adespoton
@adespoton@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Does anyone else hate knowing stuff and looking "smart"? 1 hour ago:
You missed “make my computer work” and “get me movies for free”.
- Comment on Does anyone else hate knowing stuff and looking "smart"? 1 hour ago:
Knowing stuff can be a curse, especially when you’re 10 steps ahead of everyone else in the room and you know they’re just going to need the time to figure it out on their own.
But being smart means you know how and when to apply your knowledge. So you can provide the information when it’s actually useful and not when it just gets blank stares.
And knowing stuff but NOT talking about it all the time, and not using “told you so” means that when you DO speak, anyone who matters will listen and take you seriously.
I find that slipping useful knowledge into self-deprecating jokes is a useful way to get people to listen to it.
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 1 hour ago:
Of course not. That would be wasteful.
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 2 hours ago:
Germans don’t smile with their mouths; they generally do smile with their eyes. People who only look at mouths generally miss that.
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 4 hours ago:
Part of what it points to is what you’re currently paying attention to. You don’t notice all the people who aren’t what you consider “good looking”.
Later in life, you’ll notice how many people have children in strollers, or drive fancy cars, or can afford houses. You may start noticing how many people own dogs, run regularly outside, or never look up from their phones.
It’s a form of selection bias; you tend to see the people that are most likely to catch your attention, and ignore the rest.
Try an exercise: start checking to see how many people you see in public smile with their eyes.
- Comment on how do I avoid becoming conformist, lazy and completely incapable of learning something new? 5 days ago:
This is important. Learning involves change based on a balance of positive and negative feedback. Be comfortable making mistakes and learning not to repeat them in other contexts. Also learn how to use mistakes to improve on methods that didn’t seem like mistakes at the time.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
“Oh yes, officer! This is my washer and dryer from home… I just felt like they needed a bit of fresh air!”
- Comment on What would the world look like if every worker got together and Unionized for a universale wage that helps everyone? Instead of one country trying to screw over another? 5 days ago:
Well, you could argue that China already has the structure being described here. How does it work out there?
I was assuming a union system similar to what is currently used in the US. If it’s not democratic, you’re going to have other issues.
Of course, ranked choice could mitigate some of the issues, but you can’t get away from the power imbalance problem.
- Comment on What would the world look like if every worker got together and Unionized for a universale wage that helps everyone? Instead of one country trying to screw over another? 6 days ago:
Yup.
- Comment on What would the world look like if every worker got together and Unionized for a universale wage that helps everyone? Instead of one country trying to screw over another? 6 days ago:
Those unions would have elected union reps. They’d gain an immense amount of power, and anyone on the edge of society not in a union would lose their voice — stay at home parents, small business owners, etc.
Eventually the unions would gravitate to a party system, those parties would become bipolar, and world governments would become figureheads. Unions would begin to clash, eventually forming new political bodies along union lines. Union members would question why non-union members don’t have to pay dues, and a requirement would come about that when old enough to work, it would be mandatory for everyone to pick a union.
You can see where this is going.
The only reason unions work is that they pit the power of production against the power of military strength and control. Give the unions too much power, and their leadership becomes the thing they’ve fought to resist.
- Comment on Hong Kong’s oldest pro-democracy party is shutting down as Beijing leaves no room for dissent 6 days ago:
10 years ahead of schedule.
- Comment on A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane 6 days ago:
On Reddit I have thousands of comments, over 240,000 karma, and I haven’t logged in in around two years.
But then, like with Lemmy, I picked my subreddits carefully and left when it seemed like they were being overrun with bots.
- Comment on Travel warning for journalists entering US 6 days ago:
Weird; I thought the warning would be for Canada, Denmark, China and the EU….
- Comment on Are foxes more prone to rabies than other animals? 1 week ago:
Foxes in places where they’re the alpha scavenger; raccoons where they are. What other top scavengers are there globally?
- Comment on Putin announces an Easter truce in Ukraine 1 week ago:
So he’s planning a massive offensive?
- Comment on Encryption Is Not a Crime 1 week ago:
Yet.
- Comment on Zoom is down for many – here's what we know about the video calling platform's outage 1 week ago:
So… Zoom went down because GoDaddy mistakenly started resolving the domain to 0.0.0.0? That’s what it sounds like….
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 1 week ago:
In some cases, it’s people who’ve done the research and written the paper who then use an LLM to give it a final polish. Often, it’s people who are writing in a non-native language.
Doesn’t make it good or right, but adds some context.
- Comment on MITRE’s Support for CVE Program Set to Expire 1 week ago:
The money they get from the government to run it has a small portion tagged as COVID money for disaster response. Which somehow has resulted in the entire funding being tagged COVID. Which means, unlikely to be renewed tomorrow.
- Comment on The Subjective Charms of Objective-C 1 week ago:
Interesting story.
I started using Objective C in 1994 on NeXTcubes, and later NeXTstations.
For simpler, one-off projects, it was great; also great for its ability to make any existing C library or function (or even block of asm) an object that played nicely with all the rest. And every API was just another set of objects! Discovery was easy.
It wasn’t until it came to maintenance of complex codebases that it became a problem. There’s a reason things like NSurlHandler stuck around right into modern macOS — replacing objects like THAT had implications all up and down the dependency chain. Essentially, it became Apple’s equivalent of DLL Hell.
It was also the last language that I thought could be almost all things to all people; after that, I realized that specialized languages that performed really well in a single context were a much better way to go.
- Comment on UK transfers almost $1 billion to Ukraine under G7 loan covered by Russian assets 1 week ago:
Next step, they should default on it.
- Comment on German experiment gave people a basic monthly income – the effect on their work ethic was surprising 1 week ago:
But we’ve already seen this without UBI. So worst case, nothing changes. Best case? There’s more opportunity for change.
- Comment on US tech tariff exemption may only be temporary, says Lutnick 1 week ago:
Of course it might. And the percentages are all subject to variation depending on who wants to buy and sell stock at the time.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
In India, they’re still useful; just make sure you use the horn too.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
I’ve only been driving for 33 years, but I try to signal every turn.
Because the signals are for those situations where you don’t see something you should have AND those situations where someone else didn’t see something they should have.
Takes a flick of the pinky to do something that could save you thousands of dollars and wasted time, or even save someone’s life. So why not do it?
- Comment on What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)? 1 week ago:
Except delivery people are registered and tracked. Someone would notice the first time someone died… or possibly even the first time someone got sick.
Unless it was a toxic buildup over time.
More likely to be the person bagging the delivery, because anyone on shift could do it there.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
Just to note, it could also be other people’s lives.
- Comment on Encryption Is Not a Crime 2 weeks ago:
Could be soon in the EU….
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 2 weeks ago:
Video memes. Another place I keep the sound at 0.
- Comment on Trump Admin Considering Giving $10,000 To Each Person In Greenland To Annex The Island 2 weeks ago:
Well, he’s planning to use taxpayer money, not his own.
And by the time he’s done with the economy, that $10,000 may not be enough to buy them donner.