Yeah. You have a good point. My experience was only of Palermo. I understand other parts of Sicily are quite different. We did a short half day trip to the Trapani salt pans, it was nice to get out of the city but still very touristy. My favourite part honestly was driving through the small stretches of rural areas between towns.

I’ve only ever been out of the country one time.

My boss and I wrote a paper that got us invited to an international conference, that took place in Palermo, Sicily.

It wasn’t high on my list of places I want to visit, but free overseas work trip to Sicily!

It was pretty disappointing in many ways. The whole time I was there I constantly felt like I was about to be robbed or scammed.

The taxi drivers are nuts, we were sure we were going to die multiple times just on the ride from the airport to the hotel.

The accommodation in the city was pretty cheap but most places had awful reviews, so we splurged and chose a 5 star hotel near the conference venue. It ended up being the equivalent of a 2 star back home. Mold in the bathroom, paint peeling off walls in the bedroom, exposed wires poking out of every electrical outlet. The hot water didn’t work in the shower for 2 of the 4 nights we were there. At the buffet breakfast they served cold toast, warm yoghurt, and spoiled milk. You couldn’t make it up. And that was the best accommodation in the city.

When we walked from the hotel to the conference centre, we were walking past piles of garbage that people just dump on the streets. Apparently that’s a normal thing. There’s nowhere else for garbage to go. Sometimes it gets picked up by the city collectors, usually it doesn’t.

There were no pedestrian crossings, and cars don’t stop at red lights. So the traffic is constantly flowing at full speed on all the roads. Often the only way to get to where you need to go is to walk out in front of traffic, don’t make eye contact with any driver, look straight ahead, clench hard, walk sure, and change your underpants when you get to the other side.

It wasn’t all bad. The food at the restaurants was amazing. I had some very good authentic Sicilian pizza. They serve cheap pints of Heineken at every restaurant and bar. If you like oily fish such as sardines, pilchards and anchovies, you’re in heaven because it’s their staple, they serve them on everything. The locals love cannolis and eat them like crack. They were served for desert at the conference, at the gala dinner, and at every restaurant we went to. I wasn’t a fan of them.

I liked the novelty of being in a different country for the first time, but I wouldn’t go back to Sicily again.

The example I gave with my wife was a superficial hypothetical scenario to illustrate my point. She usually doesn’t actually push back on it, she has been married to me long enough now to understand my neuro idiosyncracies.

I’m ASD and ADHD, so I’ve been told that decision fatigue is a common symptom. But I also know neuro typical people in my field who experience the exact same issue.

There’s a lot of factors that go into it, and everyone will have a different experience. There are some people who make an average of zero decisions in their normal day. There are some who are required to make hundreds of decisions per day. There are some people in highly stressful jobs who need to make very important decisions. Some people have naturally higher capacity for decisions than others.

Sometimes after a long day of work, my wife will come and ask me a simple question like “which of these two colours should we get for the new curtains?” And I’ll respond, “I don’t know, I can’t decide right now, I’m out of mental capacity”, she’ll push and say “just choose one”, and I have to explain “seriously. I physically cannot. I’ve spent all my decision making quota today. It’s not possible for me to make another decision”.

Lots of things. The main one is dust mites. Any clothes that I have in my closet or drawers that I haven’t worn for a while will make me sneeze uncontrollably for an hour if I pick them up. Same if I get a spare sheet from the linen closet, if it’s been in there for months, it will set me off. When I vacuum the house, I need to use one of those hypoallergenic HEPA vacuum filters. Dust mites are everywhere all the time, no matter how well you clean your house. Technically it is the shedded and disintegrated shells of dead dust mites that people are allergic to, it accumulates over time in places the mites live.

Other than that, I’m also quite badly allergic to black mold, and have a reaction to pollen and grass seeds.

I’ve never taken a proper allergy test, I’ve probably got others I don’t even know about.

The concept of “inclusive or” in language is a bit different than that used in boolean logic.

The simple case is: “would you like chips or salad?” “Yes.” Vs “Would you like chips or salad?” “chips”.

