But also, don’t think you have to do all the work yourself. I think we very often underestimate the importance of being the one that simply plants the seed. Of course the difficulty is that usually we can’t tell if said seed has actually been planted, so it feels like a waste of energy.
Oh, is that how you look at it? That’s… interesting.
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Sshush! You ate giving the tankies ideas!
All day every day. My dad was a construction worker and would only have a use for books if he needed to start a fire. I won’t try to bend the three braincells that somehow survived a lifetime of alcoholism into shape.
On his tombstone it shall say “he died as he lived, an idiot.”
“We didn’t have ‘neurodivergent’ people when i was young” he said, cradling his beer bottle.
While gambling away his money
At work, the team isn’t very good at python. They’re mostly SQL people. Which is fine. I’m happy to mentor and guide.
The product lady said to me “can you write a guide on confluence about how to do python good?”
I’m like, people write whole published books about that you gotta pay money for. I’m not going to bang out a couple paragraphs and code blocks and suddenly people are heavy weights.
I wrote something anyway because I don’t want to further irritate the product lady.
I was a TA in a class that expected knowledge of C. A lot of students who had only ever used Python asked if I could ring them up to speed. One student even asked if he could write it in Python and then I could “just translate it over”
Just add semi colons and brackets, right?
Just put a bunch of asterisks everywhere.
That’s the seasoning.
It’s never spicy enough until you sprinkle enough around!
No that’s PHP.
It’s rather trivial to translate Python to C:
$ cat << EOF > ./shitpost.c && gcc -O2 -o ./shitpost ./shitpost.c && ./shitpost #include <stdlib.h> int main(int argc, char** argv) { system("python3 -c \\"print(\\\\\\"Hello, World!\\\\\\")\\""); return 0; } EOF Hello, World!My C is a bit rusty though, sorry.
Tbf I blame whoever did was planning the prerequisites. CS majors actively wish NOT to learn any more languages than they physically have to in my experience.
“I’ll just hold off on the termination notice until you’ve finished writing it.”
So, look AI sucks, but busywork like this might do ok at “a quick guide to python”.
This is capitalism
It is not capitalism and this is not me defending it, but rather pointing out that it is how humanity naturally seems to structure itself. The narcissist / psychopaths / sociopaths tend to get into “leadership” positions and the dumb folks idolize and empower them and thus we end up with the smartest people writing a few paragraphs for the manager who is socially savvy but suffers from the Dunning Kruger Effect. This happens in all economic and political systems including Capitalism and Communism as the Sam people tend to get into positions of power.
Sounds like a perfect job for oneshotting LLM prompt and direct copy-paste without looking at the results.
…I don’t like that comma
You can’t fix this person’s entire educational history.
What about an opening single quotation mark (
‘) being used instead of an apostrophe (’)?Oh wtf I didn’t even notice that, shit‘s cursed
Agreed. Should be a colon
*semi
A semi would be used to break up two independent clauses. A colon is used when introducing the conclusion to a previous statement. In this case, a semi wouldn’t be used because the first sentence makes no sense without the second
My best friend recently told me :
“Did you see the image of the original moon landing ? It looks so so fake”
I was shocked. An engineer with supposedly a scientific background was starting to take on conspiracy theories.
I just said that the moon landing was not fake and that it would have been impossible to fake something on this scale and that there was plenty of documentation about the Apollo mission online.
But I feel sad because it’s obvious his social network interactions online are pushing him toward very toxic content.
It kinda does look fake especially for then. But it also was unlike anything ever done before using technology basically at science fiction level for the 60s. It looks like fiction because it was so advanced for the time it was borderline science fiction. Still amazing evertime I think about it.
Also I do think its somewhat doctored. Nothing malicious you can achieve the same thing with a monitors built in settings, they just fucked with the contrast and some other shit to make it look not weird. Kinda like how Neptune is just kinda greyish blue and not a nice deep blue.
Conspiracy theories are fun to listen to, but you have to be careful not to believe them. I grew up on Bigfoot and UFO stories (being near Mendocino and having farm family does that to you) but, well aside from the family Bigfoot pranks we were very clear it was all make believe.
I wouldn’t put it past the US government to pull some shenanigans, and I certainly wouldn’t rule out the possibility that some aspect of it was a lie. That being said, I have yet to see any evidence that it was faked that isn’t simply a misunderstanding of the science.
