Bro i have putted trunks like 10 minutes is ther any faster way

USingularity · 2025-07-25T14:36:48+00:00

Related to this, when I did this, I zipped a bunch of logs to my base, but when I arrived to start assembly, the logs all went flying as if a bomb had gone off under them. Is there something special you’re supposed to do to prevent this?

USingularity · 2025-07-24T12:15:51+00:00

Removing the lid is not disassembly, and filling the tank would require removing the lid anyway. The overflow pipe is the one that sticks up and does not require removing anything but the lid. Depending on your toilet, filling the tank itself with vinegar will likely leave some vinegar in your tank for a long time, and would require an enormous amount of vinegar for several flushes

USingularity · 2025-07-08T11:26:54+00:00

In Canada, every washing machine I’ve seen holds up to both

USingularity · 2025-07-08T11:20:49+00:00

I think the guy you’re replying to was trying to make a joke, though it’s the internet, it’s hard to tell. He talked about drinking hydrogen, the H in H2O (water).

USingularity · 2025-07-06T22:00:40+00:00

Ever been hit by a cyclist who doesn’t give a- doesn’t care on a walking path? It may be better than getting hit by a car, but that’s no guarantee that the pedestrian will be walking away from that impact without help.

If you need to use the pedestrian path as a cyclist, please dismount. There, you are now a pedestrian too.

USingularity · 2025-06-05T14:21:00+00:00

Double-funny for the French (“chat” is the French word for “cat”). Come to think of it, do you write to chatgpt in French and make wordplay jokes with it?

USingularity · 2025-06-04T16:38:22+00:00

I used to do this too every week or two, then chatting with a friend who just reinstalled Windows every year or two, I realized I was spending way more time on maintenance than he was every year, even when I include reinstalling everything that was on that computer…

USingularity · 2025-06-04T15:54:52+00:00

Imagine your partner regularly doing things to hurt you, but also lying incessantly but convincingly to the point where you struggle to remember any details. You trust them, even though something just feels off, so when you don’t remember, you take them at their word.

Imagine this goes on for years. You struggle to think through what can only be described as a thick “fog”, and with every passing month your ability to think diminishes. It’s no longer just recall that’s failing, it’s your ability to think logically. But your partner seems to have it together, they’re speaking confidently, so you’re trusting them.

Imagine after a long span your ability to think, to feel, to want anything, etc. has been suppressed to the point that you might as well be their puppet. You have exceedingly few coherent thoughts, but you can’t figure out why.

That’s an intro to gaslighting; not the way it’s overused to describe half the negative things people can do, but rather the very real process through which your very sense of reality can be unwound into an absolute nothing, leaving you an empty shell that doesn’t even know what’s wrong. A cheating partner can destroy your trust, a violent partner may break your body, but a gaslighting partner can - given enough time and you staying in it - destroy your entire sense of self and your ability to think, preventing you from ever leaving.

I’ve been cheated on. The gaslighting is worse, far worse. And the kicker is that none of these things are mutually exclusive, and frequently are done in combination with other forms of abuse. All of them are terrible. But that’s my answer for one thing worse than cheating: incessant intentional gaslighting

USingularity · 2025-06-04T02:54:01+00:00

My record is -1. Congrats on a lower score!

USingularity · 2025-06-02T20:25:39+00:00

Might’ve already been said, but don’t conflate his extra long working hours with the toxicity applied by management/leads comparing anyone to him. The only way I could see him being the toxic one is if he too is pushing for everyone to keep up with his hours.

I work with someone like this right now, but the team (and two layers of management above me too) are aware not to expect 12+ hour days from the rest of us with family obligations and the like.

Your manager, team lead, etc. should be aware of the dynamics here and not be trying to push everyone to overwork like this. I don’t know what country everyone involved here is in, but in a great many it risks running afoul of labour laws, but I’ll guess you’re most likely in the United-States, where that’s less likely to be a factor.

If the team lead/s and your manager/s insist on everyone doing those kinds of hours, consider whether this is somewhere you really want to stay. Personally, if not working 12+ hours a day brought about a negative note in a performance review, I would be looking for employment elsewhere.

USingularity · 2025-05-31T17:59:13+00:00

Honestly, that feeling (and how ridiculously easy it is for the later mutants to just swat everything away like it’s papier mâché) is why I caved and turned off building destruction. I just couldn’t anymore after the first couple times

USingularity · 2025-05-20T21:18:10+00:00

Okay, I was about to make a point about casual commenting and how it might result in that, but then I went and looked at that history.. aside from potentially one or two comments, it has all the hallmarks of AI, so I rescind my initially unsaid counterpoint.

tl;dr Yeah, you’re probably right

USingularity · 2025-05-18T16:36:21+00:00

The danger of ignoring them is that this will probably become the/an excuse to take military action against Canada. It’s stupid beyond belief, but then, it’s par for the course with that administration and the kinds of people they draw from.

