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gerryflap

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  • What's something you immediately judge a person for when you see them wearing or have?

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  • We have a few of those here in the Netherlands and it's so ridiculous it's almost sad. These big American trucks really aren't fit for Dutch roads. They're too large for the roads, they don't fit in any parking lot, and they look ridiculous next to any normal car. I could sort of understand that a farmer would have them, but even then it can't be that useful because it must be a hassle any time the truck needs to pass through a city or village.

  • Who remembers this?

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  • Yeah that definitely has an influence as well. If I tilt my screen I can make it more blue and black, but straight on it's white and gold.

  • Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

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  • Call me an optimist, but I still hold the hope that we can one day do better as humanity than we do now. Humanity has become a "better" species throughout its existence overall. Even a hundred years ago we were much more horrible and brutal than we are now. The current trend is not great, with climate change and far-right grifters taking control. But I hold hope that in the end this is but a blip on the radar. Horrible for us now, but in the grand scheme of things not something that will end humanity. It might in the worst case set us back a few hundred years.

  • Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

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  • Imo it's a good thing tho. Spreading our civilization across multiple planets is the only way to guarantee long long term success. Obviously we should also fix the climate change issue (and many others). But still, being spread across the solar system would give our species redundancy. An extinction event on earth like a large meteor strike would no longer be the end.

  • Are other countries as nationalistic/"patriotic" as the US?

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  • Here in the Netherlands it's definitely not as crazy as in the US. People will fly the flag on national celebration days or on remembrance day. And during international soccer tournaments the country will turn orange. But the only flags I see on cars are upside-down ones from angry farmers protesting against environmental regulations and from nutjobs who still think that COVID vaccines contain microchips.

    People do tend to fly provincial flags and municipality flags sometimes tho. Especially in the best province, Fryslân (I'm not biased at all).

  • What do you even do at a gym?

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  • Not that I liked the gym, but for lazy people like me it's way easier than figuring that shit out on my own. There was a trainer who made a plan of which exercises to do when. And there were special machines for training different muscle groups that were very easy to use. You'd visit a lot of those machines after eachother and do for instance 3 sets of moving the weight 10 times up and down again. And apart from that there were the threadmills etc.

    Now I don't know about you, but I don't have threadmills in my house, nor any of the other equipment, nor someone who knows enough about fitness to know what exercises would help me best.

    That being said, I never liked it, I prefer to just start with something and keep doing that same thing for an hour or so. Currently I've been running multiple times a week for a few years already. Way cheaper and it also works better for me.

  • Which one are you?

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  • I've been in 5 for a while, but last week I made the 5 -> 2 -> 1 -> 3 -> 7 journey. My body and brain are playing this funny game where they're like "I'm too tired for that, let's not do it" and 50% of the time they're wrong and I'm feeling happy and the other 50% they were right and I crash out and suffer for the rest of the day.

  • How does everyone deal with this dilemma?

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  • I'll only buy something perishable when I need it. I tend to cook for 3-4 days in one go in order to make cooking for only myself somewhat economical. I tend to visit the supermarket every other day so I don't really have to plan too much.

  • Theory on being nice to Ai?

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  • Not sure what the theory is called. I tend to be nice to the AI assistant because my brain feels empathy for anything and will be angry if I'm not nice. If I can feel empathic for a slightly scuffed apple in the supermarket, I'll definitely feel empathic for an advanced auto-correct. The LLMs also seem so happy to help and even happier to get praised.

    Also not too bad that it costs them more money so this crazy "AI" bubble can pop just a bit faster

  • Immuno-response

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  • After mono and COVID I kinda feel like my body just got stuck in the "everyone goes" stage tbh. Either that or it decided that this shit was above its pay grade and it is just doing the least amount of effort possible

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  • Depends what kind of adult. I'm in my 30s and I still game for hours on multiple days in the week. But I don't have a family with kids to maintain.

  • map reducer

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  • With mapreduce you should generally have your code written in such a way that that cannot happen. Unless the reduce step is improperly programmed.

  • map reducer

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  • Yeah that checks out. Now you're ready for that massively parallel big data (or sandwich?) processing

  • For those who play games on a PC with 2 monitors, are you a game on the left screen or game on the right screen person?

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  • The side doesn't matter to me. I have one screen in front and one to the side. The one in front is straight ahead just like a setup with only one monitor. My second monitor is some Dell 1280x1024 monitor from 2004 or something. It fits stuff like Mumble, Spotify, or documentation for something I might be working on.

  • A careful balancing act

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  • This explains why most pillows are way too flat for me. Relatively broad shoulders and a firm bed. I have a pile of pillows that are just too low/flat.

  • I have yet to see a microwave with correct time

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  • True. My microwave drifts quite excessively. However it can give a reliable time together with the oven. The oven was designed by some crazy ppl and thus it's almost impossible to change the time. It's usually correct with the minutes and doesn't seem to drift, but for half of the year it's wrong because of daylight saving. Combined with the microwave that is probably like 5-20 minutes ahead but at least close tot he right hour you can get a good sense of the actual time.

  • What's something about Microsoft Outlook that drives you crazy?

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  • Honestly what doesn't annoy me? The list is pretty short. I've never used Outlook before my work, I'm used to Gmail. Outlook feels remarkably shit for something so commonly used. Microsoft ia horrible at UI design imo. I can never find what I need and things that are supposed to be simple are somehow very convoluted.

  • Prime real estate

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  • Yeah as long as they stay outside of the restricted areas (near bed or chairs) they get to stay. There's a spider in my bedroom that's been there for months in the same spot. Right next to the balcony door.

  • adhd

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  • My logical brain vs the part of the brain that's actually in charge. I wish the logical part of the brain won more often