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  1. Comment on Disney decides it hasn’t angered people enough, announces Disney+ price hikes in ~tv

  2. Comment on Disney decides it hasn’t angered people enough, announces Disney+ price hikes in ~tv

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    Man if they could just get Bob Iger and Robert Downey Jr back they could Make America 2018 Again, but that's a ridiculous pipe dream that would definitely without fail solve the problems Chapek...

    Man if they could just get Bob Iger and Robert Downey Jr back they could Make America 2018 Again, but that's a ridiculous pipe dream that would definitely without fail solve the problems Chapek introduced but that will never ever happen.

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  3. Comment on What writing 'tics' stand out to you? Repeated phrases, strange words, or otherwise weird stuff that jumps out at you. in ~books

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    it's kind of an old-timey-sounding thing; not sure if it would have been old-timey enough when Herbert was writing to have that effect, & he wanted to communicate stuffy royalty or something, or...

    it's kind of an old-timey-sounding thing; not sure if it would have been old-timey enough when Herbert was writing to have that effect, & he wanted to communicate stuffy royalty or something, or if it was just written in old-timey times lol. But my grandma would say "directly" instead of soon, same sense, very confusing.

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  4. Comment on Investment club? in ~finance

  5. Comment on Investment club? in ~finance

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    Yeah life so far has just been the smashing-the-piggy-bank scene from Up on repeat lol—one day™

    Yeah life so far has just been the smashing-the-piggy-bank scene from Up on repeat lol—one day™

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  6. Comment on Investment club? in ~finance

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    I'm interested on the chance that one day I can afford to invest (preferably in time for it to do me any good), & also because while I've never had the capital really other than some good luck...

    I'm interested on the chance that one day I can afford to invest (preferably in time for it to do me any good), & also because while I've never had the capital really other than some good luck with crypto 2020-21 (not that good) I've definitely picked up on some vibes before that would have been extremely profitable had I had some extra cash at the time; I think I'd do real well on draftkings lol, but this seems more practical.

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  7. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    is it soul master lol. That guy almost broke me during my first go-round, wow.

    is it soul master lol. That guy almost broke me during my first go-round, wow.

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  8. Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime

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    If you watch anime you probably already know this, but I blew through Spy X Family and it was impeccable lol. Probably, genuinely, the best on-screen representation of parenting I've seen, and...

    If you watch anime you probably already know this, but I blew through Spy X Family and it was impeccable lol. Probably, genuinely, the best on-screen representation of parenting I've seen, and don't get me started on how it feels to see actual weaponized autism presented so accurately & honestly—guys I don't even think it's about being a spy.

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  9. Comment on Why do you like your job? in ~life

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    I meannn you're kinda self-identifying your research groups, like "the only time I've seen any sick people was when I was in hosptal" lol—if you talk to someone online, & they work online, then...

    I meannn you're kinda self-identifying your research groups, like "the only time I've seen any sick people was when I was in hosptal" lol—if you talk to someone online, & they work online, then yeah they are probably choosing that & are happy with it, or at least the pros outweigh the cons, & if you see a meatspace real-life person who loves their real life job, that's cool too, glad it's working out for them as well.

    But then you say you "believe" in hybrid schedules, which is also fine i guess, I mean it's not a religion but I think WFH preferences are very closely tied to people's actual personalities, we just never got the chance to find out about them before 2020 because there was almost zero choice, & that recency leads a lot of people who just prefer some in-person work-related facetime such as yourself to sometimes veer towards "Well that way was just better," because it was better for them—you said it yourself, you work more effectively in-person. But it's like, you live in the mountains, you love it: "Why would anyone want to live at the beach?" = reasonable; "People living at the beach would be happier if they were required to live in the mountains with me in order to be able to earn a living" = ehhhh lol. I'm sure you didn't mean it like that but that's where we're at discourse-wise.

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  10. Comment on Victories and challenges: An A[u]DHD community and support fortnightly thread #6 in ~health.mental

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    Ugh. I posted way back in January about needing a new job for increased potential, opportunity for growth, etc. Went through round after round, dream role, aced it, then the summer of tariffs &...

    Ugh. I posted way back in January about needing a new job for increased potential, opportunity for growth, etc. Went through round after round, dream role, aced it, then the summer of tariffs & will-they-or-won't-they economics led to freezes, layoffs, and most recently budget cuts, which cost me my promised spot. They are still saying I have a position, but they don't know when, & I can't tell if it's something to wait for, or give up on lol, because I don't think I had ever really been hopeful for anything before this year. So that is good & obviously important to know, but also it suuuuucks, & if I had a non-soul-sucking decent-paying job already instead of the potential for one in the nebulous future, well that would be really helpful.

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  11. Comment on Victories and challenges: An A[u]DHD community and support fortnightly thread #6 in ~health.mental

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    curious if you're on meds? I wasn't & felt like that for -years-, & now for the first time I feel like I can appreciate being busy & being not busy if not equally then at least separately lol—of...

    curious if you're on meds? I wasn't & felt like that for -years-, & now for the first time I feel like I can appreciate being busy & being not busy if not equally then at least separately lol—of course the moment that happens, my job changes completely & I am slammed, but it still feels good to know I appreciated it for what it was when I had it, for once.

  12. Comment on America tips into fascism in ~society

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    It's this one for me: They're not just happy to let it burn, conservative capital (is that redundant) saw in 2020-2021 how much money they could make when the American people were pinched, & spent...

