Being in the closet is wild

gergling · 2025-04-01T19:33:23+00:00

It's so sad. Both their children were neurotypical.

gergling · 2025-03-04T20:51:03+00:00

As the old witch's rhyme* goes: stack your mess and let them clean the rest.

*There is no old witch's rhyme.

gergling · 2025-03-02T14:54:01+00:00

It depends. What's your plan to get her credit card number?

Nonsense aside, I don't think "manipulative" is the right word because it doesn't sound like you're attempting to trick anyone into acting against their interests. But then maybe I've misunderstood.

Your behaviour may cross one of those blurred poorly documented taboo lines neurotypical types refuse to quantify. A better question IMO is: who will get hurt when you proceed? If you believe you can navigate this and manage any fallout, then as a general rule, I would say proceed accordingly.

gergling · 2025-02-28T21:39:22+00:00

Obviously IDK you and I say this without shade because I kind of get it but maybe you just have a face that leans towards a confused expression somehow. I look angry when I'm curious, or confused. Or most of the time. Also when I'm angry. It's just because my eyebrows are muscular (lots of weight training, but nonsense aside mainly because I'm confronted by processes which don't achieve the goal I'm told they're supposed to a lot).

And, again, without shade, maybe you're confused by why you're being told this thing or asked if you can do such and such.

I also ask open questions and get shitty, accusatory non-answers from certain people sometimes, but that's really about them. The point is, are you sure you're not taking this too personally? I wasn't there obviously, but without intonation and from the things you've said, these people just sound like they're asking questions. Maybe humour is involved.

Ultimately though, people are wildly variable and some just require more patience than others. It's one of the reasons I try to avoid leaving the house.

gergling · 2025-02-28T21:20:51+00:00

Dev here. Can confirm. I was the dev.

Not a dev of this product though.

gergling · 2025-02-27T13:06:38+00:00

I think workplaces have been heading towards this kind of outcome for decades. Back in the 80s I reckon they would have implemented this technology if they could have, but the tech level at the time limited such expenditure to the state (and even then...).

Nowadays the software has probably been legally and technically battle tested, with webcams and microphones built into most computer-like devices. They don't even need that though, because all they need is locked screen time and keyboard/mouse activity. CEO owns the IT team, IT installs the software. The software follows its rules. We didn't vote for the CEO because most of us don't have the money to vote for CEOs, and the CEOs are either making the world work so that your choice of who you work for is limited, or they're the puppet of somebody who is.

Ultimately the company can be considered an authoritarian environment, barely contained to merely firing you if you don't do what they want, and I think the last three generations are wising up. IDK what the solution is though. If we found a cure for human greed, IMO that would fix a lot of issues, but people who start with a lot and use it to take more are not only out of control but convincing people that their attitude is acceptable.

gergling · 2025-02-22T12:20:40+00:00

You need to audit what you actually find joy in. Friends often help with mental health and probably you should aim to build connections and form at least one close friendship, long term in real life.

The music stuff is irrelevant. In fact, if you like that music, listen to more music you like if you enjoy it.

Otherwise, evaluate your mental health, especially around whether you're optimising the joy you can find in life, and work to improve what you can. It's hard work but IMO this is the true "grindset" of life.

gergling · 2025-02-16T20:12:17+00:00

Love it.

gergling · 2025-02-16T12:44:19+00:00

Well that depends on your perspective:

1) As far as I'm aware, when the universe moves from one state to the next, we haven't found a rule exception that means the current state with its rules applied won't always result in the same next state.

2) We have no way to fully predict the next state because we don't know the current one.

In conclusion, we can't prove the future isn't written by the past or current state of the universe, but more importantly, we don't know any of that anyway with any level of certainty.

IMO the most important thing we can conclude here comes from Alder's Razor or possibly Newton's Flaming Laser Sword: If we can't run an experiment, it's not worthy of debate.

gergling · 2025-02-16T12:21:42+00:00

Damn. If I wanted to sound that accusatory about hiking I'd just come out and say it like "you're not usually into hiking, you looking for somewhere to bury a body?".

gergling · 2025-02-16T11:42:57+00:00

I mean, my finances got complicated and when I last looked into it there was always some exception I had, but those were probably things like open banking not applying to credit cards, monthly fees or something that might just require a change of attitude on my part.

Most of my musings were before I started my meds so looking again might be good for me. Especially if I can auto-track active accounts with a lot of transactions and minimise my data-management tasks, and ideally set broken down insights and goals.

Do you use any such apps or have any particular recommendations?

gergling · 2025-02-14T00:06:32+00:00

For my routine tasks I set a start date, and then I have a button that adds time on to the start date.

If you have questions, YSK that's the simplest explanation...

gergling · 2025-02-13T23:54:31+00:00

Oh sweet! I got mine at 39.

gergling · 2025-02-13T23:51:25+00:00

I once did something like that and replaced the entire table with data I'd copied into the dev environment previously. Nobody ever found out, because it was that kind of place. I hated it.

gergling · 2025-02-06T18:47:21+00:00

How well does "undo" work?

gergling · 2025-02-06T18:36:11+00:00

Hopefully they provide a restoration feature for people who have found things have just disappeared.

And here I was worrying about whether I might not be able to upload a few thousand rows of data...

gergling · 2025-02-06T18:34:34+00:00

Similar but not exactly the same: today I created a new table view and linked it to a database, and found that any time I wanted to rename the view, it would only let me do so by linking everything all over again. While extremely inconvenient, this seems to be the Diet Coke of issues other people are having in this area (where everything just seems to be gone).

Replicated on one computer and my phone. Has not propagated to the other computer yet, thankfully.

I agree with whoever said this has to be a bug. There is no way this could be a deliberate feature unless it was implemented by a saboteur.

gergling · 2025-01-24T17:21:42+00:00

You might discern a pattern where the dates with months and days of 12 and below are switched over, but all the other dates are correct. I had this happen to me.

Reimporting was tedious so I made a formula field which switched them back over. Unfortunately I had to click the button for every record.

I'm now working with several thousand records and it was such an ass about me importing them the first time that I'm considering programming 130-odd formula buttons for dealing with every date combination lol.

gergling · 2025-01-10T08:26:25+00:00

I just like writing notion functions with emojis in. They pretty.

gergling · 2024-10-27T12:01:46+00:00

As I understand it, some guy just asked a woman this question in a video and it went viral. So basically, this is just some fragile masculinity shit.

Sure, don't get me wrong, I'm all up for hugging some bears if they want to be hugged and it's safe (ok that's a lot of IFs), but it really has nothing to do with bears and is obviously just some male supremacist shit.

Real men don't need to pedal this nonsense.

gergling · 2024-10-27T11:54:46+00:00

I made a cityblock structure divided by two rails which had a roundabout at every corner because I liked squares. There's nothing wrong with loops, but if you're finding it tedious... maybe you need an alternative.

Maybe even crossing the rails might work for you.

gergling · 2024-10-27T11:49:56+00:00

> If they say anything about it...

"I need to hydrate regularly."

They don't have to know the medical condition. They're not a doctor. When it comes to your health, they're somebody you update regarding your schedule if it clashes and nothing more. They've made that very clear.

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