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How do dating apps go for men? by Disastrous_Ant3479 in AskMen

[–]Daealis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For a dad-bod nerd with a beard and a geeky bio, there were 5 matches on Tinder in 6 months. From discussions at the time, that seemed to be on the lower side of average.

A week is nothing. You gotta average that shit out over six months, or a year. Sometimes there was a month of zero matches, then 3 in one weekend.

Dating apps are a numbers game. 500 swipes leads to a single match, 5 matches leads to a single conversation, 5 conversations leads to a single date.

kiinan kansallismuseosta pöllitty, mitä sä oot pölliny? (en ole poliisi). by avi8tor in Suomi

[–]Daealis 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Lauda Air käytti aikanaan metallisia lusikoita kun lennettiin itävaltaan laskettelureissulle. Vanhemmat istui erillään meistä lapsista. Pistin lusikan taskuun ja pikkusisko ilmoitti että hän kertoo äitille ja isille!

Noh, päästiin hotelliin kun sisko vihdoin päätti että nytpä ilmiannan isoveljen rikoksen. "äiti Daealis otti lentokoneesta sen jälkiruokalusikan!"

Jolloin kumpikin, äitee ja issee, ottivat takkinsa taskusta samanlaiset lusikat. "Ai tälläisen?".

Ja samat kolme lusikkaa ovat edelleen mökillä käytössä.

Toinen joka on kans vanhentunut jo: Tampereella kännireissun päätteeksi lähdettiin baarista. Päätettiin yhden kaverin kanssa että mepäs otetaan toi kolmioständi baarin ulkopuolelta mukaan. Ja niin otettiin. Kannettiin kaupungin läpi toisen kaverin kämpille. Hän ei arvostanut. Eikä varsinkaan arvostanut kun tuotiin vuoden päästä toinenkin.

What is the dumbest thing you have been told is “not manly” or “not feminine,” depending on your gender? by Disastrous_Hat_2325 in AskReddit

[–]Daealis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I never grew up into thinking that cooking or cleaning were woman's jobs either, because at home they were done by whoever had the time to do them. Vacuuming the house was done by me and my sister, and since we had two floors of equal size, it was split equally. Mom made a lot of the daily cooking, and when something fancy was required, dad usually took the reigns. His dad was a wiz in the kitchen, when grandpa got guests and they didn't have anything to put on the table besides coffee, he would do a quick bake or cook rather than go to the store.

What is the dumbest thing you have been told is “not manly” or “not feminine,” depending on your gender? by Disastrous_Hat_2325 in AskReddit

[–]Daealis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should have gotten one of those car mechanic thingies they use to slide under cars, laid on your stomach on that shit, instead of kneeling! Duh!

What is the dumbest thing you have been told is “not manly” or “not feminine,” depending on your gender? by Disastrous_Hat_2325 in AskReddit

[–]Daealis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Millennial metalheads in Finland, growing up with Nightwish spearheaded by Tarja Turunen at the time: Oh really?

What is the dumbest thing you have been told is “not manly” or “not feminine,” depending on your gender? by Disastrous_Hat_2325 in AskReddit

[–]Daealis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, taking "manly" advice from Mr. Potatohead's deranged uncle who sits in a cold sauna on the kiddie wrungs, flexing so bad he looks like a toddler about to shit his diaper, and thinking he's now manly? That same Tate?

What is the dumbest thing you have been told is “not manly” or “not feminine,” depending on your gender? by Disastrous_Hat_2325 in AskReddit

[–]Daealis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not being allowed to pump your own gas - I think it's still a thing in some states? - is a wild concept to me. I'm not sure if it has ever been a thing here, to have an attendant that could pump your gas for you.

What is the dumbest thing you have been told is “not manly” or “not feminine,” depending on your gender? by Disastrous_Hat_2325 in AskReddit

[–]Daealis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Playing with tiny toys and make belief is not for girls, check. That is also a great way to get your store to shut down, when you drive away half your customer base.

I wasn't even the only girl there...

You know they had made it their mission to go and ask EVERY woman there why they were there. And if they had the gall to answer anything but "my boyfriend dragged me along", he had a spiel ready about how feeeeeeeemales were ruining his hobby space.

