okwhateverdude (u/okwhateverdude)

okwhateverdude commented on Flunking my Anthropic interview again taylor.town/flunking-anth... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

joshdavham · a day ago

Most CS people I know aren’t weird and are actually pretty corporate and conformist. But at the same time, the people I know who do open source are some of the weirdest people I know haha

okwhateverdude · a day ago

I'll take an eclectic bunch of weirdos who all do and like cool shit over the corpo conformist normies any day. Super easy to suss out who is who when you first meet them. Just ask what they like to do when they aren't laboring under the thumb of capitalism. The cool people will talk your ear off about some esoteric whatever.

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abdullahkhalids · 17 days ago

In South Asia, it's quite common for people to speak a combination of their local language and English. Not just alternating sentences between the two languages, but in fact, constructing sentences using compound phrases from the two languages.

"Madam, please believe me, maine homework kiya ha" [I did my homework].

okwhateverdude · 16 days ago

This is common in the southwestern part of the US too. My partner and her friends she grew up with will have conversations that fluidly pick phrases and vocab from either Spanish or English depending on what words happen to be the easiest to pull from their brain. It's wild to listen to.

okwhateverdude commented on Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth ft.com/content/cfb77a53-f... · Posted by u/hhs

Yeul · a month ago

Curiously in the Netherlands poverty has gone down. But that's because the government has a pretty solid Robin Hood system going on: take from the rich give to the poor.

The amount of wealth that is redistributed is frankly insane.

okwhateverdude · a month ago

I'm generally in favor. My taxes provide an amazing experience here. I have never seen the abject poverty that I've seen in other places (such as the US) here in NL. Great infrastructure, labor laws, culture and arts, etc. I worry less about break-ins and theft. All-in-all, the least worst place to live, by far.

okwhateverdude commented on Google Cloud Incident Report – 2025-06-13 status.cloud.google.com/i... · Posted by u/denysvitali

junon · 3 months ago

Null pointers strike again.

okwhateverdude · 3 months ago

More like yolo deploys without proper scaffolding in place to handle SHTF. Also, if your red-button takes 40 minutes and deploys to mitigate anything, it isn't a red-button.

okwhateverdude commented on Being fat is a trap federicopereiro.com/fat-t... · Posted by u/swah

tuesdaynight · 3 months ago

It's hard to wrap your head around that when you got fit working out. They will firmly believe that obesity will be solved by people working out and having a stricter diet. I took me years to understand that it's doesn't work for an entire population. Honestly, even if that happened (everybody started working out), people would have a lot of problems with body image, as we can see in teenagers boys nowadays.

okwhateverdude · 3 months ago

It's difficult to do but demonstrably possible. That's why it is hard to consider any non-willpower solution. And why it is very easy to be consumed by ego if you've done it. I used to be in the militant-willpower camp because I pulled myself up by the bootstraps, so to speak. I had to study... me, in order to make it work. I had to be smarter than default mode network me and anticipate my behavior.

To change my lifestyle meant somehow incorporating all the good behaviors I wanted to do but within the limitations of being me. It took a lot of work. I carefully measured my caloric intake (gram scale all the things) and expenditure (fitness watch with optical HR, fancy schmancy scale that does body fat estimation) plus doing things like: always taking the stairs, combine my morning run/cycle with my commute (shower at the office), taking the longer way, etc. Dropped 40kg. Went from couch to running half-marathons and cycling centuries. I had to completely change my relationship with food and study all of the nutrition stuff that was never taught to me. I had to unlearn habits instilled by my parents (emotional eating, boredom eating) which meant finding different ways to deal with stress and relieve boredom. ADHD is a bitch. And weed is awesome. Learning how to accommodate munchies without putting on weight also requires forethought.

No. It really isn't all that realistic for everyone to do what I did much less have the same privileges and opportunities. I had to treat my body like a biologist studying a critter. I was incredibly lucky to be at the right spot in my life where I hit a glass ceiling at work and had so much fuck you energy pent up from feeling out of control of my life. I chose to exert maximum control over my body in order to cope and prove something.

