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Maybe they won't ever experience the same set of qualia humans do, but I don't think it's out of the question to say they won't have their own set of qualia that are just as inscrutable to humans as ours are to them.

A bunch of stupid stuff really.

There's janky series of actions I have set up where my phone detects when I get to my office building and sends a text triggers turning my computer on for me, signs in, and then runs a start up script(which starts all my programs and launches an RDP session as well, which has its own start up script as well that gets run) and then locks the screen again, so it's all ready when I sit down. Back when I played WoW I'd also use a similar system to launch the game and wait in the login queue on raid nights for me while I was driving home.

My spouse sometimes will text me from upstairs when she needs something, but I work from the office 2 days a week but she never remembers(she has some memory issues...) so I have it set to send her a reminder that I'm not home the first time she texts me for the day, but doesnt mark the messages as read or dismiss the notification so I can still see what she sent and reply if I need to. Also have it set to replay the notification sounds/buzz for messages from her outside of work hours because I am bad at checking my phone and sometimes forget to text her back. It also stickies the notifications from her in the slide-down menu so I can't accidentally dismiss them without replying.

Our oncall system at work has us dial into a phone tree and punch in some numbers to set it to yourself, I have my phone do it automatically for me.

I have a specific camera shortcut that will automatically text my spouse any pictures taken for that specific session until the app is closed/exited, usually its pictures of our cats but also useful when she's taking pictures with my phone for whatever reason or if we're having someone take a photo of the two of us, saves the trouble of having to send it manually each time.

Whenever the WiFI goes down at the house I have it set to turn my phone hotspot on, then send a text that triggers my computer to connect to the hotspot network, sign into the spectrum website and check for outages so I know what is broken.

At least for me a lot of automation and workflow stuff I have just doesn't exist on iPhones. I make heavy use of buzzkill, taskr and iftt, and the first two have no equivalent on iOS and probably never will. Pretty sure home screen widgets are next to non-existent as well on iOS.

When you say BPD are you referring to borderline or bipolar? Because borderline is usually treated with therapy as the first-line treatment, while meds are definitely the norm and most effective for bipolar.

OPs description of his friend ruining his life by not taking his meds seems more like bipolar.

I think both if you are reading too much into his comment and seeing things that aren't there. I don't think it was a jab at younger generations inability to appreciate things due to short attention spans, but more expressing sadness that streaming has killed the traditional experience/concept of an album and that it's probably never coming back.

Two things:

First, did you bother reading the article? He is the opposite of an activist these days. He goes out of his way not to preach to anybody to the point where there are longtime conservative volunteers there that have no idea about his personal politics. He is just living his life according to his personal ideals.

Secondly, what is your issue with communist activism? If someone genuinely thinks that's the best way forward and wants to try and spread the word, power to them.

You don't need to feel guilty. Microplastics are pervasive to the point where everybody already has them in their blood, so people receiving blood with them in it are getting any noticeably net harm done to them. If you're in need of a blood transfusion the alternative is usually death, so all things considering maintaining the status quo of microplastic levels already in you isn't the worst thing ever.

I've asked a close friend of mine something along those lines. His native language is Spanish but he's been speaking English was well since he was around 3, so I think he safely grew up bilingual.

Anyhow, he said his default voice in his head these days most of the time is English, unless he is around his family and is exclusively speaking Spanish out loud with them, in those cases he just naturally continues speaking Spanish in his head to himself as well without having to "think" about it.

But a lot of times when he's not kinda zoned out, or high/drunk/tired, his thoughts sometimes slip into being entirely in Spanish without him even realizing, and when he's reeeealllly drunk he won't even realize for a bit he's speaking Spanish out loud to me as well haha.

Maybe they should do the same study on people that lack an internal monologue to see if they have the same results.

I love the red dots. My partner and I drive out to Big Bend every couple years to spend a week or so there, and on the drive back there's a stretch of road where at night there's a huge number of the dots juuuust barely visible over the horizon, and then you start to crest a certain hill and suddenly BOOM there's even more! It's always glorious and I wake her up everytime so at least one of us can fully appreciate the majesty. Unfortunately my partner doesn't drive these days, her epilepsy has gotten bad enough that they (honestly thankfully) yoinked her license, so I don't really get to take it all in since I'm also driving the car at the same time and trying not to die while staring at the pretty lights :(

Not OP but I'm very fond of Bang!, the card based version not the dice version though. And now that I'm reading the Wikipedia page I'm seeing there's actually multiple options for playing online, which is great because all my friends hate it haha. Very cool. No sleep for me tonight :)

Lol no. Assuming at-will employment, which is the vast majority of the US workforce, "using all your vacation days yearly" is not a protected class so they are absolutely able to fire you for it.

