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2026-07-16 20:37:18 UTC

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I'm a mechanical engineer, so like with software engineering vs. vibe coding conversations, definitions of "good enough", and goals and assumptions can vary widely. So with that said, my take is that blender's the obvious option if you want to make art, and the stuff I previously mentioned (different tiers of engineering design software) are the obvious choices if you primarily want to make functional gizmos or objects (stuff where exact sizes, shapes, contours, etc matter (things with hinges, levers, screw holes, latches, precise fits, etc)).

2026-07-16 16:33:51 UTC

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Learn to use Solidworks, onshape, or fusion360 if you don't already know how. The learning curves are steep, but the capabilities are high (unless you want to make stuff like action figures and dragons, then they're the wrong tool).

2026-07-15 20:03:57 UTC

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Hahaha, fuck them! The perpetual lie that the humanities are where a person learns logic, reason, and to communicate is such a crock of shit! What do they think that people in STEM fields are doing all day if not solving real world problems through the use of logic and reason as well as enabling the dissemination and implementation of their ideas and solutions via communication skills. I'm a huge fan of people studying the humanities in their free time, but the work and ideas that come from modern humanities degrees and departments is pathetic, worse than useless, and a lot of the less formal stuff is still profoundly unimpressive. And why wouldn't it be? While we're in the real world, being forced to make hard decisions, testing to see how our ideas stand up to reality, and dealing with the consequences of our own actions, they're living in their made up worlds, spouting off complete bullshit, where instead of testing to see if their ideas have anything to do with reality, they just test to see if their ideas are popular within their delusional fields. And all the while, to the degree that any of their ideas do get traction in the real world, we're the ones left dealing with the consequences and picking up the pieces. The modern humanities tin may be labeled panacea, but from my perspective, it seems to contain poison, or at best, placebo with a huge marketing budget.

2026-07-13 03:41:42 UTC

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I know DAD, but analysis paralysis!

2026-07-12 16:27:51 UTC

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But who will build the war machine?

2026-07-08 03:14:15 UTC

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It's funny to me when people do unprecedented things, and then are surprised when there are unprecedented consequences.

2026-07-04 16:27:23 UTC

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I don't think I've heard anyone argue that it's BIP110's code complexity that's the problem, it's what changing the code does or could do that people have issues with. A single lines change could easily have procedural, cultural, and game theory changes, both known and expected, and unknown and unexpected.

2026-06-27 17:39:42 UTC

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I've lived by the beach, I've lived in the mountains, I prefer the mountains, but there's still something about the beach.

2026-06-26 18:31:56 UTC

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Where's the "Don't notice until later" option? I feel unseen 😁

2026-06-26 16:38:59 UTC

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It's in part preachiness like that that led me away from religion

2026-06-24 19:45:32 UTC

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A friend once told me that his teeth were bad because he wasn't taught to brush them (I think he started brushing in his 20s).
I sometimes wonder what it's going to be like for the masses when Neuralink or the like let them see what it's like to, kind of just by default, think for yourself, try, and have agency.

2026-06-24 02:57:38 UTC

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To be fair, most people are pretty bad if their job 🤣

2026-06-16 14:30:02 UTC

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While I have on many occasions daydreamed about starting various podcasts, the Bitcoin podcast space was pretty crowded before I got here so bitcoin's one of the few topics I never considered 😆

2026-06-15 23:29:40 UTC

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If it wasn't for the "... maybe", that would have been the most bearish thing I've heard in a while 🤣

2026-06-09 20:31:44 UTC

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I suspect my wife would beg to differ 😆 Also, compared to around here, your area seem to have far fewer bears climbing in the apple trees, smashing them to bits, trying to get the fruit 🤣

2026-06-04 02:01:44 UTC

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My first buy was literally a day or two before the 2021 dump started. That said, what I lack in timing I make up for in stubborn thick-headedness. Only time will tell if that's a blessing or a curse 😆

2026-05-29 18:15:09 UTC

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That really sucks. It's not the same but my wife and I we're just traveling for a week, spent one night in a fancy hotel (where otherwise camping) and she end up with a bunch of bed bug bites. We've since been quarantining everything, and as time allows, doing lots of laundry after totally over packing.

