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I’m looking for a good historical analogy for how people are treating AI. Too many people treat it like some omnipotent God voice that knows all and tells the truth. The reality is that it’s applied advanced statistics. The truth is that it’s closer to a calculator than intelligence.

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Wife won this game. I like the casting sticks a lot better than the dice. I was sooo close to winning and then she knocked my piece off the board. #RoyalGameOfUr

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Social media is wild. We flagged a bug that let people get free products. Management said, “Ship it anyway.” Not even an hour later, there’s a TikTok showing exactly how to exploit it. I’ve never felt more like a dev in a slow-motion train wreck.

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People need to go to jail for this, and Dems need to be out there saying that people need to go to jail for this

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In the meeting: “AI did this in 5 hours. A dev would’ve taken a week.” Sure, if the dev got a clear spec, no meetings, and only had to solve this one thing, it’d take them few hours too. But yeah, let’s pretend that’s a fair comparison. #AIhype #devlife

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Printer hasn’t been working as good as it used to lately, so I figured I’d do some maintainance and replace the nozzle. Had no idea it had broken to this point! Amazing it kept chugging like this. #3DPrinting #X1Carbon #BambuLab #Maintenance

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Overheard some veterans at breakfast this morning. They were convinced a whistleblower would soon expose all of Biden’s “crimes,” and that any pardon signed with an auto-pen was invalid. It made me sad, they were deep in the conspiracy theories. #Politics #Disinformation #Veterans

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I hated the dice used by The Royal Game of Ur, so I’m going to try casting sticks instead. 4 sticks will give me the same 0-4 possible values. I’ve never used these before, so it should be an interesting experence.

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Just finished printing a Royal Game of Ur set! Trying to convince my wife to play with me tonight. Let’s see if ancient Mesopotamian board games still hold up 👀 #RoyalGameOfUr #3DPrinting #BambuLabs #X1Carbon #BoardGames #GameNight #TabletopGaming #AncientGames

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What’s with MAGA taking horse meds? Is it like the male version of a horse girl?

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My wife asked our daughter what she wanted to get me for Father’s Day. Her answer? A Sonic toy. That kid gets me. Absolute genius. #FathersDay #dadlife #parentingwin

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Printed Number 2! Thanks to his feet, 2 is able to stand up. My printer struggled a little with this one, but we got it done! #numberblocks #3DPrinting #Bambulabs #X1Carbon

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Our 8-week trial of Cursor and Windsurf is over. The results are conclusive: Windsurf is the preferred editor. Cursor brags about their “vibe coding”, and yeah, we believe them. It’s exactly why we don’t want to use it anymore. #devtools #editorwars #AIcoding

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When people say AI is only going to get better and better, I don’t think they’re wrong. But I also remember how folks in the ’80s thought Star Wars droids were just around the corner. It’s 2025 and we’re still very far from that kind of tech. Hype drives profit, not reality #AI #LLM #technostalgia

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It’s wild how malls were such a cultural staple for most of my life, but now they’re basically gone. So when a sci-fi book set 500 years in the future casually mentions a mall, it feels more jarring than aliens or FTL. #scifi #nostalgia #malls #future #writingthoughts #books

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All 4 data lines are wired and working. The switches control each bit, and the big red button toggles between red and green. LEDs are bright, crisp, and exactly how I hoped! Next up is flashing. #Electronics #LEDs #BreadboardBuild #LogicGates #3DPrintedPanel #SwitchesAndCircuits #HobbyElectronics

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Caught my daughter at my electronics bench, pulling random parts out of the breadboards. I think she’s testing me. “Can Dad still fix it with these components missing?” Challenge accepted, tiny chaos gremlin. #DadLife #MiniMaker #DebugMode

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Button switches the 4 bi-color LEDs between red and green. A toggle switch enables or disables the 555 blink signal. Next is to wire the 555 to blink the 4 LEDs. It’s looking good so far. 🥳 #electronics #breadboard #bicolorled #cd4001 #555timer

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Decided to edit my /etc/hosts file. These do not bring me joy, so they should fail.

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Built a working AND gate from scratch using 3 NOR gates on a CD4001 chip. Took some debugging, but it now only lights the LED when both inputs are high. Learned a ton about CMOS quirks, floating inputs, and how to tame them. Feeling good! #electronics #breadboard #CMOS #logicgates #CD4001 #ANDgate

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🧵1/7 I was watching a therapist play The Stanley Parable and something he said really hit me. He said being in the moment is a key to happiness, and it’s not the same as mindfulness. That surprised me, but the more he explained it, the more it made sense. #mentalhealth #presence

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Had a few goofs, but the 555 timer is now cleanly toggling between LEDs without heating up! Turns out I had my NPN transistor backwards at first. Pro tip: the arrow should point to ground! #electronics #555timer #breadboard #beginnerprojects #transistors #makers

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🧵1/3 I feel bad for anyone seriously trying to learn using AI. It’s not a good teacher. I tried to get ChatGPT to help me build a very simple circuit, and it couldn’t do it. Constant mistakes, backtracking, and trying to change what I wanted. #AI #ChatGPT #Learning

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Is it just me, or is Reddit kind of dying? I used to see fresh content every time I opened it. For months now, it’s the same posts over and over, even after refreshing. Feels like fewer people are posting or something’s broken. Anyone else notice this? #Reddit #SocialMedia #InternetCulture

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Welp, my old AirPods just broke, heard a pop mid-song and now they’re toast. That’s the second pair to die on me, and Apple Support costs as much as buying new ones. I’m done. No more AirPods for me. Back to regular Bluetooth headphones. #AirPods #Apple #Bluetooth #TechFail #PlannedObsolescence

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I don’t care how “advanced” or “amazing” your IDE is, if I can’t copy/paste in and out of it, I won’t use it. Not being able to copy and paste is a complete dealbreaker for me. Even VIM and Nano get this right so why can’t you? #WindSurf

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Woot! Just got a PNP and NPN transistor working together. When the signal is low (button open), the red LED lights. When it’s high (button closed), the blue LED lights. This is going to be key to getting my logic to drive dual-color LEDs. #electronics #breadboard #transistors

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Drink sales are up, snack sales are down. I have no idea what that says about the economy.

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