southsamurai

@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one who doesn’t have a ‘home’ choose their team?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, even after we got a team close enough to count as home, my choices have always been arbitrary . Mind you, I don’t really get into team sports, but it’s always fun to have a team for casual conversation.

  When I was a kid, it was the Jets, the Eagles, the Vikings or the Bengals, depending on the year and my mood. For us football, obviously. All based on their uniforms or logos. As an adult, it’s the Ravens. I just like their logo better.

  Celtics for basketball, just because I liked Larry Bird back in the day.

  Hockey, it’s the Rangers for no reason other than the name sticks in my head

  Football/soccer, it’s Arsenal. Because it’s easy to remember.

  Baseball, I tend to go with whatever Sox team pops in my head, or the Dodgers.

  Past that, I couldn’t name a team for other sports tbh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrong, no, absolutely not.

  Not giving a shit isn’t inherently wrong. Can’t be because nobody has enough inner resources to give a shit about everything. I don’t give a shit about large swathes of the human population by dint of my give-a-shitter being defective from the beginning and having worn down significantly over the years.

  Like, I don’t want bad to happen to anyone lest it be being hoist by their own petard. You know, fuck around and find out. I have enough shadenfreude in me to appreciate someone fucking their own shit up by being an asshole.

  But even “innocent” people getting wiped out by floods or whatever, I just don’t have the fucking spoons.

  So, even the best cop in the world, 1000% what a cop should be instead of what most of them are, it just ain’t a big deal. Soldiers, or any other job where there’s danger inherent to it as well. That actually goes for my fellow medical folks too tbh. There’s some things where the assumption of risk is there, and when the risk eventually happens, it sucks, but I lack the energy to be upset when there’s just so much fuckery in the world that people don’t agree to.

  Unless there’s malice involved in why you don’t give a shit, who cares? Hell, even if there is malice, as long as you don’t try to make it happen, who cares?

  Empathy is not an infinite well. How it gets spent is only partially voluntary. So if there’s some segment of the world that just isn’t on your concern list, it’s fine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you give the fae a false name which others would identify you as, can they still use that false name to control you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, as always, it depends on who’s telling the story.

  Generally, one’s “true name” is the same thing as they were named at birth, if you’re a real human in our world. There are exceptions though! And yes, one of those exceptions is trans people. However, in real world terms, if a person has never internalized their birth name for any reason, then their true name would be up for grabs, in that they could choose or otherwise a true name of their own.

  Now, that is largely based on real world occult practices. But real world occult practices differ, sometimes significantly. There’s some branches of ceremonial magic that hold the birth name you be the true name. Others that it’s a chosen magical name that is never told to anyone, and a third “public” magical name is used for rites and rituals. So it isn’t like there’s only one way of thinking about this stuff in those belief systems.

  But what about the fey/sidhe/fairies or other supernatural entities in fiction (and yes, there’s a difference between literary fiction, mythology, and religious or spiritual beliefs in the real world. IDGAF if any given person wants to partake in those beliefs or not, they are different from fiction in several important ways that are off topic beyond saying that).

  Well, that’s when it comes down to the author/writer.

  A lot of writers of things set in our world, even when it’s a fictionalized version that works in a different way, tend to base their choices off of whatever mythology they’ve run across, then adapt that to their writing. So you run into a couple of different answers.

  Mostly, they go with the birth name being the true name. There’s exceptions, but it’s the dominant trope. In some cases, the birth name isn’t enough, it’s the exact way a person says and thinks their name that makes it true. Iirc, that’s part of the Dresden series if you want a specific example.

  That idea is where words carry more than just definitions, and names are more than just some random phonemes. The process of how we (or the characters) take our name and etch it into ourself through thought and speech is what makes it a true name. It’s a really neat idea tbh. Have you ever noticed that sometimes a mom or dad will say their kid’s name slightly different? Minor changes in inflection or emphasis.