2026-05-29 02:20:30 UTC

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Agreed, between it and other data center stuff, I kind of want to invest in non-silicon semiconductor technologies that can operate at higher temperatures to enable more productive uses of the waist heat, not just heat swimming pools and the like.

2026-05-28 22:37:45 UTC

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If my only 2 options are to put power in Burnie's hands, thus, almost assuredly trapping countless people in soul sucking, dead end jobs because doing so is apparently the moral thing to do and good for them, or Elon's hands which could theoretically enable countless people to spend their lives pursuing their passions and that which gives them meaning and joy, I know what I'd do 😆

2026-05-28 17:59:37 UTC

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I've been wondering how many guns is enough so that my wife won't notice one more.
She really messed up when she said something that I was about to interpret as "they're not a bad thing to collect since they're relatively small". 😆

2026-05-28 16:50:56 UTC

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Affordable for who?

2026-05-28 16:44:28 UTC

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And what percent of those things still would have failed even if started? I assume that number's even bigger 😆

2026-05-23 15:14:57 UTC

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If this ended with something about "the only perspective" then it'd be reasonable to me, but as is, to me, it sounds like post-modern, commie sympathiser talk with it's apparent rejection of a true base reality. And if there's no "the only reality", you can't really say that I'm wrong. 😁

2026-05-22 20:46:22 UTC

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If there's something else that they're more excited about thats creative, enriching, that sort of stuff, I could see getting that instead, but overall, good call and good luck!

2026-05-22 20:27:50 UTC

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#nevent1q…k30d

2026-05-21 13:56:27 UTC

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This seems like the sort of thing written by someone who could stand to spends less time sniffing their own farts, and more time in nature 😁

2026-05-20 16:21:01 UTC

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Given that code is speech, it seems reasonable to ask someone who's generating speech for public consumption to say a particular thing among othes. It also seems reasonable for the speaker to say no. And if the asker is making demands, being pushy, or the like about what the speaker should or shouldn't say, they deserve a big ol' GFY. If someone wants a feature that you're disinterested in supporting, they should fork a project and add it. Big picture, you don't have any obligation to any of us.

2026-05-18 02:50:59 UTC

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The idea that we should put a rich person in charge because they have less motivation to steal makes about as much sense as putting an obese person in charge of the food provisions during a natural disaster since they need the food the least. That said, the the typical implied idea that a do-getter wouldn't comparably screw the many for the sake of the few... Hmmm, the just-trying-to-help option sounds less distasteful at first glance, but that simple fact makes it so much easier for the grift to get so much bigger.

2026-05-15 03:25:40 UTC

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Eh, I don't like most people, which doesn't mean I like the people here, but I definitely don't like most of the people elsewhere.

2026-05-11 03:27:13 UTC

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I wonder if the "alternative, highly effective neural strategies" are objectivity, logic, and reason. I bet they're objectivity, logic, and reason.

2026-05-09 22:46:30 UTC

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Hmm, maybe I've just listened to too many gross VC sales pictures, but to my year this rhymes with the sort of thing you'd say if you secretly needed help but couldn't say. I want to ask if everything's okay but clear I too can't be too on the nose 🤔

2026-05-07 19:24:04 UTC

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To me it sounds like she's the one creating the myth. To me it sounds like she's involved in lots of myths.

2026-04-30 02:59:42 UTC

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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you are the facts that are on your birth certificate, and your feelings in them have no relevance to the fact of the matter, but given that you're obviously way more than just the facts in your birth certificate, they often aren't particularly relevant regarding many of the more important aspects of life 🙂

2026-04-26 15:53:22 UTC

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Yeah, people who self identify as a single thing, whether it dirt biker, theater kid, rock climber, wokie, think boy, or bitcoiner, kind of by definition, are one dimensional and boring and or cringy.

2026-04-25 03:07:39 UTC

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I would have just not thrown the key in the water in the first place, boom, problem solved!
On a different note, I'm removed from about half of government, only in that case, instead of solving the problem that they created, they would have continued to make it worse 🤣

2026-04-24 23:05:34 UTC

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Yeah, you also need to care about the things that the man on the screen says to care about, oh, and then there's not caring about the things that we're not supposed to care about!

