I like that getting rid of glasses today is rejection of technology, while in Asimov’s Caves of Steel, wearing glasses was rejection of technology.

What the sigma?

Some great ones were already mentioned. I’ll add Life Is Beautiful (1997).

Two men walking in the bar and going straight to the bathroom together. Man jumped to conclusions.

I’ll never understand consuming this type of information in video format.

I recall dreams the same way as I recall real events. There are no actual images or sounds that I can “see” or “hear” in my mind as I think back on the events, but I know I’ve seen and heard those things. So it’s difficult to answer the question. Did I “see” things in my sleep, but remember them only as ideas, or were they just ideas in the dream too? I tend to think it was the former.

You imagined a lot more details than I did. For me it was just the concept of a ball. And then the idea of it moving. The person and the table were left our as irrelevant.

The thought experiment I use when explaining to people about aphantasia is a much simplified version of yours: “imagine a circle”, “ok”, “what color is it?”

That’s it. People give an answer, sometimes including more details, like texture. Then I tell them that for me the question doesn’t make sense, I just imagined the idea of a circle and didn’t actually “see” anything, so there’s no additional detail to it.

I use multilingual keyboard layouts, so I know that at least on Windows the selected layout is specific to each window. If I chat with someone in one language, then switch to my IDE, it will not keep the layout I used in the chat window.

But I also have accidently hit the combination to change layouts while doing something, so it can happen. I’m just surprised that Cyrillic с is on the same key as C, instead of S.

Oh, right, using the same function name in multiple structs is what threw me off

There’s probably a rule that requires variables to start with a letter or underscore. Emoji are nor marked as letters. Something like _👍 will probably work.

I can’t imagine how something like homograph attacks can happen accidentally. If someone does this in code, they probably intended to troll other contributors.

Isn’t unicode support for programming not something new? I’ve seen a lot of code using Cyrillic or Chinese characters.

Am I blind? I can’t see where 👀 is defined.

It’s a seinen. If you’re more into shonen, then it’s not going to be as action-packed as you might be used to.

I don’t normally watch the same thing more than once, but I’ve seen this one three times (first time in college; then some years later I wasn’t sure I finished it the first time, so I rewatched the whole thing again; then more years later I watched with friends from work on our weekly anime night)

Monster. One of the best anime series I’ve ever seen.

Not sure what that’s supposed to help with. I’d be even more uncomfortable if my steak had eyes and made eye contact than when a person does it.

Make a large enough model, and it will seem like an intelligent being.

That was already true in previous paradigms. A non-fuzzy non-neural-network algorithm large and complex enough will seem like an intelligent being. But “large enough” is beyond our resources and processing time for each response would be too long.

And then you get into the Chinese room problem. Is there a difference between seems intelligent and is intelligent?

But the main difference between an actual intelligence and various algorithms, LLMs included, is that intelligence works on its own, it’s always thinking, it doesn’t only react to external prompts. You ask a question, you get an answer, but the question remains at the back of its mind, and it might come back to you 10min later and say you know, I’ve given it some more thought and I think it’s actually like this.

Exactly. As the mandatory sexual harassment and money laundering trainings have taught me repeatedly, if the company knows about it and doesn’t do anything, they’re equally liable (and in many cases even if they don’t know about it). So stopping inappropriate behavior is in their interest.

Remember to look into his eyes

I don’t know if it’s some neurodivergence or if other introverts feel the same way, but that is something I personally find very difficult and uncomfortable and I can hold eye contact for more than a second or two at a time. What feels natural to me is to look at a person’s mouth when they talk.

Pear and gorgonzola is a typical combination.