Caveman

@ olafurp @lemmy.world

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22h ago

Is entertainment getting worse or am I getting old?
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Caveman @lemmy.world 22h ago
For youtube you should use Revanced and the subscriptions feed. No ads, no garbage recommendations but just a small amount of effort.
I think movies are worse now, I may be getting old but I the time between "Wow, that was a great movie" seems to be getting longer.
On the other hand, TV shows are getting better, when I watched Firefly recently (don't kill me) it was good but not great while The Bear and Ted Lasso are just amazing.
Anime is also getting better, there are new animes that are great being released all the time. Chainsaw Man, Frieren, Solo Levelling, Delicious Dungeon and Dan Da Dan are all great picks that came out recently.
I feel like Steam is also really great these days, there's a bit of a downturn in AAA game quality but the indie scene is going strong. Slay the Spire, Hades and Balatro all came out semi recently. You're better served with getting some gaming recommendations since the catalog is so full of games that are worth playing you'll have to quit your job to actually get through them. I really would like to dump another 100 hours into Factorio to get through the Space Age DLC.
All in all, yeah, things are getting enshittified but there's still plenty of entertainment that's good being released every day.

1d ago

You've probably met someone who has killed a person

Yeah, I think I've met 3 murderers, two before they murdered, one after the fact.

One was mentally unstable and sad, then made fun of, second I met was kind and normal, third was dumb bulky drug dealer that was also kind.

None of them were evil or psychopaths or any of those typical traits and it made me think that to become a murdered you have to be both unlucky and triggered in a meaningful way.

1d ago

Who can relate?

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Caveman @lemmy.world 1d ago

I go with "Do you know roughly how long this will take? 5m, half hour, hour, three hours?"

The answer will be either higher or lower end answer so you can get a ballpark estimate.

2d ago

How do I learn to "like" AI for work?

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Caveman @lemmy.world 2d ago

AI is pretty bad most things you do that are actually valuable so your critique definitely holds. It's bad for the environment and creates tech consolation and all round is creating around as many problems as it claims to solve.

AI as in neural networks are really good in most ways such as playing chess and detecting melonomas but I'm going to give some tips for spocifically LLMs.

Treat it as a dumb intern. You ask it to find research papers but you have to read them yourself to actually assess them. You can use it to draft an email but you still have to proofread it. You can use it to write code but expect bugs and unhandled edge cases.

I'm a software developer and I use an LLM to create code generators, internal tooling, a thing that takes a json and outputs SQL insert statements or to look up docs. The AI has not increased my productivity per se but the tooling I created with it has.

Another use case is to ask for critique, you paste some code block in and ask it to review performance for example and it can spot the "use a hash map there" cases pretty easily.

That's my 2 cents on the topic.

2d ago

Do you have strong opinions about universal basic income?

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Caveman @lemmy.world 2d ago

I have a moderately strong opinion. I used to be very pro full minimum wage UBI until I calculated how much it actually costs and realised that it's more than the entire budget of my country.

I feel like there's a lot of benefit in a BUI system though, a $500 a month UBI is a substantial difference for people, prevents starvation and so on. It should be done in increments.

Currently the everyone in Iceland gets a tax break of around $400 on the first income they make, this amount should be directly deposited to everyone instead as a start and have it renamed as "Basic assistance" or something.

Then since you already have a payout scheme you add in all other benefits that essentially modify the amount such as disabilities, unemployment, maternity, child support payments, retirement and so on.

Having a unified payment scheme and just checking if people are eligible for benefits is less beaurocracy than having each institution handle payments each month.

3d ago

Japan: Hundreds get car driving licences suspended for drink cycling

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Caveman @lemmy.world 3d ago

I get where you're going with this but it's not that dumb IMO, the maximum penalty absolutely is dumb.

If a person can barely cycle and obviously is drunk on a bike I think it's fair to assume that they're a danger to others so it should be illegal but the police shouldn't be breathalysing everyone.

With tweaks to the law I think it's fine:

Allow 0.3 instead of 0.15 so you can have two drinks and ride a bike. Bikes go a lot slower so the reaction time requirement is not the same.
Removing driving license for a non-traffic violation doesn't make sense, it disproportionately affects those that have licenses.
The fine and jailtime is ludicrous. Add in recklessly riding a bike for those such as riding too fast past pedestrians and jailtime for seriously injuring someone like breaking their leg or something.

Generally you want people to ride a bike instead of driving a car when drinking, it's a lot safer for everyone but still discourage it enough so people consider taking public transportation. If people walk their bike through crowds and then ride along empty streets just let them.

Bottom line, it's a good idea, but horrible execution.

3d ago

rule

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Caveman @lemmy.world 3d ago

Bacchus is very fond of the alcoholic/drug addict protagonist of Disco Elysium, Harry DuBois because he's the god of drinking and parties.

5d ago

If you automated 95% of your job, but still had to report to an office/cubicle, what would you do with your (40hrs)time?

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Caveman @lemmy.world 5d ago

You just need to find a hobby that you can do at work. Can be reading books, making music, playing video games, watching TV shows, chess etc.

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Caveman @lemmy.world 7d ago

I just at ~/projects it contains a boat load of stuff including my Neovim and bash stuff.

Guys, use GNU Stow + git for your configs shit's good.

7d ago

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Caveman @lemmy.world 7d ago

Gonna leave this here for those who need it. It's surprisingly fun to grind arithmetic skill.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sankhyantra.mathstricks

7d ago

Introverts Rock

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Caveman @lemmy.world 7d ago

I'm introverted and I got invited everywhere all the time. People liked inviting me because I always showed up and was dependable. Those people who invited me are still my friends today.