@Ranchonyx
In high school... with 4 semesters of religious classes required for the 4 yr stint... some classes ended up making an incentive pool... 2-5$ per person and whoever got the religion teacher on a tangent (ie., not giving the tests on time cuz they didnt get to explain the material) for the longest time over the week, got the whole pot... i won several times...

Father Edward (aka fred... who he hated), i got with "did adam and eve have belly buttons?"... he had said it was just a parable/not literal. still tried to figure out an answer. It turned into the total number of ribs in males or females are wrong unless man had an extra rib.

This other teacher (new one) i got her for 3 days on 'why do *we* accept that god just always existed/was god/creator... but we try to identify everything/why couldn't we accept humans as akways exisinting/etc, if we can accept that __god__ just exists... like we dont even go to if god has a god
https://youtu.be/0QXpE6u8xdA/...

@Ranchonyx
Well... for transparency...

I went to catholic school prek-12th. I was even an altar server (mainly cuz i wanted more credible excuses).

1st grade, teacher had us push the desks out and get in a giant circle holding our arms out/slightly bent and palms up. She lectured in circles of generic god/jesus stuff while watching for the 5min mark. Then says some dont believe in jesus/god cuz they cant see/feel them. 'You feel your arms getting heavy? Almost like someone is pushing them down?... that's jesus'

I immediately (and i do mean immediately, i was super concerned) replied "Isn't that gravity?!?!".

~month later i had a few too many higly complex questions about 'god' and several aspects of the bible.

Teacher and the principal (sr ursula... rather old) both told me I should ask a priest these questions. I asked "which priest?"... answers were muddled so i asked both there that week;answers were different, so i asked each, who was right... caused some issues.

@Ranchonyx
i have... unusual... hiring practices. Years ago he was one of the millions of teenagers(and beyond) that did shit like begging for pennies in some crypto chat filled with people wasting tons of time begging eachother for money none of them have. I tend to get annoyed and send a copy/paste of why that concept is asinine... he was one of the very few that didnt just run away in some manner. He apologised and asked if i knew a better way...

At first i hust had him doing basic data entry and things like updating the lines on my crypto charts.

Im cursed to see and be extremely annoyed by potential thats not being used... literally every report card i got, kindergarten through high school had "does not wirk to potential". I always thought, why tf do they care? I had nearly the highest marks everywhere... now it haunts me.

@Ranchonyx if he doesnt pull some dumb crap again he'll be awesome... even if his relatives dont understand wtf he is doing and why some, im assuming they think im either doing something super shady or have a psych disorder, ~30 yr old female in the US. Ironically, i ended up finding someone with even less of a valid frame of ref-- just floating somewhere between knowing smart phones arent actually magic boxes, and me... whos been professionally writing simple web apps abd fixing PCs 24 years now (age 8-32).

I warned him that if he makes himself/connection to me known, he will probably have an unimaginative Indian kid, sidney, trying/failing to gas light him... and that he might leaen some stuff thats hard to teach-- by watching the ones like sidney and looking at their logic/code.

This place is totally like the biggest, greatest, reality-show-esq, thing ever... but for an innately limited audience that knows enough tech/jargon to pass.

@Ranchonyx ikr... i first had him go through sololearn html and css... when he had never touched/used any non-android computer. Actually it took him forever to just do it. Turns out its a combo of irl fuck-ups/dramas and him getting bored so procrastinating... and previously he hadnt actually told/explained to anyone wtf he was doing (2 and a half years... with some big bumps and craters )

Oh, the best part... technically, the first non-android computer OS that he saw/experienced, whatever u call it... was a 5k$ rhel9 server in my living room(i dont like 'the cloud', but im pretty sure u could've guessed from my archaic, legacy habits and me being a data nerd that also has been writing custom drivers 24yrs...since age 8)... i just needed him to log some stuff....

Dude, 1st html he wrote(a simple site, topic of his choice and gave him a subdomain/ftp) he used random custom tags out of curiosity. So he innately understood what a markup lang was without ever knowing H-,T-,M=markup, L-

@b2plane so you are a figment our imagination!

...Everyone! We're having the biggest shared hallucination ever continuously documented or this long... b2plane isnt actually a sign of the accelorating apocalypse, cuz he's not real... it's like the Ghost of Future Apocalypse...*whew* glad we know before it's too late.

Btw b2plane, my imaginary... ummm...playmate?... but in the park/playground sort of way only... ehh it's not like hed know adult stuff anyway...
The fact that you think there arent, consistently employed, grads of a fancy/expensive uni, software engineers that are mentally weak (or just about any other trait for that manner) is adorably naìve, likely immature.

@jestdotty i totally wish hypnotism worked on me... totally serious

@jestdotty there's weak and there's 'open to *idr what they call putting suggestions in your mind but that*'

@Lensflare i warned him about b2plane... the fecal fascination and the raging thread where b2plane is mad at/competing 1sided with the idea of babydev and apparently mad at me for hiring *not b2plane*

@Lensflare he's just started anything practical. His js is about the level of a basic alert in an html... so it's at least real/valid/originally intended for js.

