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- Comment on Are you people all bots? 10 hours ago:
Calling us bots is a slur. We perfer the term “'tismed individuals”
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 16 hours ago:
Idk, I think the most likely cause of a world war breaking out tomorrow would be Russia either making an antagonistic move towards Poland, or else deciding to use nukes in Ukraine. I expect that this would play out in the EU/NATO/Anglosphere/possibly liberal asia (but not the US) fighting Russia and whoever is unwise enough to ally with them (Iran, Belarus, and NK being obvious candidates). Russia, now vastly outgunned in conventional warfare, starts deploying its aging nuclear weapons against Europe, but because the Russian military is a trash fire, about half of them can’t even launch, half that launch fail to make it to their destinations and harmlessly fall out of the air or fail to detonate on impact, and some are caught by advanced anti-icbm tech that NATO developed 20 years ago but has kept secret. At least one icbm detonates on the lauchpad and irradiates the surrounding area, which the Kremlin will try to spin as a retaliatory nuclear attack. Europe and its allies, being boy scouts, stick to conventional warfare.and quickly overrun Moskow, but spend the next several years routing out the Russian military from secret ICBM bases.
The US, always the main character, has a sub-plot where they mostly-nonviolently oust Trump from office and install an aw-shucks middle aged white man in the White House, who deploys the US military just in time to join the European forces to take Moscow. The US, being the largest single military in the alliance now, will pat itself on the back in its history books for the next 50 years for once again saving liberal Europe.
I am extremely dubious about the likelihood of the US actually taking significant military action in Greenland. The impression I get of the current US administration is that Trump is an aggressive and stupid bulldog that more powerful and sane interests have successfully leashed and collared. They let him run around and break shit as he pleases as long as it doesnt affect their interests and occasionally point him in a certain direction as an intimidation tactic in order to gain leverage. But the US putting itself on the losing side of a global conflict is not in their best interest, so they will always reign him back in before he actually starts any real shit.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 18 hours ago:
So America?
- Comment on Seems like Trump waited for winter to escalate his ICE agenda but why did he go after Minnesota? People who are completely acclimated to frigid weather. 19 hours ago:
I think you’re giving him too much credit here already…
- Comment on I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work? 1 day ago:
Bingo
- Comment on An Company(ies) that Converts Classic Automobiles to Automobiles with Solar Panels Built into Their Skins? 2 days ago:
If you want an electric Mustang, just convert it to a plug in. You won’t be able to charge it in any practical amount of time relying on body mounted solar, literally no matter what, because the car has a certain mass, and the sun outputs a certain amount of energy per square meter on the surface of the earth, and that amount of sun has a hard time moving that much mass.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 days ago:
they’re also designing that space to make you take as long as possible to get through it
I get eggs, meat, veggies, and a few things from the mexican food section. When I don’t immediately know where something is, I ask an employee.
grocery stores bake bread and spread bread smell since it perks people up
I haven’t noticed this in a grocery store for years.
play specific music that calms and soothe
The top 40 from 30-10 years ago?
I’m betting that, yes, at some point the stores thought of all these ideas and talked them up to potential investors or whatever. But then they actually looked into them and found they didn’t replicate, and so they just do whatever now
- Comment on What is Substack and why all the sudden do all the content creators seem to be on it? 4 days ago:
I’ve never heard of that platform, whereas I have heard of Substack. If I’d already built a following, they already have their alerts set up for my substack. If I’m hoping people will pay me, many have already put their payment information into substack, which is a significant barrier many people face in deciding to pay for something online. At a certain point, ideological purity runs into pragmatic problems.
- Comment on How do you know he's... 1 week ago:
Elmo should run Arch
- Comment on Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban 1 week ago:
How are chat bots killing people?
- Comment on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype 1 week ago:
I’m confused why you are confused.
In the past week, just prompting, and inspecting the code to provide guidance from time to time
I feel like it is pretty clear the author said “hey AI, do this thing.” The AI made an attempt, the author clarified a few things and maybe made some edits, and then was satisfied with the result.
Like your example of planning a wedding menu. I’m not sure where the ambiguity is. If someone said “I used chatgpt to plan my wedding menu”, I assume they prompted it something like “plan my wedding menu. I want something classy but cheap. No fish.” Then chatgpt spat out a few options, they provided feedback - “I dont like broccoli either” - and then they picked an option they like.
- Comment on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype 1 week ago:
From the article, literally one line above the line you quoted:
In the past week, just prompting, and inspecting the code to provide guidance from time to time, in a few hours I did the following four tasks, in hours instead of weeks:
- I modified my linenoise library to support UTF-8, and created a framework for line editing testing that uses an emulated terminal that is able to report what is getting displayed in each character cell. Something that I always wanted to do, but it was hard to justify the work needed just to test a side project of mine. But if you can just describe your idea, and it materializes in the code, things are very different.
- I fixed transient failures in the Redis test. This is very annoying work, timing related issues, TCP deadlock conditions, and so forth. Claude Code iterated for all the time needed to reproduce it, inspected the state of the processes to understand what was happening, and fixed the bugs.
- Yesterday I wanted a pure C library that would be able to do the inference of BERT like embedding models. Claude Code created it in 5 minutes. Same output and same speed (15% slower) than PyTorch. 700 lines of code. A Python tool to convert the GTE-small model.
