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I know you asked for CSV but it wasn’t showing up right so I saved it as PDF. Can I send that to you?

No no. I’ve been embarrassed and ashamed of plenty of them, but this one is especially malevolent.

I was just explaining to some of my overseas friends how embarrassed and ashamed I was of the current administration, domestically and abroad.

Less than 24 hours later, this fucking disgrace.

I can think of a few potential cut offs, taking differential calculus to be basic.

Integral calculus. Multivariate calculus. Differential equations. Epsilon-Lamba calculus.

But that’s just my opinion.

I also quite like the smaller feel, but I will admit I miss having a ready stream of really cute animal photos and videos. It’s a double edged sword.

Adding on to that:

Obama had only the house for the first two years. The Senate has the filibuster rule which means control takes 60 seats.

On January 20th, 2009, 57 Senate seats were held by Democrats with two Independents (Bernie Sanders and Joe Lieberman) caucusing with the Democrats for 59 kinda’ Democrat-ish votes in the Senate. Two more needed for “both houses”.

Also, that included Ted Kennedy and Al Franken. Kennedy had a seizure basically at the start and never returned to vote. Al Franken wasn’t seated until July 7th, 2009 because of repeated recounts.

So really 57 Senate seats. Three or four more for him to have both houses.

Kennedy was replaced by Paul Kirk in September and three other people swapped parties. So Obama had full control of the House and Senate from September 24, 2009 through February 4, 2010.

Four months.

If you’re looking at that and thinking, “isn’t that when they wrote and passed the ACA?” then you’ve got a good eye and a better memory.

I’m super picky and not very good looking, so my “swipe right” rate is less than 1%.

I used OkCupid a while back. Found myself in a relationship for about six years. Eventually we decided to kinda’ go our separate ways.

Used it again. Got back into a relationship. It’s been ten years.

My one regret is that when I was first using the site about 15 years ago I sent them 5 bitcoin to turn off ads for six months.

I feel like they’re a boon to someone like me who doesn’t like to ask people out or even express interest in folks. “People should be able to go about their lives without someone like me hitting on them,” and that kind of thing. An app is a good way to opt-in to solicitation and has a low barrier to entry.

Bandcamp for music. Libro.fm for audiobooks.

TIL I’m older than Linux and honestly it hurts a little bit.

[RC drone noise fills the office]

I enjoyed it more than Krita. I find the UI more intuitive and closer to Photoshop, which was my #1 (at least for CS6). Photoshop remains the only piece of software that doesn’t have a reasonable subsitiute or Linux client.

I had to noodle on this one for a while and ask around. I think, and this is only a guess, that this might be “consensual non-consent”, which is a role play of sexual assault.

I used to spend days rotoscoping people in videos. Generative infill for background painting and automatic rotoscoping have saved probably a year of my life at this point. Image generation relies on CLIP, which needs a language model for conditioning.

I might have felt sympathy, but I’m too busy caring for people that he himself hurt. They deserve my attention more.

You don’t run over a crowd of people, crash your car, and then get to lament that there are people in front of you at the emergency room.

Surprisingly, ChatGPT is the mortal enemy of a lot of machine learning researchers. It gives people a bad impression about what the field is, poisons future training data, and gives AI researchers who make truly remarkable and useful things a bad reputation because everyone “hates AI” when they really hate the stupid VC backed circlejerk that becomes inevitable in a society like this.