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You mean to tell me the AI conversations with other AIs that another AI determined was maximized to engage readers with actions thatd keep them on the platform (made the angry) led to some recursive spiral antithetical to critical thinking???

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Oh they try. It just isn’t generally funny.

Here’s a glimpse into a time (the 90s) before it got so heinously bad that it could still kinda happen on TV. But, was still so embarrassingly bad that it was the death rattle of conservative comedy.

Greg Giraldo (RIP) was the 90s era Roast Master like Jeff Ross in the 00s and 10s. The guy conservative unfunny Tony Hinchcliffe wants to be so bad for the 20s but has instead visibly marred the comedy scene to the point of self-roast.

There was a show called Tough Crowd (with host, comedian Colin Quin), where comedians would discuss politics, face to face (God we need this to come back). Watching Giraldo sound off against the way more famous Dennis Leary is a masterclass in why conservative comedians still fail the scene today. Even with rogans billions invested in Austin.

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Instead of kisses, you get kicked.

Usually only occurs in young children, but, you can be so constipated that you vomit feces.

Sorry for ruining your day.

“our profit margins are so good that we could stand to lose a wrongful death suit 😎”

I think we need to bring back tar and feathering.

If it’s menial job, it ain’t paying enough to tell you what to do if the shit you need to do is getting done.

Get the shit done. Don’t ignore your duties. And from there, literally ignore them. Let them fire you for improving the place. Be a great story to politely explain in a future interview at a menial job. Jobs that menial aren’t in short supply. They just blow and the pay sucks. So, don’t let it have any power over you beyond those facts.

Weed is not ultimately a social drug. It tends to make people turn inward and self reflect more than reach out to others for camaraderie.

Like, yeah, kids smoke weed together and have good times and stuff. But people don’t go up to folks in Amsterdam at a cafe and buy them a spliff to strike up conversation. Because it’s not social by nature of being a psychedelic psychoactive agent.

Further, as a marijuana smoker, for the love of God stop ignoring the fact that purposely inhaling smoke is literally one of the worst things you can do for your overall health. Your heart doesn’t give a fuck if it’s tires, tobacco, or weed.

And then I was like… At the mall or whatever and she was like “shouldnt you have some kinda like pants on or something?”

And I was like “yeah whatever!” 😏

Jesse Welles would be the modern cycle.

Distorted guitars carried the torch from the protest songs of the 70s through punk and peaked with prog metal in the late 00s. We’re snapping straight back to the 70s protest songs and doing it all over again.

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You’re 21, and I didn’t realize this until I was like 32, but you don’t need a career yet. You need a job. The career will come from… Doing the jobs you want to do instead of your actual jobs.

when I worked at a liquor store like a decade ago, I stayed away from the registers unless it was necessary and no other work had to be done. I organized the entire overstock room and opened up another 300 sqft of storage in the process. I commented on processes that seemed inefficient and suggested improvements.

When I worked in breweries, I stayed out of the front of house. I started scrubbing tanks and finished an operations manager.

When I worked in IT support, I pointed out insecure practices and suggested secure practices. I’m now in cybersecurity.

I didn’t wanna work in a liquor store. I didn’t wanna scrub tanks. I didn’t wanna answer phones. So I… Didn’t. Unless I had to.

Just go get a job and find something there no one is doing that has value. Then lie on your resume by changing your title to match your duties.

Not even gonna ask…

My first method eliminates waiting to see if your students code runs fast enough. Unless complexity is part of the assignment, I’d still say go for the hash.

It’s also less work for the professor/grader.

I mean just for the love of God don’t spin up something on your company’s infrastructure that accepts file uploads.

Just don’t.

If you’re reading this and going “well, it’s just internal,” or “well, it doesn’t do much it just accepts this exact file type.” My god. Ask your CISA. And if they’re okay with it, cool. That’s on them.

Unless your whole business is transferring files, don’t. And even then… Don’t.

And if you’re still confused, the answer is to use another company’s infrastructure for this. Use Azure. Use AWS. Use Google cloud or even g suites. Don’t accept that liability. Let the trillionaires do it.

