strangegecko

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by strangegecko 6mo ago
He said "At the very least you can be sure noone is in this for the good of the people anymore. This is about who will dominate the world of tomorrow.". I.e. he doesn't see the US as "the good guys" either. Pointing
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by strangegecko 6mo ago
Hypocrisy would be if the person only points out Chinese authoritarianism without acknowledging problems e.g. in US policy. Not mentioning US problems every time they criticize CCP problems is not automatically hypocrisy, and this idea basi
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by strangegecko 6mo ago
Thanks for expanding on your story, it means a lot to hear from people with experience. I've received a lot of thoughtful responses and am a little embarrassed because I'm probably looking in all the wrong places in my search for
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by strangegecko 6mo ago
I probably should have provided more context, but it's all rather off topic. However, I guess my life is strange enough so that people made assumptions around my original statements that don't reflect my meaning. Quite frankly, I&
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by strangegecko 6mo ago
I need to force myself to do almost everything. Simply saying it's a waste of time because of that isn't practical unless I give up on life entirely. In practice, it's not binary. I'm interested because I want to make mu
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by strangegecko 6mo ago
> For me it is beyond trying to make money or become famous, To clarify, when I speak of "approval", I'm not imagining a successful career or financial success. It's much more basic, i.e. having a few people tell me t
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by strangegecko 6mo ago
Thanks, I like this answer. I think part of my problem is more general, a struggle to enjoy something when I can tell I'm not good at it. It's kind of a circular problem, I will need to spend more time on it to get better and I ne
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by strangegecko 6mo ago
> AI couldn't make my friends smile at me as I play them my music I've made, that's quite literally priceless. Can I ask how you share music with friends? I guess this is part of my problem, I don't really have anyon
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by strangegecko 6mo ago
I'm trying to learn music production with a DAW, sometimes I wonder if I'm wasting my time. Part of my reason for trying this was reading how creative endeavors can be therapeutic (I'm dealing with burnout/depression&#x2
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by strangegecko 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure that is advice from the last millennium that is no longer taught.
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by strangegecko 6mo ago
Yeah. That's leagues better than what I get in Taiwan. The alert often arrives when the building is shaking or even after. I've never had a meaningful headstart.
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by strangegecko 6mo ago
IMO this is aggressively unfriendly to the rest of the team that didn't consent to part of the team refusing to play. There are so many other ways to chat and make friends without breaking tem balance.
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by strangegecko 6mo ago
The problem is a disconnect between management and those who build. My thoughts when PE forced Agile on my employer were dismissed as "you're the technical expert, we're the process experts". As someone without decision
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by strangegecko 6mo ago
Those unhinged people might be busy in social media bubbles, fighting endless pointless battles (or simply doom scrolling) until they're too exhausted to do anything.
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by strangegecko 7mo ago
Profitability doesn't imply infinite ability to scale. Of course they will want to prioritize their most profitable customers when they hit capacity issues.
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by strangegecko 7mo ago
I reject your premise, but your conclusion is not surprising considering it. I couldn't imagine an emptier life than one where the only thing that matters is procreation. We're not Pacific Salmon.
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by strangegecko 7mo ago
Constant military drills around Taiwan isn't peaceful or responsible. China is bullying lots of countries in the SCS (ramming Philippine coast guard ships, building military installations in the SCS, ...). Not peaceful or responsible.
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by strangegecko 7mo ago
Agreed. I actually don't want more generations of humanity. The degree of abuse and destruction and selfishness is too depressing. I grew up with emotional neglect and all sorts of mental health struggles that grew from that, so I find
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by strangegecko 7mo ago
> Please. Now is objectively the best, safest time to have children. When western societies had high birth rates the expectation was basically "it is a coin toss whether a child will survive until adulthood and then they will have t
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by strangegecko 8mo ago
"In the middle of negotiations" is arguably more and more used as a carte blanche to do whatever you want in the meantime. Prominent recent example being Putin pretending to be ready to negotiate for peace while bombing Ukraine. T
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by strangegecko 8mo ago
I understand they are separate processes (compacting memories vs training new models), it just surprised me to read that my chats are used for training. This is how it's presented: "Temporary chats Opens in a new window don't
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by strangegecko 8mo ago
On the web app, I see the "temporary chat" option but no toggle. It tells me temporary chats aren't used for model training. I thought I remembered that chats of Pro customers aren't used for that in any case. Hard to ke
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by strangegecko 8mo ago
Is there more detailed information how this works? I used to assume that it can be beneficial to switch to a new chat to avoid having took much irrelevant context in the interaction. How does this personalization happen, how does it decide
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by strangegecko 8mo ago
The tell I remember was for Biff
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by strangegecko 8mo ago
I have nothing smart to say, but it's one of those games I played as a kid and I feel nostalgic seeing its title pop up here more than 3 decades later. For some reason, somewhat boring seeming games were among my favorites. I'm st
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by strangegecko 8mo ago
They've both become more adversarial. China has been using economic blackmail to advance political goals for a long time (e.g. wrt Japan and Taiwan and SEA). They also continue to expand military based in the SCS that don't belong
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by strangegecko 9mo ago
There is no "promise". The 2027 date was a guideline for their military to be "ready", which they may not be either. That is a far cry from the decision to actually make a move. They will only do that if they're cer
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by strangegecko 9mo ago
I can't speak for FB. But I know a local (non-US) real estate company which does crap like this (they also love to disable right click and detect when browser tools are open and programmatically close the tab/page when that happen
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by strangegecko 9mo ago
How do home owners get into trouble from falling prices if they're just living in their home? Sure, if they need to move and sell, the price difference might be less favorable to them, but having to weigh cost vs benefit of moving is a
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by strangegecko 10mo ago
China is decidedly anti democratic and authoritarian. They're also preparing for military activities to expand their territory. It's not that each country needs to develop their own, but it is prudent to not depend on those who ha

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