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  • You invent so much of my side of the conversation. You argue with what you'd prefer I had said because it's so easy to disagree with and knock down. You've invented this whole nonsense viewpoint and life history for me just so you can come across as more sensible. But it's insane because it has almost nothing to do with what I said and everything to do with your prejudices and your inability to have some self control over your judgementalism and your condemnatory impulses.

    You've gotta be rightwing.

    Bad people who make bad choices deserve all the bad things that come their way and some more flung at them by you just to show them how wrong they are? That's where you're coming from here.

  • That was a very perceptive and very clarifying comment. Thank you.

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  • Uhhh... Um? I don't get it. Sorry.

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  • Congratulations on ignoring literally everything I said and arguing with some fictitious person who is "body positive" about obesity or who doesn't think it's a problem. I mean, I've come across straw man arguments before, but this one takes the biscuit.

    You think your hate and contempt can fix other people, but you're very, very, very wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if you shout at homeless people or at last rant about them for half an hour behind their backs.

    Also congrats on completely, utterly and comprehensively falling the self control challenge I set you.

    Turns out your self control in some things is at absolute zero.

    Still really proud of yourself? I bet you really are, because you're not very introspective so far today.

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  • Obesity is literally a self control issue.

    You sound like you don't believe in ADHD “just finish what you started, have some impulse control!“, or autism "read the room, don't be so literal and stop getting distracted by noise and light, just ignore it".

    It night be plausible that most people can just avoid the first cigarette or the first spliff or the first anything, but no one can avoid food, and some people's biology, their hormonal balance, their brain chemistry, mental health, shit, just their metabolic rate can make them have a very, very different order of magnitude of problems with food.

    So it's easy for you to have self control around food and balance your calorie intake with exercise? Great, good for you, but stop acting all morally superior for not having problems in your life.

    Get lost with that judgemental "it's simple" shit and try to learn a bit of self control yourself over what kind of nasty judgementalism you're spouting online without thinking about other people.

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  • No need. Australians learn to hold their phones upside down from when they're young teenagers. They're used to it. It's better for beating off the dropbears in an emergency too.

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  • I would like to thank you for this comment, which I enjoyed a great deal.

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  • .ml is blocked in China? Wild.

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  • Are you the legendary Poem for your sprog of yore?!

  • They may have come to this decision through experience.

    Having used it a bit, I find it's like someone a bit stupid with a lot of time on their hands, but no knowledge, saying "I'll learn everything you need to know from Google and write you an answer", just speeded up a lot. And just as frustrating.

  • And you have to wade through so much to find the right one. Or type in AI wait a minute and get the answer.

    Uhhh, type in AI, wait a minute and get an answer. How are you checking it? rm - f / isn't the only filesystem footgun.

    I'm finding AI to be right roughly only 60% of the time, and it's as bad and hallucinatory about shell scripts as it is about everything else.

    It will happily admit its mistakes and give you another answer when you call it out, but it's no more likely to be right that time.

  • It's fair to say that the environmental and ethical concerns are significant and I wouldn't look down in anyone refusing to use AI for those reasons. I don't look down on vegetarians or vegans either - I don't have to agree with someone's moral stance or choices to respect them.

    But you're right, LLMs are full of crap.

  • For me, it's all about the maintenance now. If it encourages you to write messy code, you will come to loathe your codebase. If it gives you clean, easy to navigate code you will love it more and more.

    When I was a young programmer I couldn't abide any boilerplate at all and loved clever magic that made it disappear. Now I don't mind a bit of boilerplate and hate non-obvious machinery.

    When I was young I bought the promise that object oriented programming would solve the software complexity problem, but now I think that at best it's neutral and sometimes it makes it worse.

  • What's revanced? I'm not especially keen to give Google my money either. They fall into the category of businesses that have way too much money and power already.

  • I don't pay for music unless I buy the track or album.

  • All depends what your trade offs are. "Milliseconds of run time versus months of debugging." I know one team that were died in the wool C programmers but their baby had one too many security issues and their CTO said they had to reimplement it all in rust. One of them resigned but the others spent ages on it. They hated the borrow checker with a passion, almost as much as they hated the CTO, but after a bit they admitted it had some benefits and in the end they have a love/hate relationship with it. They hate the process still, but they love the result. The Milliseconds vs months quote is from my friend on that team. He said one subsystem had a seriously massive speed boost because they turned off the logging they used to do to recover from some infrequent intermittent bug that simply doesn't happen any more. They're proud of what they did.

  • YouTube music won't play in the background though, so it's a pain whilst driving and navigating traffic or routes. Some of my friends make playlists on there and share them, so I do use it sometimes.

    But absolutely use the service that brings you joy, not the ones that I prefer!

  • Are you sure about this? Do you have proof?

    When Google explains in their privacy policy that their Fonts API collects your browsing data, I believe them. Without proof.

    https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy

    When I embed Google Fonts in my website via the Google Fonts Web API, what data does Google receive from my website visitors?

    When end users visit a website that embeds Google Fonts, their browsers send HTTP requests to the Google Fonts Web API. The Google Fonts Web API serves the Google Fonts Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and subsequently the font files specified in the CSS to the users. Such HTTP requests include(1) the IP address used by the respective user to access the Internet,(2) the requested URL on the Google server, and(3) HTTP headers including the user agent describing the website visitors’ Internet browser and operating system versions as well as the referer (i.e. the webpage on which the Google font is to be displayed).

  • Soundcloud lets you play any song you want at any time, even on the free tier, and when you ask it to play a playlist, it only plays songs on the playlist.

    You can have recommendations from an algorithm if you choose, but it's encouraged rather than enforced.

    There are a lot more independent artists on it, and fewer big labels, or at least it feels that way because it doesn't seem to prioritise big labels over some person I've never heard of.

    Spotify has an annoy-users-until-they-pay model. If you deliberately piss me off, you're not getting any of my money. Soundcloud just has ads.