For sure the rightmost image is AI:

• Zero correlation between the painted lines and where cars are parked (yes, more so than IRL)
• Shopping cart on left side is melding with car, shopping cart on right side doesn’t match the angle of the guy pushing
• No texture variation on the road paint or asphalt, despite being a parking lot in a place that presumably gets snow/ice.

I re-watched the Exorcist recently. I found it scary, but in a different way from how people try to sell it.

The head turning, the vomit, the spider walking, that was all shocking (and cool) but not scary.

What I did find scary was all the science/medicine stuff. Doctors telling the mother that Reagan is faking it, or keeping her under sedation, or subjecting her to endless invasive tests. The real horror is the mother’s realization that the material world cannot save her daughter. The horror of putting Reagan’s life in the hands of faith.

So I’d say that it works on several levels, where for some people, scary is “OMG, a monster face!” and for others scary is the incomprehensible.

how do you learn new things

There is more to learning than just school.

When you start a job, there are all kinds of things you will learn: New tools, how to work in a professional environment, new processes and techniques. Don’t feel bad if you come back from work each day and don’t feel like opening a book or some tutorial. You are absolutely still learning, even if you come home and can’t stand the thought of touching a keyboard. I used to beat myself up about not coding in my free time or not studying new books, but starting a career involves so many more life changes than just “I get a paycheck now”. It can take years before you feel motivated to learn again, and that’s OK.

I don’t know what the work culture in Nepal is like, but if you’re not running a 996 rat race, you’ll eventually have the time (and money) for hobbies. I can’t really stay motivated to learn something just for the sake of knowing, but I can keep with it if I care about the end goal. That’s where hobbies help.

Maybe the real truth is that autism discovered Pluto

People like that have always existed, and always will. They live a life where whatever they ever wanted is right nearby, and they can’t imagine that the place which is good enough for them isn’t good enough for someone else.

I will say this: don’t let his attitude make you afraid of traveling. I’m always a homebody, but even for me there’s an excitement in being a stranger in a strange land every once in a while. Give it a try.

I know this comment is a joke, but the CA bill requires age bucketing for to be provided by the OS to “covered stores”. Basically, any source of 3rd party programs.

Since TempleOS (at least, the original one written solely by Terry Davis) has no networking stack, no such “covered store” can exist. I think there’s not even support to load external storage drives, so all programs on the machine are either written by the user or provided first-party by the OS. I think TempleOS would be exempt on those grounds.

Pedantry:

I can buy all the drinks I want at a bar. I’m just not allowed to consume them myself.

No bar is going to eject someone just because they’re buying drinks for other people.

Solarized gang rise up!

If I don’t want to be blinded by my screen, I either turn the monitor brightness down or the ambient lighting up.