gerryflap

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Believe It Or Not, Black Licorice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I must consume all the licorice. It’s very common here in the Netherlands and I fucking love it. Especially the salty licorice with salmiak (or whatever y’all call it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe it let me do that⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh damn I wasn’t aware this was possible. Just did it as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why walk, when you can ride?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the grocery store is so close to my house that grabbing my bike from the shed an parking it at the store feels like more effort than walking there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well that's one advantage that they have⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But I don’t ever want to see one :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like it. It’s a complete fever dream graph. I really don’t get how someone can use an image like that. Personally I don’t really like AI art anyways, but I could somewhat understand it as a sort of “filler” image to make your article a bit more interesting. But a graph that is supposed to convey actual information? No idea why anyone would AI gen that without checking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a global pandemic somewhere just waiting for someone to do a dare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Biden propaganda”. Lol. Not everyone is from the US. Also, I think we agree about masks so no need to call it bullshit. They didn’t work because people wore relatively ineffectieve masks and didn’t use them properly. I agree that if everyone used the right masks properly it would’ve had a big effect. But that measure is no longer realistic given the urgency of the crisis. Everything we do as humans carries risk, we can’t live fully sterile and perfectly safe. Every time you travel you can get into an accident, a lot of food or drinks we consume are bad for us, and likewise going anywhere were people are you can get ill. I got mono before COVID started and it fucked me up. Should people no longer share drink glasses or kiss to avoid the risk?

  The COVID crisis was a crisis because the disease was bad enough for the average person to cause a significant amount of hospitalizations. That was lifted due to immunity from vaccines and infections and due to mutations. Now it’s just another flu: dangerous to the vulnerable people and it can definitely fuck you up, but not in such numbers that it cripples society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a global pandemic somewhere just waiting for someone to do a dare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this is such an overreaction. Violence?! I’ve got some permanent symptoms after COVID and mono, and I won’t judge anyone for wearing a mask. I’d happily comply with masking requirements in places where vulnerable people often visit like hospitals or elderly homes. But violence?

  Masks were quite annoying and honestly didn’t seem too effective here. Not because a well applied mask doesn’t help, I fully believe that it does, but the average person just didn’t use them correctly and other measures like vaccination were way more effective. When the hospitals are filling up it absolutely makes sense to enforce these kind of rules, every little bit helps. But it’s not 2021 anymore. The virus at this point is more like a spicy flu than the unknown hospital filler that it was in 2020-2022. Expecting people to mask everywhere is unreasonable imo and calling it violence or dangerous is definitely an overreaction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America is fucked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There seems to be quite some space there compared to what I’ve seen emergency vehicles use here in the Netherlands. Recently there was one traveling across a pretty narrow bridge and a road that normally allocated 2 cars. The traffic was completely stuck and yet somehow the emergency vehicle got enough space to travel through. It outpaces me while I was racing down the bridge on a bike. That was more crowded and narrow than this. People went everywhere with their car to create a way for the emergency vehicle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically my laptop, which has been Linux-only since 2015 or something, has finally stopped working properly. The dedicated GPU (NVIDIA Quadro K1100M) no longer has working drivers with the kernel from Ubuntu 24.04. Then again, it wouldn’t run windows 11 either probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally committed to Linux at the end of last year. Enough is working to make it preferable to Windows now. I’m still having a lot of bugs, and it’s costing quite some time. But at least my computer is mine again. No more telemetry, ads, and UIs that treat me like a toddler. No more updates forced onto me instead of being done whenever I want it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the current state of the news, April's fools aren't fun anymore because they can't be distinguished as easily as before⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also autistic, and usually pretty bad at spotting jokes. But most April’s fools jokes that I’ve come across were just lighhearted fun and pretty obviously fake. Just real enough sometimes to make you go “really?! oh nvm it’s April 1st…”. What kind of mean spirited jokes are people making?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you said Thank You once?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I almost always thank the chatbot. I know it doesn’t really have feelings or memory, but the way it talks always seems like it’s so eager to help that I can’t really help myself. I have a tendency to feel empathy for inanimate objects anyways, like a sad lonely apple in the supermarket, so feeling empathic to a chatbot isn’t exactly out of the norm for me :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sour⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn I wasn’t aware that eating kiwis (the fruit) wasn’t vegetarian. I wish they thought us this in school…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whose bright idea was it to give the morning people enough power to set the "business hours" anyways‽⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I never used to be a morning person, but honestly I prefer it this way now. I want to have the work done before my free time, and I want my free time to have as much daytime as possible. Following my current working hours has me awake when the sun is up, which personally gives me way more energy than doing stuff in the dark. I’d love to wake up later, but honestly that just wastes a nice part of daytime. You can train your body to maintain a schedule like this and then any other one will feel weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Dutch, so pretty far away yeah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point. Yeah that fits exactly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is also when I conveniently forget you called, making your preferred method of communication incredibly slow compared to texting.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because I find calling hugely uncomfortable if I don’t know what to expect. If the person on the other side wants something from me, they can inform me beforehand via a message so I can prepare. An unexpected call interrupts whatever I’m doing and therefore has no respect for my day. If I take the call I’ll have to refocus on whatever I was doing again which can take time and will take me energy.

