@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2024-03-12 13:43:56
About life and feelings, gloomy and private
The feelings we get from the activities we do could be classified as neutral, positive and negative.
Let's take developing #Gentoo as an example. It's something that makes me happy — but you can't (or at least I can't) just get the happiness and reject everything else. Most of the Gentoo work is basically neutral, even bland — a duty that takes a lot of time and effort, and probably a little of your health. It's statistically probable that you're going to get some positive feelings out of it — the joy of success, satisfaction, appreciation, awareness that you've done something good. But you also get negative feelings — from failures, frustration, negative interactions.
My hiking trips are like that too. My family believes that "I do it for pleasure" — but it's a harmful oversimplification and it only tells me that they even aren't trying to understand me. In fact, it's mostly a necessity, a way of solving specific problems that works for me — halting diabetes-related problems, coping with emotions. Of course there's a positive side to it — good mood, energy to survive another day, something the joy of visiting a new place, seeing something beautiful, finding a solution to a vexatious problem, positive interactions with people. But there are also negative feelings — anger and sadness from failure, stress from problems, negative contacts with people. Sometimes you end up slowly charging your social battery for a whole week, just to have one person destroy it all.
If you think about it, life's something like that. It's mostly a bland effort to survive every following day, sometimes interspersed with positive or negative moments.
#ActuallyAutistic
@mcmullin@musicians.today2024-04-11 15:15:05
Two good questions this morning from Andrew Simonet. The second is one I don’t think we talk about enough: you can’t just have the greatest art from the greatest artists, without the whole cultural ecosystem that produces and nurtures them. The minor artists and the failed experiments all play essential roles too.
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@smurthys@hachyderm.io2024-02-12 15:30:03
About ~2 hours after Super Bowl 58 ended.
Me: Who won the most recent Superbowl, against whom?
Copilot: [1]
Me: Are you sure?
Copilot: [2]
Me: What year was that?
Copilot: [3. Note the date, esp. the year and day of the week]
[It went on like that a little longer and it did eventually give me the right answer, see 4. I wish I had its confidence though.]
PS: Done my best here to show this is not data currency issue. Appreciate y'all seeing t…
@geant@mstdn.social2024-03-12 09:26:14
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@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-03-12 13:01:27
Google confirms rolling out Gemini restrictions to limit surfacing answers on election queries globally; the update is live in the US and rolling out in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/12/google-gemini-election-related-quer…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2024-05-08 21:44:58
Fuck you, Stack Overflow https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-us…
@mcmullin@musicians.today2024-04-11 15:15:05
Two good questions this morning from Andrew Simonet. The second is one I don’t think we talk about enough: you can’t just have the greatest art from the greatest artists, without the whole cultural ecosystem that produces and nurtures them. The minor artists and the failed experiments all play essential roles too.
https://
@saraislet@infosec.exchange2024-03-10 07:04:04
Incel CS lecturer at Waterloo
$2.4.1 DIFFICULTIES OF HUNTING AT WORK"
I don't know what to say
"In academia, dating and romantic/sexual relationship between professors and students is controversial"
Yes. Yes it is.
"There is clearly a world-wide bias in judgmental decisions for accusing males, compared to females, in harassments. It may be because males usually ask out and show interest in females and females may take it as an offense."
Okay so has anyone explained to you the concept of power dynamics and unethical abuse of authority roles?
"A funny thing is that once, in a seminar for teaching assistants in the University of Waterloo, they told us that teaching
assistants should not date students. I asked about the case of John Nash. The professor answered me that they married
after the student graduated (which I think is not true). Then, I answered even if that is true, did they suddenly get
married without any dating? Of course, they dated before that, while she was a student! I think they themselves know
that this rule is nonfunctional because if the professor/instructor and the student are both single, they may like each
other or fall in love as they interact frequently in the school. This rule was even criticised in the American comedy show "Friends" (season 6, episode 18)."
Ok, there's a lot to unpack here, but the main bit is this: Do you understand that the sitcom "Friends" is not a good source for understanding ethics?
@geant@mstdn.social2024-03-12 09:26:14
Are you a technically minded individual with experience in managing projects and stakeholders?
We are looking for a #PartnerRelationsManager to join GÉANT!
You will play a pivotal role as an interface between GÉANT and its partners to ensure international activities and services are fit for purpose and meet the demands of the European Research & Education community.<…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-03-12 13:01:27
Google confirms rolling out Gemini restrictions to limit surfacing answers on election queries globally; the update is live in the US and rolling out in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/12/google-gemini-election-related-quer…