I like to just plant a little seed in moments like this. Even if you just feign ignorance and ask a Socratic question or two… Get their little grey cells working in their sleep maybe. You never know
It’s rare to find people who are actually interested in learning anything, most will just parrot something they’ve heard in passing or rely on gut feeling, and if your fact goes against their made up assumption then they will deny what you say rather than look it up and learn, because being seen to not know something hurts their feelings.
You gotta switch their gears from defense ive/debate mode before they’ll even consider what you have to say.
Even then you won’t see the positive change in the moment. It’ll come 2 years later while they’re drying their hair and it all clicks
As an autistic individual who already has enough trouble with social interaction, asking me to dance around the fragile emotional state of someone being willfully ignorant might as well be the same as asking me to sprout wings and fly.
Yeah if it’s not in your skill set no shame in leaving this labour to someone more suited to it
The best thing you can do in these situations is to ask a critically reflective question for them to sit with. You can and never have been able to change someone’s mind just like that. What you can is be part of the web of critical thoughts that help them towards thinking critically about their idea.
Yea they’re looking for agreements to help lock in the idea. The algorithms don’t ever have anyone critically questioning them on their little podcasts.
So Be the critical question asker that they forgot to be before buying the idea.
Be Columbo. ‘Oh before I forget Just one last question…’
Loved Peter falk in that show.
It’s the socratic method.
Hits me every time. I may know I am right and the other person is wrong, but the amount of re-education needed for them to realize it - undoable for me
We don’t always have the time and some ideas are too complex.
But this is what good teachers are good at. You need to relate to your student before you can teach them anything.
“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.” -Marshall Macluhan.
People are not entertained by “you are wrong I am right.” Literally nobody is. There’s an art to teaching.
The entirety of .ml in a nutshell. They even proudly label themselves tankies but if you ask them if they support killing civilians in the Hungarian and Czechoslovakian uprisings, they have no idea what you’re talking about. Genocide denying bootlickers the lot.
Not to mention the china and lenin worship
They’ll say it’s random-3-letter-agency sponsored.
It’s fucking wild the amount of right wingers I run into that worship this dude. Like dude, you know he is left AF right?
I heard in a pobcast he’s vegetarian, too.
edit: A pobcast isn’t a thing. But it should be.
The wins just keep coming for homie.
Sympathetic edit: while I personally love crying, a 45 minute marathon of it seems a bit much.
Edit 2: oh my fucking god the myth, the legend the big ass name responded to me! I didn’t even realize it was you. I’ll stop gushing, but I feel blessed.
What an honor to be honored in a thread about an oscar winning actor.
I’m just a regular person who owns pants and tried cat food at least once like everybody else.
You earned it with the paper perpetua.
Weirdly enough, in print class we learned there’s a limit of 11-14 times pulp can be recyled, but no explanation as to why. I prefer it to be a mystery.
It is now. Rule 34 dude
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It’s like they see him on Peaky Binders and think he’s like that IRL or something. Reminds me of when right winners realized RAtM were “political” and got all butthurt about it lol
You and the guy you’re arguing with feel the same way.
One or both of you is wrong.
Both, obviously, but in different interesting ways.
When I was quite a bit younger I used to argue against young Earth creationists online. Eventually I came to mostly the same conclusion: there’s just so much wrong with everything they believe, there’s nowhere to even begin taking it all apart. No amount of reason will cut through their faith.
I am (well, probably now ‘was’. Birthdays suck) a young ex-church goer. I am young enough to bounce back and re-learn how the world works.
My mom is 56. She can’t bounce back and learn a whole new world.
She can’t bounce back and learn a whole new world.
You can open her eyes. Take her, wonder by wonder.
A whole new Moooooom…
Congrats!
I was lucky enough to grow up with parents who let me figure things out on my own without trying to indoctrinate me. I had a very brief flirtation with religion in my teens (thanks to a girl) but grew out of it real fast.
I’m glad you managed to get out.
That’s why you shouldn’t talk with them, but rather the lurkers in the forum that might still have a chance.
I like to think that was my hope.
It annoys me that Dawkins spent so much time arguing with them.
Part of me worries that he legitimized then by arguing with them, another part rejoices that he made them look like the dumbfucks they are and hopefully others maybe on the fence took notice.
They think the same.
