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Not OP, but positions like nurses or teachers are very female dominated. It's not like males cannot reach those positions, but there are social obstacles to that. To make an example from my country, in Italy primary school teachers are > 90% female. I believe in kindergarten they reach 97 or 98%. This is also partially the result of strict gender roles than discriminate both men and women in terms of caring for children (I.e., women are de facto forced to do that, men are pushed away), which then reinforces the social practice of women doing all the caring jobs.

This is IMHO a problem for both men and women, but probably it's not from the same perspective as what OP meant...

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There are plenty of women in far right/neo-fascist etc. groups, and often people from those groups have relationships with other people from those groups. Your comment gives very much the impression that only males are fascists, which is absolutely not my experience dealing with Forza Nuova/Casapound people (both neo-fascists parties) in my youth.

I also see the male loneliness epidemic as an orthogonal problem to males being fascists, but that's yet another topic.

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Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke

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People are allowed to date for whatever reason they want. As long as two adults are freely consenting it's not up to you to be the moral police and decide what should push people to date each other.

They can date for the looks, to look or feel younger, to go outside their comfort zone, for sexual pleasure, for pure intellectual attraction, for material benefit, for [...long list].

This is one of the instances in which the good goal of fighting abuse becomes bigotry. It's basically like religious moralism.

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Most of Italian recipes are very simple. The focus usually is on quality on the ingredients and if they are good, a pizza with just mozzarella and tomatoes is already delicious. That said, even in Italy there are plenty of types of pizzas, but most of them don't have 20 ingredients, I suppose the point is that you actually want to taste what you eat, which is not the case when you mix many different things. There is a very messy and rich pizza (capricciosa) with a lot of toppings though (more than one obviously, but this is the most common).

Personally I am a margherita person, simple and boring is perfect, as long as it tastes great.

P.s. Giuseppe :)

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I hardly see it changed to be honest. I work in the field too and I can imagine LLMs being good at producing decent boilerplate straight out of documentation, but nothing more complex than that.

I often use LLMs to work on my personal projects and - for example - often Claude or ChatGPT 4o spit out programs that don't compile, use inexistent functions, are bloated etc. Possibly for languages with more training (like Python) they do better, but I can't see it as a "radical change" and more like a well configured snippet plugin and auto complete feature.

LLMs can't count, can't analyze novel problems (by definition) and provide innovative solutions...why would they radically change programming?

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Carbonara. No cream was harmed during the creation of this dish.

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My recipe (speaking as someone from Rome, my tastes might be different):

Ingredients:

  • 1 egg yolk per person + 1 full egg. (E.g., 2 people = 2 yolks + 1 egg)
  • pecorino romano (a lot). I put also a 20%-ish of parmigiano to balance the taste.
  • black pepper, freshly ground.
  • guanciale (traditionally, I live abroad and often use pancetta - which is less fat and might require a little bit of olive oil)

Usually you want spaghetti or maybe rigatoni, fettuccine or similar (like OP) tend to suck too much the sauce and are also heavier (it makes sense that they used many full eggs).

Preparation: You beat the eggs and add scraped pecorino until the result is thick. You add pepper and a bit of salt to it as well and mix.

In a pan with no oil or butter you put the guanciale and you let it sweat. You let it fry in its own fat until it's like you want it. You can take a couple of teaspoons of fat and add it to the egg and pecorino mix.

Depending on your taste, you can remove a bit of fat.

You put water boiling and you salt it generously. You boil pasta, and take it out approximately 2 minutes before the official cooking time. You add the pasta in the pan with the guanciale, and you add cooking water into it to continue the cooking while you mix (few water, multiple times, bit by bit). With the pasta still wet, you add it to the container where the egg mix is (not on fire). Better too dry (in which case you add a bit of cooking water) than too liquid (cannot be repaired easily, you will have to drop it in the pan and let it dry). You mix vigorously and you should have the egg sauce perfectly attached to the pasta. If you put enought pecorino in the sauce, you probably won't need additional one on top.

That's it. There are people who do it very differently, for example there are those who mix egg with so much pecorino that they make a solid ball that they add to the pan while finishing the cooking of the pasta and they melt it with cooking water.

Either way, carbonara (and cacio e Pepe) are extremely simple recipes that have a tricky process easy to mess up, and it takes a few attempts to get it as you want it.

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For what is worth, that's not how (most?) Italians think about pizza. It's not a "container" in which you put a bunch of things, but each pizza type is basically a separate dish.

I personally don't care what people put on their pizza, I simply avoid places that make "pizzas" in a non-italian fashion, like the american (supposedly NY style) ones where you get crust, 2 fingers of industrial cheese and a whole plant of oregano.

It's very similar for pasta, which many people think as a bread replacement.

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Models are not improving, companies are still largely (massively) unprofitable, the tech has a very high environmental impact (and demand) and not a solid business case has been found so far (despite very large investments) after 2 years.

That AI isn't going anywhere is possible, but LLM-based tools might also simply follow crypto, VR, metaverses and the other tech "revolutions" that were just hyped and that ended nowhere. I can't say it will go one way or another, but I disagree with you about "adjustment period". I think generative AI is cool and fun, but it's a toy. If companies don't make money with it, they will eventually stop investing into it.

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Today’s hype will have lasting effects that constrain tomorrow’s possibilities

Is absolutely true. Wasting capital (human and economic) on something means that it won't be used for something else instead. This is especially true now that it's so hard to get investments for any other business. If all the money right now goes into AI, and IF this turns out to be just hype, we just collectively lost 2, 4, 10 years of research and investments on other areas (for example, environment protection). I am really curious about what makes you think that that sentence is false and stupid.

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Just in case, consider that "costume" has been probably used because that's the word in Ukrainian "Костюм" (read almost the same as the English word, but with the accent on the u).

I found funnier when he said, "maybe something better".