  Look, maybe it’s because of Autism or AD(H)D, but task switching is something that costs me a lot of energy and causes a lot of chaos. When I get a message, I can easily decide whether it’s actually worth my time, and in the case that it is urgent enough I can still usually clean up whatever I’m doing in such a way that I can easily continue. Getting a call forces my brain to drop everything on the spot (leaving behind a mess) in order to focus on the "being social " part, locks down one of my hands to hold my phone, and does not allow me to filter. Combine that with the numerous bullshit calls that I get from companies, spammers, and recruiters and you’ll hopefully understand why I absolutely hate unexpected calls from random phone numbers.

  Calls can be very useful, but I’m only okay with it when it’s expected or necessary. Having a friend or family member call (or better: asking if we can call) because they need to tell me something important or need my urgent attention is the best way to do it. I don’t want a message if someone needs me right now, because I could easily read the message only 20 minutes later. Likewise, we’re obviously not going to have remote meetings via chat at work, not am I going to game with friends over text chat. But even then it’s often not oldschool calls with their horrible quality, need to hold the phone, and lack of video or screen sharing. It’s services like mumble or other VoIP services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes me realize that I never saw a non-male techbro. Somehow the techbro crowd seems to mostly consist of young men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨work related: is this something only an autistic would ask?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay I’m autistic so I might be missing stuff as well, but really the only reasoning I can think of is the following: They might be very understaffed when you called and therefore busy, that’s why the assigned you after all. She might have been working her ass of when you called (or the whole day before you called) and be completely stressed out. Especially if you called during her working hours. Assuming you called during working hours, you were probably distracting her from all the important work she is stressing about to ask a question that from her context kinda equates to “is water wet?”.

  Assuming all (or most) of these assumptions are true I can understand why she got annoyed, even if it’s mostly a miscommunication. If she was very busy and stressed you probably also became a bit of a lightning rod for all the stress that built up over the day.

  I don’t think this necessarily a “mistake” that only autistic people would make. In the wrong conditions this could happen to anyone. But as an autistic person I do recognize that stuff like this often happens more to me because I tend to find things that are “obvious” and “dumb questions” to neurotypicals absolutely not obvious. Combine that with often not understanding how others will feel, and it becomes very easy to make these mistakes as someone who’s autistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is also when I conveniently forget you called, making your preferred method of communication incredibly slow compared to texting.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mood. Someone has been calling me 3 times in the past days and I don’t know who. They left one accidental voice mail that didn’t help and didn’t text or anything. I’m not going to pick up the phone, guess I’ll text them if they try again.

  I only accept phone calls from people I know (when other means of communication wouldn’t be practical) or when I’ve specifically agreed to call with someone unknown (like the doctor or something).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'll happen to you!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember? I still use it for my second monitor. My first interaction with DVI was also on that monitor, probably 10-15 years ago at this point. Going from VGA to DVI-D made everything much clearer and sharper. I keep using this setup because the monitor has a great stand and doesn’t take up much space with its 4:3 aspect ratio. 1280x1024 is honestly fine for having voice chat, Spotify, or some documentation open.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people who drink, how long do your hangovers last?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to be quite short, and only for many drinks. But lately I’ve even been having hangovers that span 2 days. If I drink any alcohol right now my next day is going to suck a lot more. So usually 1 day, sometimes 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single-photon LiDAR delivers detailed 3D images at distances up to 1 kilometer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, but less cool when I remember what dark shit this kind of technology can be used for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I am not impressed by A.I.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These models don’t get single characters but rather tokens repenting multiple characters. While I also don’t like the “AI” hype, this image is also very 1 dimensional hate and misreprents the usefulness of these models by picking one adversarial example.

  Today ChatGPT saved me a fuckton of time by linking me to the exact issue on gitlab that discussed the issue I was having (full system freezes using Bottles installed with flatpak on Arch. This was the URL it came up with: gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/…/110

  This issue is one day old. When I looked this shit up myself I found exactly nothing useful on both DDG or Google. After this ChatGPT also provided me with the information that the LTS kernel exists and how to install it. Obviously I verified that stuff before using it, because these LLMs have their limits. Now my system works again, and figuring this out myself would’ve cost me hours because I had no idea what broke. Was it flatpak, Nvidia, the kernel, Wayland, Bottles, some random shit I changed in a config file 2 years ago? Well thanks to ChatGPT I know.

  They’re tools, and they can provide new insights that can be very useful. Just don’t expect them to always tell the truth, or to actually be human-like

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sex!?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh day ruined. Well y’all better enjoy it then. But please don’t tell me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I obviously don’t agree with them, but my assumption is that it has to do with maturity/innocence. An unborn child hasn’t done anything wrong. They’re full of opportunity and have a whole life ahead of them. A criminal sentenced for death has I some way done something very wrong. They’ve had their chance and failed.