aesthelete
@aesthelete@lemmy.world
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 5 hours ago:
Yup we’re all idiots
- Comment on "Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online 12 hours ago:
“Your dick, my knife”
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 2 days ago:
Are you saying for me? Cuz facebook sucks ass too.
I remember the old Internet. Honestly, lemmy is the only thing I’ve encountered that feels even like the newer part of the old Internet.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 2 days ago:
The only fast food I enjoyed in recent memory was Pizza Hut. During some scare about MSG they removed all of the MSG and I ordered it a time or two after that and it was nearly inedible.
I suspect similar things happened with other types of fast food. I think there’s a flanderization effect happening with a lot of it. The same is definitively not the case for things like pizza in general, as I can order from my local NY-style pizza place and pizza is still just as good as it ever was.
It wouldn’t surprise me if fast food was objectively shittier across a number of different metrics.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 2 days ago:
Lol, nothing like waiting until the last possible moment to do a minor thing that won’t even accomplish anything at this point and then writing an article about it.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 2 days ago:
I just tried that…went searching for a room and amongst some software package rooms the two I stumbled upon that made me nope the fuck out are “COVID-19 truth” or similar, and some pro-trump mafia thing that had the n-word in its description. I tried to search for something even in the state of california and the closest I got was a gay hookup channel.
Thanks, I fucking hate the Internet now.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
I’m beginning to think this Microsoft company might fucking suck.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
🦗 🦗 🦗
- Comment on An increasing number of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, BofA says 3 weeks ago:
OMG you guys, are we getting poor or something?!
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 3 weeks ago:
We need a large, well-organized movement to demand that the government add a right to privacy to the US Constitution.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 1 month ago:
What’s that I smell, is it the doctor for doctor death season 5?
- Comment on It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word 1 month ago:
It’s beyond time to stop believing and parroting whatever would make your source the most money is literally true without verifying any of it.
- Comment on Might as well go cyberpunk, I guess. 1 month ago:
I had lunch with a co-worker that spoke with a stupid grin about shaving a couple of cents off of their production units in the manufacturing process.
I can’t believe there are people alive that are proud of this kind of stuff. He didn’t even have a stock compensated position, work in manufacturing, or anything. He was just a capitalist creep that loved the very concept of being a cheap dumpster fire.
- Comment on [Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse 1 month ago:
Isn’t yelp a pretty easily replaceable thing?
They built a reputation by being one of the first in the space, but they’ve squandered that reputation and I’m pretty sure someone else could start up a competing “reviews” product.
I’d like to have one that actually showed the history of things like restaurants, because if the head chef leaves and the reviews have gone to shit it turns out that the reviews since the new chef are much more relevant than the 1000+ 5 star reviews of the food of the old guy.
I’m not sure how you’d protect against enshittification long-term. But I think one of the things that has largely poisoned the spirit of the Internet in general is that everything is always about a “sustainable business model” and “scaling” before anyone even dreams of just writing something up and seeing if they can get it to go popular.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
I get Dreamweaver vibes from AI generated code.
Same. AI seems like yet another attempt at RAD just like MS Access, Visual Basic, Dreamweaver, and even to some extent Salesforce, or ServiceNow. There are so many technologies that champion this…RoR, Django, Spring Boot…the list is basically forever.
To an extent, it’s more general purpose than those because it can be used with multiple languages or toolkits, but I find it not at all surprising that the first usage of gen AI in my company was to push out “POCs” (the vast majority of which never amounted to anything).
The same gravity applies to this to tool as everything else in software…which is that prototyping is easy…integration is hard (especially if the organization is not well structured, which, well, almost none of them are), and software executives tend to confuse a POC with production code and want to push it out immediately, only to find out that it’s a Potemkin village underneath as they sometimes (or even often) were told the entire time.
So much of the software industry is “JUST GET THIS DONE FASTER DAMMIT!” from middle managers who still seem (despite decades of screaming this) to have developed no widespread means of determining either what they want to get done, or what it would take get it done faster.
What we have been dealing with the entire time is people that hate to be dependent upon coders or other “nerds”, but need them in order to create products to accomplish their business objectives.
