There’s a contingent that like it. For some, they don’t have to even pretend to have social skills since they can outsource writing to AI. They are also increasingly using it in place of google/copy-pasting from stackoverflow/etc to get “quick fix” solutions to their problems. It’s not particularly good at those tasks IMO, but I genuinely think for some people the dopamine hit of copy-pasting something directly from chatgpt and not having to so much as lift a finger and it working first try, is addictive, and even though they usually have to troubleshoot it and re-prompt and then make changes by hand, they just keep trying for that sweet no-effort fix. For some of them they seem to treat it like a junior coworker you can offload all your work onto, forever.

In my experience (I’ve literally never used it but had coworkers try to feed its answers to me when we’re working together on something, or giving what it spit out to me to fix for them), it tends to do okay for common use-cases, ones that you can almost always just look up in documentation or stackoverflow anyhow, but in more niche problems, it will often hallucinate that there’s a magic parameter that does exactly what you want. It will never tell you “Nope, can’t be done, you have to restructure around doing it this other way”, unless you basically figure it out yourself and prompt it into doing so.

also sushi! (unless you count coffee and an allergy pill)

it was really good. best reasonably priced sushi I’ve had in years, place seems to be run by a single old japanese lady, just cranking out sushi to-go all day.

I’ve seen 2 or 3 of those 4 recs, I wouldn’t say they’re bad, I enjoyed them all (though I will say, ATLA is long, Parasite is a bit niche because its horror, and the tatami galaxy is really made for a particular audience as well, so they aren’t exactly universal or bite size recs, but they aren’t unreasonable either).

But ultimately this is the fate of most recommendations in my experience too. there’s not a strong cultural norm of them being reciprocal, and people are often too wrapped up in their own little worlds, their own social media feeds, tiktoks, reels, doomscrolling, whatever, to really engage with long form content, let alone engage critically and come back with thoughts, especially for something that didn’t catch their fancy, just came recommended.

It’s sad but it’s true, and my opinion is that you should adapt to that new normal and not expect anything in return. sometimes you’ll find people who really want to engage with the same things you do and that’s great, but if its not a short little clip you can watch together or something you can describe or explain in the moment, then never assume they’ll go back home and spend hours of their free time on your rec. If you don’t make such promises, then you won’t be disappointed. You can still watch their recs, just don’t consider it a trade.

If your desire to discuss a thing is so strong, you need to find somewhere to discuss it with people that are already predisposed to watch it or have already seen it, maybe a club or forum or something. It can be frustrating to have nobody to talk about this stuff with, but at least take solace in the fact that its nothing personal.

typically not the case. Reverse polarity protection is common, and many cars are designed such that (if you bought the correct kind of battery), the cables won’t even reach if you put it in backwards

I dunno how people learned 30+ years ago

books, and talking to people, and a slightly more functional school system

usually some of both honestly

As someone who’s fairly handy (but sucks at lots of other things ofc), the only way you get better is by doing shit and giving yourself a little space to fuck up. I did all kinds of dumb shit to get to where I am, and I’m still not nearly as good at design as my older friend, or as good with cars as my mechanic buddy, or as good at following through on regular maintenance as my neurotypical friends.

I’ve broken off captive nuts internal to the frame of a car, I’ve glued in a stubborn alternator bolt, I’ve tried to cut steel chain with a metal chop saw and wrecked the blade. I’ve seen someone set off a sawstop, I’ve driven a car with no brakes like 30 miles to the nearest town, I’ve vaporized the tips off my multimeter leads by testing the voltage of a 40v battery with them in the 10A position, I’ve bent or broken plenty of (mostly crappy) tools, snapped the heads clean off 100 rusty bolts, rounded them on 50 more. I’ve shocked myself with 120v by working on a powered-on rack mount ethernet switch with it perched on my lap, and then continued to work on it on my lap and did it again. I could go on but the point is everyone does dumb shit sometimes you just live and learn and next time you take on an even bigger project thats even more out of your comfort zone, and the more you do it the better you get.

shit, half of being seen as “handy” is just confidence. If you tell someone “wellll I watched a youtube video and I think I could fix your plumbing issue, probably” people are gonna think “this person doesn’t know shit, nice of them to offer at least but I better get a real plumber”, but if you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing but some blind confidence and you go “oh yeah I could fix that for sure. a plumbers gonna cost you a fortune, why don’t we just do it ourselves?”, you might well get seen as handy even if you just improvise and watch some youtube (not saying blind confidence is the way to go but don’t sell yourself short or assume that “handy” people are all actually competent

??? its really fine.

