dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
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Pargin is hilarious. I didn't realize I was a fan of his until I connected him to some articles he had written for Cracked, originally under an Asian sounding pseudonym.
Favorite: 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person
I would love to send this link to mopey crybaby friends who complain about The System or society or whatever but I don't have the balls.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
17hr ago
What's the funniest part? I could use the nostalgia!
I read a bunch of his books like 25 years ago. I recently re-read Snow Crash and chuckled pretty regularly. Hiro was my favorite first read through, but now that I'm older and wiser, it's Uncle Enzo that speaks to me the most.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
17hr ago
Crystal Society (trilogy?)
I just started it. I originally put in my Kindle library a few years ago and then forgot about it. I don't even remember what attracted me to it.
Written from the perspective of an AI embodied in a robot coming online for the first time. The book is ostensibly about a society with no privacy and how it leads to dysfunction, but I haven't gotten there yet.
I've been on both sides of interviewing. For better or for worse leetcode style stuff has become the standardized testing of hiring. Generally better since you can't really grind leetcode enough and still pass tech interviews if you have a <100 IQ. But it also rewards smart dorks who mercilessly study it but are otherwise shit developers.
You definitely lose people sometimes because they brainfart during one of them, or they get anxious and underperform. More experienced interviewers know this and get a sense fairly quickly if you're going to actually get the right answer if you have more time and lower pressure. The best companies use these very quantitative measures as foils to have more qualitative deep technical conversations and see how well you work together. People get hired all of the time even though they thought they failed the coding interview since they didn't get the right answer or they only wrote out an O(N^2) solution but were clearly on the right track in discussions for an O(N) one and they thought you were cool and reasonable.
Maddeningly, you never truly know why you fail most interviews. Try not to read too much into it if you do.
A buddy of mine who's hiring (but is not allowed to hire in the US) gave me a mock interview and basically told me even basic competence is rare, and the technical interview for a normal company is basically testing to make sure you aren't a complete fraud. Some of the stories he told me about fraud in the hiring process blew my mind with their brazenness.
Yes, there's an adverse selection problem. The people looking for jobs tend to be terrible. (Also if a job opening exists, it probably sucks: good people fleeing a shit show or because incompetent hires were fired.)
Arguably the racial updates, making the setting less white, were more progressive. They were in line with the tech updates, though, splitting the difference between retro-future and future-future. So I have mixed feelings.
I still think the most preposterous and unbelievable parts of the game are not the wokeness or girlbosses or most of the tech, or that huge parts of SF have become the Tenderloin, but that SF has significantly more mega skyscrapers by 2077.
The LGBT stuff wasn't more than I would expect from a cyberpunk open world game. Probably a bit less than expected? In fact if you gave your male character no dick he could never have sex with any character, IIRC. Bold!
Also whenever you played as Johnny Silverhand (Keanu Reeves) you were always doing straight sex/straight womanizing. I wonder if he specifically refused to do queer stuff or they just didn't want to go there since he's supposed to be a macho anarchist punk rocker.
OTOH the sheer volume of badass girlbosses and best hackers/netrunners being girls was quite overwrought.
I'm surprised because I thought ICE's deportation orders are not the big swinging dicks of arrest warrants, which is why they say stuff like don't answer the door for them if they knock and they can't deport you. If an illegal alien's roommate can refuse to let ICE in and it is not obstruction, then why is what this judge did obstruction?
I think it is distasteful for the judge to interfere in a law enforcement activity to be clear, just not sure how they found her guilty.
My load bearing beliefs are
- Humans are mostly good.
- Conspiracies are very hard to pull off, and
- bad outcomes are almost always better explained by incompetence.
