That’s fine, but most posts don’t get enough activity for need, I can get the vibe of all three comments with one glance.

Partially kidding, but I’ve never been overwhelmed by amount of lemmy comments like sometimes on other platforms, which I don’t use, where I might need tool like this.

local AI thread summary. If it’s local whatever but these threads ain’t long enough to need a summary.

I’m man and one of my favorite type of stories are historical stories with women who defy the gender roles of their time. Also in general historical stories from perspective of someone else than white guys. I find them empowering even though they are not about my empowerment. Also I just find the stories more interesting than watching just another historical war movie with almost all men except main characters wife at home or smth.

Although there is this “girlboss” archetype I see in movies I really hate. Kind of one that feels like a committee wrote feminist character because it sells. Well we are likely to see less of those with all the anti DEI stuff, so I guess monkey paw wish came true.

Most things aren’t very complex, if you divide them into small enough chunks. My niches are IT/audio/music. Many things in those can be initially offputting to newbies, but like 99% of what I know is not very hard in and of itself, it’s just hard because you lack the context of other things that are related but separate from that thing of itself, and those things are not that hard either. Most of the time all attempts to explain it to you have been just bad and convoluted, trying to explain several things at once.

When learned some music theory, I was almost angry at how hard my previous teachers had made some simple things made them out to be Like you could had explained that in like two or three sentences and elaborated on that, I would had understood immediately.

And many things even in seemingly unrelated categories share a lot of concepts, or at least similarities. Once you are knowledgeable about few subjects, it is really easy to build upon that, and learn other things quick, if they have any common ground with it.

Especially when you learn to make useful oversimplifications/heuristic thinking that are good tool to get a grasp before you dive into properly understanding the nitty gritty. This is dangerous if you don’t keep it in check, my manager seems to be only able to think this way, and doesn’t properly understand anything. But it can act as a filtering layer when presented with too much information, or incomplete, low quality information. I have done technical support and most problems are fixed like this, hence the classic " have you tried turning it off and on" default scenario. If it doesn’t work I actually engage my brain with it.

Thinking you are very smart, even if you are, is usually bad feature to build your personality around. Ofc it is good metacognitive skill to understand your strong features, and if intelligence seems to be one, more power to you. But smartness is just one thing, and you can’t objectively evaluate it. Plenty of “smart” but not wise people fucking shit up as it is, and you will likely have better luck with people if you don’t overindulge in this type of thinking.

I certainly have that, but have always also though thinking you are a fucking genious is counterproductive for ones learning and possibly social relationships, so I have tried to limit its hold of me, although not always successfully.

That being said, one last advice, most people are not very smart, and even if they are, they might be doing things out of external reasons, not internal. If you have at least modicum of intellect and lots of passion, it’s not that hard to be better than the most with just the power of genuine interest and longetivity.

Getting hired based on that skill is another thing, but if you truly care about getting good at something, you will soon realize many people aren’t even trying, at least on the standard for “trying” you have for yourself, and you will slowly but surely get better than them at that skill even if they are initially better. Not that it even matters as much to you as it does to them because you care about the thing itself more than their opinion.

While some things might need some natural ablities or benefit from them, most things can be learned with enough reps and continuous evaluation of your learning skills while at it.

Exactly. I know someone who is really smart and works in machine learning and when I listen to him in isolation, AI sounds like actually useful thing. Most people just are not smart like that, and most applications for AI are not very useful.

One of the things I often think is that AI makes it possible to do things that shouldn’t be done very easily and fast, that would had previously been too much effort or craft for some people, like now they can easily make website for whatever grift they are pushing.

This is not by default bad thing, if it is something you only use when you decide to do so, when you don’t have other subtitles available tbh. I hate AI slop too but people just go to monkey brain rage mode when they read AI and stop processing any further information.

I’d still always prefer human translated subtitles if possible. However, right now I’m looking into translating entire book via LLM cause it would be only way to read that book, as it is not published in any language I speak. I speak English well enough, so I don’t really need subtitles, just like to have them on so I won’t miss anything.

For English language movies, I’d probably just watch them without subtitles if those were AI, as I don’t really need them, more like nice to have in case I miss something. For languages I don’t understand, it might be good, although I wager it will be quite bad for less common languages.

Who has visited the country many times after his so called exodus.

In our teens me and my friend gave each other random items that had really dumb picture of the person who was giving the gift. T-shirts, mugs etc.

Name one socialist/communist nation that hasn’t been growth based industrialist economy? I think anything growth based is not gonna happen much longer, due to energy shortage, habitat loss, climate change, running out of critical minerals etc.

Sure I’m open for some degrowth socialism but don’t really believe that’s the way things gonna work out.

Eventually but I think society might need to collapse and rebuild in between, and that supporting this level of complex civilization isn’t gonna be possible, nor IMO desirable.

This is not to say we would go back to being cavemen, just that society has less tech and energy at its disposal and less people.

I guess we could get there without collapse, but I have zero faith in any kind of degrowth moment despite agreeing with it ideologically. This would help us avoid much death and suffering but it doesn’t seem to be priority for anyone in power.

If you are able to, I would almost always recommend changing.

That’s correct.

What I said to him among other things, “mee muualle siitä setämieheilemään” =" why don’t you go be ‘uncle man’ elsewhere."

Uncle man would be something used to call out middle aged men who are being nasty, usually for women much younger than them.

I called out man in his fifties being sleezy around women who didn’t have any company.

I roasted him , to which he responded “you are bad” (in my native language that word would specifically mean bad at something).

Bad at WHAT bro?

Only just downloaded previous alpha to decide it will become my daily driver once it’s more finished.

I’m using this one. https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard Once I downloaded dictionary for my native language+ English that came preinstalled, and granted permission to learn from my typing, it’s pretty good.

Not as good as swift key, but enough for my needs. I don’t use swipe typing but someone I know said it is alright.

Yeah I have been shut down so often it has made me apathetic towards my job, as usually within few months we have a problem because we didn’t do what I told to do.

Even without intrinsic motivation, I think in certain tasks it’s unethical to be careless.

I used to work in kitchens. Hated it. But still be extra careful with allergies and special diets and hygiene, because not doing so might affect people negatively, people who don’t have anything to do with why I hate my job.

It can be same in more abstract ways in somewhere like IT or audio, like taking care of cyber security.

But when that doesn’t apply, slack off as hard as I can.

Equally related to work, I’m someone who has been quiet quitting for a while, and generally have rather “Graeberistic” view about work.

But I simultaneously want to be very competent at what I do, and get easily annoyed by incompetence. I slack of as much as I can if my employer treats me badly, but when I actually do something I want to do it well.

My line of work is IT / Audio, but in a job which I hopefully quit really soon for new one.

This, and if you eat vegan, it will also limit the damage done to bugs as a result of smaller land use. I’m vegan with no exceptions, but I don’t really give a fuck about being vegan in some weird absolute way like “can I sit on leather chair at my friends”. Instead of that, veganism is just an attempt to reduce suffering, with full understanding that it is never going to remove it, and that there are other ways to to reduce suffering in the world without being vegan, which I also try to implement in my life.

If I need something, I do my own investigation and buy whatever suits my needs. I don’t need anyone to manufacture needs for me, not that it would work any way.

That, and I’m against any and all information poison and commercials are exactly that.

Sauna, Changing jobs. However now that I have new job but no contract yet, and hence have not yet given my 2 weeks, my Sunday scaries are extra bad until that happens.