In what world are two women having a conversation on their own interested in a random dude on a train anyway?
Was going to say. This seems like the most polite kind of person you’re going to meet on the subway. Dude’s not manspreading, not gawking, not trying to get their attention, literally bumped up against a woman and not trying to cop a feel.
This is the Ideal Male Commuter. You may not like him, but this is what peak performance looks like.
yes
He could be using Arch! They missed out big time there!
Wow a man not sexually assaulting women in the train. What a creep
yeah, I’m also highly confused about the point of the picture.
it could be a joke if the women would show some actual interest in the guy and he ignored them, but here it’s just ppl minding their own business.
Yep all is cool until he does exactly that and the script turns upside down.
A bit unrelated to the joke, but I am sad at how acceptable it has become taking pictures of people in public
to make fun of them.Street photography isn’t so bad, as long as it’s not a hidden cam.
I don’t generally like my picture taken, but I’d have no problem if it just some person with a real camera taking casual pictures of crowds for fun.
What makes it creepy (to me) if it’s someone trying to hide it with a smartphone, or Meta glasses.
edit: It’s also nothing new. Street photographers have been around forever, long before digital cameras. It was pretty acceptable when I was a kid with a flip phone.
This is not a street. It’s within an enclosed space
Its still nothing new though. These photos are from 1980, Bruce Davidson:
https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/society-arts-culture/bruce-davidson-subway-new-york-usa/
Wish I was intelligent enough to contribute meaningfully. Instead I just consume and occasionally donate.
Thank you all for your kind replies. Wasn’t fishing for encouragement but I do appreciate it.
Hey now…
I really don’t mean this as an insult, but you don’t need to be ‘smart’ to contribute.
Take a picture of a bunny, post it to bun alert.
Take a picture of your balls, post it to gone wild.
(well ok maybe don’t jump straight to that)
Ask a stupid question on no stupid questions.
Have a political opinion, on the internet.
Find a niche comm for a video game and ask something about it.
Find a neat chart and post it to data is beautiful.
Probably the worst thing that can happen is … some random assholes give you the wrong color arrow thingy. Who cares! Fuck em! Its just numbers on a screen!
To add to this for those who may be reading it like it’s only technically related: “we all lift together”.
We all live in the same world and any positive contribution to anything will ultimately contribute positively to other things, the domino effect; perhaps even the thing you wish you could contribute to directly but “can’t”. People who care, who try, who persist despite the pain and hardship, who try to do their best, who learn and improve and find that kind of lifestyle fitting for them - are those who contribute to all they’re aware of as well as not.
By opening a bread factory, bread in your area gets cheaper > more supply > your area imports less > some other country with an open source contributor exports less > that country has more supply > it’s cheaper for that developer to buy bread
A silly made up example that may not exactly be right itself with the too many factors accounted for, but you get the point. Indirect contribution is contribution as well. This applies to all kinds of contribution, which is why a someone with good intentions that improves themselves in whatever way is a contributor as well.
What my point is, and of the original comment (if I’m not mistaken) is that doing your best truly and genuinely is enough. Not in a condescending “sure lil bro, ig that counts too” way, but in the way of the lyric I really love quoting with which I started my comment “we all lift together” (banger song from a banger game btw)
Youre an allstar…
That song is a legit banger and no one will ever change my mind on this lol
Ask a stupid question on no stupid questions.
Hey, it’s no stupid questions. Only smart questions allowed.
That’s enough, if there’s something you like then contributing to documentation is something that’s more available to the general populace.
If you ever want to grow capability of technical contributions, you are welcome but not necessary.
I would much prefer someone that accepts their level of contribution than one who thinks “Claude can make me a valuable contributor even if I have no idea how to”.
100% agree. Knowing enough to know how much you don’t know is an asset in itself.
From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs.
Adding “and willingness” to the first clause of that adage nullifies the typical conservative hand-wringing about socialism.
Donating is a meaningful contribution
Knowledge knows no bounds. Being smart is about always learning and reevaluating the foundations.
Smart people always are eager to learn. Self-claimed intellectuals often aren’t broad in mind, just confident.
“Who we are now is but a stepping stone to what we can become.”
No one is static.
Everyone is an ongoing process… and you do have the ability to direct where that goes, how it changes.
Not an infinite or unlimited ability… but likely more ability than you initially may think.
I think that’s called being a “sugar daddy.”
Sitting next to a (supposedly) random dude and visibly being comfortable and not nervous is a green flag for the programmer.
It means he’s showered in the last week.
That’s because he showers once a month but this was taken on the first week of that month
I was about to object to this stereotype…
… but then I remembered how long it had been since I had a shower.
Hey! We need to save water for starving LLMs!
They’re all weird. Everyone knows you’re supposed to stare into the abyss until it’s time to get off at your stop.
You mean the abyssal screen of one’s smartphone?
Sure, or the thousand yard stare, if you’re old school.
“Oh wow! This is the most interesting power pole i think i have ever seen. WAIT!.. This other power pole is much more interesting!”
Maybe he already has a partner or is doing something important…
Yes, he’s doing something important by contributing to open source.
Clearly he should be inviting then to murder his wife in exchange for him murdering their husbands. That’s what strangers on a train do, right?
Tim Lambesis that you?
🎶🎸 Saaaailing, takes me to where I’m always…
Code before hoes.
I imagine their conversation’s about writer modes for emacs.
I knew it! He’s must be using vim. Mystery solved.
OH! When a man does it he’s “based” but when I’m too busy contributing to FOSS I’m “frigid”. Rude!
I made a pull request today! It didn’t get merged but I think I can use the fork on my own. How do I switch Firefox a local PDF.js without recompiling the whole browser?
Firefox loads PDF.js using a
resourceURL (resource://) and those are sourced from a JAR file (omni.ja) so you would have to find that file in your local installation and patch the archive with your customized version.
The hero we deserve.
where’s the bear ?
Literally me
