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…
Anki flashcards, stretching (particularly focused on a previously injured bad hip), observing people/reading body language, observing birds/trees/plants/the sky practicing emptying my mind/breathing exercises, doodling,…
Because deficits in social functioning often lead to the person experiencing emotional suffering and difficulty in friendship, career and relationships, often causing them to develop other conditions like depression and…
I can't help but notice people want to define 'real autism' as only those who are impaired to the extent that they can't advocate for themselves, which conveniently means never having to listen to an autistic person's…
>>> Here's my question: why did the files that you submitted name Mark Shinwell as the author? >>> Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it. Really sums the whole thing up...
I'd like to make the point that even if this does occur, it doesn't mean, "therefore this medication shouldn't be used/is worse than doing nothing," just that awareness and caution is needed. I went through a frankly…
I'm glad it's demonstrating its inherent untrustworthiness in such a spectacular (and funny) way. Probably still won't stem the flood of 'grok is this real' but this is better than the reality where it subtly and…
Literally supergluing a dead butterfly's wing in place of the damaged wing wasn't quite what I expected but I guess it works. Wonder if the dead wing will hold up for the lifespan of the butterfly without deteriorating?…
Being interested in something is a skill that can be cultivated in itself. Of course, you probably won't be able to convince yourself that something you find unbearably dull is interesting, but you can deepen a vague…
Japan too, convenience stores are everywhere, packages go to lockers in the convenience store, unlock with phone app. (Of course you can still choose to have them delivered to your door, but I find the delivery people…
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…
Anki flashcards, stretching (particularly focused on a previously injured bad hip), observing people/reading body language, observing birds/trees/plants/the sky practicing emptying my mind/breathing exercises, doodling,…
Because deficits in social functioning often lead to the person experiencing emotional suffering and difficulty in friendship, career and relationships, often causing them to develop other conditions like depression and…
I can't help but notice people want to define 'real autism' as only those who are impaired to the extent that they can't advocate for themselves, which conveniently means never having to listen to an autistic person's…
>>> Here's my question: why did the files that you submitted name Mark Shinwell as the author? >>> Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it. Really sums the whole thing up...
I'd like to make the point that even if this does occur, it doesn't mean, "therefore this medication shouldn't be used/is worse than doing nothing," just that awareness and caution is needed. I went through a frankly…
I'm glad it's demonstrating its inherent untrustworthiness in such a spectacular (and funny) way. Probably still won't stem the flood of 'grok is this real' but this is better than the reality where it subtly and…
Literally supergluing a dead butterfly's wing in place of the damaged wing wasn't quite what I expected but I guess it works. Wonder if the dead wing will hold up for the lifespan of the butterfly without deteriorating?…
Being interested in something is a skill that can be cultivated in itself. Of course, you probably won't be able to convince yourself that something you find unbearably dull is interesting, but you can deepen a vague…
Japan too, convenience stores are everywhere, packages go to lockers in the convenience store, unlock with phone app. (Of course you can still choose to have them delivered to your door, but I find the delivery people…