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gerryflap

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  • If you could explain to your 19 year old self what you are doing with your life today, what would they say?

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  • We'd probably not get along very well. 19 y/o me though he saw the world "logically" and that everyone else was wrong. He saw emotions as a weakness, and interpreted the world as black and white. To him everything seemed clear cut and simple, and everyone who didn't agree was an idiot.

    Seeing nuance and accepting emotions as a valid argument to anything are not things he'd accept. Accepting that people who think differently are not completely stupid might not go well with him. And, without getting into details, I don't think he'd agree with the current situation. He wouldn't be surprised to see me work as a programmer, but his black and white thinking wouldn't gel very well with the reality that most companies aren't exactly "good" causes.

  • Road work ahead

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  • I think she interprets it as "the road ahead is still working" i.e. not broken

  • Do any of you here use Programming socks?

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  • Programming socks provide a +2 programming skill buff. Their tight fit around the legs provides better blood flow through the legs which also means a better blood flow through the brain.

    They also make you more cute :3

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  • I've got a master's degree and I've also been a teaching assistant and I strongly disagree with the notion that online teaching is more effective. Putting all materials online is useful, but explaining something to someone is way more effective when you're standing next to them.

  • Who said you can't immerse yourself when playing with the opposite gender?

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  • I tend to play female characters. Only because of the smaller hitbox tho, definitely not for other reasons.

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  • It's full of spam and I should really change it by now.

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  • Damn that's quite the difference. Worth considering yeah. I do want to be flexible though, so I hope it still allows you to switch e-mail provider without changing the e-mail address

  • It's full of spam and I should really change it by now.

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  • Very me irl. Almost the same ages. I'm looking to change it to one that uses my own domain name though, so I can switch email providers in the future. The convenience of Gmail was always too much to overcome, but the US is no longer to be trusted and I'd rather use something European and cut any ties to the US. Before the orange man pulls some stunt that either results in all my mail being inaccessible or all my mail being shared with the world wide web.

  • how old were you the first time you got drunk?

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    1. Back then they was the legal age limit for alcohol. Nowadays it's been increased to 18, which is probably more sane. It won't stop ppl from drinking earlier, but at least it'll make it less easy and appealing.

  • I'm not good at this life thing.

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  • I don't think you're fully wrong, for many people exercise does do wonders for their mental health. But it is definitely not the fix for everyone's mental health issues. And telling people that all their issues can be solved if they would just exercise is just plain wrong.

    Mental health is complex and there is no silver bullet. People who say "oh you're depressed? Just do X, it always helps" are always wrong. For many people therapy works, but not for all. For many people exercise works, but not for all. For some people a simple blood check will reveal some vitamin D or B12 deficiency, and tackling this issue might improve stuff, but definitely not for all. Mental health for most people isn't a battle where you flip one switch and get back into "the light". It's a long battle with ups and downs, that often doesn't ever reach a fully stable "good" state. For me personally there are still plenty of bad moments, but now that I know that things can get better again and I've got the tools to get there, the bad moments generally are only temporary.

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    Welcome ex-Redditors!

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  • I'm aware that to the far left everyone who doesn't want to abolish capitalism is considered right wing. I mean the normal (Dutch) political spectrum. Social democratic

  • Single-photon LiDAR delivers detailed 3D images at distances up to 1 kilometer

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  • Cool, but less cool when I remember what dark shit this kind of technology can be used for

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    Welcome ex-Redditors!

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  • I have a very different experience. When Hexbear was still federated with the large instances it was total mayhem. They would turn every thread political, constantly spam images of dictators like Stalin and Mao, and swarm anyone who disagreed. I've seen them deny the wrongdoings of China and the Soviet Union quite often, which is probably also what's necessary if you spam Mao and Stalin unironically.

    I'm quite left of center myself, at least relative to most people I know in real life. But these people seemed totally insane. It was probably also a numbers game, since Hexbear was relatively large at the time compared to basically every other instance. So maybe this was just an annoying minority. But nevertheless I'd never purposefully go there, and I'd recommend anyone to stay away. It's way better than for instance a Trumpist/far-right instance, but I'd rather avoid both.

  • Why I am not impressed by A.I.

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  • These models don't get single characters but rather tokens repenting multiple characters. While I also don't like the "AI" hype, this image is also very 1 dimensional hate and misreprents the usefulness of these models by picking one adversarial example.

    Today ChatGPT saved me a fuckton of time by linking me to the exact issue on gitlab that discussed the issue I was having (full system freezes using Bottles installed with flatpak on Arch). This was the URL it came up with after explaining the problem and giving it the first error I found in dmesg: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/linux/-/issues/110

    This issue is one day old. When I looked this shit up myself I found exactly nothing useful on both DDG or Google. After this ChatGPT also provided me with the information that the LTS kernel exists and how to install it. Obviously I verified that stuff before using it, because these LLMs have their limits. Now my system works again, and figuring this out myself would've cost me hours because I had no idea what broke. Was it flatpak, Nvidia, the kernel, Wayland, Bottles, some random shit I changed in a config file 2 years ago? Well thanks to ChatGPT I know.

    They're tools, and they can provide new insights that can be very useful. Just don't expect them to always tell the truth, or to actually be human-like

  • Has Github/Microsoft rolled back the master to main switch?

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  • Honestly I feel like people who had an issue with this were just as much making an issue out of nothing. I personally also think that "master" is just as much a normal and valid name as "main", and to me the rename kinda felt like performative bullshit. But at the same time it's just a name, if it makes people happy I don't really care either. Nowadays I tend to use main, but it's not something I really pay attention to.

  • What's the longest you've been without power?

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  • Honestly, probably not longer than a weekend. And even that was due to being at a festival, not because of any outage. I can't remember an outage longer than an hour tbh

  • Nvidia falls 14% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-off

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  • I disagree. Under the right conditions (read: actual competition instead of unregulated monopolies) I think a capitalist system be able to stay ahead, though I think both systems could compete depending on how they're organized.

    But what I'm more interested in is you view that China is still Socialist/Communist. Isn't DeepSeek a private company trying to maximize profits for itself by innovating, instead of a public company funded by the people? I don't really know myself, but my perspective was that this was more of a capitalist vs capitalist situation. With one side (the US) kinda suffering from being so unregulated that innovation dies down.

  • DLSS

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  • Just like DLSS can generate frames or pixels, it can generate a line that goes up too

  • What kind of music do you listen to?

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  • Hardstyle, (Electronic) Hardcore, DnB, Trance. Don't really mind metal etc either, but I generally don't listen to it myself. Most pop music bores me because it's too slow. I need speed and intensity but I don't really mind repetition.

  • Nvidia falls 14% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-off

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  • I'm so happy this happened. This is really a power move from China. The US was really riding the whole AI bubble. By "just" releasing a powerful open-source AI model they've fucked the not so open US AI companies. I'm not sure if this was planned from China or whether this is was really just a small company doing this because they wanted to, but either way this really damages the western economy. And its given western consumers a free alternative. A few million dollars invested (if we are to believe the cost figures) for a major disruption.