I'm surprised when people still say, "I don't like going to school (university) because I have to learn a bunch of useless things." Have you ever been to work?
Microblog
Back from the IOL. As always, it feels endless once you’re there, and too short once you’re back.
Maybe this 'linguistics olympiad' thing is finite
This lady clocked me on the plane as a linguist because I was reading “Language Isolates of Amazonia 2” 🥴
first post at 30,000 ft: why don’t they get rid of middle seats
attention is all i need
I never realized how opinionated I was until I started seeing obviously AI websites. I usually have very few opinions on things until I’m rather confident that I can make a good judgement, but since I look at websites all day I honestly can’t stand AI websites, even if they are legitimately useful. It just has no taste.
I guess most people have typing quirks, but mine might be tha tone of my hands can type faster than the other and so I end up with too many transpositions.
I never figured out the difference between sour and bitter
The issue (or blessing) is that the business-major-view of just scaling up happens to coincide with the bitter lesson, and nobody can tell when (if) it will stop.
Web 0.0
Apple is still really good at making packaging. I’m all for the arrow pull tab design they have on everything now, especially the fact that they have it on not just the box but also the thin paper coverings.