Funny enough, I find taking the stuff out of the fridge is harder than putting it all back. I could be making much better sandwiches if I’d just dig the stuff out of the fridge.

I’ve actually heard a fairly common motivation tip is to not tell people when you’ve started a new project or healthy habit.

Some people believe that sharing the news with people is what ultimately gives you the feelgood chemicals, and then suddenly you have less desire to do the thing.

I don’t think this is to say that you shouldn’t share your accomplishments. In fact, if you struggle with perfectionism, you might never think that you’re totally finished a project. But if you’re in the tenuous first stages of a new activity, it might benefit you to wait until things are a little more concrete before sharing the fun stuff.

I’m feeling similarly about Sinking City 2.

The realities of game development are already fraught with risk, and that’s before you add violence to the equation. It’s pretty sad thinking of the games that won’t ever get made

Woe betide the child that jumps off a cliff with a bucket of water

Y’know, I think the only silver lining to deepfakes is that if my nudes get leaked I could just brush it off and say they’re fake.

Of course, that’s easy to say until you’re slapped in the face with your own bits

mek nism like many rock work together

Who’s at index zero?

I heard the original ending they filmed had Peter’s new boss at the construction site telling him to come in on Saturday. You can see him walking up in the closing shots.

I hope you get your happy ending.

Join us for tonight’s news at eleven, where we have breaking headlines that water is wet and the pope is catholic.

Dominos used to be the cheapest pizza in town. Then we got a Little Caesars that was much cheaper.

I was eating the cheapest pizza, so it’s Little Caesars for me. A couple years later they get shutdown for gross (heh) health code violations.

I no longer get Little Caesars, and that made me rethink getting the cheapest pizza. Now I prefer my local pizzeria.

I read an article in Uplifting News the other day - it was about an elderly woman who fell and broke her leg while hiking, and a whole band of people helped carry her down the mountain and to the hospital.

There’s an awful lot of bad news out there, and it often feels like humanity is failing each other. But at least in this story, absolute strangers came together to help someone who couldn’t help themselves. I cried happy tears.

https://archive.ph/f4tti

We all hope we don’t end up in the control group.

Can I get your spell in a potion so I can share it with my friends?

I just bite into it like an apple.

People are often disgusted, which just makes it taste all the sweeter.

Yeah, unfortunately this tip is losing relevance as the technology is being replaced.

As an aside, I remember about twenty years ago or so you could buy disposable AA/AAA batteries that had a gauge telling you how full they were. They worked by squeezing the battery, which I believe created a circuit with your hand, which was enough to power a cheap LCD strip on the battery.

It never worked very well, the batteries basically said they were more full if you squeezed them harder. Back then it was easier and quicker to give them the drop test.

Here’s one.

Works best with alkaline batteries, don’t try it with lithium.

The reason is that alkaline batteries work off a chemical process, and as they are used they fill with pressurized gas. The difference in pressure causes the bounciness.

I think we’re in the start of it now, let’s gooooo

Happy belated birthday!

My wife also has really bad rejection anxiety, and she’s sensitive about her birthday. She’s had some bad birthdays in the past, and when she tries to turn them around they never live up to expectations.

Part of the nature of the disorder is that you’re going to focus on the people who didn’t show up. If I might suggest, it would be good to reflect on the people who did show up. They have your back and love you enough to celebrate your birthday with you.

I’ve done some rounds in therapy, and what I’ve found really works for me is to give people the benefit of the doubt and try my best to assume no malice was intended.

Your birthday is clearly important to you, so right now it really hurts. It might even feel like betrayal. If we feel very poorly about ourselves then we start to view other people poorly.

When going through therapy I had to learn a list of Cognitive Biases. These are ways in which our brain lies to us, so if any of them sound familiar you can work on deconstructing them.

I’m going to try to speculate some reasons why people might not have shown up. If it makes you feel anxious, please bear in mind that I’m only trying to help.

For what it’s worth, I’m not really a birthday person. My own birthday isn’t important to me, so sometimes I forget that they’re important to other people. It greatly helps if someone says “Hey, this is important to me.”

You mention inviting 30-50 people. That’s a lot of people. Personally, I wouldn’t be comfortable in a crowd that size, it would make me anxious. I’d also be tempted to think that if that many other people were coming then you wouldn’t miss my absence.

You also mention inviting people up to two months before the event. Did you make sure to remind people closer to the date?

If it was me, I’d probably let people know a month and a week away from the date. Too far in the future and people think they don’t have to put it in their calendar right away. Too close to the date and it might be too late to change other plans. Reminders throughout to cement that this is happening.

Another thing to bear in mind is that if you have ADHD, it stands to reason that friends and family you resonate with are also neurospicy. I’m sure you can probably relate to forgetting an important date or appointment.

I hope your next birthday is everything you hope it’ll be.

The surgeon deserves a little fun too

A lot of the criticism comes with AI results being wrong a lot of the time, while sounding convincingly correct. In software, things that appear to be correct but are subtly wrong leads to errors that can be difficult to decipher.

Imagine that your AI was trained on StackOverflow results. It learns from the questions as well as the answers, but the questions will often include snippets of code that just don’t work.

The workflow of using AI resembles something like the relationship between a junior and senior developer. The junior/AI generates code from a spec/prompt, and then the senior/prompter inspects the code for errors. If we remove the junior from the equation to replace with AI, then entry level developer jobs are slashed, and at the same time people aren’t getting the experience required to get to the senior level.

Generally speaking, programmers like to program (many do it just for fun), and many dislike review. AI removes the programming from the equation in favour of review.

Another argument would be that if I generate code that I have to take time to review and figure out what might be wrong with it, it might just be quicker and easier to write it correctly the first time

Business often doesn’t understand these subtleties. There’s a ton of money being shovelled into AI right now. Not only for developing new models, but for marketing AI as a solution to business problems. A greedy executive that’s only looking at the bottom line and doesn’t understand the solution might be eager to implement AI in order to cut jobs. Everyone suffers when jobs are eliminated this way, and the product rarely improves.