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What do you even do at a gym?
  • jeans and a t shirt pretty much daily

    Not great but acceptable gym garb.

    I feel like I could do all of that at home.

    You could do it at home with light weights. But heavier weights and equipment are really expensive and otherwise problematic to keep at home. Also, I find that there's something about being at the gym that makes it easier for me to work out. I did home workouts during covid but it just wasn't the same and I didn't get as good of a workout.

    Also gym membership prices vary widely. Planet Fitness if you have one near you at least used to be as cheap as $10/month. Ignore anyone who says it's not a real gym, it's good enough for like 99% of people.YMCAs and other community centers tend to be on the cheaper side.

  • Gender is a scam
  • The ancient romans actually didn't have gendered bathrooms. Or separate stalls. Just everything hanging out together, watching each other piss and shit. And then they'd all wipe their butts with a common sponge on a stick.

    But then that was before Big Toilet Paper.

  • Completely Lost on What Path to Take as an unemployed SWE
  • I guess I've never had much trouble with the initial recruiter screen, usually it's just them saying what the job is and if I say if it's a good fit, they go ahead with the test or whatever the next step is. What kinds of things do they ask?

    I can definitely give you feedback on your resume if you send it over.

  • Voting in the threadiverse
  • The problem then is that by responding, you're engaging with it which typically helps it spread in the algorithms*. Ideally there should be multiple downvote options - maybe separate it out as "misinformation" vs "bad opinion" or something. Removing downvotes and banning users who disagree is the typical cult strategy (recall the classic cult sub, r/thedonald, was notorious for this). If you're worried about downvotes being used to silence people, maybe another way to mitigate that would be a "sort by downvoted" option so that being downvoted a lot could actually put you at the top of at least that feed.

    *On Lemmy, notice the following:

    Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time

  • Voting in the threadiverse
  • Do you think vote sould be private ? Public ? And why ?

    Public. Lots of downvotes is information that could indicate that the commenter is lying, or just saying something unpopular. But either way, it's information. Before youtube started hiding downvotes, it was easy to tell that a video had a misleading title based on downvotes. Now clickbait dominates the platform.

    Are you sastified with the current voting system ? And why ?

    No. I agree that the slashdot method with more than just upvote/downvote is better. In a perfect world I imagine we could have every emoji be a reaction option, and then you could sort by putting an emoji in a bar at the top. In reality I imagine this would be a challenge from a backend perspective, but maybe like the top 5 or 10 emoji reactions could be an option for selection.

    What other interesting software/website that tried something different do you know ?

    I'll do the opposite and say - please do not remove downvotes like Twitter/Bluesky/mastodon etc. Downvotes are super important. People need to be able to boo, the only place people aren't allowed to boo are in church or at cult rallies. And that's why those platforms are especially bad for misinformation, hyperbole, and overall depravity.

    What way do you imagine to highlight content and improve search, discoverability ?

    Remove all as a forced/default option on the main page. Back in the day before reddit had r/all, communities were much more diverse and niche, and this helped separate communities flourish in their own way. When r/all was added, the content started to resemble twitter, if not just becoming screenshots of twitter, on just about every sub. This actually improves discoverability because it would force users to branch out and look at subs instead of just looking at what's on all.

  • Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community
  • For me WFH has helped me have a community. The office was never a real community, and the fact that we all worked together got in the way of being actual friends. Instead with the added time from WFH I was able to prioritize my social life and go to more events and meet people I actually have stuff in common with. Additionally my in-office job forced me to live in a dead suburb, WFH allowed me to move to a city with a lot more social opportunities.

    Of course probably not everyone prioritized that. The office might be good for some people, but for people like me who don't necessarily socialize at the office very easily WFH is much better for community.

  • Completely Lost on What Path to Take as an unemployed SWE
  • Has anyone else made a successful pivot from software engineering to another field?

    No, but I've done the complete opposite.

    I’ve sent out 400+ applications

    First rule of doing anything: if you hear grinding, you're doing something wrong and need to rethink your approach.

    I've found it to be much easier to get my foot in the door with the help of a recruiter. There's a ton of them on linkedin, all you really need to do is start looking for jobs and they'll appear in your messages. Interact with them, even if it's just to say you're not interested - I think somehow this helps you show up in whatever algo linkedin uses. I've only very rarely gotten anywhere with applications. Recruiters help because they usually already have a relationship with the hiring manager.

    Emphasis on usually, because you need to only work with recruiters that actually have that relationship. First clue is that they are physically located near the employer, and if they're actually an internal recruiter, all the better.

    Second thing I'm guessing you're doing wrong is your resume. Remember that anyone filtering out through resumes is probably not a technical person and is just looking for keywords. So make sure every technology you've worked with is mentioned by its official name on your resume.

    E.g.:

    worked for 1.5 years at a major financial firm building data pipelines, working with financial datasets, and using technologies like Python, SQL, and AWS

    Then make sure your resume includes "Python", "SQL", and "AWS", as well as the specific SQL you're using and the names of the specific AWS services, and whatever other cool keywords you can throw in about the financial systems you were working on. Even basic things like Git should be mentioned, because you never know when a HR person might have that on a list of qualifications.

    I can say I've been looking at switching jobs within tech and I've been getting plenty of interest from recruiters. Now I do have a lot more experience, but I don't think that's the only factor as I'm also looking at more high-level jobs. The difference in approach is probably the key.

