thebestaquaman

@thebestaquaman@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t think gender and race are social constructs.

  Whether they think that has nothing to do with whether they believe there’s an objective answer to the question. What they do, however, is take positions that are in blatant violation of the observable facts around them. The whole “alternative facts” this is basically an exercise in “taking responsibility for your perceptions”, and choosing to believe whatever you think is right, regardless of the objective reality around you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re saying makes no sense… you drawing an equivalence from the existence of an objective reality to some people controlling how that reality is perceived. If anything, you gotten it all flipped around: If reality is subjective (which itself is absurd) then any interpretation of it is equally valid. In that case, anyone is free to believe in their own reality, regardless of the objective facts that prove them wrong. This is basically what’s going on with the MAGA movement: A bunch of people deciding that “reality is what I want it to be”, and acting based on “alternative facts” in complete disregard for the objective, observable, facts around them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s literally a face swap based on someone pulling a funny face. It’s one of the oldest internet jokes there is, and has nothing to do with body shaming, misogyny, or anything of the sort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t even remotely answer my question though? My impression was that you have some kind of belief that an objective reality doesn’t exist in the first place, and that just doesn’t make any kind of sense to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. They just occupied, blockaded and displaced a shitload of the people that now live in Lebanon, because their homes were stolen and their families were killed by Israelis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t both believe something and doubt it.

  I have beliefs about what I think is the most probable truth. That means I can both believe something is true, and acknowledge the probability that I’m wrong. Whenever my beliefs change, there’s necessarily a period where I gradually come to see the probability that I’m wrong as larger than the probability that I’m right, at which point my beliefs about what is right change. However, the acknowledgement that I may still be wrong remains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly don’t even think I get your position here. Do you somehow not believe that you live in some kind of objective reality together with the rest of us? Do you think this is all just going on in your head? Like… is this some kind of far-out simulation theory thing? Even if we do live in a simulation, that simulation itself must exist in some kind of “real world”.

  Please explain

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. When someone comes to your house, shoots your parents, kicks you out, and “settles” in your neighbourhood you should just leave them alone. After all, they would never have done that if you hadn’t… shot rockets at them after they did it??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨love venn diagrams🫶⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had a couple of those situations. In all cases it was a friend that I ended up getting horny with, and then we figured “why not?”. In all cases, the answer turned out to be that shit quickly gets complicated when people develop new feelings because they’re sleeping together.

  Frankly, I have no issue with polyamorous people, but I honestly can’t understand how they get it to work. Every time I’ve slept with someone repeatedly over an extended period of time, it ended up fundamentally changing our relationship to the point where being with anyone else became an implicit no-go. I have no explanation for exactly why but those feelings just developed, no matter how much we promised each other they wouldn’t, and pretended they didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨love venn diagrams🫶⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck man… I’ve been through a couple of these variants but with my (current) SO of quite some time I feel like I’ve found the center. That doesn’t mean it’s never complicated, but it means we’ve learned to deal with and work through a lot of complicated stuff. I honestly believe the most important ingredient in getting to that center is the will to see the best in each other and work through whatever life throws your way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put the shoes on⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  However, naked with just socks is still more naked than just naked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put the shoes on⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Empirical evidence that wearing shoes makes you more naked: The only thing hotter than a naked woman is a naked woman with heels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can fine-grain nr. 2 even more: You can give access to e.g. modify files only in a certain sub-tree, or run only specific commands with only specific options.

  A restrictive yet quite safe approach is to only permit e.g. git add, git commit, and only allow changes to files under the VC. That effectively prevents any irreversible damage, without requiring you to manually approve all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re absolutely right. I mostly run a pretty simple local model though, so it’s not like it’s very expensive either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Saying that it can serve the same purpose does not mean that I mean the two are equivalent in every aspect.

  Just based on how you’ve responded so far it seems like you’re wilfully misinterpreting how I actually use an LLM for this purpose, especially with responses referring to LLMs causing people to commit suicide and offloading decision making or the thought process itself to an LLM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It really seems like you’re wilfully misinterpreting what I’m writing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is correct. However, an LLM and a rubber duck have in common that they are inanimate objects that I can use as targets when formulating my thoughts and ideas. The LLM can also respond to things like “what part of that was unclear”, to help keep my thoughts flowing. NOTE: The point of asking an LLM “what part of that was unclear” is NOT that it has a qualified answer, but rather that it’s a completely unqualified prompt to explain a part of the process more thoroughly.

