ragingHungryPanda

that was my ancient literature class in college

cloudflare happened first and I haven't been bothered to change it yet

I switched to it because the ISP blocked ports 80/443. It was good and things actually got a bit faster with them handling SSL certs.

but one thing to note is that the free tier has a 100MB file limit. I got around some of that by using the tail scale vpn with a custom domain entry to point to the local network.

I did these changes (wire guard to tail scale, dns to tunnels, etc) at different times, which is why things aren't very consistent.

probably the only LLM I've liked for searches is Kagi's, because it tries to not answer your question. it figures out search terms for it, then does the search, summarizes or approximates an answer, them gives citation links so you can check it

I try to have 3 places in mind for a change of scenery, and if there's something going on at at least one spot, that can take the pressure off of talking. i try to sit next to the person, like at a bar top, instead of across because that just feels like a job interview or something.

aside from that, engaging conversation. Probe for interest and if they reciprocate, then you can go a bit further until they don't or you're making out.

funny thing though, I started planning some of my outings with friends like I was doing a date. Instead of just going to the bar and "yyyyup"-ing for a couple hours, I try to find a shoe or something going on and then change locations to something else interesting. By the end my buds are commenting about how much fun they had.

so plan the date around interesting things or environments, or just something going on or something to look at. Then just have fun and relax.

Also, I read something from one of the old dating sites where they said that a sushi date is 27% more likely to get a second date. All of my sushi dates have gotten second dates.

filled! I'm looking forward to the results!

if this pic were me, that'd be the biggest pizza I'd have hauled on that bike

the s&p is an index weighted to match the top 500 companies, so the bigger companies get more money put in to their stocks. if most companies aren't doing great and a few tech ones are "holding up the market", then most of the money in your s&p indeed will be with them

i grew up in church, this is part of the curriculum

my low effort contribution

This hasn't been implemented yet, right?

I really loved this read. thank you for sharing!