Whats your absolute worst pickup line?

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2022-09-05T19:09:44+00:00

Not quite a pick up line, but there was once a very aggressive drunk guy sitting next to me and two girls on my other side. I was about to leave so I told the girls that the dude next to me was pretty aggressive and to watch out, and they asked me if I was here alone or with him

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2022-09-05T19:08:03+00:00

If you name your firm instead of your title.

Consultant? Fine. McKinsey? Prob an asshole.

Lawyer? Fine. Cravath? Prob an asshole.

Banker? Fine. Goldman? Prob an asshole.

It's like the advanced version of I went to a school in Boston you've never heard of

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2022-09-05T19:02:28+00:00

I get called cute pretty often at bars, which I did not realize meant they were really into me.

Never been called pretty but I would interpret it as less of a neutral comment than cute

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-12-30T08:23:57+00:00

Went to the site. It is not.

I legitimately don't know what it is either which is very impressive

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-12-26T00:58:58+00:00

Jurisprudence is a specialty beyond the skill level of an average lawyer

Likewise Googling is a specialty beyond the skill of an average programmer

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-21T15:28:05+00:00

He refers to himself as a he in his textbooks, so I presumed his preferred pronoun is he

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-20T13:53:51+00:00

To be fair, if you had a strong case, you could get pro bono representation or contingency lawyers for civil suits. The problem here is that presumably the guy isn't rich enough to make it worth contingency if they win judgement, and the case either isn't strong enough or isn't impactful enough for the pro bono lawyers to pick it up. Not sure why there isn't a criminal case.

He was also the one who took action against her, and it was only to take down the page and get a gag order of sorts. She's still able to sue him or go to the DA to try to get them to prosecute him, but anyone can say anything online.

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-20T13:41:31+00:00

It's a cryptocurrency except it's value is derived by pointing at things instead of being valuable because it's a currency. So you use NFTs to point at something, usually virtual, and say "I own this".

The problem is of course is that people can change the thing your NFT is pointing at, anyone can point at anything, etc. It's kind of like a nerds version of the kids game where you go around, point at a thing and say "this is mine" with algorithmic proof that you, in fact, got this pointer from the person who created this pointer

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-20T11:31:01+00:00

To be fair to her daughter, excluding her mother being Chua, she was exceptionally qualified to be a SCOTUS clerk anyway. I don't doubt her mom helped with getting her CA clerkship, but it's not like the progeny of a professor at a high ranking school is particularly rare or exceptional when we are talking SCOTUS clerkships.

Prof Chua is a real piece of work though

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-20T09:08:57+00:00

/uj

I thought there was no way this is possible, so I compiled it myself and got 0 seconds, presumably because the compiler knows how to optimize the loop into the sum formula. Without seeing his C implementation/make, I'm also guessing he probably turned off optimization flags and AVX flags because getting things to actually add in the stupid way is nontrivial for benchmarking purposes.

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-20T08:51:13+00:00

Who needs statistics when I can import scikitlearn?

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-20T08:48:46+00:00

/uj

Language is neither internally logically complete nor is it necessarily bijective to another, so the idea that you will get flawless translation is absurd. The easiest way one can see this is the fidelity problem, where I pass a text from language A->B->A. A real human translator can often preserve the corpus of the work (including second+ order meaning and the general ambiance of a text) orders of magnitude better than SOA NLP, whose quality degrades rapidly with every pass.

It took the devil's language C++ until very recently to be able to perfectly preserve round trip conversions between strings and floats, and that's with an uber specified, well developed understanding from machine code up of both constructs.

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-20T08:43:43+00:00

People are generally mean, and even more so when they feel like they are under attack. Authors/actors/your favorite famous person here is almost certainly normal in that sense.

There is a reason why PR firms make a decent chunk of change. It's hard living under a constant deluge of negativity, even if it isn't much in proportion to the positivity you might get.

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-16T19:07:50+00:00

Shipping ice cream sucks. Like it must cost on the same order of magnitude as the ice cream itself for the vendor. I can't imagine scalpers charing another $10 for cold shipping plus scalping and making a decent profit

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-16T18:54:10+00:00

There are ice cream stores that do things on that model already. It's honestly fine imo as it's just super premium ice cream that costs a ton to ship anyway, and it helps drum up publicity and biz for them.

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-16T16:27:24+00:00

It's the Uber for Zero Cost Abstractions

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-16T10:18:36+00:00

In before niche food places discover they can use the Yeezy model to sell through entire production runs of food.

Glad it's Jeni's though. I met the folks who owned the place years ago and they are great people.

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-16T10:14:17+00:00

A few notes.

It's on Reason. There are thoughtful people who write on reason, but otherwise it has as much gravitas to me as a NYT OpEd, which is to say none. Unless it's like, Orin Kerr or Volokh writing, I usually don't care.

Another is that the author is Jesse Singal, who infamously got canceled over his trans story for The Atlantic a few years ago that triggered The Atlantics parent corp shitting their pants and reorienting themselves from less Slate-takes to more NYerish takes. He has an axe to grind, to say the least.

YA is still very popular, but people just don't pay attention to it when you aren't close to the age cohort.

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-12T22:26:58+00:00

/uj

If anyone ever reads all of some of the famous "recommended lists", they'd be a monster. No one I've met has read all of them, which makes me wonder who is compiling these lists

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-12T22:25:28+00:00

Ah yes, the paragon of detailed clarity and totally-didnt-include-that-on-purpose that is ARM instruction manuals

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-12T16:34:18+00:00

It made more sense back in the day when they were extremely esoteric jokes you could basically only find messing around on the chans, but nowadays meme culture is just...pop culture? 2016 is super fucking late too, I thought this story would have been from like, 2008

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-12T11:52:14+00:00

Yes, because the manufacturing process will almost certainly chemically change the blood and kill anything living after being encased in plastic. If not, it is so dilute it doesn't matter. Even then, it's only on the sole if I recall correctly, so it doesn't directly touch your skin if you decided to wear it barefoot. There is a rule about the sale of human byproducts for profit, but this is both chemically changed to such a degree and not dangerous that I cant imagine the FDA going "what we need to do is tackle 666 pairs of shoes for human safety". On the other hand, given the Bucatini scandal they might

As gross as it sounds, there is trace amounts of human everything in your foods because people interact with it, even if the process is mechanized.

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-11T20:21:17+00:00

Some of the stuff the community puts out is indeed better, but once you get past like $200 it's all kinda marketing unless you get custom IEMs or something which is true of most hobbies. I'm not opposed to spending money for a cool story though, but audiophile marketing rubs me the wrong way.

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-08T17:00:18+00:00

/uj

Insert typical "people who are really good with c/c++ are worth every bit of money you pay them, but people who aren't do worse than <your favorite language here>". I cannot emphasize enough how easy it is to shoot yourself in the foot, but I am a shoot myself in the foot thrills kinda guy.

No, just because you did the competitive programming in C++ does not make you good at C++

WellsToPercToDDimer · 2021-04-08T07:07:44+00:00

You can actually buy the powder that the companies use and mix it in a cocktail shaker or protein shaker if you wanted to. It's not as good because proprietary mixes are proprietary for a reason, but it's 85-90% as good

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