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Ephera

@ Ephera @lemmy.ml

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10m ago

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 10m ago
I don't get it...

4h ago

2026-03-13

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 4h ago

Well, if you've ever wondered why you don't see worms playing the drums, this is the reason...

4h ago

Unemployment part 2 - Thailand

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 4h ago

A colleague is leaving the job at the end of the month and our vacation booking system said she had 16 vacation days left, so she booked those at the end of the month, her supervisor approved, she handed over all her tasks, returned the hardware and everything, and thought she was done working here.

On her first day off, the supervisor calls her to let her know that she can't actually take that many vacation days. Because she quit in the first quarter of the year, she only gets a quarter of the vacation days for the year, which the vacation booking system did not account for and well, the supervisor had not noticed while approving either.

Like, it's kind of just how the contract and laws and everything works. I don't know, if the supervisor offered to convert it to unpaid leave, but that's kind of the only real thing, they could've done here. But yeah, still just such a dumb situation after all...

13h ago

Three women with a 'constipated' car, USA?, ~1926

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 13h ago

Interesting that number plates were already a thing back then.

Apparently quite a bit earlier even:

France was the first country to introduce the registration plate with the enactment of the Paris Police Ordinance on 14 August 1893, followed by Germany in 1896.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plate#History

1d ago

Thirst

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Yeah, I consider it silly/destructive to exclude apes from monkeys:

Apes emerged within monkeys as sister of the Cercopithecidae in the Catarrhini, so cladistically they are monkeys as well. However, there has been resistance to directly designate apes (and thus humans) as monkeys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey

A.k.a. "humans are not animals" with extra steps, which has always been used for dodging moral questions.

And it's just a shot from top-down at an angle, so you can't see the rest of his body or neck.

It looks like a chimpanzee to me, so this would be the diet:

The chimpanzee is an omnivorous frugivore. It prefers fruit above all other food, but it also eats leaves, leaf buds, seeds, blossoms, stems, pith, bark, and resin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee#Diet

1d ago

Thirst

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Somehow this really drives home how unhealthy that shit looks. Not that I've ever seen a human drink it, but it still feels like humans consume so much garbage food anyways (especially those that would drink this stuff voluntarily), that it doesn't make much of a difference in the end.

Meanwhile, this monkey eats healthy foods his whole life, so a gulp of colored sugar water with extra chemicals just feels much worse in comparison.

1d ago

defcon: diaper

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Has he considered sending a message to the guy directly rather than posting about it on social media?

1d ago

"Modern" problems require modern solutions

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Ah yeah, that seems to be it. When I drop my keys in the right place, it goes into suspend. If I lift them back off afterwards, it wakes back up.

Neat. 🙃

1d ago

Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Yeah, management wants us to use AI at $DAYJOB and one of the strategies we've considered for lessening its negative impact on productivity, is to always put generated code into an entirely separate commit.

Because it will guess design decisions at random while generating, and you want to know afterwards whether a design decision was made by the randomizer or by something with intelligence. Much like you want to know whether a design decision was made by the senior (then you should think twice about overriding this decision) or by the intern that knows none of the project context.

We haven't actually started doing these separate commits, because it's cumbersome in other ways, but yeah, deliberately obfuscating whether the randomizer was involved, that robs you of that information even more.

1d ago

Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Yeah, that's my biggest worry. I always have to hold colleagues to the basics of programming standards as soon as they start using AI for a task, since it is easier to generate a second implementation of something we already have in the codebase, rather than extending the existing implementation.

But that was pretty much always true. We still did not slap another implementation onto the side, because it's horrible for maintenance, as you now need to always adjust two (or more) implementations when requirements change.And it's horrible for debugging problems, because parts of the codebase will then behave subtly different from other parts. This also means usability is worse, as users expect consistency.

And the worst part is that they don't even have an answer to those concerns. They know that it's going to bite us into the ass in the near future. They're on a sugar high, because adding features is quick, while looking away from the codebase getting incredibly fat just as quickly.

And when it comes to actually maintaining that generated code, they'll be the hardest to motivate, because that isn't as fun as just slapping a feature onto the side, nor do they feel responsible for the code, because they don't know any better how it actually works. Nevermind that they're also less sharp in general, because they've outsourced thinking.

1d ago

Finally, an optimal monitor configuration!

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Oh yeah, I was kind of playing devil's advocate. It is certainly also cursed in many ways...

2d ago

france rule

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

trance

2d ago

Lets give killer drones to the AI, what could go wrong?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

"Physical AI" is also what they've started calling robots...

2d ago

Alpha sardine vs beta chicken

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Giving this person all of the doubts and then some: Chicken often get fed estrogen to force their growth. I believe, traces of this estrogen can still be found in the meat. And then there was also a myth that this estrogen could affect the cup size, in both women and men.

So, maybe there's some half-knowledge of a myth in there and that's why their misbelief, that avoiding estrogen makes them manly, somehow lead them to cut out chicken meat...?

To give any source at all, this looks like a pretty comprehensive discussion, although no idea if it is trustworthy: https://featheredfarmlife.com/chicken-and-hormones-separating-fact-from-fiction/

2d ago

Alpha sardine vs beta chicken

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Was gonna say "dynamosaur" as a joke, then figured there's gotta be an anime with that name.

Turns out the T-rex would've almost been called that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specimens_of_Tyrannosaurus#Dynamosaurus:_NHMUK_R7994

2d ago

Finally, an optimal monitor configuration!

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Hmm, that is kind of cool, in that you can have text on all 4 sides and it's still generally readable. Not really possible for vertical panels...

2d ago

"Modern" problems require modern solutions

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Today, I noticed that my glasses case sticks to my work laptop like a magnet.I played around with it for a few seconds, then the thought struck me, that it might be my glasses case that's magnetic, and I might be fucking up the electronics or the HDD or something by holding it close to my laptop. Pulled away real quick then. 😅

I did try with my keys later, and well, turns out that it's my work laptop that's magnetic, so I guess, I wasn't fucking anything up after all...

2d ago

How much would one have to post/comment to be one of the top Lemmy users?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

I think, you could replicate it by creating an invite-only instance that federates with no other instances.

...Which makes this whole concept sound exactly as weird as I assume it is. Like, was there a point to these communities? It just sounds like a smaller audience, with no real reason to post there...

3d ago

Preisschock bei Düngemitteln: Krieg in Golfregion setzt Landwirtschaft weltweit unter Druck, auch in Österreich

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 3d ago

Soja benötigt keinen Stickstoffdünger

Oh, stimmt. Soja ist eine Bohne. Bohnen und andere Hülsenfrüchte nehmen Stickstoff aus der Luft und fixieren es im Boden:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stickstoffkreislauf

Vielleicht können wir wieder die Dreifelderwirtschaft einführen. 🥴

3d ago

My PC boots faster than my monitor turns on

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 3d ago

Arch basically happens at a granularity of individual packages. You decide from the ground up which packages you actually need, which is how you end up with a comparatively minimal setup.

But yeah, if the package itself is big, then Arch doesn't usually deal with that. The Linux kernel comes with drivers for most hardware out of the box, which you can remove, if you know you won't need that hardware.And while this can also be done on Arch, it is Gentoo's thing to do precisely that.