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2025-04-01

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hackers.town: 2025-04-01 Tue 09:41

In this year of our eternal pained sigh 2025, still seeing corporate April Fools’ posts.

On the one hand, read the burned-out husk of a room.

On the other hand, YES FUCK UP THOSE AI SCRAPERS

hackers.town: 2025-04-01 Tue 18:06

In the “well they only rejected me once and the job description diff is like six words so it’s practically an entirely different job, practically an invitation to try again” arc of my job search.

hackers.town: 2025-04-01 Tue 18:44

You can say many things about the cover letters I write. But “looks like it was written by an LLM” is almost certainly not on the list.

“Looks like it was written by someone who needs their meds adjusted” is a possibility.

hackers.town: 2025-04-01 Tue 22:17

There were more nerd protagonist movies in the mid-80s than you would have expected if you weren’t there. Real Genius wasn’t the first and it wasn’t the last. But it was the best of the batch, for lots of reasons. Val Kilmer was one of those reasons.

Dang.