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It does not. Modulus is only defined for integers. The point was that the 57 or 75 does not matter when you are looking at the remainder.

Modulus in this case means divide into 7 parts and when you cannot divide anymore keep the reminder.

If x = a*b+c

x ℅ a = c and x % b = c

> This also makes sense when you consider modulus operator. 37 % 7 gives 2 meaning 5 groups of 7 with 2 remaining in the last group.

Where is this coming from? The modulus is just integer division with a remainder. If you use your theory of interpreting this you can do it both ways.

Division is taking something and spliting it in X parts. By definition: the act of separating something into parts or groups

So when you are divinding by X you are separating the initial quantity into X equal parts.

35/7 means divide 35 in 7 equal parts.

You cannot really be cloud agnostic these days - even when using k8s. So learning to use the capabilities the cloud provides is key.

Why not just use an autoscaling group?

Re: cleverness trap. I feel like this is the tragedy of software development. We like to be seen as clever. We are doing "hard" things. I have way more respect for engineers that do "simple" things that just work using boring tech and factor in whole lifecycle of the product.

I tend to agree. K8s makes a lot of sense if you are running your own bare metal servers at scale.

If you are already using the cloud, maybe leverage abstraction already available in that context.

Lol. Loyalty!

Not sure if you are serious, but in case you are: your company is very very special.

The disconnect comes between what market rate is and what actual pay is. If you want to hire people you must offer competitive pay.

normally I would agree with you, but the 20$/hr is required across the board for all fast food workers, correct? so, it's not like you get to choose how much you pay a worker (you may choose to have less workers for example but you cannot pay less than 20).

Why would anyone take a job at 11.70/hr when one at 20$/hour is available? This makes zero sense.

Apparently they can. :) Life doesn't work this way though.

Well. Nobody used to believe this. If you subscribe to the idea that porn alters your perception of reality I don't see why you can extend it to: videogames alter your perception of reality.

nope. i can find cases where smiling is not beneficial. Eg: Lookup Angelman syndrome and tell me again how smiling is beneficial to parents that have a kid with this disease.

What else do you have?

Find me one thing that has zero effects on you. Go ahead! I'll wait.

Hah. Anti-immigration but more or less on a path to ban abortions. I'll let you do the math and find the sinister reason behind why they are forcing the poorest people to reproduce.

Nah. This does not work if the conditions the immigrants get are shittier than in their country of origin. Why would anyone move?

@toomuchtodo I think we are saying the same thing. Were we differ maybe a bit I read this correctly in how much agency one individual can have and how hard it is to swim against the current.

> It is not that they are not interested in porn, they are just looking for a different type.

amen to that. everyone has some sort of drive to reproduce that is hardwired into us.

you know, the same kind of discourse used to be applied around videogames. The claim was that they will turn kids into murderers. In reality: video games make you smarter and may even contribute to kids being more social.

It's the perpetual protestant bullshit that has plagued the society in US for hundreds of years now. God forbid we see a breast or are exposed to a dick or mention the possibility of inserting something into an asshole - everything will break down.

Can you find one example of an activity (outside porn) that is beneficial to all people?

Yes and the point is that words have meaning and various words are loaded and triggering.

Whenever you are trying to measure change you need to control for all the things that are happening.

I think framing it as "may change" is closer to what you maybe intended but I'm just guessing.

The range or the spectrum is there and implied for anything in life. The question is: if you take porn free sexual behavior and you overlap watching porn on top of it does the resulting spectrum differ? How do you control the effect porn has on us vs the effect of all the other things we are, as a society, exposed to?

For me porn does not reframe expectations. You still end up fucking and you still end up having to treat the other person as a human being. As long as everyone is having a good time and everything is between consensual adult I'm good.

Hmmm. I think women are interested in sex as much as men are. Same goes for porn. It's something that's hardwired into every living thing.

This thought has crossed my mind. Different generation may experience things differently and the subjective experience of any individual cannot capture all pros and cons. That being said, I don't think rich people (eg Billie) can actually capture why something is good or not in the context of "normal" people given how disconnected they are - i may be wrong.

I like your balanced approach here. Agree that humans are multifaceted, complex creatures.

I'm sorry, what? Choking someone without their consent? This is not porn, it's assault.

Anal sex is not enjoyable? It is. And has been a thing for eons. In fact anal sex was a way to workaround getting pregnant before birth control was a thing/was mainstream.

I feel like we have the puritan point of view of what sex should be and anything that is not that is bad/not pleasurable.

So here's where I land: what whatever you want. Do whatever you want in the bedroom as long as it's 2 consenting adults. I don't believe that porn itself is to blame or be demonized for anything.

I also firmly believe that porn may provide an outlet for people to see and experience things that they don't want or cannot experience in real life.

I agree. No point in arguing with you. You start from a premise and after that that's it.

Ultimately everyone has to regulate their own expectations.

If you're a woman and it's either prince charming or bust you're going to most likely end up alone. You decide what you want to do.

If you're a man and expect women to jump all over you when you're not taking care of yourself and cannot hold a conversation + don't want to improve to become more sexually attractive you're going to end up alone.

Hard disagree. You probably start with the premise that there is a standard, normal behaviour and porn introduced deviations from it. It has not unless we are talking about really extrem, pathological cases.

There are things you can do. Usually given enough time you'll figure out what's going on and you'll adjust your expectations and manage to have mostly good interactions.

Porn has not distorted sexual behaviours. If anything it allowed people to experiment and not feel shame for wanting to experiment. Most sexual encounters out there are as vanilla as it gets. If you feel the need to compete with someone that has sex on screen for a living you are going to have a bad time.

Some may draw the conclusion that women have an easier time dating. They do not. They are competing for what they believe are "more desirable" men. Everyone loses.

AI is dangerous here IMHO because it's going to disconnect people even more from the possibility of having a meaningful connection/relationship with another human.

People no longer like any kind of friction when it comes to interacting with other people.