You’ve explained my feelings about llms perfectly. I have a lot of coworkers that use it constantly all day for work and are confused that I don’t. TBH I can see that it is saving them time on a lot of tasks, but I like that part of my job. It can’t do all the bad parts of our job (lab work) just the rewarding parts (reading, writing, statistics, figure design, coding).

I am big into old obscure media, love ubuweb, but I would still hesitate to join a kind of unknown person for an activity like that. It’s just a big plunge.

Biotech is also awful rn

I think there are communities like that… but for replacing lawn with native plants not paving them over lmao

Chews food?

Not Seinfeld the show, I’m talking about an interview show Seinfeld the man does. I dont think it’s scripted. But yea he could just be playing up his persona, idk.

I’ve seen a few episodes of his show where he takes comedians to get a coffee in his fancy cars. He often comes across like an asshole. Sometimes I wonder if he’s in charge of the show why he would want to be portrayed that way? Presumably he could edit some stuff out?

Oh interesting. I definitely see that now. I thought it was “passion according to gh”

“Boner” is a clumsy error

It’s funny because back in the day the lack of support for amd is what made me choose to go nvidia in the future. Maybe the pendulum will swing back who knows? Kind of surprising it’s not well supported given the popularity / importance of cuda.

Everyone I know who studied English in undergrad is a coder now. Everyone I know who studied it in grad school is a high school teacher now.

Bad lieutenant and wild at heart are really good out there movies

Red currants :)

Edit - apparently they are black currants. Still tasty!

I think the most famous example is probably “Pale fire” by Nabokov. Not sci-fi, but very very fun! George Perec write some interesting concept books. One is about this apartment in Paris where every chapter just describes a random room in the building, but slowly tells a story of the inhabitants.

I think one of the benefits would be less war since every citizen would be personally affected by it. Also all the public works and infrastructure. And healthcare. It could be great! Maybe it would help with all the “lonely men” culture that we hear so much about, and likely plays into some of the gun culture. I guess we’ll never know since that won’t happen here, though.

Mandatory conscription is probably my most “out there” political belief. I think the benefits would be vast! I don’t think it would prevent mass shootings in America, though.

This was nearly a decade ago. I worked at a small app company (5-10 developers) for a bit that used Ruby on Rails for our product. The product was in active development, but was available to customers so it was “done”. We were hiring a senior level dev to oversee the team and we interviewed this guy (maybe in his 40s?, a but older than most people in tech) and he said his first order of business if hired would be to refactor the entire code base to php. I don’t think he was joking. I’m not sure why he interviewed.

I came here to write the same thing. Why do they do that?

wrt TikTok I assume the poll just asked what other platforms you are on, not if you are posting career related things on the platform. Most grad students are in their 20s and probably use TikTok for entertainment.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wCnXf9RfxfU