Summarized: I Respect Our Shared Humanity

ChatGPT. Was that coherent? You are a scholar of technical writing and the english language. Please give me a summary of what the writer was trying to say: Summary The writer discusses the evolution of their communication style, initially emphasizing correctness and spelling but now prioritizing speed and humor, even at the expense of errors. They reflect on how technology, specifically AI, has changed communication. While AI can handle some interactions, the writer stresses the importance of human-to-human communication, particularly in situations where nuance and personality are crucial.
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I Respect Our Shared Humanity

Intro I used to be a person who cared greatly about ensuring that my prose were correct, and that I spelled everything correctly. I'm actually going to avoid that here and I'm not even going to bother with a spell checker. For most casual communication I now like to focus on being fast and funny at the expense of the red squiggly lines or appeasing the specter of my english teacher.
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Car Cost Calculator

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Org Mode Insert Table Reference

Emacs Org-Mode tables are very powerful. The formula editor can execute elisp commands which makes for a really powerful spreadsheet editor (especially when combined with org-sbe). One big limitation I've faced is multi-line content. To solve this I've created a simple function to wrap around results of some elisp block to always return the most useful data. (org-table-create-and-insert-reference "hello") -> "hello" (org-table-create-and-insert-reference "") -> "nil" (org-table-create-and-insert-reference nil) -> "nil"
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Northsec CTF

I was lucky enough to get to compete in the Northsec CTF this weekend with the cold_root team. We ended up placing 4th out of 88 teams. There was a ton of awesome (and maddening) challenges and plenty of Malört consumed. The challenges showed up on a fantasy themed forum: Scammed Again The first thing I did was go to the web page to find that it was a chat dialogue with an enchanter named….
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