I believe that GenAI is a scam that should’ve been treated and criminalized/prosecuted like one long before it got to the point of destructiveness that it’s currently at and I’ll die on that hill.
You have my sword.
You want a scenario of ‘what if Theranos was actually successful and Elizabeth Holmes didn’t get busted?’ That’s GenAI in a nutshell.
If you’re walking down stairs or an escalator you stand/walk on the right. always. If you live in a country that drives on the left side then you apply the same to stairs.
When walking on the sidewalk you pass on the right.
People who walk down the opposite side are a cancer to society.
Fun fact, in Japan, they drive on the left. As a result, they also walk on the left on the sidewalk. However in Osaka, they walk up stairs and use escalators “international style” on the right. They still walk on sidewalks on the left side. The rest of the country is not like this.
Adding to this, if a group is walking together shoulder to shoulder taking up most of the sidewalk, it’s that groups responsibility to stack when a single person is coming. The single walker should not have to move off the sidewalk to accommodate.
When walking on the sidewalk you pass on the right.
You walk on the right, but if someone is slow, and there’s no room on the right, you can def pass them on the left. Like driving.
This is terrible driving advice. Just because other people suck at lane management doesn’t mean you need to make the roads even more unsafe. Maybe just wait?
Friends is not a good show and of course I’m right.
Ever since someone pointed out that it’s just a whitewashed version of Living Single, I’m completely unable to take Friends seriously.
It’s so fucking bad. Always has been. And coming on directly after Seinfeld only highlighted how supremely unfunny the show was.
I honestly judge people irl who tell me they think Friends is funny. I truly cannot stop myself.
It’s kinda like white noise for me. Like I probably won’t turn it off if it’s on but I won’t pay a ton of attention to it either.
I have to be “that guy” sometimes when it comes to fire performance safety. There’s huge risks involved so there really isn’t a lot of wiggle room. I try to treat any fuckups as learning opportunities though, I don’t want to scare away the newbies
Nobody likes candy corn and anyone who does is trying to gaslight me personally
I like, and have always liked, candy corn. Consider me a very dedicated gas lighter if you must, but I am probably older than you which makes this quite the complex conspiracy theory.
Time is relative
I liked candycorn till one of my kids made a bunch of it at home and pointed out the layers are just food colour and not a different flavour ingredient etc. The facade was ruined.
Eh, it’s fine. I mean, did you ever expect the different parts of the seasonal pumpkin shaped candy corn to taste like pumpkin? Nah, its all candy corn.
I love candy corn. I like sticking it onto my front upper incisors like I’m some weird harvest vampire. Yes I’m an adult.
I like two to seven pieces of candy corn a year. After that it’s too much and I can’t take it anymore, but every year the counter resets and I don’t know how many I’m going to get to eat before I’m sick of them again.
I like a small handful a day while it’s seasonal.
I do that too. I buy a bag after Halloween at a deep discount, then it lasts me a couple of months. I even like it a little stale.
Mine doesn’t last that long because my wife loves the stuff too lol
That’s why my household buys it every year for certain
They tried to argue that all math was useless bullshit because it couldn’t deal with infinity.
I tried to show different ways math has been useful for me personally, and for humanity generally. None of that mattered to them. I tried to explain how math can actually work with infinity. They insisted I was lying.
A part of me thought they were just trying to troll me, but after seeing and interacting with them multiple times afterwards, I’m pretty sure those were their genuine beliefs. They were also a moon landing denier, but after the whole math discussion I didn’t touch that topic with a ten foot pole.
JFC don’t send them stopdoingmath.jpeg
I now consider it one of many examples of the idea that you can’t use reason and evidence to change someone’s beliefs, if they never used reason or evidence to conclude those beliefs in the first place.
I feel sorry for those who have never felt the excitement of changing their beliefs based on new evidence or understanding, especially when due to their own hubris. Being wrong is an opportunity to learn and discover. Everyone who has ever lived, and will ever live, is sometimes wrong.
In a way, that’s the general theme of this thread. We stood our ground when we knew we were right and could prove it with reason and evidence, while facing opposition that was based on stubbornness, hubris, and refusal to admit to being wrong.
I feel sorry for those who have never felt the excitement of changing their beliefs based on new evidence or understanding, especially when due to their own hubris.
Not only is it sad, nearly everything wrong with the world right now can be boiled down to a handful of people having this character flaw
You can’t even prove numbers are real!
Ha! You got me there!
Sounds irrational
We should all imagine imaginary numbers together.
What really disappointed me about math is that there is a proof that there must be mathematical theorems which cannot be proven or disproven.
