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@Yuchenj_UW Interesting question. Second offer, for sure.

If you had two software engineering offers: > One pays you $500k/year salary, but covers zero LLM tokens. > One pays you $400k/year salary, but gives you $500/day free LLM tokens. Which one are you taking?

@BitcoinRachy 50

How much Bitcoin should you own to be able to retire in 2033? I don’t wanna hear “depends on your lifestyle”, just give me a damn number.

@SomeGuyTano @travisakers @AliceBetwixt They could, anything to avoid just doing their job and teaching the lesson, I guess.

@GhettoCode @travisakers @AliceBetwixt And those devices can be taken too

Parents, Stop texting your kids during class while they’re at school. If it’s that important you can call the main office. But now you’re taking away from my classroom time and the time of 35 other students because you can’t follow the rules and law yourself. So knock it off. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Respectfully Mr. Akers

@hkeysk8 @travisakers @AliceBetwixt Maybe if teachers would stfu and teach the material instead of worrying about stupid shit that doesn't matter like little Johnny playing on a phone. But wish in one hand, shit in the other and see which one fills up first.

@CW23CW @travisakers @AliceBetwixt OMG, what a feminine fucker you are. Just gotta have the last word, huh? Like a nagging wife. OK, you go one more time then we're finished. Go ahead, I know you have to. Have the last word.

@GhettoCode @travisakers @AliceBetwixt Sooooo still in full-blown deflection mode, I see. It's ok to ask others for help when you don't understand something. Don't let your lack of comprehension make you feel so inferior. Beating yourself up won't get you anywhere in life, Ghetto.

@SanchezMamacita @robspresley @travisakers @AliceBetwixt I sure the fuck am. Let that one slacker fail. OR, we can continue to let the TEACHER disrupt the classroom and interrupt their OWN lecture and deprive all 35 kids of a decent education. Seems obvious to me.

@GhettoCode @robspresley @travisakers @AliceBetwixt Hi. Have you heard of “no child left behind”? You are literally proposing to leave that child behind. It’s unethical and against policy.

@robspresley @SanchezMamacita @travisakers @AliceBetwixt If a kid gets 1,000 texts, how exactly is that a problem for the rest of the class? So one kid is pre-occupied with their phone and not learning the material. Too bad for them but what's the got to do with anyone else?

@GhettoCode @SanchezMamacita @travisakers @AliceBetwixt Because you know that they don’t get one text from mom only. If they have for their parents, they have it for their friends. Kids will only be thinking about their phones and not the lesson. This is exactly what happens. Many years of experience.

@SanchezMamacita @robspresley @travisakers @AliceBetwixt I guess it's a "you had to be there" thing, because I can't, for the life of me, see how someone receiving a text from Mom (which is what this post is about) is causing all this havoc in the classroom.

@GhettoCode @robspresley @travisakers @AliceBetwixt The phones case almost all of the problems.

@johnkonrad No idea, but that's the coolest vanity call-sign I've ever soon. Well done.

My liberal 4.0 daughter just got into her dream school. 7% acceptance rate. Absolutely unreal. Insanely proud of her. Now do I rob a bank, push a cheaper school, put her in student loan debt, or dust off the old captain’s hardhat and head back to sea? Decisions. Decisions.

@sovrgnmind @kinetic_finance This. When I retire, I can help coach wrestling at a local HS, teach trumpet to elementary school kids, deliver meals on wheels to the sick and shut-in every week, etc... Retirement doesn't mean sitting around on your ass.

@kinetic_finance Retire does not mean laziness, it means retirement of a corrupt system and finding your purpose with freedom.

gonna get flack for this one, but the "retire on bitcoin" meme is so lame, especially for people building a community around an asset as revolutionary as bitcoin you people need to find something you're REALLY good at, become a master at it, and do it as a service for humanity there is no higher purpose. your children will look back at you as lazy and selfish if you "retire" at 40-50 and spend the next half of your life being unproductive

@gothburz HOnestly, sounds like you could totally be replaced by an AI agent. WTF do you actually DO?!

