andyburke

The dismissal of a sexually selected trait just because it usually is far more pronounced in one sex than the other seems extemely premature to me.

I would argue chins are actually already quite different between the sexes - to the point where people will have surgery to change their appearance if their chin doesn’t conform to societal ideals.

Sexually selected trait seems like an avenue of research that shouldn’t be so easily dismissed.

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| don’t understand: I . |
| WILL play them. . . . |
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… \/ . . . / . . ⚰️ . v/

🤷‍♂️ I could spend that two hours with my kids.

You aren’t wrong, but as a community I think we should be listening carefully to the pain points and thinking about how we could make them better.

Gonna just stream of consciousness some stuff here:

Been thinking lately, especially as I have been self-hosting more, how much work is just managing data on disk.

Which disk? Where does it live? How does the data transit from here to there? Why isn’t the data moving properly?

I am not sure what this means, but it makes me feel like we are missing some important ideas around data management at personal scale.

As a cishet white male who dislikes Voyager, I would absolutely have enjoyed a clueless straight Tom Paris trying to set gay Harry up.

Instead he turned into a fish and kidnapped Janeway to, and I will be very gracious to the writing staff here, have consensual offspring with her.

Why did I tell myself I needed to watch that show? Worst trek. 😢

Edit: Also, good on Kate Mulgrew for being way more Star Trek than most by advocating for inclusion. I do like Janeway.

Can you elaborate a bit on your setup? As someone running Jellyfin, curious how you’ve configured everything.

I will die on the Enterprise theme song hill.

It’s been a long way…

As someone who watched it with no nostalgia glasses: it is not good trek.

I can’t think of a really outstanding episode off the top of my head (maybe the Tuvix one? But even that is just … rough?). And there are some episodes in there that I actively dislike in a way I don’t with most of the other series.

I like Kate Mulgrew, she was a strong actor for the role and the theme is a banger, otherwise … meh.

How is this not a caching issue on the linked server? Serving the same info up over and over from memory should be incredibly fast.

Are their pages dynamic and filled with ads and stuff or something that makes this a problem?

We have an almost total lack of real discipline and responsibility in software engineering.

“Good enough” is the current gold standard, so you get what we have.

If we were more serious there wouldn’t be 100 various different languages to choose from, just a handful based on the requirements and those would become truly time worn, tested and reliable.

Instead, we have no apprenticeships, no unions, very little institutional knowledge older than a few years. We are pretending at being an actual discipline.

Right? They play Riker being coerced into sex for laughs. It’s the worst bit of the episode and if any other character were the target it would be very obvious why.

As a Star Trek fan: maybe we have too much Star Trek.

Sock puppet fuckup or what?

I enjoyed the facts spit above.

Gently, I would ask you to think about yourself in a future role where you have too little time, and are under too much pressure, and you haven’t gotten enough sleep, and you’re distracted on this particular day, and you happen to make a mistake, leave out a line, forget to fix a section of code you were experimenting with…

And even if you, a paragon of programming power and virtue, would never find yourself able to be hurt by your tools, you must surely know that mortals have to work with them as well, right?

They don’t want AI to hate itself, so they don’t want our training data, thankfully.

As does anyone in literally any country on the planet based on this description.

Amen, I am migrating back to self-hosted as much as I can.

Don’t ever buy anything from these people, got it.

You are here, you are doing something. If they start with the bullshit we defederate them. (Or build new tech to keep corp influence in check, whatever we want.)

Point is: at some point me getting updates from Aunt Ethel matters a lot less to me than controlling my privacy and living my life without being advertised to every second.