I worry that training myself to be mean will bleed over into other parts of my life.

Finally, I know who to complain to.

When are the bidet advocates gonna show up? This post has been up for like an hour!

EDIT: the bidet people have arrived. Thank goodness. I was starting to worry that my instance had been defederated.

It sounds like you’re asking about algorithms, which are (sort of) language-agnostic.

You’ll find some neat stuff if you search for bubble sort, Dijkstra’s algorithm, tree sort, hashing, complexity theory, and number theory. The last two are more theoretical.

To my knowledge, Introduction to Algorithms is the standard textbook used to teach university students about them. When I was in uni, it seemed to be the standard. Some people find it accessible. I did not.

Hanlon’s Razor is all well and good as a heuristic, but tends to lead to people discounting malice much too often.

There’s definitely scenarios where that is the case.

Also, I really didn’t say we were “under attack”

I would describe a massive influx of spambots as an attack on a social media platform. It’s my characterization. I didn’t mean to imply that you said it.

Agreed.

Lemmy is a federated system and these stats are self-reported by user maintained systems. Rather than a sudden influx of users (bots or otherwise), a misconfigured system or hiccup in stats collection seems more likely.

Generally, Hanlon’s Razor, add applied to computing: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity user error.

There’s a lot of malicious systems out there, but there is little corroborating evidence indicating that we’re under attack.

I’ve got a lot of unassigned schadenfreude I could put to this.

If the most creative thing they can think of to answer that question is “Money” then their critical thinking skills are pretty much zero,

Yes. If the candidate thinks acting out a post they saw on Reddit adds something to the interview, they’re probably gonna make poor choices as an employee.

I feel like disposable cups, flimsy disposable plates, and crappy plastic utensils are the opposite of luxury. They remind you that you’re eating food made on an assembly line at the lowest possible cost. But maybe that’s just my point of view.

The version I present nowadays usually is better socially adapted and better able to integrate itself into a conversation

That seems positive. But it’s your call.

For me, “conforming” means listening, considering my audience, controlling interjections, and asking people about stuff. I don’t feel like I’m denying myself, I feel like I’m being more considerate.

I can see how other kinds of conformance could be awful. Denying one’s sexuality or something like that.

If the new you is closer to the person you want to be, isn’t that a win?

I feel like I do this enough that it becomes a comfortable habit. Occasionally, I still want to interrupt people to tell them how wrong they are, or how right I am, or just become the centre of attention. But that isn’t who I want to be. And that urge seems to diminish as I learn to listen and ask questions, and then that becomes more of a habit.

But I guess it depends on what you’re editing.

I felt a great disturbance in the Roadmap, as if millions of unit tests suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

They’re building a system that allows you to avoid censorship that you don’t like. I’d focus on that part.

That’s a good sign.

I recently hung out with my own father, and when he would say words that were in my head, they sounded awful.

Yeah. I get that with some of my family members. I try to use it as an opportunity to be more open and learn to like myself more, but it rarely works. I’d prefer it if they didn’t act the way I think.

In that order, right?

Probably not. I don’t really want to be around people who act like me. I’ve done a decent job of reigning in my most asocial behaviours, but they still get through.

On the flip side, other people seem to like the version of myself that I currently project, so I think I’m doing a good enough job.

reading text isn’t the easiest with all the colors and blurs everywhere

Agreed - I like the look of these things in an abstract sense, but it makes the text really hard to read. I assume hope there’s a way to disable it in accessibility settings.