  Plus, everyone sometimes says a name different. Your mom using your full name with stress in her voice hits harder than your friend introducing you to someone. And that’s different from the DMV (or equivalent) person calling your name as next. The words are the same, but the energy is different.

  So, the way we think of our name, inside, is ours in a way that nobody else can ever be exactly right unless we teach it to them. The way we speak it is different as well, but a supernatural entity in a story can overhear that part easy enough.

  Which all means that there’s no single answer to your question, but it’s still a damn fun one :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After opening a jar of pizza sauce, how long would you trust it was still good in the fridge?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no set limit, not in days. Weeks, yeah. Generally, you’ll start noticing it tastes off after about five to ten days. It won’t necessarily be spoiled, but once opened, everything starts losing freshness fast, relatively. Safely wise, a week is what most people say is the cautious limit. But the truth is that if your fridge is stable, the jar didn’t have anything dipped into it, and it isn’t being opened frequently, it could potentially last a month or more without being dangerous to health.

  However, it could also grow shit overnight that would make your toilet very unhappy.

  So there’s a good bit of sense in not risking going past a week.

  The nose is a decent enough detector for most things, but in this case, the bacteria that are problematic can grow well before anything that will smell bad. Botulism ain’t stank, and that’s the one you have to worry about the most. Mind you, the risk is low. A lot of sauces are acidic enough that botulism isn’t going to grow well. I’d even say most. The other two risks are usually going to be less likely, because they have to get in by cross contamination of some kind, where botulinum can come in over the air (not likely, just possible).

  Me? I’d chuck it out after a week unless I had a specific plan to use it soon after. I hate wasting food, but the truth is that pizza sauce is cheap and common. Nobody is losing out if a half a jar gets trashed. But that’s me, I don’t make pizza often. If you’re using it regularly, and only pouring out into a bowl or onto dough without dipping things in, you’ll use it up before it could hurt you, even if it’s a few weeks.

  No bullshit, commercial canning is very good at killing nasties off. It’s only when we stick things into the container that risks start climbing to “oh shit” territory in a fridge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jennifer Lopez Wears Lingerie on Stage, in a Pink Lace Bustier Teddy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say it’s equally valid for both. Crosspost ftw?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jennifer Lopez Wears Lingerie on Stage, in a Pink Lace Bustier Teddy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ngl, I tend to not see that type of stage wear as fashion in the usual sense of it.

  Stage costumes tend to be a thing of their own, outside of the kind of clothes you’d wear for real, and often outside of the arty stuff in couture.

  At best, it borrows from fashion as an art, or street level fashion.

  In this specific case, it’s more of the same. It’s costumery meant to refer to lingerie, not actual lingerie. In real terms, the distinction is meaningless. What clothes look like is what they are. But I ran across this post in a fashion community, so I figure that opinion (even if disagreed with) is relevant despite that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Restaurant waste, which is what your post body starts with, can’t be recycled like that. It’s an unsafe practice due to the contamination gained at the table combined with time out of the temperature safe zone. Even if you killed an the pathogens there, the risk of the toxins left by those pathogens is problematic. That and it would ruin the food trying to kill them to a reasonable degree.

  Now, back in the kitchen, you could do what some restaurants do and donate the prepared but unserved food to local distribution centers (often focused on homeless charities or government outlets). But it wouldn’t make sense to turn it into some kind of “nutrition loaf”. Seriously, look up that term and be prepared to hate the prison system more than you do currently.

  And that is why even if the process could be perfectly safe, it would still suck. Nobody should have to eat the horrible crap that it would turn into. If would be cheaper, safer, and more humane to just make sure everyone has good food to eat in the first place.

  The only application for the kind of bricks you’d get from the process is feeding people that don’t have access to good, healthy food in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No bullshit, I’ve yet to run into jank. My bank is a credit union that isn’t a bunch of assholes, so their app works fine.

  I don’t need any authentication apps, so no worries there. Ifi ever do, there’s some known to work with graphene.

