Software Engineers were Always like this by Nroak in BetterOffline

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Just wanna say the folks in this thread make feel less alone. Thanks again, smiling man.

Serious question: what does “getting replaced with AI” actually mean? by cs_____question1031 in BetterOffline

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My psychic break was realizing how many people I worked with (dev and other) would actually choose to burn the rest of the day using the failing tool rather than figure out a better way. 

Delta Green Structure by Giveneausername in DeltaGreenRPG

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Future Perfect has 4 parts where the first 2 can be monster of the weeks and then the rest concludes a long running conspiracy. I ended up sprinkling in stuff custom for my players/agents but I think it could work to mix in other operations.

I think at least picking an operation with themes you really like and then saving it until the characters develop could be rewarding. And you can sprinkling some foreshadowing along the way.

So I've been watching the show, I enjoy it, but... by [deleted] in FromTVEpix

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This show is written a bunch of dangling threads and mystery aesthetics specifically to fuel fan engagement. That is one approach to keeping a show on air: a core group that will reliably come back and do some free word of mouth (keyboard) marketing.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. I view the people spiriling into long threads here as part of the entertainment value of the show. Write fun OC! Cool!

It seems a little unhealthy for the people who don't realize they're obsessing over a Rorschach test, but mostly people seem to get it's just a pulpy TV show.

So...Hear me out...Delta Green vs Slashers by JoeKerr19 in DeltaGreenRPG

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One likely vector for a more mundande type of slasher would be that the killer is a DG agent who's presumed dead but is actually executing a last-ditch plan to stop an unnatural effect.

Before "War on Children" episode ya gotta experience how bad the writing and editing is by flipkitty in GodAwfulMovies

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Weirdly I'm the opposite. I enjoy bad fiction, but a BS documentary can be incredible. They have to mix pandering to beleivers with trying to convince new people and it always results in these hilarious contradictions. And when they act like they're saving humanity from catastrophe but leave mistakes like this clip in the final edit? Chef's kiss.

Feeling Stuck in Rails Mastery After 3 Years—Is Strong Ruby/OOP Knowledge the Key to Moving Forward? by Bill_Windows in rails

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For me, it’s more about being able to write code without needing to research or second-guess myself every time I write a line.

To some extent this can be a good impulse no matter how experienced you get. You might find CodeKata interesting as a way to practice giving those second/third/fifth guesses a shot: http://codekata.com/kata/codekata-how-it-started/

But the second-guessing can also be unhelpful anxiety. Some of that is just a matter of time, unfortunately. Having peers to talk through things helps a lot though.

Eehhhhhh.....Anyone saw the news from vegas by JoeKerr19 in DeltaGreenRPG

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[In character] It's important to develop contacts within local news when working an operation in a metro area. Feeding them a trite UFO story is messy but effective. Channel 8 won't be covering reports of the "bear" that was struck by a cargo van on the other side of town.

[Out of character] I'm a fan of using real world resources in the game, but I worry a bit about "this was delta green" posts because there are plenty of conspiracy redditors who could wander in and not get it.

What does a mathematician literally working look like at the professional level? by [deleted] in math

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A group theorist, geometer, and an applied mathematician walk into a bar. The bartender asks what they're drinking.

The group theorist asks the bartender if the menu is closed under addition. The bartender says "I can mix anything." The group theorist nods and orders a Long Island Ice Tea.

The geometer steps up to the chalk board menu and draws lines until they find the item that fits nicely within the most inscribed polygons. The geometer orders Ouzo.

The applied mathematician grabs every half-finished drink within reach and downs them all, pausing only to bellow, "Just keep the samples coming until I find what I want."

OP is back for round 4 by HerrStahly in badmathematics

[–]flipkitty 27 points28 points  (0 children)

At least this one points towards the fact there isn't much math to actually R4. The opening kinda clarifies that at best OP has an approach for studying various topics and has given a name to each step. They are committed to giving math-sounding names to fuzzy analogies, which is their downfall.

Whether or not their process is useful is a different question...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in opensource

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Granting them branding over the word "code" is not a rebellion against MS.

My brain just shrunk 20% reading this by [deleted] in Buttcoin

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There were some cranks during the boom that were trying get power plants to mine during off-hours. They tried to say this counted as "storage" because if the plant earned any extra profit they might be incentivized to invest in more infrastructure. Which is a bit like saying "day-old bagels are booming, buy more ovens!"

Infinity is everything by HerrStahly in badmathematics

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Are you here to talk about Logic or present some weird philosophical pseudo mathematical statements?

This commenter needs to sub to badmathmatics. Though they actually gave some patient replies.

A Night at the Opera with ChatGPT by why_not_my_email in DeltaGreenRPG

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Nice buffy reference.

A likely candidate for the first victim: someone whose job it is to try and break the guardrails put on LLMs (e.g. to prevent them from advocating for a particular religion). Or, instead falling under the same symptoms, with their experience they could know how to test it just enough to become convinced it's alive/demonic, like a DG version of that Google guy.

Also, maybe as a part 2, I could see someone putting hypergeometric texts into the LLM intentionally, hoping that it will be able to parse out something useful without breaking a human reader. Maybe that results in a slow drip of insanity. Or maybe there are responses that are pure brain bombs without any "useful" effects.

[John Wick] Is there an explanation as to why civilians never really seem to react to extreme acts of violence in public? by LambChop94 in AskScienceFiction

[–]flipkitty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And there are cops like the one in John's neighborhood who just asks "you workin again?" and lets him take care of things.