@47fucb4r8c69323 Many big euro cities get wayy better as you integrate and get private invites and all that. Paris is a great example. Vienna was fun right off the bat. Zurich… lol
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@Xilo_K
That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin
SF Beigetreten Ekim 2023
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@Xilo_K I've only visited for a few days at a time, but it does feel very sterile and dull. Gorgeous though (gorgeous and dull seem to coincide when it comes to big cities, especially in Europe)
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Zurich is the most drab place I have ever lived in. Leave. Go into debt if you have to.
Dominique Paul@DominiqueCAPaul
The ETH AI Center has to be the most scenic place to do a PhD anywhere in the world.
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@h00ndekot @0xMontBlanc The prettiest part of town is niederdörfli and the area surrounding the limmat and it’s not getting much cheaper there anywhere. I was slightly exaggerating but in the better cocktail bars it’s 20chf+
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@Xilo_K @0xMontBlanc $35 per drink 😂. boy, you need to get to know the real zurich. i'll give you a hint: its not close to the bahnhofstrasse.
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@menhguin @yacineMTB I will continue to let it chew through logs I have become so unfathomably lazy.
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it's insanely hard to use frontier AI models to their full potential. the gap between what each token can do and what people are using these tokens for, is so high
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@Coscorrodrift @dotnetschizo I can accept it if you’re like the worlds outdoorsiest finance guy and have a young family. Then it’s pretty neat. Barring that….
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@dotnetschizo @Xilo_K Doing anything outside costs minimum $50 and unlike NYC where everything also costs $50, it's not a world class city rather some big village
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@spetsnaz9999xy It’s aesthetic. It’s gorgeous. Go there for 3mo if you like. Go there if you have a wife and kids and want to be outside a lot. Don’t go as an enterprising young person.
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@Xilo_K you don't get the post-modern german aesthetic, is very aesthetic
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@0xMontBlanc THANK YOU. Now imagine spending ur college years there and having to wince every time you order a 35$ drink
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@midwitmagnet @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes the entire country is sterile. If you’re a very very outdoorsy person it’s amazing but it really has to be a “i hike 2 days of the week” thing.
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@47fucb4r8c69323 @Xilo_K im biased bc im from the actually most gorgeous town in switzerland, but alas zurich is probably one of the most dYnaMiC places in switzerland with some international flair (geneva and basel are even more sterile)
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Where the hell do you work that you get fired for reading a book? I had a 1940s german copy of plutarchs lives on my desk for a solid month and other than a few nice conversations with colleagues it all went great
illaya 🐺@illaya_avatar90
@SperglerAcolyte How do you do this without getting fired? Everyone in my office thinks I am pretentious for reading.
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@DeepDishEnjoyer Yeah like there’s some DW guy running around in Ukraine since day one…
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the funny thing about analyst 3 is this is just like normal war journalism - this happens every day. but the latter lacks the sex appeal of a scrappy "not real journalist" vibe
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@somewheresy Yeah like if ur hometown is NYC and you had a 5y SF arc sure just go home but if you live in idk, des moines…
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This sucks and isn’t the ideal, but unfortunately this is a myth, this is a trap. They are there to convince you to stagnate so they don’t feel as bad about going to the same bars into their 30s and 40s while they permanently fail to launch.
tim@wayfaring_tim
depends if you have friends that will support you in your hometown
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@sporadica @stableshaman Yeah like in every tech job there’s some hyper autist quant bro who codes on a floor desk. You can do jumping jacks no one will care.
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A huge downside of illiteracy is that the lives of the greats exist only as hearsay. People know waterloo as someone downfall, brutus as a betrayer, the gordian knot… But in these stories are men who repeatedly made decisions far beyond their contemporaries. Go read about them.
shako@shakoistsLog
hearing sam is a sociopath, then digging through previous records of great men to realize they are frequently unusual and dissimilar from the rest of us
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For about a six to nine month period I looked and felt exactly like this and then I got a job and immediately the entire thing fell in on itself.
Leon@Daseincel
The beauty of the bishonen as an aesthetic phenomenon is that he bears no trace of the baser aspects of mankind's shameful chimp origin, which seem to almost always try to surface and reassert itself. A eugenic vision of male form in all its glory rather than Darwinist utility.
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@mrsbiosingular Okay I might actually just jump on these… shipping to SF seems convenient
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Slept over at this girl once who had linen sheets and it was the most comfortable sleep I’ve ever had hands down. Zero sweat, superb texture. Well turns out this is like 800$ or so for two sets we’re sticking with ikea.
christian@cxgonzalez
ladies what’s the bed sheet alpha? linen? egyptian cotton? silk? help a bachelor out
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