thensome

Michel Foucault has entered the chat...

Yeah, it's still pretty slow and can't take large inputs very well. I'd say it takes 30sec to a minute to process a 200-300 word selection.

Oh sorry, I don't mean old engineers who actually keep up with tech. There are plenty of people who are young and don't care about improving their skills, and plenty of old people who are smarter than everyone else. I think part of it is also that my awareness of this is from big companies that do military contract type stuff, and there's a lot of people who have just been around forever and climbed the corporate ladder with things other than engineering skills who are not good at communicating with engineers. Though I guess this is now a selection bias because in twenty years maybe the zoomers will be in charge and do the same thing :P

I really think you're wrong about this not being controversial. Yes, a lot of people will want it, but there will definitely be ethical objections, medical objections, social issues, etc. for anyone using a drug to increase height.

Aside from that, the amount of people who are willing to take the side effects of growing is not going to be that large. I think most short cisgender men aren't actually insecure enough about it to take medication for their height. Then you're going to have to develop therapy to make sure that people are able to deal with the psychological aspect of continuing to feel insecure despite improvements in appearance, like they do with extreme weight loss or plastic surgery.

If someone did successfully create a product to increase height, it would create a lot of people who realize they are insecure about everything else after they get taller lol

I have had the most luck with automatic1111's but I've also tried to use Visions of Chaos, which does have its own ui.

Hmm not necessarily just ai, but Futureshock, The Third Wave, and other related stuff by Alvin Toffler has really influenced my thinking. There are some things that don't hold up in any book about tech, but i like his writing in general.

Newb feelings: stuff is changing really fast and hopefully it's good! Old people who don't even know anything about programming are running everything and refuse to retire and let us get on with actually doing stuff.

Young dudes are way more respectful of other engineers' actual skill, and less likely to ask female coworkers on dates or do other weird things that drive them away. My mom has actually seen a few younger guys step up and defend her after like forty years of handling these dickbrains on her own. The social side of things, at least in most companies we've seen, has become moderately better for everyone who isn't at work to get a date.

So, i have gpt4all on my laptop and i mostly use it for random fictional writing fun stuff.

Aside from that, it would be cool to have some kind of automatic inventory and info system for items in my home that can make minor assumptions about what you want, or do a "twenty questions" game to help find a word you forgot. My gf is dyslexic and can't remember words that she's only seen in writing, so she sometimes gets really irritated when she's trying to explain stuff and she can't even think of what letter the word starts with. I notice that when she wants to think of a specific word like "conglomeration" she has a very hard time thinking of how to describe the concept. So something that would be like "are you thinking of a noun? Is it a person, group, etc?" without her having to write a stating sentence would be helpful. It would have to just have a "start questions" button, bc she will get stressed by trying to think of how to start the writing lol

I've tried a bunch throughout my life, my mom has always been a supplement hippie, but i never notice an effect.

I took vitamin D for a while when i had a blood test showing that i was at the lower end of normal, but it didn't seem to feel any different. Aside from that, i have been on a prescription snri for almost ten years, and i consume coffee and marijuana often.

I tried melatonin, but I cannot confirm that it's any different than a placebo. I also tried progesterone and felt no effect, but my mom is in menopause and swears that it helps, so maybe I'll do it again when I'm older if i get hot flashes and stuff.

But yeah basically I'm a supplement skeptic unless you have blood tests indicating a deficiency.

Biochem is hard. People have been trying to do this for like a century, and they either fail or they're a scam. Also, extreme muscle tone is really painful, weird looking, and physically inconvenient for most people. If you don't work in the fitness or modeling industry, there's really no reason to get jacked.

Ooo that sounds cool. Yeah i don't see a lot of historical fiction that goes back really far.

When i was a teenager i read this one called Cathy's Book that had little notes and an actual phone number you could call to hear the characters. I'd love to see more fiction using elements outside the book like that.

I think just letting them play with regular programs or kid versions is better than games. When i was a kid, i would use some kid version of Paint that had little clipart built in, and then i would just play around on word trying to make signs and pictures and junk.

I never got super into video games because my dexterity is crap at high speeds. But as i got into my teen years, my grandma who was super into photography gave me her old laptop. I was really into changing the color of pics, trying to give people makeup, etc. I also really like specific data software like RadarOmega.

In general, i would say try and get fun stuff that doesn't have the pressure of timers and points and game over screens until the kid is old enough to understand competition and games in real life.

Ughhh, so frustrating that people are misinterpreting this stuff to try and basically say "see, it is all in your head!".

But yeah, i had covid after being vaccinated and it really affected my ability to control my anger. It was very strange because I've always been known as a pretty chill person, and before covid i had never been angry enough to feel like controlling it was hard.

I've been making Xaturing themed content with every generative tool I come across. So, my weird application is practicing a pseudo-religion. It's very enjoyable and educational.

Ok sure, most of what I believe is probably false. The opposite of most of what I believe is probably also false. Things halfway between both of those are also highly likely to be false. It turns out, humans are wrong all the time, for varying values of wrong.

I don't think you're advocating for the left or right, but it does sound like you're advocating for the idea that people being wrong about lots of stuff is dangerous and scary. Idk, I think that's just normal and people aren't going to be as freaked out about it as you are.

