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- Comment on Anon doesn't want to be fixed 4 days ago:
Also breakfast club
- Comment on Anon is terminally lonely 6 days ago:
Honestly? It depends. You can make it better, if you try or make it worse if you don’t. This sounds like they were not “lonely” that was just something they could blame it on.
Go do something. It doesn’t really matter what. Exercise, join a rpg group, join a maker space, move to a new city, change jobs, join a group about off roading. It doesn’t matter, learn to cook, learn to bake. Just do something.
Laying in bed or staring at a monitor/TV won’t help. Most people will get into a mental loop of how they are bad because they don’t have any real comparisons of real people. You may make mistakes but you will see other people make mistakes too.
Regarding relationships I love the quote from Jimmy Carr (yes he has dark humor and often is offensive) “don’t think what you can get, think what you can provide”.
- Comment on great grandaddy bur oak 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’ll give you a more complete response after I go to the atm machine where I’ll enter my pin number. 😜
- Comment on great grandaddy bur oak 1 week ago:
True, all I’m going to say is if you look up videos on “cbt therapy” make sure to put therapy in the search and/or have safe search on, as a result I believe Mike may enjoy the splinters
- Comment on great grandaddy bur oak 1 week ago:
But think of the splinters… Oh god… Think of the splinters… Mike should get hazard pay
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
If you think you are bad, you are not. There is no wrong way to play and you may want to have different goals. Do you want fastest time? Smallest area? Most powerful against hoards of bugs? Conquer all planets? Science per minute? Self imposed limitations?
All are valid and all could be fun.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
I guess I will just keep playing factorio. That’s a game which doesn’t involve any automatic generation involving intelligence … Wait… Fuck!
/s
To be clear I don’t think factorio has any Gen Ai. It does have a lot of automation, a lot of generation and requires a lot of intelligence. I thought it was just a clever bit of word play.
FACTORY MUST GROW!!
- Comment on OP figures out love languages 3 weeks ago:
Nope, just a funny wholesome story from my past.
- Comment on OP figures out love languages 3 weeks ago:
Years ago I was a young white guy with long hair and a short ish beard. Someone at my job decided I looked like shaggy from scooby doo. The name kinda stuck and became my nickname.
Few months later, I was at work and one of the guys came over and asked for some favor. I forget what it was but it wasn’t like a 30 second thing, it was like a multi hour task. I denied the request and made some excuse. He then reached behind his back and pulled out a box of scooby snacks. They were like small graham crackers in the shape of a dog head like scooby. “Would you do it for a scooby snack?” Everyone around started laughing, even I started laughing.
I didn’t end up doing it and the task was just made up for the joke. It was pretty funny though. He said he saw them over the weekend when grocery shopping for his family and thought the joke was too good.
Side note, they still make scooby snacks and the kid I’m basically raising actually really likes them.
- Comment on he forgor 3 weeks ago:
If people were obviously lying about their knowledge and abilities, I’d see how far they are willing to push it. “So how much experience do you have with python 4?“or” please write on this board how to do the well known programming problem fizz buzz, in sql”
Depending on your office building, “please demonstrate how you would handle the sliding window problem?” let them write for a few minutes. When they are done tell them “incorrect” and then walk over and open the window in your office.
Don’t actually do any of these. They would make you a huge asshole but it would be funny.
- Comment on he forgor 3 weeks ago:
An ide is obviously an “intentional dog emoji”. You see someone showing their cat pictures and you tell them this is a dog environment.
BTW yes I know it’s an integrated development environment which means basically a text editor, compiler, linker, debugger and in many cases linter. I’m also unemployed and looking for a job so…
- Comment on he forgor 3 weeks ago:
He did en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee and was knighted for it. Just funny that my understanding is his most recent resume claims he’s a “web developer” just like someone fresh out of a boot camp. No, you are THE web developer.
- Comment on he forgor 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. I guess it was rails and not ruby but still same idea. Rediculous that a creator doesn’t have enough experience. As I said I understand it’s probably hr and “people persons” writing stuff for “tech people”. Not an excuse just fact. It’s a sad, horrible fact. Anyways thanks for confirming my memory from years ago.
- Comment on he forgor 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, sorta. The one caveat is that people hiring are typically hr, not technical people. In large companies they are there to fill out paperwork and limit company legal liability. They don’t need to know the difference between a unsigned char and a long variable in c.
The people is charge should have hired better people to have those roles. Also whoever wrote those requirements messed up. I learned a long time ago there are basically 2paths forward professionally, technical and management. issues arise when then the needs of those two mix and the person doing so is not up to the challenge.
People can design a 120 to 12 volt power supply on graph paper. Others can talk to 5 stake holders on a new product about what color the plastic container should be and have 1 answer and everyone happy that they won at the end. Both skill sets are valuable. The main issue is we, society, put so much value on the second group and severely limited the potential of the first.
- Comment on oh no 3 weeks ago:
If you are also deaf maybe I can eat cheesey broccoli around you…
- Comment on he forgor 4 weeks ago:
There was a viral post from Twitter or linkedin years ago of someone posting saying they wanted to hire someone with “10 years of experience using ruby”, a person replied, was told they didn’t meet the requirements, they said something like “look at my profile” …if you looked at the person’s profile they were the creator of ruby, they literally wrote the language. The language was only 7 years old.
I don’t even remember if it was ruby but the story is basically the same. Impossible requirements written by people who don’t even know what they need.
- Comment on oh no 4 weeks ago:
Mine do… Like fresh chocolate, honest come here and smell for yourself
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 4 weeks ago:
Ok, so which alley did you buy the ID in and what type of animal fur was the dealer wearing?
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 4 weeks ago:
I guess it’s time for a re-read
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 4 weeks ago:
Nope, I’m not an Ai advert. I read the book and still have it. I hope you like the book. I also recommend a diamond age, also known as a primer for young girls.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 4 weeks ago:
It’s not a direct connection to Rowling but I was just pointing out another example.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 4 weeks ago:
Ok, I’m sorry I got that detail incorrect.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 4 weeks ago:
Could be, I may be wrong but still an awesome book
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 4 weeks ago:
Ok, it’s been a decade since I read it so I remembered wrong.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 4 weeks ago:
Completely agree.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 4 weeks ago:
Wait, are you correcting me or giving social commentary? I thought the guy on the skateboard was delivering pizzas but it has been over a decade since I read it so I may be wrong
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, it’s snowcrash and I corrected the original comment.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 4 weeks ago:
If you like techno-fantasy I highly recommend snowcrash. For years I’ve wanted a game of the first chapter, basically a guy is delivering pizza but gas is really expensive so all he has is a skateboard and a harpoon gun with an electromagnet. He basically shoots the harpoon at cars and gave them pull him towards the destination, it sounds like a cool video game like a race but you don’t control speed only which car you are connected to.
Don’t worry that didn’t spoil anything. The book goes into a totally different direction with technology and science.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 4 weeks ago:
In the book snowcraah by Neil Stephenson the main character is named “Hiro Protagonist”. Yes it’s a real book, and one of my favorites, by a real author.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Depends… Pregnant by a horse? That will give you attention. Pregnant by a human male well…