It enables unskilled people to punch above their weight class, similar to giving a chainsaw to a toddler.

I’ve used them a little for coding, but it’s not always correct. It’s often incorrect in subtle ways. Or inefficient in non obvious ways. It gets worse as you build more.

Often it’s better overall to do it yourself if you know what you’re doing. If you stick to letting the LLM do it, you won’t learn much.

I don’t think I’ve blocked anybody, but I mostly don’t read names. Sometimes I wonder if I’m having a metaphorical fist fight in one thread and a love fest in another with the same person.

It’s eclipsed (no pun intended) by the horrors of war, disease, and conservatism. It’s hard to be excited about the moon when there’s measles outbreaks and at least one genocide.

“too good to go”. Cheap food from places near the end of their business day. Like a whole pizza for $6.

Living someplace with usable mass transit is pretty nice.

Gas is too cheap relative to its real costs anyway.

Cool. I hope it succeeds.

Coincidentally, I was taken as a plus-1 to a Broadway musical, “Ragtime”, this month. I normally don’t go out much for theater, but it was free so I went.

It wasn’t bad. The style of music isn’t my jam, but it had some fun parts.

Also interesting is the play’s message seems to be “the only way you’ll get something approaching justice is violence” and I’m not sure if that’s the author’s intent.

Technically yes, but it’s ancient and almost never used. Someone got me one of those toy NES things that’s plugged into it, but I don’t use it much

. I need to donate the tv (no one on free cycle offered to take it) or send it to an e-waste place. It’s very heavy so it mostly just sits there.

I just saw a play that has a plot point about how someone gets robbed by some racist, well connected shits, and the police won’t do anything to help. The closest he gets to justice is vigilantism, where he hunts down and shoots 3 of his assailants dead. Only then does anyone start to listen to him, but when he agrees to talk peacefully they shoot him dead.

I’m not sure “the only way you’ll get justice is with your own bloody hands” was the author’s intent, but that seems to be the message.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-gooder_derogation

Some people are very fragile and have poor emotional regulation. When they see other people doing good, it makes them feel bad, so they lash out.

Environmentalism, biking, veganism, all commonly evoke this behavior.

If I’d made 500k for a couple years I’d be happily retired at like 40. Buy a home for less than $1mm, then live off the interest and safe investments

Rich people are bad at money.

I switched to Linux a year or two ago. Pretty much every game I’ve played has worked fine. (Elden ring, guild wars 2, nioh2, pillars of eternity…)

Even non-steam stuff was basically click and go with Heroic launcher

Posting this from the train. It’s pretty great.

Took the train to another part of the city. Walked around until I found a little bar with food. Saw a show. Now I’m taking the train back.

Seriously, folks, how hard is it to just walk away?

I read recently that “will power” doesn’t meaningfully exist, but it’s rather the result of many other factors. That said, many people seem to be bankrupt of what one would call willpower. I don’t know why.

Maybe it’s the capitalist hell scape. Maybe it’s the plastic in our bodies. Maybe people are just largely social followers, and with a large enough contingent of idiots many people who would behave better follow down into the slop.

Most players are only half paying attention, and are badly trained by video games to assume every NPC is telling them the truth.

I had a player once I think of as the worst player I’ve ever had. Easily confused, impulsive, and very bad at sticking to a coherent character. They’d be all “I’m a soldier I follow orders!” in one scene, and “fuck what my commander said I’m going awol” the next.

I think a lot about one time I had an NPC lie to her PC’s face. The NPC was in faction mildly unfriendly towards the PC’s faction, and the PC was looking for one of theirs. The NPC told a mildly implausible lie about the guy’s whereabouts, and the player’s brain just ground to a halt when following up on it was a dead end.

“So no one here has heard of the guy?”

“Seems so.”

“But other-guy said he was here.”

“He did.”

“So where is he?”

“Not here, so far as you can tell.”

“But he said he would be.”

“He did.”

“And no one here has heard of him?”

“Seems so.”

The other players lost their patience and pointed out that maybe the NPC was lying, and it wasn’t the GM making a mistake or misunderstanding.

I don’t think it was especially worth it, but maybe lying would work better with a better player.

Anyway. You also don’t want to train your players to go “INSIGHT CHECK” during every interaction, and if you have someone lie once they’ll probably be paranoid for years. Same problem with traps, once. You burn them with a floor trap once, and then they’re all 10’ poles and chickens

I affectionately call lemmy “the commie site”, but my current instance I think defederated with a lot of the spicier places.

but because nobody in a car would stop to help a pedestrian anyway

Yes. I believe this has been well known since at least the 1960s, as I think Jane Jacobs wrote about it in “death and life of great American cities”.

Cars remove people from the community. A driver cruising along at 25+ mph isn’t going to see much, and stopping is far more difficult than on foot.

Late Afternoon? I work from home. I shower before going out into the world socially.

They also say that park roads can become more deserted without a steady stream of cars, raising public safety concerns.

Pro-car people will reach for any excuse.

The only cars that should be in parks are emergency vehicles during actual emergencies.

I really dislike when the cop cars cruise through. There’s one by me where they park at an entrance, causing a blind spot for any cyclists.

Work in a big multi national company. not a software company, but I’m on an engineering team.

Leadership makes a lot of noises about AI.

The engineers can’t even use git competently. I’ve suggested quietly maybe we should focus on learning software fundamentals instead of chasing dreams but no one here listens to me.