At that point, would its bark be worse than its bite?

So sorry...

This is an extremely inconsiderate response to someone talking about an imminent bereavement. Read the room.

I disagree and think you are projecting your own emotion onto others and demand them to change their actions according to your emotions, which is an inconsiderate thing to do in general. The condescending tone is inappropriate, I meant no offense. Maybe the original poster appreciated a light-hearted joke? How would you know? "Read the room", yeah, that "reading" is very much subjective.

You know the difference between compassion and pityfulness? I feel compassion to anyone losing their pets, I was in the same situation many times. But pity won't make it easier or better.

Downvoting my comments does not make them less valid.

You could actually test your hypothesis,make yourself deliberately less desirable, then check the reactions and what that does to your self esteem.

Some anecdotal evidence from a female who wrote a book about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Made_Man_(book)

Feels like there's a strong analog between tech careers and recruiters and men and women in the online dating scene.

In tech, fending recruiters off with a stick is far less of a burden and stress than being unemployed or permanently underemployed or underpaid in a different field. It's annoying, sure, but it's not going to cause you depression to have so many people showing interest in you, it validates some amount of self-worth. Recruiters also take an approach to recruitment very similarly to men in online dating, treating it as a numbers game and where they don't care about candidate quality before first contact. Blast out interest and feelers indiscriminately to anyone and then evaluate the quality of those who respond and be happy to settle for any commission in the end. Both are broken processes of course, but the power dynamics seem similar.

Yes. Female dating behavior is skewed and recruiting is skewed in a similar way.

They might actually be related... "Human resources" people are overly female. Maybe they just apply their normal behavior and experience to work?

Not if you are going to rent your tent as a house afterwards.

Got it: when you accept money for letting someone sleep in your tent you are $1 million in debt since you are now obligated to purchase that plot of land (which may not even be for sale at any price), find a licensed architect, design a house, get building permits, find contractors and build it. Plus you are infinite amount in debt since it takes infinite money to build a time machine so that your initial customer can sleep in appropriate lodgings retroactively. Often code with technical debt has paying customers, and going back in time to get them what you imagine they should eventually get is part of the financial equation, right?

Thus technical debt always includes building a time machine so that your initial customers can use the product they should have gotten from the backend they should have gotten it from, back when they should have gotten it.

In other news, the world's richest person is actually the world's poorest: Elon Musk built a tent in people's minds and now he has to deliver on it. His technical debt is a hotel on Mars. Since technical debt is real, that makes him the world's poorest person by a huge margin.

Also, since technical debt is real you can deduct it from your taxes just like any other debt, right? I mean we wouldn't want the IRS to be unaware that you owe more than 100% of the time and money you invested in building a solution so far, since it could lead them to want to tax you based on what you earned, which just plain isn't fair. They should only tax any remaining money after you have engineered a veritable Taj Mahal of code quality such that there isn't any remaining conceivable improvement. After all, you know what another word is for conceivable improvement: technical debt.

It doesn't have to, Alcantara is extremely robust and a great replacement for leather, just as one example. But the synthetic leather in cheap products aiming to look like real smooth leather, I think this is the one you mean, time and time again is so inferior it's almost a scam. Shoes will fall apart quickly, sofas, clothing will peel off after 2-3 years when the softener has gassed out.

If viruses could be safely contained, there would be no issue with research like this.

The reality is, no true safety can ever be maintained, see the Wuhan Institute as most prominent example. Smart engineers think of ways to make everything fail-safe. Then humans behave like humans. We have abstract ideas of how responsible engineers/researchers are supposed to act, and then comes reality.

The list of incidents in research facilities like the Wuhan Institute is long and almost comical, if you keep in mind what is at stake and compare the plan and then see how trivial it goes wrong.

Nuclear power, viruses, AI - humanity is playing with fire, it's just a matter of time until we get burned again.

>Smart engineers think of ways to make everything fail-safe. Then humans behave like humans. We have abstract ideas of how responsible engineers/researchers are supposed to act, and then comes reality.

As Douglas Adams put it:

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”

How could this be used for rehab? Just curious what you have in mind.

I agree. But keep in mind the narrative makes the opinion. If modern media has become masterful at one thing, it is manipulating the narrative and deceiving their readers without them realizing.

The video left out to coninue to breathe. If someone makes a long turn, they might suffocate. I better email them to include that part in the video as well.