SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
Case in point: A basic streaming music player with a shitty UI using over half a gigabyte without even doing anything (Spotify). Actually playing music increases memory consumption by another 100 MB.
Meanwhile a properly written player (Foobar 2000) with vastly superior UI supporting dozens of formats, a plugin system and conversion between formats uses 16 MB by being written in a fairly straightforward but not outright stupid way.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
There are a depressing number of "engineers" who outright promote making shitty products.
See every comment that claims "premature optimization is bad" or "you need to benchmark it before you can say anything about performance".
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
2d ago
Google was faster and more reliable. I just wanted to see first if AI could solve a simple but not entirely trivial non-coding problem.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
2d ago
The resources required by the average modern app are insane.
Electron has entered the chat
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
2d ago
I'm smiling wryly here because not every job in the world is writing code.
In particular not every job in the world is writing code to solve a nearly fully specced problem in well trodded territory that only differs in minor ways from gazillion existing solutions. AI is basically the replacement for what we used to call "Java monkeys" - people with mediocre skills who were capable of writing basic code as long as they had a detailed spec and it didn't require any out of the box thinking.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
2d ago
Walking you through solving a math problem - that's extremely dubious.
I've mentioned this before but just a couple of months ago I wanted to solve a simple first year university level math problem (a system of two first order differential equations). I got three different solutions depending on how I wrote the problem (eg. using abstract variables or ones based on the actual problem). Every explanation was very confident, detailed and of course wrong in a way that was apparent if you understood the domain or verified the solution by hand. And this is pretty much as simple as real world university level math can get.
Then I googled the proper syntax for how to input the problem into Matlab and got the correct result in much less time than it took to ask AI and verify it, even had AI given the correct answer.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
How are you going to handle European censorship laws?
What European censorship laws?
Just because something is censored in UK or Germany doesn’t mean it’s censored Europe wide.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
Ah, no. Typical autistic MTFs are a whole different thing. I do mean actual autistic women (who I happen to know a couple of IRL).
I’m not saying they’d pass like one after extended discussion but in casual contact that might well happen (provided they actually tried).
I think this is less about "looksmaxxing" and more f1nn5ter just gradually realizing that 1) she is trans (and apparently autistic based on some youtube vid titles), 2) wants to be the Gen Z soft porn equivalent of someone like Natalie Mars and 3) has the means and genetics to actually achieve that. Ie. she wants to be a trans pornstar onlyfans ”influencer” who actually passes and looks pretty at the first glance instead of immediately triggering "this is weird, ugly and creeps me the fuck out"-reflex in people.
This does have an interesting intersection with the pronoun discussion: What would the anti-trans people call someone who looks like a woman, in the future presumably sounds like a woman, acts like an autistic woman but has a penis? I’m on neither side but my immediate instinct is to go with ”she”, at least if I don’t hear her voice, because my brain first sees a cute girl-next-door before conscious thought comes into the picture.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
7d ago
A 2020 hip-hop artist who smokes cannabis is a Person of Color, or possibly a Black Body.
Would that make a 2020s hip-hop artist offed by the FSB a black body radiator?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
10d ago
No. The link is outright broken. This is the correct link without the old.reddit.com part of the url that the link explicitly had in it.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
12d ago
TIL US Peace Corps has nothing to do with what the rest of the world thinks when they hear such term.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
18d ago
I’m also curious. The establishment has chosen to do this but I haven’t seen any particular reason why they would have to do it. They just seem to really want to do it.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
20d ago
Look at prison sexuality
Better yet, look at how much prison sexuality differs just between the different Anglo cultures. I’ve watched the occasional Ladbible / Insider interviews of British career criminals and several remarked that the ”watch out when picking up the soap” (while of course an obvious exaggeration) is an American thing and does not work the same in British prisons. Clearly the amount of flex is heavily affected by cultural factors.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
23d ago
the current public understanding of "paedophilia" includes sex with physiologically mature teenagers who are
belowabove the local age of consent
Say you’d want to get it on with a cute 17 yo when you’re in your 30s and you will be accused of being a pedophile even though the age of consent is 16. It really is just a way to moral police something that gives the accusers the ick.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
25d ago
I think you really need a third group: Autists for whom desiring to be the other sex is just one weird thing about them among many. These are the people who say ”I don’t understand why X should be linked to sex” and actually mean it. They are the most likely ones you’re going to run into in techie online spaces (by a massive margin).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
26d ago
The media always run a "the new PM needs to call an early general election to seek a personal mandate" campaign because general elections are good for business.
Not related to the UK situation but I wonder if anyone else has given thought to just outright banning all sorts of op-eds from any media that pretends to be purveyor of news?
It appears to me that a lot of media outlets use the prestige from running news stories to elevate their opinion columns over that of some random guy ranting on the internet.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
28d ago
Anyway, in commercial law it is understood that both sides are expected to be negotiating in good faith. That is very much not true here.
That applies to literally everything Trump is involved in.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
29d ago
Flip. Flop. Flip. Flop.
As long as the flip flop stays, it all works out for everyone in the end.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
30d ago
Ashnazggimbatullah!
Which is why making such a claim about "most of the non-US West" when they really mean only UK and Ireland a ridiculous but sadly common thing here. The US is the only place where I've seen this strange obsession with statutory rape. Over here the cases I've seen in the news have been either obvious rape (where the victim being underage is merely an aggravating factor) or blatant child abuse and sexual assault.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
the non-US West, most of which legally considers "a fictional story about underage characters boinking" to be "a video of a real-life statutory rape".
Eh, what?
I can't speak for Central or Southern Europe but over here in Scandinavia there is certainly no such thing. Otherwise movies like Fucking Åmål would be illegal instead of being celebrated as box office and critical hits. Not only does it have a scene about underage characters boinking but the actors themselves were underage when it was filmed and released.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
German sauna culture
Excuse you?! German sauna culture?
That sort of weaksauce perversion of proper norms and slanderous cultural appropriation has no place being exposed to impressionable children and is something that should be grounds for immediate Cancellation!
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
That sounds like a pretty solid campaign promise to me.
Surely you mean Bigfoot if true?
... I'll get my coat.
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