wpb
@wpb@lemmy.world
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 3 days ago:
I had a hard enough time accepting it* for myself, and I can’t expect a stranger on the internet to do so quicker than I did. I hope that some day you can reflect back on this conversation and realize you’re being a bit of a dick about this.
- “It” meaning the inability to shape my social life the way “normal” people do it, and simultaneously live a happy and healthy life
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 4 days ago:
Ah my bad, I thought you were complaining about people not wanting to engage in small talk, and I thought you were suggesting that people should just suck it up and talk about the weather even if they don’t want to. I’m a bad communicator, and I sometimes misread stuff like that.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 4 days ago:
It’s great that it worked out for you, and I’m happy for you, but we don’t need to force everyone to fit the same mould.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 4 days ago:
You’re probably joking, but know that there’s a subset of us that gets pathologically anxious and confused by small talk. Autistic people for example. Different folks, different strokes. Not everyone deals well with talking about the weather, and that’s ok. There’s billions who do deal well with it, and that’s ok too! Be a mensch and talk to them instead.
- Comment on The 5 stages of Charles Manson 5 days ago:
Top right Ricky Gervais.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 5 days ago:
“Such weather we’re having huh?”
Truly peak romance
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 1 week ago:
People who deny genocides (either the current ongoing one in Palestine as committed by Israel, or the one carried out by the Germans in WWII) are the lowest of the low. Absolute scum. To see people make excuses for atrocities as the Nakba, Sabra and Shatila, and the Holocaust in real time, as one is happening has been the most disturbing development of our age.
I don’t think downloading things illegally is OK, and I also don’t think spending money on genocide deniers like Irving is ethical. I also don’t think reading Irving will help you in any way, because genocide deniers are pretty much all the same. If you still wish to see genocide denial and defense of people who say stuff like “Erase them, their families, mothers and children. These animals can no longer live”, and the denial of that which is obvious, you’ll find plenty of it available for free in modern day conservative shitrags talking about the ethnic cleansing Israel has been carrying out for 77 years.
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 1 week ago:
I try, every now and then, and I’m fairly consistently disappointed. Every time I end up finding out that the output is wrong. Not in the sense of aesthetics or best practices, but truly incorrect in the sense that it either doesn’t work or that it’s a falsehood. And there’s two explanations for this that I can think of.
The first is that I’m using them wrong. And this seems likely, because some people I respect swear by them, and I’m an idiot. Instead of asking “how does mongoDB store time series data” or “write a small health check endpoint using Starlette” maybe there’s some magic invocationsor wording that I should be using which will result in correct answers. Or maybe I’m expecting the wrong things from LLMs, and these are not suitable usecases.
The other possibility is that my prompts are right, and I’m expected to correct the LLM when it’s wrong. But this of course assumes that I already know the answer, or that I’m at least well-versed enough to spot issues. But then all LLMs automate away is typing, and that’s not my bottleneck (if it were, what a boring job I would have).
I think a key thing I’m doing wrong is occasionally forgetting that this is ultimately fancy autocomplete and not a source of actual knowledge and information. There’s a big difference between answers and sequences of words that look like answers, but my monkey brain has a hard time distinguishing between the two. There’s an enormous, truly gigantic, insurmountable, difference between
“Ah yeah we’ve used terraform in production for 5 years, best way to go is really not putting your state file under version control for …”
and
“Sure! When using terraform it is generally considered a bad practice to put your state in version control for these reasons <bunch of bullet points and bold words>”
But I’m only human, and it’s really easy to trick me into forgetting this.
- Comment on Don't ask for more pixels 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s better to avoid the axiom of choice in discussions about sexuality, as it seems to upset the conservatives.
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 1 month ago:
This smug denialism is what got us Trump the first time around and it’s what got us Trump the second time as well. At least the guy acknowledges there’s a problem (even though his solutions are designed to make it worse). The Dems piss on your leg and tell you it’s raining. They dropped the ball by trying to play diet republican, and losing the election is on them.
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 1 month ago:
And that’s how you recognize a Russian election interfetterance bot, because it’s categorically false. The genocide Drumpf is carrying out is millions times worse and very different from the special military operation in Palestine that the Biden administration really had nothing to do with if you think about it.
- Comment on Just kill one guy 5 months ago:
Franz Ferdinand was not the cause of WWI. WWI was caused by numerous geopolitical, economic, and societal conditions that all drove us towards it. Can I tell you what those conditions were? No, because I’m an uneducated idiot who knows next to nothing about history. But at least I’m not dumb enough to believe that killing one guy led to the killing of 40 million others.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 6 months ago:
Oh my goodness you are in for a treat! Pourover coffee is in my opinion the best way to prepare a cup. Get yourself a v60, and the paper filters that go with it, watch a James Hoffman video on proper v60 technique, and enjoy.
- Comment on Anon is jealous 6 months ago:
There’s nothing to abandon the alt right for. If the democrats decided to run on a platform that was even remotely progressive, do literally anything for worker’s rights, they’d win a lot of disenfranchised voters. Obama won, and that’s not because all of a sudden, just for a moment, America wasn’t racist. No, it was because he promised to solve one of the problems that’s killing Americans in every stratum: healthcare. Instead, we get fracker and border wall builder Harris.
- Comment on I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet ...well maybe not that surprised 6 months ago:
Oh won’t someone please think of the poor nazis?
Liberals and fascists, name a more iconic duo
- Comment on Anon is jealous 6 months ago:
Pretty based take for a reactionary shithole