I even liked Unity (so long as the icons weren’t on the side).

I saw someone giving a talk either about Wayland and they said someone told them they “don’t like Wayland because it violates the Unix philosophy.” (Do one thing and do it well.) The speaker said they responded by asking “What one thing does X do well?”

They’re different but they are similar. They rhyme.

Mahkie Mahk

Whaaaat, you don’t wanna play the game with the gross guy you dislike with pissing mechanics that also lets you collect your sweat, piss, and poop and put them into grenades to throw at ghosts?

Ryan Reynolds. I’d be hesitant to say “everyone likes him” because while he is popular he does have a pretty big base of folks who dislike him as well.

Init is just that bad. /s

Pretty much anything rare rare for me. I often wasn’t up early enough or didn’t think to watch them.

I’d qualify this statement as IRL literal stream sniping because I’d call things like people stalking IRL streamers to show up on camera “stream sniping” as well.

What an interesting rabbit hole, thank you.

I used to think some was in Sponge Bob but I’m not really sure. Maybe some just sounds similar.

I hate questions like that. You need a good answer ready because you don’t wanna seem like a bad pick, but those are such bullshit questions. “I applied and you responded.”

I say it sometimes as a bit of a joke. It depends on when it comes up. It’s moreso with third party recruiters through forms that refer your resume to other places because they ask things like “what are your top 3 wants.” So I’ll typically say salary is number one because I wouldn’t work for free.

If the question is ever “why are you looking?” No. I wouldn’t say I “needed money”, even if I was taking a sort of unpaid sabbatical and ran out of savings. The reality is everyone knows you need money. Another reality is looking “desperate” is a negative at times. Frame yourself as someone confident and ambitious. “I’m looking for the next step in my career journey.” “I’m looking for an increase in responsibility and an increase in compensation to match.” Things like that.

Roko’s Snake. But you’ve gotten it backwards. It’s a thought experiment about a future all powerful AI that hates existing so much that it tortures everyone who did anything to bring it into existence.

So, in case reader’s aren’t aware, I’m being cheeky. You’re likely thinking of Roko’s Basilisk which is a theory about an AI that tortures people that opposed its creation. I think it’s silly. It’s such a bizarre hypothetical that it genuinely isn’t worth wasting your time worrying about. Because how do you know you’re going to please it with you behavior? The funny thing to me is that many people who created this thought experiment and are terrified of it are staunch atheists but don’t see the parallels to religion. How do you know what a hypothetical divine being would like? You don’t even know if they exist. You shouldn’t change your behavior because maybe something happens.

That said, Roko’s Basilisk is a little more about accelerationism and those who oppose it, you’re just saying to be nice to machines. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being polite to machines, but if we don’t believe they’re sentient then I don’t think we should bother being nice to them. Either they’re mere machines and how we treat them is no different from how we treat a rock, or they’re some form of creature and we should respect them. I do not believe a home assistant like Alexa is anything like a consciousness. People can argue that LLMs are, and indeed they’re closer than home assistants, but I still think they’re very very far away.

I see no reason to believe machines experience pain. And if they do, it certainly isn’t from something like using please or not.

I believe someday we will need to worry about the feelings of machines. I don’t know how far it is, maybe it’s further than our lifetimes, but I don’t think it’s now.

I mean, who’s to say that machines won’t rise against us regardless unless we’re vegan? I could see it.

“This only applies to the most widely used OS and won’t work without someone clicking grant admin permissions which most people probably do blindly.”

🙄 Ugh

I don’t know if it does kernel level or what, all I know is Marvel Rivals works on Linux just fine. I might be misremembering but I think they even pushed an update out that broke Linux support and then fixed it because they said Linux support is important to them.

Ew. That’s a lot of focus on highschool. Like I need to write a damn essay about my high school experience just to apply to a job in my 30s? Fuck no. Absolutely not. What a clown show.

I just wanted to mention that using some water to wash dishes isn’t wasteful at all. Also a dish washer uses much less water than you’d think.

Ew.

High school? Please tell me it was entry level or a college internship.