  I’m happier with graphene than I have been in years with android overall. Last time I was really happy with android, we were still in single digits. The ever increasing limitations Google was applying broke my joy of it s an enthusiast.

  But graphene at least returns me being able to use my device without the layers of Google bullshit unless I just want to.

  So no frustrations at all just easy to use handled computing.

  I’ve had this phone since early last year. I think? Might have been june? Damned if I can remember without digging up old messages lol.

  Whe I got it, my plan was to use the pixel for my second line in case I couldn’t make the transition. I switched sims out two days later and haven’t looked back since. If I could put graphene on my second phone, I would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Stock? Nah.

  I have something like a dozen tablets and phones stacked on my desk. I get new ones, but the old ones have enough life in them that I don’t just count them as ewaste and wash my hands of them. Only two of those have current lineage available, and I can’t be arsed to update what amounts to a picture frame that isn’t connected to Wi-Fi. The rest get used as security cameras for very short term use.

  Most of them still have the os they came with as, again, I can’t be arsed to fiddle with the ones that I could dig up a rom for, or they couldn’t be unlocked to do it in the first place. But none of them were ever stock Android. Since when I got them, I favored Samsung and LG tablets, the ui was highly altered from regular AOSP.

  Now, my main phone? My absolutely amazing friend gifted me a pixel with graphene ready to go as soon s it reached me. But I do still use some play store apps on it, when I can’t find something good enough that isn’t (nothing touches poweramp, and I haven’t had the budget to put towards a licence for it from the dev, yet. Higher priorities).

  Never touched a pi unless it was a pie being shoved down my throat.

  Ngl though, if I wasn’t lazy as fuck, I’d likely swap to lineage on my older oneplus that’s my backup phone. Just don’t feel like dealing with the time it would take. So it’s as stock as it was when I got it a few years ago. I doubt I’ll ever do it unless I get a newer graphene device and it gets retired to the desk for infrequent uses. That’s how I end up with a still working Galaxytab 2 lol. Barely still working tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is school cafeteria food in America trash?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignoring private schools, it really depends on locale. Most schools are run by a combination of local and state guidelines. So each state has its own minimum standards, which are then implemented on a district level.

  However, in some districts, the budget isn’t equal between all schools.

  So you can have varying quality within the same school system, and even more between different systems.

  The good thing about school meals is that they aren’t usually super expensive, don’t require packing only foods that won’t spoil or be gross by lunch time, and there’s usually some kind of budget for free reduced cost lunches (sometimes breakfast too) for those in need. It makes sense that most students will choke down even the bad options instead.

  Some schools do damn well though. The bulk is usually going to be supplied by one of the industrial food distributors, but most of that is similar to or the same as what you’d get in terms of ingredient quality as chain restaurants.

  So the staff of the cafeteria can make a huge difference in quality right there. Knowing how to turn fairly meh ingredients into something tasty is a great thing.

  When schools supplement with fresh produce, it can be damn good food. Local farmers out in rural areas often contribute. Some high schools have agriculture programs where they grow stuff that gets used in their own school, and may be distributed to others. Our closest high school supplements their own cafeteria, plus the elementary schools, and part of the jr high schools (some of those have their own gardens, so they tend to handle their own). My kid was very happy with the high school’s food, unlike the food at their jr high in another state that they hated.

  I ate at the high school a couple of times. Waaaaaay better than when I was a student there, and the agriculture program was starting up back then. Mind you, the lady that ran the cafeteria was doing a great job with what she had. The supplies were just crap back then. All canned shit for veggies if it wasn’t grown local, mandated recipes on a schedule set by the county, so you could only do so much to improve things. She ran a damn good kitchen though, so even when the food was bad, we knew the cooks were doing their best.

