laurent92

> you thought was rather heartless day to day

It’s the generalization that is wrong. People are not permanently one way. They fluctuate. They are infatuated at 20, struggling for money at 30, tired at 40, getting things in the correct order at 50, disconnected at 60… They make different conclusions about life. They may save a kid at 30 and not when they themselves have a family. Or the opposite. Generalization is erroneous.

It’s boring when UIs have a stark contrast; What makes light contrasts beautiful is rarity. Perhaps in the future, extremely elusive UIs with very faint variations will be the top of the design fashion after using cookies to know the user’s tolerance to light contrast.

For example, today’s movies are pitch black because they want to upsell 5000:1 screens. The sole reason it didn’t happen to software yet is because we don’t receive any kickback from screen manufacturers, as opposed to movies.

It would help US to condemn Colin Powell for brandishing supposed proof of WMD at the UN Counsel in 2003, which they never found after invasion.

It would help for the US to stop Predator attacks. Most of the world is convinced that they are illegal and illegitimate.

And as a French person, I preferred Trump, because he didn’t trigger any new war and he calmed down Little Rocket Man. He even shook his hand! And donated 100% of his salary to charities! Biden is back and the war is back: Bad negociation tactics, Hunter Biden shenanigans with billions transferred as a chairman of an oil company in Ukraine, female ministers of defense in all of Europe, focus on having transgender soldiers, so Putin believed we were weak and the field was open. The result is a war.

We could have avoided this war.

PS: I’m not saying female ministers of war are incompetent, I’m saying they make no-one afraid. It was way more frightening when Krouchtchev’s general responsible for the nuclear button was a crazy alcoholic: When you’re faced with an madlad, you take him seriously.

I remember a woman testifying that they were killing babies in Kuwait, and she was later discovered as being the daughter of an ambassador. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

I remember the late Colin Powell brandishing proof of WMD in Iraq at the UN Counsel. He will never land in the TPI, neither will the UN Counsel for basing a judgment upon unverified allegation causing dozens of thousands of illegal killings by the US army.

That would incentivize Google not to find it erroneous.

Are fighter jets so important in the age of drones? Shouldn’t we invest in drones which are much cheaper? If “but we need something for air superiority”, then isn’t it achievable with space superiority and drones?

> good feeling of people joining in you, which is the feeling of admiration.

Well, look around you, everyone gets their minute on stage, my schoolmates literally were into acting and showing off all the time. Even the thief of the band is with a cute girl now lol. But about ego-fuelled passions: the more everyone has a skill at making something beautiful, the more fun are your parties, because they all add up. So, it’s good to learn stuff, and I mostly want my participation trophy for bringing my share.

> You are supposedly caring of your friends

Yeah I was the one caring for the cancer friend while everyone had swimming pool. I was his worst political enemy when alive, he would have punched me if he had known my opinions, and here I was, his worst enemy, playing him his own song for his last breath, and none of his commie friends were here. Two days later his mother called me saying he never woke up. I was the last guy he saw, and not randomly, I was there every second day despite being 120km away. Me, the guy seen as selfish.

> But it sounds like a case of socialmedia addiction along with incel-esk belief that if you matched a certain image, women would simply line up.

Can you technically describe it in a worse way? I think it’s a case of when a man isn’t successful, we blame him, and we depict him as the worst possible man, like expecting to “have pussy lined up like in the good ol’ times, cause you know, I’m all muscles and virility, big car with big sound, so women dishwasher blahblahblah.” I’m not this man. I’m just angry because I’m losing at life, and everyone caricatures me. I might just not be talented socially despite making all attempts respectfully (and making all attempts respectfully is what girls hate the most - even wifebeaters have a wife, I don’t) but it’s easier to imagine an incel chad, because the goal is to find a way to blame it on the guy.

> You should do things because they are your passion. To test this, is there a skill you're proud of and promote as your image that would not be seen as classically attractive?

Yes, my work: I love building products and participating to the economic world, notably because it’s what I do best, but also because it makes everyone’s life better. Belonging to a charity is equally important. I also like windsurfing and guitar, but I’m average in both. But do realize that no woman is interested in a no-life worker with average level in two things, so yes, men have to adapt and do social stuff which puts them forward, preferably stuff that are halfway towards meeting women on a common ground. So according to your theory (for the return caricature, don’t take it literally), I should now be more seducing because I’m passionate in something. Actually, technically, you are saying not that I should be passionate, but I should be having a “stunning score” in that passion, so being excellent is required.

I think all of those are wrong leads. I think we as men should develop skills in many areas, guitar and windsurf included, and make a living and care for others around us, and girls should like us for who we are, and the fact that I’m not in, is both an unfortunate turn of events AND a very very very high hypocrisy of society about the incredible lack of consideration we give to men. And, perhaps, that society pushes so much into making diversity fashionable, that you really have to give “way more” of yourself as a white straight man, if you want a woman to accept you. And sorry, but I don’t want to be a slave to a woman, and I don’t want either to cheat her ego by flattering her with untrue stuff like so many are doing.

I’m crying because, writing this text, I notice I did so many things right, and I’m still losing at life and people still turn the blame back onto me. It’s an endless roundrobbin of blame, no-one will ever say “Ok guys, we did a mistake as a society, all wifebeaters have a wife, while regular workers get an annoying couple or no wife at all, while people who lie to women drown in pussy. That’s not good for anyone involved.”

Cool, I do none of that.

The lengths that are required for people to acknowledge a problem… The “it must be you” answer.

