They/them preferred, but I won’t be mad if you forget :). Retired programmer. Many health conditions. If I’m uncharacteristically grumpy, I probably have a migraine.
There’s many points to self hosting - reducing subscriptions is just one of them
Personally I pay donations to every service I use, so it’s basically an optional subscription but with infinitely more data sovereignty, control, privacy, and customisation
I don’t have a VPS, I just used an old desktop I had lying around from years ago
I spent 2 weeks configuring my self host server, and in retrospect it was all pretty simple… but actually doing it right the first time is not simple lol. It’s a knowledge check like playing King’s Quest or other Sierra games. If you already know what to do yeah it’s simple… but good freaking luck getting it right on the first try with only vague directions
I feel like maybe 10% of people would actually prepare correctly. If those preparations are tested, there will be a huge mess
This gif feels sexually frustrating
It’s a symptom of overwork. People are too tired to exist outside of work, so they actually are forced to buy the coffee / chai latte / whatever. Without the drink they can’t get through the day. Then they’re too tired to make lunch so they have to buy the $10 bagel. Then they need to order dinner because no fucking way are you going to the grocery store or preparing anything after a 996 shift. Then you lose consciousness on the couch and repeat tomorrow
It’s essentially another form of income tax; the higher paying your job the more you have to pay in human fuel
It’s also one of those weird networking obligations too, where if you skip too often, people notice
The learning only lasts as long as people remember. At some point, all the people who became (or were raised by) middle-class will be gone
We already see this with Zoomers / Gen Alphas. They don’t give a fuck, because they grew up watching both their broke-ass millennial parents somehow working their asses off full time while still taking it up the ass by the economy. Love them disillusioned little gremlins
The problem is that it’s a slippery slope. Batman doesn’t want to be the type of person who kills; that’s the line he’s drawn in the sand, for better or worse. If you justify killing just the Joker, what about the next supervillain that shows up? And the next one? Suddenly you’re just killing every one of them, because it’s easier
Plus there would be a lot more public scrutiny. He gets away with a lot of shit I think partly because he doesn’t actually kill anyone. The police actually mostly work with him not against him; I think that would change if he has a huge body count
If you read the manifesto they’re accelerating towards “zero human written code”. I.e. no augment; the LLM performs it’s own code review. Humans don’t even look at the code anymore. Programmers all get fired; only employees left are project managers
Yes, really
I had a problem with these services where like 0.1% of emails would not go through. They got stuck or something. Unraveling all these aliases sure was a pain
One time I mixed powdered milk into my full fat milk. I dunno what you would call it but it was yummy. Like 150% milk or something
I wonder what the overlap in demographics are for Nintendo DS owners and katana owners? I’m imagining it’s statistically significant
You’re making that exact same fundamental attribution error, just at one layer deeper. Instead of assuming that they’re a bad driver, you’re assuming that it was their personal choice to buy that car. We don’t know anything about their life situation, or their circumstances.
Here’s some example outside factors to ponder:
Dishes are a unique kind of chore, with a huge possibility for resentment, not just a “shared chore”. Most who have lived long term with another knows how it goes
That’s why what usually ends up happening is some combination of these:
No matter which side of the interaction you’re on, you’re likely to encounter resentment. Either for being constantly nagged about something you don’t see as a big deal, or annoyance because you forgot just a few times and feel undeserved scrutiny, or frustration because the other person never cleans at all
Compare this to, say; taking the trash out, laundry, or tending the plants. It’s not even close in terms of how much another’s actions impact your physical or mental health
In social psychology, the fundamental attribution error is a cognitive attribution bias in which observers underemphasize situational and environmental factors for the behavior of an actor while overemphasizing dispositional or personality factors. In other words, observers tend to overattribute the behaviors of others to their personality (e.g., he is late because he’s selfish) and underattribute them to the situation or context (e.g., he is late because he got stuck in traffic).
In Pathfinder I think canonically you absorb your equipment into your body somehow when transforming. Like a pants pouch
Waxing gibbous
It’s not the point of the comic but it’s still an excellent example of the thing the other person said. Fundamental whatever
Have you tried using the dedicated triple dot character (…) instead of three separate dots (…)? It’s a life changer
Australian fisherman absolutely fucking slammed over ripping a bong through a ripper’s dripper