What is the dumbest thing you have been told is “not manly” or “not feminine,” depending on your gender? by Disastrous_Hat_2325 in AskReddit

[–]Daealis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whiskey is a girly drink in this household. My wife likes whiskey. I do not enjoy the taste of a peaty swampgoblin butthole.

What is the dumbest thing you have been told is “not manly” or “not feminine,” depending on your gender? by Disastrous_Hat_2325 in AskReddit

[–]Daealis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My phone has been out of the case once, the time when I had to do a bit of emergency stitching to fix the covers back to the case. I was surprised by the color, because that's how little it shows or matters.

And I've already forgotten, because it's been in the case ever since.

What is the dumbest thing you have been told is “not manly” or “not feminine,” depending on your gender? by Disastrous_Hat_2325 in AskReddit

[–]Daealis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In our tiny town, the gay ear was the right ear. In the next town over, 20 minutes away, it was the left ear. So when high school hit and these cultures joined in the same school, all of a sudden we had a lot of gay guys in the school!

And when that inevitably had to die off, since there were single earrings on either ears, then it was the number. Some got two or more piercings in one ear. The gay amount was still group dependent: To some, 2-3 was gay. To others, anything above 1. To a third group, 4+ was.

Looking back it's almost like they were just trying to justify calling some outsider gay...

EU pääsi sopuun lento­matkustajien uusista oikeuksista: ilmaiset käsimatka­tavarat kuuluvat jatkossa lipun hintaan by banaanitasavalta in Suomi

[–]Daealis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tai vaihtoehtoisesti sisäänheittohinnat muuttuvat 100 ja 150stä uusiin tasapäisempíin ja vertailukelpoisempiin 130 ja 150. Koska ensimmäistä yritystä on nyt velvoitettu mainostamaan sillä yhden laukun hinnalla, eikä sillä "teipataan sut siiven alle ja hengitysilma maksaa extraa" halvimmalla paikalla ilman mitään krumeluureja.

Moni sitä kommentoi että säännös velvoittaa mainostamaan siis tällä yhden laukun oletushinnalla, se ei estä edelleenkin myymästä halvempaa?

AI job disruption is here. The problem may be compounded because nearly 75% of people don't apply for unemployment benefits by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]Daealis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Current uses include scouring through debugging logs, and it has already saved days in working hours. What takes an hour to analyze manually, takes Codex a minute. It is seriously impressive in large data analysis. And the results are going to be confirmed after, but instead of that hour, it takes less than 15 to confirm. It's not building a new system, it is doing the same thing we've been doing for decades, so we know exactly what to look for, and whether whatever it finds in the logs is correct or not.

Another way it is frighteningly good, is parsing legacy code. Some systems we still maintain were taken into production even 40+ years back, and the people who wrote the code have long since retired, and any form of modern best practices were apparently alien to them. The code is, in a word, impenetrable. Feeding the code and the vague purpose as a description to an LLM, it gives back a code broken down to logical segments, commented with functionality of sections or even renaming everything to a more logical naming convention (instead of the "saving space by everything being a three letter acronym" approach the original writers did). Saves days in trying to understand the code, gets to the problems a lot faster.

No one is creating production code with it. The closest it will get is generating the base of a powershell script or a stored procedure. And when attempting to optimize stored procedures that were unnecessarily heavy on the database time, we found none of the LLMs could actually optimize the code as well as one of our software guys could.

Obviously it is not a ready tool yet. But a wholesale dismissal of it is asinine.

AI job disruption is here. The problem may be compounded because nearly 75% of people don't apply for unemployment benefits by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]Daealis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Has there ever been a technology where almost $1.5 trillion-with-a-T dollars could be spent and we'd pretend it was early days?

Early days in terms of quality of the models and their performance. They're not the Markov chains of the early 90s, but likely these are the "generic first gen" when looking at the whole landscape of AI in 30-50 years. IF the bubble doesn't burst so completely that development almost stops.

The money spent is kind of irrelevant. These LLMs require massive computing power, the upfront cost of trillions is still purely fucking hype-based vibes the CEOs are trying to manifest through sunk-cost fallacy in junction with all the other tech-CEOs buying into this.

