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Just walking past length of the E train at WTC, alongside in the corridor between Chambers and Cortland and suddenly hit with a stench SO bad it can only be an E train. I'm walking along the opposite side from where the doors are and this smell is just so nasty that it managed to make it up and over and all the way over to me. That's some nasty.

And I'm a smoker. I can't smell shit.

I work in an IT organization probably 200-300 people, and we've been mandated for a couple of years now to all get trained up on AI and try to find ways to implement it in our daily workflow. To these ends, I've had access to ChatGPT Enterprise but more importantly for what we do, Github Copilot. Most of my adoption until recently has been simply enjoying the inline predictive text feature in my daily workhorse IDE IntelliJ. Wary and slow adopter, certainly an appreciator of the technology if only from my specific perspective alone (in how I use it vs anything to do with image generation etc). I'm definitly not a "Vibe Coder".

Anyway, about those jobs. Since mandating everyone get trained up and at least somewhat literate around AI -- I've really come to appreciate how suddenly capable and churning in pretty decent and robust work whereas before I have to admit I was pretty concerned for a few of my teammates whose true coding chops are a bit lacking to say the least. It's like Office Space. They're simple people but family people.

I've just been witnessing AI really help these dingdongs out.

Most people in my shop are too dumb to be able to do the kind of prompt engineering necessary for "vibe coding" to be reliable in its output.

Got two kids 12 and 13, full custody, and no end in sight.

My youngest has Autism Spectrum Disorder level 2, and I've really let this become an absolute, and now shit's just metastasized.

I have absoluitely no idea in fact am terrified of any concept of trying to integrate pretty much anyone into this already overwhelming situation..

There's been a handful of furtive "trying to at least put up a profile on okcupid" attempts and it just is a total flame-out like from the get-go. For one, how the fuck am I supposed to find a nice smiling picture of me from anytime in the past decade? To, what the fuck has happened to OkCupid? This shit used to be cool and actually work to some degree.

"r/internetaddiction" strikes me as a sub that would have significantly more traction on Reddit.

For outsiders thinking of moving here, gather round and heed my advice, this city is far far more challenging than almost anywhere else in the USA. It's probably one of the worst financial decisions you could make. Even finding a place to live will subject you to a bevy of scammers happy to welcome you to NYC. Hell even arriving here at JFK for the first time you'll be spotted and descended upon almost instantly by the fake Taxi scammers.

The rents are astronomical and go up every year. Food prices? Fuggetaboutit. Think you're an artist going to do that NYC Artist thing? OMG, check yourself before you wreck yourself. PLEASE.

CORNYN HAS SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT SLUSH FUN

THE REPUBLICAN REVOLT HAS BEGUN

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what do??

Just wondering if anyone had any thoughts around this. A lot of what I've learned is that the weapons are all more or less the same and its just cosmetics with the exception of 1-handed vs 2-handed. But what about weapons types? Are there specific enemy types which a spear is more useful than a two-handed sword? And what about maces, hammers and other blunt weapons vs bladed weapons like swords and axes?

Beyond pure damage numbers, and the one-handed vs two-handed thing, are there any actual differences, bonuses, penalties vs certain enemy types etc?

All the self-important egoists are just climbing over one another to debunk and ridicule others here. "Show me the evidence!!! Where's the evidence!!"

I'm grown. I'm educated. I'm intelligent. And for me, the inverse has really just gotten louder and louder in my head. Show you the evidence? You show me the evidence first. Your stories of copper chisels and "pounding stones" for god's sake are really just beyond. Painted images of bronze age slaves dragging some 2.5 MILLION blocks each weighing 2.5 tons or more, many from quarries hundreds of miles away and over rocky terrain.. Do the math, how many stones per day would be feasible to imagine and divide that number by 2,300,000. It's so patently absurd on its face. Calling the pyramids tombs because that seemed to feel right despite never finding a single sarcophagus or other tell-tale signs of them actually being tombs. You call yourselves intellectuals but clearly you left intellectualism at the door a long time ago in order to align with what everyone else had to say about it.

"Oh well obviously we haven't figured it all out yet, we're missing some pieces of the puzzle still. But let me demonstrate how I can carve into a granite block about 1/32nd of an inch every day with this sand and chisel method, clearly that must be what they were doing"

It's just so clownish. Get off it.

This is the last goddamned bastion of what social media could've been and it too has surely turned to shit.

Of all the many ways it has turned to shit this evening I'll just focus on this:

One can't talk about anything interesting without immediately being descended upon by the gatekeepers and the downvotes and just like every goddamned effort to shut you up.

Fuck those people and fuck you if you're one of them.

I would so much love to learn more about their technical process. Obviously all AI but what AI exactly, how in the hell is this even possible? Visually, this is mindblowing stuff. It doesn't pull me in as a film or a story but I don't really expect or want it to. I just find looking at this stuff obviously mesmerizing.

What goes on developing and producing this kind of thing, I really would love to see or read anything in that regard, if others here might be hip to know.

This site is clearly not for children. This isn't even about the NSFW subs.

We need reliable age verification NOW. I know my even suggesting this is going to generate lot of hate but until you have a 12 year old of your own you won't understand. Parental control software is a joke, this can only be properly dealt with on the backend by Reddit itself.

Wow guys I'm so excited!!

Check it out-- ok, so we all know a toilet plunger is basically like a bell shape and you stick it over the hole and just start thrashing and making a mess, and that bell shape is important, right? Or rather we think that when we fully push it in and it collapses, we think that we're doing it wrong and we try to correct that back to the bell shape and keep going at it untilt he clog hopefully gets out. What i discovered kind of blew my mind and they never teach us this. What you want is for that pushing it in until it collapses, because at this point it makes a pretty good seal around that drain. At this point we really got to kind of use that seal as a pump, rapidly pushing and pulling but keeping the movement pretty controlled so that pump seal is maintained. For clogs like when the kid just flushed half a roll of toilet paper along with god-knows-what, this is a very important technique as it will help break that clog up so it is able to get unstuck as we once again try to apply the primary technique we of the full motion plunging we started with.

Hope this helps folks. It has taken me many years. I feel like I'm on the cusp of greatness.

And ESPECIALLY to you few who are so completely insane you go so far as to put custom laminated "Do not put your dog poop in my trash bin". What is WRONG with you people! Are you seriously this insane? How about a little bit of gratitude for those of us who would be caught dead without a poop bag and really do take such responsibilities seriously and if nothing but purely just being a decent neighbor. You should change the signs to "PLEASE put your dog poop in my bin THANK YOU"

I'm not interested in hearing your justifications. You are insane. Those are insane justifications and you might need to take a look at your part in this as also a member of this community.