More like a one week vacation, if you're lucky. You're forgetting that most of us don't have separate sick leave so PTO has to get used for sick days, dr appointments, etc. My first company I worked for wouldn't let you take any time off unpaid until you were out of PTO, so if you got the flu and were out for a week, there goes half your yearly vacation.

He isn't skipping any flights. He presumably bought a one-way ticket to XYZ years ago, and since then each year he books an XYS->SFO->XYZ roundtrip for a year long "visit" to SFO before returning "home" to XYZ for a little bit before booking another round trip for another year long "visit" back in SFO, and so on.

We just don't care enough. The amount of apathy the average person in a developed country has for the rest of their fellow man is astounding if you stop and think about it for a bit. People love to go on and on about how capitalism is good and paying them pennies isn't exploitation, we're lifting countries up into the "first world" and that's true to an extent, while conveniently ignoring that the countries being lifted up are either suffering for it themselves or are just shifting the exploitation farther down the line. Eventually we're gonna run out of people to shit on in order to make our lifestyles possible, and that's when it'll get interesting.

I've already written about this before on here so I'll just plop that down instead of rehashing it more:

I've read that there is a certain number of people that we're basically optimized to coexist within a societal structure, and modern civilization passed that a long time ago, and human beings in general just aren't capable of empathy on the scale of modern civilization. And I mean, it makes sense when you think about it. On some abstract level you have to know that even meagre standards of living in western society requires someone, somewhere to be suffering to provide it. $1 for a pound of bananas shipped from across the world before they even have a hint of yellow on them? That shit don't come without a cost, and our $1 sure as hell aint paying it. But we all just kind of don't think those people just to get through the day, because dwelling on the extent of suffering and horror we've wrought upon our fellow man in pursuit of whatever fresh hell the guys over at Oreo have managed to shape into the general form of a cookie would leave us a broken shell of a person and unable to show up for our next shift at the Big Mac factory.

With plain old war there are usually end goals like "gain control of this piece of land/and or resource". Which is what's happening in Ukraine. They want Ukraine's land and resources.

However, it's completely possible to achieve those goals without taking any of the actions listed by the other commenter except maybe a and b, but I can see arguments made that they're referring to noncombatants, and I think most of us can agree that them being wholesale slaughtered by the invading army isn't something that shouldn't be happening in any circumstances.

In this case Russia has made very loud and public statements making it distinctly clear that in addition to obtaining Ukraine's land and resources, they also intend to fully wipe out the national identity of Ukraine by taking most if not all of those actions, and in fact have already done some of them. That would be the difference.

They definitely just didn't care enough to mount them the correct way, I have very distinct memories of getting blasted in the face with hot air any time time I was standing in front of the racks. I'm reasonably tall and have longer hair, and the top U of the racks was juuuuust high enough so that my hair would be whipping around the entire time.

Crap you're right. Here's the pile of removed cables.

https://i.imgur.com/PLCphKA.jpeg

I mean honestly there's not too much expertise involved, it's mostly common sense. It's just that it takes so much longer to do it right at the beginning to ensure its maintainable and ordered rather than just doing it the easy way and hoping that it's someone else's problem by the time someone actually needs to find the other end or replace a cable.

Making your own cables that are the exact length they need to be instead of using preterminated ones and just stuffing the slack into the side of the rack, routing them down the side and through the floor or the cabling trays on the ceiling, standardized naming schemes for labeling devices/ports on either end of cables, documented rack diagrams, etc.

My first real IT job was doing all the grunt work (and whatever sysadmin tasks I could talk the greybeards into trusting the new kid with) in our two DCs, one at the corporate office and the other at our manufacturing plant.

