your tattoos “telling a story” is like a mandatory meeting that should have been an email about something I’m not involved with, and in fact, couldn’t care less about. You think enduring pain makes you seem tough, but it just makes you seem like someone who makes poor fiscal decisions in this shitty economy. And, (as an aside) ink was supposed to make you stand out because it was supposed to be a rare thing than not many people did. Now not many people have no ink at all so, if you were looking to be “unique…” (I mean, just sayin.')
Human euthanasia should be legalized and normalized, both medically assisted suicide and euthanasia when the person is suffering but unable to make decisions for themselves. If it’s an act of mercy to euthanize a pet who is suffering, then we should be able to have the same compassion for our fellow humans.
Pedofiles, those that think and do not act, deserve more compassion by society. They can’t help the way they feel. Acting on it is obviously extremely harmful but they can’t even talk about it, even to therapists, for fear of persecution. The current methods of suppression are harmful and akin to conversion therapy for lgbt folks. We need to allow them to have a voice and access to non harmful animated CP with all consenting adult voice actors or AI. In out current society they are akin to trans people in the 1950s
brave take. i would add that the demonisation of such people forces them into the only community that will accept them: other paedophiles. then you get a bunch of paedophiles hanging out, with only 2 things in common: paedophilia, and a chip on their shoulder from being wronged by society. not a good combo if you wanna stop child abuse
I dunno if I necessarily agree with the AI aspect of it. Because I think that might just be a slippery slope.
But overall I think non acted upon pedophilia should be viewed more akin to intrusive thoughts where we also try to not condemn the person for the thoughts or fantasies they have.
My issue with genAI csam is two issues. One, what was that model trained one? Two, it would be fairly easy to hide real csam in generated csam.
If it’s drawn, it’s fine with the exception of when it’s based on a specific child.
i wonder how much of them dont act out, but still consume csam, skewing the “committing SA on children” statistics.
I don’t think there is a reliable statistics for that. I was watching a psychologist specialized on sex offenders and he said it just doesn’t work.
Religion is for people who would rather be told what to do than figure life out themselves.
I always saw it as a crutch for those who can’t cope with the cruel harshities of life and need to affix meaning and reason to the randomness we live in.
It takes a lot of reading and self interpretation of texts, which to me is “figuring life out themselves.”
In the context of Christianity, i don’t think you can say anyone is ordered around by religious leaders anymore - we live in a thoroughly secular society, and people know they can just walk away if they don’t like what a priest/pastor is saying (Or find a different one).
Can’t really speak for the other religious in that regard.
But maybe you can see that discerning between “which leader do i listen to” is an act of figuring life out by yourself.
maybe you can see that discerning between “which leader do i listen to” is an act of figuring life out by yourself.
no, I dont see that. Picking between canned ideas is still consuming canned ideas, but feel free to do that. I’m not here to tell you what to do.
Lol, most religious people have never read a single like of their relevant religious text in their while life.
Most comments complaining about vibe-coding are just butt-hurt programmers who are annoyed that Joe Schmoe can produce a decent looking website in about 20 minutes without having had to waste their formative years nerding out on forums and chasing stray semicolons.
Every time someone on here says “hey, I made a cool (but harmless) interactive tool/map/website” the top comment is always “this looks vibecoded as hell” or “whats with claude.md, asshole?”. I’m all for the democratization of the economy so that social welfare, de-growth, environmental regulation and technological caution are rewarded instead of punished- including halting the datacenters and LLM proliferation for a few decades at least. But ya’ll sound like professional chefs complaining that the neighbour bought a microwave and a thermomix… or whining that they pimped out a cake mix instead of baking one from scratch. Just chill and maybe try to be helpful instead.
As a person who spent many years in the culinary arts field, I can assure you that most professional bakeries use the same mix you can buy at the store, just shipped in 50 pound bags. The difference is that they use butter instead of oil, heavy cream instead of water, more eggs, and brown sugar instead of white.
Eeeeh. I disagree. Disclosure: I’m a developer.
Can AI write code? Yes. In fact I’ll sometimes give it obtuse code I wrote and ask if there’s a way to simplify it, then use that as a jumping board on where I might want to head.
You know what else it does? Not understand context, or situations it hasn’t been made explicitly aware of.
