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Do any of your emails actually make it into an inbox though? I did this for a server and I couldn't even get it to land in spam on gmail.

Yes but you may need the IPs to warm up and build some reputation, depending where you setup your server the IPs may be burned. Check logs and reputation with some of the postmaster tools the major providers offer and with the services that allow looking up an IP. senderscore used to be convenient to use now it displays a stupid contact form when you try to check an IP, there are others.

To be honest I haven't done the setup for sending a handful of emails but IPs sending hundreds/thousands per day it's fine as long as you don't start spamming people and get flagged.


Yes they do. I wouldn't try it from a residential IP but as long as you run a blacklist check on the IP before you start, and configure DNS correctly, it's generally fine.

As the other user posted, practicing for tests are extremely important. I grew up middle class, got an average score on my tests (but I did really well in math)

My wife, upper middle class, took entire weeks of courses and scored higher than me on everything. But I am better than her at math for sure.


While engineering school was hard, I did think quite a bit of it was pure participation testing.

I used to think this was wrong, until I got into engineering.. Sure there is the rare math problem, but most of the difficult part was: "Are you willing to fly to mexico and be awake at 3am when the parts are made?"

I might be downplaying though... I did calc 1 at a job.


Ive seen the opposite in some people.

I know a ~55ish year old lady who is beautiful, but looks 55. I see her adjusting to her new reality and its painful. I imagine she used to be able to get away with being mean and sarcastic because she was so hot.

Now it just causes office fights. "I wont work with X" is something Ive heard.

The interesting part is that I originally only worked with her on the phone, so I always thought she was mean... Then I saw her in person and everything clicked.


Problem with that story is that you "imagine" her to have history to match your ideas about how people behave, but you do not really know her history.

plenty of mean and sarcastic ugly people around too

Some ugly people are mean because they are ugly and take their frustrations out on the world.

Some pretty people are mean because they can get away with it and never learned that it's often counterproductive in the long term.

This is just some people, others act differently.


They often have "other reasons" people put up with it - even just being the office attack dog you sic on annoying customers will make you a valuable team member.

In my opinion, a lot of ugly people start off by trying to be nice, then gradually become more bitter and cynical the more they have to take shit from other people. At least I feel like that has happened to me, and I'm not even so ugly (imho). The amount of gaslighting I've put up with from everyone over the years has really been infuriating and has led me to a lot of misery in my life, and also turned me away from the things that might have actually made a difference.

This. Childhood experiences are formative, and the peer environment from early years through adulthood is usually brutal. My expectation is that confidence and grace is evenly distributed at birth, but is added to the physically attractive and denied to the unattractive almost immediately. I've always found the physically-unattractive-but-socially-attractive especially interesting because they've succeeded, often along with a very cool peer group.

>My expectation is that confidence and grace is evenly distributed at birth, but is added to the physically attractive and denied to the unattractive almost immediately.

I don't think it would be evenly distributed, but it goes something like that. You can choose to behave confidently up to a point, but people reject such behavior from an ugly person. Ignoring this social feedback can get you into a lot of trouble.

>I've always found the physically-unattractive-but-socially-attractive especially interesting because they've succeeded, often along with a very cool peer group.

Some of these are brutal too. I've known some real busted dudes who got attractive girls to like or marry them somehow. I assume it's often money, connections, and/or encountering the right person who is a sucker for your particular characteristics. Imagine being the ugly brother or nephew of a solid 10 (guy or girl), or being a multi-millionaire. You'd easily get many times more opportunities in all areas of life.


hahahahaha 'walled garden'

repeating marketing speak.

Apple got you.

Walled Prison. Look at all those people suffering with iMessage trying to use openclaw.


It's a garden right up until the point you try to leave. Then it's a jail you're trying to break out of.

Most sories with this plot, the prisoner gets free and gets to see the garden for what it really is. Famous example: The Matrix


This would hit harder if Bitcoin didn't win and AI coding didn't completely change our jobs.

Why not simply evaluate things instead of ignoring them until its too late?

Sure, we don't have infinity time, but the fact that OP mentions these two things, means the pattern showed up enough.


What is too late? If you want to use cryptocurrency as a medium of exchange, go ahead, it’s right there!

There’s this irony to the FOMO in crypto, which is people argue the “sensible” thing (it’s the future of money) to create FOMO for the insensible thing (it’s a lottery ticket). You’re right it’s too late to buy a lottery ticket, but the vision wasn’t a lottery, it was a medium of exchange!

AI assisted coding is the same way. I use it every day, but if I decided to stop and wait a year, I could still pick it up, probably more easily when the tools are better.

In fact, people who wait might do better than me because their mental model won’t be locked into a way of interacting that will be out of date in six months.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if all the early adopters were the losers because they liked the hacky nature of it? This happened to a lot of early computer adopters, low level programmers, etc.


> Wouldn’t it be ironic if all the early adopters were the losers because they liked the hacky nature of it? This happened to a lot of early computer adopters, low level programmers, etc.

