anal_reactor

I don't care about my skills because employers won't request me to do anything that violates the terms of service of $CURRENT_LLM. At the same time, it's a reminder not to outsource thinking to someone's computer.

> love things more than people

Society hated techies until we started getting ridiculous amounts of money and women figured out that they could marry a techie and instantly go up the social hierarchy. Now that this isn't happening anymore, society is back to hating techies. Tech always attracted people who were in some ways social outcasts - I've spent my formative years being bullied and now I'm supposed to love the society? I pay taxes to maintain public infrastructure while normies vandalize and misuse it when bored and I'm supposed to love that? Truly baffling.

> low empathy

Blatantly false. Name one industry where a huge chunk of experts spend their time doing volunteer work, because that's what open source is (Linux, GCC, etc.). Have you ever seen a baker just giving out free bread on weekends and calling it a hobby? I haven't.

> "bootstraps" mentality

The expectation that everyone could just vibe through life and be perfectly happy is unrealistic. There will always be winners and losers, there will always be inherent unfairness, deal with that to your best ability.

I've been investing heavily into IRL friendships but I understood that the dream of having a deep connection with someone is just a mirage. I don't see myself getting into a relationship even though I desire it a lot because I don't really believe there is someone truly compatible with me.

Hard disagree. Obfuscated code is code that does something different from what it seems to be doing at first glance. This backwards loop does exactly the thing you'd expect it to do - in code review I'd only double-check whether it's actually correct - I can see someone making a mistake here and creating an infinite loop.

> I'm also honestly surprised that wraparound on unsigned types is not undefined behavior.

I consider it common knowledge TBH

First, SSO is often non-negotiable. Otherwise employees spend a huge chunk of their working day just logging into different services.

Second, too complicated security setups often result in trivially hackable global passwords and shit like that because turns out, there are very few people willing to daily rotate and remember 30 different cryptographically random 256-bit arrays.

Third, no matter how robust your security setup is, there will always be someone who finds a flaw in it, so a much better solution is to just do bare minimum and get insurance.

It's strange to be that so many security experts are completely detached from how humans actually act.

I spent a year not having any responsibilities. My sleep shifted, and was 04:00 - 13:00. My dream is to retire so that I can finally fucking sleep the way I want.

> The FAGMAN companies

Buahahahaaha

The core issue is that now the internet is full of non-technical people so you're not getting the critical mass to make self-hosting a thing. So you absolutely need a platform. And when there's a platform, there is social pressure that the admin should ban certain types of content. Once people decide to ban some content, it's a matter of time before the tides shift and you have a huge crowd screaming "I never thought that Leopards would eat MY face!".

Let's take a moment to appreciate the approach that GOG has.

Bro, have you considered the following possibility:

I didn't literally ask people "How would you feel if you had not eaten breakfast?", but rather questions that naturally followed the conversation that at the same time were either hypotheticals, or some adjacent ideas that require similar shift of perspective. The "How would you feel if you had not eaten breakfast?" stands as a symbol of a general idea.

Your comment is prime example of grown-ass adults having reading comprehension of GPT-1, especially that you missed the word "like", which explicitly points that the following example isn't to be taken literally, but rather metaphorically.

I can already imagine you in a conversation going like:

- It hit me like a bolt from the blue!

- But a bolt from the blue did not hit you, did it?

I cannot believe I need to explain this shit to you.

> how much violence have you been involved in

Does years of domestic violence count? What about shootings I've witnessed but wasn't a part of? There's a school nearby and kids carry guns around here.

> Do you know anyone who has committed real violence?

I don't hang out with the violent types in the first place, so the question makes no sense.

> the majority aren't smart enough

You'd be shocked how many people cannot process basic hypotheticals. I've been in countless dialogues like this one:

- How would you feel now if you had not eaten breakfast?

- But I did eat breakfast.