there's this lovely nostalgic thread by the very dude working for baikal, and you can play the game “spot the serb in the thread without looking at the names”.

yet another programmer who imagines that having computer science baccalaureate gives him an insight into human biology. sigh.

my condolences.

and, no matter how much this has helped you to cope with your personal trauma, going through that trauma does not entitle you to use emotional blackmail to silence people who do not subscribe to the llm hype.

i find the level of ms apologia unsettling. remember, we're only a few news cycles away from the time ms almost shipped windows with spyware and keylogger built-in

yeah, they don't teach much about fascist atrocities in ethiopia, and then people feel compelled to defend the good name of the boys in the black shirts because the poor dupes didn't build the concentration camps – just were allied to the builders.

it's not “hating your post history”, it's just realisation that you're a shitty debatelord and talking to you is waste of time.

the use of “DEI hire” is a shorthand for “i'm a massive racist shitweasel”

no, no, it's fine. the less readable they are, the better.

dear me. doesn't he know that the actual art requires hate-skimming at most?

i gues we're all living in the post-scarcity utopia then, because otherwise such growth would exhaust resources.

at one of the places i worked this kind of data was called assnumbers.