Russian Circles for the former, Frodus for the latter.

My Vaultwarden is behind a private VPN, but I’ll still update today. Thanks.

Double taxation treaties are very common. What I’ve been told by US coworkers makes the US stand out is that you still need to file your taxes with the IRS, even when living abroad. No idea if that’s actually the case.

I have lived outside my native country for a while and only had to file taxes in my country of residence (neither of which is the US), because there’s a DTAA in place between the two.

Paying billionaires to watch millionaires play games.

Line must always go up.

It’s not cynical. I have three of them and that’s just the truth. Sometimes they enjoy being annoying. It’s all normal and good… but it’s still annoying.

And sometimes kids aren’t interested in the answers, they just want to annoy you.

Have you tried wanting to be monetized?

But why create the problem in the first place? Why not step onto the bath mat with dry feet?

I think she is either talking about her son or a pet.

I will never understand people who leave puddles or wet bath mats instead of drying themselves in the already wet shower.

True, but we do have the vaccine and the means to mass-produce and administer. That’s why I’m not worried about smallpox.

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To be fair, exposing yourself to the sun is unsafe. During summer the rule is: Don’t go out into the sun. If you have to go into the sun, cover yourself with clothes. If you can’t cover yourself with clothes, wear sunscreen. And limit the sun exposure to an absolute minimum. There is no safe tan.

I used to be all on board with that, but seeing what a colossal waste of resources AI is, I’ve come to question other efforts like this one or calculating pi to a trillion digits. The trigger here for me was the use of GPUs, which I’ve come to associate with AI waste. Sure, I know they’re just a tool. But I still don’t see what value will come from knowing ever bigger prime numbers.

I didn’t use to do this, but with the world being on fire I feel like I should ask whether the amount of energy put into finding huge primes is really worth it.

The horrors persist but so do I.

Could you even make a more obvious ad for Bluesky?

Yeah, I don’t think there’s intelligent life in our galaxy. Life definitely, on the level of microbes. But probably nothing higher.

I feel burnt out on professional development, but at least for me tech debt is not the issue. Everything is imperfect after a while, because requirements change all the time and overall it’s not me accruing the debt. That’s why I don’t care.