Relevant XKCD: 598


I never said Crypto. I said bitcoin.

And with AI... I am genuinely afraid my job will be automated. I'm trying to become a manager before we are relegated to minimum wage workers.


It sounds like you're just trying to delay the inevitable then. Manager's may be automated before Software Engineers! Or at the very least otherwise be made redundant.

https://fortune.com/2025/03/04/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-middle-...


But what are you too late for bitcoin for? Go buy some!

You make it seem like AI coding has already "totally changed" our jobs. This is exactly the FOMO the article talks about ("until its too late"). It hasn't. I'm still using the same workflows without AI tools, and so are most of my teammates.

To be fair, I would have talked like you in January 2026. But things have changed since Feb.

Crypto didn't "win", the technology is there but people are mostly gambling, or doing shady stuff. Shall I mention NFTs? It didn't change the life of the average joe, nor business. It's a niche.

Many people are still coding without AI and doing perfectly fine. When you design serious things, coding is not where most time is spent anyway. Maybe it'll become unavoidable at some point, by that time the experience will be refined and it'll be easier to learn.

Point is, it's never too late. If you don't need to be cutting edge on a new tech, it may not make sense to put the extra effort of early birds. If you put that effort, you better not do it for free.


"if bitcoin didn't win?" It didn't win. It's still useless.

You can use it at steak n shake

must be nice to always live under stable currencies.

Where do you live?

At one point I lived in the Soviet Union but that's not really relevant to my point.

I don't understand your point. You said it would be nice to live..... what does that have to do with bitcoin? What's your point? Make a point.

My point is your opinion is sheltered and lacks life experience.

I understand your point. And I agree on people without life changing fluctuations in currency will hardly understand that side of bitcoin value.

I've had friends in Venezuela for the past 20 years. They hold dollars, not bitcoin. You're both talking out of your ass.

Your opinion on my opinion is not really relevant to bitcoin.

He is rejecting the framing of get in now before it's "too late". If it is so useful then we will be able to pick it up when it is more polished rather than learning to use some half polished turd that will be obsolete in 6 months.

What did bitcoin win? Seems to me like it's mainly used as speculative asset instead of using it to pay goods and services.

I'm not sure Bitcoin won.. it just continues being a ponzi scheme that you can make money in.

You can also accept that certain things and be happy in life either way. Don't need to chase get rich schemes. Some are more privileged than others in being able to do this.


Bitcoin won? I don't think it did. Main use is still scams, circumventing sanctions, and grifting. My SEPA instant money transfer does everything bitcoin promised without the trash, and bad people surrounding bitcoin.

daily reminder your have yet to start paying for using LLMs, the current paid tiers are just to lure you in.

It also has changed nothing in the way i do stuff. Checked it out, not for me, thanks but no thanks

(Sick and tired of hearing how you made an ui in a couple of hours by directing the code when it still takes me the same couple of hours of coding.)


But they didn’t have to think as hard, so they win

Oh wait…


As someone with 6 kids:

Dont have any kids. They reduce your freedom. I need to emphasize this.

To be fair, once I stopped having freedom, we went hard obviously.

If you already have 1, might as well go wild.


Wait... someone is under the impression that Apple was ever good to its customers?

I thought we all just dealt with the overpriced hardware, the prisons, the control, that they are a US company that gives away data to the government(PRISM), has weak security(Pegasus), lies about hardware issues(butterfly keyboard and holding your phone wrong), deceptive marketing...

All so we can compile iOS apps.

If you arent compiling iOS apps... Do you not know about Fedora? Ofc Windows sucks, but we have Fedora.


Grok is not SOTA, but its so obviously better than Mistral. Mistral is just some European patriotism or something.

Grok is nice for asking morally gray questions. ChatGPT will lie in these cases.


What lies have you seen? ChatGPT is the most censored one, but I’ve only seen rejections, not lies.

My other complaint is that ChatGPT ends every response with a teaser to ask more questions.


Ask game theory questions with real humans where its best to defect.

> Grok is nice for asking morally gray questions. ChatGPT will lie in these cases.

Are you really that oblivious to the painfully cringy manipulation tactics by the man who partied at Epstein's island? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/21/elon-musk...


Suspicion confirmed

Define ideology and its relevance here.

If you couldn't use the words Europe to describe why you'd chose Mistral, you'd have no good reasons to choose Mistral.

Its just not good. Its bottom floor for LLMs.


> Its bottom floor for LLMs.

What? That's just demonstrably false. The market doesn't consist of 5 providers.


You know about LMarena? I just looked it up, Mistral is number 59 on the list.

Free Chinese models are better than it.


That's one of the possible benchmarks, not the only one. Being 59th there, on a list enriched with every variation of Model_Name X.Y (March 2025 Preview) Pro-Thinking, translates to being in the top 10 providers worldwide which is a very interesting mark of failure considering that coincidentally they're also number 1 from their economic area. If you don't know why the last part is important, go read some news.

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