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Farmer, Software Engineer, Trader. Proud free tier user of this site.

Joined February 2009
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The funniest part of all the TNG love rn is that LLMs are The Computer on The Enterprise and what is being claimed is that we're about to get a Replicator and Dilithium Crystals. We're 1 for 3 so far.
I always liked this scene in The Next Generation where Picard explains to a Wall Street financier that society has eliminated scarcity, poverty, hunger, and money. The financier is troubled by that, and Picard responds that the point is to enrich your life.
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People don't get unnatural it is to have your food wrapped in transparent hydrocarbon sheens
pior q eh mt louco pensar como tem gente q nem sente vontade de automatizar ou ter ajuda de IA pra nada. enquanto tava trampando hj coloquei o claude pra comprar pra mim a feira, o açougue e as despesas da quinzena. ele tem acesso ao histórico de compras, tem acesso ao pwa que criei só pra ter controle das coisas de casa e sabe o que preciso e o que falta, além de criar também uma lista de receitas pra fazer no dia a dia. eu só vou recebendo as coisas aqui em casa q vão chegando dps dele comprar
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A good way to tell if your startup is real is to ask Am I the janitor of last resort at this company? Strong correlation
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700% richer in dollars - but we’ve lost 73% of ALL wild animals in that time. 😤 Let that sink in. WTF are our priorities…
The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer. Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer. We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is. It will never reach you.
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MAGA explains the Solow residual.
Everybody complains when gas hits $4 a gallon. Brother thats a GALLON. It moves my F150 King Ranch, tools, cooler and probably 400 lbs of Harbor Freight receipts 13-15 miles. Meanwhile my exes boyfriend “Brent” pays $7 for 16 ounces of oatmilk coffee. Thats $56 a gallon. And it moves him from his Subaru to a Zoom meeting. Gasoline might be the best deal in America. 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸
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Me when the waiter asks who had the sizzlin fajitas
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I don’t understand how more people don’t see all this stuff for what it is, the decline of industrial civilization.
CHART OF THE DAY: The cost of hiring an oil tanker on the industry’s benchmark trade (Middle East to the Far East) route has topped $1 million a day for the first time -- a year ago, it was less than $100,000 a day. h/t @alexlongley1
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Cory Doctorow's new post on whether AI will kill humanity
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Being a guy with an app is such a cruel feckless fate
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fossil fuel worship congregation
🔥🏜️ THE LINE FOR Burning Man IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE Burning Man officially kicked off today in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, and getting onto the playa has been an adventure of its own. At one point Sunday, the wait to reach the gate climbed to more than 8 HOURS, with thousands of cars, RVs and trucks backed up across the desert. By early evening, SFGATE reported the wait had dropped to around 5 hours. 😳 Organizers actually warn that waits of 5+ hours can happen during the opening rush, with roughly 50,000 people arriving Sunday and Monday. And looking at this picture… yeah, I believe it. 😂 Could you sit in THIS line for 8 hours to get to Burning Man? 👀👇
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is an altered photo from 2022 as attendees were leaving Burning Man x.com/pakmann2k/stat…
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AI's most powerful feature is it's ability to allow you to lie to yourself.
I don't care how AI pilled you are... the speed of light is a thing and Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away
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Ultra treasury bonds and bitcoin in perfect harmony right now.
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The quantity of homophones for llave in spanish is hilarious. It really can mean anything in context.
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Sheldon retweeted
Intellect should be judged not by the words a person say but by the outcome of their actions. Not even the actions themselves but their outcome. Chess grandmasters make seemingly stupid moves until you suddenly realize that you lost.
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I've lost the plot on modernity. I can no longer detect a joke from an honest post.
Today, we’re launching Tau’s humanoid cleaning service in San Francisco at $30 per hour. Access is initially invite-only as we scale operations. If you don’t have an invite yet, join the waitlist at tau-robotics.com. All footage is shown at 1× speed. Each humanoid is jointly controlled by a human operator and AI.
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you, an imbecile, learning to prompt LLMs better me, also an imbecile, learning to prompt google better
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I’ll never understand why stupid meaningless remarks go so viral
do you think genghis khan had a dashboard to give him operational insights
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We're inching closer to 'the moment' $UB1!
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