The office is currently about 7000 km away, so a targeted attack is slightly out of budget

Finally found something wrong with WFH, I can’t make my office nemesis smell my farts anymore 😭

Ahh jeez, fuck I hate it

Arresting to have been using a thing so clearly designed to have gamelike features and never quite noticing it. I tend to credit myself as being fairly media literate and conscious about games, I guess either I’m wrong about that or they did an amazing job at it. I’ll have to think carefully about that.

Flailing, disorganised, unpredictable. He’s checked out and his administration is Oops! All Scheming Viziers

Very true, so while we’re at it let’s abolish prisons.

I want a full panel with Nixie tube odometer, analogue dials, and a huge, rustic jackknife switch that throws a bunch of sparks when it turns the car on. Any physical buttons should have the loudest mechanical keyboard switches available so that I can hear them clearly with music on.

First they came for the arts, then they came for the critical thinking…

That’s about right. I haven’t had a teflon pan in several years, no idea why people go to all that heartache just for DuPont’s sake.

Y’all wanted me to come out of my shell, guess what MFer

Interesting approach, I wasn’t aware of any recipes that require you to approach the melting point of steel. Have you tried Barkeeper’s Friend?

Edit: Forgot about pizza, explains why mine are so mid lmao

This is nice. I wish I could hire you to follow me around and explain me to people so I could stay cryptic and unbothered all the time.

Never studied Latin, I’m content with getting the reference over the net. ^^

Smaug wouldn’t even be a top ten wealthiest American billionaire. Fictional greed-obsessed monsters have objectively less than our real oligarchs.

Everybody got different needs. Some people need to stop doing drugs, some people need to start!

I would even go as far as saying such interview-type tests would be valuable on a regular basis throughout a course, if it could be done. People learn really well during personal conversations like that, and the act of explaining an idea can be a great way to crystallize a body of concepts in a way that merely reading about them might never do.

I know institutions would want to fob this interviewing work off onto an LLM, but I know it would be of meagre benefit.

CHESS-A-REEEE!!

Dude worked for Frieza and never saw a power level over 9000? What a heap of shit.

Titanium pans do seem promising, Kenji seems to be a fan. Until they’re a little cheaper I’ll stick with cast iron and stainless.

Stainless can be incredibly nonstick by the way - but you have to pay attention to the heat. If a bead of water skitters across the pan, it’s ready for your oil and whatever else. You can also season them, but it only lasts for one cook!

I think the fact is that amphetamines can help you cram, but they don’t help with long-term retention or better comprehension (to say nothing of the more obvious harms). After the test, the stuff you’ve memorised evaporates like yesterday’s breakfast order in the mind of an underpaid waiter. I’ve known people who do this, they don’t retain anything.

I would really prefer that we adopt a more naturalistic vetting method for students than standardised testing. Instead of having professors double as test proctors, there should be a sort of structured interview and staff whose whole job it is to probe student understanding. Test design theory is admittedly quite advanced around multiple choice, but I don’t think they’re fit for task anymore in the age of LLMs and performance ‘enhancing’ drugs.

I don’t know. Maybe my idea could work, but all I know is the way we do things now doesn’t.