gaining a few thousand rando followers has made this account much noisier
this will be the final transmission
i will find you in another life if it was meant to be
(or DM for info lol)
last year of high school, was friends with a german foreign exchange student
went back to germany with him for a month
one day he scolded me about taking too long of a hot shower, "its expensive". i thought he was joking, but learned he was serious
There’s a lot of Europe bashing on twitter these days, but it’s temporary
Not because Europe will get better, but because soon, Europe being poorer will be as obvious as Africa being poorer, and making fun of it of equally bad taste
You know how 80% of software developers are basically bad at their jobs? 19% are solid, and 1% are gods.
Doctors are like that too. Think about that next time you’re at the hospital. Good luck!
yall, you must try this
1. ChatGPT app
2. give the prompt "I want you to help me flesh out a story about X. Ask me questions about the worldbuilding and plot to help think. Do not offer suggestions unless asked."
3. turn on speaking mode, put in headphones, and go for a walk
We need a 3rd alternative word that’s not “yes” or “no”, but means “your question contains an invalid premise, so neither yes nor no is a valid response”
before this, i basically had a mental model that US and EU were functionally identical living standards
this was years ago, and it seems like it's becoming even less true over time
Software engineering protip: write all your code twice
Once you get it working, commit it to a branch for safekeeping, then reset and write it again.
Only takes like 1/4 as long as the first time and is typically much higher quality, simpler code.
In 2014 Elon started a small private school for he and his friends' kids.
He got a lot of flak for excluding foreign language curriculum - he predicted AI would obviate learning those soon
IMO he is being totally vindicated, we are 1-2 years from universal translator in AirPods
The biggest blackpill on current longevity research is that there aren’t any 30 year old lab mice
You’re telling me you want humans to live forever and you can’t even get a mouse to midlife crisis yet??
Open offer: I interviewed several hundred people at my last FAANG job, if anyone has any questions about bigtech interviewing, feel free to reply or DM me
Every now and then a post like this goes viral and I get a tiny taste
Average IQ of my current followers is probably like 120, but when a post breaks containment, the replies quickly drop to population mean
I don't really go on reddit anymore, since X is so good, but every now and then I'll check in on the logged out view of the front page to see how the normies are doing
Let me tell you folks, the normies are not ok