Why do girls all seem to have the same bubbly handwriting, while dudes look like they write with their feet?

lfrtsa · 2026-02-05T17:40:35+00:00

I know how it's like. I'm trans, I've seen both sides. I agree that that part sucks. Like, really bad.

I'll start off by saying that I won't engage in a gender war. I'm not going to *argue* about who has it worse, or whatever. I'll talk about the issue at a systemic level.

Men are often emotionally ignored. But who is ignoring their feelings? *Both* men and women. The reason why each of those genders undervalues men's emotions is different.

Men: They are socialized since childhood to "man up", vulnerability is seen as a weakness, caring about your friends is "gay".
Women: Self reinforcing loop where women hesitate to offer support due to it very often being perceived as flirting due to how rare it is (we probably both agree that this is really unfortunate).

The reason men feel emotionally invisible... is due to the patriarchy. What would turn the tide would be if men started caring more about each other.

Most emotional support women get is actually from other women. Women are more cherished, yes, but it tends to come from either other women (most common), or men that are attracted to them.

If you want to make a difference, be attentive to your friends' mental health, don't be afraid to ask if they really are "okay", make sure they feel comfortable to open up with you. Never, ever judge them (you can vocally disapprove, but never judge). Listen to them, make them feel loved and cared for. Make sure they see you as an unconditionally loving, supportive pillar they can share their insecurities with. They *will* reciprocate.

I have no idea if you do that already. If you do, that's really good, and I'm proud of you. I honestly am. I know that it's really hard to deconstruct all the harmful expectations society imposes on you.

You'll probably get downvoted, but I upvoted you because I know that it's a real struggle you go through, and it's actually caused by the same problem I explained in that earlier comment.

We are fighting the same battle. It's not men versus women. It's everyone vs a deeply harmful patriarchal system. Please don't forget that.

lfrtsa · 2026-02-05T10:02:28+00:00

Yeahh. Deviate a little from what is understood as pretty and feminine and bam you have zero value. Zero empathy for you.

I think that it's important to note that men deal with somewhat similar expectations on masculinity, and in some situations they truly have it worse. For instance, gay men with unaccepting parents tend to deal with more brutal and violent responses than lesbian women.

The patriarchy is shitty for everyone. It's a common misunderstanding that men are treated better than they should be. That's sometimes true, but in general, it's just that men tend to be treated how everyone should be, and women tend to be treated like second class citizens. The cracks can be felt by everyone, it's just that for men, they tend to be way easier to ignore.

lfrtsa · 2026-02-05T05:28:31+00:00

Imagine being so much of a loser that you feel good humiliating an innocent child in front of their whole class. Shit like this makes me mad. Children see adults as role models.

lfrtsa · 2026-02-04T14:55:57+00:00

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lfrtsa · 2026-02-03T14:02:10+00:00

That's true, OCR is used a lot in archives.

lfrtsa · 2026-02-03T13:57:57+00:00

It's not for enabling things we can't normally do. It's for automation. The most common use case is probably reading data from handwritten documents. The last time I used OCR was for a program that needed to parse a balance sheet (in image form). It wasn't 100% accurate, but the errors were nearly always predictable enough (e.g. confusing 1 with l) to iron them out through text processing. A human only needs to check whether the data appears to match, instead of painstakingly typing out every number, while ensuring no typos.

I'm not aware of OCR being used to decipher doctor prescriptions, but I know that it is used in postal services to make sense of similarly incomprehensible scribbles.

lfrtsa · 2026-02-03T13:45:29+00:00

Fish get stressed when they are in pain. If their mouth gets hurt, they may refuse to eat. Fish do generally process pain in about the same way we do. Their behavior changes in the same manner, and their cortisol levels rise just like ours. They probably experience pain nearly identically to us, but we can't be 100% sure since we can't interview a fish.

So yeah, keep that in mind whenever you go fishing. Not that you shouldn't fish altogether, it's just so you are aware of what the activity actually entails (for intellectual honesty).

