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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah that’s fair, I guess maybe it depends on your definition of “slide right in”. I meant it as “there shouldn’t be any signficiant resistance to insertion”, which was qualified by needing lubrication/arousal for that to be the case. And I guess it should be further qualified that the thing being inserted should be lubricated as well.
But that being said, I am not a woman, so what I’m saying should certainly be taken with a grain of salt.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Sex is very different from physical examination at a doctor’s office. A doctor may need to do things that you wouldn’t do for pleasure but are still important for checking on your health. Some of the things they may need to do may be uncomfortable/painful for some people with vaginas. It’s also a psychological thing: pleasure during sex/masturbation has a fairly significant psychological component. It’s rarely the case that anyone automatically enjoys any interaction with their genitals (male or female genitals, actually). It’s very context dependent and dependent on one’s frame of mind. Most people are not going into doctor’s appointments with any desire or expectation for pleasure, so the experience is just very different from the get go.
Another possible reason for asking you to take a deep breath is that deep breathing can relax muscles and the mind, which can be helpful during an examination.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Similar to other comments, that kinda sounds like vaginismus from what I’ve read of it. Obviously people have different preferences, but it’s not supposed to be painful, assuming you’re well-lubricated via foreplay or otherwise. It should be plenty wet inside and not dry. Things should slide right in and not be difficult to insert (important note: I do not have a vagina, this is just based on my sexual experience).
Plenty of people with vaginas don’t particularly enjoy penetration for one reason or another (and plenty do), but actual physical pain is another matter, I think.
- Comment on Carenheit 1 week ago:
“It’s so infuriating when people communicate in ways I’m not used to!”
Just sounds really dumb and backwards.
According to ISO 80000-1, the decimal separator can either be a period or a comma, and no preference is given to either. Many American software systems support both (including the software I work on). It’s really quite normal and mundane.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that far from the truth, it’s just the thing they pick is what they saw on Fox News that morning.
- Comment on I took this today in San Francisco 2 weeks ago:
Sweet justice.
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 2 months ago:
As someone that grew up in a Christian household and wasn’t allowed to listen to non-Christian music, I listened to a LOT of Skillet as a teenager. It was one of the few bands I could listen to that I actually liked. I also liked DC Talk as a kid.
- Comment on Is there a word for people who will mess something up and blame the victim for it? 2 months ago:
That’s… Not normal. At all.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 6 months ago:
I certainly wouldn’t call that “well-traveled” and bragging is kinda dumb in general, but it is worth pointing out that the US does have a huge diversity of different cultures, demographics, and environs in different states (so much so that they can often feel like different countries), so it’s perhaps not as quaint as it sounds. It’s not like traveling within a European country. Much closer to traveling within the EU.
Still would never call that being “well-traveled”, though.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 8 months ago:
The OP is on reddit.uk, so most likely not an American.
The question is also just that, a question. Not an expectation.
- Comment on One of those days 9 months ago:
Modern calculators can switch modes between decimal and fractions. It’s pretty irrelevant.
Also, someone may do the problem themselves using any number of means that involve decimals. Or maybe they simply prefer to write in decimal. Either way, the program is simply wrong.
- Comment on Windows 11 Debloat Script/Program? 9 months ago:
Erm, it looks to me that there is a project to make them work on Linux: openrazer.github.io.
Also… TBH if a mouse doesn’t work on Linux that kind of makes it a bad mouse, IMO. I would just get a different mouse if it was an actual issue. It’s not like it’s a mechanical keyboard or something.
- Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 9 months ago:
Cute. I’m a senior software engineer that has trained many different models (NLP, image classification, computer vision, LIDAR analysis) before this stupid fucking LLM craze. I know precisely how they work (or rather, I know how much people don’t know how they work, because of the black box approach to training). From the outset, I knew people believed it was much more capable than it actually is, because it was incredibly obvious as someone who’s actually built the damn things before (albeit with much less data/power).