Did you know that most gaming mice can record audio through desk vibrations?

Totally cool.

Ok perfect we have a concrete example. Learning language. Your peers learning faster, it’s a bummer.

Some immediate thoughts: how are they learning? How do you learn? If you’re doing what they’re doing and not getting the same results, Is there something that can help you get where they’re getting that meets you with your strengths rather than whatever might be holding you back? You’re on an international message board. I’m not bilingual so no chance I can help you but there is almost definitely someone reading this post that fluently speaks the language you’re struggling with and also speaks English.

What has worked for you learning-wise? And if you don’t know, what are you knowledgeable about? What made you knowledgeable?

I am needing to pass a very hard exam that I’ve missed twice on already. My normal study methods ain’t working. I gotta adapt and go in discord and chat with folks. Not excited, but it’s what’s gonna fill the gaps.

You got this. Oh, shit, you know what. I’m not a John Mayer fan really but his teacher from berkley? Tomo fujita? Here. Here’s his mantra. He posts a similar video every fucking day. Literally.

It sounds like you’re trying something that’s not working. There’s 1000 ways to do anything. Try something that mirrors something else that’s worked for you. Or try something new. Don’t keep trying the same way that isn’t working, but keep trying.

Why give your students a way to get RCE on your institutions servers through anything less than perfect file upload implementation.

For a .tar? I wish you the best…

Instead of that, simplify.

Use unique salts for each assignment per student.

Align hashes with those salts to check the outcome for each students assignment.

Literally have them send you a CTF style sha256 string.

Do it step by step where each step doesn’t depend on the next, grade as a percentage of flags accurately procured.

I don’t mean this condescendingly, so apologies if it hits that way, but: Have you ever worked hard for something and accomplished what you worked hard towards?

If so, what felt better, “winning” or the process of elevating yourself?

For example when I was 15 my team won a baseball championship. Tbh the final games were well fought. We swept the post season. I reflect very positively on that post season. I don’t reflect much on the season itself. But more than the win, I reflect on being on a losing team for all of little league. I went from worst in the league to best in the league. Nothing to show for it (little league). On to the bigger league. Back to being worst in the league. Slowly my team grew, year 3 we dominated. I reflect on 5 years of failure, hours spent in batting cages, being the best (in little league) and still failing, not that final season, sure that final post season a bit, but not that final strikeout that clinched the league.

(Also to clarify this “best in little league” shit… My dad kept stats and we still talk about it. I batted .928, slugging over 2000%, won the home run derby, hit the only home run in the all star game where I went 2 for 2 and struck out all 6 batters I faced… I belonged in our little leagues major division and I was in the minors; I didn’t “make it”, so instead dominated the minors. It was kinda silly but not enough for a championship.)

In fact, if it weren’t for all that failure, I’d barely reflect on it. I’m sure we had teammates who were in their first year of the big leagues, barely recall anything of that experience. It meant more because I had been tempered in failure.

As another example, I have been playing guitar for 30 years. When I was in college people would say “wow you’re so gifted.” And it would legitimately piss me off. Like, mother fucker no I am not “gifted”, I spent my life working on this. Call it talent, call it skill. It’s not a gift. There’s no satisfaction in my skill pleasing someone where I feel my hard work is actively minimized or reduced to something I didn’t fight for.

In both of these, for me, I am valuing the process. Not the outcome.

To over share, my dad was in recent years inducted to a sports hall of fame. He’s old as fuck. Retired for over a decade. Do you think he values that award, or the process that got him that award? I don’t need to ask him. Guy hates presents. Didn’t even post the photos of his induction to his Facebook. Did post pictures of a rare bird on his feeder recently.

J-just hear me out for one second…

…technically speaking?

In the example, you’re comparing yourself to others, by matter of outcome. And getting upset in the process.

Instead let’s say you stick to the process. You investigate why you failed. Parallel parking? Okay, fuck that. I’m gonna parallel park my mom’s van 10x a day when I get home from school and not fuck that up next time.

Now you’ve learned to humbly overcome failure rather than get emotional about comparing your outcome to that of others.