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Do any of your emails actually make it into an inbox though? I did this for a server and I couldn't even get it to land in spam on gmail.

As the other user posted, practicing for tests are extremely important. I grew up middle class, got an average score on my tests (but I did really well in math)

My wife, upper middle class, took entire weeks of courses and scored higher than me on everything. But I am better than her at math for sure.

While engineering school was hard, I did think quite a bit of it was pure participation testing.

I used to think this was wrong, until I got into engineering.. Sure there is the rare math problem, but most of the difficult part was: "Are you willing to fly to mexico and be awake at 3am when the parts are made?"

I might be downplaying though... I did calc 1 at a job.

Ive seen the opposite in some people.

I know a ~55ish year old lady who is beautiful, but looks 55. I see her adjusting to her new reality and its painful. I imagine she used to be able to get away with being mean and sarcastic because she was so hot.

Now it just causes office fights. "I wont work with X" is something Ive heard.

The interesting part is that I originally only worked with her on the phone, so I always thought she was mean... Then I saw her in person and everything clicked.

To be fair, I would have talked like you in January 2026. But things have changed since Feb.

I never said Crypto. I said bitcoin.

And with AI... I am genuinely afraid my job will be automated. I'm trying to become a manager before we are relegated to minimum wage workers.

hahahahaha 'walled garden'

repeating marketing speak.

Apple got you.

Walled Prison. Look at all those people suffering with iMessage trying to use openclaw.

This would hit harder if Bitcoin didn't win and AI coding didn't completely change our jobs.

Why not simply evaluate things instead of ignoring them until its too late?

Sure, we don't have infinity time, but the fact that OP mentions these two things, means the pattern showed up enough.

As someone with 6 kids:

Dont have any kids. They reduce your freedom. I need to emphasize this.

To be fair, once I stopped having freedom, we went hard obviously.

If you already have 1, might as well go wild.

Wait... someone is under the impression that Apple was ever good to its customers?

I thought we all just dealt with the overpriced hardware, the prisons, the control, that they are a US company that gives away data to the government(PRISM), has weak security(Pegasus), lies about hardware issues(butterfly keyboard and holding your phone wrong), deceptive marketing...

All so we can compile iOS apps.

If you arent compiling iOS apps... Do you not know about Fedora? Ofc Windows sucks, but we have Fedora.

You know about LMarena? I just looked it up, Mistral is number 59 on the list.

Free Chinese models are better than it.

Ask game theory questions with real humans where its best to defect.

Grok is not SOTA, but its so obviously better than Mistral. Mistral is just some European patriotism or something.

Grok is nice for asking morally gray questions. ChatGPT will lie in these cases.

If you couldn't use the words Europe to describe why you'd chose Mistral, you'd have no good reasons to choose Mistral.

Its just not good. Its bottom floor for LLMs.

data staying in the EU

This is really why Mistral has any support.

The models are bottom barrel, but its the best Europe has...

Although you could use Chinese models on European servers.

Had to use beef and not chicken? And I noticed you didn't mention nutrition but rather economics.

Not good compared to chicken.

Did you deliberately miss my point?

Heck the longer I live, the more I realize AI is catching my mistakes.

Has anyone had a good long term experience with Atomic?

I admittedly only used it on a 13 year old gaming computer and couldn't get the GPU drivers because... you know containers.

This is something trivial with a regular install. (Especially with LLMs to assist)

I want to like Atomic, but it feels like an Apple-like regression in computing.

Oh academia, trying to find scientific truths and end up just being pragmatic.

I know they'd take offense to such things, which is why I say it.

This is no different from a mom blog, yet because its academia, we pretend its valuable. Adam Ragusa-like people could/should do this study. We should value it as much. As long as its replicated, good for me.

And let us not pretend there is some sort of pure magic that happens in a lab. I'll take 10 average joes replicating a study over 1 lab unreplicated. (FYI that is the scientific method, Appeal to Authority is the opposite of the scientific method)

As someone who is frugal AF and open minded...

I think you are overstating Tofu.

But honestly I'm mostly eating for nutrition rather than taste. Tofu doesnt hit the numbers I need.

Epistein files were released, trump tariffs overturned...

Pretty decent all things considered

Id be curious if people in a democracy would answer No to the question "Is it normal to look through your SO phone?" more than in autocracies.

Western idealism has taught us perfection and that corruption/cheating/lying/fraud/etc... is not the standard.

I said this 4 weeks ago...

Buddy its outdated.

Yep. I own a software shop and yesterday was when I realized that I'm no longer going to be a 1%er doing this.

it still takes a lot of trial and error to develop intuition about how to use them well.

I used to think so. Then a customer made their own replacement for $600/mo software in 2 days. The guy was a marketer by training. I don't exaggerate. I saw it did the exact same things.

Its so esoteric.

You do what your priest/advisor tells you. You honor the priest. You do the latex ritual.

Did it actually do anything? Ah in 8 years someone is going to replicate your study, it wont work, but too late! You got a PhD!

What was the motivation? Honestly, I was too lazy to get a job and staying in academia for another 3+ years seemed amazing

This is actually how I view academia. "Couldn't get a job"

It really lowered the prestige of a PhD for me. Heck, if I think through my PhD friends... none of them were A students. They were all C-tier.

This is borderline irresponsible. Conflating first tokens with all tokens is terrible. Apple looks far better than it actually is.

Just ask any Apple user, they don't actually use local models.

but knowing WHAT to scrape, how to handle anti-bot measures, and how to structure data for specific use cases (compliance, lead gen, market research) still requires deep human judgment.

Why can't you have AI Answer these questions?

Domain expertise + AI tools

Wouldn't they be the expert in their own job?