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Yeah, I think the only thing about this outcome that would bother him is that he didn't see it coming. The guy was in the doctor business to flex intellect and solve puzzles; the whole "saving people" bit was incidental.

This part:

ATAB

Great advice.

I would also add, it's not necessary to go in to those tasks planning to complete the entire thing. If the prospect of doing all of washing, drying, folding, and putting away the laundry sounds exhausting or intimidating or otherwise executive-dysfunction-inducing, that's fine. Start by just starting; putting some laundry in the washing machine can be a satisfying task all on its own. And maybe by the time it's done, starting step two of the process won't seem so daunting.

Sometimes, if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly.

"Not for me" != "bad"

Zoom's history of privacy violations renders them undeserving of that benefit, in my opinion; they're both dicks.

Ah shit, here we go again.

Parenti's speech is also known as "The Yellow Lecture" because the surviving footage of it has a distinctive coloration.

The other reference is this meme is to a scene in Seinfeld where Kramer's apartment is being aggressively illuminated by a big red neon sign across the street; in this case, changed to yellow.

Why is that relevant?

I also really appreciated Worf and Martok's take on Garak's struggles with claustrophobia

Martok: There is no greater enemy than one's own fears.

Worf: It takes a brave man to face them.

I think this article does a good job of exploring and explaining how LLM attempts at text summarization could be more accurately described as "text shortening"; a subtle but critical distinction.

It routinely baffles me when folks think that copy-pasting crap into and out of a chatbot somehow contributes to a conversation. It's like half a step up from telling everyone about the dreams you had last night

She isn't; she's referring to the time Trump told Israel they "have to finish this up" in a published interview..