[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

I'd imagine this is dependent on where you live. Basically everybody all along the socioeconomic ladder in big cities with a lively social life do drugs

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White genocide would be a sick name for a white powdered drug, or a metal band

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

Yea one of the best devs I've worked with were Latin America. TFW a guy living in the mountains an hour away from Santiago knows Kafka and AWS better than everybody else

I don't think I've seen them work harder though. They were all very strict about 40 hours and were very aware of the class dynamics of boss and worker. Americans who have drank the Kool aid and obsessed with job titles and career prestige worked the hardest in my experience, closely followed by Chinese workers

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psychedelics increase neuroplasticity and give you the potential to expand your mind. My first time tripping was a big catalyst to discovering my gender identity

it's a tool, not a solution

[-] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago

Yea, companies are now opening a ton of massive offices in those foreign countries and having actual teams together now instead of trying to tightly integrate a few of them into American teams

I don't think coding became easier, it became more difficult imo but it's just more accessible and the difficulty has shifted to frameworks and massive scalable systems rather than lower level hardware knowledge. In the past only the wealthy could afford the hardware and get to know it deeply but most schmucks now can learn how to use AWS or Databricks

[-] [email protected] 36 points 16 hours ago

Cope, the offshored coders taking the jobs are just as good at a quarter of the pay

[-] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

It's more like everybody does drugs. People in the socialist organizing circles in my area often do a bunch of drugs too, sometimes at the party office after hours lmao

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I've actually been to parties in Silicon Valley with rich capitalists before and did a bunch of drugs with them

The capitalists themselves were pretty boring to chat with but I mostly hung out with the hired catering staff + musicians and the capitalists GFs and wives (usually 1-3 decades younger lmao). There were also some models that I think were hired to attend that were also really fun with hang out with

It's not terrible, there was weird performative white people woke shit like the host was a white dude, all his capitalist friends were white dudes, and the only POC was me, the party staff, and a few of the partners of capitalists. And they would do hippie spiritual sound baths, have black people play African drums in African garb while talking about the spirit of Africa, playing Indigenous music and saying how we need to respect their land, have Asian musicians talk about Buddhism and spirituality, etc.

One of the Asian musicians even told me they went by their Asian name to the guests to seem more "oriental". But he told me to just call him Alex LOL

The mansions are usually decorated with both lots of recognizable local and famous art with shit taste but there were cool places to hang out at like the pool, sauna, movie theater, music studio, etc.

I had fun being high af off a cocktail of whatever free drugs I'd get offered at those parties, but again, only because I mostly talked to the non capitalists there

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

With hobby coding, the journey usually matters more than the destination.

Not always. There are some projects I do for learning, some projects I do to improve my life

It sounds like you need a union more than you need an LLM.

I know but my average coworker has always been multi millionaires with property and half of them are Indian fascists, one quarter Chinese anti- communists, and almost all constantly fearmongering about the homeless in SF

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

It never was but it inevitably took up a lot of your time anyways to learn the language and various frameworks

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I'm not advocating for using it to attempt and write a new feature end to end. Use it to help with your code function by function

It's great for syntax, not good for the where

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Just ask it to rewrite the shitty code you wrote in a language you barely understand to "follow standard best practices in " or something like that and it will add advanced typing features, functional programming for iterables, advanced exception handling, proper concurrency handling, optimize control flows, use better equivalent functions, etc.

As long as you understand the foundations of these concepts in at least one language anybody can become pretty close to an expert in most languages instantly. Especially since most of them are C based and pretty similar

The output will sometimes change the logic but I mean that's pretty easy to catch and fix

Rip C++ nerds that memorize the entirety of each releases manual to shave off 3ms in every single function

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My desire to leave has recently rapidly increased but I have a partner here and really close friends I want to be with as long as possible. I wish I could stay and establish roots but that was never an option given healthcare and the inevitably of the current downturn though I expected to have a lot more time before it got this bad tbh

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Weatherday

Observations: The average man at the show that looked to be age 20+ had an estimated height of 5' 6". Almost every person at the show was also white. n=50+

The average height of a white man in the USA is 5' 10"

Hypothesis #1: Shorter men are more likely to be bullied and have worse dating prospects -> more likely to be sad -> more likely to listen to sad music like Weatherday (I'm not citing any sources for these but I've read supporting studies/research for all claims)

Hypothesis #2: I've also observed a disproportionately high percentage of trans women at the show. I can't really estimate what the percentage was because I'm sure there were also many non-visible trans women. This may be explained by a reason similar to Hypothesis #1 in that the average trans woman seems pretty fucking sad, for many good reasons. If that's the case, then there is no Hypothesis #2. However, another plausible explanation is that since Weatherday is non-binary, there may be some trans solidarity or shared culture that makes it more likely for trans women to discover and enjoy their music. If that's the case, then this may also apply to trans man, as Weatherday's music isn't written for a female (or any gendered) audience. The average height of trans men in the USA is 5' 5", which is close to my observed average height of men at the show

Please peer review in the comments section below and don't ban me pls mods

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4420362

Nobody ever says this about mediocre white women, or any POC of any gender

Seems to me that these people want to date people of high social status/privilege in society - and due to mediocre white men's complete lack of any highly positive qualities - by virtue of being "mediocre" - can more easily be stripped back to only being viewed as white and a man as the sole standing "positive qualities", making them a more pure symbol of status/privilege

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Nobody ever says this about mediocre white women, or any POC of any gender

Seems to me that these people want to date people of high social status/privilege in society - and due to mediocre white men's complete lack of any highly positive qualities - by virtue of being "mediocre" - can more easily be stripped back to only being viewed as white and a man as the sole standing "positive qualities", making them a more pure symbol of status/privilege

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So imagine you have a bunch of photos on your phone, and then some software finds all your photos from your recent vacation to Brazil, automatically creates a slideshow out of it, and then generates a video where while the slideshow is scrolling, there's 2 AI podcast hosts talking about your life in the photos. Specifically in this scenario, the vacation to Brazil

One clear reason I can piece together is that it's narcissistic to want 2 AI humans to talk about your own photos like that

But there's also something deeply unsettling about this that I can't exactly piece together. I'm not against generating an AI podcast for like study notes or something for you to listen to while driving or cooking, but it's super weird if it's on your own photos right?

Is it the fact that it's weird to just listen to AI voices talk about your photos and yourself? Like it's some sort of artificial social interaction?

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They want a superpower economy and cultural relevance without wanting to do any of the dirty work of war and world conquer themselves

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spoilerdfthan I have

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