thebestaquaman

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how is lemmy funded?⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Awesome, thanks!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how is lemmy funded?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve been thinking of self-hosting a server (and some other stuff)for a while. I hope you don’t mind that I post this comment just so I (hopefully) can try getting back to you for tips when I get around to buying the hardware.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ope⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
“Urolettelse” is probably what you would get in Norwegian, the German equivalent would probably be very similar. It’s not an established word, but people would probably understand your vibe if you used it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ope⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
To be absolutely fair: “Shot down” usually means the pilot was either killed, or had to bail, and that the jet crashed uncontrollably into the ground and was completely destroyed. It’s pretty common to differentiate between “shot down” and “hit, but was able to land”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

They don’t think gender and race are social constructs.

Whether they think that has nothing to do with whether they believe there’s an objective answer to the question. What they do, however, is take positions that are in blatant violation of the observable facts around them. The whole “alternative facts” this is basically an exercise in “taking responsibility for your perceptions”, and choosing to believe whatever you think is right, regardless of the objective reality around you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
What you’re saying makes no sense… you drawing an equivalence from the existence of an objective reality to some people controlling how that reality is perceived. If anything, you gotten it all flipped around: If reality is subjective (which itself is absurd) then any interpretation of it is equally valid. In that case, anyone is free to believe in their own reality, regardless of the objective facts that prove them wrong. This is basically what’s going on with the MAGA movement: A bunch of people deciding that “reality is what I want it to be”, and acting based on “alternative facts” in complete disregard for the objective, observable, facts around them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s literally a face swap based on someone pulling a funny face. It’s one of the oldest internet jokes there is, and has nothing to do with body shaming, misogyny, or anything of the sort.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That doesn’t even remotely answer my question though? My impression was that you have some kind of belief that an objective reality doesn’t exist in the first place, and that just doesn’t make any kind of sense to me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Sure. They just occupied, blockaded and displaced a shitload of the people that now live in Lebanon, because their homes were stolen and their families were killed by Israelis.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

You can’t both believe something and doubt it.

I have beliefs about what I think is the most probable truth. That means I can both believe something is true, and acknowledge the probability that I’m wrong. Whenever my beliefs change, there’s necessarily a period where I gradually come to see the probability that I’m wrong as larger than the probability that I’m right, at which point my beliefs about what is right change. However, the acknowledgement that I may still be wrong remains.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I honestly don’t even think I get your position here. Do you somehow not believe that you live in some kind of objective reality together with the rest of us? Do you think this is all just going on in your head? Like… is this some kind of far-out simulation theory thing? Even if we do live in a simulation, that simulation itself must exist in some kind of “real world”.

Please explain
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah. When someone comes to your house, shoots your parents, kicks you out, and “settles” in your neighbourhood you should just leave them alone. After all, they would never have done that if you hadn’t… shot rockets at them after they did it??
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve had a couple of those situations. In all cases it was a friend that I ended up getting horny with, and then we figured “why not?”. In all cases, the answer turned out to be that shit quickly gets complicated when people develop new feelings because they’re sleeping together.

Frankly, I have no issue with polyamorous people, but I honestly can’t understand how they get it to work. Every time I’ve slept with someone repeatedly over an extended period of time, it ended up fundamentally changing our relationship to the point where being with anyone else became an implicit no-go. I have no explanation for exactly why but those feelings just developed, no matter how much we promised each other they wouldn’t, and pretended they didn’t.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Good luck man… I’ve been through a couple of these variants but with my (current) SO of quite some time I feel like I’ve found the center. That doesn’t mean it’s never complicated, but it means we’ve learned to deal with and work through a lot of complicated stuff. I honestly believe the most important ingredient in getting to that center is the will to see the best in each other and work through whatever life throws your way.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put the shoes on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
However, naked with just socks is still more naked than just naked.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put the shoes on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Empirical evidence that wearing shoes makes you more naked: The only thing hotter than a naked woman is a naked woman with heels.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I suck at reading comprehension... what the heck does this law even mean? [8 U.S. Code § 1451 - Revocation of naturalization]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Regarding the very last point: Won’t his kids retain citizenship regardless if they were born in the US, in which case they have a citizenship in their own right (not tied to their father)?

My impression was that you got a US citizenship if you were born on US soil, regardless of the status of your parents?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current events dictate that I post this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You correct, it’s the NATO flag, so you can replace “US” with “NATO” in my comment and my original point still stands. I wrote “US”, because they’re the only NATO member currently bombing someone in a war of aggression.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current events dictate that I post this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t interpret this in either of the ways you suggest. I interpret the image as a whole as ironic:

OP is paraphrasing people that claim “Russia bombing people is bad, but the US bombing people is good, and by the way Israel is above all criticism and you’re an antisemite for suggesting otherwise”, and pointing out the hypocrisy in that claim. I think OP is against wars of aggression in general, and is pointing out that the US and Israel are behaving the same way as Russia when they go bombing people “preemptively”, and that being the aggressor in a war is always bad, regardless of who you are.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Seeing those was one of the more dystopian experiences I had when visiting the US a while back. The entire concept was absolutely insane to me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm the whale game devs never expected or wanted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Honestly, I like the games where all the enemies simply level up along with you. That way you never get the super-boring enemies that you can just walk all over.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do I keep doing this????⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
You have to elaborate on this, please.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do I keep doing this????⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
This is completely possible without having anything close to ADHD. Stop making everything a symptom of ADHD.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
A human with no experience in the field is liable to recognise that fact and start asking questions, showing doubt and learning. That’s infinitely better than spewing incorrect bullshit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
To be fair, I do think the average accepted stackoverflow answer displays far more competence than the average human.

One of the few things I use LLM’s for is giving me overviews of best-practice in things I’m not familiar with (before reading the posts I find to get more in-depth understanding)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
That’s exactly what people have done for millennia though. It’s literally the reason you have heat in the winter and aren’t living in a cave.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
That isn’t what bothers me the most though. Earlier today I read a piece by a “tech journalist” in a paper I normally respect as doing proper work. The mentioned that one of the guys behind Claude says that Claude writes absolutely all their code now. They also said they did a test of one of the most recent models (released earlier this week), and that it wrote “A full Amazon-cloud based page that did various verification and authentication jobs, was about 67 000 lines of code, and was approved by the IT department in minutes in an afternoon”. The last part tells me they have no clue what they’re talking about. They just generated 67 000 lines of potential bugs that works, and which wasn’t reviewed by anyone competent. Nobody reviews 67 000 lines of code in a day, let alone minutes. Just the fact that they thought generating a shitload of boilerplate (most of the lines were likely that) impressive, says enough.

It’s not your average Joe thinking this is cool that bothers me (it is cool). It’s when allegedly competent people start thinking the LLM actually has any idea what it’s doing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I would say that this directly targets the people that can already clearly afford the fines easily enough that they keep speeding enough to get caught. Someone that is severely hurt by the fines are already likely to be deterred from speeding by the fines. This addresses the people that eat the fines and keep speeding again and again.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Draw!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve seen an interview with a guy that said, with a straight face, “for legal reasons I’m not allowed to disclose to you whether or not I have an NDA with <company>”.

I’m pretty sure they make NDAs where you’re not allowed to disclose the other party as well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s one of the most fundamental principles of chemistry and physics. It was discovered by Antoine Lavoisier in the late 18th century, and you can only meaningfully break it during nuclear reactions (fusion/fission). If any container is gaining mass, it is either a dying star or there is more mass entering the container than leaving it. This also applies to the human body: If you are gaining mass, it is because there is more going in than out, otherwise you’ve broken pretty much all known physics (or you’re about to go supernova).