“alcohol makes you act without thinking and pot makes you think without action” is so gonna be stolen for future use. Yoink.

This is literally proving the opposite. People who are not careful and safe enough when doing dangerous hobbies are having bad consequences.

Been coding up a little dashboard in the last week, and it’s been making me around 30% more efficient.

And you are right, it’s mostly taking away the boring parts, which is awesome.

Because on Netflix what you’re skipping is something you expect and maybe even want to see. On YouTube it’s ads, which you don’t necessarily expect nor want to see. And the skip button is just associated with that.

Also, on YouTube you sometimes have to skip multiple consecutive ads, sometimes you have to wait for a few seconds, and sometimes you can’t skip them at all. It’s not made to be practical, it’s made to serve you as much ad-time as possible, as that is the bread and butter for YouTube (contrary to popular belief they don’t make a lot of money, so it makes sense. Although I’m not sure I like they way they try to make money to stay in business).

Your first paragraph makes a lot of sense to me.

The second paragraph I have a very different opinion on, because there’s a difference between patterns of abuse and having to deal with a shitty situation a few times. And although there’s people who don’t take any shit and will fit you for small inconveniences, there’s also a lot of people who have learned to endure almost every situation for way too long.

My mom has been working overtime for years and I’m scared she’ll get overwhelmed eventually. Every one of our band mates got bullied in school and just endured it. A school friend told me he was the black sheep in an Asian family and he just had accept it. I’m sure he’s way past his limit but he’ll still try with them. A friend of mine has a dad with narcissistic tendencies and a mom with major health issues and an aunt who almost killed her multiple times intentionally already. I tend to not speak up because sometimes I get it wrong and it fucks me up in major ways.

As you can see I know a lot of people who wait way too long until they change things, and if they spike up a bit more, they could be holding a successful job and maybe even keep their sanity. Goes to show that everyone is different and every social dynamic is unique.

I guess it is very interesting to think about that analogy, cause I never fully thought about that.

The camel was miserable before.

Which means the camel tried to last through it until it broke the camel’s metaphorical back. Which I guess also tells me that if someone says that to me, they are saying someone suffered through something way too long until they finally reacted. I never really thought about it as a hint that you didn’t have to bear something, you could have spoken up earlier already.

This explanation might be too detailed but I just realized that so maybe this is interesting to someone else.

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The potatoes?

No one uses Boolean values anyway and with the amount of resources available on modern systems we can just replace them with integers and we should be fine. This also makes it easier to teach people, as they would learn less different data types.

Yes I’m a software dev :)

At this point I think there is no software dev topic that is somehow not devisive.

That sounds like a really dumb design idea. Why make a federating protocol if you still rely on the server? I don’t even get why they did it at all then.

That’s indeed very interesting and peculiar.

For me it’s 4 Lemmy results and then 2 reddit results and after than chaos ensues.

This might get down voted but let me share a nuanced take.

AI is either overhyped or underhyped.

Yes, right now LLMs won’t change the world, don’t make great lawyers, don’t replace software devs and don’t write all of your emails. But if you used some of the more recent ones, they can definitely help you express or help to write quicker, and they can give you a bird’s eye view of a topic.

And let’s also make clear that AIs are not useless nor is their potential exhausted. Right now they are useful helpers in specific scenarios and they only get more useful from here.

There are important questions around: what constitutes a personality, a right to an image, or when does imitation become stealing, and how do you even consider an AI model on questions of copyright.

I think the problem is that people have promised too much from this technology and that’s why everyone just associates it with bad results. But there’s more to it, and nuance gets lost in the stream of strong opinions.

I like the comparison.

The implantation is different, the effects will be different, and how we evolve with it will be different, but AI does already have a solid impact and it will continue to have one.

And the industrialization was neither good nor bad. How some people fucked over poor people’s lifes in the process is despicable, but just because things get faster or more efficient is not inherently a bad thing.

Now we definitely need rules here. Some shit people and companies do with AIs is wild and should be illegal, but as always law takes time. Maybe it’s an illusion but I hope for a healthy integration of AI in small ways into our life. And I really mean small. Give me chatgpt and AI spell checking, and maybe some code auto completion. Don’t put all those AI assistants into everything because that’s not the way to go. Change done right moves slow, and if we only had the things we know how to use, we’d be a lot better off rn.