My company rolled out AI tools 11 months ago. Since then, every task I do takes longer. I am not allowed to say this out loud. Not because there is a policy. There is no policy. There is something worse than a policy. There is enthusiasm. There is a Slack channel called #ai-wins where people post screenshots of AI outputs with captions like "this just saved me an hour." There is a VP who opens every all-hands with "the companies that adopt fastest win." There is a Director who renamed his team from Operations to Intelligent Operations. There is a peer review question that now asks: "How have you leveraged AI tools to enhance your workflow this quarter?" If the answer is "I haven't, because I was faster before," that is a career decision. So I leverage. Emails. Before the tools, I wrote emails. This took the amount of time it takes to write an email. I did not measure it. Nobody measured it. The email got written and sent and it was fine. Now I write the email. Then I highlight the text and click "Enhance with AI." The AI rewrites my email. It replaces "Can we meet Thursday?" with "I'd love to explore the possibility of finding a mutually convenient time to align on this." I read the rewrite. I delete the rewrite. I send my original email. This takes 4 minutes instead of 2. The 2 extra minutes are the enhancement. I do this 11 times a day. That is 22 minutes I spend each day rejecting improvements to sentences that were already finished. In #ai-wins I posted a screenshot of the rewrite. I did not post the part where I deleted it. 23 people reacted with the rocket emoji. That is adoption. Meetings. We have an AI notetaker in every meeting now. It joins automatically. It records. It transcribes. It summarizes. After each meeting I receive a 3-paragraph summary of the meeting I just attended. I read the summary. This takes 3 minutes. I was in the meeting. I know what happened. I am reading a machine's account of something I experienced firsthand. Sometimes the account is wrong. Last Tuesday it attributed a comment about Q3 revenue to me. My manager made that comment. I spent 4 minutes correcting the transcript. Before the notetaker, I did not spend 7 minutes after each meeting correcting a robot's memory of something I personally witnessed. I attend 11 meetings a week. That is 77 minutes per week supervising a transcription nobody requested. I mentioned this once. My manager said "think about the people who weren't in the meeting." The people who weren't in the meeting do not read the summaries. I checked. The read receipts show single-digit opens. The summaries exist not because they are useful but because they are there. I read them for the same reason. Documents. I write a weekly status update. Before the tools, this took 10 minutes. I typed what happened. I sent it. My manager skimmed it. The system worked. Now I open the AI writing assistant. I give it my bullet points. It produces a draft. The draft says "Significant progress was achieved across multiple workstreams." I did not achieve significant progress across multiple workstreams. I updated a spreadsheet and sent 4 emails. I rewrite the draft to say what actually happened. Then I run my rewrite through the grammar tool. It suggests I change "done" to "completed" and "next week" to "in the forthcoming period." I click Ignore 9 times. Then I send the version I would have written in 10 minutes. The process now takes 30. I have been doing this every week for 11 months. I have added 20 minutes to a task that did not need 20 more minutes. I call this efficiency. I have been calling it efficiency for 11 months. That is what efficiency means now. It means the additional time you spend to arrive at the same outcome through a longer process. Nobody has questioned this definition. I have not offered it for review. I kept a log once. 2 weeks. Every task, timed. Before-AI and after-AI. The after number was larger in every case. Every single one. Not by a little. The range was 40 to 200 percent. I deleted the log. I deleted it because it was a document that said, in plain numbers, that the AI tools make me slower. And a document like that has no place in a company where AI adoption is a strategic priority. I could not send it to my manager. He championed the rollout. I could not post it in #ai-wins. I could not raise it in a meeting because the notetaker would transcribe it and the summary would read "[Name] expressed concerns about AI tool efficacy" and that summary would be the first one anyone actually reads. So I do what everyone does. I use the tools. I spend the extra time. I post in #ai-wins. I write "leveraged AI to streamline weekly reporting" in my review and my manager gives me a 4 out of 5 for innovation. I have innovated nothing. I have added steps to processes that were already finished. I have made simple things longer and labeled the difference with words that used to mean something. Every week in #ai-wins someone posts a screenshot. And 20 people react with the rocket emoji. And nobody posts the part where they deleted the output and did the task themselves. Nobody posts the revert. Nobody posts the before-and-after timer. Nobody will. Because "I was better at my job before the AI tools" is a sentence that cannot be said out loud in any company that has decided AI is the future. Every company has decided AI is the future. So we leverage. Quietly. Adding steps. Calling them optimization. Getting slightly less done, slightly more slowly, with slightly more steps, and reporting it as progress. My yearly review is next month. There is a new section this year. "AI Impact Assessment." It asks me to quantify the hours saved by AI tools per week. I will write a number. The number will be positive. It will not be true. But the AI writing assistant will help me phrase it convincingly. That is the one thing it does well.

