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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or…

  …or in 30? That’s how it would work for me since I’m a very slow (distracted!) reader.

  I get the point, though. Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m more like a bovine when it comes to digesting.

  I graze on stuff, then later I will regurgitate it and slowly chew and process it again. (…and sometimes again, etc… until I suddenly realize that I’ve learned something…) The grazing is separate process, and my greed makes it already unpredictable enough. (The thing with Internet meadows is, there’s always another meadow nearby.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I have bad attention span but all that means is that even if the article is 5 minute I will be googling every other word and and opening every other link, and THAT’s far more significant than the length of the article.

  After all, there’s a reason I did not end up reading the original “14 min article” (which by the way got rated almost an hour by Firefox reader mode, go figure) and went on to post this… :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How does the estimate help you decide?

  I don’t get it. If I’m interested in something, I’m interested in it regardless of the length of an article, right?

  I mean, maybe I’m not interested in all of it, but then I can just spend, say, 30 seconds evaluating whether the article is any good and whether it spends a paragraph or two on the very topic I’m curious about. Length of the article does not have much bearing on that, it’s more about whether I know the terms I’m looking for and can spot them. (Of course, massive length may hint I will spend more time sifting through, but peeking at scrollbar is enough to realize that.)

  If the thing I’m interested in is buried in a massive wall of text, so what? I can ignore the rest of the article as much as I can ignore the rest of the blog (or the internet…)

  The real unpredictable thing for me is always that even if I’m looking for topic X, I might actually need to learn about W first, and often I’m underestimating the relevancy of W and its own depth. So I could spend 1 minute reading about X but still find myself unable to use the knowledge. That’s regardless of whether the knowledge was in a 1h long article or 10 min.

• Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't wash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  raising a child is also work to be valued (which you benefitted from yourself, btw).

  This.

  And it’s not a binary thing, it’s a scale. Kids who are supported by emotionally stable parents who are able to spend their time together are more likely to succeed in life than kids who are left to their own devices and end up picking up all sorts of insecurities due to the parent being sort of a nerve wreck, and them eventually feeling like a burden all the time.

  I will happily support my colleague spending more of his time with his daughters, because then when I’m old, I have higher chance that those daughters being confident, nice and educated adult people who can produce economical value. Only then, part of that value can come back to me in various forms of support, whether it’s pension, better social services or just more options. (Unless they move to another country – but then again, that depends on the relative quality of life in this country, which in turn boils down to the same principle.)

  Now, maybe I’m a nice guy here, but none of the above logic requires me to be nice. I could be a totally selfish asshole and still the position works out the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy birthday, peon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow this room gives me Theme Hospital vibes which I never wanted to admit, hadn’t I seen the real version. (Now I understand why my doctors were always depressed.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy birthday, peon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The more I look into the high-res picture, the more mildly bleak details I notice.

  • Torn plastic wrapping of tiny plastic bottles on the chipboard counter.
  • His sleeve is mildly dirty.
  • The shoes on the shelf seem awkward to access over the chair.
  • The whiteboard has permanently marked spots “use me to write” and “use me to clean”, both empty.
  • That “pizza” is barely an oversized muffin.
  • Fire prohibited.
  • The mirror is pretty dirty.
  • Corner of the steel cabinet is a bit bent.
  • The badly attached sheet of paper hanging from the whiteboard; you can’t read anything.
  • On the top shelf of the cupboard, something is kinda balancing there.
  • Cheap plates not perfectly aligned.
  • ROTATE:
    • ROTATE
    • ROTATE
    • ROTATE
  • The pedal on the trash bin is weirdly bent.

  Not that any of this really matters, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy birthday, peon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most commenters here don’t appreciate how sad the image is: the headset is playing some corporate prefabricated Happy Birthday message, starting and ending with “Loving your work.” company motto accompanied with nothingmusic in background.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In other words, the beak is a “Short Sword of poison +1”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy birthday, peon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who needs table when you are truly “Loving your work.”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope you don't have any plans this evening.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RTFB

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people on the internet (and Lemmy) so quick to say someone "deserves to die"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Along with other things said here, people tend to “forget” that there’s a real person on the other end.

  I vaguely recall Nicholas Christakis talking about a study they made, where they created a bot which would simply remind people of the fact that there’s a real person on the other end, and they found that it would help. (That study was done in some university platform and is centuries old in internet time, though. I think he spoke about it about 6 years ago on podcast with Sam Harris.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I have an account on Mastodon.Social, and another account on PieFed.Social are they technically on the same instance, since they're both on .Social?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When it comes to identifying the server, hostname the first thing that counts. lemmy.world or mastodon.social or google.com are three different hostnames. At this point you can basically treat the period as no special character, it’s just part of the funny world. This basically answers your question: those are two different domains, ie. for all purposes, different instances.