Just as automated assembly lines at some point led to electronic devices being more accessible, I hope the LLMs and other AIs we use will become well placed and non-intrusive.

1000% agree.

As a software dev, I’m using windows and I know I shouldn’t switch.

Tbh it’s even worse, I can not switch. And that’s why it’s even more ridiculous. Linux power users like to say that you can do everything you can in windows but with more control. And with “control” they are right, but with “everything” more than wrong. Everything that’s not working out of the box is a gamble on time wasted getting said thing to work. For the simplest thing you can be stuck for weeks just by sheer bad luck.

Say you are a software dev? Yeah Linux is pretty solid.

3d artist? Meh. Blender is the last thing that works, otherwise you are stuck. Octane, 3ds max, Maya, c4d, Houdini, v-ray, real flow, … You gotta be lucky to find them to be compatible even if it’s only with a workaround.

Music production? Well you are stuck on LMMS, which is basically only used by very specific experimental artists. Also plugins, especially those with copyright protection will give you one hell of a hard time.

Images? Well gimp is not Photoshop if we’re honest, and stuff like coreldraw is also hard to replace on Linux.

Video cutting? You have to carefully tip toe about everything Adobe, and that’s an awful hassle. And because everyone would love to give Adobe the middle finger, we are slowly realizing how hard it is to replace Adobe and that if you go somewhere, it is not working as well by default, you have to really make it work.

And especially in big enterprises time is money. So every time someone thinks about where to migrate to, how to migrate, or when they are migrating, and than when they have to propose new workflows, new solutions, a bunch of workarounds, maintenance pipelines, etc. it’s just not worth it. Not on a big company scale, and unfortunately also not on a me scale.

At the end of the day, an OS is a tool to me, not a lifestyle choice, a hobby or a commitment. And it shouldn’t be. As long as Linux is at least 2 of those things for everyone that’s not using it, it’s not very compelling to switch. And that goes for every distro.

Btw. this is the reason why I can understand people using apple over windows. Yeah it’s 1000 bucks to take like 20min less to do a thing. But it stacks up exponentially with every device that integrates into Apple’s universe. And if you spend even 20min less per day, that’s already more than 2h per week that you now have to dedicate to other things.

I’m not rich and this doesn’t entice me, but I get it.

So yeah, make a distro that’s not only modular and expendable,but make it also very easy to understand and make it as easy. And make it either as compatible with Windows software or add those features in a different way. And then people like me can dream about a FOSS universe for everyone.

Tbf it’s more that the feel of a live audience would be missing otherwise. They wanted that live audience feel and be a fully written TV series.

I guess to some degree it’s not completely wrong tho.

what a retard

Probably didn’t need the personal insult. Reddit with it’s CEO huff and puffmann is basically as bad as it gets, so I’m happy about every competition. Obviously Lemmy is doing way better but I’d be happy for Discuit to do well too.

I can’t remember exactly, but there was some shit going on with contract terms or monopolistic market behavior or something.

That’s the only criticism I’ve seen that was somewhat credible tho.

I mean if there’s a time to test it out, it’s right now I would argue.

Lemmy is still small enough to test those things.

Just to explain more of this “approximate amount of fingers”: you might have seen this in the wild, imagine the AI starting out with white noise, and then slowly brushing over different parts to add different things the model would expect. There’s gonna be areas where the AI expects “heads” and “limbs” and finally “fingers”. But it’s more like a texture. Those AIs have no direct concept of what the right amounts are for animals and humans. That’s why they paint “finger texture” in about the right spot and move on, and of course that’s gonna look weird 50% of the time.

There’s actually specific techniques modern AIs use to make sure any human or animal has the right amount of limbs and stuff because the AI on it’s own would never learn how to do this well otherwise. With text it’s really similar btw., although at least you can see the AI nailing the type of font before failing at coherent text. New AIs do a separate pass to recognize specific text in the prompt and then manually add that after the base sampling process iirc.

AIs are so interesting on many levels and the more you learn about them, the more respect you gain for artists and how much work goes into a piece of art. And it also really puts in perspective that (my opinion) AI will never completely replace artists. Our expertise on arts is just too strong so for the foreseeable future AIs will just be a solid helper to every artist at most.