I've been thinking the silver lining of the current situation is that we'll be less inclined to send troops to aid US in their latest Middle East boondoggle, in the expectation of reciprocation in the future. In other…
Yeah, I can't see what the questions were, but if they were about suicidal thoughts and plans, having to read, consider and respond to those questions six times a day would certainly reinforce any tendency to think…
My grandmother told a story about meeting an elderly female relative in Kingston, Tasmania, soon after my grandparents had got their first car. After visiting, they said they were now going back to the city (Hobart),…
I've renewed my visa in Japan a bunch of times, including changing work category or visa status, and never had to leave the country for it. It's not standard for working or student visas, though you would have to leave…
How overworked would a doctor need to be to hallucinate you told them about microdosing psillocybin when you never said anything of the sort? (And how easy is it to then convince the system you're not a recreational…
Your last line is the right attitude to take, but do you think the guy blogging his learnings of social skills on a blog called "wired differently" is a neurotypical writing for neurotypicals? I find it to be rather…
To be honest, if a guy decides not to date me because of "TeaOnHer", it's probably saved me some time.
I've been here for 15+ years and I've never seen a sushi place without salmon. But I've never been to a "fancy" sushi place, just supermarkets, kaiten chains and neighborhood restaurants that are $20-40 a head. Salmon…
I had an encounter with the opposite problem the other day, PM asked me if the library I was using for randomization was "secure" and I said, "Yes, I used the standard Java library for cryptographically secure random…
There's probably a lot of little nudges one can get in their life that make them more likely to pick up programming, but I think a big one for present generations is exposure to video games and video games being a thing…
Current workplace has cargo-culted this so hard the tickets look like "As a backend foo-server, I need to modify the baz function to create an interface for blargh requests."
So far it seems insiders are mostly incentivized to bet on their insider information at the last possible minute, so that the market doesn't have time to adjust toward their position and lessen their profits. That…
>>> //How did this happen?? >>> log.fatal("Aaaaarrrgghhhh"); Reminds me of working at a small Japanese company and someone had written a try-catch for retrieving a crucial bit of config that just logged "X missing. This…
Don't really get why people are saying letting ticket prices rise to the maximum of what the market will bear, even if it's unaffordable to most fans, is the only solution. I've been attending shows by a certain…
Perhaps it has something to do with recent human trends for saying "goblin" or "gremlin" to describe... basically the opposite of dignified and socially acceptable behavior, like hunching under a blanket, unshowered,…
The general principle here is that engaging with your hobbies and interests in the second language is a good way to increase exposure (and also more fun). For me, it was translating lyrics and interviews of Japanese…
My first thought was "Trenchcoat Demon" for the three-people-in-a-robe creature but I suppose that wouldn't quite fit the setting (but maybe acceptable if its existence is intended to be humorous). A thing to keep in…
Australia has "yous" which I think is a useful and sensible innovation!
Surprised that bus driver and delivery driver are "good" when there are definite efforts to automate both driving and delivery.
I think being on the spectrum might lower a person's risk in some ways and increase it in others. On one hand, some autistic people are less swayed by emotive language and therefore able to shrug off a chatbot's…
Chat-GPT is the worst for sycophancy, but even Claude responds to me thinking about or asking fairly obvious things with praise for how insightful I am to notice that and how this pinpoints the very fundamental essence…
Oh that looks like fun.
I have color-grapheme synesthesia. Pros are I can write passwords down as a series of colored blobs and reliably decode them. Cons are I occasionally make weird errors like repeatedly getting ctrl+l and ctrl+f hotkeys…
And Grok is probably pulling answers from ChatGPT generated content around the web. It's the ciiiiiircle, the circle of slop.
If you saw a video of a person doing something cool, and later found out it was AI generated, would you still be impressed? Of course, it's not exactly the same situation, but if I listen to a song and appreciate that…
I've been thinking the silver lining of the current situation is that we'll be less inclined to send troops to aid US in their latest Middle East boondoggle, in the expectation of reciprocation in the future. In other…
Yeah, I can't see what the questions were, but if they were about suicidal thoughts and plans, having to read, consider and respond to those questions six times a day would certainly reinforce any tendency to think…
My grandmother told a story about meeting an elderly female relative in Kingston, Tasmania, soon after my grandparents had got their first car. After visiting, they said they were now going back to the city (Hobart),…
I've renewed my visa in Japan a bunch of times, including changing work category or visa status, and never had to leave the country for it. It's not standard for working or student visas, though you would have to leave…
How overworked would a doctor need to be to hallucinate you told them about microdosing psillocybin when you never said anything of the sort? (And how easy is it to then convince the system you're not a recreational…
Your last line is the right attitude to take, but do you think the guy blogging his learnings of social skills on a blog called "wired differently" is a neurotypical writing for neurotypicals? I find it to be rather…
To be honest, if a guy decides not to date me because of "TeaOnHer", it's probably saved me some time.
I've been here for 15+ years and I've never seen a sushi place without salmon. But I've never been to a "fancy" sushi place, just supermarkets, kaiten chains and neighborhood restaurants that are $20-40 a head. Salmon…
I had an encounter with the opposite problem the other day, PM asked me if the library I was using for randomization was "secure" and I said, "Yes, I used the standard Java library for cryptographically secure random…
There's probably a lot of little nudges one can get in their life that make them more likely to pick up programming, but I think a big one for present generations is exposure to video games and video games being a thing…
Current workplace has cargo-culted this so hard the tickets look like "As a backend foo-server, I need to modify the baz function to create an interface for blargh requests."
So far it seems insiders are mostly incentivized to bet on their insider information at the last possible minute, so that the market doesn't have time to adjust toward their position and lessen their profits. That…
>>> //How did this happen?? >>> log.fatal("Aaaaarrrgghhhh"); Reminds me of working at a small Japanese company and someone had written a try-catch for retrieving a crucial bit of config that just logged "X missing. This…
Don't really get why people are saying letting ticket prices rise to the maximum of what the market will bear, even if it's unaffordable to most fans, is the only solution. I've been attending shows by a certain…
Perhaps it has something to do with recent human trends for saying "goblin" or "gremlin" to describe... basically the opposite of dignified and socially acceptable behavior, like hunching under a blanket, unshowered,…
The general principle here is that engaging with your hobbies and interests in the second language is a good way to increase exposure (and also more fun). For me, it was translating lyrics and interviews of Japanese…
My first thought was "Trenchcoat Demon" for the three-people-in-a-robe creature but I suppose that wouldn't quite fit the setting (but maybe acceptable if its existence is intended to be humorous). A thing to keep in…
Australia has "yous" which I think is a useful and sensible innovation!
Surprised that bus driver and delivery driver are "good" when there are definite efforts to automate both driving and delivery.
I think being on the spectrum might lower a person's risk in some ways and increase it in others. On one hand, some autistic people are less swayed by emotive language and therefore able to shrug off a chatbot's…
Chat-GPT is the worst for sycophancy, but even Claude responds to me thinking about or asking fairly obvious things with praise for how insightful I am to notice that and how this pinpoints the very fundamental essence…
Oh that looks like fun.
I have color-grapheme synesthesia. Pros are I can write passwords down as a series of colored blobs and reliably decode them. Cons are I occasionally make weird errors like repeatedly getting ctrl+l and ctrl+f hotkeys…
And Grok is probably pulling answers from ChatGPT generated content around the web. It's the ciiiiiircle, the circle of slop.
If you saw a video of a person doing something cool, and later found out it was AI generated, would you still be impressed? Of course, it's not exactly the same situation, but if I listen to a song and appreciate that…