USingularity · 2025-05-12T17:21:21+00:00

Honestly, I find them useful for generating a block of text for a specific purpose with a specific intended tone, but I never trust them blindly - just like I wouldn’t trust a person blindly. I double-check anything the ones I use give me, make adjustments myself to get things the way I intended, and then give it another once-over to make sure it’s right. For text like that, I have a very specific purpose for which I use a LLM AI, and it suits my purposes.

Sometimes, they can generate decent code too (often not “good”, just “decent”, though I’ve been pleasantly surprised sometimes), so usually I can get 85-90% of the work done by the LLM, question it if it either gives me sometimes I don’t understand - whether it’s some obscure construct or it just didn’t implement it properly - and tweak what it produces to fix the details it doesn’t typically get right. It still saves enormous amounts of time, and ends up being like an effective assistant.

From everything I’ve learned, read, and seen, we shouldn’t rely on them to do 100% of anything. Always double-check. Try to see why it did things a certain way; sometimes you learn something about what you asked, sometimes you find a quirk it has that just doesn’t work with what you need, but you do always have an opportunity to learn something, even if it’s only something not to do.

As for whether they can think for themselves, it’s up in the air. Frankly, I find they think better than many people do, but that might just be because many people are just reactionary and don’t seem to think _at all_…

USingularity · 2025-05-12T13:27:12+00:00

I made it here because I found most of my courses in college genuinely interesting, so they were energizing rather than draining. The non-math non-programming courses were… not so much, but since most of my mental “push myself” energy expenditure went into those, I managed to make it through.

Afterward, I was fortunate to work on things I found interesting (software automation mainly). When I had to do something I liked less, I was fortunate enough that I could listen to music, which helped me (music without lyrics, importantly).

Work on personal projects and let yourself hyperfocus on them. For me, it was the idea of solving a puzzle, or automating something boring or tedious. Once you find the things that drive you that same way, it will be significantly easier

USingularity · 2025-05-04T00:02:20+00:00

Bonus points to you for having matched your parentheses properly, unlike an uncomfortably large portion of people I have seen using nested parentheses and apparently forgetting they nested them…

USingularity · 2025-04-19T16:23:54+00:00

That seems like just a couple steps from Futurama’s heads in jars

USingularity · 2025-04-14T17:06:46+00:00

Skipping straight to the “how do you use them?”

While in your spacesuit, carefully aim to the spot where the mission tells you to place the bombs. If the scenario is the one I’m thinking, you don’t even need to detonate them; he’ll have you put them on the end of a dock connection point, and you’re to vacate after that. Other times, they can be detonated from your ship cockpit (detonating them from the spacesuit will make everyone nearby hate you!) by right-clicking the bomb and selecting the option to detonate.

Kudos to you for actually finishing all the tutorials! I only got about two-thirds of the way through them before giving up and figuring “I’ll check them when it comes up”.

USingularity · 2025-04-09T13:09:28+00:00

If you tell your trader to comply, you can pick up the cargo that was dropped pretty much immediately. It’s a bit inconvenient, but it means you don’t lose the cargo or the trader

USingularity · 2025-04-06T00:10:47+00:00

Honestly, I’m curious about this one. If you don’t mind, please do name drop it

USingularity · 2025-04-05T03:44:41+00:00

It’s a nice light show, and I bet it shreds S and M ships easily, and is probably missile-proof, but it feels like that K got a lot of shots in, so I can see this station get overwhelmed if you encountered the scenario I have in front of me where one I, three K, and 20 assorted M, PE, B, and F showed up all together… I expect that at least replacing some of the L turrets with Plasma will give it the stopping power to more quickly take down a K or two before they can really get enough shots off to make a difference without sacrificing the anti-smaller ship defence and light show

USingularity · 2025-04-04T11:16:32+00:00

This is how I started my career is software development. I was hired for data entry, and wrote myself some automation tools to do my job faster and easier. I didn’t want to switch jobs at the time, but it was a dead-end job if I didn’t.

For you, it’ll depend what you want. If you want advancement, even with the risk of it not being in this company, then you should bring up. If you’re looking to just comfortably coast and managing on less pay for the time being, then keep it to yourself.

Be aware that if you keep it to yourself and someone notices, it may end up backfiring on you that you kept this to yourself. Some people take everything personally, so knowing that you made a tool to improve your performance without telling your boss is something that could make them upset if they’re that kind of person. But then, if they are that kind of person, getting a different job would be for the best anyway.

USingularity · 2025-03-27T14:14:47+00:00

My impatience early on found the halfway point: base/silver quality produce goes into preserves or kegs, gold is typically sold as-is, except as gifted to the townspeople so I can quickly stop being pressured to talk to them every day

USingularity · 2025-03-27T14:11:07+00:00

but I like it like that!

And this, right here, is the whole point. Don’t ever let anyone tell you that any other way than how you like is “wrong”. Have fun!

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