgarbled
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@Kenny_Wilder1 what is that? some kind of math thing?
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@allgarbled
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6 months
leetcode got so much easier for me when i realized you just need to figure out what steps the program should take and then implement those in your favorite programming language
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@allgarbled
gabe
2 years
most people are incredibly lazy, so my theory is that you can rise to the top 10% in many skills just by actually trying
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@allgarbled
gabe
8 months
excited for going to SF parties in 2024, where every single tech bro will be wearing a wire so that he can sync these exciting conversations straight to his knowledge graph
@brian_lovin
Brian Lovin
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sauna business meetings are gonna have a big comeback
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9 months
> get invited to an sf party > ask if it will be a party with music or no music > pull out my diagram explaining what is a party with music and what is a party with no music > he laughs. “it’s a good party sir” > go to the party > there’s no music
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@allgarbled
gabe
1 year
i really think people who post things like this are just working on like brand new typescript repos they started at a hackathon. i’ve found GPT is great at writing new code from scratch, but sucks working in a larger established repo. especially for anything complicated
@NickADobos
Nick Dobos
1 year
Consistency amazed how many devs aren't shitting bricks at coding with GPT4. It's like pulling teeth to tell someone they just got 2x faster at their job and they don't believe it. Do not understand the skepticism This is the worst AI you will ever use, and its already amazing
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@allgarbled
gabe
7 months
when she said “bye”, and the AI mr beast chatbot said “no way, you can’t leave me hanging like this!” these are demons they are demons
@julesterpak
Jules Terpak
7 months
Meta’s AI personas are here. Buckle up y’all Meet -K̶e̶n̶d̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶J̶e̶n̶n̶e̶r̶- … I mean Billie
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@allgarbled
gabe
2 months
BREAKING: tech bros paid sky high compensation because their work is complicated and boring now up in arms at NYT reporter for suggesting their work might be complicated and boring
@atroyn
anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)
2 months
andres freund: genius programmer responsible for one of the most widely used pieces of software in the world, just single-handedly stopped a huge attack from happening. nyt journalist: 'i am too fucking stupid to understand his work and won't even try but it's very boring!!!'
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gabe
6 months
@rachdele you need to push back. at least $550,000 should be the minimum
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gabe
1 year
if you’re a software engineer trying to future-proof your career, don’t go for AI. go for distributed systems. once AWS establishes mars-east-1 that’s where the big money will be
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6 months
thanks guys
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@allgarbled
gabe
6 months
we need to stop pretending like there is anything unique about new york bagels at this point. you can get equally good bagels in the bay area, and probably plenty of places. at least montreal bagels have a unique style. but new york? it’s just mythology
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@allgarbled
gabe
1 year
new rule should be that anybody posting dating advice has to either include proof of marriage or three referrals from previous exes. nobody cares about your dating advice that you game theoried out in your head
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@allgarbled
gabe
2 months
training on synthetic data is so fake, come on. you’ll never convince me this is a real thing. perpetual motion machine ass idea
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