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firstlunchableson Please Stop Inviting AI Notetakers to Meetings

I work with people who speak about a dozen languages collectively. Watching Webex try to caption is hilarious. It’s wrong every time a non native English speaker opens their mouth.

firstlunchableson Fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees

Enshittification.

firstlunchableson The first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmarks

Don’t need top of the line. Just need to get things done. Save money, buy lower performance processor. Done and done.

firstlunchableson Anduril to take over Microsoft's U.S. Army $22B headset program

Perfect opportunity for doge to cut some fat here. What’s that? It’s a Thiel project? Guess not.

firstlunchableson Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

I don’t understand giving liars the benefit of the doubt. I mean, there are tens of thousands of documented lies and your like “I trust him”. Your mind is broken.

firstlunchableson Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

Touting “first principals” is a way of revealing “I’m too dumb to understand other people’s work.” Like if you can’t understand higher level concepts and have to start on your own from Euclid, it just means you aren’t very smart but think you can be another Maxwell just by thinkin’ real hard. It’s a joke.