Who cares? Just like most things your average programmer relies on, they are written by smarter or at least more specialised people to make your job easier. They have learned to write memory-safe code so you don’t have to.

Back on reddit, I mostly interacted with communities relating to JRPGs. There are some communities over here, but at most they post some trailers every now and then. There are also some more focussd communities about Dragon Quest, Xenoblade or SMT - all of them practically dead. I don’t think there is an instance.

I could go over to a programming related one, the german instance or even one of the vegan instances for secondary ‘interests’, but those aren’t things I often find myself posting about online to be honest. They seem to be mostly about memes anyways.

Unfortunately, there is no instance matching my interests. There are a number of communities across different instances, but it seems like several people tried to make their own, didn’t interact with each other and all of them are long dead.

Once I find such an instance, I’ll switch over. I’ve been meaning to leave .world anyways.

While I do agree with the problems identified, I can’t help but think they also made forums a lot better. Due to the lower discoverability and higher effort to actually join communities felt more personal. You interacted with smaller groups and came to know specific people. I still have friends from back then.

On larger platforms, I never had that. Even lemmy, which is small in comparison has enough people that I barely even think about specific users. Let alone speak with them on a personal level.

They very much are for a lot of people. Lines goes up, you can give yourself a nice bonus payout and if things come crashing down you leave. With your golden parachute of course.

That’s probably the main reason to reason to ban AI. They want a mostly clean training set and they will probably add their own AI answers to each question as well.

Half of them fly, that’s pretty impressive.

Is it? I don’t remember any past lives and neither do other people I know. Seems like a pretty clear no.

You could arguee that it does happen and you just don’t remember, but that’s functionally the same as not being reincarnated.

Haskell? Curry? Maybe even Brooks.

It’s a command line tool. If you don’t know how to install it despite having the instructions, you don’t know how to use it too.

I feel like the hype already died down quite some time ago. I know a few people who made an account, but this is the first time I heard the site mentioned this year. Same with Threads.

Not with the stuff we currently have.

Image generation is neat. But now there are so many badly generated images out there that any new model likely feeds on shitty data. Also the whole copyright debate for the images used.

LLM are neat. But there is no point in widespread adoption. Any model that is built to generate correct sentences but not correct content kind of wastes a lot of time for the user and nothing else. They are inpressive, they can be fun and sometimes they are really helpful - but you never know whether or not they hallucinate any given information.

Voice and Avatar generation is neat. Like genuinely neat. But you rgey are so easy to use already, you don’t nees that many specialists.

Any search engine I’ve ever used allowed me to filter for results from the past month/year/etc.

If only they had the funds for just a few more programmers, but alas, they barely survive off their niche title as is.

As always, you guys are way too fixated on size.

I’d love to take Haskell, but there’s neither enough support nor enough jobs. Same with most functional languages really. But nothing else compares.

It’s impossible to filter out politics, because lots of people think everything they disagree with is political. It’s always the fault of the other side.

I mean, they had a good run of a few hours with artworks before it devolved into flags again…

Only a single sperm can fertilize the egg. It does not matter whether or not all the other sperm cells are from one or from a thousend different men.