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I started listening to RVIVR again so I picked up their “the beauty between” https://rvivr.bandcamp.com/album/the-beauty-between

Never saw them during their peak, sadly. Good punk stuff.

I’m not going to watch this show and I think it’s stupid that, out of the entire world and timeline, they picked something that clashes with a game.

I hope that’s a blue’s brothers reference ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K8y4Z-ZAhjw )

I’ve pretty much always preferred PC. The backlog stretches back decades. Fewer subscription fees. With modern stuff like proton and dosbox, you can keep playing older games.

Exclusives were always a shitty incentive.

Modern consoles aren’t even plug and play like SNES or PS1 era. Still need patches and shit.

I like how in French (and maybe related languages) the word is genre. No one’s going to tell you there’s only two genres! Like in music you’ve got rock and metal and hip-hop and r&b and doom and rap-metal and so on, many genres. Let’s do that for human gender.

I haven’t used Spotify for years for various reasons. Been buying music (mostly from Bandcamp) and have no regrets.

Bandcamp Friday is coming up this week, too. That’s where Bandcamp waives their cut of the sales.

I don’t really use LLMs.

Today at work I was working on someone with something, and we realized our list of tuples was backwards. He was like “oh I’ll have chatgpt fix it”

I was like, [(x[1], x[0]) for x in stuff]. Took about zero seconds. Delegating to the chatbot might have felt impressive if it got it right, but it was also such a trivial task I wouldn’t think to use it.

It’s rich kids getting extra time on tests.” Even as poor students with disabilities still struggle to get necessary provisions,

Sounds like an a problem of wealth inequality which should be addressed

And I don’t know, unless the test is time sensitive somehow I don’t think it matters much to give people more time if they want it. I don’t think most kids are taking bomb defusing classes.

I think making accommodations universal would avoid the income inequality problem, too.

Most people don’t know such a thing exists. They exist in a strange helpless state where they just assume problems cannot be solved, and put up with it. I don’t know what that’s like. I feel like when I was a child, I typed “get rid of ads” into the internet search and found ad blocking.

Good. Fuck car culture. Fuck the nypost too.

Sorry, I meant, what is the article the student read and responded to. The one the student said is thought provoking in their 650 word response.

What was the essay the student was supposed to be responding to?

Hypothesis: people with social anxiety are more likely to be posting online. People without are more likely to be socializing elsewhere.

There seem to be a lot of memes online about how it’s so scary to talk to someone or go outside and for me it’s not relatable. It’s just sad.

My plan for if a job forced “return to office” on me was to start drinking a lot of milk, and turn it into a “I’m not trapped in here with you, you’re trapped in here with me.”. My friends said this is a terrible idea. I concede the coworkers mostly don’t deserve to suffer the catastrophic ass gas, but management and the bootlickers I say can suffer it.

He could maybe take it and donate the money, but people are so low information they wouldn’t find out.

I don’t understand how you don’t see that you’re on an extreme edge of outliers

I recognize I’m an outlier. It makes me a little sad that most people won’t get to where I was in middle school, computer and literacy wise. I guess that’s technically years of experience but it’s also stuff a child can do.

Is it because I’m an outlier that I think AI is trash? Maybe.

I really can’t think of any tasks I do regularly, or even occasionally, I’d want to use AI for.

Maybe I’m an outlier? Read above a 6th grade level (that’s half the US right there) with a background in software development. If someone was like “find all the words in this list that start with ‘ab’” I’d reach for grep or python or similar.

Edit: obligatory: I switched to Linux (pop!_os) full time this year. A few hiccups but on the whole very good.

I think you can do // prettier-ignore, because I remember facing that exact situation.

https://prettier.io/docs/ignore/

The first dark souls. Wasn’t in the right head space and hadn’t yet accepted its lessons of “dying doesn’t matter” and “you don’t have to find everything”.

Now it’s one of my favorite franchises.