- Intelligence is increasing and peace and good behavior emerge from intelligent actors even if they only want to selfishly maximize their own utils
Come at me bro
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4d ago
Nowadays I realize there are just a lot of dumb assholes on the internet. It’s not my job, and it’s not even remotely possible, for me to educate and convince them all to have the “right” opinions. Even if that were possible, I’m not sure I want to. Part of the fun of the internet is that people disagree frequently, and vehemently.
my clear pill is a lot of assholes on the Internet are drunk or high or are crazy and you should simply regard them as holograms
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
Counterpoint: people have been complaining about woke garbage and DEI and ESG capturing corporate America for at least a decade now but the S&P 500 has been racking up ATHs the entire way.
(I would love to see a counter-factual world where there was no DEI and ESG and press play and compare the S&P 500 in that world to this one though)
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
Does it 1:1 trade white men in the audience for black and female audience though? Some of the white men may complain about the black elves and all of the girlbosses in Starfleet command but they still buy it.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
Why do we keep getting teams of trans lesbians of color then?
Because of the gay/race grifting I talked about earlier.
I agree it is racist. I agree there is rank hypocrisy. I agree DEI aware hiring is tantamount to gay/race grifting.
But isn't the fully based response that, ideally, you actually want shamelessly sexist/racist hiring in humanities jobs that produce cultural products for the US and for the world? You want people who intimately understand the demographics you're selling to. A team of 99% white male writers is probably not the best way to go if there are black women who might buy your product. It might not even be the best way to go at 50% male writers.
As long as you're not hiring less qualified people to meet a DEI quota, this is the right move.
Also, isn't there so much insane overproduction of talent in the humanities already? I fully believe you can limit yourself to black lesbian female artists and writers only for a wide breadth of jobs and ship. You'll explode spectacularly if you try that in a hard science, but humanities? Probably fine.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
You're not here for erotica, and I'm selfish enough to want to keep some things private
Hey don't make this about us. Some of us are here for erotica.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
I was just riffing on the general theme of schizo rambling. No specific implication intended.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
Do you have any theory that explains these peculiarities?
The Jews The Jews The Jews The elites had him killed.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
I hope you got a picture of them hugging it out.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
8d ago
I get that but the picture implies more than polite respect. Putting your arm around the guy and sharing a laugh is pretty wild.
I'm shocked because I think of Bannon as a Christian nationalist and Chomsky as an anti-fascist and that they should kill each other like ants from rival colonies put in a glass jar.
I recognize they would have populism in common but that's not the only dimension that matters.
Anyway, I'm showing my low pedigree by thinking such things.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
8d ago
Meanwhile Chomsky readers are unfriending people for posting memes to the left of Bannon.
I guess going to war over politics is for the commoners.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
8d ago
An Epstein files dump earlier this week revealed a picture of Noam Chomsky and Steve Bannon together chumming it up. Chomsky had his arm wrapped around Bannon and they seemed pretty jovial.
I'm struck by this. On one hand it's great that these guys can put aside their differences and shoot the shit. Listening to the other side is an important tool for converging on the actual truth. +1 open mindedness.
On the other hand what liars. Is politics actually just Kabuki theater to the elites?
Buy a van. Be the guy with a van to help people move items. Friendly service. Will do value adds like moving shit into your house, or taking junk away to the dump. I can definitely help ensure all of the stuff is maximally recycled.
Bonus: can sleep in van when money is too tight for an Extended Stay., with Planet Fitness membership for showering.
Alternatively: mobile car detailing.
I've said this here before but I went on creatine and had good gains from it but jfc it gave me the most insane charlie horses in both legs at the same time during hill climbs. I had a few episodes but the worst was stuck on my ass for a few days during a hiking trip as a result before I thought to stop taking it.
Best guess is this was some kind of atypical dehydration related thing exacerbated by the creatine causing excessive muscle tightness but I don't really want to fuck with it anymore. My doctor was totally confused but did order bloods and it showed my creatine kinase levels were elevated for weeks.
lol
I just remembered that part with the Van Eck phreaking (spying on someone else's screen through radiation) and they end up exfiltrating an excessively detailed document about the guy's leggings fetish.
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