Do interviews that aren't boring questions everyone is prepared for, and you'll be able to tell if you get them to actually talk to you instead of following the rules of what is professional to say in an interview.

Written instructions and lawyer are both good. Depending how technical it is, how private it is, and how comfortable your spouse is with doing tech stuff by reading instructions, you might want to have a designated person to help your spouse.

My partner is dyslexic and computers are one of her triggers for anxiety, so I'm planning to write up instructions for her along with my mom or sister, bc i know she already has a hard enough time technologically even with me not being dead. I don't need her crying and throwing the computer on the ground after i die bc she put the wrong password in 5 times and got locked out. It's not that she isn't smart enough, i just think it's not ideal for her to be trying to parse my tech stuff in what is already a potentially traumatic situation.

Hmm As the dog from adventure time said, sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something. (You probably don't actually suck, it's just going to look that way in the beginning.)

For me it's way too hard to stop worrying and think positive, so instead of trying to get rid of the concerns i kinda try to accept them and give myself a vague plan for it. (Like if this part fails it will take 3 months to catch up again, or if everything catastrophically fails it will take a year at a normal job to be out of debt again, etc)

I used to do meetup and there were some groups i really enjoyed, and I did find some friends that i began spending time with outside the group. Aside from that, it seems like a lot of social activities marketed as being "for men" are based on exercising with other men and drinking alcohol with other men, which really limits people who aren't aware of less marketed activities.

I personally found a lot of enjoyment in swing and ballroom dance bc the level of exercise is less strenuous, there's more variety of people to talk to, there's generally no alcohol, and they typically have a structured intro time for beginners before an event.

Kia Niro hybrid (2019)- i got it mainly because i wanted a hybrid and hatchback, and it was a little cheaper than other brands. My previous car was a ten year old Ford focus, so pretty much anything was going to be a step up in the tech department.

I've had it for almost a year and i like it a lot. I kept my last car for about ten years and i plan to do the same with this one. I'm not sure if I'll go with Kia again, considering how different things will be by the time I'm getting another car.

Anyway, i think the best thing is the hatchback design being so open and big for such a small car.

When i had a situation like this, I started trying to determine a few things.

A: is the information useful or helpful to something I'm actually doing? (Vs useful or helpful to a theoretical future plan)

B: do i already have enough information on this topic?

C: is the acquisition of this information causing me stress or taking too much time away from other things?

I did decide to stop reading psychology articles bc of this process. I have enough information about psychology to make reasonable decisions for myself, and continuing to read about it gets me into emotional states about the accuracy and uses of the information. After a while i realized that I'm no longer gaining anything from new information on this topic, and it would be more productive to spend time writing and working on my own ideas relating to the information i already have.

My gf has one damaged ear, so she finds it helpful for her actual hearing issue. I just find text easier to understand than speech. I've been annoying my family with subtitles for decades lol

I've also always thought people are turning the tv up way too loud, and if they can't hear good enough for tv they should just turn on subtitles instead of making the whole house loud. Idk if sound quality is actually worse now, or if people have finally learned some shame about blasting their audio at everyone around them.

My normal way is very introverted, but I love burlesque and sideshow acts, and I'm pretty comfortable with being outgoing and confident when I'm in character.

The character is pretty much me but with most of my attention focused on performance, and the process of practicing and scheduling a performance makes me start getting into character with that group far before the actual show.

I think a big thing that performance has helped me with is the feeling that i have to change my personality. Now i feel more that i am practicing and performing a character based on my real personality, instead of trying to delete parts of it and replace them with more extroverted personality traits.

Nice, another reason I'm glad I'm not straight lol

My smart light app that lets me pick any color. Being able to match the outside color temp or turn the lights red at night is awesome and it's kinda crazy to me that we can just do it so easily now

Instead of packing lunch, i would keep packs of bagels and English muffins and stuff at work. I'd also bring pb&j and almonds to put on them and my coworkers were always jelly of my lunch but they never started doing it.

Another one is getting the shower head with a hose and putting a second holder low on the wall so the spray doesn't hit my head/face accidentally. This one was started by my mom bc i have autism and hate showers, and she figured out that if the water doesn't hit my face i can tolerate it longer.

You might not have as many personal qualms with the work itself, but the social failures will keep happening around you and punishing you for pointing them out.

I used to be optimistic about stuff but now i just go online and tell people the pessimist view of their problems lol

Don't worry about startups for a while? Or look into military contractors instead of the consumer market. My mom's company got off the ground in 01 because of big contractors contracting out to smaller companies. (Unless Raytheon makes your optimism decline even more idk)

I would just have it generate and then put it side by side with a blank document and type by hand, and edit as I see fit without copy-pasting the text.

Working in support, i would freaking love that. I would probably end up actually spreading out my time off throughout the year instead of being worried about using too much in the first half of the year. (what if i suddenly need a week off in September for some surprise reason and I've already used most of my pto?)

We also have a silly time every year where the pto is about to reset, and suddenly everyone is taking multiple days off in the same month. I mean i guess they pick a less busy month for it to reset, but it just seems like it would be better if everyone picked a random month to go on vacation instead.