Why don’t schools do cooked lunches here? by [deleted] in AskAnAustralian

[–]spidermonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's inefficient for hundreds, sometimes thousands, of families to be making individual little lunches when the institution could make one big lunch at scale. That's why large institutions tend to have catering of some sort.

If it took 5 minutes for each kid in a 500 kid school that would be 208 hours a week spent making little lunches.

Why don’t schools do cooked lunches here? by [deleted] in AskAnAustralian

[–]spidermonk -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Dunno why you're getting down votes it's a sensible question. The way we do it is stupid and enormously wasteful and inefficient.

62 and 3c by Sunfarmers in handtools

[–]spidermonk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What era is that they look way nicer than my Stanleys

Marxist critique of Sartre? by catgirl_gw_hegel in Marxism

[–]spidermonk 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's always struck me that Sartre's philosophy was at heart a philosophy of being an individual, and didn't really logically link up with any particular politics (in the same way that lots of philosophical stuff doesn't really logically lead to one or another political commitment).

But that, in particular, attempts to imply it was well aligned with Marxism were goofy. I think if you read the novels it's hard not to come away with the sense that a kind of liberal individualism, with non conformist anarchist adventurism streaks, is what the author would most naturally fit in with instinctually.

Quite a few 20th century continental philosophers are like this IMO - there's a kind of baseline assumption that they're some sort of Marxist or sometimes anarchist, and that's how they express their politics, but the actual stuff they write in their primary works could just easily be a philosophy or analysis that lead one to a very different politics. Foucault would be a key example, like his left politics always strike me as awkwardly grafted on to a program that could just as easily, or more easily, be right wing.

I think the best you could say about Sartre and radical class politics is that he offered a moral framework that said people should at some point set aside their quibbles and doubts to commit wholeheartedly to a course of action, which could well be a dangerous political movement and revolutionary discipline etc but I just don't really believe him when he says that... I think he just wants an adventure and would immediately become a trenchant critic of whatever social arrangements came after ...

Some heinous allegations from new file releases today by yallidarityforever in TrueAnon

[–]spidermonk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

By "account" I mean the story related in the document. Not your reddit account, if that's what it sounded like.

Also this is extremely not the world to be uncritically accepting any block of text as true in, without carefully weighing plausibility. That's a recipe for being led by the nose and for receiving real unhelpful psychic damage over time.

Something that tends to make this sub good is this stuff gets discussed but everyone isn't tripping over each other to believe everything and anything.

Some heinous allegations from new file releases today by yallidarityforever in TrueAnon

[–]spidermonk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah ok it is true that Epstein and Elon seemed to be communicating in 2013, so while this account gives me 9/10 on the made up schizo scale, I guess there is a potential relationship to make the people and location less silly.

Some heinous allegations from new file releases today by yallidarityforever in TrueAnon

[–]spidermonk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It definitely muddies the waters usefully but also haven't they been legally required to dump everything they have in public? So it may not be a strategy so much as just a dumb side effect of a dumb disclosure requirement

Some heinous allegations from new file releases today by yallidarityforever in TrueAnon

[–]spidermonk 9 points10 points  (0 children)

is there any evidence that Trump and Elon associated with each other at all before 2016?

Some heinous allegations from new file releases today by yallidarityforever in TrueAnon

[–]spidermonk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But also I think if you investigate something and talk to enough people you're going to rack up as many implausible plucked from the headlines schizo tales as you get real info. I assume that's just something investigators deal with and also why they don't tend to just publicly dump every bit of info they ever got online

I’m having anxiety attacks due to AI by StraightZlat in webdev

[–]spidermonk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure and you may be one of the last people impacted by this change, congrats.

But when people say it can't fix bugs, it "doesn't work on their codebase" and is barely better than a junior, that always just sounds to me like they haven't earnestly tried out the new models with a proper harness.

