dream_weasel
@dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 days ago:
I believe like two people in this thread lol.
Just not maintaining your shit isn’t some great intentional effort and benefit to the community. Just letting your once normal lawn grow out of control is not rewilding anymore than throwing your food scraps out the window is composting.
Sure, vast expanses of perfectly manicured fescue is not helping fireflies or other bug species, but let’s be real, knee high thistles, dandelions, and crabgrass is not providing a profound service either.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 3 days ago:
Unpopular opinion: the fact that said stuff matches my style / that I like it is what makes art worth anything to me. Being made by a person or a fish or a machine doesnt matter. It’s the STUFF I want on my wall or the end table, not the fact that it’s tacitly human crafted. Any art I can afford is made by someone who is basically a faceless deal, not someone I know personally (or else the person matters) or someone who is famous (in which the person matters). Ergo… the people don’t typically matter.
Im not going to an insane restaurant to fanboy the chef, I’m going to eat the FOOD. If a machine makes it and every single dish is atomically identical, that’s fine, as long as it’s super tasty.
- Comment on The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About 1 week ago:
One passenger survived. The real life guy from Unbreakable.
- Comment on F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’ 2 weeks ago:
The guy on the photo has the bottom half of a huge head and the eyes up of a small head. Totally weird.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
Now cough.
- Comment on Mammal 2 weeks ago:
The re-milk value is much lower that way
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Not as bad, but I had a crisis of self changing jobs. I left a management role I had for 15 years where I had visibility / notoriety at big 10 university and moved to a much better paying work from home job in industry an army of one with little oversight.
After 3 years I haven’t really figured out how to cope with it yet. Nobody looking to me for help, nobody to mentor, basically no meetings, no water cooler… Yeah I have lost some sleep, but I picked up chess, I got back into reading, and I’ve tried to add the structure back in that I gave up even though it looks different.
What I can say is that I definitely see what you’re getting at. I strongly doubt you were a workaholic or had some kind of unhealthy relationship with capitalism or whatever other crap is going on in this thread. I’m sure we will figure it out, but it is jarring to lose the sense of purpose / accomplishment / definition of leaving a well established role. Ive still got 15 or so years before full retirement becomes an option, so if you solve it, share the knowledge ;).
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
Turn signals can be either red or amber in the US.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Why not? If they are not old enough to drive or go places on their own the phone is probably the main way they communicate outside of school. My family does hand me down phones for kids and I could imagine having compatibility issues like old android vs new iPhone can’t video chat easily or whatever.
I’m not saying this is for sure the case, but I can envision a world where having compatible phones makes some things easier. It is surely not as bad as the good old days when some people had flip phones and some had smart phones. But there still may well be a gap.
- Comment on Down with the flu 3 weeks ago:
It probably is, but no REAL artists made this before AI when they had the chance.
- Comment on Avocado 3 weeks ago:
Strictly speaking, WD-40 is for water displacement. It is also not patented because they don’t want to give away the recipe.
Though, I think the other guy might have meant “lubricant” in the context of sex.
- Comment on Avocado 3 weeks ago:
The only way to properly clean a penis is with guacamole and some elbow grease.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 3 weeks ago:
Maybe you can get a business going mounting roombas on Tesla bumpers?
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 3 weeks ago:
Same, but mine loaded fine. Android.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 4 weeks ago:
Many people are themselves not particularly attractive, so this is may be a matter of realistic expectations.
It’s only interesting when there’s a large disparity in attractiveness which is generally anomalous. I think “many” falling into this category is probably an overstatement.
- Comment on Late 4 weeks ago:
Totally Kafkaesque.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
Neurotypical?
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
How about word choice? We got a homophone situation here.
- Comment on Fax machine 5 weeks ago:
Cuz her friends dont cum and if they don’t cum that’s their choice and I don’t mind.
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 5 weeks ago:
If you say so.
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 5 weeks ago:
Whatever you say man :).
I don’t do “turn the other cheek” on the internet, but you can if you like. I prefer to deliver a pique and block; it doesn’t raise my blood pressure any, but hopefully there’s a lingering rankle for anyone who doesn’t have anything nice to say and can’t keep their emotions in check. A little sprinkle of sand in the old underoos if you will.
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 5 weeks ago:
I can and I do. Its easy enough to block simple angry fuckers like you one at a time. Thanks for volunteering to sit down and shut up in my feed.
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 5 weeks ago:
And all I want is to never see sports related communities. So I guess I win there…
Unfortunately I also never want to see anything that mentions anime or manga and in that department it’s serious whackamole for me.
- Comment on Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot 5 weeks ago:
Lol no. You absolutely cannot.
You can maybe make it look nicer, but your high school diploma and street cred does not an education make.
The neat thing about it is, if you think this way, it would be impossible to prove to you that you can’t do it yourself just as well. Without DOING it, you just don’t know how much you don’t know compared to a member of the faculty. There are people who can go to the library (or Internet) and good will hunting an education, but I can basically guarantee that neither you nor anyone you know or will ever know is one of them.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 5 weeks ago:
Related. No. But there was that one party in Tijuana…
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 5 weeks ago:
Recipe:
1 egg 3/4 cup of your favorite oil 1 medium banana 1 pinch lemon zest
Put oil in pan over medium high heat until oil just smokes, allow to smoke for 15 seconds, then reduce temperature to “egg making temperature”. Add egg. Burn the shit out of that innocent bastard and push it around while repeating “egg slide freely!”. Remove your egg with a crispy, brown bottom and wet, runny whites from the skillet. Reserve oil.
Into one large coffee mug, pour your oil, add lemon zest.
Last, throw all this in the trash with your Teflon skillet, and eat the banana.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 5 weeks ago:
Keighty
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 5 weeks ago:
I too have been to the internet.
- Comment on Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot 5 weeks ago:
I wish I knew the answer. I know one person who took that path and he is not a super bright guy and I’m not sure what value he brings… but business PhD and then teaching position in the 600k range. I did a rocket science PhD and finally took an industry job after like 6 years running a lab for less than 100k, but my advisor was around 180k with full faculty.
400k was the salary of the university president, so… you add the rocket science faculty to the president and you get a faculty salary in the business school? It doesn’t make a lot of sense. I suppose maybe because MBA is a high demand degree? If you figure it out let me know, I’d also like to know the answer.
- Comment on Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot 5 weeks ago:
As long as the materials are accurate and serve as an effective teaching aid, where’s the case?
It would be different if the sum total of course materials were wikipedia articles presented by a non expert, but the professor IS an expert. Sure, anyone can use genAI, BUT not anyone can write a relevant, targeted prompt and check the accuracy of the output. This is of course assuming the professor is generating (or at least vetting) materials for accuracy.
IF it turns out the student can find a pattern of inaccurate content there is a case. Otherwise there’s nothing: it would be like arguing that a TA made the materials (or the lecture materials came from a book written by SOMEONE ELSE gasp) and the professor presented them so the class is invalid.
