luciferofastora
@luciferofastora@feddit.org
- Comment on 3-bean soup 2 days ago:
I didn’t get along with soy milk either, but oat milk is my jam
- Comment on Please no, just stop 3 days ago:
Well, to be a little charitable, sometimes it’s text with numbers in it. I just need to figure out how best to extract the numbers from unstructured text, which is mostly tedious to validate.
Other times it’s text where there are supposed to be numbers, like the dates on invoices, which leads to really funny mixups when we look at the revenue per supplier and someone asks “Hey, we didn’t bring this supplier on until 2019, why are there revenues for 2012?” And the answer is “Because your invoice date is a manually entered text field and if you’re a quick typer, 2021 and 2012 are really close together.”
And then some times it’s questions like “How many customer service tickets do we get about X”. If X is a specific product name, odds are a simple full text search for the term gets most of them. If X is a general thing like “Office supplies” it becomes a nightmare really quickly.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 3 days ago:
Give it a shot. Asking, I mean. Don’t actually drink any concoction an AI brews up. The rate we’re going, it’ll come up with some combination of ingredients that’ll react, turn into a strong acid and physically change you into a chemical burns patient.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 3 days ago:
A Data Analyst’s reading of your comment:
I am misusing Google Sheets to plan my character builds in Final Fantasy Tactics
Oh?
I have entered all the information in the sheet by hand
Uh-huh
and it is mostly text
Eww
This information cannot be put into a graph of any kind.
Phew
People asking me to turn text into graphs are the bane of my life. Well, one of many banes, really.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 3 days ago:
Sorry, reality has outshitted your posting
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 4 days ago:
I’m happy to jump on the MS hate train, but yeah, this doesn’t read like a genuine email. I’m pretty sure last time I had to deal with their support, I gave myself a black eye facepalming too hard at some “We hope that this could help” default phrase at the end of a mail telling me they couldn’t. If nothing else, they’ve got their corporate-brand professional politeness on point.
- Comment on Pow-- 4 days ago:
I think the nuance is that Nazis ought to be acknowledged as being people, but not afforded any of the respects and graces the Nazis themselves deny others.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 6 days ago:
So it’s not hard to see how this new definition came about but it is, still, sort of just plucking the word and modifying it to a very different context
I think the difficulty here is the assertion that this “unc” stems from black slang rather than a parallel evolution. After “bro” and “cuz” made it into wider adoption, the pattern of taking the first syllable or so off a term for a relative is familiar.
Unrelatedly, the image of the weird uncle spouting bullshit is a cultural meme in at least those parts of the (presumably mostly white) Internet I’ve been exposed to. The subjectively most common forms I see are holiday season complaints about uncles being racist or conspiracy nuts.
That is a very different image of uncles. Combining it with the aforementioned pattern of taking the first syllable to refer to people of a vaguely similar persuasion will lead to a derogatory meaning of “unc” that may well have developed entirely independently of the more respectful sense you mention.
Hence, I’m inclined to believe it’s more of an unfortunate coincidence than a corruption of an originally benevolent term. Either way, it’s unfortunate to have an otherwise positive term associated with something negative, whether by accident or by ignorant misuse.
more community-destructing than community-building
In some sense, that destruction of community may precede the term. If my reasoning above is correct, the term refers to a type of person one would rather not share a community with.
Also, thanks for asking, rather than downvoting; it’s (obviously) not everything but there’s a non-negligible segment of Lemmy that just seems to have an emotional tantrum every time race comes up.
There’s an odd discussion space around the topic, where even the way you treat it becomes a discussion of its own that I don’t wanna get into right now.
However, one part of it may be that people afford the meaning of words different weights. You comment on how slang becomes trivialised, turning into buzzwords rather than proper language. I’d counter that this seems to be a feature of mainstream communication in general: Words (with some exceptions) are treated more lightly, and as we trust the other to catch the intent of our statement, we also throw them with less care.
That doesn’t mean a word I throw lightly also becomes weightless to others, and I suspect that’s where part of the conflict stems from: When you say “this was taken from black culture”, that feels like an accusation of appropriation and racism. If I adopt a word without any intent of disrespect and then get (or feel) accused of saying something racist, I get defensive because that wasn’t my intent. But the way I said it might still have hurt others, and the fact that I said it carelessly is no help.
I think I first saw that disconnect in the discussion around the N-word: To many white people (including myself), it doesn’t have much weight anymore. We don’t hold the contempt that it used to be an expression of. However, to many black people voicing their thoughts online, it seems to still have the sting of centuries of oppression and disparagement. They don’t – can’t? – separate the intent from the vessel that carried it.
The switch of perspectives isn’t intuitive. But it’s worth learning.
I’m curious to learn and to hear the experiences of others. Whatever thoughts I may have are coloured by my own biases, my upbringing, the social environment I live in. I’d rather ask, converse and risk offending out of ignorance than to assume I know the answer and probably end up offending out of negligence.
Avoiding conflict also avoids the lessons we can learn from it. If we take care to avoid lasting harm, we can “play” conflict and learn to avoid actual conflict in the future.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 week ago:
How so?
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 week ago:
I feel like there is always some level of condescension when talking about other generations of slang and I wonder why. There’s a smack of snark to the redundant duplicated repetition of “hot hip fan-didly-tastic” and “sleek Gen-Z packaging”, and “cringe” is obviously derogatory. Can’t we casually accept that “the new slang is” what it is, and set an example for the younger ones in turn?
