HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADAL!!!!!!!

I've been through some recent trauma and in the aftermath I've learned a lot and genuinely think there's been a lot of positive changes as an indirect result

But there are soooo many other ways I could have learned the same lessons without nearly as much pain

this hits deep in the core of my soul holy goddamn shit bsky.app/profile/inee...

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I HAVENT BEEN ON TELEGRAM IN LIKE 6 MONTHS

CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THERES AN AI BUTTON IN TELEGRAM NOW?!??!!?!

WTF I REGRET REINSTALLING THIS APP ALREADY 😭😭😭😭😭

There is a narrative of "everyone uses AI" that is being pushed very very hard by the AI industry and it's becoming so ubiquitous and parroted so frequently that it's starting to almost feel convincing, but it isn't remotely true.

I see a box outline around the 'N'. Someone definitely vandalized the sign lol

nice

If you haven't yet learned how to recognize AI writing... don't. Trust me. You will drive yourself absolutely insane with how frequently you will see it literally everywhere. 💀

I've been working through a hard engineering problem. I've had multiple false starts. Today, I hit on a completely new way to look at the problem.

Now I think I need to redo even more work.

And I felt EXCITED about it.

NOW I know I'm back. And now I remember why I love this shit so much 😆

what's up? feel free to message if you need 💙💙

it's up but the blue service is experiencing an outage so currently the sky is not blue

thank you 💙

thank you

Still won't be Okay at that point but I'll at least be ok enough to keep it to myself and pretend everything is fine like a civilized person!

Surgery recovery has been incredibly stressful and isolating and has been starting to really get to me so apologies for the more venty posts, probably I'll level out soon and go back to barely ever posting

Like, at this point I've given up even on making friends because I have so little confidence that I can be my genuine self and show up authentically in relationships and be a good friend. It feels easier to hold out and wait until I'm doing better than to hope people understand, cuz they often don't

Honestly this isn't new though... I spent most of the last 20 years pushing through. With some success too. But it's exhausting to struggle with things that are easy for others... when I finally understood there was something wrong medically, I couldn't justify putting myself through that anymore ☹️

I feel like life is on hold. It's so difficult to study, learn, try new hobbies, make new friends, etc... and knowing I'm potentially just a few months away from treatment, I don't see any sense in trying to push through it. Just need to keep my head down and get through the next few months...

the last ~4 weeks of surgery recovery has been horrendous physically and mentally, but as of today, I'm finally back to work in person, so I can start getting back into my normal routine. very hopeful things will start returning to normal! today was already a lot better.

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

springtime

I love grocery stores and their colours

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto SAN FRANCISCO—Following reports that a 20-year-old man had been arrested for throwing a Moltov cocktail at Sam Altman’s home, the suspect stated Monday that he only initiated the attack because he was...

“I’ve been using ChatGPT to help with cooking for a while now, so I didn’t think too much of it when the ingredients list included a bottle filled with gasoline and a cloth wick,” said the alleged attacker

having been feeling increasingly anxious and stressed out recently about the state of Everything, WOW this news out of Hungary is a very welcome breath of fresh air. Maybe there's still hope for us.

Otherwise, I agree; designing for humans is more important than designing for computers. Your perf issues will rarely be because you have one poorly optimized texture (although it could be from lots of poorly optimized textures). There's always ways to make up the difference if you need to

I sort of think of "optimizing" and "following performance-conscious practices" as different things - don't optimize prematurely, but do think about performance early and try to generally build things performantly, else you are setting yourself up for death by a million paper cuts later

it's ok because soon nobody will even need to know anything ever again, your corporate AI overlord will do all your thinking for you and you're gonna LIKE it

code reviews are normally one of my least favorite parts of the job, I'm so glad we have tools now that make code reviews nearly the entire job 🙃

thank you, sometimes it's manageable and other times it's beyond horrible. I don't remember the last time I felt normal.

thank you so much, I hope so too