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I thought like, canonically, avada kedavra fucks up your soul or whatever everytime you use it and it slowly corrupts you or something

So it has a downside.

Also, to work, you have to be able to mean it and basically be a psychopath for it to even work right.

Isn't there explanations for why people dont just use it willy nilly?

See my other post about how beauty can literally be found in anything, and how the practice of art is a lot like working out a muscle group. The act of finding beauty takes practice, its nothing to be ashamed about lacking as a practiced skill, but anyone can gain that skill by working at it.

But once you can find beauty in anything, even an apple sitting on a plate, it does become easier to find beauty in anything else, including oneself.

1. Did you have MCP tooling setup so it can get lsp feedback? This helps a lot with code quality as it'll see warnings/hints/suggestions from the lsp

2. Unit tests. Unit tests. Unit tests. Unit tests.

I cannot stress enough how much less stupid LLMs get when they jave proper solid Unit tests to run themselves and compare expected vs actual outcomes.

Instead of reasoning out "it should do this" they can just run the damn test and find out.

They'll iterate on it til it actually works and then you can look at it and confirm if its good or not.

that’s still really hard to do when you don’t like how you look.

Never said it was easy, just that it was important!

One of the best ways I found to discover beauty was practicing art. The process of discovering beauty in anything and anyone makes it a lot less challenging to then find beauty in yourself.

When you can look at a mark on your body and go "I love how this breaks up the negative space and adds an interesting dynamic rhythm to my features" you are on the path.

The human body is full of beautiful curves, contours, patterns, shapes.

And so are apples.

If I can find beauty in a picture of an apple sitting on a table, it sure isnt more challenging to see the same of my own reflection haha.

Some need awareness that external validation exists

Hard disagree, external validation is not a fundamental need.

Any perception that it is, is an internalized mental blocker (likely due to countless years of social conditioning)

Your cage is made of out of sticks.

But what if I am the one who hates my body the most

That is still the only opinion that matters.

Matters, in the sense of "should determine action"

If 100 millionnpeople say you are ugly, they can go fuck themselves.

But if you say you are ugly, that matters and should be addressed and worked on.

I dunno Beholders have a tendency to think pretty highly of themselves though... 🤔

and unfortunately you ultimately need that person to be yourself

This just sounds like trying to make codependency sound good.

You dont need another person to be yourself wtf.

I actually dislike this.

The narrative that your value comes from external validation is one you see a lot.

But a person shouldn't be told that "you are beautiful based on another persons perspective" because that cuts both ways.

If you tell them this, it can easily be flipped around to say "okay but theres 10 million people on the internet who would love to call you ugly so thats 10 million to 1"

Instead, the only person whos opinion on your body that matters is YOU, and thats it.

And Ill keep banging that drum.

If I have a daughter, Im gonna tell her this all the time, "tell anyone who tries to convince you that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, that the beholder outta keep their fuckin opinions to themself"

Theres also a massive distinction between consuming something necessary/important, vs consuming something 100% optional.

Harry Potter isnt food, shelter, or any other kind of critical necessity.

Theres literally countless better alternatives to Harry Potter media you can choose to consume from that doesnt directly put money straight into the pocket of someone actively funding direct harm

This isn't multiple layers of washing here, that money basically goes straight towards actively harming minority groups.

Its not even a good fucking book, and I used to be a fan of it as a kid, but I went back and read my old books and... it just fuckin sucks dawg, its not good lol.

Go pick like, any other fandom at least.

I mean for what its worth, if the dude has a partner they couldve just picked the kid up, its not exactly unheard of for one partner to do drop off and the other do pick up... kind of a lukewarm take here.

The difference, when the tool is used correctly, is so massive that only someone deeply uninformed or naive would contend it.

I got about 4 entire days worth of work completed in about 5 hours yesterday at my job, thats just objective fact.

Tasks that used to take weeks now take days, and tasks that used to take days now take hours. Theres no "feeling" about this, Ive been a software developer for approaching 17 years now professionally. I know how long it takes to produce an entire gambit of integration tests for a given feature. I spend almost all of my time now reviewing mountains of code (which is fairly good quality, the machines produce fairly accurate results), and then a small amount of time refining it.

People deeply do not at all understand how dramatically the results have changed over the past 2 years, and their biases are based on how things were 2 years ago.

Sure, 2 years ago the quality was way worse, the security was bad, the enforcement almost non existent, and peoples overall skill with how to use the tools was just beginning to grow. You cant exactly be good at using a tool that only just came out.

But its been two years of very rapid improvement. Its good now. Anyone who has been using these tools and actually monitoring progression can speak to this.

Things heavily shifted about 5 months ago when competition started to really fire up between different providers, and I wont say its even close to great yet, but its definitely good, it works, its fast, and it's pretty damn good at what I need it to do.