The best way to get into coding is to surround yourself in it by switching to linux and starting to program your own desktop interfaces (can be through browser too). Once you live in your own software the surface area for motivation is significantly higher so you actually learn stuff. Come up with ways to automate what you do and don’t be afraid to fail.

Can’t wait to see the complete demise of Salesforce.

Genital mutilation is inexcusable disgusting tradition - don’t do it.

To me diamond looks like a piece of glass. Sure it’s more durable but I think the existence of modern glass ruined any visual uniqueness diamond had.

Then the things like Swarovski crystals just entirely destroyed any remaining appeal.

Oops didn’t see it when I looked up before posting

It’s not the only one but I’m just stumped by incompetence here to the point where it almost feels like malice.

As someone already pointed out it’s a lost game regardless of platform as long as closed source software is used on any machine anywhere it’s fundamentally unsafe. Black market operators like Israel’s Pegasus have been selling ios day 0 exploits for years and there are probably hundreds that exist out there for every single platform.

The good part is that these rare exploits will not be used on you because they are too valuable the bad part is that the only way against them is full system transparency which is not happening anytime soon.

True crime gets really really weird especially when you dive into more rare extreme niches.

Ants are everywhere in south east asia so I’d never or build a little tower with a water bowl underneath it.

I’ve been a digital nomad for almost 20 years now as a software engineer. It’s by far the best way to live imo especially if you can have remote income. The world is incredible, there are so many places, so many cultures, so many people to connect with - living in a single location seems like missing out.

Yes, contemporary economy and free markets are so imaginary now that cascading effects and bubble pops like 2008 are very unlikely. American stock market in particular is so far off reality (even before AI boom) that it’s basically a video game with no actual relevancy to true gross product. While China/Russia is a dictatorship with no representation of reality at all and can easily hide the burden of bad economic policies in the obedient peasant class.

So we have dictatorship with imaginary worlds vs “free markets” living in their own imaginary simulation. Economy is all made up now and cascades are basically impossible because that requires rationality.

Ah yes “the stoopit west har har” propaganda lol

Unpopular opinion but this will not as bad as housing bubble and we’re way past bubbles actually popping in contemporary economy. Even China corrected for its massive ghost city housing bubble just recently and that was actually worse than ai tech overvaluation.

I’m not neurodivergent but I think its a great way to signal inclusivity despite much of it coming off as cringe “autism is a super power”. Bit of cringe is a small price to pay to protect more vulnerable.

Why you have to be such a loser?

What a way to say the same thing but differently, well done.

I like the system in Asimov’s Escape (from the I, Robot series). Spoilers ahead:

Two field engineers experience bizarre, dreamlike disorientation during the jump; afterward Susan Calvin explains the Brain discovered that hyperspace causes a momentary cessation of existence (i.e., you’re effectively disassembled and reassembled), which would panic a robot under the First Law—so the Brain (ship’s AI) masked it with funny/benign hallucinations and only reveals it after they return.

I’d imagine that a lot of future experiences led by true AI would be philosophically challenging like this.

Cause tech illiterate people need as much friction removed as possible.

Once I took this giant thc gummy and learned how to whistle quite loud. Went to sleep, woke up and can’t do it anymore 😭