I’ve given it plenty of things that it spit back just plainly incorrect or fundamentally altered code. Sometimes it’s just ignoring best security practices, sometimes it’s trying to use a string as an int, sometimes it just makes up “standard” functions that don’t actually exist because someone one said “wouldn’t it be nice is int.ThisFunctionName existed and did specific thing?”
Anyone shitting on AI for spitting out code is missing the point. Vibe coding is fine for personal projects that never get released to the world, but the moment you’re trying to build a business on top, or want to release it? Vibe coding is downright dangerous. There have been a number of vibe coded websites that were just sitting open for anyone to look at the personal information, because no one who knew what they were doing was involved.
decent looking
That’s a subjective fucking standard. And the LLMs learned from corporate standards, which are using 6 frameworks and then just adding basic gradients to make it look “fancy”.
chasing stray semicolons
It’s usually not having enough that’s a problem? And then you just look at the error, it says " line 12", and you add the damn semicolon. And if it’s not on line 12, add on line 11. And then you get used to fucking adding semicolons.
Try to be helpful
Good luck maintaining that code
The reason programmers are complaining is because the LLM stole our code to do so.
Fair. But my impression is that passing snippets around has been standard practice since the beginning. What makes the code yours, in my opinion, is the application of the snippets and the creativity involved. I don’t see the LLMs as threatening this in a big way, yet.
“this looks vibe coded” doesn’t mean “we don’t like your project because it used ai”
it means “your project for fucking sure does not do what you think it does because you are not a skilled developer enough to understand the code that the AI generated for you”
to which the counterargument the slopper would throw is “I wrote tests for requirements and the tests are passing”
how would a slipper know the code generated fits the requirements vs strictly only passes test cases ?
This is a helpful clarification, thanks. Then my question to you is, should the viber cease and desist? Is this not a valid way for them to foment an interest in software/tool/website development? Surely if their code has deep issues, they’ll discover that eventually and maybe learn from it, right?
Like, someone could try to learn a language by only using an ai translator. It’s lazy and not as effective, but I wouldn’t discourage someone from pursuing the language on account of that.
I am Java developer, and I don’t understand how exactly JVM works, for example. I’m not sure, how much my app will consume memory and CPU resources. I don’t know when garbage collector will do their work. I even don’t know what JIT and AOT compilation. And this doesn’t prevent me from doing good, effective and useful things. May be they are not the best. Maybe writing them on C or assembler will be more optimized and effective. But anyway, I am OK with that and trying to accept vibe coding same way, as I accept myself and my job.
Veganism is a morally correct choice despite it not being perfect but many online vegans are insufferable
Most people here don’t know shit about China
America deserves Donald Trump
I’ve been a vegan for over 5 years. I am very happy about it.
All energy drinks including Monster taste awful.
I know every generation says it about the next but gen Z is just fucking weak. Some great people and an admittedly, dealt a shitty hand.
But.
I’m going back to school as an elder millennial and my God, some of the craziness I’ve heard. A buddy teaches a film theory course a lot of kids use to satisfy early arts requirements at universities and he quickly realized if he didn’t show the movie in class, 2/3 of the class wouldn’t watch it despite being available through the school website. So, essentially, these kids (or their parents) are paying hundreds of dollars to watch movies instead of engaging.
The degree for which I’m going back recommends only 4 courses a tern with no work.I knew engineers who rocked 6 or 7, worked and were party animals.
Every advisor with whom I’ve spoke has basically said “look, if you’re going to treat it as an adult with adult work habits, you can handle 5 courses without trouble.” But they have all these disclaimers because kids and their parents go nuts when Johnny, who was just streaming hockey highlights all class somehow didn’t get a good grade.
This was the reason I left a career in academia and went back to engineering. The university enabled feckless plagiarising students and didn’t support the lecturers that upheld values. Okay then, good luck with your diploma mill bullshit, I’m going to literally double my wages and halve my stress by leaving.
arnt alot of them aspiring to be “influencers” or was the next gen after Z.
As a late gen Z yep. I work in a school, and I feel like the course material has been chopped up and is being spoonfed now.
When I was there 10 years ago. (fuck) It was a unspoken rule that you had to learn to learn and quickly. If you did not well. Half our class dropped out.
However its also clear that schools are, in my country at least. A lot less likely to throw out students that probably should just find a profession rather than a higher degree.
