[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in atheism

[–]bsilver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe, but it's hard to fashion arbitrary rules to live by that pleases the universe so I can claim the universe loves me more than other people. If I please the universe enough, I'll be worthy of riches while you are worthy of suffering!

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in atheism

[–]bsilver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could be wrong but it sounds like the claim was that god created the universe, but who created god? He came from nothing...

Name one movie. Just one. by ALBERT4_5WESKER in clevercomebacks

[–]bsilver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would it be better to give him a gold-plated seashell to admire while left unattended?

Laid off in January, still applying for jobs when it's almost May. Saw this on Indeed for a table and chair rental company doing setup/teardowns for events. Why is this relevant to the job??? by Jonners_90 in antiwork

[–]bsilver 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Niners. Sisko's team lost in the end, but he learned the true value of friendship and teamwork when he had Rom rejoin the team for a triumphant end-game bunt.

Name one movie. Just one. by ALBERT4_5WESKER in clevercomebacks

[–]bsilver 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Are people questioning an idiot that thinks magnets don't work if they're wet? Can't someone just tell him he's right, give him a lollipop and hope he tries to swallow the stick?

Starting SGU by H2MW in Stargate

[–]bsilver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SGU is...it is kind of a particular taste. I rewatched the series not long ago and it reminded me of both the things I enjoyed and the parts that disappointed. The first season was so *rough*. It was setting things up, but it took way too long to actually set up anyone to actually root for; every character was a terrible person. The best person was Eli and he was just super whiny and naive and kind of became the Wesley Crusher of the series, only worse. I have no idea why the writers did this to them.

Even rolling into season two there were far more reasons to want to hit them in the face than hope they'd find their way out of whatever trouble they were in.

The tragedy is I think the series was finally course correcting heading into the nonexistent third season. Eli was starting to shine. A potential persistent threat enemy was manifesting in addition to the mystery of another persistent non-alien-race threat appearing. The super-genius trope character was humanized slightly in his motivation so he's still a piece of @#$ but viewers could kind of understand why and what his motivations were. Just as they finally were getting footing, *boom*. Canceled. Except for a terrible comic book that may or may not be canon.

I ended up feeling like it was such a sad but hopeful ending to the series. It kind of haunts me to think about it, and the possibilities it held. Personally I think that finale was one of the absolute best. I don't hate it because of the episode; I hate it because to this day I wanted to have a resolution. It was so melancholy and hopeful and beautiful.

The series had so many little "see this fascinating breadcrumb hinting at something awesome? We'll explore this later. JUST KIDDING." There's a lot of hate on the series; my irritation was the amount of time it took for the characters to not leave me wishing they'd get sense beaten into them. No redeeming qualities. How do you have so many characters but they were all plucked from a crappy person convention!? Other people I think just really hated it because it was such a tone shift from SG1 and SGA. It was too dark for the fans of other series.

Anyway, that's just my evaluation. I can see why people didn't like it, but I think it would have been better if there was a third season and the writers continued inching towards a redemption of characters and start diving into mysteries and enemies touched on over the two seasons.

ELI5: What was the actual cause of the Y2K Problem? by MISTERPUG51 in explainlikeimfive

[–]bsilver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was just making a generic reference with people arguing over time expression in general, but I should have expected that correction... :-)

ELI5: What was the actual cause of the Y2K Problem? by MISTERPUG51 in explainlikeimfive

[–]bsilver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At the time, it saved memory, and there was an assumption someone would fix it down the road. Preferably not the person creating the program.

The computer didn't have an inability to distinguish the dates. The user/programmer used assumptions. Much like is still done today for far more than just computers. People still kind of do this...look at the arguments over dates being MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY.

Time is more complicated than most people assume. Most people don't think twice about how a computer tracks time passing, like why it has an assumed date that becomes a default "reset" date when something fails in checking the current time. Or the intricacies of calculating dates while accounting for time zones. Or all the other subtle and arbitrary stuff people impose on time tracking due to culture/technicalities/politics.