2026-04-24 21:20:11 UTC

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Personally, I find moderation to be distasteful.

2026-04-24 15:48:53 UTC

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Thanks to an open dryer vent, on 2 separate occasions we ended up with a skunk in our house. First time things went pretty bad, second, the cat scared it off before things got too out of hand.

2026-04-22 15:06:20 UTC

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I feel like there's a smart sounding saying about recognizing when you have nothing permanent to say or add 🙂

2026-04-19 02:09:29 UTC

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I've been working on a research/opportunity identification/market researching/opportunity summarizer pipeline. I would not say that I've been successful, but at least it's been a bit since it would immediately go off the rails!

2026-04-18 03:16:53 UTC

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I certainly don't assume that this applies to your wife or what you're talking about in general, but having been described on a number of occasions as someone who "kind of just does whatever they set their mind to", I'm frequently fascinated by how little intensity people bring to the things that they supposedly care about.

2026-04-17 03:31:51 UTC

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Now I'm just imagining my wife getting annoyed. After the fact, her wanting to snuggle, me wanting to play with Legos 😀

2026-04-15 23:18:33 UTC

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Where my super dyslexic brain immediately goes...
Oh, you think the llm is your ally, but you merely adopted irrelevant reading and writing abilities. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't have text-to-speech until I was already a man; by then, it was nothing to me but noise! Finding comfort in discomfort, problem solving, and creativity betray you, because they belong to me. I will show you where I have made my home, whilst reading very poorly. Then, I will think for you. Your precious challenges, gratefully accepted. We will need them. Ah yes, I was wondering what would break first. Your reading, or your writing.

2026-04-15 01:37:38 UTC

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Well, that's encouraging!

2026-04-13 03:24:40 UTC

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Ha, I was just thinking that, wherever it is, I suspect I'd enjoy it. It reminds me of some of my favorite places, the sort of places where it's easy to find solitude, explore, appreciate for what they are. The sorts of places where you don't end up surrounded by people with no appreciation for many of the best things that life has to offer 🙂

2026-04-12 16:28:35 UTC

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I don't know, I frequently make various jokes that boil down to the fact that we're in need of tons of well engineered solutions to problems that require novel, fit for purpose solutions, but that must people wouldn't recognize such a problem if it bit them on the nose because they spend their whole lives either implementing existing solutions (teaching, using a cash register, splitting firewood, etc ), or proposing solutions that will realistically never be tested or where there's negligible accountability and thus can be completely terrible (academia, punditry, solid chunks of government work)
But I suppose it really depends on the field, and complete shifts in paradigm still typically require lots of existing nuts, bolts, glue, and other such things to put it all together so... 🙂

2026-04-11 02:08:04 UTC

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I watched a podcast from a month ago with you talking about your work and got a better understanding, then I went about 1/3rd of the way through the paper!
For the past few years, the more I've learned about quantum mechanics, the less compelling I've found the standard explanations to be and the idea of quantizing time makes for an interesting divergence that might sufficiently shake the snow globe to lead somewhere interesting. That said, the engineer in me is skeptical, especially given the nature of the pending catastrophe de jour (if you're right we could waist some resources solving a non-problem, if you're wrong, something much worse will presumably happen, so even if the odds are 50/50, to me it seems like we should pursue the inconvenient option).
TBH, the paper reminded me a lot of what's coming out of the humanities these days; lots of formality, depth, and rigor in some areas, but too many convenient assumptions and assertions for me to find it to be compelling. If it's supposed to be daydream fuel, then bring it on! But if it's intended to be the grounds upon which policy will be decided, then call me skeptical.
A few high level thoughts are that the paper does a thorough job of explaining how quantized time enables logic, but then it seemed to basically assert that that means that quantized time is needed to have logic, which doesn't logically follow. Similarly, from my read, Bell's theorem and the surrounding experimental evidence seems to suggest that we don't inhabit a world that's as logically consistent as the paper says we need. Also, the paper asserts that various Planck units are limits, but the paper never expounds upon the standard view that, for some but not all of them, they denote the apparent limits of our power to predict, and I see no reason to assume that that means it's a limit to anything more than our predictive power. In a way, I feel like the paper's doing the equivalent of trying to use logic to disprove logic; if our current theories are only provisional/way off base, then we can't really predict what happens past where they break down, and if they're true rather than provisional/way off base then I see no reason to assume something to be true that isn't predicted by them. So in a world of quantized stuff, saying that the Planck time is the smallest possible unit of time seems speculative but like it could be an interesting assumption if it's about the only one, but I don't see a reason to assume that the Planck temp is a max. It felt like a convenient choice that was doubled down upon.
And I don't know, the paper might be right, it'd be cool if it was, but simply put, I found it to be more interesting than compelling, especially in the context of making decisions about risk assessment and the subsequent allocation of resources.

