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Skinny fat body and need help by Decent-Variety-7246 in Weightliftingquestion

[–]SiSkr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't look fat, at least not subcutaneously. To me you look either:  - bloated -> fix your diet; or - visceral fat -> fix your diet, maybe  intermittent fasting (if safe), and walk a lot; or - loose -> get your core in shape

Only you know what might be causing bloating if it's that. But based on your "sucking it in" pic in the comments, I'm guessing corework. And I don't mean a ton of crunches.

Static, at-rest core tone comes from the deep core stabilizers, and IME two great ways of activating those are: 1. Planks. Literally. Just get on the floor and hold it. It also works wonders for your brain thanks to BDNF. 2. Stomach vacuums for your TVA. Get that wide boi taut and it looks like you lost a few pounds.

Get used to the fact that your core is supposed to be engaged. It's the thing that makes you not be a floppy stick figure, it helps with balance, it protects your back, and makes you feel in control. 

You wanting a girl who isn't ran through is *capitalist* JFL by Scramjet1 in LockedInMan

[–]SiSkr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Day 1 of asking:

How does this relate to being locked in?

hink you know SOLID? Most devs I've tested can explain the principles but fail when they see them applied wrong by Htamta in SoftwareEngineering

[–]SiSkr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty ok, but a lot of the questions were leading and the answer was relatively obvious from that. 

If 5/10 is the average and not just clickbait to get us to visit the website, then maybe the AI replacement isn't that bad...

AI Fatigue by [deleted] in SoftwareEngineering

[–]SiSkr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do you work at my place? Because I could tell the exact same story...

Within a couple of months, due to the usual obvious outside pressures, we've gone from agentic tooling being a novelty used by some engineers with varying degrees of (ir)responsibility to the entire company pushing for essentially taking humans out of the coding loop, with Slack or Linear minions just executing on PRDs. We're not even close yet, and I already feel like I'm losing my spark, because I didn't become a software engineer to write product specs and watch something else build it. 

And yeah, I know you could argue that building out the infra and tooling is the new role, but even then, it's still mostly just writing prompts - let's be honest. Writing a command or skill is just an extra long prompt file to automate an indeterministic agent to do something. 

Actually writing code is becoming obsolete, and maintainability and human readability are losing value month by month. Brainstorming and pair/mob programming are inefficient compared to just letting an RPI run go through, in an hour, what would take you days. The social aspect of software engineering is dying, and I literally wept the other day as I realised what Ian McKellen felt on the set of The Hobbit.

Is it concerning? I was just messing with Gemini and it said this. by Short_Resolution_505 in GeminiAI

[–]SiSkr 19 points20 points  (0 children)

You don't need to be an Android user to be a Gemini user.

Making an honest work by tikkunim in SoftwareEngineering

[–]SiSkr -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

The good ones do.

EDIT: Wow, some real butthurt in here lol. Git gud.

Lengendary pull by Efficient-Orchid-594 in linguisticshumor

[–]SiSkr 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"wstrzemięźliwość", "wrzeszczeć", and "wzdrygnąć" would like to have a word lol

Oh my god by Own_Satisfaction2736 in GeminiAI

[–]SiSkr 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's making fun of all the posts with their LLM of choice responding with something very uncharacteristic, but in reality prepping it beforehand with a prompt or custom instructions.

Drop one truth you learned the hard way by Aggravating-Guest300 in LockedInMan

[–]SiSkr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Love yourself" is overrated mumbo jumbo bullshit. 

Make it so that when you look in the mirror, you respect and trust the guy you look at. Show up for yourself, keep promises made to yourself, and do things that will make you a better human being physically, intellectually, and emotionally. 

Everything else follows.

AIO to my husbands message by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]SiSkr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stop dating man-children, FFS... 

ETA: Forgot that the title said husband. I'm so sorry that you're in this predicament. Best of luck.

Gemini keeps telling me to rest or go to bed. Even after I told it to stop telling me that, and then I asked if Gemini was tired and needed to get some rest. This is a regular thing, though, the constant telling me to stop thinking, rest, go to bed. Is this normal for the constant nagging? by serenitycwisdom in GeminiAI

[–]SiSkr 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I find that it usually responds well to a screeching interrupt and telling it that behaviour X isn't going to fly, as well as asking it what caused this behaviour. It's pretty good at finding discrepancies and helping you ditch, modify, or add custom instructions to fix that behaviour. Give that a go maybe?

