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WelkinFolk

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WelkinFolk··on Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes
Fair enough. Though there must be some sort of universality in what people find attractive in men. Some lingering evolutionary behaviour (not necessarily suits), no?
WelkinFolk··on Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes
I'm in India, suit wearing is not really a big cultural thing anymore (and I doubt it ever was for most people). At least if you're not a bureaucrat.
WelkinFolk··on Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes
Well-tailored suits also make you look sharp af. The day I got the most compliments for my clothes was when I was wearing a suit for my college farewell and smoking (no, it's not a cool habit, I'm just an addict) at a tea stall.
WelkinFolk··on Tells of a Slop UI
Unrelated but, "clanker" is a great word
WelkinFolk··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
I imagine one needs a car when living in the US.
WelkinFolk··on The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
I mean, most nations aren't as rich as the "West" + East Asia.

I come from a small town, but I still managed to do fine for myself.

WelkinFolk··on The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
I mean, of course we were shown a globe "once". My father had one at home too, though tucked away under a mountain of files and other things in his gigantic cabinet.

But 99% of the time, a kid would see the world via maps in books, notebooks, projected onto the board, etc.

And we didn't have a "geography classroom". We had one classroom for a set number of kids - like 8A, 8B, etc. (where "8" is the class/grade). The teachers would come in and go as per the period. The kids stayed right where they were.

WelkinFolk··on The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
At least from my own experience, the map used the most throughout school was the Mercator projection.

When I first discovered that Greenland and Canada were not really that big during one of my many wikipedia tours as a kid, I was incredibly disappointed.

WelkinFolk··on The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
I don't think this is a US only thing. Even in India, where I'm from, everyone I've spoken to or know tends to like this change.
WelkinFolk··on Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
Not everyone from everywhere has had food delivery apps all their lifetimes, even if they're GenZ
WelkinFolk··on OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra
Sarcastic quips are basically the most human response to any new situation. Let us have fun
WelkinFolk··on I should have loved biology (2020)
Fellow IITian here OP. Would do anything to get those years back. Happy to know you found a better place to be :)
WelkinFolk··on HTML Can Do That
I have started hearing echoes of how LLMs are "conscious" on every forum I go. Strange times.
WelkinFolk··on I should have loved biology (2020)
Similarly in India. The college entrance exams (the biggest ones being JEE and NEET for engineers and doctors respectively) are the only thing you live and breathe from around the time you are 14 - 15 years old. Completely hollows you out.
WelkinFolk··on Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated
Because you cannot hold people accountable, since it isn't "people". We humans are emotional creatures, and we will always prefer systems where someone can be held accountable for mistakes. The developer, the doctor. Whoever.

I do not oppose AI integration; I'm not a Luddite. But having a "move fast, who cares if a couple die" isn't the way to go with sensitive fields, like the medical field.

I suppose we will come up with proper responsibility-hierarchies and guardrails around AI, but until then, people have a right to complain about the lack of them.

WelkinFolk··on Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated
Except a couple of messages, most of the comments questioning our standards of AI integration have been downvoted into oblivion. Even questioning is starting to feel like a crime here.
WelkinFolk··on The Benchmarkpocalypse
Why is this being downvoted?
WelkinFolk··on Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet
Diabolically funny, you mean.
WelkinFolk··on Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
I believe it is pretty reasonable to show ads about your own product on your website, and shouldn't be considered spam.
WelkinFolk··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
Agree with this. As much as Ubuntu is derided for several reasons, it just works. I tinkered with different distros for years, and while it was super fun, I wasn't very productive. Ubuntu and Fedora are the only distros where stuff just worked for me.
WelkinFolk··on Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
I wish I were so vain as to think I'm so special, surely I could never have happened by chance.
WelkinFolk··on Beyond Greece and Rome
Don't disagree with any of your points.

I can understand some push-back from other countries, especially when the right-wing tends to embarrassingly parade past achievements as a way to suppress criticism of current conditions, but at the moment the sheer hatred and poison have blown way past what is understandable.

WelkinFolk··on Beyond Greece and Rome
I agree that I have over-generalised, although in my mind the UK and the US have the most cultural imprint from amongst the Western nations.
WelkinFolk··on Beyond Greece and Rome
There tends to be a knee-jerk reaction from the Western world anytime South Asians even try to say that they had grand civilisations. I see an onslaught of comments about their current economic conditions and how a call centre agent having a "bad" accent means that South Asians deserve to be criticised for every little thing.
WelkinFolk··on Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
But doesn't this argument presume that every technology must be adopted with as much zeal as possible. That every tool is good for the future of human race. Should we not question the technologies that we so readily adopt? I'm not against AI as a whole, and as Torvalds said, "genie is out of the bottle now", but does this mean that any effort to question or regulate technology translates to "primitivism", or is it just pragmatic to do so?
WelkinFolk··on The Second Life of Sanskrit
Which Vedas call Dalits "devils"? In what context are these verses, if any? And why would a majority of the Hindu population not benefit from reading their sacred texts - Vedas and Gita and such? My literal Sanskrit teacher wasn't a Brahmin, what on earth are you on about?