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So… indistinguishable from the statistical mean of human generated comments.

This is actually the type of questions on the dementia tests (that he keeps calling "intelligence tests") that he keeps saying that he's "acing"

Oh, ok yah. It might not be vim. It could literally be anything. I just thought I’d missed something

Why?

There is some nuance. Talking someone into or out of anything usually gets pretty easy if you can convince them it's part of thier identity. Generational identity is absolutely a propaganda tool... but once you recognize this, it becomes apparent that it cuts both ways

"Trolling is a art" Intentionally making a minor error is one of the most established methods of generating engagement.

Trolling is a art

Not IT, but my dad said they lost a chemical engineering hire over this once, like 25 years ago.

In pretty much the opposite direction, my hill is that “right”,“wrong”, “blameworthiness” and “praiseworthyness” are concepts that people are in general allergic to critical thought towards, and they are EXACTLY the concepts that people should be approaching in order to have a better life and to make a better world.

When people type 70wpm andit it requires thier full attention, it seems intuitive that this is a bottleneck. I just don’t believe that’s the typical state of affairs for most devs. Most management, sure. I’m not saying there aren’t some code that get written that is braindead simple and have a lot of keystrokes (builders come to mind) but modern IDEs will generate them for you. We already had a plethora of deterministic code generation tools at our fingertips.

In university my entire dorm floor was in on insisting to my ex that it wasn’t “Big Bird”, but instead “Big Bert” (as opposed to regular sized bert) It came up for the 100th time at a party, and I was like “go ahead, look it up” and was able to get in an edit JUST before the page load. “Big Bird (Or “Big Burt” for Canadian rebroadcast)” It lasted for maybe 20 seconds, but it was all we needed.

Your right to privacy ends where your actions that impact the public begins. Allowing elected officials (allowing, not even MAKING) to sign NDAs with private companies provides cover to do shitty things and get influenced by lobbiests.

I think we agree in principle. I think if one conceptualize “deliciousness” as a “property that induces joy” and “not deliciousness” as a “property that induces suffering” as being distinct measures, then it makes sense to conceptualize puritan values as saying they don’t value “deliciousness”. If you conceptualize “deliciousness” as having a negative axis, then Puritains DO value deliciousness, but along the negative axis, which is irregular and noteworthy, but still valuing deliciousness. Same goes for suffering vs enjoyment. If you consider them independent vs as it being one measure with negative values. I’m considering them as the same but with a negative axis. I feel like that’s where the gap is. I think ultimately we’re in agreement.

I’m not sure if agree with your conclusion. You might conclude that they put great value on the deliciousness of thier food, but the relationship is inverse: less delicious = greater value. People of of two cultures might both place high value on decorations, but one culture might view another’s style as tacky.

I was picturing a culture for whom food was strictly for nutrition.

Well, at the risk of being pedantic, you literally said: food is just nutrition I understand now what you intended to communicate (which is strictly different than what you said) I got excited when I read what you said, because i thought you actually had an example of a culture for whom food is just nutrition. It’s a sci-fi trope that i find interesting because it is truly alien, and I’ve always wondered if any real culture fit that. Even in puritan cultures that intentionally eat plain food to shun “hedonism”, food becomes a vehicle for virtue signaling. The suffering is a ritual practice. Food, even then, plays a critical cultural role. I understand what you mean now. I’m just disappointed.

Food has ceremonial and ritual value in all of those places, it is not merely a vehicle for nutrition.

You guys

People keep making this broad assertion and then not following up. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but if there are many cultures for whom food is merely nutrition, could you name one? From an anthropological standpoint, I’d be fascinated. Like, this thread is full of jokes about how some cultures have shitty food, but that subjective assessment is very different than the idea that food’s mere purpose is nutrition. It implies it has no ceremonial use. So, of the many, just even tell us one.

Technically the post is reducing another culture to a form of therapy