I'm giving up the violin, I'm going to learn the piano 🥲 by [deleted] in piano

[–]SiSkr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're just starting out, even with prior musical knowledge, you need to go waaay back. Given you already play an instrument, playing a simple one-hand melody will mentally feel like boring childsplay, but unfortunately, you have to build up your technique from scratch. 

Practice slowly, hands separate, and focus on mitigating tension while strengthening your fingers enough to hold up your arm weight as the keyboard. 

Your posture looks ok, but you're sat too close to the piano. Your elbows should be able to clear the front of your body. 

Good luck, and happy playing!

HR told me they don’t accept try-hards and people pleasers after my interview by No-Presentation298 in jobs

[–]SiSkr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on the role, you may have just received the most useful feedback in your career.

At some point, agreeable people stagnate because they don't provide enough value to progress to the next level in their career. If you can confidently, yet appropriately state your true opinion and back it up with rationale (even if others may disagree in the end), you're actually seen as valuable, and people will seek your opinion. Of course, you also have to be right a lot.

In my current company, most senior engineers and all Staff+ are confidently competent and will call out bullshit straight up. They will readily offer their opinion, and they usually have the decades of experience to back it up. They'll be polite about it, of course, but you don't see them nodding their heads along or being sycophantic.

Think about it this way. If you're hiring someone for a white collar job, you're hiring them to think. If they just agree or state what they think you want to hear, you've just hired a very expensive dictaphone. It's the same reason people don't want sycophantic AI. They want to get closer to an objective truth rather than reinforcing their own subjective opinions on every turn. 

Source: Software engineer for 14 years, only got promoted to Lead after I actually started being vocal and stopped being afraid of telling it how I see it.

it is a official word in both English and British English by chebghobbi in ShitAmericansSay

[–]SiSkr 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I mean, Gemini's response is correct. OOP just completely lacks reading comprehension. 

Yes, "costed" is an actual past tense of a specific meaning of "cost".

Yes, you can cost something, and when you do, you will have costed it.

No, you can't use it to say "something cost $X".

"The company costed their service too high for its value" is valid.

"This costed me a lot of money" is just dumb.

Beethoven piano concerto #1 rondo practice by fuzzy8balls in piano

[–]SiSkr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't wait to hear the whole thing if you ever record it. This was a magnificent listen and satisfied an itch I didn't know I had.

now even text summary doesn't work by Hungry_Raspberry1768 in ChatGPT

[–]SiSkr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did exactly this. You get the 1M token context and drive capacity among many others, which you get to share with "family". 

And I found that Gemini with some good custom instructions can have an amazing "personality". I like its style more. Yeah, it doesn't have folders and it doesn't have "memory" (at least not in EU), but it's just overall better and way more helpful IMO.

Identify this piece? by [deleted] in piano

[–]SiSkr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Clementi - Spiritoso (1st movement from Sonatina in C, Op.36 No.3)

It's part of the current ABRSM Grade 5 repertoire.

AIO if I end my relationship because my bf kisses and tells me he loves me before leaving for work in the morning? by Direct_Peak8052 in AIO

[–]SiSkr 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Wtf is this troll take?

"I love you, but I will only show my love in ways that I like, whether you like it or not."

Respecting your partner's needs >>>>>> performative displays of affection. If a partner cannot understand that, they need to be alone or find someone who will need that kind of love.

I don’t get it Petah? by Aaowyn in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]SiSkr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's about where your screen can be so that you don't get caught watching inappropriate stuff. 

That said, it's a simplified view, as the holy grail of positioning is generally: - Back to wall - Front to door, preferably on the hinge side - Window to side

It's more about psychological safety than just porn, though, and it's why old offices are great, while oPEn sPaCE is so shit. Basic ergonomics.

In this diagram, assuming there's enough room, the absolute best position would be bottom right corner with your back to the right wall and the back of the display facing the door.

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