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@202accepted @_smcf I had the tea martini and the negroni; superb. I’ll probably be in taipei more often now, going to be back.

@Xilo_K @_smcf ayyyyyy tell CK i said hi and i love his bar (and i send everyone i know in taipei to him)

This morning, as many mornings, was spent destroying a few hundred yen's worth of shareholder value waiting for the caffeine to kick in, catching up on the detaramé du jour. Today, naturally, that was Claude Mystic Nightly: Destroyer of the Linux Butthole or something like that. No doubt, after reading that article, I did wonder about my future economic utility. All I've ever done for money for the past 17 years is slouch over gdb, tensely manipulating the instruction pointer, battering the gates of the Linux butthole. Now here come the robots, soon to do my job better, cheaper, and less likely to damage the company reputation with strange posts on social media. The slight fret I found myself in at the end of the long work day almost made me fail to notice the lovely breeze of cool air that welcomed the start of spring on my walk home. This fret was soon disrupted by one @202accepted, currently spending nights on my living room floor. "Yo," he says, throwing a shirt towards me as I enter. "Check this out. 30% silk. 30% cotton. 40% linen. Ralph Lauren." He flips the tag out. "And machine washable too. They have no idea what they had." Tomorrow night I'm sure it will be a 1988 Japanese translation of the Book of Mormon or something. All of this, naturally, will be sold right back to the Japanese at a hefty premium before he departs the country. That's most of what I've seen Jimmy do the entire time he's been here. The remainder is give me weird peptides to inject into my belly fat. I have yet to see him touch a computer. He claimed he had to fix his website a couple days ago, but all he did was give Claude Code access to his AWS account and go back to giving me weird peptides to inject into my belly fat. This weekend we're going to 塩尻, which can only be fairly translated as "Saltbutt", to hunt for rare articles at a love-hotel-turned-thrift-store called the Hall of Frogs. Well, he will hunt for rare articles, I'll probably walk a really long distance and make conversation with the locals. Painters, they say, love to paint, and writers love to have written. Software engineering is both. We paint in front of a whiteboard, and then we have to sit down and write. Personally, while I'm proud to be good at the latter, I find the "what if" dreaming phase to be less time-consuming and a good bit more fun than the brain-pounding grind of slouching over gdb, tensely manipulating the instruction pointer. The future, I imagine, may look like the present-day Life of Jimmy. The robots fix my website, then I disappear into the river to go dream up some new ideas for the robots. Along the way, I make some friends and a few enemies, who give me more ideas to give to the robots. Already I have some kind of longing for this lifestyle. Would it really be so bad if I didn't have to breathe stale office air all day? Am I not supposed to be outside, making deals and building a fellowship of man or something? So I say: maybe we let the robots have the Linux butthole. It takes a human to appreciate the joy of Saltbutt.

Someone should write a poem about this. Maybe add something about an Urn.

@202accepted Idk thin ppl tend to have higher libidos ime… experience both from women and myself.

losing weight makes makes anyone lose libido, anyone that does a serious and sustained cut will feel this to varying degrees bodybuilders know this, and frankly a lot of these “side effects” are just side effects of weight loss that we never talked about before

i spent decades of my life hiding my past of being homeless—i was so stressed, feeling like a liar, like i was always looking behind my back, and feeling like i would be fired if people found out 3 times i was fired for that, which only left me more paranoid i can’t even remember when i broke that seal, but now i’m just honest with people after getting to know them once it got me an offer in a job interview now i’m thriving, living my best life, remembered everywhere i go, and having such as blast laughing when people remember me as that sometimes i’m really glad i’ve inspired so fellow ex-homeless people that it’s time to get tf up and pull themselves by the “borrowed” CVS towel wrapped around the bike rack and cleaning themselves up enough to start living their best lives i still kept this warm shitty hoodie from when i was homeless; it’s been a good reminder for how far i’ve come yeah, i’m “used to be homeless jimmy” and i’m kinda proud be known as that

@47fucb4r8c69323 > To fear death would be a sin for a man who has seen what I have seen. I am young, yet can only feel the same. How much beauty have I witnessed… thanks, reminded me to write more.

In 2015 after my divorce I had a lapse in judgement and dated three women at the same time while I lived in Hong Kong. Lucy, Cassie, and Maggie. Lucy was a financial executive and one of the smartest people I've ever met. She was the brain. Cassie was just stunning. She was the body. Maggie was the heart. Anyway, on our very first date, I had a couple drinks with Cassie and got kinda drunk, then we went back to my apartment. I was in Midlevels for just a couple weeks before moving to Sheung Wan, on like the 923rd floor already way up the hill, near that supermarket on the right of the escalator. We went into my apartment and she said, "I want to play you my favorite song." Chat, it was Faye Wong. Faye Wong!!! The first Chinese singer that Chinese girl I chatted with on AOL in 1998 that made me fall in love with Asian culture (yeah the anime was already appealing, but my goddess Faye sealed the deal). "This is actually a very old poem, here let me show you an English translation." She googles, hands me her phone. It's a Song Dynasty love poem from the 13th century and one of the most beautiful things I've ever read. I turn, see her delicate hands cupping the glass of warm beer. "Cassie," I say, her figure misshapen as my eyes well up. Burke's meditations on the sublime are pissant affectations of a sepia artefact once describing a shadow of what I felt that moment. To fear death would be a sin for a man who has seen what I have seen. And I walked her home, I still don't know if she was disappointed that I didn't try to have sex with her. I mean, what I'd experienced was so much better than sex the thought didn't even cross my mind. The traffic lights reflected in pools of rainwater while we waited in the middle of the street standing on a concrete curb waiting for a taxi that I could flag. When it arrived, I again weakly whispered "Cassie..." and, yes, she turned to me and I kissed her. My god what I have seen my god my god

@signoremosca 1 out of 3 it’s over.

@Xilo_K If you are above average looking, not completely retarded in real and practical terms(how to set up a profile) and live in a large metro hinge is huge positive EV imo

Ngl this is almost making me want to get a dating app… Very grateful for having a few photographer friends that have put me in a good light over the years

@lapislagoons @creatine_cycle I have the impression that me having a well furnished room is looked at neutrally by most tech visitors, but I keep my mattress on slats only in order to not veer too far from the baseline here

like would the tech community see this as less reputable if you were sitting at a nice wood table with art on the wall , sometimes it seems like tech word is obsessed with taste but there's also a certain kind of credibility to "I am so busy building I dont have time to enjoy my environment" idk if I'm making sense but I feel curious about this,

serious question, does a zero taste environment give tech ppl credibility?

This song and movie are forever ruined by having watched it with someone with whom it just didn’t work out. But my, what a small price.

@Bitheap_tech @cryptocroq2021 @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m fluent in german and french.

@cryptocroq2021 @Xilo_K @47fucb4r8c69323 They never even try to learn the language. They expect people to revolve around them.

Zurich is the most drab place I have ever lived in. Leave. Go into debt if you have to.

@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

@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)

@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+

@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.

@menhguin @yacineMTB I will continue to let it chew through logs I have become so unfathomably lazy.

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

@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….

@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

@Xilo_K what’s so bad about it

@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.

@Xilo_K you don't get the post-modern german aesthetic, is very aesthetic

@0xMontBlanc THANK YOU. Now imagine spending ur college years there and having to wince every time you order a 35$ drink

@Xilo_K Beautiful place but 4 years there made me genuinely insane Remilio

@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.

@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)

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