  • What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? (Transracial referring to people who identify as another race like Rachel Dolezal)
  • The correct response is to consider what the correct way to synthesize the positions is, and go with that. There's nothing wrong with adapting your position to handle possible inconsistencies. The goal is not to win but to be the most correct.

    Typically, the assumption is that this is an argument that transgender is invalid. Perhaps there's another way of looking at it. Perhaps a way people aren't ready for, which is why your opponent went in that direction.

    Alternatively, it can be pointed out that this is changing the topic, because it technically is.

  • Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages
  • Let's count the problems:

    1. Up front cost
    2. Maintenance cost
    3. Varied problems like different types of stairs, tripping hazards, etc.
    4. People attacking or stealing robots and their packages.
    5. Safety issues with 100+ pound metal robots falling on pets and children

    Any others?

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  • I just want to point out something that I've not seen others mention - sometimes girls are just way too paranoid about what their families will think. I know one girl who keeps insisting that her parents wouldn't let her date a black guy, but then she also admits that she dated a hispanic guy before and thought the same thing but her parents loved him. Honestly I think like 70% of girls imagine that their parents wouldn't accept some huge swath of men due to some superficial characteristic, but probably in reality only maybe 20% of parents would actually be against their daughter dating a guy who treats her well, even if he's of a type they dislike.

  • How strong is fermented bean curd supposed to taste exactly?

    I ate some fermented bean curd that I saw at the korean market yesterday, and the flavor was let's just say quite strong and horrible. Having never had fermented bean curd before I just assumed this is how it was supposed to taste, and it was just one of those things asians eat that tastes terribly at first but they've somehow developed a taste for it. I did wonder why they bothered to make it "spicy" when the taste was so strong that spiciness was totally superfluous. So I forced down the one piece I ate and threw out the rest.

    Later that night, I the sort of stomach experience that I'm sure many of you are familiar with. I'll spare the details, other than to say it involved waking up and wondering if I would pass out before reaching the bathroom, and a puddle of cold sweat on the bathroom floor.

    So now I'm wondering if it was that the fermented bean curd was way too fermented, or if there's something else in my fridge I should be throwing out?

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    What’s an unspoken rule that absolutely everyone should know, but most people clearly don’t?
  • I have to disagree honestly. So many times someone tells me about some question they're pondering, and when I offer some suggestion about what may be going on or how to fix it, they're like "Why are you talking about something you know nothing about? You don't have to have an opinion."

    But am I allowed to? I'm a curious person. If something interesting or strange or problematic is happening in your life, the first thing my brain is going to do is start trying to explain it. So I could keep it to myself, but then since my mind is on something I'm not allowed to talk about, I'm going to sit there and be silent and then they'll be like "What? Do you have any reaction at all or are you going to just sit there in silence?"

    And then I pull out my beretta...

  • Do you ever feel like your life is a version the universe keeps editing?
  • Today I went to an event happening at the building I went to elementary school in decades ago. I was worried the directions weren't clear enough and that I might get lost, but when I got there everything felt immediately familiar and I could still walk on autopilot exactly where I needed to go.

    There's parts of our mind that encode information like about places that aren't part of explicit memory. You may therefore "remember" something that you don't recall knowing. What if rather than being my elementary school, this was a building I'd been to once a long time ago but forgotten? Or maybe a building that I've not been to, but unbeknownst to me was designed with a unique style by the same architect as a building I was more familiar with? It might also seem oddly familiar.

    Reincarnation by nature is hard to define, let alone prove true or false. So I couldn't really rule it out entirely. But given all the other explanations, I'd lean against it.

  • Why do Americans want to know the month first and the day second?
  • The month first is best because consider what happens if a message gets cut off. You might get: "You'll be flying to New York on the first of ..." or "You'll be flying to New York on June..."

    The first message doesn't tell you anything useful. Do you need to buy shorts or a parka? Do you have months to prepare or are you leaving in a few hours? Could this be an april fools joke? It's a 1/12 chance. Totally useless.

    Second message, sure the details are unclear but at least you know what to pack and that you need to hurry about getting the rest of the message.

  • Why did gandhi ask britain to seek peace with nazi germany?
  • He didn't. The quotes in these tweets are fake. If I search for these quotes these tweets are the only results. Twitter is a hostile platform to reality as reality can get in the way of virality. Hence why you never see sources on twitter. This was likely written by someone with only a passing familiarity with gandhi's position on WWII who probably guessed at how he would speak based on his character in Civ.

    What did gandhi actually think the Britiish should do in 1940? In his actual words:

    I want you to fight Nazism without arms, or, if I am to retain the military terminology, with non-violent arms. I would like you to lay down the arms you have, as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions. Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them.

    Basically he was speaking for an extreme form of non-violent civil disobedience, not capitulation.

    Also a famous gandhi quote: "Stop believing everything you see on twitter you gullible rube"

  • Determinism
  • There's a lot of assumptions in saying it's just meaningless chemicals

    • That chemicals are meaningless and lacking intriniic value. Seen from the outside they may appear that way, but evidently from the inside it seems quite different.
    • "We" are not some other unseen brain behavior (not a crazy idea since we've never seen consciousness working in the brain)
    • We are within the brain
    • The brain exists at all
    • Any knowledge exists at all (dubious as Mickey points out)
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