MagicShel

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Narrator: It won't.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't agree both sides do it to nearly the same degree, but yeah on the occasion I catch the left doing it, it frustrates me. So much stuff to legitimately be upset about and people are posting Teslas dropping folks off in a no parking zone.

I'll even acknowledge that an unmanned electric car standing to drop someone off or pick them up is indistinguishable from parking but still it's pointless splitting of hairs compared to gestures at everything.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think we are in an era where people don't care what's real and what's a lie as long as the lie is entertaining enough and validates their own thoughts.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm not judging any individual, I said a solo male vacation to Thailand is a flag. Which is the whole point of the post, so what are you even saying here? I hope when I check you are admonishing everyone else who responded...

Oh look at that... not just that but you are a top level commenter judging people. Hmmm.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh I know. I've been there, twenty years ago. It's a wonderful place and I hope to take my kids there some day.

But the reputation isn't for no reason. It's at the top of my list for problematic places for single men to travel alone to, but that doesn't mean it's not an awesome place to go or even that all single men traveling solo are there for bad intent.

I would highly encourage people to go there. The more non-sex tourism they get, the better for everyone, I think.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

This was with Roberts-Sinto 35 years ago. I'm sure a lot has changed.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I feel like Thailand is a more concerning destination for single men, but I'm not familiar with other sex tourism destinations. I know the Dominican Republic was big for some but I was just there with my wife and didn't see anything concerning.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 days ago

Sounds like they are afraid black soldiers won't comply with their future plans.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I used to think I was going to be an astronaut, but then I needed glasses and so that was out. Then I wanted to make robots but I went to a robotics company for a high school project and they explained engineers don't build anything and the technicians don't design anything. That's no fun.

So now I'm in business software. I do enjoy coding a lot and it could be a dream job but honestly, I work with and for a lot... bad companies, bad designers, and bad managers. And again if I want to do their jobs, I don't get to do the technical stuff I want to do. I'm pursuing other team lead positions but I've done that before and it's just a bit better.

I just want to build good software and no one else really gives a shit to improve their trade. I shouldn't be telling UX specialists their design sucks for users. I shouldn't be telling service engineers how to design APIs. I shouldn't be telling corporate architects their default package layout is bad and non-standard making it difficult for engineers to navigate until they get familiar.

I wouldn't mind training all this stuff, but that would cut my pay in half, and I need all that money for quality of life outside of work.

Pretty sure I'm just going to be cranky until I retire even though I enjoy what I do.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

I'm not sure republicans have a choice. MAGA is in charge now and if anyone goes against them, they are done. And they care about themselves far more than they care about NATO.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Clearly some of us can. But as a whole we do seem to crave finding purpose behind random events.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I find myself thinking harder and learning more when I use AI. I'm constantly thinking what I can do to double check it. I constantly look at what it writes and consider whether it did the task I asked it to do or the task I need done.

I'm on track to rewrite 25000 lines of code from one testing framework to another in 3 days, and I started out not knowing either framework and not having really written in typescript in years. And I'm pretty sure I can write the tests from scratch in my primary project that is just getting started.

This one anecdote doesn't disprove a study, of course, but it seems to me that the findings are not universally true for some reason. Whether it's a matter of technique or brain chemistry, I don't know. Ideally, people could be taught to use AI to improve their thinking rather than supplant it.

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