LePoisson
@LePoisson@lemmy.world
- Comment on So are they like extinct or something? 20 hours ago:
That’s actually amazing I love that just a diamond with a line in the middle is shorthand for vagina, it’s so universal too I bet if you showed that to any human they’d eventually guess the meaning.
- Comment on So are they like extinct or something? 20 hours ago:
You weren’t kidding they even got the cervix lol
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 1 day ago:
If you’re terminally online, which, as a Lemmy user I’d say is a good chance, your exposure to English is going to naturally be a lot more too.
Like, I wish I could speak with you in Dutch or French but other than parler un petit peu francais my language skills are firmly grounded in English and that’s about it. At least it seems to be the language of the internet, so that’s something.
Thanks for the correction, it’s a good thing that not everyone is afraid of correcting others
Normally I wouldn’t even call it out but it seemed like something you might care about since you pointed the punctuation out. I’m glad you took it positively!
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 1 day ago:
“subcontractors” (between brackets because the subcontractors don’t operate independent at all),
Not to be that guy but those are quotes, not brackets.
You’re right the system is so fucked. I hope it gets better in the USA, our labor practices are exploitative and basically you have to find a good company to work for then you feel stuck because you don’t want to leave for what may be a worse situation. Our healthcare and vacation time and retirement funding are all controlled by our employer (for most people) so that’s just one more thing they hold us hostage with.
Your English is really good, if you didn’t say you were from Belgium I’d say you were a native speaker. Well, I guess your education system doesn’t suck when it comes to language and you learn English early on so maybe you basically are a native speaker (or expat).
- Comment on Fuckin CEO's and billionaires gotta go 2 days ago:
They’re talking about the actual capitalist borgeousie though … They can go. Rich people been fucking the rest of us since forever and it’s some bullshit.
Like, if you’re working a job to earn money you’re by definition not a capitalist. It’s not about killing a ton of people but these lecherous monsters who steal our value and give us a fraction and say “you’re welcome for being exploited” have got to go.
- Comment on Anon likes cooking 2 weeks ago:
That’s because it’d be redundant. /S just in case you think I’m actually mysoginistic trash
- Comment on Anon likes cooking 2 weeks ago:
Anon could be a girl, I don’t think they specified their gender. I mean, if this wasn’t fake and gay, it would be weird for a small girl to get a giant man as a roommate anyways but y’know could happen.
- Comment on big thing funny 2 weeks ago:
Wow I genuinely had no idea there were that many kinds of those little bag clippy thingies. Or that people would take the time to be that invested in a joke. Maybe it’s not a joke for someone idk but it seems like one to me.
- Comment on The line cook quietly handed me this 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that’s only specific states or locales in the USA with liability laws for over serving. But also good luck to the prosecution proving a single bartender or establishment was the reason a person was overly intoxicated. In my non lawyer opinion a simple defense of “idk if she drank more before or after showing up or was on any drugs” would probably be more than enough to give reasonable doubt. But IANAL so maybe I’m off base.
I’ve never actually heard of a case of that being prosecuted in Ohio (where I live and we have laws about overserving customers). I’m sure if I look it up I could find something but it just seems like the sort of thing an AG would have difficulty getting charges to stick.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Wow that does sound like a borderline purposeful booby trap of a design. Stay safe!
Legitimately sounds scary especially if you’re fucked up - drunk me would be terrified lol
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If you constantly are pondering how your stairs have yet to kill you, perhaps it’s time to do something different with the stairs? Like I know way easier said than done but even something like changing the railing or what they’re covered in might be useful.
Wouldn’t want your last moments to be you wondering why you didn’t listen to yourself.
- Comment on They really hate artists 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t call myself a vibe coder (or a coder at all I’m pretty rusty and wasn’t killer to start) but I’ve used some Gemini and copilot to help with some VBA scripting. You just gotta walk it in and keep on iterating and telling it what was messed up and give it the error.
It usually will get close or even right eventually but also I ended up just bring up some official documentation to sort some things out because the LLM believed its own bullshit so hard I couldn’t get it to stop hallucinating syntax even when I told it over and over it was wrong.
Which is hard to tell at first glance when it looks right but it is just slightly off or maybe it’s trying to use a non existent “built in” function. I definitely learned some valuable lessons about AI in those small exercises though.
I would say that like anything else it’s a tool, and honestly LLM for writing some boilerplate code or getting something down that’s close (or even pseudo code) is useful. Would never ever trust it on its own and it may not even speed up your workflow but it can be helpful if you’re unsure what to do or how to approach something.
What you can never do is trust the output from the start. You can never just hand your brain off to the machine because it doesn’t actually know anything. I do wonder if the “efficiency” gain is even actually happening or if that’s mostly just a collective delusion fueled by the corpo overlords. At any rate anyone doing actual vibe coding isn’t going to get shit done because the code simply won’t work or will break in fun unexpected and unknown ways.
- Comment on They really hate artists 3 weeks ago:
For sure this AI bubble is extra fucky wucky. Like, I wish I had the capital (I’m a proletariat sooo I don’t) to burn on shorting some of these companies. Not that I really know how to do it properly and it’s volatile and unless you wanna end up owing lots of money you can’t cover you have to start with a lot since you’re making very hard to foresee bets and some will not pan out.
