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last_philosopher

@ last_philosopher @lemmy.world

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I very deliberately avoid politics. If I fail let me know.

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  • "Remember when I promised I'd fix your computer?""That's right! You did!""I lied."

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    How do I create a community on Lemmy? My instance is lemdro.id.

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  • I don't have an account there but my guess is that "create" link in the top right

  • Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?

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  • The problem is in parks everyone is too spread out to talk to strangers. There needs to be a park with a bar to bring everyone together.

  • Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?

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  • If you have a retirement account, it's probably in some sort of stocks. Be aware of what those are. Consider including some non-American index funds that are not particularly tech heavy. S&P index funds are significantly exposed to AI-related tech companies, and their usual safety is currently questionable.

  • What's the status on Wikipedia donations?

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  • I give through my employer which matches donations. You should look into whether that's available since it'll double the amount.

    Decentralized truth is essential to human freedom. It's not enough to just run wikipedia as a bare bones site, they need to be able to adapt to the times and maybe even fund new projects with the same goals. For people who actually care about the future, it's hard to think of a better use of the money.

  • Are there actually any good mobile games?

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  • What the fuck is existence? What even is the truth? How does one know their parents are even real, and not just another actor in an IRL "Truman Show". Isn't history just another story?

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  • You can kinda guess the world is real because of the CAP theorem. Hear me out.

    1. The CAP theorem says a computing system cannot perfectly have all 3 of: Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance (division of some parts of a distributed system from another). We'll assume this is true and somewhat dubiously assume this applies to any simulated universe
    2. Availability is a necessity. A simulated universe that suddenly starts lagging or buffering would mean the jig would be up pretty quickly. You'd probably want a distributed system that can spin up new computing instances instantly, but that brings up issues with partitioning....
    3. But lack of partition tolerance would make it pretty obvious that the universe is fake, because some parts of it would be inaccessible. So can't sacrifice that.
    4. Therefore, the only thing left is consistency. A simulated universe would need some kind of inconsistency. In a web site, this might mean content is available to users in some areas but not others. In a simulated universe, we'd expect people in some areas to have a different experience of objective reality than others. But there's no evidence of this ever happening, unless you wanna go down some Mandela effect rabbit hole.
    5. That leaves us with the conclusion that the universe is not a computing system at all, but rather a thing in itself. It doesn't need to stay consistent because it is consistent fundamentally.
    6. Also, let's just ignore relativistic speed limits and quantum mechanics entirely.

  • Everyone on the planet gets soul transplanted into their complete and total opposite. How fucked/blessed are you?

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  • So I get to be an unemployed Chinese woman with high financial needs. I don't see this ending well.

  • Any weird dreams recently?

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  • I dreamt I had a really bad bed bug problem. And when I removed up I had itching on my arm as I guess a lingering effect of the dream. But in my just-removed-up haze I was thinking maybe I actually did have a bed bug problem and the dream was my body's way of trying to warn me.

  • Merge conflicts

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  • It's shorter. Also "master" is especially egregious as as it requires the last 5 letters to be typed with the same hand, while "main" makes better use of bimanual parallelism.

  • I've always been the kid taking something apart in the living room floor, what are you outside of society and capitalism?

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  • I'm the opposite, I put things together that were never supposed to be put together like that.

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    Is there like a cheat code for dating apps?

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  • Having gone from the guy with no matches to getting good matches, in part from advice from female friends, here's what worked for me in order of priority:

    1. De-red flag. Remember, men are about 5-10x as likely to commit acts of violence as women. So imagine you're looking at your profile as a third person, assuming there's a good chance you're a serial killer. Make sure your jokes are clearly jokes and can't be read as hinting at any extreme beliefs or even overall weirdness. Seriously, there's like a 90% chance that if you haven't done this already, you've got something on your profile that's terrifying to most women. Now a common faulty cognition I see is "I should tell her what other girls don't like about me as a warning". No, stop. That's not how you do it. Because girls will assume it's 1000% worse than what you're saying, and even worse the algorithm will nuke you if you get too many rejections. Instead, see step 4) and reject other girls who won't be into you.
    2. Good pictures. Again, 1) comes into play here. No dark backgrounds. Nothing that looks like one of those pictures they show of suspects on the news. Outdoors is good. If you have pictures with people, great. If not, no sweat, just make it look good. Look up a guide on how to take a good selfie and use it.
    3. Keep your written answers short. No one reads them anyway, unless they're really long and creepy. You're not going to convince her you're Shakespeare, she's really just checking to make sure you don't remind her of someone she had a terrible experience with.
    4. Now all that being said, the best strategy for swiping is to be the opposite of most people. Don't just swipe on anyone who meets your attractiveness standards. Instead, swipe only on girls you'd really be excited to meet, and that you think would be excited to meet you too. Are you frugal? Don't swipe right on the model with a Gucci bag. I know it's hard. But you really have no chance of making it and dating her would make you miserable anyway. So swipe left and get the little boost that helps you meet a better match. I will say I've followed this strategy on Hinge which supposedly has a better algorithm for matching people, so I can't guarantee it for other sites.