Middle managers still think creating software is algorithmic nerd shit that could be automated…solving the same problems over and over again. It’s largely been my experience that despite even Computer Science programs giving it that image, that the reality is modern coding is more akin to being a machinist or someone that designs and builds factory machines. The algorithmic nerd shit is to a large extent settled code that you import, and your job is to either build the actual machine that produces the outcomes that are desired, or spot the spotty welding between the components that is making the machine fail.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
That’s it. Don’t respond to the points and the obvious contradictions in your bad arguments only explicable by your personal hard on for the tool, just keep shit posting through it instead.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
Lol, it couldn’t determine the right amount of letters in the word strawberry using its training before. I’m not criticizing the training data. I’m criticizing a tool and its output.
It’s amusing to me that at first it’s “don’t blame the tool when it’s misused” and now it’s “the tool is smarter than any individual dev”. So which is it? Is it impossible to misuse this tool because it’s standing atop the shoulders of giants? Or is it something that has to be used with care and discretion and whose bad outputs can be blamed upon the individual coders who use it poorly?
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
Why are you typing so much in the first place?
Software development for me is not a term paper. I once encountered a piece of software in industry that was maintaining what would be a database in any sane piece of software using a hashmap and thousands of lines of code.
AI makes software like this easier to write without your eyes glazing over, but it’s been my career mission to stop people from writing this type of software in the first place.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
They rather zone out and mindlessly click, copy/paste, etc. I’d rather analyze and break down the problem so I can solve it once and then move onto something more interesting to solve.
From what I’ve seen of AI code in my time using it, it often is an advanced form of copying and pasting. It frequently takes problems that could be better solved more efficiently with fewer lines of code or by generalizing the problem and does the (IMO evil) work of making the solution that used to require the most drudgery easy.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
It’s not about it being counterproductive. It’s about correctness. If a tool produces a million lines of pure compilable gibberish unrelated to what you’re trying to do, from a pure lines of code perspective, that’d be a productive tool. But software development is more complicated than writing the most lines.
Now, I’m not saying that AI tools produce pure compilable gibberish, but they don’t reliably produce correct code either. So, they fall somewhere in the middle, and similarly to “driver assistance” technologies that half automate things but require constant supervision, it’s possible that the middle is the worst category for a tool to fall into.
Everywhere around AI tools there are asterisks about it not always producing correct results. The developer using the tool is ultimately responsible for the output of their own commits, but the tool itself shares in the blame because of its unreliable nature.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
Some tools deserve blame. In the case of this, you’re supposed to use it to automate away certain things but that automation isn’t really reliable. If it has to be babysat to the extent that I certainly would argue that it does, then it deserves some blame for being a crappy tool.
If, for instance, getter and setter generating or refactor tools in IDEs routinely screwed up in the same ways, people would say that the tools were broken and that people shouldn’t use them. I don’t get how this is different just because of “AI”.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 1 month ago:
why wouldn’t companies have a failsafe for their equipment being used against them
Because they got tired of paying for the whiny engineers that would have to implement the failsafe and so they fired them all.
- Comment on Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed 1 month ago:
Sure, “no man sets foot in the same river twice”, but that does nothing to argue against the preservation of cultural items.
Take music, for instance, I never feel the same way the second time listening to a song as I did the first time, but that doesn’t make the music less special or change anything about it at all, and it certainly does nothing to advance a hypothetical argument that music shouldn’t be recorded or that the recordings of it shouldn’t be preserved for future enjoyment or different audiences.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
Yeah I’m not sure for everyone but it solved my problems with the phone being too big to fit in my pockets. It even works in like pajama pants for when I’m walking the dog. Before, the phone tended to be too long and flop out.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
I am indeed a short shit.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
I’m pretty perfectionist about some things, but I honestly forget all of the time about this little crease in my phone. I thought I might give a shit before I bought a Motorola Razr last year, and now I often forget that it’s a foldable. Imagine if you will, a phone that actually fucking fits in your jean pockets…it’s worth the little (often invisible) crease.
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 1 month ago:
Yep everyone also thinks they’re exceptional, and so they’ll be the exception.
- Comment on Would you trust AI to scan your genitals for STIs? 1 month ago:
No
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 1 month ago:
I agree, but it could also be that PalWorld is a bigger target because it is kinda like a Mickey Mouse horror film: it runs counter to the brand of Pokemon to have a game where you shoot them with heavy weaponry.
- Comment on FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users 1 month ago:
It’s fine to have casual knowledge of or a hunch about something, but far better to have research and analysis to prove it.