Honestly they’re probably taking a loss to punish people who miss payments on their eggs. One person on the debt treadmill is worth a lot more than a few cents… Loans are so shady as an industry, the smaller they are the more they’re just looking to further exploit the poorest people

Either that or they think the dollar is about to deflate lol

It works great if you’re starting from 0 - you see every keystroke, you get hours of background information you may or may not need. It’s dumping the entire process from start to finish on you. You can follow along, understanding what you can and copying what you don’t

And then slowly, more and more of the excess information is just things you already know. Now you’re looking at a 40 minute video that may or may not have one sentence of information you’re searching for, the entire thing explaining it to you like you’re a total newbie

It makes me want to pull out my hair

Well it’s signed idiot of the East, but…

It takes a relatable concept, combines it with a couple Korean tropes from manhua, and does it all with fresh art. It’s self referential too

Now look at it in context. Clearly this is a webcomic artist, it’s not badly done, but it looks like it was done quickly. It has a message - “sorry, I didn’t have anything special to say, I’ll share the feeling of getting caught doomscrolling”

Based on the name and the comic, the artist seems to have a self depreciating sense of humor… It seems in line with that

It’s stupid. It’s layered. The layers are stupid. But it’s stupid and layered on purpose with a clear message. That’s art

It reminds me of a video I saw today where someone bought a pineapple and put it on an exhibit for a laugh, and came back to find a glass case around it. He asked his professor about it, and the professor complimented the way the glass case pressed down on the pineapple leaves.

The guy then owned up to it all, the venue decided to just leave it as is… But they said they had no idea who put the case on it

In your defense, walking with Google maps is extremely confusing. I almost always end up having to use it like a map and look for landmarks

I think we use it, just not consciously. It’s not like knowing where north is helps much, but aligning your mental map of an area means a lot

Have you ever come out of a forest or something not where you expected, then had a moment of disorientation before everything snaps into place and you realize exactly where you are?

What’s wrong with bats?

We call both localization, because what you’re doing is branching out controls, formats, and such to a locale, which is not necessarily a location or a region. You could have en-us, en-ca, en-us, en-uk, en-au, en-sp, or you just have en to translate it to English and call it a day

Because you can’t just use up the easy to remember names like that. We’ve had bird flu, SARS, MERS, swine flu, COVID… We might need cow flu to name a different coronavirus in a few years

Sure it does, tool use is huge for actually using this tech to be useful for humans. Which openai and Google seem to have little interest in

Most of the core latest generation models have been focused on this, you can tell them what they have access to and how to use it, the one I have running at home (running on my too old for windows 11 mid-range gaming computer) can search the Web, ingest data into a vector database, and I’m working on a multi-turn system so they can handle more complex tasks with a mix of code and layers of llm evaluation. There’s projects out there that give them control of a system or build entire apps on the spot

You can give them direct access to the terminal if you want to… It’s very easy, but they’re probably just going to trash the system without detailed external guidance

Well that’s one layer, but when you decode a url, you’re probably going to get a url, and then it’s going to go to that url

So now you just made them to to a website. What’s there? Whatever you want. Maybe you ask them for Facebook/Google/GitHub or whatever authorization to see their name and email, which a lot of people would do. Then redirect them to a page saying “now I know who you are, delete the photo, <user>”

Or you could send them a payload based on fingerprinting their request, you could give them a fake page to steal their password, etc

All of them, this is a QuickTime event. You have to feel out what they’re looking for. You have to hit the buttons in order and with the right timing

First - that sucks. Show empathy and active listening, see if they have more to say. Let them get it out

Next - you have to decide, are they more upset, or more stressed

Upset - story time, show sympathy. Keep it light on the details, and don’t try to draw comparisons - keep it at the emotional level.
Then advice time - again, keep it brief and vague

Stressed - advice, lay out options rapid fire and see if they latch onto any. If they don’t, story time - tell them about similar situations, without drawing emotional comparisons, where you got past it more easily than expected

Oh no, you’re not signing your life away. You’d be dead

You’re signing away the right to get any justice for those you care about

My problem with it isn’t so much their stance or how far they’ll go for it, it’s that they don’t act to achieve their stated goals.

Factory farming is legitimately horrifying, it’s so deeply wrong that one day we’ll teach children about it in a somber tone. When you start digging into it, it’s almost cartoonishly evil… It just keeps getting worse the more you learn about it

It also is extremely carbon intensive to produce so much meat, and not very healthy to eat so much

But if your problem is essentially torturing animals, why is hunting wrong? The animals live free, the ecosystem requires apex predators (which we’ve mostly wiped out), and if it doesn’t instill a respect for the animals you eat, at least it makes you look them in the eye

If your goal is reducing animal suffering, why are you sitting out there shaming people getting lunch? The problem is production, go after Purdue who forces these conditions as the supplier

If your goal is to reduce consumption, why do you draw a hard line? People in general won’t accept cutting out meat, but I think most could be convinced to cut their consumption in half.

You don’t have to have meat in every meal, or every day. You can even be mostly vegan, but have a steak occasionally.

But too many people demanding everyone meet you where you are or labeling them murderers has led to a taint on the terms. People can eat a meal with no meat and never really think about it, but then feel attacked if you mention it’s actually vegan.

The problem is vegan and vegetarian culture doesn’t seem to be about harm reduction or even cultural change - it seems to come from a place of moral superiority. The loudest voices screeching at random individuals is what most people hear. The message is “look at this horrible fact about factory farming, this is why you’re a terrible person so stop eating meat right now”

They make the whole movement hardliner and therefore easily defeatable. I genuinely think it might be astroturfing by the meat lobby

In that case, if wildcards aren’t enough I’d use an LLM - chat gpt or llama can handle simple regex, and you can just try it out and see if it worked right

Honestly, as a programmer, I’d advise you to learn Python or JavaScript before diving into regex. If you could mess with html without guidance, you’ve passed the big gap that separates people who can code from those who can’t - your eyes didn’t glaze over when you looked at something you didn’t understand. Writing a script to do custom string replacements isn’t hard, it’s less efficient but it’ll stick with you in a way that regex won’t

I use regex when I need speed, but it’s a very powerful one trick pony - the problem is it’s extremely dense

You can write code that follows your thoughts, you write regex that matches your intentions

If you want to go down the regex route, I highly recommend Melody

You can click on one of the playground examples on the page, then modify it to your needs. It will spit out regex for, but it’s much more readable and has a smoother learning curve