Every developer that loves LLMs I see is pretty fucking clueless about them and think of them as some magical device that has actual intelligence (just like everybody does, I guess, but I expect better of developers). It has no semantic understanding whatsoever. It’s stochastic generation of sequences of tokens to loosely resemble natural language. It’s old technology recently revitalized because large corporations plundered humanity in order to brute force their way into models with astronomically-high numbers of parameters, so they now are now “pretty good” at resembling natural language, compared to before. But that’s all it fucking is. Imitation. No understanding, no knowledge, no insight. So calling it “inspiration” is a fucking joke, and treating it as anything other than a destructive amusement (due to the mass ecological and sociological catastrophe it is) is sheer stupidity.
I’m pissed off about it for many reasons, but especially because my peers at work are consistently wasting my fucking time with LLM slop and it’s fucking exhausting to deal with. I have to guard against way more garbage now to make sure our codebase doesn’t turn into utter shit. The other day, an engineer submitted an MR for me to review that contained dozens of completely useless/redundant LLM-generated tests that would have increased our CI time a shitload and bloated our codebase for no fucking reason. And all of it is for trivial, dumb shit that’s not hard to figure out or do at all. I’m so fucking sick of all of it. No one cares about their craft anymore. No one cares about being a good fucking engineer and reading the goddamn documentation and just figuring shit out on their own, with their own fucking brain.
By the way, no actual evidence exists of this supposed productivity boost people claim, whereas we have a number of studies demonstrating the problems with LLMs, like MIT’s study on its effects on human cognition, or this study from the ACM showing how LLMs are a force multiplier for misinformation and deception. In fact, not only do we not have any real evidence that it boosts productivity, we have evidence of the opposite: this recent METR study found that AI usage increased completion time by 19% for experienced engineers working on large, mature, open-source codebases.
- Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 9 months ago:
Ah yes, “just use it correctly”. All these programmers convinced that they are one of the chosen few that “get it” and can somehow magically make it not a damaging, colossal waste of time.
“Inspiration”, yeah, in the same way we can draw “inspiration” from a monkey throwing shit at a wall.
- Comment on Anon is a movie critic 9 months ago:
Also, you know, he’s the son of the most powerful force wielder in the universe. Tends to help with piloting a bit.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 9 months ago:
It’s not talking about a doctorate, it’s talking about actually taking education (of all levels) seriously because education is the primary means by which a populace becomes in innoculated against mis/disinformation.
- Comment on Phineas explains nuclear power (and how fear mongering ruined it) 10 months ago:
It is very safe.
- Chernobyl: was being used to create weapons-grade nuclear material (read: requires enrichment far, far beyond what’s needed for power generation), and the USSR had been shown to have cut many corners in its construction and ignored basically every safety measure imaginable. It didn’t even have a containment unit like every other reactor design (which is, you know, the exact thing that’s designed to prevent leaking radioactive material into the environment). It is not comparable to any other nuclear power plant and is completely irrelevant when discussing the safety of modern power generation from nuclear power plants.
- Three Mile Island was successfully contained (no significant radiation was leaked into the environment), and significant changes were introduced to prevent such a thing from happening again (and, nothing like it has ever happened since). It is the most frequently misunderstood nuclear accident, because it had no actual impact on the surrounding population in terms of radiological exposure.
- Fukushima, similarly to Three Mile Island, was successfully contained and did not result in radiological exposure of the surrounding population.
The fact is that nuclear power generation is incredibly safe and has an incredible track record through decades of use. It is far, far safer for populations than fossil fuels (which are known to emit much, much more radiation into the atmosphere and cause a lot of cancer), and is much more capable for baseload electricity generation than wind, solar, etc.
- Comment on My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card 10 months ago:
High-Yield Savings Accounts are something distinct from normal savings accounts. I don’t believe there are any HYSAs being offered that have rates as low as 1%.
You can find many institutions online offering HYSAs. It is definitely pretty common. In personal finance circles it’s very often recommended to put your emergency fund in a HYSA.
