technically conspiracy theory was coined by the CIA to discredit the JFK assassination theories. conspiracy is people conspiring. so it's not weird science or aliens. it needs to involve a group of people agreeing to do something together

right this moment my favourite conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theory is just modern word for "heathenous thought" lol. but that's a lame answer

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conspiring: elites pushing transhumanism for peak slavery

heathenous: humans are as dumb today as they always were during other eras -- everything from religion to bile theory of medicines, etc. reddit downvoted me savagely to like -80 for this once. we really get things wrong as much now as we did in any other era though

she's cute

y u against everybody suddenly

also only figured out the website is still up. whatever happened to that challenge that I can't remember now

yeah i don't think they're planting trees

canada defunded tree planting but keeps funding "carbon capture". it's just money laundering to their friends

@YourMom u might like this: https://youtube.com/watch/...

@Wisecrack ok psychohistory guy: https://youtube.com/watch/...

@Wisecrack uhhh what worse outcomes

bullshit lol

kingdoms of amalur was pretty dope

I don't remember if it had stats. combat was like action packed dark souls but with vibrant colors

I don't know if it was my build so much or what. it was a lot of guessing enemy coordination so if you went to new areas you didn't know how you'd be attacked. you'd need to beware of different things

later boss fights in the game basically if I missed dodging a npc at the wrong moment I'd die in one hit (there was some invisible assassin boss). or if I missed 3 NPCs rushing me at once I insta die (some queen and her lackey plant shooting me together? the plant was off screen and if it hit me I'd be stunned... the queen had a charge up attack that was easy to dodge but if the plant hit and stunned me then I couldn't dodge her charge up. omg. or I would just be rushed by the minions in quick succession -- they did mini stuns but if they timed it just right I could be stunlocked for long periods of time. goddamn)

@YourMom divinity original sin 2 is a RPG. better choose the right dialogue options or you die! cuz it changed things in the world with the NPCs and navigating the world NPCs was the actual game

I tried to refund it but it took me like 7 hours to get off the tutorial boat before I realized I didn't like the game lol

make impossible enemies

roguelikes allow you to break the game with their mechanics. it's kind of expected

and management rewards it (if you point it out, not just accidentally because the impression management worked) =]

actually in retrospect my achievements never got me anything, even when management full well knew themselves what they were, even made memes about me around the office. so it is quite interesting that the backstabbers get rewarded. because it isn't reward based on achievements... so it must be some other proxy

and being right you not only show that you are disloyal to the group, but also that the group sucks, and that causes irrational aggression like you've attacked someone's beliefs. the same reaction that happens when a narcissist's self-concept is threatened, or when you question someone's religious beliefs expertly enough but their emotions don't want to flip that perspective because then a bunch of their models that keep their whole worldview propped up would tumble with it and that would be too stressful so they just decide to be "lazy" and not grow, not question, and make up some shallow irrational strategy to keep it all intact and duct tape it dishonestly

same exact pattern when I suggested business improvements 😁

which business books would mention as cliches like "we don't do that here", or "this is how we've always done it"

tech looks "innovative", has the identity / self-concept of innovation (haha), but it just made the natural psychological urges backdoor elsewhere

looking it up a little I don't think society has realized the obedience problem

I spent a bunch of time reading random business books and a lot of them talked about how difficult it is to make "innovative" employees, teams, leaders, etc. basically naturally humans select for obedience and seem to not realize that they're causing stifling with it. it seems like a big problem in all sectors of business that many very prominent people were trying to solve which is a little funny

and I don't think this is isolated to business. I think people select their friends and communities, their favourite child, based on obedience to their will as well. it seems to be some subconscious drive. that's of course at odds with innovation, change, or scientific breakthroughs like the earth being round or washing hands removing bacteria. I would guess it's related to narcissistic intolerance

it's not about being right (nobody cares, actually they hate that), but showing loyalty to the group

other than the scant computer fundamentals the things I learned getting my degree never came up again and I just had to learn new tech on the job

fundamentals are good because you can build a model of how things work under the hood and then when stuff breaks you can debug it because you know these things

there is some merit to learning things even if they're useless: people generally build stuff the same way with the same concepts. like if you learn one programming language you're basically set for most things in all the others. but the person hiring you will be upset you have to look up to know the exact method names which to me just seems like a nitpick