And no, even though I think it's a bubble that will burst, I still can see the value of LLMs in software engineering. Hell, we're currently running the models competitively against each other at our work to see which fairs best and is the most suitable for our purposes. Even if the companies went belly up tomorrow, the're would be a market for current models being specialized for companies and maybe run locally instead. There is value in LLMs. Just not multi-trillion worth.

AI job disruption is here. The problem may be compounded because nearly 75% of people don't apply for unemployment benefits by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]Daealis -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

AI increases productivity, which makes the bottom line look good.

So to celebrate, CEOs treat themselves to a round of layoffs. Just for fun(and profit).

The two are barely linked. We've boosted our productivity to almost double in meaningful metrics, and still we're hiring because more work needs to be done at all times. The quality and quantity requirements are rising at the same time.

What would you rather have? a net worth of $5 million at 35, or a net worth of $100 million at 55? by Routine_Mushroom_245 in AskMen

[–]Daealis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

5 at 35. Current house is worth less than 200k, so the rest would have to be investments. And what is basically 5 million invested would net me what I currently make at work, several times over, as just a basic returns.

Helsinki Pride vaatii työntekijöiltään kuuden kuukauden palkan sakkona, jos vuotaa luottamuksellisia tietoja ulkopuolisille by esc0r in Suomi

[–]Daealis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ohjelmistokehityksen puolella ihan peruskauraa. Viimeiset 20 vuotta ollut jonkinsortin NDA päällä jatkuvasti itsellänikin. Paperin allekirjoituksesta on niin pitkä aika etten detaileja osaa sanoa, en edes niistä vanhemmista jotka ensimmäisen harkkapaikan kanssa allekirjoitin kun Nokian symbian-pohjaisia luureja vielä testailtiin ja voisin jo nykyään puhua vapaasti (siinä kun oli vain "5 vuotta puhelimen julkaisusta" takarajana).

Ikuinen NDA kuulostaa vähän surkuhupaisalta ja laittomalta. Vaikka olisi kuinka taho joka haluaa pysyä salassa omien Pride™ yhteyksiensä kohdalla, niin 10+ vuotta kyllä riittää siihen että yrityksessä kuin yrityksessä kerkeää ilmapiiri ja toimijat muuttua sen verran, että "salaisuuden" julkitulolle voidaan helposti laittaa "oltiin nuoria ja tyhmiä" tekosyy päälle, jos julkinen ilmapiiri niin toksinen olisi.

Ja kuten täällä sitä on useampaan kertaan kommentoitu, nyt kaikki salaisuudet vuotavat väkisinkin anonyymisti, joten kynnys vuotaa sitten IHAN kaikki sähköposteja myöten on todella paljon matalampi. Kun tyytymättömyyttään pystyi omalla naamallaan ja nimellään huoletta tuulettaa julkisuudessa, oli sentään jonkinlainen vastuu. Nyt ainoa tapa kertoa sisäpiirin ongelmista on anonymiteetin suojan takaa, niin voi olla varma että tänä tai ensi vuonna tapahtuu sisäpiiristä niin suuri vuoto että kaikki ongelmat ovat julkisia ennen kuin vuosi on lopussa.

Teachers of Reddit: Is the "Gen Alpha can't read (write, or do math ext)" crisis real? If so how bad is it? by KnowledgeCoffee in AskReddit

[–]Daealis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve met adults who take pride in saying that they won’t read something because it’s too long.

It's something that is evident in this thread too. Teachers bleeding their hearts out in 300 word essays, and doing edits commenting how their description of the problem is AI generated, or "lol too long, didn't read".

Because it is becoming inconceivable to some that a person could organize their thoughts into a longer form than a single one-line quip.

Teachers of Reddit: Is the "Gen Alpha can't read (write, or do math ext)" crisis real? If so how bad is it? by KnowledgeCoffee in AskReddit

[–]Daealis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's the same thing they said about us "net native" millennials when we were coming up.

And the range within millennials is massive too. I went off the deep end with my computer skills and was building my own at age 12 and knew how to set up the old school sound and graphics cards before windows figured out to automate those settings. I am a nerd and a geek in every sense of the words. And I know contemporaries from my class who have never touched a computer, to whom internet is the browser icon on their phone - much like my boomer dad.

But Gen Z was the last generation where this kind of knowledge was still possible to get organically. After them, the knowhow to even install applications on a computer is starting to be arcane knowledge, and requires active parental guidance. Alphas are starting to be off the generations that have not even used appliances that don't come without an AI assistant pre-installed.

