diego898

I'm in a similar boat as you - from what I can tell, best bet is to buy from Chrono24, used, from a dealer with good reviews, and pay ~250 additional for chrono24's certification service in which they guarantee its authenticity.

I've been waiting for years to pull the trigger on the Speedmaster, and recently decided on the white dial one. I say decided, but mean that's the one I want but can't bring myself to click purchase :]

“running your texts through the genericizer” - what a lovely way to put it!

Do you do this manually? Or some abstraction above that? skills, some light orchestration, etc?

Will a full complete org mode ever come to vim? A man can hope…

Edit: I wonder if the vim community can contribute to a feature bounty like this? Hmm

As an engineer, this and the principle of least action occupy my wall of “things I think are super deep and maybe mysterious* and interesting and I wish I understood deeply”

* interpret generously

Thinking of doing the same! Which kit did you order? I see a FNG, FNG+ Bundle, and "Learn lockpicking bundle". 3rd one seems the most likely candidate. Any tips you can share? Thanks!

startup idea? upload an obsidian vault, receive a printed, bound notebook(s)

Do you have any references you can share for sexual abuse and/or cults associated with rationalists?

Sorry - what do you mean by yud-cult? Searching google didn’t help me (as far as I can tell) - I view LW from an outside perspective as well, but don’t understand the reference

Purely empirical observation, in my own life, make no claim as to humanity/society/etc.:

It's interesting how often fermi estimation problems are used as proxy's for "intelligence". Something like: 'let's assess how well "they can think" - how many golf balls fit in a baseball stadium?' etc.

Often, doing well in these kinds of problems can more than makeup for a lack of specific knowledge in something someone is interested in assessing!

I 100% agree - I’m only saying hegseth didn’t run an unsecured line into his office himself no?

Why didn’t some automated system say “installation of unsecured lines in this building is not possible” or similar

To be course : I didn’t think something so obviously wrong would have been allowed and enabled by several people who made this possible - removing absolutely no accountability from the person who asked for this to happen

Just to clarify - I am not presuming to shift blame - I am asking about a failure mode here- absolutely hold hegseth accountable (he should have never been in this position and is completely unqualified in my opinion).

I am also not suggesting we hold an IT person accountable-

I am only saying there should be rules/systems in place so that if someone else asks for something obviously wrong like this again, there’s a clear stop gap to say “that’s not possible”

Maybe there already is one(several) - if so, then of course the chain of accountability continues to ensnare…

Not downplaying or defending - but I don’t understand the failure mode here - presumably hegseth had to ask someone in pentagon IT to set this up? Submit a form etc. sure he asked for something illegal* but someone actually following a set of rules had to enable this, no?

(* or against protocols, etc)