  However, your computer does not really connect to hostname but to IP address, so the next important thing is to translate the hostname to an IP address.

  Aside: a valid hostname does not even have to have period in it. For example, localhost is a valid hostname! But generally hostnames without periods don’t get translated to any useful IP addresses. localhost is probably the only one widely used hostname but your OS will translate it to a special IP address which marks your own device.)

  So to translate the hostname to IP address is done using so-called DNS. So before you can connect, your computer already knows an IP address of a DNS server, and asks it to translate the hostname to IP address. Technically, this is still not where the period is strictly important.

  Where the period does start to be meaningful is when you think about: so we have billions of IP addresses, billions of hostnames, how do we organize it all? Who is going to maintain the huge massive list?

  So it works like this: There are dozens of organizations, each of which is assigned one or more “top level domains” (TLD). Then they are responsible for maintaining lists of all hostnames ending with those domains. Many of these organizations are local to certain states. For example, in Czech Republic, where I live, we have organization called CZ.NIC which maintains all domains ending with .cz. So it’s up to CZ.NIC how it manages permissions and gives out the domains. In this case, basically anyone can register any free domain ending with .cz, and what this registration means is that now they can get a server with an IP address, run whatever they want and have the registered domain name point to that IP address.

  Note that other organizations may decide to add additional rules. For example .uk domains are managed with extra rules, where non-government (commercial) entities are normally allowed to register only .co.uk and other .uk names are not handed out easily. I don’t actually know the details about .uk but my point is that if you are going to think about a hostname and how to begin to understand who owns it, first thing that matters is the TLD, and from that point the rules might be slightly different. To be fair, I haven’t seen much variance between this; almost all public TLD’s I’ve seen were either “simple”, meaning myname.tld or this thing that UK does (also New Zealand, from the top of my head).

  One almost universal rule is, though, that if I, say, register seznam.cz with NIC.CZ, then I automatically get not only seznam.cz but also any address I can possibly come up which ends with .seznam.cz. foo.seznam.cz, bar.seznam.cz, www.seznam.cz, I can now start organizing my servers using this whole infinite space, with any number of extra periods. I could totally start a business and start promoting my server foo.bar.baz.whatever.cz on billboards, as long as NIC.CZ grants me whatever.cz.

  So back to your question: mastodon.social and piefed.social are two completely different domains. All we know that they have in common is that whoever registered them, had to deal with the same organization; that is whoever maintains .social.

  So TL;DR: there’s really nothing that suggests that they would be the same instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not casually stealing comments⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s even worse that the stolen comment got much more engagement than the original.

  I’ve seen her comments all around YouTube, and this always seems to happen to her. (I’m assuming it’s because they are the most insightful, informative yet still on point.) Don’t give up Barbara, some of us are seeing through the scam and rooting for you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so sorry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it AI though? I thought AI’s are blocked from using celebrity faces.

  I assumed someone made it with AI using unspecified faces and then photoshopped in the real ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also in my experience LLM can often propose solutions which are working but way too complex.

  Story time: just yesterday, in VueJS I was trying to iterate over a list of items and render .text of reach item as HTML, but I needed to process it first. Note that in VueJS this is done by adding eg. <span v-html=“item.text”></span> where content of the attribute is the JavaScript expression needed to get the text.

  First I asked ChatGPT to write the function for processing the text. That worked pretty well and even used part of the JavaScript API which I was not aware about.

  Next, I had a “dumb moment” when I did not realize that as I’m iterating through items I can just say <span v-html=“processHtml(item.text)”></span>, that’s all I really needed. Somehow I thought (or should I say, “hallucinated”, ba dum tsss) for a moment that v-html is special or something (it is used differently than the most abundant type of syntax). So I went ahead and asked ChatGPT how to render processed texts while iterating.

  It came with a rather contrived solution which involved creating another computed property containing a list of processed texts. I started to integrate it into the existing loop: I would have to add index and use that index to pull the code from the computed property, which already felt a little bit weird.

  That’s when it struck me: no, no, no, I can just f*ing use the function.