  And that’s pretty much the problem with school food. It just isn’t a nationwide priority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is emotional intelligence.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, don’t tell them about other forms of intelligence, they’d stroke out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is trying weed edibles worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d hold off another few years. There’s just enough published info pointing towards risks being higher under the mid twenties. The brain never stops developing, but that first twenty years in particular is easier to disturb since the development is more significant.

  At 18, you’re still putting the polish on some key centers, so fucking with that for a little hedonism seems unwise until there’s more and better research available.

  Me? I think I’d hold off until at least 21-23. Honestly, I’d do the same with any mind altering stuff. It’s not long to wait, and going at it too early can have long term consequences. There’s plenty of time to experiment and enjoy all sorts of recreational pharmaceuticals.

  Iirc, I had my first (of three lol) drunk at 17, and while it did no harm as a one-off (not much will tbh), I also didn’t really sink into the experience the same as later experiments with mind altering. Mind you, I’ve never liked being drunk, and avoided any of the high addiction potential stuff, but the difference in my second drunk compared to my first was massive just by dint of being 21, just a few years of added perspective on what I wanted out of it, and how I approached it.

  Weed, that’s another one that my initial exposure in my late teens (18 or 19) was just not as good as years later (late twenties).

  But, I can say that trying it once is worth it. If you end up not liking it, no big deal. I’d just wait a little longer. Weed, be it smoked, edible, or otherwise, is a very powerful experience when used infrequently. Steady use weakens the benefits of it for fun imo, but a few times a year? It’s nice. It enhances joy and good feelings.

  Just be easy with edibles. They hit slow, but hard. You can always have more if you don’t get the degree of euphoria you want after a half hour, but you can’t take it away if you get too stoned, which is absolutely possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and Twiztid has a few decent tracks as well.

  Wouldn’t be able to name them without looking up though, not something I listen to a lot.

  One of the things about ICP is that I tend to appreciate parts of their lyrics, but the rest falls flat. I don’t dislike their music, it just doesn’t do it for me. It falls right under the threshold where I won’t change it if it’s playing and I can change it. I tend not to be able to listen long because I’d rather have something else, or even silence, rather than have them in the background for extended listening. But I can tolerate it for short and medium times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Homies and spin the bottle lol

  Homies is just a great track, period. If anyone else had done it, it would have been bigger than it was.

  Spin the bottle is less great overall, but I like it anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ya know, they do have two songs I like, maybe I’m a juggalo now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, in all reality, only English.

  I have a small amount of Spanish vocabulary, but that’s not the same as speaking it.

  I am almost fluent in medicalese, so I can sometimes kinda fumble my way through limited ranges of Latin.

  I used to be able to do a little ASL, but never reached fluency, and I’ve lost damn near all of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not looking for how to meth. But is not a moonshiners still about as dangerous as a meth house exploding? What the difference?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, the thing about stills is only a big deal inside, unless you’re the one running the still and are close to it.

  Outside? An explosion really isn’t going to fuck anything up. You get a big bang, some burning fuel, and that’s about it unless there’s a drought on. Inside, you can have more fumes built up, and the fire is likely going to spread to the building. So it’s more dangerous.

  But meth production? Like previous comments said, that shit just keeps on giving well after whatever starts the process going wrong.

  There’s really a massive gap in both danger and duration of the two kinds of fires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jordan Lund needs to be removed as a moderator, especially over political communities such as Politics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh? That makes no sense based on the comment you’re responding to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Ridiculousness of Film Compilations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure if you’re mildly irritated at the compilations themselves, or that the “franchises” involved went way too long.

  I’m a f an of compilations tbh. It’s a solid way to snag the whole schmear cheap (usually). I can just choose to ignore the ones I don’t like, same as I did when a given series started going to shit.

  Spider-Man though, that’s a different kettle of fish. Comics run for decades, lifetimes in some cases. Movies about the same characters are going to be as likely to have extended production, with as many ups and downs as the comics do (and there are some horrible runs of even the best comic titles).

