I appreciate the sanity check, but just to throw a monkey wrench into your model…

I think the square-cube law will bite you here. I expect power/mass isn’t constant. Mass grows faster than cross-sectional area which is key in muscle performance.

My roommate had a butterfly knife in his room and I wanted to play with it. I was drunk and my hands were greasy from eating KFC.

It slipped (more like threw it at the ground) due to incompetence and impairment and greasy KFC hands. I didn’t want it to get mashed on the ground so I used my lighting fast reflexes to catch a knife I just threw. Point first. Into my palm. My greasy drunk palm.

Cleaned up the evidence as best I could. Put it back. Should 100% have gone to get it stitched up, but didn’t, and ended up with some nerve damage and scar tissue crowding some tendons.

I haven’t really retold this story in a long time. As I’m typing this…

Steady uptick in trick or treaters over the last 3 years. I think the neighborhood demographic is shifting to having more kids in the area.

We have a pretty large population of new immigrants in the area too, many with kids, and I think they weren’t super familiar with the concept of Halloween when they arrived. I mean… it does sound kinda insane if you didn’t grow up with it.

But I think they’ve realized that yes, it is a real thing… strangers will happily shovel candy at your children when they knock on a door.

Makes me very happy, it’s such a community building event. I was explaining to my newish-to-canada wife that as a kid it’s almost better than Christmas. As fun as Christmas is, as a kid you’re still the passenger. Halloween you actually have some agency… what are you going to dress up as? Who do you want to trick or treat with? What route do you want to take? What candy do you want to barter with your friends afterwards?

Yeah, sure, but have you considered the feelings of the people who came here to just comment “AI slop”?

r/nothingeverhappens

What mean? Is just thing alien ant do. Alien Ant wake up. Alien ant eat breakfast. Alien ant farm. Alien ant go bed.

And don’t call me Shirley.

Maybe im misunderstanding:

Are you saying that there necessarily exists for all not extinct species of social mammals a “common-sense-overriding mechanism”?

I would love to live in your world where politicians choose thier words based on logical simplicity rather than rhetorical value.

It’s subtle but I agree with her on this. Families vs people embeds different connotations. Families necessarily imply interpersonal connection, and for a great many subconsciously conjure children and love.

People does not.

I don’t expect the level of awareness of the distinction from the general population. A politician who spent decades with the highest skilled professional communication crafters on the planet, they know exactly the difference

I’d also like to see the chart if it was actually representative of the rich. Populate the chart with individuals reporting >2.5 million in income per year.

The relatively slow tempo and narrow range… I’m not even sure if the tuning would really matter. I imagine a competent player of any era could play this on a single string.

Not sure if it was Microsoft or my org but I was asked several times to stop using “bummer burt” in all my comms

A crazy number of devs weren’t even using EXISTING code assistant tooling.

Enterprise grade IDEs already had tons of tooling to generate classes and perform refactoring in a sane and algorithmic way. In a way that was deterministic.

So many use cases people have tried to sell me on (boilerplate handling) and im like “you have that now and don’t even use it!”.

I think there is probably a way to use llms to try and extract intention and then call real dependable tools to actually perform the actions. This cult of purity where the llm must actually be generating the tokens themselves… why?

I’m all for coding tools. I love them. They have to actually work though. Paradigm is completely wrong right now. I don’t need it to “appear” good, i need it to BE good.

Maybe that’s why. I don’t dispute the outcome, just I wonder about the underlying motivation.

Headcount, regardless of utilization, carries a cost. Payroll HR benefit administration badges laptops uniforms etc etc.

As well simply “cutting hours” causes people to quit to find more stable full time employment. If you actually want to keep an employee, it’s a massive risk to do that.

Both cases, those are working against the employer even before you try and justify it as part of some grander scheme.

I’m completely open to the idea, but it strikes me as an Occam’s Razor moment. Why introduce the concept of secret colluding between competing businesses when it can be sufficiently be explained by individual greed?

I don’t think you or I or Marx need to over engineer the explanation in terms of “wanting unemployment lines to keep ‘workers in line’”

It’s sufficient to say there is an immediate profit motive to just fire the workers and pocket the surplus, I think.

Not well versed enough in social theory or empirical outcomes to really know… But it seems enough to me

Fucking lol.

IF they get an 80% productivity boost and can choose to either:

A) Maintain staffing, maintain pay, only make workers work 3 days a week.

B) Fire 60% of staff, maintain 5 days a week, and freeze raises because the market is now awash with newly laid off people

What do YOU think they’re gonna do?

Empathy doesn’t mean you’ll adjust your position. It just means you can RP as someone well enough to come away with an understanding from that person’s perspective.

You can be empathetic and once the exercise is over, still not budge in terms of your original assessment.

Empathy is dangerous to fascists. Everything they’re doing unravels if a population is good at it. It’s why they hate it so much. Don’t toss them a free W.

Bad costume, cheap lighting, over-the-top theatrical exposition… talking without really saying anything… Really strikes me as a Red Alert cutscene.

Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won

I’d heard many times from people who were old enough to see them live that it was a completely unique experience, describing how the band fed off the energy of the crowd.

Didn’t fully comprehend the magnitude of that truth until I heard that live album. I’ve heard other live albums from other artists where it was performed roughly the same as the studio version with the further addition of a cheering crowd. This was a completely different animal.

How The West Was Won really showcased how malleable a work is in the hands of truly talented artists.