Couldn’t contemporary colloquialisms coexist comfortably?
- Comment on I am always prepared to move into this version of life 1 week ago:
No, they don’t.
Microsoft wars on the other hand…
That is also a joke. Don’t base your identity on brands, technologies or corporations; not even on hating them. Base it on values and moral convictions, then judge the rest by them.
- Comment on When the nice guy 1 week ago:
hey, what type of guy are you?
I’ve never been asked that question without some context like food or music. I don’t know why anyone would ask that in a sense of “are you a nice guy or an asshole?” There’s just no way to be sure you’re getting a useful answer: many people think of themselves as nice, some have self-esteem issues and put themselves down instead and very few are actually genuine assholes and unashamed to admit as much.
So if someone were to ask me that without context? I’d respond “what do you mean?”
- Comment on Manic Stew 1 week ago:
I was trying to make a joke of my own, juxtaposing my own use of “being autistic” with the prior assertion that “autistic” isn’t a symptom. I suppose it didn’t land. Sorry about that.
- Comment on Got 'em 1 week ago:
Some ancient Greek nerd calculating the earth’s circumference by measuring shadows: Am I a joke to you?
- Comment on Manic Stew 1 week ago:
Delusion + whatever you ate
- Comment on Manic Stew 1 week ago:
That’s a neurological condition, not a symptom, or am I being needlessly autistic about exact semantics?
- Comment on i hunger 2 weeks ago:
For anyone not familiar, they’re referring to !ich_iel@feddit.de, which originally (and literally translated) is the German version of me_irl, but I have no idea what me_irl is like these days, so no clue if it’s still a good equivalence.
- Comment on Bats taxonomy 2 weeks ago:
Nah, see, they’re native to southern Siberia. That’s why people don’t find them: you’d never know to look for wombats in Siberia.
- Comment on some days i cant even 2 weeks ago:
My grandpa apparently went to war with the municipal council over his unmown meadow. Had a decent piece of land with wild flowers and grasses and all that. The story was told to me second-hand about 15 years ago and is at least 30-40 years old, but if I got it right, he mowed that land once per year in fall.
The council wasn’t happy with that, because he was supposed to mowed it twice per year, once in spring. Grandpa refused to cut down the flowers in their bloom, both because of all the things living in and off that and because pretty. Stern letter, discussions in person, deadline was set and went by. All the while, the “unkempt” non-lawn grew.
Eventually council imposed a fine. Obviously, a fine is supposed to compel a change in behaviour, but they couldn’t set deadlines tight enough or the initial fine high enough to actually hurt him, so he just paid his “fuck your lawns” fee year by year.
I believe they gave up at some point, but I’m not sure whether that’s just wishful thinking. In any case, that meadow was still growing wild and free when I was old enough to assist in the yearly mowing, long after his death.
Obviously, we can’t all afford to stick it to the local bean counters that stubbornly, but it’s nice to dream sometimes.
- Comment on Anon is a movie critic 3 weeks ago:
tbh I like your take too ;-)
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 3 weeks ago:
Samsung’s pre-installed photo apps do that by default, I believe, unless you spot it and go digging where to turn it off (which seems do differ between some models, if I recall correctly)
- Comment on Anon is a movie critic 3 weeks ago:
I think they just ended the quote too early while still relaying indirect speech
- Comment on Drake's lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar diss track Not Like Us is dismissed 3 weeks ago:
On the track Taylor Made Freestyle, Drake used the AI-generated voice of Tupac Shakur to give Lamar advice on how to win the rap battle.
“Talk about him likin’ young girls, that’s a gift from me,” the song suggested.
“It is in this context in which such lyrics as 'Say, Drake, I hear you like ‘em young’ must be assessed,” wrote Judge Vargas.
Bruh. Drake literally publishes a song going “what you gonna do, hit me?” and then cries foul when he does, in fact get hit
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 3 weeks ago:
Well, there’s a free bonus in the fact that unhealthy people also require more healthcare. Probably not intended, but you’d have hard time convincing me that it’s an unwelcome side effect.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 3 weeks ago:
It’s fine, that’s just writing in first person perspective as rhetorical device.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 3 weeks ago:
Maybe they did. Once. Long ago. Because the tester was even less fit and the only criterion was if a bunch of 17-year-olds could outrun a 60-something with a 40 years of military-sponsored junk food headstart and was half out of breath just shouting “ready – set – huff Go!”
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 5 weeks ago:
Does she always hold her breath and listen?
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 5 weeks ago:
Þere’s a user around hat always writes like þis, substituting all “th” digraphs with the archaic letter Þ/þ (þhorn) or Ð/ð (eð). Þey were adapted and used interchangeably in Old English in place of “th”, before eventually being replaced by þe digraph again.
Þe user in question found it entertaining to use þem once more. Some people find it extremely annoying and tedious to read.
If you need it in modern English characters, tap here
There’s a user around that always writes like this, substituting all “th” digraphs with the archaic letter Þ/þ (thorn) or Ð/ð (eth). They were adapted and used interchangeably in Old English in place of “th”, before eventually being replaced by þe digraph again. The user in question found it entertaining to use them once more. Some people find it extremely annoying and tedious to read.
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 5 weeks ago:
Xenomorph
- Comment on Know Thy Enemy! 5 weeks ago:
Strategy vs. Operations
He was good at the latter, as far as I understand, but a General needs to coordinate multiple operations to support and build off of each other.