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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not proud of myself. But I do it all the time⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Me with a book and my phone 😆

  I don’t think it worked though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What people do in that case is look at pictures of people with various hairstyles online, trying to find one where they feel like “this looks good, I want to try that one”

  I don’t know what problems OP is facing, but in my case, this is basically what the hairdresser recommended that I do and also what I tried doing. Except it didn’t help because nothing was appealing to me (I’m rather change adverse). I really needed to maintain a particular style for a while to get used to it before I could decide if I liked it or not. After a while, I couldn’t tell if I disliked it because it was grown out too much or if I just didn’t like that cut, or if it was some other reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is kind of a tautological answer. Of course it’s as often as I want, but what do I want? I had that question when I started making my own decisions on my hair. I was never fully happy with how things looked and haven’t figured out how to style it the way I like. What part of it was I unhappy with? I couldn’t tell. Would more frequent hair cuts help? Or less frequent so it spends more time in that slightly grown out state and I have more consistent hair to work with? And so many other questions.

  If you know that most people get their hair cut after X weeks, then that gives you a starting point to experiment with instead of going into it completely blind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you want to stop yourself from smiling? Getting a fresh haircut and seeing it take shape sounds like a very good reason to smile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this still on the ace spectrum or what?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like demisexual, which is a subset of asexuality.

  Everyone else is already covering the topic of the usefulness of labels, so I’m not going to bother getting into that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when this Streisanded hard on Digg. Good times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are utterly insane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  if they didn’t consider the limitations

  They did, and planned for it to the best of their abilities given the available resources. Being disabled doesn’t mean you stop trying to be a functional human being. The illogical thing to do is to sit at home and do nothing because you’re not 100% certain that things will go well. Because as you said,

  Nothing is 100% efficient [or certain or guaranteed]

  So should we not strive to make things as predictable as possible?

  Everyone deserves empathy. All sentient beings, including this hypothetical man.

  Again, all people deserve empathy

  And yet, your ideal scenarios, you keep favouring one person/group at the expense of another. I don’t know if empathy is the word you actually mean to use. You can empathize with everyone while still favouring specific people, but your examples suggest that you’re using “empathy” to mean the actions you take (or don’t take) to help someone rather than the emotional state. In that case, it’s is indeed a binary either/or. In your examples, what you do to help one person will negatively affect others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are utterly insane⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In these examples, the ideal scenarios described aren’t any more logical or empathetic than the real scenario. All you’re saying is that particular people are more deserving of empathy than the people who are affected by their actions.

  • Example 1: People smell awful after smoking. Everyone else in the train sitting in the vicinity will have to deal with the smell for the duration of their ride. The more often this happens, the less likely people will be willing to take mass transit, leading to lots of other negative downstream effects for everyone on the planet. Do all these other people not also deserve empathy?
  • Example 2: Timeliness has real effects on people’s lives. What if there’s a disabled man waiting on this bus at a later stop? They planned their errand so that it’s within their ability to handle given their disability, but a late bus means that the timing no longer aligns and it’ll significantly extend the duration past what they can safely handle. Would this man not also deserve empathy? Poor timeliness for mass transit would also discourage people from using them.
  • Example 3: If the man smoking in example 1 is deserving of empathy with regards to his addictions, why not this passenger?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brad buys a house⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  U+1F431 U+1F431 U+1F431

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brad buys a house⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Write name, but sloppily. My brain will always be lazy in the same way, so the signature just ends up looking approximately the same every time. So basically, lots of squigglies too, but I’ll get the ascenders and descenders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IMG

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are fossil fuels vegan?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re pretty much all made of plant matter, but that’s irrelevant. What makes it vegan or not is whether you cause harm to the fauna by using it and creating demand for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mandatory self-reflection hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Notion does that too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What benefit would there be to federation? You can already download all of Wikipedia, and you can host your own wiki.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The line between what is ai and what is programming will be very blurred in the future⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s this error recovery business you speak of?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The line between what is ai and what is programming will be very blurred in the future⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs are necessarily non-deterministic,

  There’s nothing about LLMs that force them to be non-deterministic. Given the same prompts and context, they will always output the same probability distribution. It’s then up to you what you decide to do with that distribution. If you decide to always choose the most likely output, then the entire thing will be deterministic. We just don’t do that because it’s less useful than stochastic output.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Housing mostly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truck go 💥🚚⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would assume that for operating expensive vehicles like this, you get training on how to use them properly to avoid these kinds of issues. Flipped because they ignored protocol? Well, you already tried teaching them and it didn’t take. Try someone else. Did something unexpected come up to make this happen? Now that’s potentially valuable knowledge that you want to keep in your crew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My brother got arrested for a dime bag. His picture got put up on the jails website. And they advertise. So shouldn't my brother get paid at least a little for providing clicks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see how it prevents anyone from getting disappeared. All they have to do is not add them to the database.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what this is telling us is that OP hangs out in circles where no one knows what dementia is, so it seems like a complicated word for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fewer syllables you use, the fewer words you can make. There are too many disorders out there to give them all simple names in an unambiguous way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only quality that LLMs really need is that the data is human-made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🏹🏹🏹⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Confusing-ass perspective. It looks like all the archers are standing with their left foot forward and holding the bow in their right hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would guess it has something to do with the loss of third places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Macaroni and cheese⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The more cheese, the better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Talk⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need a package at all. I just define a new command \xxx{stuff} that changes the colour to red. It’s a one-liner. Copy and paste that into any new document. Changing the colour without a custom command is equally trivial, but this allows you to search for “xxx” to find anything you might’ve missed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tweet Dreams⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I bet he’s thinking about boobies”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What weight would you this to be at 4’11?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does this matter? Are you happy with how you look? Are you happy with the state of your health? Those are the questions you should be asking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well that didn't work out as planned⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad negotiator, implying that he got a bad deal on the bus? Implying that he owns the bus that he drives? Is this another US thing where employers require you to purchase the vehicle before you can work for them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Incident⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re just talking about doing a diaper change. I don’t know how you can call that “stacking a caregiver hard”.