It’s fucking wild the amount of right wingers I run into that worship this dude. Like dude, you know he is left AF right?
The entirety of .ml in a nutshell. They even proudly label themselves tankies but if you ask them if they support killing civilians in the Hungarian and Czechoslovakian uprisings, they have no idea what you’re talking about. Genocide denying bootlickers the lot.
Yeah. They don’t want to be fixed?
Look you can have my testicle when I am done with it
Or cannot see it due to the Dunning Kruger Effect. It is very strong in some.
I call it ag-gnorance . Aka arrogant ignorance
They think the same.
At work, the team isn’t very good at python. They’re mostly SQL people. Which is fine. I’m happy to mentor and guide.
The product lady said to me “can you write a guide on confluence about how to do python good?”
I’m like, people write whole published books about that you gotta pay money for. I’m not going to bang out a couple paragraphs and code blocks and suddenly people are heavy weights.
I wrote something anyway because I don’t want to further irritate the product lady.
I was a TA in a class that expected knowledge of C. A lot of students who had only ever used Python asked if I could ring them up to speed. One student even asked if he could write it in Python and then I could “just translate it over”
Just add semi colons and brackets, right?
Just put a bunch of asterisks everywhere.
That’s the seasoning.
It’s never spicy enough until you sprinkle enough around!
It’s rather trivial to translate Python to C:
$ cat << EOF > ./shitpost.c && gcc -O2 -o ./shitpost ./shitpost.c && ./shitpost #include <stdlib.h> int main(int argc, char** argv) { system("python3 -c \\"print(\\\\\\"Hello, World!\\\\\\")\\""); return 0; } EOF Hello, World!My C is a bit rusty though, sorry.
This is capitalism
It is not capitalism and this is not me defending it, but rather pointing out that it is how humanity naturally seems to structure itself. The narcissist / psychopaths / sociopaths tend to get into “leadership” positions and the dumb folks idolize and empower them and thus we end up with the smartest people writing a few paragraphs for the manager who is socially savvy but suffers from the Dunning Kruger Effect. This happens in all economic and political systems including Capitalism and Communism as the Sam people tend to get into positions of power.
So, look AI sucks, but busywork like this might do ok at “a quick guide to python”.
But also, don’t think you have to do all the work yourself. I think we very often underestimate the importance of being the one that simply plants the seed. Of course the difficulty is that usually we can’t tell if said seed has actually been planted, so it feels like a waste of energy.
Knowing how to plant the seed is crucial too.
The best way I’ve found is to just ask questions like you don’t understand the topic but are interested in learning more. Their logic is going to have holes, and you want to guide them into stumbling into one.
The hard part is asking probing questions without sounding like you’re trying to pull a “gotcha”.
Knowing how to plant the seed is crucial too.
I heard you just put your thingie in her woo-hoo bag and then you plip plap until you both yeehaw.
Plap plip but otherwise perfect.
Oh god, is plip plap the gay one?? I promised my mom in high school that I wasn’t gay; if she finds out, she’ll never let me live it down.
I’ve never got this far with a boy
Thank you for using proper medical terms!
Of course. I am, after all, Jesus; I know the best medical terms – tremendous terms.
According to everybody: “We’ve never known anyone with better medical terms, just amazing stuff”
They come up to me – great people, smart people – and they come up and they tell me: "Mr. Technician, sir, we’re so impressed with your terminology. Everybody’s talking about it. China’s talking – " they don’t have very good doctors over there, folks, so they come to me for advice.
Basically the Socratic method
Yeah, too many people rag on Socrates without really understanding him.
You know, I appreciate that perspective because I do believe it’s important overall if we’re ever going to recover as a society, but I’m also concerned that perhaps as a society we’re just too far gone. Some people will never get it, and you have to be prepared for that, but I do think it’s a good thing to leave that door open for people who eventually come around. If that door isn’t open, they’ll just go back to their same old echo chambers.
At the same time, be aware that there’s a certain combination of narcissism and dunning-kruger which will lead some people to believe you’re validating them by listening and asking questions, and they may double down or even go on to be even more confidently outlandish, because someone who seemed smart decided to listen to them and ask them questions, so clearly they must be even more smarter!
Like, you know that technique they teach you in basic interpersonal communication and conflict resolution classes? The one where you’re supposed to listen to a person and repeat back what they said before laying out why you disagree with it?
