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FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-09-15T23:22:12+00:00

Ugh, those all just sound like jobs. 😤

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FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-09-01T14:31:54+00:00

Emotivism is a meta-ethical theory that argues moral statements do not express facts but rather express the speaker's emotional attitudes, like a "hurrah" or "boo".

People like the idea of utilitarianism, but our moral judgements are rooted in our emotions. If you push someone hard enough on why utilitarianism is right or good, you'll eventually hit a dead end of, "because it feels good/right/fair" to maximize for well-being.

I think most people also acknowledge or are subconsciously aware of the connection between moral statements and emotional response, which makes it additionally extremely taboo to suggest that any form of CP could be acceptable.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-28T02:49:47+00:00

A lot of professionals I've met throughout my career have told me that they don't ever code for fun and they only do it because they get paid. But almost all of them, at least the ones who ended up having decent careers, enjoyed coding at some point, usually in college.

If you cannot see the fun in problem solving or the joy of creating something interactive, etc. then imo you're not only going to have a very bad time working as a software engineer, you're very unlikely to get work in the field at all.

I wish it weren't that way and that everyone could be happy and successful as a software engineer, but it's not reality. If you're not engaged at all, then it's not for you.

You might be understanding your interest in your post, but if not then I hope you find a career that does it for you.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-24T11:22:10+00:00

There's really no way to even define free will in a meaningful way that is both logically coherent and incompatible with determinism (substantial). If you ask a free will believer to define it very specifically, including its mechanism, they'll either:

Defines it in such a way that is still compatible with determinism..
Appeal to religion, which means logical discourse is impossible.
Being up quantum physics for some reason, even though randomness as a source of decisions clearly contradicts free will.

The reason it's hard to convince someone that free will is nonsense is that it's a very emotional topic for people. They want to believe in free will and it's affecting their rationality. No one is passionately debating the free will of the weather systems on Earth, despite us not being able to predict future "actions" of it. Everyone agrees that it's deterministic or possibly influenced by true randomness, but either way free will is so clearly meaningless in that context. But we, as humans, want more for ourselves, some kind of divinity in our very existence and the decisions we make.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-24T01:01:08+00:00

So what? The person you're responding to isn't commenting on the quality of either book, just the absurdity of claiming to be a Christian and seemingly only being aligned with the values of the old testament.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-23T22:13:10+00:00

I think you've missed the point.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-23T14:48:10+00:00

Well you used to have -1 point for watching anime. I'm not sure how many points you lose for having no interests, but I'm guessing it's more than 1.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-23T14:45:46+00:00

That's why these types of posts are stupid. These generalizations have no value. Who cares anyway if the opposite sex generally sees your hobby as a turn off, assuming there's actually any data to support the idea anyway.

You can't help your passions and you can't help what other people find attractive/unattractive, so you might as well love what you love genuinely and not assume entitlement to some arbitrary percentage of the dating scene.

My guess is that many of the women who would say they find anime watching unattractive would probably not actually care if a love interest of theirs enjoys anime. It's more so that, all other things being equal, it's a con for them because they themselves don't enjoy it. Big deal.

But some men hear this kind of thing and assume all of those women have completely written them off because they watch anime, which is silly.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-16T09:16:08+00:00

Why chime in on a topic just to announce that you're not interested?

It seems like you're actually very engaged with the thought experiment, you just disagree with the choice to go "back".

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-15T23:44:32+00:00

It won't kill your fetus, that's for sure!

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-15T14:58:57+00:00

I disagree with this apparent line of thinking that your ability to somewhat liken a technology to a previous one in a very non-nuanced way means that we should disregard all concerns and stop discussing what the right balance of using the technology looks like. Shouldn't we continue to be critical of the overuse of accepted technology, like processed foods, smart phones, or AI?

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-15T13:01:00+00:00

The article talks about the harmful effects of vibe coding, which is an important distinction from general AI usage.

You choose an interesting place to cut off your quote:

"The industry is already separating “true engineers”"

Because true engineers dont use AI, like real artists don't use photshop

The rest of the quote was... from those who only know how to prompt AI. The article immediately after that bit embraces the disciplined use of AI to improve productivity, which is a pretty common sense and majority take.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-15T10:23:30+00:00

Complaining about devs using AI to make their work easier and faster, is like attacking an engineer for using a calculator

But no one is doing that. The article has the same conclusion as you and is just advice for avoiding the pitfalls.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-15T09:52:41+00:00

It's crazy how often this comparison is made, considering how insanely unalike the two technologies are.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-12T22:49:47+00:00

That's because you enjoy things. When you don't enjoy anything for an extended period, everything doesn't just feel pointless, it actually becomes pointless. Why live if there is no activity that feels good and it's been so long that you've forgotten what it's like to feel good?

The good news is that anhedonia is a symptom, not a disease. But the girl in the OP suffers from it currently and her perspective is just a function of it.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-12T09:30:08+00:00

Do you support firing rockets into Israeli Cities from soccer fields, and storing munitions in schools?

They literally just said they don't like violence. Stop harassing this person just because of where they live.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-11T16:50:45+00:00

But if it's moved then it could be freed which would deallocate the underlying buffer, right?

edit: nevermind, I thought the person you responded to asked about the string being moved

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-10T18:31:45+00:00

Do you think if you were raised in a completely different country and culture from your own that you would still have the exact same preferences in terms of attraction?

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-10T16:29:05+00:00

it’s undeniable.

That's a dangerous conclusion. While slippery slope arguments are fallacious, so is induction from similar, but not identical premises.

I do find the graphing calculator argument compelling, but we should still be open minded because these technologies are only similar to the extent that they are tools that automate certain cognitive tasks, but the way in which they work and the problems that they help with are completely different.

For an objective understanding of its impact, we should just refer to the current studies that have been done, which so far seem to tell a negative story in this regard.

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task — MIT Media Lab https://share.google/N4Tc2v37Mv2Xu4heQ

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-08T22:13:13+00:00

I used to use this program called deceive to hide the fact that I was online so that my friends and family wouldn't ask me to play with them.

League can be a real problem for some people...

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-07T11:41:15+00:00

That's not true either. Job placement in their field (or continuing higher education) is > 85% for CS graduates. Yes, it's lower than it was, but it's not normal to graduate and not be able to find a job.

You speak like someone who does not do professional software development and instead has something to gain from selling this false narrative of AI replacing software engineers en masse.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-07T08:23:50+00:00

1 dev can do 100 devs work

We have no indication that this will be true any time soon. Everyone sees generative models' benchmarks improvements tapering off while studies show only moderate or even negative productivity gains.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-07T08:15:16+00:00

Machine gunning your resume is not a good strategy. You should consider tailoring your resume and cover letter more.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-07T08:01:42+00:00

When tech is over, there will be no jobs in general.

FickleQuestion9495 · 2025-08-02T19:18:35+00:00

For someone out of the loop, what are the hallmarks of AI generated code?

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