Every US president of my lifetime has given me a rule to personally disqualify future candidates Clinton: no more adulterers W Bush: no more nepotism Obama: no more dazzlingly perfect generational paragons Trump: no more reality TV stars Biden: no more 80 year olds

Is it normal to have dreams where the frame rate stutters?

I love this guy. He's pioneering new areas of research in topology by playing around with a Portal engine. Some day I hope it will be common for math research to involve visually appealing interactive computer programs like this.

There's a reading of this film as much more nuanced and subversive than you'd ever expect from Disney if you start with the assumption that the writers weren't just "nuts and confused". But the mind sees what it wants to see

Why are we ok with jump cuts on movie screens while similar cuts in a dome feel so terrible? I'm kind of struggling to find a satisfactory explanation

I've had enough too

Sometimes I get tears of relief just reading a Rust library and remembering all the horrors of Java, from stringly typed APIs to minefields of nullables to unspecified runtime exceptions, that I just don't have to deal with anymore

Can you please have an option to have a chat that saves history but *doesn't* influence later conversations?? I like talking to blank slates and I like referring back to previous chats. Why do you have to be like this

This would be effective rhetorical irony if it was actually clear that he wouldn't do just that

I think in some important way, this is what subjugation looks like. Many small indignities that I have to take because I have no other option. If I were a free US citizen (in some important sense) I wouldn't accept hats like this being sold in the White House, even as a joke.

This is the strongest argument for DC statehood that I've seen

This pitch guarantees terrible job security, why would anyone take it?

The only way to prevent a singularity of Trump imitators, I fear, is to punish and shame all users of this style, no matter how many layers of irony they add

I am convinced that the negligent user hostility of cloud platforms has cost tech companies about $1 trillion

I am reminded of the brownish yellow tint that ChatGPT adds to images and any Deep Implications of that are left as an exercise to the reader

The people who work on VSCode use VSCode all day and the people who work on Teams use Teams all day

Open source the Knowledge Graph, Google, you cowards

I would like to formally request a transfer to another simulation