  I’m with you on the laziness and risk aversion that makes 9 American pie movies happen. Or most franchises that start in a similar way. The first was a great movie, but it really didn’t need a sequel, much less multiplies that not only abandoned the characters and what little storyline there was, but stopped putting in effort to good writing.

  Not that a successful one-off can’t spawn a decent franchise, it’s just that studios don’t put in the investment to make it happen.

  Look at the Bond series. While there have been plenty of stinkers, it was approached as a long term thing early on and has also managed to have some great movies even as it aged. No high art or anything, but still some solid escapist action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jordan Lund needs to be removed as a moderator, especially over political communities such as Politics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At the time I made the comment, there were no statements from admins in the thread at all.

  But if they don’t care, it’s all good :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jordan Lund needs to be removed as a moderator, especially over political communities such as Politics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because if you haven’t bothered to follow the internal process for that instance, then you’re just stirring shit, no matter how bad lund is.

  Apparently the admins are fine with your post, so I’m fine with it too. Just saying that shit stirring is a pain in the ass and if you want to actually try to get a change made, you don’t start off by ignoring the established avenues of action.

  It’s just a bad idea to essentially flip off the very admins that would be the ones to take any action when trying to get them to do so. People have limited patience for fuckery to begin with.

  You do you I guess. But being real, this kind of thing is more likely to end up with people blocking you the same way they have lund and then what have you achieved? Nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jordan Lund needs to be removed as a moderator, especially over political communities such as Politics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you even bothered trying to contact admins before starting this up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't know if this is possible but can we get like a secret santa thing for books? Something we can call um...Lemmy Lenders? Kind of like reddits secret santa? But just for books at this time see....⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How would that work?

  Like, digital isn’t super hard, but it does take some doing. There’s always Amazon it b&n, kobo wishlists, but that seems like a hard ask here on lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, there’s actually been research into it.

  Since that shit is dry as hell, and there’s available articles about it, psychologytoday.com/…/why-it-feels-so-good-confes…

  This one gives a nice overview.

  So, I’d say it’s pretty realistic to say that “confession” has mental health benefits.

  That being said, true anonymity is going to be vital if you’re going to try to build something online. Not just for the people that might want to use it, but for you too. You really don’t want the legal issues if someone were to confess on your service and it became part of trial evidence. You may be thinking it’s not a big deal, that it’ll never happen, but it does happen already with social media.

  The less you’ll be able to provide, the less hassle you’ll have. So keep that in mind. Reddit, Facebook, VPNs, they all deal with legal requests regularly, but they have legal departments to handle those to keep a barrier between the people running things and the consequences of users’ actions/words.

  Me? No fucking way I’d even confess to jaywalking online, period. And I have never done that (that’s actually true, I’ve never been in a situation where it was useful. Small towns and infrequent visits to cities ftw?). I’d also advise anyone else to never do so.

  Also, if you’re a priest/minister and your religion has a confessional seal, you have pretty robust legal protection about not having to break it, in many places. Therapists also have a degree of confidentiality that they’re legally required to maintain. Your online service has neither. So you’ll also have responsibilities above and beyond what therapists or ministers have. Well, you may, since local laws vary, and I’ve never heard of a lot of legal precedent around mandatory reporting for online services. But even if you aren’t currently required to report a range of things, not doing so might open you up to lawsuits and/or eager prosecutors looking to set a precedent.

  I guess what it comes down to is: yeah, it could help people. But better you than me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotcha :)

  Yeah, I think it comes down to what I said. No good reason to try and compete when they could scrape all the data that they would have wanted without having to build their own.

  It isn’t like any of the big social media companies wanted competition anyway. They wanted to dominate their niche. Twitter for short messages publicly transmitted. Instagram for image based posting. Facebook for mixed media sharing, etc. You find a niche, dominate it, then leverage that dominance into cash flow, usually via ads.

  If you go into the niche someone else already dominates, it’s an uphill struggle. You’re better off just waiting and either buying out the other companies, or otherwise gaining access to what they have that’s valuable.