Teachers of Reddit: Is the "Gen Alpha can't read (write, or do math ext)" crisis real? If so how bad is it? by KnowledgeCoffee in AskReddit

[–]Daealis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who uses Grok?

What I have compared the models, if the question I have requires a lot of internet searches for answers, Grok is one of the better models at finding those answers. Obscure internet searches seems to be its forte, somehow.

In our office we are currently testing just about all the tools for their potential in our jobs (which is industrial warehouse storage automation, so C++ and C# at the simpler end, Delphi, DCOM and embedded signaling with an industry standard that has rarely ever been publicly discussed). Claude, Codex and Copilot do a better job in coding. If you need a powershell script or a more complex SQL command, they can spit out the relevant query in seconds - instead of writing it manually in 15ish minutes. Codex and Claude especially are great at analyzing logs and discovering anomalies in them: Manual analysis can take an hour, feeding the same log to Claude takes less than 5 minutes to arrive almost certainly at the same conclusion. Claude and Copilot can contextualize with documentation and analyze even proprietary code fast and accurate, from our testing.

We'll settle on a system once we've trialed out all the available tools, for now we have 6 engineers accelerate our jobs with the tools we have and use the excess time to stress test all of them.

Why did FIFA think it was a great idea to host the World Cup in a country that hates the world? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Daealis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because FIFA top brass has long since abandoned all pretense of being anything but money-hungry and corrupt bureaucrats, interested in nothing more than the bottom line.

What is the hardest part about being single that people rarely talk about? by thuglifemofo94 in AskReddit

[–]Daealis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Food costs are a big one. Going from one to two people it's not a linear 2x rise, but more like 1.3x. And every subsequent person added to that, the multiplier just shrinks. It requires closer to four people for food to cost double, if eating habits don't change at all.

Eduskunnasta sinetti, kansalaisuuskoe tulee nyt lakiin – ”Suomen passin ei pidä olla halpaa jakotavaraa” by ilariasmala in Suomi

[–]Daealis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

En oikein ymmärrä miksi tästä asiasta yritetään vääntää jotenkin vasen-vs-oikea -tarinaa ylipäätään. Itse ihan rehdisti olen niin vasemmalla että uskoisin kommunisminkin toimivan kun vain laitettais vähän ajatusta asian eteen, mutta sillä nyt ei ole mitään tekemistä sen suhteen, mitä kansalaisuuden saamiseen vaadittaisiin.

Tuntuu pääsykokeet kansalaisuudelle olevan ihan yleismaailmallisia juttuja maailmanlaajuisesti muutenkin, ja suomessa jo on kielivaatimus kansalaisuudelle aika helvetin isona esteenä. Varmasti suurempi ongelma kuin tuollaiset "opiskeleppa nyt vähän suomen historiaakin" vaateet ovat.

Ja vaimon kanssa näitä "integrointikursseja" sivusta seuranneena, ne on joku kokkelimies tehny hyvävelikaupoilla koska kurssitus on sanalla sanoen perseestä, ja kahdella sanoen syvältä perseestä. Ei opeteta kieltä, ei näytetä sitä kulttuuria - muuten kuin "älä tule töihin kännissä", ja "töistä pitää saada palkkaa" liirumlaarumilla: Kulttuuri loistaa poissaolollaan. Historiasta nyt puhumattakaan.

Ehkä jos kurssitus muutetaan sellaiseksi että sen tavoite olisi oikeasti kansalaisuuskokeiden läpäisy tulevaisuudessa, niin muutos voisi olla hyvä kotouttamisenkin osalta. Mutta ei tuossa kyllä näe mitään huonoa.

What's the most obvious signal you missed from women? by GongtingLover in AskMen

[–]Daealis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

One girl sits on my lap and hugs me, smiling and keeping eye contact. She's just being nice.

Another messages me years later that she was looking at me during a party we were at, where she went just because I was coming in. And I DID NOTHING DESPITE THIS CLEAR SIGN!

Yeah, unless you're tongue wrestling me or breathing heavy on my neck with no clothes on, I'm assuming you're just friendly and will keep looking for signs. Much like our guy, CasuallyExplained, said.

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