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[–] expr@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's what I'm saying.

[–] expr@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That's a really poor metric, because that encompasses many salaried jobs.

But yes, it's ultimately just about whether or not you are selling your time for money, or if you have acquired enough money to exploit the labor of others to make yourself more money without doing anything yourself.

[–] expr@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's all well and good, but it is simply wrong to claim that is a manifestation of ADHD. That's not how it works. ADHD is a dysfunction of the executive system of the brain. It causes challenges in things like sustained focus and/or impulse control (among other symptoms associated with executive dysfunction). For what you described, I would just call that a personality trait and not in any way related to ADHD. In fact, it's actually the opposite behavior of what you would expect from ADHD: sustained focus on something you don't want to do.

As someone who has actual diagnosed ADHD for many years, it's a big pet peeve of mine when people ascribe any random aspect of their personality to "ADHD" (if they even actually have it at all). While the specific manifestation of the disorder can obviously vary from person to person, they still all share the same basic traits in how the brain is working, and to associate unrelated things to it does a disservice to those that have it and are trying to understand more about it, in addition to undermining the broader public understanding of the condition and how it affects every day life. Mental health disorders have become a trendy new badge for people to collect on social media and spread all kinds of bullshit misinformation about. It's so fucking stupid and tiring. It makes it harder for people who actually have real mental health disorders to get what they need.

[–] expr@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Yeah I have no idea wtf this meme is talking about. A lot of people seem to have this weird idea that ADHD gives you some immense ability to focus? When it's literally the opposite. They hear about hyper focus and think that means you have some weird superpower. In reality it's an inordinate amount of attention given to whatever is the most interesting thing to you, at the expense of focus paid to things you actually need to do. It seems pretty unlikely that the person described in the OP is extremely interested in a shopping task.

[–] expr@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

Uh, there's still a shitload of websites out there doing SSR using stuff like PHP, Rails, Blazor, etc. HTML is alive and well, and frankly it's much better than you claim.

[–] expr@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

With your example, there are a number of languages that can statically prevent thread safety issues entirely, so that's not actually a good example of something a type system can't catch.

To be honest, there's much more that can be statically enforced by a type system than what C++ is capable of. With a sufficiently powerful type system, it tends to become more about tradeoffs in ergonomics and type safety.

[–] expr@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago

Antivirus software doesn't belong with the others.

[–] expr@programming.dev 26 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly, you might need therapy. But definitely an unpopular opinion, I'll give you that.

[–] expr@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago

New York City is located in the southeastern corner of the state, so "upstate NY" means basically everything north/west of the NYC metro area. It's a word that is pretty much exclusively used for New York.

[–] expr@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

LLMs are a net-negative for society as a whole. The underlying technology is fine, but it's far too easy for corporations to manipulate the populace with them, and people are just generally very vulnerable to them. Beyond the extremely common tendency to misunderstand and anthropomorphize them and think they have some real insight, they also delude (even otherwise reasonable) people into thinking that they are benefitting from them when they really.... Aren't. Instead, people get hooked on the feelings they give them, and people keep wanting to get their next hit (tokens).

They are brain rot and that's all there is to it.

[–] expr@programming.dev 9 points 4 weeks ago

That's not what she was saying. But also, Christian music is pretty garbage.

[–] expr@programming.dev 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

There were thousands lining O street in Lincoln, Nebraska today, which is a small college town of ~300k people. Definitely has to be in the millions.

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