Yeah, that doesn’t work when as soon as you finish summarizing their point to them they go “Yeah, exactly, I’m glad you agree,” and then change the topic into something even more batshit crazy…
I’ve tried planting the seed a few times with people who voluntarily wiretap their own house with an Alexa. Each time they’ve picked it up and ran further with it, like “Oh I know! If I mention seat belt covers, suddenly amazon is recommending a bunch of seat belt covers in my home page!” No thoughts at all of doing anything with this conclusion.
I’ve also witnessed planting the seed working in plenty of other scenarios, just thought this particular fumble was common and particularly funny.
I went to Lowe’s a couple of months ago and that night on Amazon I got recommendations for drill bits and cabinet door pulls. The weird thing was that I did buy some drill bits at Lowe’s but I just looked at cabinet pulls there. I’m guessing my phone was linked to in-store footage and AI noted where in the store I stopped to look at stuff. As a kid I used to look forward to living in the future, now I kinda regret it.
Might be Bluetooth beacon tracking: https://www.mokosmart.com/bluetooth-proximity-marketing-ble-beacons/
Seems like these should typically be used by store apps, but who knows when other apps have like 37,876 trusted partners they share data with.
There might be some kind of RFID in the shelves that senses your phone’s proximity and how long it lingers…
Yeah, it’s really hard to get lay people to understand infosec issues. I had to create a separate VLAN for my wife because she couldn’t tolerate being behind a VPN or pihole because she wants to click on sponsored ads on Google.
And don’t get me started on how she feels about the fact that I password protect all. She knows my password, but still thinks I’m hiding something.
But I work in InfoSec, so of course I’m hiding everything. Just not from her.
Infosec seems like a depressing job to be in atm.
Yeah, too many people think anyone who cares about data security needs to get their hard drives checked.
Fundamentally, just completely antithetical to the principles of constitutional democracy, basic freedoms and human rights.
“Everyone else lets me walk over their rights, so if you maintain your own then you must have something to hide, and I will use that as justification to transgress them!” It’s so fucked up…
I know you’re just talking about your wife, but the same thing applies to corporations, adware, data brokers, and governments.
I like to ask the “I have nothing to hide” people if I can go paw through their underwear drawer.
I mean, most everyone wears it, so it’s not like it’s something to hide, right?
Unfortunately, it would go right over their heads and they would just call you a creep, reinforcing their belief that you should be under constant surveillance…
And they’d probably go and put a ring camera in their bedroom… you know, for… privacy…
People actually click those? That’s horrifying.
Yeah, I agree
Me: This is a seed.
Them: “No, fuck you.”
Me: This continues to be a seed.
Gotta coddle their ego because man, are the stupid of this world confident!
Oh, is that how you look at it? That’s… interesting.
walks away
You and the guy you’re arguing with feel the same way.
One or both of you is wrong.
…I don’t like that comma
You can’t fix this person’s entire educational history.
What about an opening single quotation mark (
‘) being used instead of an apostrophe (’)?Oh wtf I didn’t even notice that, shit‘s cursed
Agreed. Should be a colon
All day every day. My dad was a construction worker and would only have a use for books if he needed to start a fire. I won’t try to bend the three braincells that somehow survived a lifetime of alcoholism into shape.
On his tombstone it shall say “he died as he lived, an idiot.”
“We didn’t have ‘neurodivergent’ people when i was young” he said, cradling his beer bottle.
While gambling away his money
I remember David Mitchell trying to convince Rhod Gilbert that stopped escalators don’t fling you off the top, and he finally said:
Somewhat ironically, though, Rhod was probably talking about how, when escalators are stopped, the distance between steps gets smaller near the ends, so if you’re not aware of that, you may try to step up too high and put too much energy in. So he’s not exactly wrong, but I’m not sure he realizes what is causing it.
Must be a pain
I would strongly prefer if you specifically never interacted with any of my posts.
😊 It’s a good sleep indeed
I would strongly prefer if you specifically never interacted with any of my posts.
Sorry, I can’t help you with that.
Gotta know to choose your battles
I’m not in this picture and I don’t like it
Yup.
And then someone infers something about your character because you prefer not to waste your time having a fruitless discussion.
Live and let dumb.