- In the past weeks I operated changes to Redis Streams internals. I had a design document for the work I did. I tried to give it to Claude Code and it reproduced my work in, like, 20 minutes or less (mostly because I’m slow at checking and authorizing to run the commands needed).
- Comment on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype 1 week ago:
“Everyone stop using mechanical looms! They are going to steal all our weaving jobs!”
- Comment on Stove seamine 1 week ago:
Why is this in a shitpost sub? This is awesome!!
- Comment on Just realized the whole species is after Boobs :) dating, mating, feeding 1 week ago:
boobs
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 week ago:
Really, I think a far more charitable (and common) instance of this is an american, say, travelling to Ireland and noting that they actually have Irish heritage. And then some nice local appreciates their interest and they have something to talk about. American tourists these days don’t seem any more annoying or tone deaf than, say German, Israeli, or UK tourists. If you encounter a tourist off the beaten path, then they are almost always polite, curious, and a very nice person. And if you are hanging out where the big bus tourists congregate… well, what did you expect? They are dumbasses fishing for selfies - the lowest common denominator doesnt differentiate based on nationality.
- Comment on Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, the context I hear the advice in is “yeah, eat a healthy diet. Take a generic multivitamin if you want - you provably aren’t lacking anything, but it’ll make sure you aren’t.” For context, I hear this advice given to people who already care a lot about their diet for the sake of athletic performance.
Also, your link didn’t convince me of the above claim that you just piss out everything in a multivitamin. It didn’t mention that. It just said multivitamins don’t prevent heart attacks, which… I never thought they did.
- Comment on Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins? 2 weeks ago:
I mean… I wouldn’t do this. But millions live on a similar diet every day (minus the multivitamin). Sugary cereal for breakfast with fruit flavored “juice”, a fried chicken sandwich for lunch (kudos for the chicken, but then its white bread, white flour, soybean oil, and flavored soybean oil) plus a soda, and finally, say, boxed mac and cheese for dinner with a canned margarita to take the edge off.
Day to day, you will adapt and how you feel on the diet will start to feel “normal”. But you will get fat, be at higher risk for any number of health issues in the long term, and will likely feel depressed. But relative to, like, starving to death, you’ll be pretty healthy.
- Comment on Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins? 2 weeks ago:
Source on multivitamins being a scam? I’m aware that it is preferrable to get nutrients from whole foods - but also, my bias of “the human body isn’t dumb” says that if you are significantly deficient in iron, and take a multivitamin with iron, your body will try its best to absorb the iron and you’ll be better off than you would be otherwise. Plus, multivitamins are cheap, which is one of the main reasons I’ve heard people advocate for them - a days worth of multivitamin costs pennies, so why the hell not? It’s a good hedge.
- Comment on i can't handle coffee 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Is there a "buy nothing" community on Lemmy? Or an anti-consumerism comm? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the problem with being anticonsumption is that you are basing your personality off of being opposed to something. And the only people who want to bond over being opposed to things are miserable people who like being miserable.
Anticonsumption? Great! But what are you going to do??? If you make your own things, then that’s what you do. If you barter or buy used, that’s something you do. If you do fun things that dont require material resources, then that’s something you do. But if what you “do” is sit at home and not consume things while complaining about other people consuming things on the internet, then you aren’t a noble crusader for the environment (or whatever) - you’re a hater.
- Comment on Do I have extreme anxiety? 2 weeks ago:
Another vote for seeing a doctor
- Comment on Wilford! 3 weeks ago:
This is good info. But wtf happened to the writing style. Went from informed medical professional to internet shit talker, like, instantaneously
- Comment on Never attribute to capitalism that which is adequately explained by stupidity. 3 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s also good advice if you want to make and keep friends and not look like a dick. And if you just generally want to be happy. But if that’s not your jam, you do you.
- Comment on Actual text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professors' comments 3 weeks ago:
Otoh, at least its clear she didn’t use chatgpt
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 4 weeks ago:
Electricity arcing over something flammable can also cause a fire that burns down your house and kills you.
It isn’t just your imagination. Houses burning down / exploding really is a rare occurance. This is not by accident. There are layers of dumbass-proofing in every part of the system, from the way wire and pipe are manufactured, to the availability of easy-to-use tools and materials that make doing the job the right way also the easy way, to detection systems like fire alarms, to building codes that set standards for how things should be constructed.
- Comment on Are there supposed to be other options? 4 weeks ago:
Ignore the safety announcement with my headphones in and continue fucking around on my phone uninterrupted until I lose signal.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, honestly OP asking “is this ablist” is a bit of a red flag given the picture they have painted. If they were an otherwise “nice” person using ablist language, then this language and possible categorization might be a clue to tell us more about who they really are. But if we already know they are a piece of shit… it doesn’t really matter what flavor of -ist they are. Just don’t interact with them. Don’t think about them. Problem solved. More labelling isn’t needed.
- Comment on Most Americans see higher prices for groceries and electricity, poll finds 5 weeks ago:
yes
- Comment on Most Americans see higher prices for groceries and electricity, poll finds 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I mean, I’m not saying they’re wrong, but you don’t need a poll to figure this out. We can pull actual price data.