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That describes everything Jeetu is involved in. I'm very glad to have recently left Cisco.

Indians have always been stereotyped for sycophancy and slavish adherance to spec over common sense, so it makes sense that that would go with being AI pilled.

I don't understand the outrage about filling out a form. It's not an argument from any principle. That the president could not exercise his will because someone down the chain didn't fill out a form that otherwise serves no real purpose and would be read by no one of import sounds like a Kafkaesque nightmare.

The common presumption that when the electorate expresses their will to change things, the elected will still not be able to change anything due to entrenched bureaucracy, and this is good, is one of the reasons Trump won twice.

I don't get how anyone actively using AI can believe this. Astra sucks ass.

Making your engineers use AI with little to no measurable improvement, but with very measurable high cost, is not delivering

So if I found a company and it becomes worth a billion dollars, thereby making me a billionaire, I get the guillotine or what? Where is the cutoff for me losing the fruits of my labors?

I don't see why that would happen. The money is being spent whether it's distributed to the masses and spent on food, or spent on a yacht. If anything it should be deflationary because the rich mostly don't spend their money, else they wouldn't be rich.

Buddy... It's purely economic factors. You are attributing malice to me.

Look we can just stop pretending that India isn't largely technically incompetent. We've all worked with offshore devs. Let's just be honest on the internet and stop pretending not to understand things.

The only time anything like this has ever happened was in Malaysia and now India, so...

Far away from the nearest technologically competent country where this would not happen

It's not about buying the thing or not but about inserting oneself as an unnecessary middleman who just raises the price, which only works due to the customer's ignorance. It's essentially deceiving someone into paying more than they had to. I don't see how it could be considered positive.

Reminder that a bunch of states tried to remove Trump from the ballot 2 years ago

If the majority of citizens want a thing but somehow the few elites ban that thing, it can, often does, and probably should result in a violent uprising. Every time this happens in history we praise the rebels. So I have to say that if AfD gets banned I will not be surprised or upset if politicians end up murdered over it.

The demo is barely more than a tutorial...

It's bad game design if it were the game, but it's not the game. You said "that's not a good puzzle. It's not good game design. It's antagonistic to the player in the worst possible way."

But it's not really a puzzle, or the game, or antagonizing you, because there's no purpose in doing it. Like I said, it's just something that exists in the game. It's not the game; it doesn't reflect upon the puzzle design or the game design because it's irrelevant to the actual puzzles and the actual game.

I'll repeat myself: if you stand in one spot for an hour a special sound effect plays and some lights flash for 2 seconds. If that happened in Call of Duty, it would be strange, but it also would have nothing to do with the game design quality of Call of Duty. It would not make sense to say Call of Duty has bad game design due to the presence of this thing.

I'm defending the witness because it's a good game, and this comment thread implies that doing that dumb thing is required to play or finish the game, when it is not. It is a misleading comment that gives an uninformed reader an incorrect impression of the product.

> they just sound like people privatizing what your local government should be doing.

Yes, that is what they are. It's easier to agree to a covenant to follow some rules and do things than it is to change laws and then get them enforced. You can't think of one thing you wish would be enforced that isn't a law? "I wish my neighbor didn't paint his house an ugly hot pink and park a rusted tractor on the lawn." Well with a hoa you can all agree to not do that.

American cities are largely failed states where police would not respond to anything short of murder, so yeah be grateful for your place of living

City services are not as good as the private services I pay for though. The area behind my gate is a lush oasis; the surrounding area is bare minimum. My parks are pristine and have no dog poop. The public parks are not that. My life will not be subject to a large number of neighbor inconveniences; police would not do something about a dog waking me at nights or littering or speeding past my road where my kids play at 50mph. I get no solicitors ever because of the gate. The guards at the gate require salaries that someone has to pay for.

Mine is also pretty good. It's a beautiful place with a guard gate. I don't even like hoas, it kind of pisses me off that I can't do ugly customizations, but it's not really a big issue. The neighborhood was nice enough that I chose to buy there. If there were no HOA it would look like the rest of town which is shoddy.

If my neighbor decides to start blasting music at 3am for some reason, I don't have to suck it up for the next decade, I can just get the HOA to deal with it. Very peaceful.

If you don't like a manicured public area that costs communal money to maintain, then don't buy a hoa property. Very simple

This is just not true. One of the great things about the game is how each set of puzzles is a new emergent idea. You are required to make a leap of reasoning. You often do not know in a general sense what to do, because once you do the puzzles are quite easy. The difficulty, and the fun, is in discovering emergent behavior of systems. There are puzzles with just two pieces on a simple screen that boggle the mind initially.

You don't have to do it though. There is no reward, no achievement, nothing unlocks. It's functionally equivalent to "if you stand in one spot for an hour a special sound effect plays and some lights flash for 2 seconds." I think it's psychologically interesting how many people get angry that this sound effect is programmed into the game.

I consider the witness one of my favorite games, and I fully completed it, but I did not do that because it's dumb. The existence of the thing really has nothing to do with the game.

It's not for the sake of it; they cut hundreds of puzzles. It just has that many unique ideas!

Basing your opinion about a state from two YouTube videos is a very Internet thing to do. I am quite sure I can find two YouTube videos of stupid police and people in every state and country on earth.

I can imagine that happening. It's kind of required to keep a high trust society that everyone try to share culture. That doesn't mean mormonism but it does mean dressing generally within certain bounds. That guy was basically signalling, intentionally, "I do not adhere to your norms!!" which is not going to go over well or engender trust. Not because he was black. Minorities acting and dressing in a traditional manner are respected there.

It's probably axiomatic that a high trust society and a fully liberal one where everyone does whatever they feel like are incompatible. But we've got endless places for the latter and SLC is one of the few of the former.

Have to disagree there as it doesn't make much sense. The point is to strengthen the muscles of the back. Keeping a more vertical back angle directly reduces force on those muscles while keeping the same spinal compression. You want the opposite, to have maximal muscle involvement with minimal compression. Back extensions progressing to normal deadlifts are indicated.

I see what you're saying but I don't fully agree. Art is the obvious counterexample, like the poetry circles of old. The hobby was writing and sharing your poetry with peers. If no one was reading it, there would be much less joy in the production. That doesn't make it a job, it just makes it a social hobby.

The thing with that poster is that the output is not wholly art but also utility, so the AI could fully subsume that thing, if the consumers only care for the utility part. And software in general, qua art, is not an art that anyone but the author consumes, except for video games. So you're kind of right but also I think OP was using software as an artistic outlet through a utility output, which was neither a job nor is his current despair unfounded.

OP if you want to keep writing software for others you have to abandon the utility function and make art, such as games. That will fix your issue. And no, AI cannot make games as good as a human can.

Deadlifts helped my chronic congenital back pain that is probably some combination of DDD and scoliosis and multiple herniations. Yes sometimes it pisses off the disks and I'm pretty useless for a day or two. And yes it has added some other problems. But overall I went from constant sharp pain nearly unable to remain seated, to occasional dull pain I can ignore, and rarely some really bad pain. Overall it's much better of a life.

SS was not "raided" . Whatever made you think that is surely contributing to human misery. It's just running out because it's always been a scheme where the young pay the old and we have fewer young than old. The people getting SS payments, themselves paid into it! It's not any sort of raid, corruption, evil...