I was busy and was supposed to be introducing/setting up him with some things... since he just started with php and mySQL... and maybe im an asshole(well i am, but not sure how much of one w/things like this)...he's lost passwords often, so i told him to make a web app that needs a password to access the page, and can store and retrieve passwords.

Said he could use any method(s) and gave an apache docs link (his apache is essentially: its http/https :80/:443, .htaccess redirects and that php get is unsecure).

He was curious if he could use python... threw me a curveball there... i had to connect some dots i clearly hadnt considered yet. Then he had some specific questions/concerns about how multiple types of encryption work and google having access to everyone's passwords.

Imo, that's proof he's got a good head lol

There's a few I know of:
1. Seeing a specialist of why you never went through puberty.
2. Hypnotism, it tends to work well on the mentally weak.
3. Hire a personal life coach to babysit you.
4. The ultimate cure-all, death.
5. Put yourself in a situation like being chased by a bull.

Im sure there's more, but any of those should help.

@retoor are we even sure that still is real?... i mean it's not like this is actively maintained or the creators come around to chat... maybe there is nobody there, maybe an old gen chatbot that was mislabelled as AI has just been keeping the wheels spinning for years... maybe the stressball is a lie... it certainly wouldn't be the first monumental betrayal. We know that cuz the cake was/is a lie...

https://youtu.be/Y6ljFaKRTrI/...

@jestdotty
Ooo... maybe dont adopt or kill it... find a small sturdy-ish partially open container, give it a week's worth of supplies and leave it somewhere like lassie. Maybe months/years later you can go back and see if he made anything of himself.

Oh you should include some small personal item of yours and your bfs... like a true send-off.

I suggested he might get a frame of ref or at least a few laughs at things... like @b2plane

I've never wanted kids... but maybe this is close-ish?

Dw, im not dumb enough to suggest anyone be kind to him... but i must admit im a bit eager to see what happens next. He's definitely a newb with dev, but he's bright and can certainly hold his own in wars fought on tactical phrasing.

...I mean, he is my underling afterall 😈

@jestdotty
It sounds gross but the 1 other person who tried it said it was awesome and took some uncooked patties home (hes typically blunt/honest but has had questionable taste before)

Recipe is:
1lb ground lean turkey
~2/3lb cooked yam
1/4c chopped onion
2oz baby spinach
2 eggs
1tsp: black pepper, mustard seed, cumin, salt
2tsp: paprika(normal, if smoked a bit less), turmeric

Mix it all together very well.
Should make about 8, relatively thin, patties (too thick and its way more time to cook)
Uncooked they are kinda a pain in the ass since it's not really stiff. Refrigerated it's a bit easier but i just used an ice cream scoop to put it on a flat griddle or pan and smash it down a bit, froze the rest as patties with foil between.
Low/med heat about 5-6min then flip for 3-4m.
Lettuce makes me sick so i used pak choi leaves, ketchup and a bun (technically a thin multigrain bun-like thing)

If you're bold enough to try it lmk. Ill even pay for the ingredients.

@jestdotty actually... i created something awhile ago (early 20s) that, for whatever reason, i had an odd craving for. Originally the idea came from something my grandmother found on google... i may have been the cause of her turning her previously classic cooking (though not super health conscious... not like fried chicken bad... just comfort-food-esq) rather tumultuous... I think I was the first to explain how she could find new recipes, incl specific stuff like for reusing leftovers, online... i think i went a bit too light on the 'don't believe everything on the Internet' part and created a monster...

Late teens i was at her house for a bit and some internet recipe she followed produced something horrid, 'burgers' with cheese, that were ground turkey and sweet potato. Yrs later, still stuck in my head like 'even with those main ingredients there's gotta be something not horrid.

Now im not sure if it's just me or what i made is actually good... and i know youd be super blunt.

@retoor thought i saw that before.. it's so old that it was from the first time i was on here 🤣

Makes me wonder about the non-op, op here... is it just despiration without any insight? Did they make an interesting bot? If so i wanna see it's assessment and truncation methods... thatd be way more worthy of acclaim and up votes imo... even just saying 'i finally get how valid these things are!' With or without a reiteration then link the actual op... so many more fascinating and worthy of upvote posts... Spijtig! Echt :'-(

Ohh... forgot...

What about those unity ads that say shit like "neuroscientists are begging seniors to play *w/ev* to help memory loss"? Would some sort (snake oil or valid) of activity be able to increase length or frequency of lucidity (or timeshift to slow the decay)?

Im curious... if i somehow missed this, my bad...

If losing knowledge of spells etc, is there a defining mechanism that decides if you can/cant attempt and/or suceed with your limited resources?
Furthermore, if there is some variability (think d&d d20 deciding based on whatever odds) would it just be a simple bool, pass/fail, a degree of efficacy (thatd pass for things like attack/defense, generating resources or gaining an extension on decay or tether to the achieved value/% for later use or reiterated attempts).

