Zos_Kia
@Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on Anon goes to the doctor 1 week ago:
Be me
SPQR-fag enjoying the steam at the bathhouse
Romanon comes in, agitated and talking to himself
claims he is shooting the shit with Plato
tfw Plato’s been dead for centuries
someone’s feeling the effects of lead poisoning extra hard today
Delenda est Carthago
- Comment on Oh fuck no 1 month ago:
I don’t remember people being offended by the word fuck in 2000. Sure on TV it could be considered dicey but on the internet it was pretty fair game
- Comment on What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever? 2 months ago:
Yeah it certainly depends on the teacher. If you’re into that kind of history, Pacome from Blast made a gigantic episode about this in his “L’empire n’a jamais pris fin” series. One of the best youtube essays i’ve ever seen in French.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 - Official Teaser Trailer 2 months ago:
I had the same feeling with planet crafter. After a while you learn to run around with just enough materials to build a room and a door and bam, the whole oxygen management mechanic is neutralized.
- Comment on What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever? 2 months ago:
where was that ? My hometown is like 20km from a city that was entirely burned down and had its population eradicated during the first Albigense crusade - i swear to God it was never mentioned to me. My parents hadn’t ever heard of it either.
- Comment on What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever? 2 months ago:
From reading your post it seems like you could be interested by the Jesus movement (that is the jewish followers of Jesus, before catholicism was codified and adopted by the Romans as state religion). Everything that wasn’t authoritarian fear-based catholic was branded as “gnostic heresy” and purged from the canon, but there’s some real good shit that is very close to the core message of Christ.
A recent(-ish) example of gnostic christianity is catharism, which was a heresy that lasted for a few centuries in the South of France. They had no clergy, just a caste of ascetic wise men and women who would walk the land and dispense wisdom and judgement. Very egalitarian, very spiritual, very christ-like. As you can imagine, they got crushed in one of the rare “self-crusades” in history (meaning the King of France sent his own armies to burn down cities in his own country and murder thousands upon thousands of his own subjects). As you can imagine there is not one history teacher in France who will tell you about this episode.
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 2 months ago:
dear diary today on Lemmy i saw a guy who was angry at a job title
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 2 months ago:
I’m not sure what you mean. Integrating LLMs in a codebase requires the use of specific tools. Sure it’s not as established and wide ranging as “frontend” but it’s still something that you need to learn and work on if you want to do it well. Kind of like, you know, a skill.
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 2 months ago:
yeah and we all know there is only the one type of software engineer. It would be ridiculous to separate them into categories depending on whether they work on frontend, backend, embedded lmao
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 2 months ago:
I … I don’t know man !
I think some time around the year 10000 humanity solved most of their problem and the only remaining scarcity was “good living”. Like, cultures that had a sophisticated way of enjoying life through good food, good drink and good companionship suddenly came at a high premium. The people from SW France became insanely wealthy very quick, and a sort of federation was struck between the Gascony people, the Basque and the Brittons. It was really the only possible counter-power to the more colonialist and military minded Italians.
Boar religion could be described as Albigensian catharism, except in space. Their freedom-loving ways are despised by the Italian catholic church but the galaxy is so vast that religion wars never really break out, it’s just local skirmishes.
I haven’t yet determined what animal the italians have morphed into, really glad to hear any suggestion.
Oh and here’s a picture of the Assembly of the Perfecti, held annually at Baiona Station :
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 2 months ago:
I think they have adapted to life in hard vacuum they just wear those helmet cause they look pretty
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 2 months ago:
Since Gen art became a thing i’ve been using it episodically to create images of a civilization of space-faring boars, representing the future of my glorious South-Western France civilization. They raise ducks and grow wine in space, and the lore is getting a lot deeper than i first thought. It’s so fucking fun man.
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 2 months ago:
If there’s one thing artists don’t do, it’s try and build a picket fence around Art to separate it from Not Art. Duchamp was 100 years ago i think the point that “Art can be anything and everything” has been abundantly made during the 20th century.
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 2 months ago:
Remember when corporations tried to claim that money you didn’t spend on their product was theft ? This way of thinking has been recycled by the anti-AI bros.
Turns out all the money you don’t spend on struggling artists is not only theft, but also class warfare. You stinking bougie you.
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 2 months ago:
Except it’s not used as a job title to describe people prompting Midjourney lol. A prompt engineer is a software engineer who specifically deals with LLM workflows.
