Windex007

@Windex007@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨His message touched me. I feel no empathy⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Empathy doesn’t mean you’ll adjust your position. It just means you can RP as someone well enough to come away with an understanding from that person’s perspective.

  You can be empathetic and once the exercise is over, still not budge in terms of your original assessment.

  Empathy is dangerous to fascists. Everything they’re doing unravels if a population is good at it. It’s why they hate it so much. Don’t toss them a free W.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨slam dunkle⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Why’s James cryin’?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think your notion of charitable apathy probably only comes across as condescending if in your explanation you make it sound like you’ve never been (or would never be) in a position to receive that treatment from others.

  I feel like a few words tossed in to clarify that would probably help people avoid a gut reaction about your ideas.

  People might also be getting hung up on the idea of treating someone like a child. I had my kids a little later in life, and I treat my toddlers like adults. What do I do when an adult is crying? I sit with them and comfort them. What do I do if I see an adult about to step in dog shit? Yell to them to tell them a warning to watch their feet. What do I do if an adult tells me they’re hungry? I help them get food. What do I do if adult tells me they want to play with hot wheels with me? I say yes.

  Maybe I fundamentally don’t understand how others conceptualize treating a child. I think that term is super loaded. Like the word “savory”. You can ask 10 people what the phrase/word means and you’ll get 10 confident and incompatible answers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely lemmings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did that once, and it was really jarring for people to see.

  People have gotten completely desensitized to names like “ForceU2swllow” or “xXx_daRk_pRo_MLG_xXx”. A regular name, your actual name IS the most unhinged shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely lemmings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  James

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Metal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah shit I edited my post to dial back the snark, but this comment is on point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Economies of scale exist, regardless if you like them or not. You have a die for a 2nm processor in your garage? Gonna take a garden trowel into the backyard and dig till you hit a vein of rare earth metals?

  Rugged individualism is a romantic concept, but not well supported by human history. If you make everything by your own hand, the sum total of your output will really just barely be enough to keep you fed.

  I can’t even really fathom this response to the idea that you shouldn’t 3D print screws. It’s like I kicked your dog or something.

  If you want to make your own screws, go ahead, make your own screws, but even then the analogy still holds well: don’t 3D print them. Use a tap and die set.

  Tools exist to make screws and a 3D printer is the most expensive, slowest, and will produce inferior screws compared even to the existing make-screws-at-home options. On top of that, if, I don’t know, if you’re in an apocalyptic post-socoiety breakdown where logistical networks collapse… And you’re subsisting on backyard chickens… Still think you want the tap and die set for the purposes of screw production. No electricity, no files to get corrupted as your computer rusts out, essentially no maintenance required. Easier to transport.

  Just because a technology is new and flexible doesn’t mean it’s automatically the best way to do all of the things it can "technically* do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’ve completely missed the point.

  We produce screws at industrial quantities, out of various materials, lengths, heads, pitches, etc etc etc.

  The industrial scaling of this production results in screws being really really inexpensive. So inexpensive that depending on quantity you’re looking at, the finished screws are no more expensive to you than the raw materials.

  Yeah you can print a screw. The question is why?. It will be more expensive per unit, more labour intensive, of worse quality, and will do wear and tear to equipment you own. It’s a lose/lose/lose/lose.

  The one exception is that it is some mystical bespoke screw. And even then, it is likely that there are traditional methods which would better achieve that end (buy some screws that you can develop a process to modify in order to meet your needs)

  It’s a good analogy. Yes you CAN 3D print a screw. It doesn’t mean it’s appropriate or even economical to include them in your products. Yes you CAN vibe code something. It doesn’t mean it’s appropriate or even economical to include them in your products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how to start with self-hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re just running a few services, and will only ever be running a few services, I agree with you.

  The additional burden of starting with proxmox (which is really just debian) is minimal and sets you up for the inevitable deluge of additional services you’ll end up wanting to run in a way that’s extensible and trivially snapshotable.

  I was pretty bullish on “I don’t need a hypervisor” for a long time. I regret not jumping all-in on hypervisors earlier, regardless of the services I plan to run. Is the physical MACHINEs purpose to run services and be headless? Hypervisor. That is my conclusion as for what is the least work overall. I am very lazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how to start with self-hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Easily can have multiple LXCs, and being able to take snapshots for backup is probably a nice thing to have if you’re just learning.

  And if they get more hardware, moving VMs to other clustered proxmox instances is a snap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The “Shrekking” Dating Trend Is All Kinds of Toxic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sum of all relations that have occurred in the last 10 years? Probably pretty high, based on the percentage of drivers who think they’re better than average.

  I expect those relationships are short, though.

  I would guess that in successful long term relationships, the opposite is probably true… Both partners think they’re dating up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m agreeing with Pete Hegseth? WTF is happening right now?

  I mean, listen to your gut instincts, which is that you’re being foolish because he is a fool.

  If your system demands trust, it’s a bad system. If your system has a written set of rules that don’t actually cover your requirements, it’s a bad system. If the “tests” you imagine post-hoc aren’t part of the system, you’re just opportunistically trying to shift the blame.

  You made a deal, set the parameters, and what… Expected the for profit company to ignore their fiduciary duty to shareholders to maximize profit? What is this, your first fucking day of capitalism, Pete?