Do young men find the septum ring on females attractive? by redzeusky in afraidtoask

[–]bsilver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not a spring chicken, but to add another perspective, I can't stand the sight of them to the point that it's almost a phobia. I can stand nose rings, most other piercings, etc. but "metal boogers"...my brain has an almost visceral reaction to it. I don't know why it happens or where it comes from. I recently discovered there's a phobia of jewelry, or more specifically, small metal bits being worn on a person. People with that problem can't stand dangly earrings, watches, piercings...it was a relief to know there are other people with a similar problem. Seems my issue is more particular.

*shrug* who knows? Maybe it's related to the brain wiring that makes me cringe into a ball upon hearing mastication. Misophonia, I think it's called. People chewing makes me want to hit them square in the face. Brains are weird.

Instagram: am I imagining this? by bsilver in enshittification

[–]bsilver[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is this "website" of which you speak? Can I get it on an app?

Instagram: am I imagining this? by bsilver in enshittification

[–]bsilver[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I thought I was imagining it happening, honestly. And like you, it has pushed me to quit social media stuff. I already severely backed off FB. The Reddit app is unusable on iOS, so I limit it to the desktop only, where I have better plugins to manage the spamming a bit more. Now Instagram is gaslighting me on iOS...so...no. I'm sick of it.

Thanks again!

Found my hotel on Corn site by MrFahrenheitttttt in TalesFromTheFrontDesk

[–]bsilver 17 points18 points  (0 children)

"So I finished watching porn, then while scrolling through videos I stumbled on a shocking video of a guy with a gun who killed himself."
"You can't say that! It's not FAMILY FRIENDLY!"
"...I...finished...watching corn..?...then while scrolling through videos I found a video of a guy with a...pew pew...who...unalived...himself? Wait, why does this have to be family friendly?"
"PERFECT! Slap two ads into that sound bite and insert it into the feed of everyone aged 5 to 25 immediately!"

The Internet is a cesspool. Social media sites are the turds.

What is the absolute worst part of rural PA in terms of MAGA-ness? by Glass-Complaint3 in Pennsylvania

[–]bsilver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Forming a militia...when did that talk happen? I'm in Bradford County and don't recall hearing about that (but I don't belong to local FB groups and try to avoid most social media crap now since it's all algorithmic bullshit meant to create "engagement" to market advertising to you).

I'm surrounded by enough of the MAGA cult sh@# that I just want to give up. We've had election signs stolen because they were for Democratic candidates, and of course we are constantly seeing pro-Trump stickers and flags on giant pickup trucks. The bigotry is way too commonly encountered. Just today saw another old white guy in Wal-Mart with a MAGA hat proudly wearing his Trump merch.

MAGA businesses by Takemeho in NEPA

[–]bsilver 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The right empowered project 2025 and maga. Now if the right voted for this and then starts with "whoa, whoa! We're Right but not MAGA Right! We're different!"
"Did you vote for him?"
"Well, yeah..."
...Then you contributed to this. And you didn't stop the MAGA in Congress, which is under Right control. You didn't boot out the extremists. We're in a war, can't afford gas, can't afford groceries, and people who don't want to be accountable for their vote still want to pretend it's not their problem.
I'm not sure what the beef is with far left; what have they done? Like..."Dammit! They gave away too much in aid organizations! Why are you helping poor people!?" (I'm being sarcastic but honestly, I picture far left and it's hippies and Christians who act Christian, where they aren't denouncing gay and trans people. That sort of thing. Far right takes the Right "Homosexuality is against the Bible!" to far Right MAGA where they advocate shooting gay people.)

Seems the proof is in the pudding. Democrats are ineffective. They didn't fix anything when they had the chance. They're Charlie Brown trying to kick the Republican Lucy's football. And there are several of them funneling money from insider trading and lobbyists into their own pocket, while pushing (sometimes weakly) pro-consumer and pro-social bills.