  TL; DR: The point is, while ChatGPT was helpful I still needed to babysit it. And if I didn’t snap from my lazy moment, or if I simply didn’t know better, I would end up with code which is more complex, more surprising, which means harder to reason about for both humans and LLM’s. (For humans because now it forces you to speculate about coder’s intent, and for LLM’s because it’s less likely to be reminiscent of surrounding code in its learning data.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon drives a bus⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but what if the bus is moving, on the road… Like in the middle of a desert (…wait… but still…)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon drives a bus⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere.”

  ~ Enerkin Ionwalker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have lots of music which I got basically for free, and a lots of music for which I paid.

  My general attitude towards music is that I’m in it to explore, learn and enjoy the indescribable human connection that I get through, and only through listening to someone’s little “message in a bottle”. Doing this for many years (I’m 44 so over 30 years now) I’ve learned that training my brain on multiple styles and genres, the connection can always get deeper and more rich.

  So I would not be able to ever say a purchase was not worth it, because I would always assume such decision to be rushed. I had too many experiences when I listened to something, didn’t quite like it, but later I somehow “grew into” it, and then I learned to love it for years and years.

  Different music ends up playing different roles in my life. Some albums end up teaching me a genre or a style, some end up acting like a gateway drug, some end up as a “stand in” for whole genre. Some end up as “holy relics” of who I was, and are re-visited from time to time to see whether I’ve changed and how. Some end up on a shelf and get re-discovered, some end up on a shelf forever.

  (That “stand in” part is kinda tongue-in-cheek, but it sometimes almost works; eg. I would never set out to get a Dub album, but Dub Guerilla is one of the 100 best things I’ve ever heard, and it’s just so darn satisfying that it satisfies all and any of my Dub needs.)

  Sometimes my brain can be just really petty about things, like completely disregarding an album because of a track or a section which I feel is a mistake. Sometimes I just know I will need much more time, sometimes I feel certain things might remain hard to get into maybe forever.

  Don’t get me wrong, somewhere among those piles, there are really things that I won’t ever care to pick up, and perhaps would not purchase them again, but it almost never has much to do with number of listens. It might be things that I just got with bad expectation (ie. not listening upfront) or things that I enjoyed because of content (eg. lyrics) but I have changed and moved on.

  Other times music is best experienced live, for some bands the “spirit” simply cannot be tamed, let alone reproduced. Sometimes I get album from band directly after a show and then end up never feeling it again from the CD, but then again, I would say it was not worth it, because it’s still a great way to “tip” the artist, and sometimes it will just work out.

  (A bit more related to the OP: Incidentally, just today I broke my all-time record by spending about 20 EUR for V​í​n by Janus Rasmussen, and for reasons completely unrelated to OP and the price (but related to a sub-thread) I also did something I would never do normally–put one of the tracks on repeat for several hours. That’s not to brag about money–it’s just funny how it ended up accidentally as “$ per listen” experiment, although )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s ‘87’ by Janus Rasmussen, by the way

  Also by the way, I got the album and it was the most I spent per minute of track ever (and my collection is hundreds of albums) – the album was 18 EUR (plus tax!), but then again, Icelandic economy, and I love to support artists, and I do love that song.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  my music routine generally implies having a song or two on repeat for the day because they are a form of stimming for me

  I’m not on spectrum on anything (anything diagnosed, anyway) but your comment inspired me to try and have a favorite tune on repeat for several hours, just to see what effect it would have on my ability to focus & anxiety, both of which are things I tend to struggle (although in my case it’s more related to insomnia).

  Interesting experience, nicer than I would expect. Normally my music routine is to try and keep things diverse, but I do tend to get distracted by the need to choose what’s next (and radios can have own problems, alghough soma.fm is awesome.) This sort of removed the issue.

  I do wonder how I will feel like when I turn it off, then in dreams, and then tomorrow. 😁

  (It’s ‘87’ by Janus Rasmussen, by the way, and even after hours I’m still loving it!).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $10/hour entertainment budget

  So… worst case you spend $87,600 per year? (assuming you want to be entertained during sleep as well…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Close call⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  panel 3 is useless, he was clearly wasted and fell asleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, you just made this no doubt question far, far more interesting!

  …and what if it was running AWAY from the sun!

  Here, Fixed it for ya.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they were just superstitious, they did not know how huge the sun was.

  But we know now so ALL HAIL THE SUN GOD!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sign of the times?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  trying to keep up with the vaping industry?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  no the “xyz be like” phrasing implies means it’s parody

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see, it has to be cultural. I’m from Czech Republic, but born close to Slovakian/Hungarian border. Where I come from, the spinach would be the suspicious ingredient.

  Cucumbers, Balkan cheese, tomatoes, pepper, maybe onion would make it much easier to blend in the crowd.