If something falls out of the center of the normal distribution, it's by definition abnormal. Once again, that doesn't make it bad per se. But trying to police perfectly good words just makes people become more antagonizing to the position you want to defend.
This seems like it’s very prone to selection bias. I don’t think most acquaintances I have would be surprised or cut me off; and indeed, I’ve exchanges comments about passing women with people I’ve only met recently.
But that’s why I think it’s self selection:
- you mention that even from friends you would find it strange and seem to flock with similar perspectives;
- by contrast, I don’t and flock with people who don’t either.
And I don’t particularly see a problem with that — the world is a big place and not everyone needs to be to everyone else’s taste. But like many things, people seem to form cliques.
And it's still strange that after a year, it only sometimes picks it up, depending on how relevant it thinks it is.
For me it's a coin toss whether the answer tailored to my location is useful or not; I'm often following up with something like "do not show local results, I'm shopping in the US".
But this also happens with other capabilities: the other day it was telling me it won't access a link I pasted. Next message, I ask why. Chat answers that it can't. I see Web Search wasn't explicitly turned on in the conversation (not that it's a must anyways). Turn on for the new message and try again, voilà. Didn't try just regenerating the answer, but that also works sometimes.
> eloquent description of a generalization of cancel culture, yet the author still went out of her way to virtue signal to readers who would reflexively dismiss any allusion to cancel culture as made up or partisan
Probably because we all know "cancel culture" was an invented, highly partisan and ultimately fake concept.
The proof is as trivial as noticing the people who complained about being cancelled were doing so to audiences of literally millions of people and there's no viable way to reconcile the idea of someone's ideas being somehow hidden when they had some of the highest cultural recognition of anything at the time.
Also, for the last time, stating a fact is not what "virtue signalling" means and I wish people would bother to learn what words meant before they repeated them.
I and many others posted it for reading by other people, many of us for a long time before this AI boom. Even with scrapers at least the eventual target was a human, all good.
This is different, and everyone pretending it is not, is being intentionally ignorant or genuinely ignorant, neither good. I did not give so much to the public internet for the benefit of commercial AI models, simple as that. This breaks the relationship I had with the public internet, and like many others I will change my behaviour online to suit.
Maybe my tune will change once there's a commercial collapse and the only remaining models are open source, free for all to use.
The 737NG already had computer controlled feedback to the control columns, the MAX added computer controlled spoiler deployment (like the 757 and 767) and elevator trim.
The joy of US "at-will" employment is that every company's Code of Conduct reserves the right to "separate" you for undermining mission alignment. The whole system is toxic.
kind of sounds like suppressing fever e.g. with Tylenol would actually be bad for (normal) flu progression.
you're just the tip of the iceberg my friend - did you know "horse dewormer" ivermectin has long been given to humans - for decades - to treat parasitic infections?
Then signal must be very insecure, poorly coded app in first place, that needs to updated every or every other day. They also don't give any explanation of what that updates are.
> I told my friend about an erotic encounter I’d just experienced and very much delighted in, in which I had my hair brushed at the same time by two very beautiful women at the hair salon. When I finished my story, my friend looked at me, horrified. She demanded that I apologize to the women for sexualizing them.
It's things like this that help me understand why people are voting for Trump.
This is not a throwaway comment -- I really mean it. The above is so ridiculous, it's a great example of "the Left is full of crazies" which half of the country is reacting against.
> And yet, my lack of awareness of polymorphism showed me I’ve been writing little more than structured programs. That I could replace conditionals and case staments with specialized classes had never crossed my mind.
> Polymorphism is covered in every college OO course.
Consider yourself blessed then because you're in for one hell of a ride if you pursue that path to its extreme. For me, it was the opposite: been taught OOP, I had to unlearn most of it to be able to better structure my mind and how I think about programs.
You should know what polymorphism is (also, there's static, dynamic, ad hoc, single dispatch, multiple dispatch), but I don't think it's a weakness if you have not been using it that much (the real weakness is over-using it and making a clusterfuck out of your code.)
Which is a long-winded way of saying that you could be doing much worse, if that makes you feel any better, lol.
I think we can agree on a version of bad code, specifically extremely bad code.
Just as we might agree on universally panned bad movies, but disagree on cult followings or one of us for a particular reason can't stand a popular movie.
That is to say we can all agree on extremes, but just because something isn't extremely bad doesn't make it good in everyone's eyes and that's where the contention is.
I tried using Tauri a few weeks back, and the build system is an absolute nightmare.
I gave up after a few hours. The last issue I encountered was it trying to link udev and libinput. libinput is a library for writing compositors, and their website literally state "libinput is not used directly by applications". I've no idea why Tauri was trying to link this (and some rough ideas of why it wasn't working due to the absence of udev on that host), but at this point, I didn't care any more.
Potential confusion of valid moral arguments with emotional arguments, though.
I mean, one might conceptually bundle together practicality, pragmatism, and logic, and then say that caring about anything or having any principles or values is emotional and illogical. (This also gives us disastrous ideologies like communism, and may also be used to force favorite ideas because they're "scientific".)
No, it represents a market opportunity. WINE (a European lead project) effectively makes Win32 and DirectX into Linux APIs. It works well for games. You can bring those games to Linux with less effort. And Valve can offer SteamOS (based on Arch Linux, also a European lead project) for less cost.
You don't need Visual Studio. JetBrains has nice, cross-platform IDEs and they're a European company to boot.
The fact that Gmail doesn't allow you to customize or expand your categories beyond the 4 it gives you frustrate me beyond belief. That, and the fact that there are countless examples of email sources that no matter how many times you move it to the category you want and tell it to "send all emails from x to category from now on," it continues to fail to filter them unless you make your own filter. And then managing the filters is a pain in the ass with a UX that hasn't been updated for 15 years, and also their labeling system is stupid because selecting a parent label only shows you emails with that EXPLICIT label instead of including all children labels.