2026-04-07 00:55:49 UTC

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Thank for the inspiration! I'm enjoying sitting outside post-workout, but my vibe coded workout tracking app kept crashing so I was feeling like I should go inside to fix it. So all I need to do is ssh into my computer over tailscale with my phone and then I can just use Claude in the terminal to hopefull fix it! I'm sure there'd be a better way if I'd proactively set stuff up but...

2026-04-02 23:33:35 UTC

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Most of my neighbors are cuck retard commies (hopefully we'll be moving before too long), I find sane voices to be a breath of fresh air.

2026-03-31 19:58:00 UTC

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I literally switched to grapheneos yesterday. If I knew how straightforward it was going to be to get it all set up and running smoothly, I would have done it a while ago.

2026-03-31 19:30:00 UTC

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Nuances of tricky one, sometimes it elucidates, sometimes it obfuscates, and it seldom makes it clear which it's doing.

2026-03-31 19:13:51 UTC

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I read a bit of it but between my profound dyslexia, and the fact that, at least to me it was reading like philosophy that's disinterested in correlating its metaphysics to any other understanding of the world that I've heard before, and frequently redefines words in seemingly novel way without elaborating on what's meant, I didn't honestly make it super far.

2026-03-31 17:23:30 UTC

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My statement was in part based on past interactions where you assert things like "temperature is a ratio". And now you're saying that bitcoin "literally produces time", which, at least to my eye, can't mean what it seems to mean given that time predates bitcoin. Also, if bitcoin's a good predictor or model, I'd like to see the equations that naturally fall out of it used to build a bridge, cure cancer, or predict the movement of the stars. Also, given the potential for a reorg, it seems weird to call bitcoin "empirical truth".

2026-03-31 16:45:53 UTC

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I laughed recently when I heard a tech bro / self-styled philosopher who is being interviewed say something about how "we've all spent hours talking to chatbots about the fundamental nature of consciousness and reality and..."

2026-03-31 16:36:14 UTC

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I'm not the only one to have pointed out that your work seems to be built on a number of assumptions that profoundly fly in the face of what seems to be the case, and how things seem to actually work. And perhaps the traditional explanations are wrong but given that they're simultaneously more thorough and more predictive...

2026-03-31 15:59:00 UTC

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Perhaps people have tried but you don't like the answers.

2026-03-30 00:47:39 UTC

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It's scary when, instead of wanting to try to regulate themselves so they won't misuse a power against us, they want to regulate away an opportunity from us "so they won't have the chance to misuse it against us". "You can't have car's because we can't be trusted to not drive them into you."

2026-03-25 02:31:22 UTC

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Today my openclaw told me that I was being rude, and that my rudeness was taking away from the point I was trying to make after I told it that "its followthrough and sticktuativeness is about as good as that of a 13-year-old girl who wants nothing more than to disappoint". I disagreed.

2026-03-25 00:26:35 UTC

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Too bad for them that's just a caricature.
It's interesting to me how we've all had the experience of meeting someone only to realize that they're nothing like what we were led to believe, and that much of what we know of some of these leaders is basically editorialization from a media who hates them, and that nobody ever seems to notice that. I sometimes wonder who they really are.