There are hazards, but most of them really aren’t that bad. 12v isn’t enough to break the skin so its not a shock hazard. if you wreck the battery, which isn’t easy, the worst case is you’re back where you started with a non-running vehicle The only bad thing really is the very rare circumstance where it fails so wrongly that it either explodes (very difficult to have happen) or sprays acid (they’re designed not to do this, though I’ve heard of it happening once in a racing environment).

note that I said provider not developer. Obviously people don’t have much choice and their location isn’t a reason to cast judgment on them, but what jurisdiction a service provider operates out of is pretty impactful. I’m certainly not envious of the current political situation in the Kid Starver regime

we’ve left the realm of “do nothing, win” and now they’re doing stuff! love to see it

hey this was posted in the middle of the night my time so didn’t see it but sending supportive vibes

If it makes you feel any better the US was like that about even gay people let alone trans as little as like 20 something years ago, and as bad as things are rn its still generally, socially, a lot better than that. It can improve in your lifetime, and it can improve by finding a different social circle, even if it may be very difficult to safely do so :/

holy shit lol are these AI

yeah, I’m not buying the whole nuclear bullshit story,. Getting USD into the economy is probably useful for them on a wide enough level though, for getting around sanctions or whatever. If anything the guy at my work is probably doing the same “scam” (not really a scam just circumventing immigration and labor law a little to make a US salary while being from elsewhere…) just from a different country of origin, not DPRK. Of course if a good opportunity arises I suppose having ins in US companies computer systems provides some espionage opportunities but for the most part it’d be pointless.

Its just a high tech version of workers from mexico coming to the US to work and sending money home tbh.

manipulating global markets all at once would be a new one tbf. New in scale not in kind though. And it is likely to crash economies and endanger the lives of millions if he fucks around long enough

Although I think the thesis of this guy’s previous article on the subject - that trump is using tariffs (and then relief from them) to extract pledges of loyalty from private industry, feels pretty weak/unfounded (unsurprising since it was sourced from a dem politician.) It’d be interesting if it were happening but I see no evidence of it, and the fact that it goes unmentioned in this follow up article makes me think this guy is just writing whatever will get the most clicks

Posting Mao and Reagan back to back

https://xcancel.com/SpoxCHN_MaoNing/status/1910211617201213447#m

eh, actually I think that’s a fair reaction. PPB and insults would have been too far, but “are you new here” isn’t all that harsh. Though for a lib it might help to explain why undoing privatization is a good thing, I suppose, and why things were so bad under yeltsin

Curious if you could elaborate on what he’s said or done that’s inconsistent with nationalism?

My initial reaction was “well of course he is, not an ultra-nationalist, but definitely a nationalist” but I’m having trouble finding concrete reasons or examples that “click” in my brain to explain one way or the other

I was going to say it’s pretty ironic that a privacy focused provider would be based in the UK what with their laws lately, but apparently email providers are exempted from the bill I was thinking of (no general carveout though, they name emails, SMS and MMS specifically. If you want to create a new protocol that does the same thing as email, or as SMS, its regulated as social media for some reason…)

Either way self hosting takes care of that problem. Neat!

liberals also love to conflate the individual leader with the country and its entire state apparatus. critical support for the actions of russia combatting nato encroachment doesn’t mean that we think putin personally is a great guy. I mean shit any competent leader in his shoes would have been pushed pretty strongly towards action by the material circumstances and the ongoing actions of the US in and via ukraine. But honestly he’s irrelevant and we aren’t making a moral judgement

My work has received a lot of job applications and emails that feel like they’re sent by AI in the past year or two, who then frequently cancel at the last minute or even after the interview should have started, claiming either an unavoidable conflict or technical difficulties with joining the call. And one guy we hired… Nowadays I’m not so sure but originally I thought he was at least overseas if not part of an outright scheme like this, he had a very bad internet connection that couldn’t hardly handle video and terrible audio on top of it, despite supposedly being in socal.

I didn’t say shit because I’m not a narc but if I am working with a team of north korean agents just using this guy as a front… I just hope I get to meet them some day