And yes, as you noted, HYSAs have different rules than normal savings accounts. Just like how CDs do.
- Comment on My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card 10 months ago:
It’s a common financial instrument. You can find many providers online.
You get a much better interest rate than a typical savings account (I think current rates are around 4% or so), but you are typically limited in the number of withdrawals you can make per month. Banks offer better interest rates because the cash is less volatile and sits in the account longer. They are good for cash you want to park somewhere for a while but that you still need quick, infrequent access to, like emergency funds. Credit card payments are also a fine use for it, though I’d say the benefit is pretty minimal unless you consistently maintain a balance greater than the credit card payment.
- Comment on O no 10 months ago:
It’s just a different kind of difficulty, and of course not all jobs are created equal. But ultimately this rhetoric is the kind of thing the capitalists want. They want to pit “lower class” against “upper class”, when in reality, these distinctions are entirely irrelevant and it’s actually “the billionaire oligarchy squeezing every last drop out of the rest of us”. If you work for a living, you are “low class”.
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 11 months ago:
Yes, it is unfortunate that this functionality is not built-in to HTML/browsers to begin with. The library is effectively a patch for the deficiencies of the original spec. Hopefully it can one day be integrated into HTML proper.
Until then, HTMX can still be used by browsers that block third party scripts, which is where a lot of the nasty stuff comes from anyway. And JS can be whitelisted on certain sites that are known to use it responsibly.
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 11 months ago:
htmx.org solves the problem of full page loads. Yes, it’s a JavaScript library, but it’s a tiny JS library (14k over the wire) that is easily cached. And in most cases, it’s the only JavaScript you need. The vast majority of content can be rendered server side.
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 11 months ago:
The makeup of universities these days isn’t that far off from that in general.
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 11 months ago:
Also some kind of ventilation.
And the painting would get fucked up pretty quickly in general.
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 11 months ago:
I’m also in my 30s. I’ve been to a bunch of “girly” concerts with my wife and have had a great time at all of them.
It’s much easier to enjoy life when you let go of notions of what you should or should not be enjoying. Music doesn’t need to be gendered. You can just enjoy it for what it is.
In fact, I’d extend the idea to countless other facets of life: there’s so much pointless gendering in society that does a huge disservice to everyone, men included. I’ll give you a dumb example: I used to hold the notion in my younger years that if I were given a purse to hold, that I had to hold the purse in such a way to telegraph that it wasn’t actually my purse. Like grasp it like some kind of ape man or something. Like… What is the fucking point in that? It’s so goddamn dumb and childish. Now I often take turns holding my wife’s purse (it can be a bit heavy because it also doubles as a diaper bag for our toddler) and don’t give a single fuck about doing so.
I can give you countless other examples where I was raised with incredibly damaging ideas ultimately stemming from toxic masculinity that I have painstakingly excised from my psyche.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 11 months ago:
If that were true, then why did Reddit respond to the mass deletions (that’s what people did at first, not edits) by undeleting the comments?
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 11 months ago:
Um yeah, definitely. My TV has never had Internet connectivity, not should it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I assume you’re young?
Big streamers can make okay money, but to be honest it’s not really something to aspire to generally speaking. It’s not nearly as glamorous as it sounds. When you spend all of your time doing something that’s supposed to be relaxing/fun as a job and you can’t even necessarily do what you want anyway, it’s not really fun anymore. And beyond that, only a very small portion of people that attempt it actually make money from it and it’s much more about how you can manipulate social media platforms than it is anything about gaming.
- Comment on Thoughts?? 1 year ago:
Blows Excel out of the water, and it’s not even close. And it’s free, open source, and completely extensible (with Python, not some godforsaken excuse for a programming language).
- Comment on Anon hates reddit 1 year ago:
Given that, according to your comment history, that you think “homosexuality is morally wrong”, I don’t think you’re going to find much sympathy here. On the whole, Lemmy has little patience for regressive ideology.