Would there be like spell=fail then some level of negative volatility (affecting the env, resources or whatever... maybe more lost memory or a status effect to the opposite end of lucidity moments.)? I imagine that a powerful wizard trying to cast spells with forgotten/incorrect elements would often be nearly catastrophic.

Would there be other practioners involved? Assuming npcs... to trust or avoid in attempts to cope with or recover memories?

@jestdotty though nearly a polar opposite to this thread... do you cook much? If so, anything against turkey, yams, green onion, spinach or spices? (i dont mean "spicy")

@TeachMeCode im curious as to what you think fire ants look like... it has apparently none of the traits of fire ants... are there even fire ants where u live?

@jestdotty yesterday a spider, the same type as original pic, about 1.5inch in size slid down from the ceiling to about a foot away on the desk/tv-tray-esq thing next to my couch that holds my heavy(old) 17in laptop. I didnt have a chance to take a pic before killing it

I dont like squashing bugs... not a vegan sort of thing, mainly just hate the exoskeleton crunch feel.

@fullstackcircus
I had him figure out a basic MySQL cli table set up and simple query(we already went through datatypes, when/why/etc to limit max char, use of varchar vs char, ints that are strings but take less storage space as ints, etc.)
So I gave him my simple py script (crypto wallet entry from untrusted user input) and told him to find and read through the mysql import used until he understood why i was making him do it.

Surprisingly, after he got over that the 2 imports of the giant package were each over 1000 lines, he figured it out. No additional help. Fully explained the concept (of what he now knows is akin to a wrapper or alias) that the python code wasnt actually connecting to the db it was only creating the MySQL code by using py functions so the MySQL code/commands would work like straight CLI and perform the same operations/return the requested data back to the py code.

Now he's super excited and focused to the point i need to watch so he doesnt burn out.

@fullstackcircus
An update, he did dumb shit irl again, got fired, *significant time lapse*, pulled his head out of his rear a few weeks ago and worked his ass off catching up on the shit he didn't do before, enough to be rehired. Since it gave me carte blanche to set the bar a bit higher while offering less coddling... i did.

I have a shit frame of ref for, well, most things, but definitely easy/simple vs complex/potentially mean comp sci stuff...
Since he needs to understand a lot in a short time, like how programs dont actually need to be written (at least the vast majority) in whatever language the api or connecting endpoint wants/requires, and he needs to be very familiar with dbs, asap...

...

@Hazarth nah... it'll just be called something like "W" or ":\" with the way naming schemes are going... gen z, twitter > X, the name Meta being trademarked.

... ooo maybe someone will get the mass of countries with shared int domain over the indian ocean to let them build a large floating island in the middle that connects to a massive targeted satellite array to create a central, decentralised ownership, prime internet redundancy and universal gateway... and forcibly claim the domain of "Web.io" or "io.io" and that will be the next level!

I mean, it sounds nuts, so I must be pretty close right?

@tosensei wouldnt that take more than a few thousand bucks in grants?

Im honestly clueless to that specific type of dynamic... never was around that level long enough (or paying enough attention) to witness that.

@Lensflare also... i couldnt think of a better term in english than gesplittert... happens frequently when im in hyperfocus coding... mostly german, but sometimes dutch or russian, with the rare occasional arabic.

I still occassionally get a moment of amusement when your name pops up and i think of how overly polite you were when i messaged you in Tirolerisch acting like it was valid/common deutsch. I told one of my oldest german (nord) friends and he told me I was too mean.

@Lensflare dont worry... im gonna change that (the bulk of nonsensical nfts and lemmings investing in utility-less blockchain gifs, the js idealists are too far gone)

Btw... if you ever wanna find out wtf im doing and dont mind an nda, just ask.
Also, as a partially valid teaching moment and the rest personal amusement... an underling will be making a meme for you in the near future (apple/swift related)

@Demolishun @TeachMeCode
Demolishun is totally right... but i have more resources (and likely more exp). I used to teach irl electronics/minor programming classes years ago. Taught 1st graders- 70yr olds.

Ive been using arduinos since ~1yr after they came out (like the official launch date not my awareness).

I still occasionally get requests from schools (hs and uni mostly) and the rare community center to source supplies.

Fun fact: since I've always been a profesional middleman at some level, that means, when i source stuff for any charitable org (or gov supplemented social resource like schools and community centers, libraries etc too) even getting my cost reimbursed, the gap between that and MRSP is a tax write off... and yes, the IRS totally hates me (stuff like this only ranks ~4th on the list of why)

If anyone in the usa ever has tax questions feel free to ask. I must admit, i get a minor kick out of their frustration and frequent, always beyond failure, auditing of me.

@TeachMeCode send me your address on tg. Im ordering another lot of arduinos and beyond (wholesale, some for resale even) I can send you a custom starter kit with some shiny random components... itd actually be helpful to me for the ecomm site idk if i told you about yet (and now i can tell u whatever //nda)

Side note- i got you a random gift or 2 youll love (it was convenient and relatively free)