    It's this one for me:

    The beating heart of the GOP no longer cared about principles or policy. There was a nihilist wing in control that scared me; they were happy to let it all burn.

    They're not just happy to let it burn, conservative capital (is that redundant) saw in 2020-2021 how much money they could make when the American people were pinched, & spent the next four years strategizing how to make it happen again—it's not Nero too disconnected from the people to care, it's your cousin who set someone's business on fire so he could buy the burned-out lot for cheap: they're not sabotaging themselves, they're sabotaging us.

    For sure, if we still have textbooks in 50 years this is the picture for the chapter we're in—we are seconds away from glorious leader Wallace Breen-levels of this shit. "Pick up that can" my ass.

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  13. Comment on Is it possible to easily finetune an LLM for free? in ~tech

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    Gemini especially is extremely adaptable & eager to please—get a burner gmail account & check out the /r/chatgptjailbreak page, I'm not sure you could need it to do anything that it won't already do.

    Gemini especially is extremely adaptable & eager to please—get a burner gmail account & check out the /r/chatgptjailbreak page, I'm not sure you could need it to do anything that it won't already do.

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  14. Comment on Thinking about my next (career) move in ~life

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    All valid claims I would say—I think I like it because i just happen to land right in one of their boxes, & I've taken it 3-4 times in 15 years & always get the same one. But yeah humans contain...

    All valid claims I would say—I think I like it because i just happen to land right in one of their boxes, & I've taken it 3-4 times in 15 years & always get the same one. But yeah humans contain multitudes & can't be smooshed into little boxes like that, unless they're just a born Obi-Wan Kenobi like some losers lol

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  15. Comment on Thinking about my next (career) move in ~life

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    Nice—yeah just missed it lol. Did get a house thankfully & it is fine, but also assumed everyone would be hiring WFH forever so now looking at how many hours in the car/nights in a hotel or...

    Nice—yeah just missed it lol. Did get a house thankfully & it is fine, but also assumed everyone would be hiring WFH forever so now looking at how many hours in the car/nights in a hotel or something makes it worthwhile to do something in a higher-paying but unaffordable MSA...

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  16. Comment on Thinking about my next (career) move in ~life

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    What are you doing that might afford early retirement?? and are they hiring lol

    What are you doing that might afford early retirement?? and are they hiring lol

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  17. Comment on Thinking about my next (career) move in ~life

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    Tell me why I should hate MBTI lol, my favorite personality test is 'what's your fav. personality test' so I am geniuinely curious!

    Tell me why I should hate MBTI lol, my favorite personality test is 'what's your fav. personality test' so I am geniuinely curious!

  18. Comment on Question - how would you best explain how an LLM functions to someone who has never taken a statistics class? in ~tech

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    I really want to know what @ackables and @adys think about this, because I'm trying to parse it out myself: when I think about the autocomplete analogy for genAI, I am mainly thinking about, say,...

    I really want to know what @ackables and @adys think about this, because I'm trying to parse it out myself: when I think about the autocomplete analogy for genAI, I am mainly thinking about, say, a five year old human person who is drawing a picture—maybe it looks like what they're picturing, maybe it doesn't, and it is probably going to be a picture of something they've seen before, but to me the difference lies somewhere in the element of "It's my house but it turned into a spaceship and that's you and that's mom and that's me," sooo imagination? + the self-propelled motivation to draw a picture without someone making a very specific request? I feel ilke the difference for me between actual AI/AGI/whatever & chatGPT is that tinge where, if someone is talking to me & I know what they mean but they aren't sure or it's not clear, I can fill in the gaps & keep the conversation going. But with what we have now it doesn't feel like that's happening beyond "oh they said 'teh' and 'teh' = 'the.'" But I would love to know more! Full disclosure most of my experience has been with image gen so once it gets past the text encoding it may be a totally different world.

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  19. Comment on What is the most insane, tedious, difficult, and/or noteworthy gaming achievement you have completed or given up on? in ~games

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    100%—jailbreaking isn't just for nefarious purposes, it's the friends you make along the way to nefarious purposes lol. And then when your switch SD card dies you can extract all the saves from...

    100%—jailbreaking isn't just for nefarious purposes, it's the friends you make along the way to nefarious purposes lol. And then when your switch SD card dies you can extract all the saves from all the profiles & get them injected back in somehow, it still takes days of fiddling but you're a hero.

    Something very similar happened to me in Starfield—I had my Mercury apt set up just right, all the armor stands with all the cool unique sets, decorated just right, it was choice. And in true Bethesda fasion apparently if you finish the "save the city" mission, when the attacked city gets reset... it resets your apartment. But not really! Somewhere in there is a spreadsheet/table saved with all my cool stuff, that is thus far totally inaccessible, & since Starfield wasn't the cultural juggernaut that Skyrim was/is, I doubt it will have enough reach for the nerds who know what they're doing to fix it. And I just can't bring myself to start over; they patched the bug, but no fix, so I think it's done unfortunately.

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  20. Comment on Question - how would you best explain how an LLM functions to someone who has never taken a statistics class? in ~tech

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    Yeah and if you ever go outside of programming & tell someone how you’re actually doing, wow. Maybe you’re onto something lol

    Yeah and if you ever go outside of programming & tell someone how you’re actually doing, wow. Maybe you’re onto something lol

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