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autumnstwilight

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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 video games and video games being a thing that most of your friends do and compete on. When I was a teenager, boys were building PCs to play FPS games better, and now the younger guys entering the company cut their teeth modding Minecraft. Every exposure to "figuring something tricky out on the computer" is a potential gateway, and I think the social and cultural environment for guys exposes them to these little chances a lot more.

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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."

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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 position and lessen their profits. That doesn't leave non-insiders a lot of time to do anything useful with the information, even if it happens to be something that would benefit them to know about.

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>>> //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 config that just logged "X missing. This is disuster." and terminated.

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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 been attending shows by a certain Japanese artist since 2009, and e-tickets have pretty much killed scalping without preventing transfer to a friend (though it is a bit more annoying to do).

I suppose in theory some scalper somewhere could be demanding "venmo me $1000 in a separate transaction or I won't give you the ticket," but in practice it doesn't appear to be happening to any great extent, or to be a workable business model like standing outside the venue once was. I think it just feels a lot more of a scam-risk to the average person than meeting someone at the venue who is clearly holding a physical ticket. You don't have to 100% eliminate any possibility of scalping, just shrink the market enough to make it not worth the bother.

(And I say this as someone who kinda liked the option to overpay for tickets if I missed out on getting them at face value).

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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 hunching under a blanket, unshowered, playing video games all day and eating shredded cheese directly out of the bag.

The fact that it was strongly associated with the "nerdy" personality makes me think of this connection.

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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 translating lyrics and interviews of Japanese musicians.

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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 to be humorous).

A thing to keep in mind is that localization teams may or may not have access to the creators and supplementary information, and some of the choices to emphasize a different aspect of the creature or translate less literally may be a result of behind the scenes conversation.

EDIT: Also author seems to be not quite familiar with standard Japanese fantasy terms. "Dragon zombie" might sound striking when you first hear it, but to a Japanese player, that's just what undead dragon enemies are called, most of the time.

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

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

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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 therefore able to shrug off a chatbot's overexcitement to deal purely with the factual content.

On the other hand, some autistic people are prone to taking communication at face value without noticing emotional manipulation or deceit, have issues with social isolation and loneliness and, if academically gifted but socially unsuccessful, often vulnerable to messaging about how they are smarter and better than others but tragically misunderstood. (Not just chatbots, there are a lot of online spaces that seem to get into a feedback loop about the inherent superiority of autistic thinking and communication over neurotypicals, and as an autistic person I think this is rather misguided.)

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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 pinpoints the very fundamental essence of asynchronous CRUD operations or whatever.

I'm subscribed through work and haven't used it to make a personal project, but I imagine being told every decision you make is brilliant and revolutionary has some effect over a long period of exposure, unless you're very deliberately skeptical about it. If you started out thinking you're an exceptionally smart and insightful person, you're probably doomed.

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Oh that looks like fun.

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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 repeatedly getting ctrl+l and ctrl+f hotkeys confused, with no obvious reason for that pairing except that they're "the same color".

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And Grok is probably pulling answers from ChatGPT generated content around the web.

It's the ciiiiiircle, the circle of slop.

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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 listen to a song and appreciate that the vocalist sounds cool and they're doing some technically difficult things, I am definitely less impressed to find out it's a computer program. And it also means I can't find other songs with that vocalist's same artistic sense because they don't have one, they're a computer program who can sound like anything.

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قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

Anki flashcards, stretching (particularly focused on a previously injured bad hip), observing people/reading body language, observing birds/trees/plants/the sky practicing emptying my mind/breathing exercises, doodling, journaling.

(But also admittedly way too often: pulling out my phone and looking at social media.)

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قبل 7 أشهرdiscuss

Because deficits in social functioning often lead to the person experiencing emotional suffering and difficulty in friendship, career and relationships, often causing them to develop other conditions like depression and anxiety. This can be true even if the person is holding down a job.

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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 having to listen to an autistic person's opinion on things. If you're communicating clearly, even through text on the internet, then you're just a quirky adult who is talking over the people with 'real problems'.

I'm rather dismayed by the recent outpouring of articles about splitting the diagnosis up by people who don't even have a horse in this race but have somehow become qualified to weigh in on psychiatric diagnosis.

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قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

>>> 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 thing up...