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Posts by Chris Van Patten

Someone create a browser extension to flag accounts that have hidden post histories

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Reddit giving users the ability to hide their post/comment history is going to be the death of the platform. It's making it harder to separate legitimate recommendations from astroturfing spam.

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unless…

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you can never count out touchdown tom

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no it was on a boat

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I don’t think I’ll be getting my 3D printer today

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ChatCVP

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chatpat?

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patbot

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go bot ur chat

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dawn lazarus, sportscaster

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~ wish this was a joke ~

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so far, turning 35 has mostly meant new recurring back pain

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Anyway, read Peter Korn’s “Why We Make Things and Why It Matters”

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Really wanted to like the book Shop Class as Soulcraft but it’s stealthily laced with a sort of toxic individualism and conservative “shakes-fist-at-modernity” attitude that is off-putting.

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"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"

Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

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I did not grow up during the prime Hulk Hogan era so admittedly don't have an emotional connection I'm sure others have, but I'm still struggling with the outpouring of grief for this kinda shitty person

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Hulk Hogan ratted out other wrestlers attempting to unionize to save his own position and paycheck above anyone else's & gladly accepted funding from Peter Thiel for his Gawker court case that paved frequently abused legal precedents for the rich to shut down any media outlets that embarrass them.

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It is super cool to have a bus boarding for a transatlantic flight

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The food options at CDG are in a league of their own.

A bad league, to be clear.

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hurtling through the french countryside at 300km/h drinking macchiatos on an italian train is not a bad way to spend a friday

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Almost twice as many people ride the New York City bus every day as live in Wyoming.

The bus should have two senators

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ah yes, a small folded booklet with a 2x2" photo that you bring when you travel and present with ID. let me store this safely in my passport wallet

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oh no

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It is hardly the Great Problem of Our Time, but the fact that International Driving Permits are not the same size as passports still feels like a tragedy

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Roy Scheider in Jaws saying his famous line “I hate that fucking shark! I'm going to kill it.”

Roy Scheider in Jaws saying his famous line “I hate that fucking shark! I'm going to kill it.”

Happy 50th anniversary to the movie Jaws. This is probably the greatest line in cinema history:

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it feels good to reach the end of an impossibly long week

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My nuanced take is that LLMs are a conceptually compelling and interesting technology, but most instances and applications of LLMs are ethically dubious and/or philosophically fraught.

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Happy to say I jumped on the bandwagon this week and I'm very happy so far! Making it very easy to do remote development via my home server. I'm barely scratching the surface of functionality but impressed already.

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One of these days I will try to understand Tailscale, but today is not that day

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what the fuck is the deal with the AI generated videos of animals cooking??????

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