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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 21m

hmm i wonder if not having the computing power to run slicers easily would have ruled them out, or at least reduced their utility so much they wouldnt be worth the effort

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 5h

Hey it's just a cheese experience :)

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 7h

had a nightmare thinking the fancy induced burger was dead when I biked past. but they're just moving www.reddit.com/r/FoodToront...

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 9h

i am probably in the top 20% of knowing/thinking about timezones and i dont know it beyond "like 5 or 6 i think"

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

it pissed me off so much that i still remember it like 25 years later. now i think it's valid but still kind of annoying as an authorial decision

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

as a kid i was reading a readers digest in a waiting room or something and there was a little detective mystery short story where the tell was that a letter was forged because it was supposedly written before WW2 but referred to "WW1" instead of "the great war"

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

just start using ‰ and see if anyone notices

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

what exactly does she want "taken down"? a person's outfit?

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

have a relative who does things like this, makes generous offers and then if you try to take him up on them he backs down. just don't make the offer in the first place! it's worse!

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michael @michaelleung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the optimist in me thinks a televised public execution would make people hate the death penalty when they see it up close but the realist thinks people would love it because americans are a sick, violent, fanatical people with a total lack of moral compass

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

eminds me of the fact that america has a slightly higher rate of fatal stabbings than the UK, and then all the gun crime on top of that. it really is a disgustingly violent and militarised society in so many ways that most of them aren't even aware of because they don't know anything different

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

*kitchen floods after my DIY plumbing fix* fuck. the water reward hacked itself away from the drain

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

astonished that no one has replied telling you to use ffmpeg and/or avidemux for this yet. and I'm going to pretend that's not what I'm doing. but anyone who knows computer stuff could set that up for you to do easier than what you're doing now

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

yeah and often regardless of whether the joke is about the same specifics. for all its evils, execution as entertainment is not something the american government has done in living memory. the parallels to terrorist orgs are worth noting

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

still irritated whenever morons on the internet use "bot" in that stupid undefined way that isn't just short for "robot". what are you even trying to say

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

* dont even know what gave me heartburn

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

that can't be true. justin trudeau promised election reform in 2015

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

and yet, also thanks to gender, i don't think i've ever encountered this sort of entitled "you're just lucky that you're good at maths" attitude from a woman

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

research in pure mathematics sometimes trickles down into practical/commercial uses, but that's not the motivation for almost everyone who does it. you should value and fund it for the same reason you do the arts, it just happens to have positive side effects

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

yeah definitely, it's always been my argument for when STEM people denigrate the arts - at the research level in anything, a lot of the motivation is ultimately "this is cool and we're doing something different to/better than everyone else", which is similar to art (less self expression though)

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

and i think the main differentiator is whether you have the motivation to put in the work. i was pretty mediocre through high school until i could relate calculus to physics and it made both make way more sense, and made me see the value in it generally

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i think people tend to believe that you simply have a natural aptitude for maths or you don't, and if you do then it's almost effortless to become good at it. personally i believe yes it comes easier to some than others, but for the vast majority it is a huge amount of hard work to get good at it

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

yeah definitely a lot of "i couldn't (or didn't put in the effort to) do maths at a high level, ha ha you are the suckers for dedicating your lives to it" coming out in various ways. this general relationship to maths has always been very odd to me

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think if I were a mathematics graduate student working on one of the problems openAI posted a solution to I would probably kill myself

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

pausing every 3 seconds to explain the references in detail

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

you could lean into it as an element of the cholo vibe, ése

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

oh my god they're doing the "show the climax at the start and then everything else" reels video editing format for text now

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

yeah I was really confused by all of that as well

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

yeah i am actually instead remembering the guy who liked MTB and "iwrestledabearonce" who are probably not very similar musically but are in the same bucket in my brain for obvious reasons

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Loads of my radical friends seem to be quitting drinking now. There's a growing awareness that we may need to stay alive for a long fight.

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@cheatlines.co Rich Press is not quite a misty name but i feel it's close enough to bear mentioning physicstoday.aip.org/news/nist-ne...

The Neutron Spin Echo Spectrometer is among the new instruments coming on line as the NIST Center for Neutron Research reopens after a prolonged shutdown.

(Photo by Rich Press/NIST.)

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

that wasnt the ristolable one i dont think but that one was funny too

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh god, it's in reply to that dumbass

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the fentanyl one was crazy because like there were a bunch of other people you woulda guessed before her

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

who was a ringleader against isabel fall too, of course

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

that would be true for relatively small numbers where every permutation probably shows up in the training set, but i don't think it's remotely feasible for 10+ digit numbers

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I did have to look up the word for minerals shaped like a bunch of balls, but the image was in my head

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

unfathomably gigantic botryoidal malachite... it could happen...

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

honestly the thing that still irks me most about that is that they chose the Sagrada Familia as one of the objects to render in their flat textureless style. its whole thing is being covered in intricate detail!!

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have skimmed your milk. Pray I do not skim it further

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llama @alffansofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ah but how would I distinguish myself from the clowns of the still extant orange march?

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