gnatman

>> “You keep holding on to hope, then breaking it, and moving forward by picking up ideas from the ashes,” [Baek] said in an interview with a web magazine published by Korean Institute for Advanced Study.

“I’m closer to a daydreamer by nature, and for me mathematical research is a repetition of dreaming and waking up.”

beautiful!

Are there really that many “things to do” that anyone, let alone everyone, will need to work that way?

I think they probably mean “article that’s meant to share research but mostly shares anecdotes”. It’s a common framing for this kind of thing though, so they probably have to close a lot of articles after the first sentence.

well they did say

>>If the CIA wants to track me, they are going to have to work for it. I hope to waste as much of their time as possible.

what if you tied it tightly beneath the mic with a rubber band, and then attached a weight 2-3 feet down the cord? that way the condom/mic floats end down and keeps things dry.

Fred Eshelman founded Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc in 1985. In 2010, he became the founding chair of Furiex Pharmaceuticals. Currently he is chairman of The Medicines Company, CEO of Innocrin Pharmaceuticals, and founder of Eshelman Ventures LLC.

He has an estimated net worth of $300M and fell for Donald Trump’s stolen election grift.

https://wbt.com/576/nc-man-sues-pro-trump-group-for-return-2...

Wonderful quote in there from James Joseph Sylvester:

>>... a prolonged meditation on the subject has satisfied me that the existence of any one such [odd perfect number] —its escape, so to say, from the complex web of conditions which hem it in on all sides— would be little short of a miracle.

Computer, load up Celery Man please.

It’s ok to search for a unicorn! Writing out a list of criteria for your ideal role, and seeking out companies that meet your criteria, actually gives you an advantage. When I interviewed at my current position I had just such a list, and sharing how much I cared about working for a company like that made me (they said later) an obvious choice over others they’d met with in spite of my qualifications falling short in some areas. Even if it takes some time, it will be worth the effort.

The article linked in the OP, and many posters in this thread, present arguments to the contrary. The main one seems to be that although institutional investors are happy to let people “benefit” from renting their homes, they are precluding many from ever owning those homes themselves.

the J D Great Responsibility award

I think if I was actually shipping a real product to real customers I would avoid bragging about how I vibe-coded it. Seems like that would bring up some quality / security / pricing discussions that my salespeople would have a tough time navigating. At least for now I think those customer concerns would be justified. Oh you vibed this out in an afternoon? Why does it cost $199/seat? Why don’t I just build it myself?

I think I’ve seen people on here describe Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick in similar terms—- or at least in the sense that DC’s culture infected & somewhat replaced Google culture. I may be misremembering though.

I’m pretty surprised they haven’t been doing that for years already tbh.

Pretty bleak, and describes my experience to a T (although involving other companies). Has there ever been an example where a company has been acquired and culture/morale/conditions have actually improved rather than dissolved?

Long live the zine!

Exotic? At least in every microsoft product i.e. word, outlook, etc. that I’ve had to use for school and business for the last couple decades does it automatically just by typing “—-“.

Every time I see the em-dash call out on here I get defensive because I’ve been writing like that forever! Where do people think that came from anyway? It’s obviously massively represented in the training data!

I was hoping to see a revenue estimate for injecting affiliate links on 4M browsers for 7 years… that must’ve been a lot of money!

sounds like a Brian Jacques superweapon

Like Ender’s Game but instead of intergalactic shooting war it’s international chip war.

visiting the 2018 Guggenheim exhibit was a peak art experience for me, so thankful to my girlfriend at the time who insisted we see it!

what kind of stack do you use instead?

I didn’t understand the angle of this article until I realized it was “Times Insider”, a sort of behind the scenes. The actual story is here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/arts/design/florentine-di...

Finally, the records everyone has been asking him about!

Substituted amphetamines were already very popular in the 1950s.

Vulfpeck performing their song “Barbara” ft. clips of that Jobs interview:

https://youtu.be/npqD602G90o

there’s a bunch of them, but we haven’t agreed on which one is best, yet.

this is the type of important work that transformer LLM’s are actually really good at, I think

I was curious about the big spike in delinquency in the late 90s, turns out there was a big subprime lending meltdown in 97/98 too.