[-] SharkWeek 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, my mother is autistic too, and she was a teacher

[-] SharkWeek 63 points 4 days ago

You must be doing something right, then

The next step is to give zero fucks (can be tricky, easier if you have supportive friends)

[-] SharkWeek 4 points 4 days ago

I'm doing long term training on specialist engineering stuff ... to be honest, getting to teach the same stuff to different people really helps keep things fresh (at least for me)

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submitted 1 month ago by SharkWeek to c/nonbinary

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/37638260

Non-binary people have been using the existing character"也"with a thing that looks like a Latin X on the side, so they're going with that.

U+323BF 𲎿

Unihan data

[-] SharkWeek 53 points 2 months ago
[-] SharkWeek 61 points 2 months ago

And megaliters of fresh water.

[-] SharkWeek 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Rambling old person storytime, consider yourself warned:

My wife is from Hungary, and grew up while it was still communist so there's many TV shows she's never seen.

When we were first together I introduced her to Star Trek, which she'd never heard of, and we got into the routine of watching one or two episodes of TNG every week.

Fast-forward 9 years and we'd watched every Trek we wanted to, and were at a loose end on how to continue. My first thought was Babylon 5, but after Trek that first season appeared rough as anything, and it became more of a time-filler than actual enjoyment.

A little while ago we hit the third season, and my goodness, it's still rough, but the whole thing came together into something properly enjoyable!

Me and my wife just hit our 10 year anniversary, and we're both happily Trekkies together :-)

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submitted 6 months ago by SharkWeek to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

Does anyone have links to proper research or statistics regarding the negative impacts or poor quality of AI in business processes?

My sister in law, who is an accountant and doesn't understand computing outside of Excel (in other words, not at all), has been put in charge of a project to offload as much work onto AI as possible.

She's been sent on a course regarding how to set up an AI instance, and has no idea where to go with it ... I'm not sure if she's being set up for failure, or if the upper management are incompetent, or if they're going through the motions to keep stock prices up. Since this is a large multinational, it could be all three at the same time.

I'd like to help her manage expectations of those above, so that she doesn't get burned when it all inevitably fails, hence asking for links to studies :-)

[-] SharkWeek 51 points 6 months ago

I literally had this exact conversation with my mother in 1989 ... she went to an all-girls college (16-18) and said it was considered normal for most girls to have a "pash" with another girl, and she still holds a candle for hers now, aged 85.

[-] SharkWeek 76 points 7 months ago

See also: following the rules too precisely.

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submitted 8 months ago by SharkWeek to c/womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone

Big text dump incoming ...

A couple of weeks ago I completely fell apart; I was ill, and pushed myself beyond my limits. The outcome was the most honest conversation I've ever had with my wife, and the conclusion we came to is that I need to air my emotions so I can process them healthily.

So, I've been trying to do that. I've cried at sad bits of TV shows, laughed joyously while teaching my wife to dance, and this last week at work I let myself be angry at incompetence.

When I was little I had emotional problems, and the solution at that time was physical discipline. Since coming through that I've been reserved and private, and taken a certain pride in being able to remain calm no matter what.

When I was angry at work I was careful not to direct it at a person, I focused on the task of fixing the problem. While doing this a member of my team came over to give me an update on his work, I nodded and said ok (all that was really needed) and he looked like a deer caught between the headlights.

I think I really scared him because he was subdued with me for the rest of the week, I've made sure he knows I wasn't angry with him.

So all that is to say, how do I deal with the guilt of scaring someone? I want him to be at ease around me ... my plan is to take some nice food in next week to share with everyone, but I haven't got any more tricks up my sleeve and I want to be able to express anger in a healthy manner in the future.

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submitted 9 months ago by SharkWeek to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

About a year ago I picked up a copy of Dirt 4 for very little money and put it on the side to play later (it appears that rally games drop in price when they no longer feature the latest cars).

One of the environments it features is Tarragona in Spain, which is where I live. Having actually started playing it I can say that the modeling and course design for my home stages is absolutely spot on - I live in a small village halfway up a small mountain which is often used for the WRC, and the stages really do feel like my daily commute.

The car handling, progression, team management stuff, etc, is good - with the variable difficulty settings it's very accessible to casuals like me :-)

At about 3/4 completion I'd give it top marks, and I'm enjoying it a lot more than the more simulation oriented rally games.

Screenshot for context

[-] SharkWeek 58 points 9 months ago

Ah, I get it, the girls sleep well because they've got various armaments under the duvet with them.

Source: am gurl.

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submitted 9 months ago by SharkWeek to c/WomensStuff@lazysoci.al

My work is up and down like a yoyo at the moment, to help avoid doom scrolling during quiet patches I've decided to start reading (nobody at work is going to pay attention to plain text on my screen, we're all in the same boat).

I've got a copy of Naomi Altman's The Power to start off with ... any other recommendations?

(Obviously can't be anything smutty or very funny because I need to be low-key, and lighter stuff would be easier to pick up and put down when I have actual work to do)

Thanks in advance :-)

[-] SharkWeek 48 points 10 months ago

Bonus fun fact: In the original book Pussy Galore is a lesbian who who gets raped straight by James Bond's magical penis.

[-] SharkWeek 72 points 10 months ago

Blahaj user and former Brit here ... well done Ada for consistency and transparency regarding this.

The whole "let it play out" attitude really says it all, it shows cowardice and a lack of leadership ... kind of like the current prime minister.

[-] SharkWeek 99 points 10 months ago

Yuuup. Woman in engineering here. I once had a supervisor whose behaviour I thought of as normal, but two guys I worked with separately reported him to HR for bullying after seeing how he treated me.

It's funny, I had many years with almost no career progression, now my boss is a woman and I'm having to get used to the idea that bonuses and promotions are things that actually happen when I work hard.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SharkWeek to c/armedqweers

Hi, Iḿ not in the US, but earlier this year had the opportunity to try shooting firearms of various sorts for the first time, and it's something I'd like expand my knowledge about ... when I go on youtube the videos I've seen have been American with a right-wing lean which range from comedic, through surreal, and into creepy.

It would be nice to see content from people who are vaguely normal.

(Edit: especially if it has to do with revolvers!)

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submitted 2 years ago by SharkWeek to c/television@lemmy.world

Are there any other shows out there of this sort of lighthearted nature, yet made with quality writing, out there?

It feels like a lot of recent things we've watched has been a bit grim and/or relies on spectacle rather than telling a good story and working a few jokes in along the way ... the world is on fire, I'd like to stop it and get off, if only for a few minutes at a time.

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