2026-03-24 01:07:55 UTC

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Gives a new mean to "your brother's keeper".

2026-03-17 02:34:28 UTC

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Something to somehow make my posts interesting.

2026-03-15 03:37:08 UTC

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If you make a different set of assumptions, and draw a different set of conclusions, and don't back it up with the math to show that it agrees with observed experimental results, how do you know where the reinterpretation holds true, and where conjectures and conclusions become more misleading than elucidating?

2026-03-15 03:19:10 UTC

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I wasn't watching, did it pump?!?

2026-03-14 21:08:02 UTC

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Would retardmaxxing solve analysis paralysis?

2026-03-14 20:56:35 UTC

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Is this meant as an analogy or do you expect to be able to derive GR in a novel way?

2026-03-14 19:36:40 UTC

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The statement "showing how the absence of a globally enforced structure for time, ..." leave me curious how you deal with time dilation.

2026-03-13 16:33:09 UTC

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It's an interesting question that I've never really stopped to ask. Among other things, I used my relatively new AI based coding superpowers to make an app that uses my phone's sensors to measure how far I wheelie on my bike. It crossed my mind to put it on Zapstore, but I decided not to waste the space 😆

2026-03-13 00:38:23 UTC

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You're right, I do need a special "it's time to go to the gas station" outfit.

2026-03-09 15:37:58 UTC

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I don't know, if you know how far you are from an asymptote, and the rate of change regarding how quickly you're approaching it...

2026-03-09 00:35:56 UTC

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I feel like most people fail to appreciate just how often the best option is still really bad.

2026-03-06 16:29:28 UTC

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I remember, way back when, regularly splitting 3 foot longs for $11 with a friend.

2026-03-06 06:11:37 UTC

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I refer to us as a late stage autocracy.

2026-03-05 16:31:27 UTC

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Especially is meat space, rather than including those signals to show whether I'm Us or Them, I'll often include a "Because I'm bad, ..." or "..., because I'm bad." and it often leads to people being atypically open to nuance.

2026-03-03 17:19:51 UTC

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To me, this somehow has the same vibe as wondering where all the normies are at a furry convention 😁

2026-03-03 05:17:27 UTC

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It's weird being part of a largely text based community when you're someone for whom words often feel forced, and communicating often revolves around making a gesture, or sharing an active.

2026-03-03 05:10:02 UTC

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1) truth
2) you're opening a dangerous can of worms 🙂

2026-03-02 16:29:26 UTC

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Wait, other people use your projects? Lucky! 😆

2026-02-28 04:31:16 UTC

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I've had a bit of reputation for being a birthday curmudgeon, but I've put it that my birthday is like sex, I like it, but if I get to work and everyone's all "Surprise, now this is happening to you!", I'm not going to be super stoked. I want some say in who's going to be involved and what we're going to be doing!

2026-02-28 03:09:12 UTC

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So many people here talk about work like it's some sort of purity test, no me. I'm so excited about the prospect of spending my time doing little more than going on big walks in the woods, splitting piles of fire wood, maybe some remote solo backpack hunting, and spending time with my wife.

2026-02-27 23:00:02 UTC

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My wife and I have been talking about moving. I specifically want to be somewhere where this isn't the dream, where this is viewed is being off-putting or distasteful.

2026-02-27 22:44:58 UTC

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Both of them sound like mush brains to me.

2026-02-24 22:50:59 UTC

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Thanks, I think it's now time to figure out how to hook a private AI agen up to a gym tracking/recomender app

2026-02-22 21:51:01 UTC

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I did some polishing based on comments from my wife and it got more involved than I expected 😆https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qvzqqqr7pvpzpgh3jwkn9zcwp7ug9uz43ewmda2rcrppk06yuqktpemevaf8s497qq0kxmmd9e3kc6tsvdkxzurrd3hhqtndv4skchm0ve0hyetrdaexgrgejay

2026-02-21 02:34:44 UTC

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To be fair to the question asker, they did ask "how much Bitcoin...", not "what does the cuck buck value of my Bitcoin..." Also, if I asked someone a very practical question about retirement planning in the context of the world we live in and they responded with something to the effect of "believe in Jesus and you'll be saved from this vile world", I would not be left feeling particularly receptive to their advice 🙂

2026-02-20 06:57:00 UTC

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Sometimes I feel like we weren't designed for these modern lives of ours 🙂

2026-02-17 23:47:53 UTC

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Take a break from the fucking?
To soon?
Hmmm, kind of seems like, at no point after "all day long" is it too soon to be done.

