Yes, been using that to track my bank accounts and stuff and it’s really helpful, although I had some trouble understanding how to use it since I’m a layperson xd

Not envious of that serial killer having to decide between Assembly and Haskell

The one thing that really trips me up is that I am now really interested at how many people are assholes because they aren’t able to be good, and how many do it for other reasons…

Two things come to mind:

• a psychopath wants to be good because he knows this will give him a better social stand. But he doesn’t really get it, because some things his peers do just look irrational to him. At some point he just reverts back to manipulation because that’s what he understands.
• an autistic guy tries to be nice, but he doesn’t get it. People are puzzles to him, and the way he is nice is very different from everyone else. He starts becoming jaded and stops trying to be nice like everyone else.

Both examples are people who don’t have the extended knowledge of what “being nice” is, and therefore they stop being nice. I would love to know how big that percentage is amongst all assholes.

This is also intertwined with the fact that if there’s an asshole for every 20 people who are nice (just as a thought experiment), you wouldn’t remember the nice people, because they don’t give you a headache. The asshole does. So for us, the percentage always looks really skewed, in fact it’s almost exclusively the assholes we hear about.

I mean it assumes not everyone can be good (which is fair) but it’s also assuming everyone wants to be good. And to be blunt, I think there’s some people out there that don’t care if they’re assholes.

It’s an interesting thought though, and I totally agree, some people really don’t know how to be good.

Yeah I think hate is a draining and destructive emotion.

There’s situations where it should be used, but it should be used wisely. For example, it takes an insane amount of shady behavior to get under my skin, but when people do, they earn my hate and that makes me set very solid boundaries. But it would be bad to destroy friendships for hating someone because we got on each other’s nerves for a while.

Yes. There is either asshole or asshole but purrs occasionally.

I feel you.

Felt that way a lot with friends and it makes me irrationally angry when it happens multiple times in a row, so I make it a point to ask other people what they were gonna say before they got interrupted. Makes everyone be more respectful and the people who get interrupted feel heard and can share their stories still.

But yeah pretty sure this is the exact reason I kinda distanced myself from one of my friends. She didn’t even acknowledge when I said something so I was just present and that’s about the only reason she wanted me there for I assume. Still makes me mad considering how much I tried to improve my social skills and stuff just to be a ghost irl again.

“alcohol makes you act without thinking and pot makes you think without action” is so gonna be stolen for future use. Yoink.

This is literally proving the opposite. People who are not careful and safe enough when doing dangerous hobbies are having bad consequences.

Because on Netflix what you’re skipping is something you expect and maybe even want to see. On YouTube it’s ads, which you don’t necessarily expect nor want to see. And the skip button is just associated with that.

Also, on YouTube you sometimes have to skip multiple consecutive ads, sometimes you have to wait for a few seconds, and sometimes you can’t skip them at all. It’s not made to be practical, it’s made to serve you as much ad-time as possible, as that is the bread and butter for YouTube (contrary to popular belief they don’t make a lot of money, so it makes sense. Although I’m not sure I like they way they try to make money to stay in business).

Your first paragraph makes a lot of sense to me.

The second paragraph I have a very different opinion on, because there’s a difference between patterns of abuse and having to deal with a shitty situation a few times. And although there’s people who don’t take any shit and will fit you for small inconveniences, there’s also a lot of people who have learned to endure almost every situation for way too long.

My mom has been working overtime for years and I’m scared she’ll get overwhelmed eventually. Every one of our band mates got bullied in school and just endured it. A school friend told me he was the black sheep in an Asian family and he just had accept it. I’m sure he’s way past his limit but he’ll still try with them. A friend of mine has a dad with narcissistic tendencies and a mom with major health issues and an aunt who almost killed her multiple times intentionally already. I tend to not speak up because sometimes I get it wrong and it fucks me up in major ways.

As you can see I know a lot of people who wait way too long until they change things, and if they spike up a bit more, they could be holding a successful job and maybe even keep their sanity. Goes to show that everyone is different and every social dynamic is unique.

I guess it is very interesting to think about that analogy, cause I never fully thought about that.

The camel was miserable before.

Which means the camel tried to last through it until it broke the camel’s metaphorical back. Which I guess also tells me that if someone says that to me, they are saying someone suffered through something way too long until they finally reacted. I never really thought about it as a hint that you didn’t have to bear something, you could have spoken up earlier already.

This explanation might be too detailed but I just realized that so maybe this is interesting to someone else.

I need

I love this lmao

When chatgpt calls you the rizzler you know we living in the future

Nice tits

You can stay

The potatoes?

No one uses Boolean values anyway and with the amount of resources available on modern systems we can just replace them with integers and we should be fine. This also makes it easier to teach people, as they would learn less different data types.

Yes I’m a software dev :)

At this point I think there is no software dev topic that is somehow not devisive.

This might get down voted but let me share a nuanced take.

AI is either overhyped or underhyped.

Yes, right now LLMs won’t change the world, don’t make great lawyers, don’t replace software devs and don’t write all of your emails. But if you used some of the more recent ones, they can definitely help you express or help to write quicker, and they can give you a bird’s eye view of a topic.

And let’s also make clear that AIs are not useless nor is their potential exhausted. Right now they are useful helpers in specific scenarios and they only get more useful from here.

There are important questions around: what constitutes a personality, a right to an image, or when does imitation become stealing, and how do you even consider an AI model on questions of copyright.

I think the problem is that people have promised too much from this technology and that’s why everyone just associates it with bad results. But there’s more to it, and nuance gets lost in the stream of strong opinions.

I like the comparison.

The implantation is different, the effects will be different, and how we evolve with it will be different, but AI does already have a solid impact and it will continue to have one.

And the industrialization was neither good nor bad. How some people fucked over poor people’s lifes in the process is despicable, but just because things get faster or more efficient is not inherently a bad thing.

Now we definitely need rules here. Some shit people and companies do with AIs is wild and should be illegal, but as always law takes time. Maybe it’s an illusion but I hope for a healthy integration of AI in small ways into our life. And I really mean small. Give me chatgpt and AI spell checking, and maybe some code auto completion. Don’t put all those AI assistants into everything because that’s not the way to go. Change done right moves slow, and if we only had the things we know how to use, we’d be a lot better off rn.

Just as automated assembly lines at some point led to electronic devices being more accessible, I hope the LLMs and other AIs we use will become well placed and non-intrusive.

Tbf it’s more that the feel of a live audience would be missing otherwise. They wanted that live audience feel and be a fully written TV series.

I guess to some degree it’s not completely wrong tho.