Our DC at the corporate office was OK aside from the patch panel which was a fucking mess, that and when they originally built the thing however long ago they installed the switches at the top of the racks BACKWARDS so the ports where at the FRONT of the rack instead of the back with the server ports and they just ran with it instead of taking 20 minutes to flip them around, so instead of neat orderly cables going up and down between the ports you had these giant bundles on either side of the servers going from front to back I had to unbind and untangle anytime one needed replacing >.> This[0] is the what I managed to get our patch panels there reduced too and slightly cleaned too after removing all of these[1] cables that were still plugged into dead ports that my predecessor just never bothered to take out after retiring or recabling servers that had been on the other end. I'm 99% sure he was just running new cables and configuring a new port anytime someone called to complain about an unreachable server instead of trying to find the other end of the relevant cable.

[0] - https://i.imgur.com/PIPhAal.jpeg [1] - https://i.imgur.com/PIPhAal.jpeg

Wish I still had some pictures of the plant DC though because holy cow it was even worse, no patch panels anywhere, but they did have a drop floor so I could pull the tiles up and run cables down there if I was so inclined. My predecessor, not so much. He seemed to prefer running them between the tops of the racks, with random cables crisscrossing above your head, always drooping down and getting snagged on the step ladder as I carried it between racks, or getting caught in the doors constantly. And they would never let us have any downtime to clean up the cabling, nor could I talk them into just switching the network configs to use a different damn port on the actual servers so I could just run new fucking cables ;_; I had to settle for obsessively tracing and labeling each end of the cable with the port# and device that was on the other end of the cable, because otherwise every call about checking on a server turned into an hour of either tracing cables either under the floor, pulling tiles one by one to follow it to the other end, or a jungle safari sorting through the tangled mess of cables on top of the racks following the one in question as it arced over multiple aisles to it's final destination. Which of course I had to do anyways to get them all labeled, but at least this way I only had to do it once and it was done forever.

Good times.

The phone is maybe possibly part of it but most of actuarial calculations for car rentals are more based around age/zip code/sex and whatever driving history they can find on you than anything else.

Reminds how typing an album name into Google used to autocomplete to add MediaFire right after it.

From what I'm seeing they're seeking monetary fines against Google for this, and at their scale that's hardly a deterrent. It always works out to be a fraction of what they'd actually have to pay if they hadn't pulled whatever bullshit got them fined, and in the end won't impact them or their bottom line in the slightest. Until the fines are high enough to actually deter them, or they start pressing criminal charges for shit like this, nothing gonna change with these huge megacorps.

So from that point of view, one could see conservatives constant and endless attempts on restricting abortion and birth control as trying to prevent would-be liberal voters from being politically active?

One of the most common forms of contraception is hormonal medications that have a side effect of lightening and/or fully stopping periods. Most of the abortion legislation has limiting access to those medications or other contraceptive procedures accompanying it, or even included in the same bill.

Until it goes absolutely off the fucking rails in the third act, "Assassination Nation" runs in a similar vein but with highschool age kids.

I don't think bleeding money is accurate for Nintendo. They are in the habitat of iterating on their previous consoles instead of just throwing everything out the window each time like some other companies, so even with their consoles that flopped it's not like the R&D money is just down the drain, and I'm sure labor-and-materials-wise they're making some kind of margin on the hardware itself.

As most weird things along those lines in America, I can almost guarantee it's some sort of liability policy. They don't wanna be held responsible if a civilian gets themselves hurt/lost/killed trying to rescue someone, or does the same to the person they're trying to rescue, having being asked to or "ordered" by someone in a perceived position of authority like a coast guard officer.

Poker is a well studied, and more importantly, closed system where all of the variables are either known or known unknowns. We literally have bots now that can play poker better than any human.

The amount of decisions you make in a game of poker vs the amount you make in a lifetime are not even remotely comparable. And unlike life, in poker there's no risk in making bad decisions during the game while you're still learning. Worst case scenario you just start a new game until you get the hang of it. Life is not like that. There's no practice run, and when you make what turns out to be the wrong decision it can follow you around for the rest of your life.

His point is that it's extremely possible, and in fact happens every day, that you can be a talented, hard worker who put in the same amount of hard work and time that someone else did, and make all the objectively correct choices, and the difference between the levels of success you both achieve can and will be huge.

Hah, you caught me. I actually worked part time at k-5 afterschool program for 3 years during my first run at college. Nothing will teach you patience like working with young children, and I definitely recycle a lot of the stuff they taught us for interacting with children in dealing with my personal/work relationships.