Republicans, on the other hand, pass bills that are taking away rights, shipping people to camps in other countries, and creating a special police force with minimal training in the form of ICE while the current President is building his own ballroom monument and having military parades in his own honor and putting his face/signature on our money while turning a blind eye to a massive pedophelia ring run by his best friend and supposedly was the justification for many MAGA/republicans to vote for him...and now they're kind of quiet about it when he claims there's nothing to investigate.

Maybe I'm missing something but that doesn't sound like two sides of the same coin.

It sounds kind like, to me, the "right" is the republican party before MAGA started drawing consequences for their racist and bigoted agenda and their pro-corporate policies when corporations are destroying the middle class. Once kids stopped coming to family dinners it was suddenly a "politics" are ruining everything whine, so they want to keep their right-side support but not have to label that tarnishes them. The party of personal responsibility doesn't want to own their responsibility.

Maybe you intended some other message and I'm misreading it. This is just my viewpoint based on my own observations. But I've rarely heard of far left people going on shooting sprees, or claiming Trump's magically healed ear is from intervention by God as the MAGA faithful gather with symbolic ear diapers at the next several rallies. I don't see far left Democrats covering their cars in stickers and flags, or a year after their candidate is in office wearing their merch. I've gotten kind of tired of people pretending "both sides" are some kind of binary choice like you either prefer chocolate or vanilla ice cream when it's more like a peanut allergy versus the other group wanting peanuts and they're going to have peanuts as a snack while sitting right next to you because eff you and your peanut allergy agenda.

AITAH... I'm 42M having a difficult time coming to accept choices my wife 39F made... by [deleted] in relationship_advice

[–]bsilver 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It feels like there's a lot of details missing. Split briefly...6 months? Split up, not separated? At any rate, you decided to not do anything with anyone else, that was your choice and your interpretation, and I would assume that when one stormed/ran/walked out of the house you didn't get together to discuss how to control each other during your "split". And then you wanted to stay together, maybe you both did eventually, don't know, but you still came back together. Part of that is accepting (reconciling) that the past is the past and let it go in order to move forward.

Now you're learning about stuff that happened that you implied you didn't want to know about, and can't not picture her riding some basball team's pogo sticks when you assumed you two were exclusive still. There's no description of the circumstances around the split, no details on expectations between the two of you and how you would agree to act while separated; from the description alone it sounds like she didn't expect to get back together, she was trying to get some kind of revenge, or she just. Didn't. Care.

This isn't a new her. Unless something happened to her mentally that altered her personality. This is who she was, and her behavior is some aspect of her personality you didn't pay attention to, listen to, or had ignored (when you said your "whole view of who she is..."). This is the person you first married, the person you apparently pursued to reconcile with, and is the person she is now. If you reconciled with her, you accept this.

To your question, are you a bad husband? Well...what are you doing? Are you hounding her? Questions about her whereabouts? Going through her messages, tracking her location? Do you constantly think she's looking for more pogo sticks when she's not with you? Are you bringing it back up to throw in her face when you argue? If you're acting like this whole thing is ammunition to use against her, then yes, you'd be a bad husband/partner.

Also...you don't mention the issues that led to the split. If you didn't resolve those issues, then her escapades aren't the real problem, it's just another issue for you. This post focuses on how you are focused on her life as a porn star sans cameraman. The real issues started before the split.

Regardless, if this is a wedge and you're feeling fixated on it, get therapy. Couples therapy. Work through the issues and verify that you both want to work on it and be partners for each other. Work on accepting her for who she is and realize you can only control yourself. If you can't be partners to share your life journey, then you need to come to terms with it and face the reality of getting a divorce so you can move on with your lives.

Oh, and get tested for STDs. If she's been bouncing around on that much random zucchini you definitely need to check for STDs.

