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  • The thing i don’t get is why do women put up with it?

    Many reasons.

    Some people are taught gender essentialism from a young age. Women are like this, men are like that, and there's no way to change it. It's just nature (or God) that women clean and take care of the house, and men go out and hunt.

    Many boys are socialized from a young age not to cook or clean. Many girls are taught that that's what they do. Have you seen this in your life? A family gathering, where the boys run off to play and the women and girls stick around to clean up? Children learn from what they see and what they're taught.

    It's only recently that women had any shot at financial independence. Women weren't guaranteed the right to open a bank account until 1974, in the US. Sexual discrimination is a problem with finding a career to pay one's own way. From that, one can infer that some women "put up with" shitty men, because the alternative is destitution.

    Some women may believe that changing it is just too much work- it's not an immutable nor innate property of men that they don't cook or clean or know anything about the children, but changing that would be an overwhelming amount of work. If the man's not interested in changing anything, it's even more daunting, and may damage the relationship.

    Also some men get violent if they feel threatened, insulted, or hungry.

    These are just some things I've read or women have talked to me about. I'm a dude doing the best I can. Talk to the women in your life (but don't make them teach you a whole seminar for free, heh.)

  • Steam winter sale is now live

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  • Steam winter sale is now live

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  • I think part of it is a lot of stuff goes on deep discount repeatedly. Like Overcooked is $2. That's a steal. But I already have it. If this was my first steam sale, I'd be super excited about that.

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  • Nioh1 was pretty okay. Never finished it. Nioh2 is one of my favorites in the genre, and I play it like once a year. It's an improvement in every way.

  • Video game hardware sales had a historically bad November in the US

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  • People don't have a lot of money to spend. All the money being sucked up by rich assholes.

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  • One time in a DND game I had a dungeon with the property "you'll never find what you're looking for". This has a bunch of fun effects. Among them when the players found a spiral stairway around a hole, they tried to find the bottom and, because of the rule, could not reach it. They tried to go back up, and couldn't reach the previous floor either.

    So they decided, since they have feather fall, to just jump into the central hole and find the bottom that way.

    They fell for an uncomfortable long time. They passed the other party members who had split up (and couldn't find them).

    Good times. Players heads were very fucked with.

    They did eventually figure it out.

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  • On player training, I like systems where you can bribe players to let bad things happen.

    Like in vampire: the requiem, a player can always turn a regular failure into a Dramatic Failure, and get a little XP. This meant the players went from "oh no the cave is probably full of monsters let's take forever stressing" to "I ROLLED GARBAGE CAN I JUST BARGE IN LIKE A CONFIDENT IDIOT FOR MY DRAMATIC FAILURE?"

    Tastes vary, but I found it made a more interesting and snappier game.

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  • Some clothes don’t work for some people

    "Work" for clothing typically means comfort and protection. "Do random people find it attractive?" is not a universal requirement.

  • Math is not a democracy

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  • At least twice now I've had math nerds get really mad when I suggested "if people are misreading it, add parentheses". Very much skinner "it's the children who are out of touch".

    Some people would rather be right than understood, I guess.

    No one's going to die because you write x = c + (a * b) even though those parentheses aren't strictly needed.

  • Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers

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  • How will it reduce demand for parking? Do you envision the car will drop someone off and then drive away until it finds a parking spot that's farther than the person would want to walk?

    That sounds like a very hard problem , and people wouldn't be happy waiting 5-10 minutes for their car to navigate back to them. Or it would just cruise around looking for parking, causing more traffic.

    Cars could tailgate like virtual train cars following each other at highway speeds with very little separation, lanes could be narrowed to fit more cars side by side in traffic, etc.

    Once again reinventing buses and trains

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  • It took like 100 years to build the car-hell we have now. It's going to take a lot of time and effort to fix it.

    And people are, famously, stupid. They'll fight like hell to avoid change, but once it's in they'll fight like hell to keep that change.

    Plus there's a lot of selfish idiots that need to be overridden.

  • What is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry?

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  • Snapshot tests suck. That's a test that stores the dom (or I guess any json serializable thing) and when you run the test again, compares what you have now to what it has saved.

    No one is going to carefully examine a 300 line json diff. They're just going to say "well I updated the file so it makes sense it changed" and slap the update button.

    Theoretically you could only feed it very small things, but if that's the case you could also just assert on what's important yourself.

    Snapshots don't encode intent. They make everything look just as important as everything else. And then hotshot developers think they have 100% coverage

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  • I had this fight at work once. Someone wanted to write a makefile to invoke pytest. I didn't want to do that because I wanted people to know how pytest works, so when something goes wrong they know they can do -vv or --pdb or whatever.

    Scripts that cover trivial steps and obscure stuff people should know, I'm not a fan of.

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  • Men are just big children.

    The other day at work, a woman said "I have three children. And a husband, so I guess three and a half children."

    Don't usually see that stereotype in the wild.

    I don't want people to give up joy and fun things, but the idea that men are just irresponsible and their wife has to also be their responsible mother is sad.

    Edit: typo

  • Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers

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  • So leave that problem for later. Let them keep driving themselves, and focus on improvements where people actually live.

    Most people live in or close to cities.

  • AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans

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  • I learned today that the board of directors at this huge multinational non-tech company I'm at wants 80% of people using AI, and has a target for lines of code written by AI.

    Both of those are insane.

    The lines of code one is extra double insane. People knew lines of code was a shit metric in like the 90s.

  • The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek

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  • You have to be careful at low skill/knowledge levels, because it'll happily send you down a crazy path that looks legitimate.

    I asked it how to do something in oracle SQL, because I don't know oracle specifically, and it gave me a terrible answer. I suspected it wasn't right so I asked a coworker who's an old hand at Oracle, and he was like "no that's terrible. Here's a much simpler way"

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  • I found it's useful for code where I know like 70% of what I'm doing. More than that and I can just do it myself. Less than that and I can't trust and diagnose the output.

    I'd rather have old fashioned stack overflow and tutorials, honestly. It's hard to actually learn when it just gives answers.

  • ELI5: How does hashing/encryption algorithms keep your password safe?

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  • Not included in this answer and I'm not fully qualified to talk about: salting.

    If you knew the hashing algorithm, you could precompute hashes of all the common passwords. Then when you get steal the hashed password data, it's a lot faster to check if any of them are in your list. You can likely find that kind of list online to download.

    One defense against this is "salting". The site adds some text to your password before hashing it. So if your password is extremely common, like "password1!", with the added salt the hash on this site will be different. Like maybe it adds the user's uuid, so what gets hashed is "password1!-abcd-123-pretend-this-is-a-uuid". The user doesn't need to know.

    Another benefit is that now two passwords that both are "password1!" have different hashes.

    I'm not an expert by any means so please someone correct me if anything was wrong there.

  • You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands

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  • Most of the code at my current job doesn't even have the optional type annotations. You just see like def something(config). What's config? A dict? A list? A string? Who the fuck knows.

    Unfortunately most of the developers seem to have a very pre-modern take on programming and aren't interested in changing anything.