why do you take creepshots of a random woman in a store

Just a fun reminder that sometimes learning something can actually make you more of an idiot

I feel like these people are idiots to begin with, and the fact they learned just pointed then into a different flavor of idiocy

iirc he is not on 100%, more like 30% or so. That certainty is what i was questioning.

does he?

like artist post cool stuff on insta and put a link to their etsy in their profile?

I seriously cant image the average insta doomscroller to stay long enough on a thing to notice that. I cant image there is enough money their to make it worth the effort, for the artist

artists can make a living from insta? (please assume I am very out-of-the-loop in regards to instagram and modern art stuff)

in that vain, if they put the name of the restaurant into the name of a menu, it’s probably worth to try it. Or how merlin mann puts it:

Almost always order the specific food that is mentioned in the name of the restaurant. If you go to “Sally’s Sirloin Shack” and order the sushi sampler, you’re probably not hooked up right.

https://github.com/merlinmann/wisdom/blob/master/wisdom.md

distro memes should be updated for 2026. i.e. with cachy,bazzite,steamos.

but… you can do all these things, if you want to.

quote from spoiler

a real sense of someplace “alien"

Yes. so much this!

Scavengers Reign

I liked the character writing, and I liked many of the scifi parts, but i was missing the “hard scifi” that the plot should revolve around in a scifi story. i.e. the futuristic stuff doesn’t affect the story much and the character arcs would have worked just as well in 17th century exploration story. Compare that to hard scifi like “the expanse” or “westworld”, where many parts of the story can only work because of the specific way the world works.

if you prefer soft scifi over hard sci, than Scavengers Reign is a strong recommendation.

this. it’s not that hard to make a coffee that is both strong and tastes good.

i have never seen docker desktop outside of windows. I have been working with docker for pretty much 10 years now.

no.

A SAML token verification can be implemented correctly in under 50 lines of code

I have seen multiple implementations of SAML logins, and I have never seen one with less than 500 LoC, and mutliple layers of complexity.

On the other hand I have migrated some (1 i did myself, 2 i just witnessed) of these SAML logins to oauth, and then it became actually 50 LoC.

was… was OP banned for using an upper case m in the post title?

to startle them, start sentences with

In the late 20th century we used to…

The problem is the unearned confidence in the answer they know nothing about

that is a different problem, which i agree is significant.

there is no reason to use AI to answer the question I asked you

if you ask me “what is your view on X” than I will not tell you what AI said. If you ask “Is there something we haven’t considered about X”, then I could answer something like "according to AI X has property Y, which afaik we have not considered ".

the alternative to people saying “according to AI: XYZ”, is that they say “XYZ” and state it as a fact.

I’ll ask a question only for a junior who has no experience in the thing to answer “well Claude says this-” thanks.

yes. i want to know which tools my juniors use so i can help them to become better at their job.

Its a waste of everyone’s time and money to give subpar unverified information

when you are brainstorming approaches, then “subpar unverified information” is exactly what you want.

I generally tell the other person the source of my informations/ideas/suggestion, so when I say “According to AI” IRL it is to let the other person know that this suggestion has not been verified