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the argument for school I heard is that despite the degree being useless it's still a good filtering mechanism. because it shows you someone who will stick to something and follow through on it

I think another part is someone who will follow orders and be obedient even though they may know better. which interview tests would do

this sounds human and not AI which is a little concerning

I have never found there to be a use for interfaces

they're an anti-feature that marries you to a specific architecture that then causes you to have to travel more / do more if you want to change code

I did use generics though, which has the same overhead as interfaces but you're getting features for the downside so it at least makes sense

oh lmao they said competitive pay... but at the end they actually say the amount

much confusing fire

typical

AI slop in coding is just a natural progression of this. coding is for the end product, not the art. the art is forgotten. it's not needed. we have more than enough repositories on GitHub to teach the machine (for now)

slop is all the hallucinations and bugs it delivers because we hadn't found more robust processes to catch the faults

programming is for the ends of the business. whereas before if you saw it as art you could learn the intricacies and integrate them lovingly into your neurons, and as such this gave you an edge over those who had less love because they had less art, and as such were more fixated on the frustrations and bitching of greedy corporate slop and what have you, slowed by these frictions. a new era began where rumours of high pay meant MBAs and ambitious brogrammers entered the field to make a quick buck, disparaged populations around the world, and boot campers viewing it as their own personal lottery. the understanding of and quality of code went down, and we developed more robust processes to catch the faults of those who didn't view coding as an art -- tests, memorizable design patterns, frameworks galore, goddamn leetcode

in terms of code I'm one of those weird people that always thought computer science was an art. I said it in class back in my first semester of school and a teacher was pleasantly surprised at it. but since then I don't think I encountered someone having this perspective

the thing with it being art is nobody knows it's art or views it as art. maybe they did when it was more of a budding discipline

if you write magnificent code nobody sees it and nobody values it. even if a dev inherits your code and is amazed, such a thing is so rare now that that is unexpected and will probably be the only time they experience such an experience. you're like a mythical ghost, a mirage. blink twice, and then you forget it ever happened because there's nowhere to put such an occurrence in your head so it falls to the wayside, a forgotten exception

I find myself watching YouTube videos to the end hoping something interesting will happen but it never does

I find myself scrolling twitter endlessly because I think it will give me something interesting but it never does

similarly, I listen to AI music thinking something interesting will come up but it never does. I converse with AI over topics it has read numerous high quality books on and think it will say something interesting about the topic but it never does

whereas human music has twists and turns. it goes deep. whereas human books surprise you, thrill you

hell talking to a real person they have texture but YouTube and Twitter it's like someone went over everyone with a smoothing tool

it's like it's stuck in just one mode. be predictable, stereotypable. easy to consume. it's like being stuck in a white hospital room. you just want to pull your hair out to have something different. the output is "perfect" for the input, and there's nothing else to it

them thinking AGI will come is why they fired all those people though

turns out it's not just tech either

and the AI companies are pyramid scheme investing in each other to keep this evaluation circus going

@YourMom yeah but I wanna be in bliss

heroin seems too fast but I guess it's an option

sometimes I think my retirement plan should be buying 50 chocolate bars and eating them until I die of irony poisoning

edit: I'm told by AI it would take about 600-1700 chocolate bars. goddamnit

that's funny

I was using tomcat and websphere and stuff and those tools took 40 seconds minimum to boot even if they had nothing configured

then I touched JavaScript for backend and everything just ran in a fraction of a second...

older server software was waaaayyy slower. javascript ended up being a revolution in speed up

I never ate the gum under desks... uegh

though yeah sharing drinks and food was fine

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also younger generation has less sex. they also don't drink or do drugs apparently

my boyfriend basically is offering to be my agent (for job hunting)

I mean... that's very supportive but weird

sigh I think I'll just die

apparently I'm smart. my brain is still scrambled eggs and now I seem to be oddly morose all the time

being smart means people wanna hire you, right? lol

but I'm not motivated for anything anymore. also working sucked because people just said weird snippy things to me like I did nothing which was incongruent. but hey it's that or you die. so joke's on me for having quit like 6 years ago and wanting someone to prove to me that not all workplaces would be like that. I really don't have a plan

maybe I don't even know myself. at which point that also deserves dying sooo

duh

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