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  • Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

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  • Forums were cool. They often had their own culture and in-jokes. People would become well-known on the forum. There's a couple names I recognize on here, but it's mostly transient. (On the other hand, I've probably had a vicious argument with someone and then a nice chat with them later, without realizing it was the same person).

    Most internet users seem bland, and just congeal onto youtube, discord, twitch, and other nightmares.

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • There was a website where users could request something or other, like a PDF report. Users had a limited number of tokens per month.

    The client would make a call to the backend and say how many tokens it was spending. The backend would then update their total, make the PDF, and send it.

    Except this is stupid. First of all, if you told it you were spending -1 tokens, it would happily accept this and give you a free token along with your report.

    Second of all, why is the client sending that at all? The client should just ask and the backend should figure out if they have enough credit or not.

  • America Is Finally Starting to See Trump for the Bullsh*t Artist He Is

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  • Say four guys are sitting in a bar having a sports argument—talking about the upcoming college football playoffs, say. They begin by agreeing that Ohio State is the favorite because it is currently ranked number one in the polls, which it in fact is.

    But one of them says: No, Texas A&M is number one. The other three look at him like he’s insane. They reach for their phones, they tap, tap, tap, and they show him the rankings. But he keeps insisting. Those polls are fake. It’s Texas A&M. Everybody says so.

    The conversation stalls. The liar has “won” the argument. Not in the sense that he is factually correct; he is not. But he has won in two senses. First, he has shut down what might have been a rational, interesting, spirited debate that proceeded from shared factual premises. Second, he has forced the other three to waste time and mental energy debating a proposition that is not remotely up for debate, and in the process has succeeded in making himself the center of attention and controversy whom everyone else talks about.

    Sounds like they should remove the liar from the bar. Maybe not beat the shit out of him and leave him in a sobbing pile of piss and vomit in the back alleyway, but certainly not just letting it slide.

    Liars and such get by because people are too polite to do anything about it. This goes for other bad behavior, too.

    Someone in my extended friend group got a divorce, and her ex-husband started acting like a creeper. He was bothering the other women in the group. Eventually, another dude in the group pulled him aside and said if he doesn't behave, he can't hang out with them anymore. The guy didn't change, and now he's out of the friend group.

    Of course, there's so many shitty maga-hats that maybe he went and found a new group of misogynists .

  • Is anyone else's friends getting really distant?

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  • Is anyone else's friends getting really distant?

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  • People are being ground up by capitalism and it's easier to just look at tiktok or play Baldur's gate than actually engage with a messy person.

    I try to stay in touch with people but it's hard. I'm also kind of an insufferable asshole, and I think some people leave because they're tired of "capitalism sucks" coming up

  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • Of course people are using AI. It's the default behavior of Google, the most popular web search. It confidently spits out falsehoods. This is not an improvement.

    And there are definitely people "needing to convince others to use the tools.". Microsoft and Google et al are made of people. They're running ads to get people to adopt it.

    Buying stuff online and email are useful stuff in ways LLMs can only dream of. It is a technology nowhere near as good as its hype.

    Furthermore , "the general public likes it" is a dubious metric for quality. People like all sorts of garbage. Heroin has its fans. I'm sure it'd have even more if it was free and highly advertised. Is that enough to prove it's good? No. Other factors such as harm and accuracy matter, too.

  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • It seems to mean people who don't consume AI content not use AI tools.

    My hypothesis is it's a term coined by pro-AI people to make AI-skeptics sound bad. Vegans are one of the most hated groups of people, so associating people who don't use AI with them is a huge win for pro-ai forces.

    Side note: do-gooder derogation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-gooder_derogation ) is one of the saddest moves you can pull. If you find yourself lashing out at someone because they're doing something good (eg: biking instead of driving, abstaining from meat) please reevaluate. Sit with your feelings if you have to.

  • what open source messaging app do YOU use?

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  • Trying to get people to use signal. People don't care about ideals or principles or future problems, so it's a difficult sell.

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    Why is socialization so hard in the 2020s?

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  • Lack of money is certainly a chilling factor. Went bowling the other week, and it cost like $30/person. That's pretty cheap, but not if you're dead broke. Went out for brunch and a short bar crawl this weekend, and they cost like $50/ea for food and a few drinks. Not that expensive, but also kind of a lot.

    You can socialize for cheaper. Had a little get together the other week- I spent like $40 for pizza and snacks, but could've probably gone cheaper. The real limiting factor is getting people who will show up.

    I imagine it's hard to bootstrap that, if you have no friends or only sad-sit-home-alone friends.

  • Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools?

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  • 6th grade is reading for plot. It's able to read the story and understand that the hobbits brought the ring to Mordor, and Aragorn fought in Gondor.

    Anything about symbols, themed, subtext, unreliable narrators all comes later.

  • Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats

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  • Managers are often idiots in over their heads. AI is really aggravating that problem.

  • Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’

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  • “I’m a Grok guy,” said Vance. “I think it’s the best. It’s also the least woke!”

    What a fucking idiot. Really wants everyone to go back to sleep

  • DAE in their 30s/40s/50s not really feel like an adult?

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  • Being an adult in the sense of being responsible, feel pretty good about. Pay the bills. Feed myself. Go to work.

    Being an adult in the sense of having no fun, or tightly restricted fun, not so much. Still go see live music and play video games.

  • Thanksgiving

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  • Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

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  • Business Idiots. Ed Zitron wrote a whole thing about how many business leaders are out of touch with users and their own products. They live in their own little pocket dimension with each other, and only really care about shareholders.

  • Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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  • Yeah, display port worked fine. It was when I plugged the second monitor in to HDMI I realized the problem. And then couldn't get online to search for issues.

    I had to tether the desktop to my phone over USB to get a network connection.

    I later installed pop!_os , tested all that stuff, and it worked out of the box.

  • Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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  • After booting, test WiFi, BT and audio functionality.

    This is an important step. One time I boldly just installed without testing anything in the live session, and discovered that HDMI and Ethernet didn't work. Woops.

  • Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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  • It's like do-gooder derogation. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-gooder_derogation )

    Someone doing something good? Fuck them. They think they're better than us?? Where do they get off??!?

    A lot of people are trash and are emotionally invested in both the way things currently are, and that they are a very good person

  • What's the best way to monitor an API for breaking changes?

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  • Yeah I would use python and pytest, probably.

    You need to decide what you expect to be a passing case. Known keys are all there? All values in acceptable range? Do you have anything where you know exactly what the response should be?

    How many endpoints are there?