suy
2yr ago
Mastodon is not a platform, it's a software used to interface with a wider fediverse that is an open protocol that anyone can use like email. It's unfortunate that the maintainers of Mastodon choose to market their project as a platform. It would be like hotmail calling the entire email network hotmail when other email clients exist.
https://fediverse.space/
Here's an incomplete node graph of the english speaking fediverse.
It's kind of sad how few people know it exists. Everything Elon talked about to Jack already existed.
suy
2yr ago
FB/Instagram/TikTok content isn't visible to people without accounts, making them mostly useless for the main function of twitter: public relations.
suy
2yr ago
I would have just lied about it for as long as it benefited me. It would be impossible for anyone to prove otherwise. I'm sorry your family is like that.
suy
2yr ago
pro players of anything are always actively studying their own games and their opponents. Watching replays is less valuable when you're not a pro playing against random people in matchmaking. Self critique is not as effective if you are below the skill level where there is nobody better than you that can simply point out the mistakes you failed to notice.
Your friend isn't pro enough to benefit as much from watching replays over just playing another game in the same amount of time.
Also, people watch replays played back at a higher speed, or skip to important moments to save time.
I don't have time to read through the whole thing but did they have any control group for the potato diet? Eating the same thing every day in general seems like it would have an effect on calorie consumption purely by virtue of not snacking or eating for entertainment for a month.
Unrelated, but the key to understanding the global obesity epidemic probably has something to do with infant and child obesity. Something has to have gone horribly wrong in our environment if infants fed on breastmilk or formula are following the same trend as humans with agency.
Edit:
Why did they stop looking at the potassium/BMI graphs after 2017? It seems like the data after that contradicts the claims presented. Such omission of data makes me more skeptical of everything else.
suy
2yr ago
I've never been to Chicago. I was comparing Bellevue and Redmond to Seattle proper.
suy
2yr ago
is Allah really going to approve of creating a disease that kills millions of your co-religionists?
If it hurts the Great Satan more than it hurts us, Allah will understand.
Any organization or state developing biological weapons demonstrates a lack of caring about collateral damage.
Is there somewhere within 20 minutes of Redmond that's particularly cheap and un-pretentious?
Redmond area is where Microsoft people live so it's going to be pretty expensive. To the south you can find cheaper housing in suburbs like Newcastle and Kent, and South Seattle is an option if you need to be closer to people who buy drugs but it's an awful and expensive place to live. None of these places really qualify as Big City despite the Big City prices. The closest Big City is Bellevue which is really more like a wealthy suburb with a small central zone inexplicably packed with skyscrapers, asian people and shitty overpriced restaurants.
As for dating, all I can say is that the Seattle Freeze is real. If you're on apps you're basically competing with tech worker salaries so you'll have to figure out where all the broke bitches at.
I find myself somewhat enjoying the sensation of DOMS after lifting. The mild pain reminds me that I did at least one constructive thing yesterday.
The actual process of exercising is just painful and unpleasant. I have never experienced “The Pump” the way Arnie talks about though. I wish lifting was an orgasmic experience.
suy
2yr ago
I disliked light cigarettes I tried because it felt like the only reason they were “light” was because the filter was too hard to draw from.
suy
2yr ago
Congratulations. -25lbs in 3 months is impressive progress. Don’t be disappointed if you can’t achieve that again.
I’m also looking for ways to not slip into hibernation mode in the cold winter.
You will be living in one of the top 5 most expensive cities in the United States. The floor for rent for a studio is $1500 and is still rising rapidly. The average restaurant meal for one is $20.
People in this area are very reserved and having a social life is harder. Being open to strangers is hard when there’s a high likelihood you end up engaging with a hostile insane person.
Wokeness is the least of your problems if you move to the Seattle area without a 100k job.
Redmond in particular is pretty boring if you’re used to the big city. Having access to the top tier trails in Washington is cool though. If I lived in Redmond I would hike all the time.
suy
2yr ago
The people that draw all the shit on wikihow should be sweating right now.
Maybe shutterstock can pivot into serving their customers AI generated images they might like using a recommendation engine.
suy
2yr ago
There are plenty of other games where Americans play well or even dominate the competetive scene. Some are even in the same genre like Dota. Extrapolating anything from LoL performance is pretty silly.
I'll be in a country where all ADHD medication and stimulant drugs are extremely illegal, so I'll probably start smoking again to manage my spaz brain. Can't vape because nicotine juice is banned too. Any recommendations on cigs or patches?
Also, please share your experience if you've ever self medicated with nicotine or caffeine.
suy
2yr ago
I'm sure people who live in areas that are in the process of being gentrified (higher expenses, higher rents) might have a lot to say on the subject.
It would be silly to complain about it if you moved there recently though.
I have never seen a biological female coder outside of frontend and devops for some reason. I'm only a couple years in the industry though.
I don't have any strong opinions about learning coding other than to watch Uncle Bob's Clean Coding and fully internalize it, and to read and understand SICP.
I was fortunate enough to be mentored by a true expert in the field and had the fundamentals of pragmatic coding hammered into me. We would spend hours reviewing my code and arguing passionately about semantics and ontology. Being forced to explain my rationale and defend every single line I wrote made me a superior programmer to my peers in college.
I think a big part of being a truly good programmer is just having an appreciation for aesthetics and a sense of shame. You SHOULD FEEL BAD for writing bad code, even if it's truly nessessary. You should feel an intuitive sense of disgust seeing a function with too many side effects. Seeing awful inconsistent naming should make you cringe. These are all good things.
suy
2yr ago
The worldbuilding in Underrail is incredibly unique. At first glance it just seems like another 'slavs in a metro' STALKER clone, but it's so much weirder than that. I can't wait for the sequel to expand on the realms and cultures outside of lower Underrail that we barely got to see in the first game.
suy
2yr ago
I don't care that it's not fantasy, I've always believed that Animorphs would be a hit if they played it completely straight as a R rated war story aimed at the YA/tumblr audience. Maybe age everyone up to college if the child soldier thing is too violent for TV.
Also, Dark Tower needs to be done right.
suy
2yr ago
suy
2yr ago
Telemarketing and internet spam are so predictable that we generally don't have to process it to ignore it. A script is enough in most cases. AI comments show up where you expect human content. We don't have any automated way to differentiate between AI and human yet, and if we did, AI makers would just use it to become more humanlike.
Also, the less intelligent half of the population falls for telemarketing, internet spam, media manipulation and botting all the time and we all suffer the consequences of this.
suy
2yr ago
...pretty much every example of AI generated text and images I've encountered has struck me as painfully obvious.
Am I really an outlier in my ability to notice that randomly strung together words, even if they are grammatically correct, aren't conveying any meaning?
Yes. You are an outlier. A majority of people are consistently failing the reverse turing test for text and images. Literally everyone will at least have some of their time wasted reading the first couple sentences of AI generated text before realizing something is off. Nobody is immune to info-chaff.
suy
2yr ago
If we applied basic infosec sensibility (assuming the worst when seeing a obviously exploitable gaping vulnerability) to voting, almost no election can be considered legitimate.
But most people don't for some reason.
suy
2yr ago
Used car supply is always 3 years behind the new car supply. Since there are very few new cars being created in 2020-2022, the used car supply will not begin to recover until 2022 cars start being sold back.
As it is now, even the yellowest of lemons (PT Cruisers) are being sold at exorbitant prices because of lack of supply, so outlook is most certainly bleak for the near future.
It's funny how much the Mastodon project hates Pawoo despite being their biggest and most active instance. They won't even respond to pull requests made in english. Maybe they're Japanophobic?
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