- Comment on Name generator 2 months ago:
Ok that one is hilarious
- Comment on Sid Meier's Pirates, and everyone else in the game, are aware of the date... 2 months ago:
Same. I remember playing the original on an Amstrad in the 90s and it was already mind blowing. I was so happy they remade it, and even happier that they barely changed anything about it.
- Comment on louder for those in the back 2 months ago:
Le ai Bad amirite guize
- Comment on Out of curiosity if a woman is in control of her own body. If the SCOTUS did not reverse Roe than why can't a woman in control become a prostitue? 3 months ago:
Why can’t a woman take illegal drugs? Control of your own body is a philosophical concept not a legal one.
- Comment on AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products 3 months ago:
At least acc. to TechSpot, the negative sentiment is general. It’s just more pronounced for some products (high risk and/or price) than others.
That’s not what the study says. I’m no AI-hater but I would sure stay away from an AI car or medical diagnosis. Those products make absolutely no sense.
So even where plopping a LLM or similar would make sense, there’ll be likely strong market resistance.
I work tangentially to the industry (not making models, not making apps based on models, but making tools to help people who do) and that is not what i observed. Just like in every market, products that make sense make fucking bank. It’s mostly boring B2B stuff which doesn’t make headlines but there is some money being made right now, with some very satisfied customers.
The “market resistance” story is anecdotal clickbait.
- Comment on AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products 3 months ago:
Eh that one study was mostly about stupid products like “AI coffee machine” or “AI fridge”. AI products that make sense sell pretty well.
- Comment on Welcome to 'The Great Detachment': Workers are checked out—and so are their bosses 4 months ago:
I’m feeling the same right now. My bosses managed to raise a million bucks for spurious reasons during last year’s AI hype and they’re grossly unqualified to run a company. I’m pretty sure they regret putting themselves in that position.
As a result, the company sees attrition levels which are ridiculous for an early stage startup, especially considering that they pay pretty well. But I can’t afford any down time so I have to stay there until a better opportunity presents itself. It sucks but yeah the learning is incredible.
- Comment on Peer review 4 months ago:
LGTM ⛴️
- Comment on Nope 4 months ago:
Jesus Christ man 😂 you’re looking for a moral angle but there is no moral angle here. A business has the right to design their transactions however they want, even if that design explicitly excludes people like you.
Some people are easy-going, they are more prone to trust, they want to test a product they don’t write an essay about it about it they just put their CC info in, try the thing, and cancel the sub if it’s not for them. If they forget to cancel i refund their money cause i need a happy customer more than i need 20 bucks. You don’t need to call them rubes just because they’re invited to the party and you’re not.
- Comment on Nope 4 months ago:
Hey man I’m not saying you’re wrong, but you’re touching on another important thing which is trust. On average, high trust people are just easier to manage, especially when you’re a small outfit. It’s better for everyone if low trust users bounce away because of the cc wall. They’ll come back once the product has some brand recognition or social proof.
- Comment on Nope 4 months ago:
Again, it’s a filter. You give me card details, that means you seriously want the product and also that you trust me. If i treat you right and give you a great experience you’ll be subscribed for years, purchasing add-ons, and recommending me to your friends. That’s much more valuable for me than skimming 20 bucks a month because you forgot to unsub.
When it’s a big corpo sure they’ll do it cause they don’t give a shit about their customers or even their reputation. I’m honestly not saying it doesn’t happen. But when it’s a no-name with a small online product they can’t afford that shit. If they put a credit card wall it’s most likely because they were getting too many people on the free trial, and were having a hard time telling actual future customers from drive-bys. This solves that.
- Comment on Nope 4 months ago:
lmao what a nuanced point of view, you seem to have vast personal experience of this kind of things
- Comment on Nope 4 months ago:
Or maybe they should keep their free trial and just filter out randos with a credit card wall. It’s a simple and cheap way to keep your user base high value. And as attested by the OP’s meme, it just works!
- Comment on Nope 4 months ago:
Yes, it’s a classic.
Pre-market fit it makes sense to be 100% free, as you want to gauge whether your product is attractive to people.
Post-market fit you already know the product has traction, so now you want to gauge whether it is attractive enough for people to pay for it.
- Comment on Nope 4 months ago:
Having worked at a bunch of SaaS products, it’s actually not that shady (at least in those cases i’ve seen). Free users are low value but they can cost a ton in support and commercial effort. Asking for a credit card upfront is just a simple way to filter for people who actually intend to buy the product.
OP’s reaction is not a bug, it’s the feature.