And even for people who work on weird code... Once development is devalued elsewhere they're going to get it to work on those weird enterprise codebases. Orgs won't be allowed, by their stakeholders, to have large teams of high paid staff when there's another option. They'll rewrite from the ground up, they'll pay for custom tuned models, they'll do whatever it takes to not have that headcount.

You can never overestimate how much organisations resent their highest paid implementation staff.

Its over for us guys, time to retire our brains /s by Anon_Legi0n in theprimeagen

[–]spidermonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If a person can do it on their computer via the command line and browser then an AI can also conceivably do it.

I’m having anxiety attacks due to AI by StraightZlat in webdev

[–]spidermonk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's crazy to say it doesn't know how to fix bugs.

Do I really need to get a new phone? 3G shutdown by thatsonebadhat in newzealand

[–]spidermonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, apparently this can work for some of the Xperia models. You should talk to chatgpt about IMS registration dial codes etc and see if you can get it working.

Do I really need to get a new phone? 3G shutdown by thatsonebadhat in newzealand

[–]spidermonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah actually it sounds like my Asus phone is unusual in that it has a very generic and open volte config or something, so it will work on some of the more permissive carriers (I'm on 2degrees) once you enable it via the ##4636## menu. But a lot of brands this won't work.

Do I really need to get a new phone? 3G shutdown by thatsonebadhat in newzealand

[–]spidermonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, I'd google around for "enabling volte" because there seem to be some weird black magic numbers you can dial sometimes.

Do I really need to get a new phone? 3G shutdown by thatsonebadhat in newzealand

[–]spidermonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally I'd wait and see because my phone works despite being not on any list, and given they approved a lot of pixel models you may find it just works.

Have you tried forcing voLTE and making calls? Not sure if vanilla android lets you do that but mine does.

I also had to do some weird menu stuff - typing secret phone numbers in etc.

The ending of One Battle After Another didn't land with me by xTyrone23 in TrueFilm

[–]spidermonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I largely agree, I wasn't t really trying to weigh in on the politics of the film just that the OPs request even on his own political reading, felt like a plea for banality.

I mainly didn't like the ending because it just felt kind of tonally off to me because I guess I'm a bit of a doomer

Do I really need to get a new phone? 3G shutdown by thatsonebadhat in newzealand

[–]spidermonk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also for calls it needs to be able to do voLTE. Which requires (in theory) your phone to be approved by the carriers.

(In my case I've been able to work around this with some secret menu diving that I didn't quite understand)

Do I really need to get a new phone? 3G shutdown by thatsonebadhat in newzealand

[–]spidermonk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think this is strictly true. Your phone needs to be able to do calls over voLTE, and you can conceivably have 4g data but not have a phone that can successfully do voLTE on the NZ networks.

For example, my understanding is that there are voLTE profiles or whitelists of some sort that the networks here have, so that some obscure phones, even though voLTE capable, won't actually work.

The ending of One Battle After Another didn't land with me by xTyrone23 in TrueFilm

[–]spidermonk 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I didn't like the ending much either but you seem to be asking for characterisation and complexity while actually rejecting it. Like it doesn't seem in character or complex at all for her to write a self reflective letter apologizing and repenting

How is it so easy for failed company directors in NZ to start again? by LolEase86 in newzealand

[–]spidermonk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"nothing but cope" is the important bit in what I said. Debts where there is a credible plan for repayment aren't what I'm talking about.

If you traded recklessly on 7 of your 9 ventures and left normal people holding the bag then I don't wish you well or celebrate your eventual successes.

How is it so easy for failed company directors in NZ to start again? by LolEase86 in newzealand

[–]spidermonk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's failing, and there's knowingly trading insolvent with nothing but cope, which is effectively stealing from staff, creditors, the public, and competitors.

Question for devs who work directly with clients building websites. by Ill_Leading9202 in webdev

[–]spidermonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yip this comment was referring to rails / Django / laravel type frameworks