"eigen" is this for wannabee intellectuals. finally grasp it and think they're at boss level abstraction and can't resist cramming it in their profile

at 13, i was just starting to pivot from know-it-all to politely helpful. in 1996, an IT guy 15 feet away struggled to map a network drive on Windows 3.11. after the third failure cycle, i spoke up. "can i make a suggestion?" > sure! "that dialog box defaults to No, so pushing Enter cancels it"

do the mechanical bulls you ride at the club have a RNG or can you just learn a kata?

never thought about F1 until the movie. a sport that's entirely costly signal of brand reputation. 95% may know you have a team but not whether you're #2 or #10. once on the board, midfield fights become worth it at $10-15m per position. massive gamble to try for #1 with commensurate media reward

excess deaths is such a good measure for getting around misclassification accusations like we had in COVID. i believe 10,000 per cyclone since probably everything is like that: fragile eggshells losing a decade from a change of environment, but YLL is probably a better metric here

the burden of AI is you are no longer calling appliance repair for expertise, but out of laziness

ignoring our shared calendar since I know we have an event coming up purely from the IP-based retargeted ads I get for Rent the Runway

get the feeling the goal here is just to snatch up wunderkind before they go to other labs or start competitors and sequester them until takeoff the way Meta did with established adult researchers

i'm guessing AI doomers don't get LASIK given tail risk is weighted above all else?

if broadcast/cable wants to steal back viewers from streaming, coordinate with still-extant brands to run vintage commercials period-matched to classic Christmas movies. i'd watch low-bitrate Griswold interspersed with Folgers incest, cola polar bears, and dopey M&Ms over my own 4K disc

LLM psychosis cranks developing wrappers to solve fundamental questions have an even bigger blind spot than cranks who believe LLMs are lensing their genius because the former think they've subtracted their ego from the equation

contemptuous of gushing praise for the dead you wouldn't give to them alive. the changed variable is their inability to covert praise into status, so they are no longer a sink but a reflector, inanimately forced to return all of what would empower a living rival into pocketable virtue points for you

every As Seen on TV product being a scam is evidence for Nothing Ever Happens because the medium is perfect for selling products so qualitatively, structurally better they need longform visual description to coax you out of the status quo's local maxima, yet apparently no such products exist

whether a friend sends me AI-generated or human nudes, my question is the same. which model is this?

AI safety charities are incentivized to catastrophize because the typical estate donation is decades away. if you want 20-somethings pulling Bay money to tithe, you need an argument for Now

what is this stupid as fuck @highlight feature Facebook has given boomers to annoy us with their free Winnebago contest entries?

a lot is made of "How Jews Became White Folks" but rarely is it mentioned that if an unaccented Asian man is old and plump enough, he also achieves honorary white status

irregular periods as evolution throwing a fork in the gears of natural fertility tracking to increase births? optimal cadence to trick the human brain is probably more fractal than mast years that only need overwhelm the squirrel hippocampus

Concorde droop nose had the same menacing aura as handgun side grip

my girl as reluctant wingman has incredible theory of mind into competitors. spotted her rival reading my writing would have no use-mention distinction, so object-level "uses" are interpreted as deliberately dropped "mentions" of that term. this read totally escaped me, but it explains a lot

in cities with trams that share lanes with cars, do they have TV ads or something so you know how to coexist with these things?

finitist presentist computationalist physicalist: i am an equivalence class radical eternalist Platonic realist: so i took that literally

Nature Valley bars were everywhere for years, then everyone stopped eating them at once. do our teeth collectively meter their own micromort of mastication, refusing further microfracture risk in a globally synchronized retreat?

to an outside observer, "we'd like to become friends, but must be careful not to come on too strong by delicately introducing and dancing around new topics" looks a lot like "our souls are enemies but we are trying our best to avoid outright conflict"

airline seating seems beyond random—maliciously tuned to maximize misery. they won't alternate by sex or body size but will alternate by politics and age

can't tell if the cast of Stranger Things and their stunt doubles and triples are at this airport or every 20-something is copying their look

want to know when and how long you actually spent writing? Substack autosaves every few seconds, so those timestamps alone reveal your writing runs. paste this script into the browser console while viewing any draft to see an ASCII art daily timeline

forcing Spotify to redownload my 1700 liked songs in lossless instead of 320 kbps made the cache go from 16 GB to 61 GB. do they have all music in lossless already? because that's a factor of 3.8 and i would only expect 2.8 if every song went from 320 kbps to ~900 kbps FLAC. 24-bit 48 kHz 1.2 Mbps?!