  This is a very well established process: Whether you use an actual rubber duck, your dog, writing a blog post / personal memo (I do the last quite often) or explaining your problem to a friend that’s not at all in the field. The point is to have some kind of process that helps you keep your thoughts flowing and touching in on topics you might not think are crucial, thus helping you find a solution. The toddler that answers every explanation with “why?” can be ideal for this, and an LLM can emulate it quite well in a workplace environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, absolutely, but there’s a huge span from completely removing the box to having “just” a chatbot.

  For example, at my company, we’ve set up an agent that can work with certain design-files that engineers typically work with through a rather complex GUI. We’ve built a bunch of endpoints that ensures the agent can only make valid changes to the files, and that it can never delete or modify anything without approval. This saves people a bunch of time, because they can make the agent do “batch jobs” that take maybe 10 min in about 10 s. It’s not possible for this agent to mess up our database or anything like that, because all interactions it has with anything are through endpoints where we verify that files, access permissions, change logs, etc. are valid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’ve misunderstood the purpose of a rubber duck: The point is that by formulating your problems and ideas, either out loud or in writing, you can better activate your own problem solving skills. This is a very well established method for reflecting on and solving problems when you’re stuck, it’s a concept far older than chatbots, because the point isn’t the response you get, but the process of formulating your own thoughts in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, you can run it in a box and limit its ability to interact with anything outside the box to certain white-listed endpoints. Depending on what you want to achieve, that can be more than safe enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, they work well enough if you treat them as a rubber duck that responds. I’ve had an actual rubber duck on my desk for some years, but I’ve found LLM’s taking over its role lately.

  I don’t use them to actually generate code. I use them as a place where I can write down my thoughts. When the LLM responds, it has likely “misunderstood” some aspect of my idea, and by reformulating myself and explaining how it works I can help myself think through what I’m doing. Previously I would argue with the rubber duck, but I have to admit that the LLM is actually slightly better for the same purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, there’s a good reason the first rules of firearm safety are to always treat a weapon as loaded, and to never direct the weapon at something you aren’t prepared to destroy. The key point being that you never know when some freak accident can happen with a loose pin, bad ammo, a broken spring, or just a person tripping and shaking the gun a bit too hard.

  A gun should never go off by itself. You still treat it as if it can, because in the real world freak accidents happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I suck at reading comprehension... what the heck does this law even mean? [8 U.S. Code § 1451 - Revocation of naturalization]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Regarding the very last point: Won’t his kids retain citizenship regardless if they were born in the US, in which case they have a citizenship in their own right (not tied to their father)?

  My impression was that you got a US citizenship if you were born on US soil, regardless of the status of your parents?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t effect the number of bit flips your users hardware has, but you can affect how often buggy code corrupts their memory or otherwise crashes your program.

  Let’s say any app will crash about once a year on my machine due to a bit flip. If the app is crap and crashes hundreds of times for other reasons, the bit flip is irrelevant. If the app is robust enough that the bit flip accounts for 10 % of the crashes, that basically means the app is pretty much never crashing due to poor code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But… why? Isn’t that just far more energy consuming and expensive to run? It sounds like replacing your car for a bus that sporadically stops working, even though you always drive alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair I would assume that it’s better to trigger something like this during a security review when people are actively “online” and focused on security risks than at some other time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even with steel pipes you get problems with hydrogen embrittlement because hydrogen diffuses into the steel and can cause it to crack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current events dictate that I post this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You correct, it’s the NATO flag, so you can replace “US” with “NATO” in my comment and my original point still stands. I wrote “US”, because they’re the only NATO member currently bombing someone in a war of aggression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current events dictate that I post this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t interpret this in either of the ways you suggest. I interpret the image as a whole as ironic:

  OP is paraphrasing people that claim “Russia bombing people is bad, but the US bombing people is good, and by the way Israel is above all criticism and you’re an antisemite for suggesting otherwise”, and pointing out the hypocrisy in that claim. I think OP is against wars of aggression in general, and is pointing out that the US and Israel are behaving the same way as Russia when they go bombing people “preemptively”, and that being the aggressor in a war is always bad, regardless of who you are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In 51.6% of cases where someone needed to go to the hospital immediately, the platform said stay home or book a routine medical appointment

  So it performs slightly worse than a coin flip…

  In one of the simulations, eight times out of 10 (84%), the platform sent a suffocating woman to a future appointment she would not live to see

  Holy shit! That’s a lot worse than a coin flip.

  Meanwhile, 64.8% of completely safe individuals were told to seek immediate medical care

  And there are real people out there that actually trust this tech to make real decisions for them. It literally performs significantly worse than a coin flip both with regards to false positives and false negatives. You are literally better off flipping a coin or throwing a dice than asking this thing what to do.