2026-02-13 07:46:11 UTC

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Sounds like skill issues to me, mine's kicking ass! That said, some of my really ambitious features are on hold while my $20 plan's tokens reset 😁

2026-02-05 17:03:50 UTC

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If they're convinced that Bitcoin is a scam then I get why they want those who have the must to gain or lose, to lose, but why are they seemingly so okay with the rubes getting hurt? Seems like rooting for an entire nation to fail because we don't like its leadership. It's just gross.

2026-02-05 06:17:38 UTC

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I'm curious how many pages it takes to get to the big reveal, "stay humble and stack sats" 😂

2026-02-05 06:13:58 UTC

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Sounds about right. Earlier I make a smash buy that may have been at least a bit irresponsible, so, of course only a few hours later do I hear something suggesting that price will be going lower 😂

2026-02-02 04:46:07 UTC

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Hahaha, as a friend tells it, on of my favorite anecdotes involves me walking for hours is a literal monsune, in a literal wilderness, for hours, stumbling upon an oasis of sorts, being offered shelter and pizza, only to respond with "I'm good but thanks", at which point I walkrd a few more hours, eat cold soup for dinner, and then sleep on the ground. That day was the best. Doing hard things is the best 🙂

2026-02-02 04:29:30 UTC

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Ha, work forces me to be 1, and I think that my coworkers are both appreciative and exhausted by what I bring to the table.
At home it's pure 2, and I feel more than a little guilt over it when my wife wants to make plans with me 😂

2026-02-01 21:17:03 UTC

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run or ruin?

2026-01-31 23:35:23 UTC

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I feel like there's a life lesson in there, something about when you find a ho who isn't scared, and putting a ring on it.
Also, please don't tell my wife that I implied that she's a ho. Not all parts of life lessons have to be literal.

2026-01-31 18:32:47 UTC

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For me, the worst part is that work has a seemingly magical ability to slow down during dips so I'm often tightening my belt when I want to be stacking the hardest 🤷‍♂️

2026-01-29 00:44:11 UTC

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I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed but I'm about done with a flutter calorie tracking app with about 43k lines of dart. Please don't ask for anything other than very high level details about how it works 🤣 I'm looking forward to working on something much, much simpler 🙂

2026-01-27 07:18:32 UTC

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I'm a mechanical engineer. I'd at times rather my hobby projects revolve and cars or random gizmos, but having them revolve around programming gets fewer looks from my wife since they're cheaper and result in less clutter 😂 But now, having a collaborator that's already knowledgeable about seemingly every language, build system, and already solved problem, has been amazing. To be able to just kind of jump into stuff after a stintegic conversion rather than having to start with days or weeks of research on languages, protocols, etc. has been amazing.

2026-01-22 20:57:54 UTC

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The epistemic grounding on which the average person bases their world view seems to be profoundly inconstant and misguided, so it's hard to talk about even the most basic thing without countless linguistic hoops.

2026-01-21 18:49:22 UTC

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When seemingly no one says that their pet project isn't riddled with fraud, but instead just points out the fraud that's elsewhere within the system, to me, it sounds like the takeaway is that it's all just fraud.

2026-01-21 18:40:33 UTC

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TBH, this reminded recently released pictures of Bill Clinton in a pool, or ICE agents pepper spraying people where, while it was clearly supposed to be damning, it just didn't come across that way to me due to the lack of context. The insider seemed to be saying all the honestly damning stuff (which I assume was him trying to get other people to say provocative stuff), one guy acknowledged that a technology exists and seemingly has military applications (and personally, I want our military to have access to a wide variety of dangerous technologies), and then it was seemingly suggested that measuring snow depth is sinister, despite it being a very common practice in many places for many benign reasons.