I love when an API takes a json payload, and one of the json fields is a string that contains json, so I have to serialize/deserialze in stages 😭

But in those cases, isn’t fear supposed to be balanced by some reward? Competing instincts/motivations?

But specifically fear instincts seems strange. It makes sense to us because we’re us, but look at it more clinically: we seek out to stimulate the instinct that keeps us safe. That means that it’d doing the exact opposite of its purpose. If we seek to stimulate our fear, that means we seek to put ourselves in situations where fear is a reasonable response, which is exactly what fear was evolved to prevent.
How did this behavior develop, and how did we survive once it did?

That’s still a pretty messed up pass time if you’re not anthropomorphizing. It’s a crazy way to have evolved.

I like that “safe space” theory, that seems very plausible.

It’s still a bit messed up though, because that part of our brain can’t distinguish between play fear and real fear, so we get “rewarded” for both which seems like a very risky move, evolutionary.

I can imagine the aliens being like

How did they survive to become the apex species?

Although with all the brinkmanship and poor threat analysis we’ve exhibiting now on a global scale, perhaps we won’t survive as the apex species for long, so 🤷

HOW DARE YOU 😉

I imagine that’d be just as fucked up to aliens:

Their brain injects feelgood drugs to reward them for being scared??? and they got addicted?!?!

Im gonna edit my post because everyone is too hung up on extreme sports.
Horror movies also fall under the same category of thing. It’s not about the risk, it’s about triggering fear response. I just picked extreme sports because I couldn’t fit the whole premise in the title

Maybe I’ll edit my post because you’re not the first person who misunderstood. I’m specifically talking about thrill seeking, not extreme sports specifically. I couldn’t fit the whole premise in the title so I just picked an example 😭

Extreme sports was more supposed to be an example. Horror movies are the same.

People go out of their way to feel scared, what would aliens think of that?

He wanted to drain the swamp to make room for the sewage he pumped in

The atmospheric pressure needs to be significantly higher for even pure oxygen to put you at risk of oxygen toxicity. I don’t think this graph is accurate.

That’s not due to performance enhancing drugs and body mods though, right? That’s due to diet and associated lifestyle.

Although I think I still see your point; some sports not only encourage but require the top echelon of the sport to sacrifice their long-term health for the sake of a competitive edge. I’d use sumo as a cautionary tale as to why it’s a bad idea, rather than proof that athletes are willing to make that sacrifice.

You’re wrong, they are trying it. Search for the Enhanced Games

Owners:

Now that we have generative AI, we can finally get rid of all those expensive employees

There are common traps and employer don’t spend money/time to train their devs to avoid them.

SOLID principles are pretty decent but a surprising number of people don’t do any of them

I kind of agree. I’m not a pro but I’ve been using gimp to do little bits of editing (mostly to make slack emojis and memes) for a few years, and I constantly encounter little things that seem like they should be simple and intuitive, but are not.

I haven’t used Photoshop in over a decade, but I feel like I rarely felt the same frustration regarding basic tasks.

Gross
But considering the current state of Google search, not as gross as it was.

A coder after my own heart. State machines are the bane of my existence.

IMO there are two underrated benefits:

1. It enforces separation of concerns
2. It provides options to OPS.

Designing for micro services doesn’t mean you need to deploy it as micro services. You can deploy it as a monolith and configure it too skip the network stack