Thanks!

Plz explain, what are we looking at here?

Same, I should have changed majors way back when that was popping off. I could have been a depressed traffic engineer instead of a depressed software “engineer”

Ooo I would really appreciate that

I really got to start attending these movie nights

Does this come up often?

Thats interesting! I’ll have to check that out. Any co-ops that you would suggest taking a look at first?

Yeah, definitely seems that way. Its pretty cool that ag has so many co-ops. I was under the impression that a good amount of them aren’t necessarily structured as a worker co-op (I think ive seen the term seller co-op before?), but I am very ignorant to how those actually work/how specific ag co-ops might work.

What field of CS are you doing your PhD in?

That seems like unfortunate timing :/ . I’m definitely curious to learn more about your co-op though! Would you prefer to share in DMs?

I’m pretty open minded regarding industry, Im really more concerned with external impacts of the job (which sounds loftier than it is, the goal is to have a neutral or better effect on the community / environment / etc). Coincidentally I’m also in the Midwest and agriculture sounds interesting. Fwiw I’m currently a tech worker and don’t really know anything about the ag industry though

Yes, but I used a bunch of LLMs in it and that’s cringe.

doesn’t seem cringe to me at all tbh! It’s a cool project that you’re looking at providing free of charge and if you’re using LLMs to make that process faster/easier/more pleasant then that seems like the ideal use case of LLMs in coding imo. to be fair though I was using LLMs for some personal projects recently to get them off the ground for similar purposes (sharing with others for free), so maybe I’m a little biased.

Any interesting projects in the works?

Isn’t that saying per year?

Did I get the word “wild” from this site? Ive been wondering why I started saying it so much

How do y’all deal with things like imposter syndrome/self doubt? I’ve been circling around gender affirming care for a long time, with a pretty constant ebb and flow of “this is totally it” and “nah, definitely not trans.” When I had a particularly high “this is totally it” moment a few months ago I made an appointment to discuss with a provider, but have fallen back into the “nah, probably not” side in the last few weeks, which made the appointment a little weird. I was able to get a patch, and even slapped it on today, but the doubt & anxiety is super strong atm.

It probably doesn’t help that I’m in my 30s and don’t really have a strong direction or goal for treatment. It mostly boils down to wanting my brain chemistry to not suck ass, which is probably a non-small chunk of where the doubt comes from. Pretty proud of myself for going through with getting the medication and using it but can’t help but worry that I could be making additional turmoil / stress unnecessarily because I’m like grasping at straws for something to help me figure out why my brain is always fucked or something.

I wonder if including an email folks can use in your posts would help with traction. I know I’ve personally only felt comfortable providing aid when an email/cashapp/paypal is in the post (I dont always get lenmy notifications in a timely fashion, so I tend to avoid starting a conversation if it needs to happen quickly).

Of course, feel free to use an alt or burner email for privacy.

I hope we can get you some food comrade

I’m too lazy to look for any of their documentation about this, but it would be pretty bold to believe privacy or processing claims from OpenAI or similar AI orgs, given their history flouting copyright.

Silicon valley more generally just breaks laws and regulations to “disrupt”. Why wouldn’t an org like OpenAI at least leave a backdoor for themselves to process API requests down the road as a policy change? Not that they would need to, but it’s not uncommon for a co to leave an escape hatch in their policies.

Doesn’t seem that strange given all the stuff Trump said. We all knew Biden and Harris would let it continue since they were demonstrating that, but didn’t trump say he would do even more “for Is[n’t]real” than Biden?

I don’t think anyone on here really thought that the US gov had its hands tied or was really innocently failing at getting a ceasefire signed.

Thanks for the tip!

I have returned with news. I bought 2 pairs of the fully cotton socks, worn them several times, and washed them once.

• a little rougher than I expected, but they’re fine when you expect that
• before washing they were a little loose at the top but not so much they’d slip off your feet
• after washing (I made the mistake of machine washing, dried on a line though) they are much looser so far. These should definitely be hand washed.
• besides the looseness, it feels like they held up in the wash alright
• the site explicitly says to expect more wear and tear than socks with elastic, which seems about right. They’d probably hold up ok if worn in slippers and consistently hand washed.

I definitely liked them pre-washing, and would consider buying them again. They aren’t for everyone though, they are definitely rougher and more stiff than whats commonly available.

If I remember I’ll update this post a little down the line with more wear and tear thoughts.