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yofuckreddit
1d ago
The whole point of having a professional on payroll is that he can function both as a holder of domain-specific knowledge and as a critical evaluator of whatever LLMs produce.
A fuckin men
yofuckreddit
1d ago
Another interesting part is that it rewards reading it twice. I didn't have the time to commit to it but yeah.
I don't think you have to read it but I did hit a bump in it part way through, fought through it, and then was glad I did.
Loved the cruise ship essay too. One of many reasons I haven't done one
The worst parts of Infinite Jest are:
- The use of
footnotesendnotes - The fact that it's considered so pretentious to have read it that it's now just a punch line that nobody takes seriously
Still haven't met a single person IRL who's finished it. Bummer.
So I've probably been "your boss" to someone a couple of times. There are essentially three stages:
- LLMs don't really work
- LLMs work amazingly; you should use them for everything
- I've outsourced too much of my creative thought and problem-solving to LLMs, and need to come up with my own answer first before asking it anything.
In October 2025, most people should be on step 2 or 3. If you have a ton of coworkers on Step 1, your boss has a responsibility to model being on step 2.
You can perhaps get him to lay off of you, individually, by explaining you're on step 3. The people who remain on step 1 are being stupid and inefficient. I lost patience with the people who come to me with questions I can obtain in seconds a long time ago. The ones on step 2 are being one-shotted and need to get a grip.
Another tactic is that when you're sending people AI-generated content and only asking if they've asked AI instead of answering it, you're implicitly not respecting their time. If someone is communicating to you from human-to-human and you're dismissing their question or putting an LLM between you, it's a sign of disdain.
Ironically, I'm dealing with LLMs being integrated into our career management platform and having the same problem in reverse. My subordinates are writing their reviews for themselves and each other with AI. I'm spending hours per month having to comb through this verbose slop, synthesize it with reality, and create thoughtful, specific feedback for everyone. It's pretty fucking lame.
yofuckreddit
6d ago
I agree 100%, it'd be almost nonsensical as a highschooler
I don't think there is a single manly man or cuckold in the story. The only way to win the game with Brett is not to play, but to go fishing instead.
There are more Bretts in today's society than ever before, and they have even more freedom and power. I know a dozen of them. That's what I mean about the relative level of transgression being lower than when the book was written.
I finished The Sun Also Rises this week. I needed to intersperse my slog through a history of the roman empire with some shorter candy. I grabbed recs from a couple people, this one from @FiveHourMarathon and Stranger in a Strange Land from someone else.
In short: I found it decent but not great, and strangely compelling in many ways. I powered through it fairly quickly, found myself looking forward to it, and felt like Hemingway did a great job of conveying an enormous amount of depth through simple language in a way that is lost on many authors (especially in Spain).
At the end of the day, though, it's a circular story with a lot of repetition, and the things that made it so transgressive and compelling aren't really that unique nowadays.
yofuckreddit
8d ago
I heard a theory that his character was about the inability of the old guard to communicate with the new wave of leftism, and the latter's insistence on specific language as a prerequisite for collaboration. See also his confusion at pronouns etc.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
TY for the correction
Can I mention - I used to switch blades once every couple of uses. When I told my Dad he was mortified. Manufacturers recommend a couple more uses than that though it's personal. I find the first 2 shaves uncomfortable and go up to around 10.
I've played around with a lot of shaving stuff, but have not done straight razors because I'm a scared pussy.
For the safety-razor cartridge hardware, I used Gilette like everyone else. Then I used Dorco (DSC supplier) to save money for a bit. Even bought women's razors because pink plastic is cheaper than blue. Quality dropped off for some reason, though, and I knew I couldn't buy Gilette products again after they told my gender to go fuck themselves forever on national television. I ended up buying Harry's razors and recylcing a couple of promo codes to get essentially 3 years worth of razors for $35. I use them on my face till they wear out then put them on a different handle for my body.
For shaving creams, I dabbled in the boar-bristle brush + soap part of straight razor shaves. I wanted to sort of pamper myself a bit, and tried to relax and take my time with shaving. Over time, soap pucks ended up lasting for so long that the scents were no longer enticing and I just have too busy of a life. I tried other fancy creams, and none of them were able to compete with the convenience, price, and nostalgia of Barbasol. So now I just alternate between OG and + Aloe variants of that.
One thing that is is worth splurging on is a nice aftershave. A lot of irritation I end up getting is removed by using the right one. Harry's is OK and what I travel with. The best I've tried is Art of Shaving's (available cheaper elsewhere). For $40/$50 you might be correctly thinking "Holy shit" but I only just killed my first bottle after a decade.
I did. A friend suggested it to me, I should have known just based on the cast (much less a 90+% RT Rating) what it'd be like.
It was essentially watered-down Tarantino with implausibly organized leftist violence being celebrated. I regret pumping up the ticket numbers. It was still better than many other movies I've seen in the past couple of years, and was genuinely funny at points, so if you can tolerate it, at least there's that.