Just adding to aMockTie here: I love math, a math-lover, if you will, and I don’t find the incompleteness theorem disappointing, I find it incredibly interesting and captivating. It’s like learning that black holes are real. It gives me the same feeling that watching superfluids in chemistry flow up their containers do.
The fact that the universe conspires to keep us ignorant is so goddamn interesting.
I never made the connection until reading your comment, but I now wonder if they heard about the incompleteness theorems and came to their conclusions about math based on a misunderstanding.
I’m sorry to hear that concept disappointed you, but I personally don’t think it ultimately matters or effects the usefulness of math. I see it as similar to the difference between science and engineering. An engineer can create something useful by knowing what works, without knowing precisely why it works. A scientist tries to uncover why things work the way they do, regardless of the utility of that understanding. Often the output of those two fields overlap, but they don’t have to.
So many people never even look at calculus & how it addresses infinities, it’s got this reputation as difficult but that’s just because of all the different algorithms and rules to learn for different cases, but you can teach the basic operations and build intuitions of differentiation and integration to grade schoolers.
I was once a consultant for wine companies. I was working on helping establish a new wine brand. The client was really clear that they did not want to rely on the idea of terroir, nor their vineyards closeness to the ocean as selling points.
My boss thought the brand should use a bunch sails and anchor imagery to sell the terroir and the vineyard’s closeness to the ocean.
I told him the client wouldn’t like it as they’d been clear that’s not what they wanted. He said I was wrong. If he’d told me the client was wrong that would have been fine but he insisted that I had heard it wrong and started gas lighting me.
Turns out the client felt they’d been really clear that they didn’t want a brand that focused on the terroir and closeness to the ocean and refused to pay for that round of work.
TIL Terroir means “the complete natural environment in which a particular wine is produced, including factors such as the soil, topography, and climate”
From watching the commercial, I had an immediate revulsion to the Lunesta sleep aid because of the green moths that would fly in through your window and land on you and you would fall into a beautiful peaceful sleep.
I had friends and family that took it and they said it was the only sleep aid that worked for them and that I was being irrational.
And then it came out that people would take the shit and then sleepwalk and go for drives and wake up in their underwear out in the middle of the fucking woods because the Lunesta sleep moth had taken over them and made them do all kinds of crazy shit.
Ok, but you’re still being irrational… Their advertising choices are not at all related to real life side effects of the drug. The moth was probably thought up by an overworked, unpaid intern during a brainstorming session.
Yeah, I had no reason to feel that way, but I’m already prone to sleepwalking so lunesta would have likely fucked me up, so I was irrational but I was right.
I said in a meeting “that’s a really bad idea”
They still did it.
During years, we had trouble with it. I kept saying “I told you it was a bad idea”.
After 6 years, they finally removed it. I said “well, I said it was a bad idea”.
Sounds like youre not a team player. /$
Happens often and most of the times is it because of a misunderstanding. Usually we actually agree with each other but we think we are disagreeing and arguing about how the thing we agree on is correct. I have seen this happen with two coworker many times and it makes me laugh every time until it gets too serious. I actually had this kind of “discussion” yesterday, my coworker said he couldn’t see change x in my PR and I told him how it was before and how it is after the change and then it became heated (I assume it is because he wrote the code and the tests) he stepped back when I told him even the tests expected the faulty state then he understood what outcome we needed and saw that the change was there and it was actually correct.
Religion. I’m amazed not a single response here starts with that one word. Infallible opinions are bullshit. Smart people change their stance when presented with facts that contradict their world view.
Random programming one, but some of the changes in C++20 are terrible and do not belong in the language. I will die on the hill of just because something is easier to learn/work with doesn’t make it better.
Climate change is real and damaging to everyone and we need to take action to mitigate its progression. People who deny it are just insane. Not sure why some folks think losing freshwater and having more extreme weather events isn’t a problem but it will end human civilization as we know it and eventually our species as a whole. We need to get with the program and stop politicizing a global issue.
Oh my ex wanted me to cut his hair, but just pulled it over one shoulder and said cut it off. He wanted to see it cut, understand? No, neither did i. I said “no, it will be slanty because it’s all pulled to one side, let me cut it into a haircut.” He said no, it will be fine, just cut it. “It will be slanty!” He was getting mad, JUST CUT IT! Finally he just took scissors and cut it how he wanted. “Oh no, it’s all slanty!”
Pizza that traditionally comes with sauce on top would be better if you did no sauce on top and instead dipped the pizza in sauce as you ate. I like my crunchy.
