I started using bruno for lazy gui “make a request” needs.

But for anything serious python requests is right there, so I mostly used that for testing.

Most of the people I know who live here don’t have rich parents. But I’ve definitely known people from money who move here, and go directly to an expensive apartment.

Have you considered a book club? Locally or on Lemmy. That might be nice, though I’m not sure how to level it up from “we’re reading this” to include “and we did some critical analysis”. Also online is more vulnerable to slop, even though I don’t understand why someone would use AI to think for them in an exercise that’s entirely about thinking.

A friend of mine had a book club and was reading a book a month, but then the ring leader had a kid and it’s on hiatus.

In a 2019 interview, Goodman responded to criticisms of three cueing, saying that “word recognition is a preoccupation” and emphasizing that he places greater value on making sense of language as a whole than understanding specific words. In response to the example of children failing to distinguish between “pony” and “horse”, Goodman argued that it was irrelevant whether children understood the specific word, as “pony” and “horse” are similar concepts, and a reader failing to distinguish between them would still understand the meaning of the story as a whole.

Absolute nightmare

Some sort of online community for people to practice reading, especially critically so they practice skills like recognizing subtext, irony, themes, etc, could probably be cool

Unfortunately, the people on a text based platform like Lemmy probably have better than average reading skills. The people who need more help probably stick to video.

Also there’s a surprising amount of anti-intellectualism, sometimes, where people say things like “it’s just a story it doesn’t have any deeper meaning!”. Fundamental misunderstanding of how meaning works. (You don’t find the correct answer. You make up an answer and justify it with the text.)

I wonder how many people would change their answer if it was highlighted they’re in the set of people that may die. Even though it’s long odds, people are more intuitive than rational with things like that.

I remember thinking it was cool when Doom loaded with R_Init: Init DOOM refresh daemon

We are the weird ones. But the only thing that changes people mind is in-group pressure. If people trust you, they’ll at least humor you. Plant those seeds.

Most people don’t know, aren’t paying attention, and don’t understand. It’s our thankless task to try to educate and convince our less savvy friends.

I use keyword arguments in Python to minimize this pain. Instead of

create_user("Bob", True, False)

it’s

create_user(name="Bob", admin=True, send_email=False)

JavaScript makes that more cumbersome with the object thing , but it’s better than nothing.

He’s a broken person on the inside. He’s like homelander in the boys. All this power, but he’s still a sad little boy no one likes.

Unlike Homelander, Musk is not impervious to conventional hazards.

I remember once at a diner with some friends I ordered pancakes and orange juice without looking at the menu, and was pissed when the orange juice was like $10. Now I always check.

“there’s toxic, radioactive, sludge all over the front yard! What the fuck this is terrible! We need to get rid of that”

“There’s a huge pile of old tires in the back yard, too.”

“Yeah that’s no good. At least my kids can play on it like a jungle gym. The sludge though, we need to fix asap”

“So you love tires and garbage??”

Why don’t we want to dismantle the business?

I was trying to convince my boss that buying skills (ie: learning) is better than renting them forever from the AI, but I don’t think I convinced him

I miss my pandemic D&D¹ group. It was an 18 year old that just finished high school, two people in their mid 20s in grad school, me in my mid 30s, and one person in their mid 40s. Every once in a while we’d get some interesting generation-gap moments.

¹ I don’t even like D&D specifically, but that group really made it work.

It would take an incomprehensible set of changes for me to consider going back to Microsoft. They can fuck off.

I learned in my youth not to read reviews of things I like. It’s unpleasant and pointless to read someone savaging your favorite albums or books.

(More critical analysis can be fine, but regular Internet reviews are not so worthwhile)

This is the only penny arcade comic I remember, but I liked it.

I tried to use it as a clue and prop in a tabletop RPG once, and one of the players unironically said “I’m not reading all of that”. She was not a great player.

I don’t know if it’s like different learning styles or what but some people just need to have a whole ass call. I’m like, I’ll just write you a nice message you can refer back to. Nope.