Like, at some point this bubble will explode, nothing is really propping it up. There’s not enough actual demand, the artificial demand there is won’t stay forever and even the small amount of real demand isn’t going to be there when companies start paying the actual cost for these services instead of it being subsidized. Almost all the money being poured into this “AI” (ie: the fancied up LLMs who’s capabilities the tech bros keep on lying about) is going in a circle - it’s actually madness.
It’s absolutely a house of cards, but betting on a collective realization that’s going to implode a big part of our economy is hard because people desperately want to believe the illusion. Sooner or later reality will come knocking and the harsh truth will come to be.
I do think it’s going to make 2008 look like a joke but I guess we’re going to have to crash the stock market like it’s 1929 before our government decides to (once again) reign in Wall Street and this bullshit. It’s like we all lost our collective minds or something, as if there wasn’t a reason for the glass-steagull act to exist. Hell look at what’s happening with our food supply as we’ve been getting the FDA and USDA and EPA inspectors and relaxing regulations and constantly looking the other way when these big agri businesses literally shit up our food.
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 3 weeks ago:
You don’t remember, at some point we decided to go from “nothing in the internet is real” as the starting point to “everything on the Internet is real” as the starting point.
Now if you see something and it feels right that means it must be because you started off from it being real. /S <- I shouldn’t need this
- Comment on "Don't unionize, just get a better job." When you unionize, you ARE getting a better job. 4 weeks ago:
Damn everyone I’ve ever met that’s been in a union has said it’s way better than non union work.
Like to the point where they try their damndest to get another union gig if they need to get a new job. Although most of the folks I know in unions usually stay with the company for a long time or until they retire.
Of course they can be bad but anecdotally I’ve had way more people praise unions than say they’d rather not be in one. At least from the folks that have been in a unionized job.
- Comment on Something we can all agree on 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 1 month ago:
That sucks. I feel like a lot of stuff is easier and just better without even dealing with a PM - good ones can be worth their weight in gold though if you’re dealing with multiple folks on a project and they do their job right.
Unfortunately, that’s very rare.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 1 month ago:
I can’t install unapproved software on my work laptop, probably like most others hence I ain’t messing with that.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 1 month ago:
If I schedule a meeting and someone doesn’t accept that invite I just assume they’re not showing up and act accordingly. Might send them a ping a few minutes before hand but if they’re a stakeholder and needed for the meeting and choose to ignore the invite(s)/email … That meeting gonna get cancelled or rescheduled.
Not that that very often happens but I’d just start bothering said guy about it with pings or email follow ups until they get the picture. Or just cancel the meeting(s) if no response 24 hours before scheduled. Something like that.
Not even to be petty or annoying just because they should be accepting or declining for the simple fact that everyone else has schedules to keep too. Obviously this advice may be bad or not applicable but yeah that sucks.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 1 month ago:
As someone working for a consulting firm … Yeah … Checks out.
I mean I’m not seeing that money but also it’s wild to me what companies are willing to spend money on toss into a fire.
Really goes to show how this shit is all made up.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 1 month ago:
Hmm, I just open notepad and use a stack of coins or something similar to hold down a key to stay active if I need to.
It’s stupid we even have to care about our status on teams. Why should anyone give a fuck about your teams status as long as you’re getting to your work done properly and on time?
Although to be fair right now I’m using a client laptop so my employer basically sees me as offline all the time but I’m reachable by teams or email on my phone.
Anyways it’s just dumb. Fun trick though, I didn’t know you could do that.
- Comment on Let it sink in. 2 months ago:
FYI anyone counting in binary on their hand(s) is decidedly not a normal human.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the mystery endures
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Dunno, it does look like work is being done on the elevator assuming the photo is real. Like the floor is bare and there’s padding material up all around.
Depending on how the boards those buttons connect to are wired this might have just been the best way to do it with less wiring but idk how that stuff actually works and I’m far from an electrical engineer.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 2 months ago:
Thanks for filling me in, I do think that makes sense. I know I got downvotes for thinking aloud but appreciate you answering.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 2 months ago:
Thanks for filling me in, I do think that makes sense. I know I got downvotes for thinking aloud but appreciate you answering.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 2 months ago:
I feel like maybe I need to read more about the whole “stop killing games” thing. It’s awesome and fine if they expect at some point the game will be able to be played through a free multiplayer tool that enables someone to host and pay for private games.
It’s quite another if they think companies should have to shell money out of pocket indefinitely to run infrastructure for multiplayer games after x years of release and/or once player base passes a certain threshold number.
I’m admitting my ignorance here but I do think it’s fair to at least question both sides some
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is being blackmailed? 2 months ago:
You would probably have to go back 100 years to find someone that is the head of state in a country that is a major player on the world stage to find someone that is as unfit for the job as Trump.
I don’t want to be that guy but I guarantee there’s some pretty unfit people who have recently left the UK and we got Putin in Russia right now.
I don’t think you have to go back in time at all.
- Comment on Femality is stored in the nipples 2 months ago:
Oh yeah I know they exist I just figured they’re more like underground and poorly regulated was what I was getting at.
That is a funny mission. CP2077 genuinely has some excellent writing.
