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.

Or that keepass is free and you can use any number of sync methods

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…

• good treatment of mentally ill, homeless and impoverished people…
  We don’t do that here

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.

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.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250428132538/https://www.404media.co/the-age-of-realtime-deepfake-fraud-is-here/

Tell me you are not in New Zealand, without telling me you are not in New Zealand.

I was going to ask the same.

Those goals are not even that “out there”, but to play the devil’s advocate here for a moment.

Is it because your family know you, and you tend to flit from one “big idea” to the next, and they are worried about you putting in a lot of time and effort, to then get bored and move on to the next one. Or perhaps you have always been an outdoors kinda person, the idea of you sitting in front of a computer for hours on end, just is way out of your “normal”.

I’m not saying they are correct, but if they genuinely care about you, maybe ask why they think it is a bad idea.

In saying that, maybe they are just cunts.

There are so many variables, like an you just out of school or university, are you mid career on your 40’s and looking for a change, are you recently retired and have always held an interest…

Philosophy.

Ask it to act as Socrates, pick a topic and it will help you with introspection.

This is good for examining your biases.

e.g. I want to examine the role of government employees.
e.g. when is it ok to give up on an idea?

But not none!

This is the way.

The shared sense of alarm, just before a stamped, in herding animals.

e.g.

The air was electric, the shlarmled herd on edge, it felt like a fly landing on an ear would start the stamped.

Was going to say this, if no one else did