@CW23CW @travisakers @AliceBetwixt You're still here you shit-for-brains mental midget? Fuck off you lonely little bitch. Go find companionship elsewhere.

@GhettoCode @travisakers @AliceBetwixt Sure, Ghetto, sure. I totally believe you. You're sitting staring at your phone, scratching your head, wondering what it is you don't understand.

@CW23CW @travisakers @AliceBetwixt Nah, I just don't bother to seriously engage with fuckwits like you.

@GhettoCode @travisakers @AliceBetwixt "Whatever you retard" hmmm...I sense some self hate & serious deflection. It's ok Ghetto, I didn't expect you to understand.

@CW23CW @travisakers @AliceBetwixt Whatever you retarded asswipe. Go fuck your mom or something.

@GhettoCode @travisakers @AliceBetwixt Not at all. You see, "Ghetto" there was a reason I replied with "and." It is you who failed to comprehend why.

@shaguncrypto 6k/mo on $1.5M in equity? That's 4.8% annual ROI, assuming zero expenses (and we know that ain't true). Sell the houses and buy STRC and get 11.5%. Or, put half in STRC to match current cashflow and the other half in bitcoin.

One of my followers is 50 Zero debt Makes $350k as an executive Here are his assets: $80k IRA $300k 401k $150k cash $2.2M primary home $1.5M in rentals 0.8 Bitcoin Rental income is $6k/month He’ll be reading the replies What would you tell him? 🤔

@robspresley @travisakers @AliceBetwixt Well, I assumed if you were talking about under-privileged kids, surely you've got bigger things to worry about in the classroom than phones.

@GhettoCode @travisakers @AliceBetwixt Hey dot dot, most kids still have phones. We have zero Google glasses in our school. I have one kid with an Apple Watch. Not everyone’s as privileged as you think. Phones are put away during the day.

@CW23CW @travisakers @AliceBetwixt Because you're a fucking idiot, that's why.

@GhettoCode @travisakers @AliceBetwixt Have you always been quick to anger and rage filled over the top reactions? You should re-read what you wrote and ask yourself why this triggered you so severely, & perhaps seek some help.

@CW23CW @travisakers @AliceBetwixt If you can't rub two brain cells together and figure it out on your own, I'm sure as fuck not wasting time explaining it to you. Fuck off.

@GhettoCode @travisakers @AliceBetwixt And?

@SteaknShake "Mmm I can't wait to get some unsalted fries!" said nobody ever. Your Alpharetta, GA store needs to do better. Nobody wants a mouthful of bland potato mush.

@konstructivizm It's 650 light years away. Even if it blew up RIGHT NOW, our entire bloodlines would be extinct before Earth knows about it.

650 light-years away, the red supergiant Betelgeuse is living on borrowed time.One of the brightest stars in our night sky, this colossal star is a supernova in waiting. When it finally detonates, the explosion will be so ferocious that, even from this immense distance, it could briefly outshine the full Moon and turn night into day for weeks. For a short, dazzling time, Betelgeuse may even rival the brightness of the entire Milky Way, painting our skies with a light show unlike anything humanity has ever witnessed. The countdown to its dramatic death has already begun.