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every journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step

traditionally, presidents don't impose taxes by executive order.

"Is this a tactic to distract from..." the epstein files, yes, you're doing it again.

Making a game is essentially reinforcement training and when you reward a player by reacting to their behaviour you teach them to do that thing more often. What do you WANT the player to do more often? What should they see as exciting ground for experimentation and what is background noise

That Invincible fraction of our power meme, but it's a half century old Unix prompt on a computer with lower specs than a literal toaster nowadays

Modern tech is inhospitable to the kind of stubborn bullshit-despising hackers that for generations used that laziness and spite to get shit done.

The hackers of yesteryear accomplished actual magic, true sci-fi shit, by refusing to do the same task manually more than once.

This stubborn laziness is why Grace Hopper made the goddamn compiler for fuck's sake.

So: if you know sed and awk and grep, this problem has the same simple solution it did for like half a century: one or two lines of shell script.

The only way you would think chatgpt is the solution is if you *do not* know basic fucking programming.

For a solid half century, if you told a programmer that you were going to manually sit there and type out a whole bunch of meaningless shit and not try to automate it, they'd fucking shiv you.

people used to get burned alive for this kind of stuff

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i hate this administration and what it is doing to my country.

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there's a similar claim about the toffee in almond roca.

it's just "what do you do with the leftovers so you don't have to throw them in the trash".

it could also just mean that they never clean the machine makes them.

hang on a minute - ham bbs as in bbs over ham radio?

twitter was initially designed to work over SMS messaging.

is that along the lines of what you're thinking?