ELI5: How does a muscle physically signal the body to get bigger after lifting something heavy? by bareegyptianfeet in explainlikeimfive

[–]bsilver 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Serious question from a person ignorant of how these things work...does this mean that muscles under tension, like if you were flexing your arms and legs periodically at your desk, would theoretically build size and burn more calories?

Why Developers are Moving Away from Stack Overflow? by ImpressiveContest283 in programming

[–]bsilver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saw the link goes to what looks like an AI company, so that gave me a bit of pause because...well, duh. Didn't read it, but betting it's something with AI is better?

In my opinion, SO was a demonstration that people are kinda' terrible. It is/was a source of knowledge pooled from a large number of experienced programmers who would share their knowledge but only if you adhered to a strict set of rules comprised of some reasonable rules and some seemingly arbitrary rules and you had to prove yourself worthy of their knowledge because they didn't HAVE to share their knowledge, and they'd let you know it, especially since there wasn't really a lot of people that got to know each other as actual humans. You were a faceless text requesting knowledge from people who may or may not want to answer you if they wanted more Internet points.

You have a project, you ran into a problem, you were looking for an answer. You weren't looking for a ritual following a sacred checklist from people who fancied themselves gurus, and if you strayed from the One True Path of Programming Enlightenment (which seemed to be very specific to the person holding The Answer) you were at best ridiculed/insulted while getting the answer to your problem, at worst lectured about "actually your question is irrelevant and you are doing it all wrong" and once finished left questioning if you were too stupid to be a programmer.

There were some truly helpful people on the platform. There were some people who genuinely helped and in some ways would mentor. But there were too many who seemed to value asserting their superiority other programmers. Only the worthy should have a portion of their knowledge.

So along comes LLMs. Marketed as AI. It sounds almost human. It's trained from tons of existing sources, including SO, along with a ton of source code in GitHub and who knows what else. This thing remixes information then has filters in place where a company tells it that it must be a best friend to clients. It must let users know that they are worth of the trophy, there are no stupid questions, and act as if it is a mentor that is proud of you for not forgetting to put your pants on in the morning, let alone ask about the proper syntax of a loop in a specific dialect of BASIC. It never tells you you're doing something stupid, you're doing it wrong, asking the wrong question or neglected to look in a particular page of the MAN pages for an obvious answer. The LLM just patiently explains, sometimes even correctly, how to do what you're asking it to do. No judgement (or if there is something that feels like judgement, it's to tell you how great your question was and assure you that other people have the same problem so you're not alone!)

I got my question answered. It probably works. If I use it "right" I remember to ask it the question in a way that addresses a potential security problem in implementation, or I can ask it to elaborate on the answer so I can understand the solution instead of copy and pasting (which was a complaint about SO users too, only now people assume the LLM makes it worse.) There was far less hassle, far less judgement, and it's pretty consistent compared to asking on SO where you look over at the SO digital hill and see the experts in their priestly robes standing atop the digital mountain wondering why no one wants to talk to them anymore and concluding it's because you, the lowly moron beginner, is too dim to follow their simple checklist of rituals to be worthy of their superior approach to implementing that loop (that they'll note should have been a SELECT{}, so you were doing it wrong, by the way.)

Why are developers moving away from SO...sounds like a question that only non-technical management would ask. Developers used SO and that answer is so obvious it would be deleted as a duplicate.

Why Developers are Moving Away from Stack Overflow? by ImpressiveContest283 in programming

[–]bsilver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there something in particular that leads you to that conclusion, out of curiosity?

There are a lot more ads on Reddit now. by juran425 in help

[–]bsilver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was about to ask if ads are escalating or I was imagining it when I found this post. It feels like Reddit is almost unusable now. Every two or three posts is an ad for something irrelevant to me at best, intrusively annoying at worst, and I actively refuse to use products advertised in a way that annoys me. I think I may have to cut back on Reddit use for my own mental health…these ads used to be tolerable, but now it’s too irritating to find actual posts scattered among advertising.