  Hell, that’s meta’s playbook for sure, that’s what they keep doing.

  Google did try to kinda horn in on the Facebook style social media, can’t remember what it was called, but it flopped and they killed it. You’d think their greed for data for ad targeting might have made it attractive to at least try, but the fact that they eventually just paid reddit for access after a bit of a stink shows they had previously been hoovering it for free. Why invest millions or even billions when it’s already available without the investment?

  I think that part of it was also that reddit didn’t start as a forum. It was digg mark2. A link aggregator. It kept expanding its scope and turned into a forum. It was a big deal when comments were added to reddit, a major shift in how it worked. A lot of people hated it.

  That’s my take anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the other comments assume you mean a big tech focused forum.

  But did you actually mean a big tech forum, as in something like a meta owned and operated version of reddit?

  If so, I suspect that it comes down to timing and relative benefit. By the time anyone realized reddit was going to be what it became, trying to edge into that kind of threaded ecosystem just wasn’t useful to them.

  Google, meta, whatever, all they had to do to get the benefits that reddit could have given them was to scrape reddit. Trying to create a competitor would have been pointless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are they saying it’s stupid?

  The idea is solid, if not exactly new territory in terms of the rich young superhero thing.

  So, if that’s what they’re griping about, screw 'em.

  If they’re saying that trying to create a comic at all is stupid, they’re stupid. Nothing wrong with a creative endeavour, though if you aren’t realistically planning ahead on how to make it happen, that would be pretty stupid. Anyone can do their own thing if they have the talent to actually crank out the art and writing (most people struggle with one or the other tbh). But getting it published is a very difficult proposition. Indie artists struggle like hell, even if they do their own site and distribution.

  So, if you haven’t planned that far ahead, they might be right that your plan is stupid.

  However, if you’ve actually gotten some pages done, and they’ve read it and think it’s stupid, it comes down to how much you value their opinion about comics. Being real, some people’s opinions are shit on a given subject, so if theirs are known to be bad, then fuck 'em. But if they tend to have reliable quality takes on comics (or the craft that goes into them), maybe they’re right, no way for us to know.

  But nah man, there’s nothing stupid about this kind of project in and of itself. Nor is the basic concept stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is awesome that you left the previous comment in place. Mad props!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I’m not a code monkey, between dyslexia and an aging brain. But if it’s anything like the tiny bit of coding I used to be able to do (back in the days of basic and pascal), you don’t really have to pore over every single line. Only time that’s needed is when something is broken. Otherwise, you’re scanning to keep oversight, which is no different than reviewing a human’s code that you didn’t write.

  Look at it like this; we automated assembly of machines a long time ago. It had flaws early on that required intense supervision. The only difference here on a practical level is about how the damn things learned in the first place. Automating code generation is way more similar to that than llms that generate text or images that aren’t logical by nature.

  If the code used to train the models was good, what it outputs will be no worse in scale than some high school kid in an ap class stepping into their first serious challenges. It will need review, but if the output is going to be open source to begin with, it’ll get that review even if the project maintainers slip up.

  And being real, lutris has been very smooth across the board while using the generated code so far. So if he gets lazy, it could go downhill; but that could happen if he gets lazy with his own code.

  Another concept that I am more familiar with, that does relate. Writing fiction can take months. Editing fiction usually takes days, and you can still miss stuff (my first book has typos and errors to this day because of the aforementioned dyslexia and me not having a copy editor).

  My first project back in the eighties in basic took me three days to crank out during the summer program I was in. The professor running the program took an hour to scan and correct that code.

  Maybe I’m too far behind the various languages, but I really can’t see it being a massively harder proposition to scan and edit the output of an llm.

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  Yeah, this is actually one of the good things a technology like this can do.

  He’s dead right, in terms of slop, if it’s someone with training and experience using a tool, it doesn’t matter if that tool is vim or claude. It ain’t slop if it’s built right.