  • Anyone know what this symbol means?

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  • I'm generally highly suspicious of any picture of a piece of paper with writing on it posted on social media.

  • is there any way to invest ethically as a sole individual?

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  • Not sure what you mean by Michael Burry levels of ethical investment, but he has a fund and apparently its most recent disclosed holdings are here. You could just buy (or rather sell, in most cases) those. As you can see 6 out of 7 positions are short - meaning he's betting the stock price will decline - and if you would rather bet against every corporation shorting is an option. But be aware, it's very hard to make money shorting because you're fighting inflation and losses are unlimited. Great way to go bankrupt, especially if you're new to investing.

    Beyond that, if you want minimal exposure to some asshole CEO, you can invest in commodities like Gold (e.g. GLD, which is a gold ETF that just holds gold bars, and generally goes up over time) and a billion other things. Bond etfs are another option (but pose some risk of losing money at the moment due to inflation/interest rate fears), and if you wanna be a sort of landlord you can do a REIT. Many of these pay dividends which probably lowers your risk of loss to some degree. The markets are a little nutty right now and I can't think of a single thing that's easy to predict at the moment.

    Finally, there's simpler options like high interest savings and CDs, which aren't as terrible of an option as usual because interest rates are higher than inflation in the US for the time being.

  • Infallible Code

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  • To be fair, the question is "Write a function that simultaneously determines if the number is even and works as a timer"

  • Lemmy, what's the meaning, or point if you prefer, of life? I know 42, but I'm serious. Nothing lasts, everything is meaningless - are we just amusing ourselves until death?

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  • There's so much to explore. Not just physical locations, but our own minds and each other's too. Learning about the laws of the universe, history, and seeing what's to come. Even pain is a thing to be experienced that the dead don't get to.

    Is all that meaningless? All of us contain our own universe within us. Sure, it would be nice to care about all the other people (if there are other people) and what impact I have on them. But if in the long run nothing I do matters to them, fuck it. I'm mainly concerned with what's going on in here.

  • Needs

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  • Once I worked at a place that had its own in-house project management software. It actually worked rather well. Part of the problem is that every company has its own process and Jira and the like try to accommodate all of them and it ends up being a jumbled mess that doesn't fit anyone's actual process. It's like trying to fit a tesseract-shaped peg into a round hole. But companies don't like to spend money on developing their own software so that's what we end up with.

  • What are your thoughts or predictions for society in the next 5 to 10 years? (serious)

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  • Obviously, solar energy is going to continue to grow. Less obviously, this will have a pretty significant effect on global economics. Countries that previously lacked domestic energy production now will suddenly have it. Countries highly reliant on fossil fuel exports will suddenly be less important. I think this will probably be the most significant change and it'll be for the better. Obviously global warming problems are on the horizon but over 5-10 years from now it'll still be comparatively small.

    I personally don't see AI getting much better than it is now because it's starting to run out of how much it can do with existing data. It'll continue to be a useful tool for autocomplete and generating low-effort content, but otherwise won't rearrange society or build us dyson spheres or anything like some seem to expect. I don't see software technology doing anything especially great for a while and its role in the economy may shrink for the first time really since it started.

    More speculatively, I'd guess we'll see more advancements in DNA and RNA technology that will make medicine more resemble programming rather than throwing stuff at the body and hoping it works. This will progress slowly, but in 5-10 years I think we'll be looking at some vaguely significant impact on common health problems. Other medical tech will be significant too - knowing someone who takes GLP-1s I think we've kind of missed celebrating how big a deal that is for some people.

    Society as a whole - who knows, that's especially hard to predict. I tend to be optimistic that the current reactionary period will fade, having already used up its credibility. I worry though that we're getting better at exploiting human emotions and that can be used by the powerful to control masses. But when has that ever not been a factor? We've only relatively recently emerged from the era of divinely ordained kings, and mass literacy is still quite new in the grand scheme of things. Our society will continue to evolve, a bit inconsistently.

  • Every last one of these questions is terrible

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  • Yeah but first boyfriend/girlfriend drives me crazy because then I'm going back through my various early relationships trying to figure out who counts as a "girlfriend". I'd say Sherry was the first but she always said we were never really together. Well now you're a security question answer so you can't deny it anymore Sherry.

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    Every last one of these questions is terrible

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    Although modern horoscopes typically consist of life advice, it's almost certainly terrible advice because it was written by someone who failed at legitimate or useful employment.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    How strong is fermented bean curd supposed to taste exactly?