  His response to this is engineered to shift blame, and he’s coming out swinging because ultimately he is to blame. It’s barely more than a political catchphrase. He literally invoked “America First”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks to denial, I’m immortal!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making a custom pc case for my next home server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know much about static electricity and plastic, but would it be sufficient to ground off an arbitrary point in the case to the body of the PSU?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s an interesting take, especially because it’s AI generated.

  I think it’s fair for artists to depict their own experiences. If these were hand-crafted, I don’t think I could vibe on that criticism. I think it’d be truly disingenuous for a white suburban straight man to be creating art of the experience of a rural black lesbian.

  But, AI isn’t an artist. It has no experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I kinda imagined this was the nature of the issue.

  Not really sure how I feel about the implied argument, though, which appears to be that it is wrong to create period art (or ask an AI to generate a video) which doesn’t include some (all?) negative experiences of that period.

  May I paint the view from my balcony, omitting the mosquitos biting me while I paint?

  I think the crux must be intention… Which is notoriously hard to prove.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the article repeatedly suggesting it was a disingenuous depiction of the era, but didn’t seem to make any attempt to support that assertion.

  I’d love a breakdown as to what specifically was disingenuous.

  I mean, like any social media, it’s selectively showing “the good”, and ignoring the bad. Is that it? Like, they can’t (and wouldn’t even if they could) put the heavy cigarette smell of any restaurant of the era through the phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have the current capacity to give this the response it deserves, so I’m going to hit a few key points of where I believe misunderstanding exists and then let you reevaluate what points still need pressing.

  I don’t think I’ve ever moved the goalposts. My initial comment is what it always was, that you don’t CURRENTLY have a toddler. I think this is directly relevant to my thesis that parenting evaluations from people who aren’t themselves currently experiencing it need to be weighed as such (certainly not authoritative, and divorced from the reality of the experience)

  Nextly, I think it’s worth deconstructing two things:

  • did the observer genuinely think it was a kidnapping ?

  • why did the father feel the need to justify?

  I’m going to say “probably not” to the first, and to the second probably because of the keen awareness that parents have about how much people love the armchair deconstruction of their parenting. Thankfully, I got some great advice very early on from another parent which was, in short, to get comfortable ignoring the musings of others on the subject of parenting.

  But I do think, after reading your post, it would probably make me more inclined to feel the need to justify myself if I were I in the same situation. How do I convince this bystander I’m X, Y, or Z? This person is trying to gather the variables to ultimately determine what I’m doing wrong as a parent.

  I also don’t think it’s realistic that you can’t move a tantruming toddler through a public space… Especially if the immediate destination is the car. This hits me as very dogmatic.

  The car, for example, IS my kids happy place. It IS the best place to calm him down. Get in the car and sing John Denver together. It seems, to me, cruel to deprive him of that even if I know he’s going to be pissed off on the way there.

  I can respond more fully when I’m off mobile… And maybe I’ve over-attributed judgement on your part. I think you’ve read much more into the original post than is there, and have mentally constructed a scenario much more disturbing than it was. I think the dad calling the kid an asshole was what made it post-worthy, not some level of violence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, there is a point I’m trying to make, which is it’s intrinsic to the human condition to paint a much rosier version of your own childrearing experiences once they’re historical.

  The internet is awash with new parents wildly frustrated with how incredibly out-of-touch the platitudes they hear about their experience even coming from other older parents.

  Your original comment is just that. Judgemental and out of touch. You can make a kid act like that? A screaming toddler? There will certainly be times when nothing you can do within the laws of physics can PREVENT them from acting like that. My toddler threw a hysterical fit because the garage door can’t be SIMULTANEOUSLY open AND closed. No, son, I know you believe Daddy can do anything but quantum super positions are even out of my hands.

  Should the guy have called his kid an asshole? No.

  How harshly should you judge them for it? In that moment? Probably not very.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I was going to take a kid from a stork, you think I’d take THIS one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  had

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  10:1 odds that neither of you currently have a toddler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  archive.is/nEXWm

  Maybe what you’re referring to? Over a billion over several years?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Excel is still doing the calculations, not the AI. The AI is helping to write functions.

  This distinction is immaterial. This is like a big child grabbing a smaller child’s hand and slapping them with their own hand saying “quit hitting yourself”. It’s like trying to get out of a speeding ticket by saying all you did was push the accelerator… Truely it was the fuel injectors forcing the vehicle to an illegal speed.

  Just because you’ve adjusted the abstraction layer at which you’ve ceded deterministic outcomes, doesn’t mean AI isn’t doing it.

  You can easily spot check a couple examples then apply that same formula down the column.

  This may be appropriate in some scenarios, specifically:

  • When accuracy isn’t important

  • When you will never need to justify what is being done to anyone (including yourself)

  This, however, covers a decidedly small portion of professional work done using Excel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your thoughts on this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If my goal was to try and damage the organization of groups looking to drive environmental initiatives, this is what I’d do. One of the things, anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would have to expand your abdomen slightly, assuming you don’t have access to a fourth dimension.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit's getting real⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, yeah, THAT strategy would keep it at 99 cents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds like a plan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right now my company calls it “Investing in IST”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … Did they both involve sending weapons to Israel?