Driving a motorcycle doesn’t make you special and you should have to follow the same rules that cars follow.
If I can’t do it in a car, you can’t do it on a motorcycle
You should visit India sometime
It does make them special in one very important way: it’s much harder for police to catch them.
It’s also a lot easier for a motorcyclists to die or be gruesomely maimed in an accident.
and i think they can be a bigger ahole, they once knocked the plastic casing off the front door mirror of my dads car, just by passing by for no reason(every car was in a traffic jam), or the percieved cycler somehow think we shouldnt passed them, while stuck a traffic jam.
Stop signs exist to compensate for blind spots. At some intersections, the angle and the speed limit line up such that a car will remain hidden in the front blind spot behind the roof support beam until it’s too late to avoid a crash. These intersections are rare, but they’re the only appropriate place to put stop signs. Most stop signs are put in due to poor traffic planning and political unwillingness to implement proper traffic calming, and do little to improve safety.
Motorcycles do not have roof support beams, do not have front blind spots, and thus have no use for stop signs. They shouldn’t be required to stop at stop signs.
No. Just fucking no.
Stop signs exist because it’s not possible to evaluate if the junction is safe to pull into without stopping and looking around first, and then making sure you’re moving into the junction slowly by starting from stationary rather than launching into the middle of the road at 20mph.
The fediverse and lemmy in particular is a series of echo chambers.
lemmy.world in particular has a very homogeneous user base.
The “unpopular” part of this opinion is that on a variety of topics, any opinions which do not conform are heavily downvoted.
It’s kinda nice to be part of a no-downvote instance, I know other instances keep track of my stats but I don’t care, I don’t see it.
I thought only some of the apps / clients keep track of the stats.
Piefed shows the percentage of your last 100 votes which are upvotes, on profile pages. Yours is 100% obviously because you can’t downvote.
Get rid of votes.
aggregators like lemmy / reddit need votes to determine what content is most pertinent.
Even when trying to clarify someone else’s point.
No, they will get me killed.
One unpopular opinion which is safe for me to share is that we should all own less pets, and need to cultivate much more green space in our cities if we want to have them.
- If you’re American in the suburbs, this would mean people should not have lawns, but fill em with plants or crops.
- where i live this would mean more pocket parks and room for wildlife to thrive. Which requires some houses and disused buildings going, or more roads closed up for pedestrianised greenspace.
One reason i believe this is because cats, for instance, slaughter loads of little creatures. Just imagine - if half the households on a street has their own pet cat, all the mice in the area are getting killed. They’re actually so much better st getting mice than rats, too, so it barely has that benefit. Rats are huge.
Another reason is because dogs … they should be working, and they should have access to interesting greenspace. Sorry if you have a dog and can’t provide this, i just think it’s so fucked up that we have more dogs in the world than we can actually take care of in this way. Would you force a human to live most of its life indoors with nothing to do? Dogs need more company than many people afford them - i remember reading that people returned their dogs after lockdown because they wouldn’t be able to take care of them when working full time, etc cetera.
So I would only have a dog if I had a big garden for it or a huge park nearby. I would ideally have some sort of role sharing with neighbours or friends where we both take the dog on walks. And, best case scenario, I would only have a dog to perform a specific task e.g on a farm.
Mayonnaise is an abomination
But have you tried getting the right kind of mayonnaise from the right kind of grocery store from the right kind of major metropolitan area? Honestly, your opinion is just worthless until I know you’ve tried the right kind of mayonnaise.
What do you mean, “store”? The only good mayonnaise is thw home-made one.
Miracle Whip is where it’s at.
Avocado is fucking disgusting, and no way would I pay a premium for it ruining my sandwich or burrito.
Avocado is fine. Not worth paying a premium for, but still ok. The biggest problem with it other than the price is getting it ripe (and not overripe) and unbruised. Too much effort for something that’s just fine.
Waterworld is good.
Tea is better than coffee, fight me
I would but I haven’t had my coffee yet
i prefer teas somedays and coffee others. i dont have a preference, only that it has to be caffeniated.
No violence for you, only pity.
How do you like your tea? And which tea?
I’ve been doing a deep dive into pu’er lately but Genmaicha is my favorite. All neat.
Edit: Also Scottish breakfast is better than English breakfast.
