IAmVeraGoodAtThis

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[–] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

None that aren't at least in some way corporate. Maybe in another life, who knows. Or in a few years we'll have something that's actually useful and not corpo owned. With that out of the way, I've heard of but not tested these two:

  • Guilded is basically discord but not yet enshittified
  • Revolt.chat looks interesting, seems to be still in beta, is European, and iirc it's developed by a non-profit
[–] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Matrix is not a good platform. Especially as a discord replacement. All clients suck in their own unique ways, and so does server software. It doesn't have any meaningful moderation tools. It doesn't have half the user facing discord features (like streaming or functional pins). The search sucks.

You're not getting out of the corporate hellhole that easily

[–] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

First off, no, not even boilerplate can be done incorrectly sometimes. Software that ingests words and outputs words can't check, say, official forms for correctness. Or test reports. You need a different type of reasoning for that.

And then, even if we assume that AI can do these tasks correctly, boilerplate isn't being just offloaded, it's being created. Sure, we've had bullshit generators before. But now our bullshit machines are faster, and spew out more believable bullshit. Google has been ruined by generated slop. That's work that wasn't performed before, doesn't improve our lives and yet is being done.

[–] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

What a dumb comparison. Calculators are just tools to do the same mechanical action as abaci, which were also just tools to speed up human mechanical actions of calculation.

Writing, drawing, research are creative, not mechanical, and offloading them to a tool is very different from offloading calculations to integrated circuits

[–] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

OP read that Boost may contain code used for tracking, then started spewing some conspiracy that "Boost is tracking your data for profiling and more!" without any proof or any actual research.

This has actually been on my mind for a while now. Louis Rossmann and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race. He and his ilk talk about profiling in terms so sensationalist ("data stealing", "spying") that any connection to reality goes out the window and people become conspiratorial and paranoid. All reasoning about why it happens gets flattened to "they're evil" and there's no way to actually engage with the reasons.

[–] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What about "user@not_domain"? It validates but isn't valid - there's no domain part, the @ is quoted

I've been both of these to the same person (or at least that's how I read their response).

Turns out, autism is not a monolith. Who knew?

[–] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

(1)(3)(5)

Fight me. Also, one of these is a function

Welp, there's nothing to lose I think. I'm gonna give it a shot and see if it works

 

I've been using Boost(s) since the APIcalypse since I mod a dead subreddit. A few hours ago the app stopped showing content and started showing errors. Is it just a me thing or is this more general?

[–] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Math is a language and as such it's less pure than sociology. The universe knows no numbers, it knows no addition not division.

[–] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Which is why you should:

  1. Preallocate the vector if you can guesstimate the size
  2. Use a vector library that won't reallocate the entire vector on every single addition (like Rust, whose Vec doubles in size every time it runs out of space)

Memory is fairly cheap. Allocation time not so much.

[–] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this a reference to Bergson v Einstein?

If it is, why am I aware of it?

 
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