It was a monumental amount of effort over a two year period. It is extremely unrealistic to ask people to use a gram scale for their food consistently. Or to log/track their food intake for every bite. Or to always monitor their heart rate to estimate/track your caloric output. Hyper monitoring your body is a weird hobby.

I really do think instead we should be legislating and regulating food more strictly. Labeling isn't really enough. Food science is being weaponized, much like psychology has been with advertising. We shouldn't allow that kind of manipulation for profit.

okwhateverdude commented on Being fat is a trap federicopereiro.com/fat-t... · Posted by u/swah

yetihehe · 3 months ago

> Losing weight is hard. Maintaining weight is easier, except that you have to do it forever.

That second part makes it harder. Losing weight was pretty simple for me, but maintaining that low weight was much harder. Someone said that it takes about half a year to form a habit. I maintained lower weight for about a year, then it came back.

okwhateverdude · 3 months ago

Adipocytes live like 10 years[0]. You need to maintain for a long time for those cells to die off. Otherwise, it is easy to regain.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipocyte#Cell_turnover

okwhateverdude commented on The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994) localroger.com/prime-inte... · Posted by u/lawrenceyan

NoMoreNicksLeft · 3 months ago

Localroger, where did you end up once k5 went to shit? I still miss the place.

okwhateverdude · 3 months ago

Really good times on k5 all those many moons ago. It is weird to consider how ephemeral these internet communities are in the end.

okwhateverdude commented on The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994) localroger.com/prime-inte... · Posted by u/lawrenceyan

okwhateverdude · 3 months ago

This was some out there singularity fiction back in the day with some really vivid imagery including being raped by a zombie, skinning the protagonist alive and dumping a mound of fire ants on them, and some incest. I re-read this occasionally and still enjoy reading it if only because it feels truthy for how various shades of humanity would deal with an immortality giving, reality altering, techno-god. The shock value of various scenes mimics the darker corners of the internet and does a good job exploring the dichotomy of behavior on and off the internet in the guise of dealing with the reality foisted upon the characters.

If you've not read it, and aren't bothered by some extreme imagery, I definitely recommend.

okwhateverdude commented on The American vs. European Mindset on Life mertbulan.com/2025/06/01/... · Posted by u/mertbio

silisili · 3 months ago

The US experience is summed up as having lived in a country with some perceived US influence, and having worked for a US company for an undisclosed amount of time.

The European one by the same, except also having lived in Germany for some undisclosed amount of time.

Using this 'experience' to speak authoritatively about the US or Europe as a whole is borderline insulting, regardless of content.

okwhateverdude · 3 months ago

As an immigrant from the US to NL, and having lived here over a decade and a half, the author's observation is pretty spot on. There are broad differences between the Dutch and Germans (stereotypically, they both like rules, but only the Germans are really strict about them, for example), but overall, they are similar in their mindset toward work. Of others I have met from all over the EU, they too seem to have similar cultural values.

One of the things I have seen, first hand, is when American's buy EU companies and start running them. Or when they open offices over here. The culture shock and friction is immediate. Meta, for example, basically did no labor law research before announcing a layoff, and got slapped hard by the locals. Took years for that process to finally resolve which induced a ton of stress for everyone working there. You also have founders over here that salivate at the Silicon Valley culture and want to emulate it, but for whatever reason don't actually want to move there. They also induce friction in their companies. For what it is worth, I don't want to work at a company with those kinds of cultural influences. And I want to make sure if those companies operate here, we tax them appropriately and force them to behave in an acceptable way that benefits society.

okwhateverdude commented on Rock, paper, scissors showdown luduxia.com/showdown/... · Posted by u/fidotron

ponco · 3 months ago

I had an old colleague who had a favourite lunch room trick - if challenged to Scissors, Paper, Rock then he would win every single time. I presumed it was some kind of behavioural psychology trick, but it didn't occur to me it's just a pattern recognition. Or maybe it was both. I should get in touch again...

okwhateverdude · 3 months ago

That split second before a throw resolves is a slice of time where you can observe what your opponent is throwing, and change yours at the very last moment.