I always assumed Sid Meier was some academic with a specific theory of human flourishing like Jared Diamond, Jacob Bronowski, or James Burke and the games were named to nod to their opinionated game flow

people talk about Gmail like it's not a specific provider of email but an alternative to the entire concept of email

incredible authentically retro site frozen in time. you can feel the sincerity. it's not wearing the aesthetic ironically. takes me straight back to 1996

i mean, it did "find solutions to 10 Erdős problems" since that English verb doesn't discriminate on search-space size—whether some PDFs or the infinite Platonic realm

why do ex-evangelicals who go through "deconstructing and reconstructing" their faith end up in a similar denomination? why not expand your horizons before going back in or just stay out? "phew, i escaped the cult! now to join a slightly less fervent cult who believe the same thing"

in my hometown over a decade ago, the son of a candidate slashed the tires of his dad's opponent. father and son shared the name of the town's beloved dairy company. local news tried hard to spin it as a rambunctious youngster, not mentioning his age. the son was 33

what's so annoying about "mission-driven" startups who, say, mail out tampons for $30 a month is they think we're so stupid they can exert a reality distortion field of intense sincerity that'll wipe our minds of their business model: $30 - $6 = $24 profit

putting the Morbius guy in your new Tron movie is like putting typos in Nigerian scam emails. it filters out anyone who'd eventually realize it's junk early

every computer is a textbook tragedy of the commons since the beginning with TSRs. each of 100 programs wants to steal 1% of resources all the time so it can open 20% faster. Adobe is the worst fucking offender. it's not an Adobe computer. it's my computer i occasionally use to run your programs

Zoom really short circuits "How To Win Friends" hustlers. they panic upon realizing they must cram their full repertoire of status signaling affectations into a tiny 2D square and wig out performing detached annoyance and busier-than-thou distraction all at once before settling down to act normal

did reddit mess up their RNG seed for their automatic username generator? why do they all start with Ok_?

it is quote unquote ridiculous that people converged on speaking in Polish notation

how are pull-ups possible? if you're 180 lbs you probably can't curl 90 lb dumbbells with both arms at the same time

waking up too early puts me permanently in another realm. even when it gets to the hours where i'd normally be awake they're like mirror universe hours and i can't have a normal day

never tried mopping but hard to believe it works. pushing around the same water, dipping it back into that dirty bucket, surely the film left on the floor equalizes to the same muddy brown as the bucket

we all had that toaster iron that turned bread into two sealed triangular sandwiches, tried it out, had the most delicious Nutella, cheese, or peanut butter sandwiches, and then put it away forever. why? got burned once and developed a bad association?

we know exercise hours before bed hurts sleep time and quality. willing to bet brushing before bed does the same. makes me very alert. maybe it simulates eating?

"refurbished is better than new because they test it" is so dumb. an a priori counter: if they can take a product from any degraded state back to optimal, that process is a superset of initial assembly, and since initial assembly can always integrate knowledge from repair, it will always be superior

apparently the Big Three run shadow, web-only broadcasts dressed in full Trusted Nightly News adornment so web viewers think the networks risked their boomer audience credibility on these topics, when none was (boomers never saw it), and the stream's own credibility rises on that imagined spend

among the many evil business models that offer negative value even to their ideal customer and only exist to happen across the senile or gullible, "free steak dinner for retirees" is up there

I get the rules may be deliberately written to make pharmaceutical commercials too stupid to be produced, but can we at least get rid of the one requiring they say: "do not take x if you are allergic to x"?

The move comes as the U.S. body tasked with making recommendations for vaccine use is scheduled to consider the safety of COVID-19 shots, and two of the study’s authors say their findings will be discussed.