In this case, it’s unclear whether the question is: “should a video card or monitor come with a cable?” “Yes” Vs “Should a video card or monitor come with a cable?” “Monitor”.

The two examples I wrote were attempts to reframe the question in two different ways to avoid that ambiguity.

As you pointed out however, OP wrote the question backwards, in a way that could be interpreted in a third manner, where buying a cable includes a video card or a monitor.

Printers are one of those things that has never come with a cable. I remember even back in the 90s, you’d buy a new printer, and they’d ask “do you need a printer cable too?”. Back then they were parallel port cables, but the trend continued when printers adopted USB.

I always thought it was a blatant upsell conduit. Of course I need the cable. Can’t use the printer without it!

These days however, I’ve got so many printer cables including parallel port, USB-B, and ethernet, but I mostly print via wifi. Now I’m glad they don’t come with cables, and same with graphics cards, and even mobile phones.

Are you asking inclusive OR, or exclusive OR?

EG, should your question be interpreted as “Which of these should the cable come with?” Or “Should these even come with a cable?”.

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“The female orgasm isn’t real” - Antiorgasmism.

Different thing. Google it.

Yep. This is why I don’t touch alcohol anymore. I don’t have an addiction or dependency, but when I drink a beer it makes me want another, and that one makes we want another. Then I’m hungover and filled with regret the next day. No point to it, so I just don’t do that anymore.

I got the first Pokemon game (Pokemon Red) when I was 14 years old. I never watched the anime. Back then the game was revolutionary, I’d never played anything like it. The goal of collecting all Pokemon, gaining experience to level up, evolving to make new Pokemon, selecting and organising my squad, it really played into my young brain chemistry. I finished it multiple times. I got a game boy link cable to trade Pokemon with my friends and battle them at school. Thats exactly who the game is made for.

I also played and finished Pokemon Silver, and Crystal. But after that I stopped playing them. Too similar, too repetitive, too many different Pokemon to know and remember, mechanics got too complicated.

I agree with you, a simple minimal url-shortener does not need 2FA.

This would require configuration with a whitelist of which OIDC IdPs to trust. Otherwise anybody could self-authorise a OIDC token (using their own IdP) and use that to log in.

People don’t like to be preached to, or converted to something they know nothing about, especially if they’re happy with what they already have.

Yes it would be nice if there were more members on Lemmy, but I prefer if people make their own choice to seek it out themselves.

Bruh… If I get less than 7.5 hours sleep, I’m tired all day. But if I get more than 8.5 hours sleep, I’m also tired all day. There’s the magic window of time in the middle where I wake up relatively refreshed.

Pypy is often considered the “best” alternative Python implementation. In some cases it can be much faster. But it’s often one or two versions behind, and not 100% compatible, and of course it doesn’t work with native Cpython extensions.

I’ve been in the tech industry for 20 years. I undertook an IT degree in 2004 (for microprocessor architecture) and another in 2014 (for software engineering).

Both times I observed three distinct styles of student. The first were those who heard they could make big money in IT. They didn’t have any interest in the field, knew little to nothing about computers, and massively underestimated the difficulty of the course work. Very few of these made it past first year.

The second group were the “enthusiasts”, the kind of people who ran their group’s local LAN party every month and own an ethernet hub. The kind who reformat their PC every 6 weeks to keep it running fast. They built their own PC when they were 16. These kind think first year is a breeze, and don’t even read the text book, but are quickly out of their depth in second year.

Finally are the autists. These are the ones who you can just tell they have a deep special interest in the field. You ask them a question about metaprogramming in Python, or database denormalization and they talk your ear off for an hour. These people read the whole textbook in the first week of class. They correct the professor when he gets something wrong (but politely, by email, after class).

My point is, in my experience, there are always some percentage of neurotypicals and those who are motivated by the money in every year, and has been for more than 20 years. I don’t think it’s getting more prevalent. Maybe now due to higher levels of diagnosis and increasing social awareness, it’s easier to spot the autists, and perhaps due to the AI boom, the money chasers are easier to spot too.

+1 for Forgejo