I got a cheap office chair when I moved out after college. It was like $15+20 and it’s super comfortable and still use it daily over 10 years later.

It’s just foam stapled to plywood but really good support.

Casting a wider net.

Some people just have to work harder in certain fields than others. You’re skills may be in building, writing, gardening or something else but they’re not in attracting a wide variety of matches and that’s ok. I also suck at making dating profiles, don’t photograph well and don’t have the most interesting job.

I just need to put in more hours on Hinge and reach out to more people than a friend of mine who says he just opens the app and can get a date within the hour.

For context, if I’m actively looking I can usually swing one or two dates a month which is fine for my schedule as I work and have other things I’m doing in my free time. I’m also in my 30s so am matching with people who also have busy schedules which makes scheduling even harder.

Many things are social constructs, but we also live in social groups

I had a friend who did consulting right out of college. Half the time he said it was his job to suggest layoffs so the people in charge could pretend it wasn’t their idea.

Consulting services rarely are there to help figure out what to do, they’re there to help convince other people that what you want to do is the right move.

Yeah, that’s a tough one.

If you’re young, that’s just how it is right now. You’re totally valid in feeling frustrated or inadequate but also know you’re not doing especially badly compared to others in your position.

If you’re older, it just takes some people longer before the pieces fall into place. Right person wrong time kind of deal.

And you should wear it with confidence. Honestly had the most respect for people who are really cute out in public but then reveal their true gremlin selves at home when the makeup is off and they’re in pajamas and a t shirt.

Means they really worked for those good looks, which most people really need to do at my age.

Sure, it’s important to be aware of future potential issues, but there’s a huge difference between I get the wrong answer when I ask a chatbot about my email vs remote code execution.

Also, one is a general security vulnerability with email as a whole, like phishing you can get scammed regardless of your email client, vs improperly implemented features in a specific library. I don’t think this is a reason to leave Gmail.

As far as prompt injection is concerned, I don’t think it’s a risk unless you’re using some kind of agent to go though emails, which is not a Gmail specific thing.

If we’re taking about Google scraping your data the risk is more one of them having an incorrect profile on you, but running a conversational agent is quite expensive, I don’t they would have that as a large scale part of their pipeline. Embedding and clarification models likely aren’t instruction tuned so prompt injection won’t do anything.

Only if you are piping those emails into something like an LLM assistant or search tool, especially if you’re not checking the results. And in that case, it doesn’t matter what email provider you use.

I can see it maybe messing with search results when you look through your email, but again that’s independent of email provider.

Only one has that true Frankfurt odor

I think phonetic alphabets are a pretty good idea (though I suppose they’re mostly phonemic).

I’m surprised more people don’t make fun of abjads.

To me, there’s two ways you could interpret that, one is what are the effects of magnetism which we learn on high school physics, the other other is why does magnetism have those effects which is more something you’d learn in an undergraduate physics or chemistry degree.

I don’t think they have as much control as you think, I just think they’re confident they can come out on top of whatever chaos he causes no matter what it is.

Sounds like something a lawyer would say to get more clients…

I feel like if you’re in a situation where you need to know how to improvise an anaesthetic for sutures, you probably should be in the ER anyway, but can’t get to one.

People who are smart in one or two domains often overestimate how smart they are in other domains. They develop a mental model, confirm it quickly, and never re-asses it.

The issue with AI, is we’re probably hitting our first real S curve with the current technology’s performance but a lot of people who bet big are only see the exponential part and assuming there won’t be a level off, or that the level of is far away.

There is no Moore’s law for AI.

I always set a timer when I do stuff like that because I will forget.

Eh, even though we had Mark Hamill’s joker, there have been some good takes by other VAs

1. Machine code is less portable, as new CPU optimizations and instructions are released, its easier to update a compiler to integrate those in its optimizations than regenerate and retest all of your code. Also, if you need to target different OSs, like windows vs MacOs vs Linux its easier to make portable code in something higher level like python or java.

2. Static analysis to check for things like memory leaks or security vulnerabilities like sql injections are likely easier to do on human readable code rather than assembly.

3. Its easier for a human to go in an tweak code that is written in human readable language rather than assembly.