God I remember how hammered "I am Charlotte Simmons" was by critics. I enjoyed it, admittedly as a sex crazed teen.
Unfortunately I have no contemporary literature to suggest. I think it takes brass balls to write about a culture just a year or two after it's hit a discernable apex.
yofuckreddit
19d ago
You're forgetting a critical point: white self hatred is far more widespread than for any other group.
White male and non-white female relationships are absolutely plagued with this dynamic. The wide can rail about ytppl as much as she wants. If Doug's family is a bunch of California leftists, nobody's going to even argue.
yofuckreddit
19d ago
It is unfortunately common for people to hate a group but still have friends/lovers/spouses in the group. There are certain race and gender combinations I like less than others but I wouldn't hesitate to marry the right person for any reason.
yofuckreddit
21d ago
Like others I am struggling to see the "Kind" in Kamala's persona. This is colored by race and gender, but my impression was that she genuinely hates white men and was incredibly selfish.
yofuckreddit
22d ago
Beware - Bike Wrenching has completely supplanted doing work on my car. It was the same sense of pride and accomplishment with 1/10 the cost, risk, and mess. I even wax my chains now which almost eliminates the sort of hyper-staining gunk that's inherent to most shade-tree hobbies.
yofuckreddit
22d ago
3x systems are really more of a vestige of "More Speeds!" marketing that was devilishly effective against consumers. Secondarily, there were the engineering reasons:
- A desire to reduce chainwear through cross-chaining
- Limitations in derailleur reliability on the front chainring: To get to a small front chainring you needed a useless one with duplicate gearing in the middle
1x is all the rage right now for many of the reasons you've stated, and because the cycling industry has to reinvent what's popular to sell more. 2x Drivetrains have the same-or-greater ranges than the 3x systems of old. Note that 6/7/8-speed bikes all use the same chain size, and 8 is the most ubiquitous gearing out there. Once you get to 11/12/13 every drivetrain component is more expensive and proprietary.
yofuckreddit
23d ago
If we're trading anecdotes 100% of my industry cohort (consulting, so competing directly with cognizant etc) including citizen indians will speak about this 1 on 1.
It is obvious, it is pervasive, and it is why offshoring has such a poor long term outlook.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
Sure, after each congressman personally selects 100 bureaucratic grifters they've added to the deep state to fire and cancel the pensions of.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
I see where you're coming from, but Specialized's focus on slick branding, digital tech, and a dedicated retail presence makes them the clear winner in this comparison.
Mainline DTC brands are lightyears away from Aliexpress. Obed sent a guy in a sprinter van to my house to put the bike together and make sure it was still tuned up from the assembly plant, and it was $1,000 less than anything else with that spec I can find. LBS is important, etc. etc. but that big of a price difference can't be ignored. Especially when at least one shop near my charged my wife $38 for an 8-speed KMC chain when I wasn't looking. I'm a consumer, not a donation service.
All that said for a novice it's absolutely better to wait for a sale and buy from a local store. They offer a ton of perks to make it worth it, and if they have good mechanics they're a lifesaver.
yofuckreddit
25d ago
The dip is strange but not ironclad. People who are serious about bikes don't spend less than that on them so there's almost no bikes in that range. People getting started buy a $600 bike then abuse it and sell it for $200. Those end up being in worse shape than the older bikes tuned up at a shop run by fanatics.
Ok one more hot take: Brands in cycling barely matter, they really only do the frame (if they do!) and then assemble parts from suppliers. So pick PARTS not brand.
After that you have local store and network presence which is really Giant, Specialized, and Trek in the US. All the bike shops around me are good enough there.
Specialized is a "premium" brand and focused on tech but also means less compatibility. The apple of bikes?
Trek and Giant all have virtually the same bikes for the same price tag. Just go off of sales and aesthetics.
The DTC guys are sometimes interesting. Canyon was an insane deal before tariffs, Obed was a great decision for me, and there's bikes direct which is often selling slightly less attractive and older-component bikes for very cheap from a hilarious website.
Salsa has bike nerd cache and good resale value. There's a dozen of these little boutique brands like that if you go that route.
yofuckreddit
25d ago
What types of cycling have you done? Which is your favorite?
For a do it all machine you pick something in the middle of the bike gradient, so hard tail/hybrid/gravel. The latter is my preference but is also popular and thus more expensive.
My strong opinions are: Shimano group set or bust (though SRAM owns most the MTB market). Buy once cry once (modifying a bike is way more expensive than getting what you want). Getting a used one from a bike charity in your city is your best bet for <=$300, new for $300-$600, and then used again beyond that.
yofuckreddit
29d ago
Great catch. Holy shit what a week.
Sorry, you're correct, it's endnotes. It makes the Kindle edition of the book really the only readable one. I'm curious if DFW was sending a message of contempt to his readers with the approach. A lot of artists hate the people who consume what they create. I've specifically isolated myself from reading his interviews etc. because I suspect it may have been the case here.
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