dragonfly
11d ago
I have used an LLM once in my life, for setting bullshit growth goals at my job. It did a good job. (I'm not against setting goals, but the context and requirements here made it basically impossible to set real, useful goals and required corporate nonsense).
dragonfly
13d ago
My apologies for assuming, then. (and I agree Europe is not coming out of this looking good either)
dragonfly
17d ago
I've never once changed my sort option from "new".
I guess there are two types of people. I've never changed mine from "old". Although I remember some people browsing directly from the firehose which seems insane to me, but all power to them.
dragonfly
17d ago
I honestly just don't even know how to reply to this. I guess we just have irreconcilable values if you think America is superior.
I'm grateful to all the sacrifices you guys make to hold up the rest of the anglosphere, eg militarily, but I would never want to live there. From my point of view you guys are sacrificing to Moloch as fast as you can, which I very much hope my country will avoid doing until absolutely necessary.
dragonfly
27d ago
I would caution you against overly conflating "attractive men" and "physically attractive men" but otherwise this seems true to me.
dragonfly
27d ago
Yeah, it's a prerequisite but it's not independent of other factors, nor does it have to be there from the start.
dragonfly
1mo ago
I would also love to read that book! Maybe AI can write it someday...
Just read Baudrillard's as if it were written by Heidegger, Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote-style.
And thanks, I will add those two books to my reading pile to potentially one day get to.
dragonfly
1mo ago
Even just four hours spent on the internet means you will likely have to make sacrifices elsewhere
In my experience, the four hours of internet happens during the eight hours of work surprisingly often.
dragonfly
1mo ago
At least not solvable with productivity gains. But yes, you do kinda run headfirst into human nature there.
(side note: no amount of life extension tech can make a life spent on social media feel longer)
dragonfly
1mo ago
I have an effortpost floating around in my head about "Exposure to (the possibility of) death is good for mental health" which I may one day write. I've never been in a warzone, but I took some time off hiking in the backcountry and being close to the possibilities of dying of exposure, or even just running out of food (survivable for ages but unpleasant), sure provided me with a mental cushion against all of modern life's little inconveniences and stresses when I got back. The other unappreciated side effect there (although probably less so in your situation where it's mostly outside of your control) is it felt like, at least while I was out there, the standards for success were both achievable and clear-cut. "Did I die today? No? Fuck yeah, I'm killin' it!" compared to "Where should I be in my career at this point in time? How are my retirement savings? Am I contributing enough back to the community?" and all those other fuzzy, relative metrics that induce anxiety if you think about them too much.
tl;dr: Hock guy was onto something.
dragonfly
1mo ago
I would be perfectly accepting if a trans person would be willing to say, "Yes I know it's silly but my brain kicks me whenever I'm misgendered so please just go with it."
I genuinely appreciate it.
dragonfly
1mo ago
A lot of new builds around here just have a pile of individual, gender-neutral cubicles accessible from a hallway, which I find to be great (but tbf we have a fair amount of space -- it's definitely less compact, and I'm sure there are other concerns, although whether you think forcing men to share in female-toilet-queues instead of having an express lane is undoubtedly its own culture war in the wings).
I share your experience with bathrooms. I just use the one where I get fewer (in fact no) weird looks. I default to the separate gender-neutral disabled bathroom if it's available, and hope I don't inconvenience any disabled people too much. Otherwise I've had nothing but good experiences using the women's bathrooms, including chatting with other people in the queue about the movie we just got out of or whatever. Hopefully people aren't secretly bothered. Changing rooms are a different story and way more difficult to figure out; so far I just avoid any activities that involve changing in public.
That said I do see the concerns around breaking down norms around biologically male people using women's bathrooms. It presents a lot of opportunities for bad actors.
dragonfly
1mo ago
This is just as ridiculous as trans activists insisting that using "they" for a specific singular person of known gender has substantial historical precedent. (OTOH, the default gender-neutral pronoun for people in English was most of the time "he", and I bet the activists won't agree to that either.) You can use "it" for people if you like, but it is a novel and annoying use of pronouns. I suppose turnabout is fair play.
ETA: On the broader issue, as a trans person, FFS just fill out the paperwork as the father of the child and stop being an attention whore/mentally ill (strike whichever does not apply).
dragonfly
2mo ago
Easily the pointless burning of the painting. It was impressive how he managed to make the protagonist the least sympathetic character in a show full of characters carefully engineered to be unsympathetic. If it was a painting that was sentimental to him in particular, it would be kind of twisted but understandable in an anti-hero way.
dragonfly
2mo ago
You don't even need to rewrite anything in the movie to conclude the guy wouldn't have even died if the nurse's family had immigrated legally. They would've just called an ambulance, and he'd have been fine.
dragonfly
2mo ago
Do you then manually check the new spreadsheet (at which point it's no faster) or just have incorrect data?
I can see the use-case for asking it for a conversion function you can sanity check then run.
dragonfly
4mo ago
In the hands of a competent writer/director there could have been some salvaging after TFA (which had a lot of thematic and tonal inconsistencies, lacked a credible villain, and just hand-waved away RotJ). After TLJ it was doomed imo.
dragonfly
4mo ago
"I remove my clothes in this prison to increase my stealth check roll!"
See also the A Dance With Rogues NWN module. Not that I'd know anything about that sort of thing.
dragonfly
4mo ago
If Monty knows what's behind each door but still opens one at random, it's 50/50 (given you're in a world where he didn't open the car door). I think people are often answering that slightly separate problem, without necessarily realising the ambiguity. Of course Mr Gardner, puzzle-master extraordinaire, would notice, but I think it's perfectly possible to read the (frequently, including in the initial statement) ambiguously-stated problem as the 50/50 one and not realise what you're doing.
dragonfly
4mo ago
Retiring means not having to go to work, and having time (but maybe not a tonne of spare money) to chase experiences. Of course, if one of the experiences you want to have is having a job, then by all means. (Although I rather suspect the experience of a job is very different knowing you have a gigantic pile of savings in the bank)
dragonfly
4mo ago
Granted it'd be a bit weird to go to a college party, but you're never too old for a spontaneous trip with friends! (It's not age that stops you, it's responsibilities (or lack of friends but then that becomes merely step 1)).
Also if you're 28 and have seven figures in savings that's pretty great! A very off-meta build, but I'm sure you can make it work.
I'm not otherwise following this discussion, but bargaining down from n x 20 to n x 12 seems like nitpicking to me.
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