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Buddahriffic

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  • Bring them back!!!

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  • He was getting paid peanuts for designing and building an essential system for the running of the park all on his own, working for a guy that constantly bragged about sparing no expense.

    IIRC the only interaction between Hammond and Nerdy went something like "you should have negotiated a better contract! Stfu gbtw", which can pretty much sum up the whole wealth divide between the owners who gain most of the benefit and the workers who actually do the things under capitalism. Except if they aren't getting the better of everyone on average, they just shut the whole thing down or find others that they do get the better of.

  • Today, the Mexican Government introduced its new chocolate bar, priced at less than $1USD. Made of 50% cocoa, powdered milk, vanilla. No refined sugar, no artificial flavourings.

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  • My mom would always tell me that I wouldn't like the baker's chocolate she would use in baking when I'd ask to try a piece.

    Then, one day, she decided to just let me try it, probably expecting me to be grossed out or something. But I love dark chocolate and liked it anyways, even if it didn't exactly match my expectations at the time.

  • Study: Experienced developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower

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  • One area that it really helps for me is executive function. There's a lot of things that I'm capable of doing, even quickly, but I've got this mental block that just makes me not want to do it. But if I can just write out some instructions and have a system do the rest, it's much easier to get going.

    I'll still think through the problem and approach using AI to help coding at a "I need a function that will take this data in this format and do x, y, z to it and return that data in that format" level rather than something like a higher level description of my final goal.

    Is it faster than what I could do if I focused on programming and get on a good roll? I dunno, it might still be. Is it faster than me actually trying to program something in the reality that I often exist in? Fuck yeah.

    And even debugging and testing go way smoother. For one thing, I don't have to deal with stupid typo bugs anymore. And for the bugs that still make it in, AI has been great at taking an idea of how to examine the data that would be a pain to implement and just doing it for me, especially if it involves some obscure API or language features since I don't have to spend time finding its existence and then learning it (if it's a one off, I won't likely retain anything other than the existence part, which I can still get from looking at the AI generated code).

    So it's pretty great for programmers who know their shit but ADHD gets in the way of using it in a timely manner. It's better than an intern, which is good for me but sucks for those who need to learn. There's a good chance AI's semi-competence if hand held by an expert is going to lead to a big lack of talent as those experts age out. Though with how quickly it's improving, it might not even need the hand holding by then. I'm not sure which possibility is scarier.

  • Fun new game

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  • Yeah, the showing off is what I was getting at. The first experiment seemed more like an experiment and an accident but the demonstrations with the screwdriver seemed more like someone doing pull-ups over a fatal drop just to show how badass they are and accidentally landing on other people on the bottom when he slipped.

    Thanks for the in depth response though, this gives more context to this than I've had before.

    And just guessing on the other two attitudes before looking anything up (haha maybe wanting to challenge my intuition like this instead of just looking it up is one), one is probably related to laziness (eg assuming something is fine and doesn't need to be checked when going through the pre flight checklist). And maybe the other is being too trusting or not assertive enough (eg colleague says something is OK, you don't fully believe them but don't challenge them on it). Am I close?

  • Sad but true

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  • Probably an attempt to avoid repeating the mistake and letting gen alpha see how easy millennials and gen z have it compared to what they'll have. Gen alpha monopoly will probably involve watching ads to stay in the game because they don't have any money in the first place.

  • Fun new game

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  • What was the point of these approaching criticality experiments anyways?

  • we are creators

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  • Has it ever been proven in any of the shows that the transporter didn't kill everyone that used it and just made such prefect copies that no one realized?

    Like it created an extra copy of Riker and there was the tragedy of Tuvix. Though I'd say the former is evidence that it is new copies but the latter might be evidence against it, since they each had memories of their time merged when they separated. Actually, that whole incident kinda brings into question what's going on for a transporter to accidentally merge two people and not in a "horrible teleportation into a wall accident" way and then somehow de-merge them.

  • My world is so much better because of immigrants

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  • Not in Canada. Unless they want to go out of business.

  • Good luck getting the song out of your heads. I call it musical terrorism.

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  • Rick rolls saved the internet from random goatse/tubgurl/2girls1cup.

  • y tho

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  • So... Did you guys eventually get the kinky glassware you ordered and did they make you return the chemistry glassware they accidentally sent?

  • White House accuses Powell of mismanaging Federal Reserve, citing headquarters renovation

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  • No, it wouldn't be safe to say that because if the next guy just prints money like it's 2020, inflation will get crazy again and that cash you saved will be worth less than the stock you got rid of.

  • "just one more lane bro" has never worked as a long-term solution in the history of ever.

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  • Though bottlenecks are complex and sometimes shouldn't be fixed, at least not without building up capacity to the roads they feed into, or else you might end up with new bottlenecks that back traffic back up to the original ones anyways. Without 3 years needing to pass.

  • Sometimes you just get it wong

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  • Sure, if you want to give them a reason to double down again instead of coming around.

  • Nestle Petitions To Cancel ‘Seattle Strong’ Coffee Trademark, Arguing It Owns Seattle

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  • Didn't they do one about nestle fucking over Africa by pushing baby formula and then enshiyifying it to the point babies were dying from malnutrition?

  • we are creators

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  • To be fait, a lot of sci fi does involve very advanced computing, like HAL in 2001.

  • Take a deep breath and think about it

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  • It is that simple but it isn't easy. It's like finding enlightenment from Buddhist parables. They don't all click the same for everyone. Once they click, it can seem obvious, but before that, they can seem meaningless, trite, or misleading.

    From my pov, the image is accurate but not the clearest. It can only get you part of the way and only if it resonates with you. It doesn't surprise me that it generates cynicism similar to the "gee thanks, I'm cured" responses to mental health advice.

  • Take a deep breath and think about it

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  • My interpretation of the message in the meme isn't so much a "present vs future thinking" as it is a "you don't need to search for happiness because your brain determines your mood, not outside factors." I'm not saying you should just ignore your issues (which would make things more difficult over time), but that you can be happy despite them. Happiness isn't a goal, it's a state of mind.

    As for the millionaire example, that they wouldn't be living paycheck to paycheck is the whole point. It was intended to frame happiness/unhappiness in a different context that was easy to understand (he lost money he had spent a lot of time getting) but was still left in a position that most would be happy to find themselves in, but instead he's probably miserable about it.

  • Take a deep breath and think about it

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  • My line of thought for this is that stressing about whether you'll have enough money to cover rent won't make it any easier to cover rent. Happiness is more about mindset than circumstances. It is easier said than done, for sure, but if one needed to have 0 problems to be happy, there wouldn't be many happy people.

    Consider a millionaire who checks the markets one day only to realize their portfolio has dropped by 30% wiping out all of their gains for the past two years and leaving them with only 3 million. They'd probably not be very happy with that, despite still being in a position that many would trade everything to be in.

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  • I'd even go so far as saying that fraud is pretty rampant in all levels of society.