Saagar Jha

@saagar@saagarjha.com

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Saagar Jha

(replying to Anton Rohr)
@antonrohr Yep I am doing fine I got 12 hours of sleep today

Saagar Jha

You don’t say
Screenshot of the Health app. Trends Sleep Your sleep went down over the last 5 days 23-day avg [earlier]: 6h 23m 5-day avg [recent]: 3h 4m

Anton Rohr

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar I hope you are okay?!

Saagar Jha

(replying to Anton Rohr)
@antonrohr Yep I am doing fine I got 12 hours of sleep today

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
Obviously I can’t say that everything went perfectly or that there weren’t things that could be better (including how we did on the leaderboard) but I feel a lot better about the limits of what current AI can do and where the hard problems lie with regards to CTF

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
In fact I will go even further and say that I think it made me feel even more confident that the application of human insight was really what let us perform well. What our agents did was quite pedestrian compared to the ingenuity of our human players

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
Obviously I can’t say that everything went perfectly or that there weren’t things that could be better (including how we did on the leaderboard) but I feel a lot better about the limits of what current AI can do and where the hard problems lie with regards to CTF

Saagar Jha

It’s quite interesting to me that the general sentiment among the people who played DEF CON this year is resignation that this is the “last CTF” they will ever enjoy because it couldn’t have been further from my experience. I had tons of fun and feel it’s not going anywhere

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
In fact I will go even further and say that I think it made me feel even more confident that the application of human insight was really what let us perform well. What our agents did was quite pedestrian compared to the ingenuity of our human players

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
Obviously I can’t say that everything went perfectly or that there weren’t things that could be better (including how we did on the leaderboard) but I feel a lot better about the limits of what current AI can do and where the hard problems lie with regards to CTF

Saagar Jha

Note to self, do not put a receipt printed on thermal paper in your pocket if you are in Vegas

Saagar Jha

(replying to U+002C)
@cb Unfortunately I am here once a year

Saagar Jha

SJC→LAS

U+002C

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar Sorry you have to deal with LAS, worst airport experience of my life

Saagar Jha

(replying to U+002C)
@cb Unfortunately I am here once a year

Saagar Jha

My sister is applying for internships and just showed me an application form that asked her where she went to high school and made her list her past employers by selecting from a drop-down list (I will let you guess what options were there besides “Other – Technology Company”)

alexing

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar lol. yeah. saw this once or twice in my searches

alexing

(replying to alexing)

@saagar i didnt go to high school so :p

Saagar Jha

(replying to Alex Markley)
@alex Former

Saagar Jha

(replying to Greg Parker)
@gparker Yeah that’s kind of how I view them except they’re usually pretty ugly

Saagar Jha

(replying to Helge Heß)
@helge I hope your children had it better

Helge Heß

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar No, all the Lego is MINE!😬

Saagar Jha

(replying to Mutesplash)
@Mutesplash LEGO for adults who are still children at heart

Mindaugas Rudokas

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar @Mutesplash
A set that’s something closer to this:

Saagar Jha

(replying to Alex Markley)
@alex They added some stupid check for this that looks at the parent process

Alex Markley

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar so arp's behavior depends on the calling shell? That seems... Bad.

Or maybe arp is a builtin now? Or somehow the path is being altered silently?

I'm just so confused, lol.

Saagar Jha

(replying to Alex Markley)
@alex Former

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
It’s patently artificial but you have lost the ability to tell, or maybe you can still feel that there’s something wrong about it, but you have scarcely the time and energy to care anymore

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
I can’t imagine a more on-the-nose way to strip the joy from childhood than this. Maybe if you just spend some more money on Nostalgia you desperately want to cling to you will forget that taxes are due next week and your manager wants the quarterly report revised again

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
It’s patently artificial but you have lost the ability to tell, or maybe you can still feel that there’s something wrong about it, but you have scarcely the time and energy to care anymore

Saagar Jha

LEGO “for adults” is just so depressing to me because they’re always like several hundred dollars and horrible looking renditions of, like, mega Pikachu with super custom parts that you build once and never touch again
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Mutesplash

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar Real "LEGO for adults" is on display at things like Brickworld and even smaller local events

Saagar Jha

(replying to Mutesplash)
@Mutesplash LEGO for adults who are still children at heart

Mindaugas Rudokas

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar @Mutesplash
A set that’s something closer to this:

U+002C

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar lego for adults should be a big box of generic colour mismatched pieces and just building random shit that comes to mind

Greg Parker

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar As a more charitable view, consider it as one end of a time and skill spectrum: "LEGO for adults" — traditional plastic model kit — scratchbuilt modeling and art.

Saagar Jha

(replying to Greg Parker)
@gparker Yeah that’s kind of how I view them except they’re usually pretty ugly

Helge Heß

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar I think I like Lego for adults because I rarely had real Lego as a child.
And I still like looking at my Helicarrier, ISS or Ghostbusters headquarter 🤷‍♀️

Saagar Jha

(replying to Helge Heß)
@helge I hope your children had it better

Helge Heß

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar No, all the Lego is MINE!😬

USB Type-Steve :verified:

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar Lego is dumb when the thing they sell is a singular solution. To me Lego is supposed to be a bunch of random bricks where you build random things out of it. It's not meant to be a prepackaged "build the Millennium Falcon and nothing else" kind of thing.

(Side note I always thought K'Nex was better)

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
I can’t imagine a more on-the-nose way to strip the joy from childhood than this. Maybe if you just spend some more money on Nostalgia you desperately want to cling to you will forget that taxes are due next week and your manager wants the quarterly report revised again

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
It’s patently artificial but you have lost the ability to tell, or maybe you can still feel that there’s something wrong about it, but you have scarcely the time and energy to care anymore

Saagar Jha

You can learn a lot about advanced packaging techniques by watching YouTube Shorts with obnoxious background music apparently
“He Will Never Be Ballin’” meme template. In the top left panel is an advertising shot of an A19 Pro. The second panel shows Cereal Guy saying “He will never Reballin’”. In the third panel is a picture of someone placing said chip on a freshly fluxed motherboard. The last panel has Cereal Guy spit out his cereal.

Saagar Jha

Bruh
Screenshot of iTerm, ttys11@80x24 (bash). Last login: Tu Jul 23 04:17:57 on ttys011 saagarjha 07/23 04:18:01 ~$ arp -an | wc -l 0 saagarjha 07/23 04:18:06 ~$ BASH_SILENCE_DEPRECATION_WARNING=1 exec /bin/bash saagarjha 07/23 04:07:11 ~$ arp -an | wc -l 21 saagarjha 07/23 04:07:14 ~$

Alex Markley

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar what in the world is happening there??

Saagar Jha

(replying to Alex Markley)
@alex They added some stupid check for this that looks at the parent process

Alex Markley

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar so arp's behavior depends on the calling shell? That seems... Bad.

Or maybe arp is a builtin now? Or somehow the path is being altered silently?

I'm just so confused, lol.

Saagar Jha

(replying to Alex Markley)
@alex Former

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
Maybe when all the Apple bloggers stop fellating themselves about Siri “being good now” (read: email search works sometimes, if you’re using Apple Mail, and let it index for 67 days) they can actually remember the days when new features weren’t designed by Nikita Bier wannabes