And if you want a webapp, use SpringBoot.

Oh that’s interesting. An entire platforms that hinges on not trying to social-engineer its users, and being successful.

I’ve also heard that TikTok wasn’t showing the same contents inside China than abroad. It would be flattering the dopamine receptors worldwide, while flattering nationalist values inside China. Is it true? It could easily be that the engine is personalized enough that it does behave a bit differently.

This comment contains no advice. It just tells that all the tracks I’ve tried are wrong/not useful (in your books, at least).

What tells you I wanted people to believe I were these things? I did guitar because it was nice to sing, and the idea of singing around a bonfire and maybe making people sing was just a good feeling. I sang the last song of a friend who died from cancer, and that was a song we had written together. He went for his last sleep on it, that’s the best departure I could imagine for him. Unfortunately, I plateaued at some level, like probably everyone does, so it became boring and annoying to not progress. It doesn’t mean I wasn’t guitar.

Anyway I don’t understand what women are looking for, that’s why I’m getting downvoted.

If it took only 2 years, it was easy. I’ve travelled around the world and did most of the possible side quests, including the workout phase, the guitar phase, the charity/vegan phase, the millionaire phase, and I’m still transparent to women. And I’ve grown bitter.

I did everything I could. I’d say “please, help” but to be honest, I’ve grown too bitter to hear the advice. It’s a game designed to make me lose, I’m neither BALM nor female, so they just want to exclude me.

I still have major problems of socialization but I succeeded to pass to the “in” group.

- It happened during the integration week in engineering school. Cohesion games, scream together, talk loud, it really transformed me. Now I’m part of the socialization. I’m 38.

- I would say it can’t happen without alcohol, unfortunately. It’s both a social signal and an actual mood changer. Use it, but quit as soon as you’re in. Use it to gain the “street cred” and move on to better friends. Friends you get through alcohol are false friends, they/you use alcohol to hide the lack of unity and the lack of depth in your relationship. So don’t dwell of friends you made through alcohol.

- You can search for a girlfriend without going through the socialization step. Don’t postpone the gf thing.

But where? USA is just as woke as Europe, and Asia is a place where work is extremely hard, with tendencies of being kleptocratic, at least if you intend to retire over there as a foreigner. So, where?

The conditions and trust are different. I personally believe that letting Google have my credit card is allowing a kid with no supervision to play with my life savings; While some others will believe Google provides better guarantees than Spotify when you want to unsubscribe. At least competition will allow us to see “who’s better” and what T&C customers care about, and that’s the important point.

It’s in France, it’s just for Java + React not rocket science.

Claiming $120k is a shit salary is really entitled, it’s among the top 20% of engineers in France and top 7% of an entire country. For Java and React. Glad I don’t have him among my employees.

I wonder whether having the media doomplay every crisis is part of the confounding or resorbing forces. Are they making it worse by persuading everyone that there is a crisis and that they should stop investing? Or are they helping decision makers anticipate and therefore smoothen the blow? I mean, the 2008 they talked so much about was way smoother than the 1995-1998 crisis, where managers were taken hostage in France in dozens of manufactures, where the Five Dragons fell in Asia and where Boris Yeltsin’s Russia came to an end?

The 1998 Russia crisis is particularly interesting:

- Russia was put under FMI (IMF) leadership with huge monetary injection,

- Financial games made that this money didn’t help the populace but only helped to create a new billionaire class in Russia.

- We have a dozen thousand Russian multimillionaires here on the French Côte d’Azur (Nice) coming from that period; and the other half of the oligarchs created the Putin regime.

Talk about a grave crisis, Ukraine is a ripple effect of the IMF stuffup.

I pay $120k. Still hard to motivate people.

So, a simple RSA or any asymetric key encryption works too?

But it’s annoying to program. You need the same records as an undo/redo system, except they’re only applied after approval. Finance does it because everyone knows finance is boring already, but I’m not sure it would be possible to retain a JS programmer in another sector if the 6-eye principle had to be applied for every modification. It’s already hard to motivate them for i18n…

The killer argument with OSS is to say that there is a vulnerability. Then customers either pay for the upgrade or look for other options.

Well, they did fire the Christian CEO.

Advertising inside of Firefox is going insane, even if it’s just ads for Mozilla. Tabs that opens when you open FF, little lines on the home page, “Big browser takes care of your privacy” starts looking very creepy.

The part that is missing is how to render our society interesting to boys and girls. Boys have been going into computers since forever because society didn’t care about them and the computers are the only ones to answer nicely; Girls have been going to mobile phones since they had builtin cameras because society strokes their ego way too much through mobile apps; How do we build a society where boys can speak and girls can do?

Depends on the size of the cracks you want to observe. For aircraft they use ultrasounds. I assume you dad used x-ray because methane and H2 are extremely small (they can’t be contained in, for example, water pipes, so the same goes for diagnostics and wavelengths).

“always” – the tech market is very young, the only recessions were 2000 and 2008, and those were during the ascent phase of the Kondratieff cycle of the Internet.

I post jobs, but we always adapt the offer depending on the person’s skills. The very idea that a job has a specific salary is disjoint from ground reality.

The ideal that everyone’s skills can be ranked using material criteria is an oversimplification of society.

It happens because we want them to happen. A barrel of legal problems bound to happen will always meet lesser market value than a barrel of people who tend to work until they die at their desk. As long as presumption of innocence doesn’t make its way, some people are just pending lawsuits on legs.

Most of us solve it by flooding our face with phone light in the middle of the night ;)