That’s the shape those early phones had. The back was curved until the iPhone 4. Now they are all flat backed.

Flesh, clearly.

Anyone who has made ginger bread men and ginger bread houses from scratch understands this. The dough flesh is the same for both.

The real conundrum is why they have bread in their names.

This is not inherently true. There situations where trying without giving your best leads to a worse situation.

If you want to focus on only self-improvement then you may have a point.

He wasn’t your son in law after you got divorced?

It can vary but being needed is a common one. The feeling that they are helping hold the NPD’s life together.

There is also a reason this person is willing to put up with it. A neurotypical doesn’t trying to understand and forgive the behavior, they just find other neurotypical people to hang out with.

Orbiters of a narcissists, fuel the disease and gain their own validation by being someone else’s fuel. That doesn’t make it healthy.

Or are willing to acknowledge.

You’d think there would be a thinner Ethernet port by now. That standard is several decades old.

the metaphor refers to physicists’ tendency to develop toy models that reduce a problem to the simplest form imaginable, making calculations more feasible, even if the simplification hinders the model’s application to reality.

So like all of quantum mechanics then.

Questioning is also not allowed.

Lemmy is a silly place.

It’s proving to be Reddit without the random intellectuals.

Silly prole. Why would I read about Marxism on how to play the stock market?

Go be a good cog now and create that surplus value for me to extract.

This is the proletariat view of the world.

For anyone who isn’t just a common wage worker and is aware of how markets work, it is very definitely not the case.

A cog in the machine cannot perceive the machine’s changing output.

I think that’s a different discussion.m. We can make excuses all day for how people end up with extreme views. It doesn’t change anything. The reason it occurs is part of human nature, a weakness that one has to choose to overcome on a daily basis or not. Choosing wrong too often and there might be no way back.

I find this most evident in people who suddenly shift right when they end up in some sex scandal, they move towards the group that is most forgiving of such events and lose themselves in the shift. Russel Brand and Musk are two examples.

Knowledge seeking for the sake of knowledge seeking is something totally different. It requires accepting one knows nothing and despite all the knowledge gather now knows less. It requires a humility that can be uncomfortable.

Few end up adding significant new knowledge. Those who do maintain a humbleness as the recognize the efforts who came before them.

Those who pretend become exploiters, it takes little effort to reveal their search was only ever for loopholes. Those people are another form of extremist.

Stupid people don’t know how stupid they are. They reject the very notion. It’s how one stays stupid in a world with all the world’s knowledge at our fingertips.

Turns out access to knowledge was not a threat to the leaders in history. The very idea they were concerns may be oversold.

Being born in the same town means there is a high chance of it being a relative of the girl and her grandmother.

Or a mini loaf pan at half the price and twice the capacity.

Keeping in mind the DSM used the word retarded until DSM V came out in 2013.

Another history fact around the DSM is that homosexuality was a mental disability but that was removed way back in 1974 and society didn’t shift as quickly with it as it has now.

The issue with retard is that it is describing an actual medical condition and swapping the word isn’t going to change that.

A rockstar developer doesn’t churn out unmaintainable, by definition.

The number of people who think they are rockstar developers but clearly aren’t is probably close to the number of cover bands who see themselves as undiscovered rockstars.

I’ve worked with people like this, their best hope is to fail upwards into management.

The only way to know if you are competent coder is for other coders to tell you. If none are telling you, your imposter syndrome isn’t.

There are other signs as well but these aren’t taught in formal education. An example being the ability to recognize how your old code could be improved. The way requirements stack over time makes this a certainty in any product.

Just a moment. Need to find the tweezers and magnifying glass.

See the above comment for an example of how America became a failed a state and why it will remain as such.