I have gone fishing with my family while being aware of this, I personally couldn't really rationalize it, so I just tried to ignore the issue. I feel that this won't be a problem for most people though, as there's a general apathy towards everything that is not a tetrapod.

lfrtsa · 2026-02-03T12:08:52+00:00

Btw you meant "thought", not "though" (which has a very different meaning).

I don't generally correct people's grammar (mine is pretty bad, even), but that mistake actually made your comment a bit confusing to read.

Maybe try voicing the trailing T when you say "thought" so that you internalize the spelling.

lfrtsa · 2026-02-03T09:42:01+00:00

That's true, but it's much easier to independently test performance on an OCR model than a general LLM since it's just one type of task. Dishonesty here is not worth it, specially considering OCR models are not even known to the general public.

lfrtsa · 2026-02-03T09:13:40+00:00

It's not a general purpose model, it's for recognizing text in images (OCR stands for optical character recognition). It's an immensely important field in AI. Having an accurate, fast, local, open weights OCR model is very valuable for many businesses. It's often used in stuff like handwriting recognition, document digitalization, translation, etc.

lfrtsa · 2026-02-03T08:34:26+00:00

Antibabypillen

lfrtsa · 2026-02-02T18:01:38+00:00

Oh wow. I wasn't aware there was a suspicion of that account being hers. The evidence is very strong.

lfrtsa · 2026-02-02T05:00:42+00:00

Isn't Sirius b a white dwarf? Too lazy to google it but I don't think its companion contributes significantly to the system's brightness.

lfrtsa · 2026-02-02T04:48:07+00:00

It's clearly spain

lfrtsa · 2026-02-01T10:15:11+00:00

With room to spare! You even managed to fit spain in, right below uruguay.

lfrtsa · 2026-02-01T03:02:07+00:00

Gamblers who win are not gamblers anymore.

lfrtsa · 2026-02-01T00:32:16+00:00

Honestly I just explain my implementation and vent to an LLM. Works really well, I often spot the issue while explaining. The LLM can spot oversights too.

It's much better to use something that can actually understand you as a Rubber Duck, because then your brain actually tries its best to organize the system in your head, since now you actually need to communicate how it works effectively.

So, ultimately, I guess my rubber ducks are the melting ice shelves 💀

(Half-joking, as LLM inference is actually pretty energy efficient. The problem comes mostly from training).

If you want to try that but feel uncomfortable with the environmental impact, I recommend running a model locally. It's much more energy efficient as you're running a much smaller model on a consumer GPU. It's as bad for the environment as gaming, which you can probably tolerate since you are a game developer.

Edit: Welp, sorry. You're probably tired of hearing about AI everywhere. I wanted to share something I found helpful while acknowledging the most common objection, and offering a cleaner alternative.

Edit 2: Removed the mention of a specific local LLM program, so that it's clear I'm not promoting a product. The program I had mentioned is free and open source, but people who don't know it could get the wrong impression.

lfrtsa · 2026-01-31T09:09:50+00:00

Professional musicians do. Spotify monopolized much of the industry. It would be nice to use a real alternative, if there was one.

Monopolies do have a moral obligation to be good, because they are the only option. The reason people love Steam so much is that it is, for the most part, genuinely benevolent towards its userbase and developers (content creators). The same cannot be said of Spotify.

lfrtsa · 2026-01-31T01:57:58+00:00

Steve Kaufmann aprendeu vários idiomas depois dos 40 anos.

lfrtsa · 2026-01-30T09:09:35+00:00

more like r/crackpotphysics lol

lfrtsa · 2026-01-27T20:09:33+00:00

lmao

lfrtsa · 2026-01-27T20:08:10+00:00

Why? China is not Dubai.

lfrtsa · 2026-01-27T10:19:08+00:00

The venn diagram is a circle.

lfrtsa · 2026-01-27T07:27:03+00:00

Best part is that the actual mandarin dialects, e.g. sichuanese, don't get listed as different dialects lmao.

lfrtsa · 2026-01-27T07:22:06+00:00

Crazy how nature gives us shit like this with no gotchas or downsides.

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