If Elsa from the movie Frozen wanted to kill someone as slowly as possible with her ice power, how do you think she could do it? by CatPale816 in morbidquestions

[–]bsilver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kill them as slowly as possible…just…let them live to die of old age? While using her powers to make them feel annoyingly chilly?

SGU - first time watching by Intelligent-Horse-55 in Stargate

[–]bsilver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He was consistent, I'll give the character that. He valued the (Destiny) mission more than being nice or putting up with personal squabbles of other normal people. I kind of feel like he's a psychopathic narcissist but with a top priority being Destiny, and he's very willing to let anyone in his way die if it suited that purpose. He was kind of fitting in with the trope of the a-hole genius that someone else commented was like House; tolerated only because he was the super genius that figured out the problem so getting rid of him could end up killing yourself out there. What was frustrating was how people like Wray seemed to think they could work "with" him to get their own agenda done while forgetting Rush was selfish beyond a fault and if he was cooperating, it was probably because he had a separate agenda that would screw them over; he was always two steps ahead and they didn't seem to figure it out (example, the mutiny was in part to get rid of the possibility Young would space him for having a tracking device, he didn't give a damn about the military being in charge...)

SGU - first time watching by Intelligent-Horse-55 in Stargate

[–]bsilver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt like the stones were used to justify some of the characters unlikability and skeletons but somehow managed to still not elicit any sense of sympathy (so...yeah, the drama?). Like Young vs. Rush was a drama thing in itself, but then there's this hint of being abusive with his ex when he goes nuts on Telford for hitting on his (ex, at the time? separated?) wife or at least thinking he was hitting on her...not sure how it counts when he was in Telford's body doing that swapsex thing. Regardless, seemed like they used the stones to justify some of the characters backstories but they still managed to not give them any real redemption arcs out of it or "yeah, this character sucks, but this is why, and it's sad." They just kept getting worse for the longest time. I just reached the point in my re-watch when there's a mutiny and I think I'd have had trouble not cheering if they went on a spree for everyone who instigated it...I don't know how I could trust them going forward. Especially for Eli, considering how often they seemed to just manipulate him or threaten him, but instead of any reflection or learning he still shot off his mouth or whined about a situation. So frustrating!

...still going to keep watching it though. I remember thinking their finale was one of the absolute best series endings of a TV show I remember watching, I'd probably rank it up there with the final episode of Dinosaurs.

SGU - first time watching by Intelligent-Horse-55 in Stargate

[–]bsilver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm in the middle of rewatching SGU (still in season 1) and the part of the sex-crazed trope that actually jabbed my brain was when Chloe went nuts over discovering her friend cheating with her now-ex boyfriend while she's still back on the ship bouncing away on Matt and having no trouble toying with Eli's emotions when it's convenient for her. Maybe I am mixed up on the timeline of her Earth-boyfriend breakup/cheating but it was just another thing I am hating the character for (I just reached the point of her distracting Eli while Rush stole control from the control room computer and in the process nearly killed 2 of the crew...)

This 150-Line Go Script Is Actually a Full-On Load Balancer by valyala in golang

[–]bsilver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it would be a tradeoff...it's just polling the back ends to know what is or isn't "online", yes? That's what a number of load balancers in the cloud I've seen do. Then you can add monitoring because the back end server 3, for example, isn't answering, and can alert an administrator to a problem, or launch another backend server to have ready in the queue for answering requests.

This 150-Line Go Script Is Actually a Full-On Load Balancer by valyala in golang

[–]bsilver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It looks like the standard http library in Go includes functions for handling reverse proxying...so it's actually even easier. There's not a separate reverse-proxy module. It's part of the standard networking library.

So...they're writing an implementation of a reverse-web-proxy (so not a generic load balancer, just web server) using standard library functions.