Great response.
The assertion that IQ is pseudoscience, is denying reality. While not an exact measure, it correlates with a lot of other measures of flourishing.
But higher IQ doesn’t necessarily mean happier, or better in any way.
I know some extremely (academically) intelligent people. Some are arrogant pricks, others are really pleasant, others still are really awkward and difficult to talk to outside their specific interests.
Take over Greenland, and rename it Red,White and Blueland
Oh wait that one is already taken!
Fae Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Fae Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Fae Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Fae Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Fae Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Fae Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
Perfect community post
I’m on the border of nerd and geek
Not necessarily, a wonk (e.g. a policy wonk) is not analytically intelligent but may be emotionally intelligent.
A nerd and a wonk may have the same area of interest, but different approaches.
Mental health care in NZ is abysmal.
I’m not sure about Christchurch, but my small town of 25k people, has people begging. Homelessness in bigger centres is visible.
We do try to help, but it’s getting worse.
Getting my ollama instance to act as Socrates.
It is great for introspection, also not being human, I’m less guarded in my responses, and being local means I’m able to trust it.
Reading the list, NZ does pretty well… Right to the end…
When I was young and worked in a supermarket, I’d buy a 1.5l coke at the beginning of my shift, I’d finish it before I went home.
4 days a week, for years.
Stopped around 20 year ago, I still have it occasionally, but it is like a glass or two a month.
Add hot sauce, seriously. Cheese + Sweet + Hot = Epic
I have been extolling the virtues of this for years.
A global day off on NYD and every four years two days off. Really nice!
23:59 28/13/xxxx -> 00:00 NYD -> 23:59 NYD -> 00:00 01/01/xxx(x+1)
or 23:59 28/13/xxxx -> 00:00 NYD -> 23:59 NYD -> 00:00 ENYD -> 23:59 ENYD -> 00:00 01/01/xxx(x+1)
After a meeting another engineer said to me, referring to someone who just left, “who was that oxygen thief?”
I replied, “my manager”… Putting the laughter in slaughter with that comment.
Was using Ligma in the 80’s, glad to see it still in circulation.
Ligma balls / Ligma sweaty balls / Ligma sweaty (sports clothing you happen to be holding) e.g. Ligma sweaty socks
I only have one monitor so I didn’t have this issue when I upgraded my GPU a few weeks ago.
Shutdown -> remove/install GPU -> startup #JustWorks
In fairness, I did have to update to the latest kernel (6.14) to get all of the features of the GPU working.
Looks great.
I use Firefox, so I can’t give it a try.
The idea that you could do this isn’t a bad one.
It could be interesting, to build a generic recommendation algorithm. Would it be like a browser add-on?
Something like a news feed, but you have all the data under your control, so you could see why something was recommended.
I tried the Reuters app a while back, I couldn’t deselect sports as a category of interest… Why the fuck not? Why do they care of I like sports or not… Uninstalled pretty quick.
Tell me you are not in New Zealand, without telling me you are not in New Zealand.
A few years ago, I installed mint 21.1 on my mum’s old NUC; a 2013 model; was running Win7.
I said, it doesn’t meet the minimum for Win10, so it was either buy something new or try Linux.
Just got back from visiting them, I updated it to 21.3, still running fine. It still does everything they need.
Mum even said, “it always just works”. A great endorsement, as a non-technical user mum needs a no fuss distro, mint works so well in this regard.
I think at this point XKCD should be a TLD.
I would join lemmy.xkcd in a heartbeat.