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To be honest, if a guy decides not to date me because of "TeaOnHer", it's probably saved me some time.

I've been here for 15+ years and I've never seen a sushi place without salmon. But I've never been to a "fancy" sushi place, just supermarkets, kaiten chains and neighborhood resta…

I had an encounter with the opposite problem the other day, PM asked me if the library I was using for randomization was "secure" and I said, "Yes, I used the standard Java library…

There's probably a lot of little nudges one can get in their life that make them more likely to pick up programming, but I think a big one for present generations is exposure to vi…

Current workplace has cargo-culted this so hard the tickets look like "As a backend foo-server, I need to modify the baz function to create an interface for blargh requests."

So far it seems insiders are mostly incentivized to bet on their insider information at the last possible minute , so that the market doesn't have time to adjust toward their posit…

>>> //How did this happen?? >>> log.fatal("Aaaaarrrgghhhh"); Reminds me of working at a small Japanese company and someone had written a try-catch for retrieving a crucial bit of c…

Don't really get why people are saying letting ticket prices rise to the maximum of what the market will bear, even if it's unaffordable to most fans, is the only solution. I've be…

Perhaps it has something to do with recent human trends for saying "goblin" or "gremlin" to describe... basically the opposite of dignified and socially acceptable behavior, like h…

The general principle here is that engaging with your hobbies and interests in the second language is a good way to increase exposure (and also more fun). For me, it was translatin…

My first thought was "Trenchcoat Demon" for the three-people-in-a-robe creature but I suppose that wouldn't quite fit the setting (but maybe acceptable if its existence is intended…

Australia has "yous" which I think is a useful and sensible innovation!

Surprised that bus driver and delivery driver are "good" when there are definite efforts to automate both driving and delivery.

I think being on the spectrum might lower a person's risk in some ways and increase it in others. On one hand, some autistic people are less swayed by emotive language and therefor…

Chat-GPT is the worst for sycophancy, but even Claude responds to me thinking about or asking fairly obvious things with praise for how insightful I am to notice that and how this …

Oh that looks like fun.

I have color-grapheme synesthesia. Pros are I can write passwords down as a series of colored blobs and reliably decode them. Cons are I occasionally make weird errors like repeate…

And Grok is probably pulling answers from ChatGPT generated content around the web. It's the ciiiiiircle, the circle of slop.

If you saw a video of a person doing something cool, and later found out it was AI generated, would you still be impressed? Of course, it's not exactly the same situation, but if I…

Anki flashcards, stretching (particularly focused on a previously injured bad hip), observing people/reading body language, observing birds/trees/plants/the sky practicing emptying…

Because deficits in social functioning often lead to the person experiencing emotional suffering and difficulty in friendship, career and relationships, often causing them to devel…

I can't help but notice people want to define 'real autism' as only those who are impaired to the extent that they can't advocate for themselves, which conveniently means never hav…

>>> Here's my question: why did the files that you submitted name Mark Shinwell as the author? >>> Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it. Really sums the whole thi…

I'd like to make the point that even if this does occur, it doesn't mean, "therefore this medication shouldn't be used/is worse than doing nothing," just that awareness and caution…

I'm glad it's demonstrating its inherent untrustworthiness in such a spectacular (and funny) way. Probably still won't stem the flood of 'grok is this real' but this is better than…