And yeah I dunno what can be done about that. You simply cannot fix a seething contempt for any form of duty, obligation, or accountability whatsoever

There are boys who have internalized the worst possible heteropessimism and decided that literally all traits associated with competent adults are feminine and/or gay

If you showed these guys a devoted husband, father, employee, and citizen, they'd call him a cuck

Both of my inlaws have Trump flags in their yards and I will never, ever let them do this

The principal engineer in my group sure is happy that we now have serial control in GRUB over consumer-grade laptops that don't have serial ports, though!

By far the worst part was that the conspiracy theories ensured that the lockdowns were indefinite. I can do anything with a set timeframe. The fact that it just dragged on and on until we collectively decided "welp we didn't fix it, but oh well that's long enough I guess" got to me

I need to go get a real job, probably digging ditches somewhere or cleaning bedpans

ok yeah my profession is completely and utterly toast

I have the need for an EFI driver that allows an FTDI USB-to-serial dongle to control a bootloader. edk2's existing driver simply does not work. Claude fixed it with pretty minimal prodding on my end (relaying error messages, etc)

The only thing is that I need a guarantee that it will actually make it aboard the aircraft. I don't actually need it in the overhead bin. It simply cannot be left behind.

Lemme drop it off at the gate and I'll very happily trade waiting to deplane for waiting in baggage claim

Biology: D. There are too many lab assignments not to ding the kid's grade by a lot, and your written lab reports are just as important as the tests

Math: B. Problem sets exist entirely to learn how to do the problems. They are not worthwhile in and of themselves. Any points that you award for them exist entirely to attempt to motivate the already-conscientious not to blow them off entirely and should be nominal

My dad knew an English professor who took night security jobs so that he could be paid to read piles and piles of books on the job

Claude does not actually need to be that good to render entire swaths of this field unemployable, especially including me. I should probably find a real job

The vast majority of code that I am paid way too much money to write is the programming equivalent of a casino pop-country cover band. It turns out that we awarded way too much prestige for this skill, and Claude is demonstrating that fact.

We can also count them, but the important thing is that they are innumerate

This is inspired parenting

Maybe therapy would help but I don't know what coping mechanisms can contend with "there have been six layoff cycles in five years and my boss is using an LLM to evaluate my self-evaluation to decide who goes in Layoff #7"

I am sufficiently concerned about my job prospects that despite making more money than I ever have, I am spending as if I am going to be long term unemployed shortly. And I was already incredibly cheap in the first place

Is this necessary? Absolutely not. You can stop at any time. Most don't

Regardless of how wealthy you are, you are likely to be "average" in your social circle. Unless you're a billionaire, there will always be somebody richer than you to imitate. That person is in a slightly different social circle that includes even richer people for them to imitate!

My brother-in-law is one of these people and just shipped out to boot camp!

I do not trust it for code, mostly because I cannot read code for shit and need to write it to understand it. But jeez it's good for "what compiler warning / error do I need to disable to compile this library from 1992"

After messing with Claude a bunch for a work project, I've concluded that this is an incredibly useful tool for "doing homework" - that is, asking questions that I used to ask Google.

The fact that Google is now awful has contributed to this

I can't stop reposting this stupid panel from Preacher because he has the exact same syndrome as Hanania bsky.app/profile/pogt...

I still think it's a shitty name, especially when brought to a popular audience, but he's defining his terms pretty reasonably.

You could have left-wing authoritarian followers as well, who support a revolutionary leader who wants to overthrow the establishment. I knew a few in the 1970s, Marxist university students who constantly spouted their chosen authorities, Lenin or Trotsky or Chairman Mao. Happily they spent most of their time fighting with each other, as lampooned in Monty Python’s Life of Brian where the People’s Front of Judea devotes most of its energy to battling, not the Romans, but the Judean People’s Front. But the left-wing authoritarians on my campus disappeared long ago. Similarly in America “the Weathermen” blew away in the wind. I’m sure one can find left-wing authoritarians here and there, but they hardly exist in sufficient numbers now to threaten democracy in North America. However I have found bucketfuls of right-wing authoritarians in nearly every sample I have drawn in Canada and the United States for the past three decades. So when I speak of “authoritarian followers” in this book I mean right-wing authoritarian followers, as identified by the RWA scale.

In North America people who submit to the established authorities to extraordinary degrees often turn out to be political conservatives, 2 so you can call them “right-wingers” both in my new-fangled psychological sense and in the usual political sense as well. But someone who lived in a country long ruled by Communists and who ardently supported the Communist Party would also be one of my psychological right-wing authoritarians even though we would also say he was a political left-winger. So a right-wing authoritarian follower doesn’t necessarily have conservative political views. Instead he’s someone who readily submits to the established authorities in society, attacks others in their name, and is highly conventional. It’s an aspect of his personality, not a description of his politics. Right-wing authoritarianism is a personality trait, like being characteristically bashful or happy or grumpy or dopey.

From Bob Altemeyer's book on the subject:

I always assumed that the name came first to describe "big file whose content could be Literally Anything" and then the initialism came later, especially since we frequently say "binary blob" (although we say "ATM machine, too...)

Every field needs the intro-level textbook, if only to make sure that everybody is on the same page when you say "Okay, the cows are no longer spherical and we have air"

My money is on imitation lamb gyro. As for what goes into it - probably at least 30% mammal?

The number I've read is $2B per drug, and 1 in 7 drugs make it. Good luck!