To say I haven’t fallen victim to cognitive dissonance would be a lie. However, I learned how to avoid it and resolve conflicts in my own beliefs over time.
I like the self-awareness of the first half, but I think the second half is likely bullshit. Unless you’ve become a being of total rational thought and zero emotion, I don’t think it is possible.
First thing to realise is that people only repair dissonance alone and in private. As you say, debates and arguments don’t help.
I just try to engage on the positive topics and not engage on the negative ones. I’m honest about why I think what I think, but I don’t try to convince anyone. I say when I don’t know something. I don’t make shit up that I can be proved wrong about, even if that means letting something go unchallenged.
You won’t convince people that something they see as a problem isn’t a problem, but what you might be able to do is get people to look at alternative solutions. People don’t want to be brutal and uncaring, but they that can get there when it’s their last option.
Then occasionally you get a “something you said stuck with me” several days later, or maybe you don’t but something did stick with them. They incorporate the idea Into their thinking and start slowly shifting.
What’s a good alternative to Jira?
…except there’s no hardware to run it on. They’ve chosen an ISA profile that’s not been decided on for long enough.
Nope. If they were they’d actually be a choke point in the heat transfer. You’d be better having the heat sink directly on the CPU rather than connecting it via 6-8 thin rods of metal.
Heat pipes are an amazing bit of tech that only made in to computing In the early 2000s. Without them we couldn’t have laptops in the way we do and air cooling would only be for the very lowest power desktop systems.
The line is as sharp as ever. Everybody just ignores it.
I’m feeling like we’re the last generation to have had the privilege to live in a world where knowledge was valued, rather than the appearance of knowledge.
The masses don’t seem to care if something is right, but don’t take them for no damn fools!
Although I think the quote should be:
Yousa thinking USA people gonna die?
You know that over-the-air update facility you all loved?
Errr … there’s a downside.
But I haven’t seen anyone expressing that Superman should not represent kindness.
Isn’t the take more like “You think it’s super-human to be kind?!?”
I tried it a couple of times and stopped both times because it puts it own password dialogue box up for my password. I assume it wants to sudo for some reason.
No! I will not give you my plaintext password.
Uninstalled as fast as I possibly could.
Russian tourists in North Korea?!
I don’t think I’ve ever felt so bad for the North Koreans.
If the heat plate is damaged or any of those heat pipes are pinched / cracked, then you’re SOL. What a lot of people don’t realise is there’s liquid in those pipes that evaporates on the heat plate, condenses in the cooler, and then runs back to evaporate again.
So “as a compliment to web search” is a great example. We had really good we search based off deterministic algorithms. Now we have enshittified web search, so you boost it with AI that was significantly more expensive to train, significantly more expensive to run inference on, and can confidently return false “facts”.
We’re not using it because it’s better. We’re using it because the alternative got worse.
They’re novelties for sure, but I see nothing but toy uses or things that be achieved by other, less wasteful, techniques.
I assume by crypto you mean cryptocurrencies rather than any cryptography, because there’s lots of valid uses for private communication.
Ludicrous amounts of money being pumped into a technology that has no practical purpose.
Fair enough.
My personal experience is that we’re often unaware of the contradictions until something external happens. It might be someone pointing it out or just a passing comment in an overheard conversation. Something needs to jostle the noggin.
That’s why I said what I did. You can’t fix what you’re oblivious too. However once you are aware, you have the power to choose to do something about it. Sounds like you exercised that power. Good for you.