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“Hey, I’m kinda lost [and you look a bit lost too]. Do you mind if we band together until we figure things out?”

To be fair, if an industry consortium bought 1 trillion USD worth of semiconductor parts to prevent the AI winter of the 1970s, it would have looked like a foolhardy move unless some group of researchers happened to get drunk in the correct bars and be sober for the correct investor meetings, leading to early discovery of attention and leapfrogging even today’s AI research to achieve several orders of magnitude efficiency gains in training so as to satisfy the eager compute capabilities of the 1970s.

Looked up which were the highest paying jobs for people not inheriting wealth or social connections. Realized the field was oil & gas and the highest job was Petroleum Engineer, took Chemical Engineering because of its wide applicability, accepted I’d be working in the boonies for at least a decade of my life, made it work.

5/10. Wouldn’t recommend for the loneliness.

Indomie comes with its own cute little oil packet suspending oil-soluble spices. =D

That’s oral history in my book. I wonder what the first equivalent of the Odyssey will be translated.

How else do you expect to fit two morbidly obese American parents and their morbidly obese children?

It’s happening!

A few billion years earlier:

Some bacterium

“What if I reduced carbon dioxide with sunlight?”

The extinction of almost all life

Because their programmers are too busy to RTFM themselves to properly write a decent FM.

I’m pretty sure it’s gold and white.

The entire point of having a democracy is to avoid gambling on the next heir of a bloodline dynasty being fit to rule. So, a popularity contest among celebrity television entertainers isn’t the worst, but the qualities of personality this population selects for are generally those that assist maintaining distracting fantasies rather than engaging with harsh realities.

Sounds like military recruitment which is one ethical step away from conscription.

Based on my cheatsheet, GNU Coreutils, sed, awk, ImageMagick, exiftool, jdupes, rsync, jq, par2, parallel, tar and xz utils are examples of commands that I frequently use but whose developers I don’t believe receive any significant cashflow despite the huge benefit they provide to software developers. The last one was basically taken over in by a nation-state hacking team until the subtle backdoor for OpenSSH was found in 2024-03 by some Microsoft guy not doing his assigned job.