jimmux

@jimmux@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You don't even need the other 4 points. You're fine.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My therapist specialised in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, so we started out by trying to identifying things in my life that I was overreacting to. It turned out I was dealing with Real Shit, and remarkably chill under the circumstances. We had to abandon the CBT approach.

  That was still helpful though. By asking the question, it validated my behaviour, so I didn’t doubt myself as much going forward. It helped me make some big life changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨good bones⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Learning that quetzalcoatlus may have moved around like giraffes breaks my brain. They should not be so similar and yet so very different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fragile masculinity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up assuming every adult should be self-sufficient, so I learnt all of cooking, cleaning, gardening, basic repairs, home maintenance, sewing, etc. I think the most likely people to have a problem with that never learnt it themselves, so they feel inadequate.

  It became an issue in my first serious relationship because she didn’t cook or clean much. She definitely never tried to nurture so much as a plant. I had no problem with that because I could, but she started to feel less feminine, and eventually turned it around on me. The guys she left me for were completely useless, but they didn’t highlight her insecurities so she was happy. At least for a short while.

  People who are confident in their identity and abilities don’t do this, and that’s who you want to find anyway, regardless of gender.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fragile masculinity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s wild. Have they seen how much you can provide from a garden?

  Also, having a garden doesn’t preclude one from hunting… whatever that means in the modern era. You can only eat so much meat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bacon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would anyone want something that provides the olfactory promise of bacon, but never delivers actual bacon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Contents of Queen's Purse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  She doesn’t spend the cash. It’s her ID card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Throw down your sword, surrender! Give Him your life or you will die!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I want to know why Sabaton hasn’t done a song about the Emu War.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you imagine if MS did say something, and Trump immediately decided to replace all their products in government with Apple alternatives? You know he would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That at least serves a purpose. Or we could use the Shavian characters and slowly transition to a phonetic writing system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tire of this life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen stingrays absolutely gorge themselves during a big crab moult. I think I’d rather be a ray.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a humble bard Graced a ride along⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The trailer for season 4 just released was the nail in the coffin. Liam Hemsworth is doing his best, but there’s no way Henry Cavill would have uttered the line, “Let’s fuckin’ go.” The writing is so bad he couldn’t save it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Losers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know how every bully has spineless little hangers-on who cheer on the abuse but are too cowardly to participate directly? This is them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The sleeper has awakened⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  David Lynch’s attempt at Dune.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who got raptured today?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It sucks that the beams were calibrated for the average human body weight 2000 years ago. Apparently they weren’t kidding when they made gluttony a sin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Nutella waffle place has the weirdest name.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work near a Nut Shack.

  It was impossible to not read their sign as Nut Sack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that you mention it, this seems most likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would actually like to know what he was leading to with that question. Is the implication that gangs have an overrepresentation of trans people? Or that gang violence doesn’t count for some reason?

  I guess we’ll never know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else notice this??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My family insist on using the fireplace because they have some backward ideas about it being natural and cheaper because there’s so much wood around here. They use it way more than necessary, and use more wood than necessary, so a load runs out very fast and it often gets so hot they have to open the windows.

  I like the aesthetic, but it’s a massive waste of time and money. Sourcing wood is expensive. Stacking it takes a lot of time, during which I could be doing productive work.

  I’m sure the smoke is affecting our health, too. If I go for an early run on a cold morning the smoke hanging in the air makes it much harder to breath.

  I might understand if there wasn’t a very good heat pump right there. The running costs of it are barely noticeable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 408 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw people asking for ships you can walk around in for a long time now, but I never saw the appeal. With this update, I get it. These ships really feel like our own, and they didn’t hold back the creative potential. I’m already building a flying restaurant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jimmy Wales(Wikipedia's founder) Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done fact checking on LLM models for work before, and it quickly becomes evident that many models rely on Wikipedia as a heavily weighted source of truth.

  If LLMs have even a small role in producing Wikipedia content, the ouroborus of declining quality will accelerate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m a charm in the streets, and a strange in the sheets.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Losing my resolve⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Soon we’ll have generative AI that extrapolates the rest of the meeting, and that skip key will work. Very poorly, but someone will do it.

  Then everyone will log in to meetings, say hi, skip to the end, ask for a generated summary, log out. And nothing of value will be lost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broccoli Blooms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The broccoli and broccolini in my garden have grown so big it’s hard to keep up. This means I’ll sometimes eat bits that have begun flowering. I haven’t noticed much difference in the taste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Angry Man⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Beat me to it. In the same spirit of collective animal nouns, then:

  Married to the Kangaroo

  Fish of Rock

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Angry Man⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secret of evermore has some gigeresque visuals. I should probably attempt to finish the game but here are some screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a very basic story with a self-insert character, probably intended for a younger audience. That worked very well for me at the time. I think it was my first RPG so I really enjoyed getting lost in those environments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secret of evermore has some gigeresque visuals. I should probably attempt to finish the game but here are some screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always wondered why Secret of Mana gets the attention, and Evermore is largely forgotten. It has a doggy companion!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that you mention it, the projection is unusual. Is this the map they use in Texas to make it look bigger?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fears Vitamin B6 levels in energy drinks like Red Bull and Monster could contribute to rise in B6 toxicity cases⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My mum was having a bunch of weird nervous system issues. I saw an article about B6 toxicity so I checked the supplement she was taking. It had something like 20x the RDI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My work right now is evaluating AI models, but outside work I don’t use them at all. I’m so conditioned to finding flaws that my trust level is rock bottom.

  I’m also very aware of how easy it is to mentally disengage. When everything appears correct at a glance, your mind has no reason to question it.