A video about exiting vim, however...

Many moons ago, I was involved in the technical side of volunteer work for domestic violence victims escaping abusive relationships with e.g. law enforcement (cops), who even fifteen years ago had sweeping powers to track and stalk their victims. Things like actual anonymous burner phones and the ability to e.g. create new email accounts without government identification were critical to the process of getting these people out safely, or alive, without fear of retaliation.

I can't even imagine how difficult this job must be nowadays, with bullshit like Flock spanning hundreds of police departments participating in their nationally-linked database. I have zero sources for what I'm about to say, but my instinct is that the political machines (expanding powers hidden behind "think of the children") behind how technology is evolving today has gotten people killed.

The worst thing about AI is that it's camouflage for stupid people. And it often gets combined with utter confidence in some position because they're too stupid to know the machine is confidently wrong.

Or a huge software company where you only get the end operating system, but none of its source code.

Buy the Neiman Marcus cookies and feel entitled to the recipe?

Lots of secret sauce in the world.

No, I actually like this reply, because it's true in its essentials. You can find someone to tell you what you want to hear, but it's not going to pay the rent. And actual help needs to come from within, and no one has a magic wand or a one-weird-trick to actually help you. In the meantime, you have to pay the rent. Work sucks to varying degrees, and we all need coping mechanisms. Waving a flag with some acronym is not, at the end of the day, going to pay the rent. Find coping mechanisms.

"some acronym" gets you access to medication which helps with the doing of the work which gets you money so you can pay rent tho

> And actual help needs to come from within, and no one has a magic wand or a one-weird-trick to actually help you

What if your problem is "your body does not manufacture neurotransmitters in the correct ratios"

> Find coping mechanisms

What if the coping mechanism is doctor prescribed medications?

There's a bunch of arguments in this thread that sound a lot like "you don't need cochlear implants to hear if you're deaf, just listen harder" to me

In grade school I kept meticulous, tedious logbooks of ships entering and leaving an imaginary port for tax purposes.

What is your profession now? Accountant? Ship's Captain?

Do your D&D campaigns track gold coin weight?

Either way, this sounds like it would have been weirdly fun as a kid. Very imaginative even if it doesn't sound like it at first glance.

Boring old programmer. Honestly I gave up rules-lawyering in D&D some time ago, because it just makes things a slog. Which, while fun for me sometimes (I play Dwarf Fortress), isn't as fun for anyone else.

Not to sound like a codger, but we even said in the 90s that computers are just very fast idiots.

And they've been getting faster! Still idiots though.

This is smart but also hilarious.

Imagine if we did this for countries.

I dunno. Is AI less than forty years old?