Well, spaghetti / horrible code would be the quick answer, right? But otherwise, yeah. Why not?

I used to program a long time ago across 2-3 languages, but IMO you kinda need a sharpish mind to focus in properly. I just don’t have that anymore, and I’m not sure that everyone does in the first place, sane? (as the Jamaicans say)

Being a parent is not a hobby as far as I’m concerned.

I get that, but I don’t claim to know that person’s situation, and personally wouldn’t presume.

Many people are overloaded already and have limited time, energy and motivation to learn and master a certain new skill. If that person was producing AI slop or something like that, then that would be a different story to me.

“I don’t like doing it” implies to me that they can do it, but they find it a chore. “I’d rather not get in to it” implies to me that they don’t have much experience at it, and maybe find it intimidating or too much for them to handle at this time.

Both seem like valid reasons to me to use an available tool as a workaround.

Programming requires a certain amount of learning, dedication, and mindset. I’m not going to slag someone off because they’d rather not get in to it.

What’s so terrible about the comment? It sounds like they’re using an LLM to help make a bunch of things a little easier for them to deal with.

I use GPT all the time for doing complex searches that traditional search engines can’t handle. I ask for citations so I can verify the information, and it’s saved me a tonne of trouble.

Didnt humans “pretty much live the same lives” for like hundreds of years before the industrial revolution?

There have been major tech & lifestyle shifts that happened throughout sapiens history, and the order is roughly:

• The Cognitive Evolution about 50-70Kyrs ago, which coincided with a permanent move out of Africa. Total population was ~10K humans, similar to the other great apes. Art was invented, ritual graves, fishing, tool use exploded.
• The Neolithic and Agricultural Revolutions of 10-12Kyrs ago, in which our lifestyle drastically changed. Total population was ~5M humans. We went from hunter-gather tribal peoples to farmers and chiefs tied to specific areas.
• The large-scale civilisations of the Fertile Crescent, in which writing and laws were invented. Maybe ~6Kyrs ago?
• The empires of ~2-3Kyrs ago, in which plumbing, sophisticated roads, democracy and complex political bodies came in to use (etc, etc)
• The Renaissance of ~500yrs ago, in which science began to have an explosive impact on technology.
• Modern capitalism, which changed the game in any number of ways. Maybe ~150yrs later.
• The Industrial Revolution ~225-250yrs ago, another huge game-changer.

And you know the rest. All of it happening faster & faster, with very little brakes and very little regard for wiser heads.

Slava Ukraini, I have a job for you, if you want it.

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Well if it works, it works, n’est ce pas?

I do however have a penchant for programmable loops. Dunno why I stopped listening to those…

There are some online sites in which one can press switches to turn on & off nature sound loops to create a personal mix. I can’t seem to find the one I used to use, but here’s something adjacent:

https://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php

Or grey noise, whatever works.

There’s a whole spectrum of colors of noise. All similar, but different.

Wow… that could make for a brilliant follow-up post here!!

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I’ve seen at least one video of a fly or housefly that seemingly pulled its own head off when grooming. (I do suspect that the head / neck was probably damaged by something else, first)

Then the fly flies off and goes about its day. From what I understand, they can actually live for a while like that, if in a bumbling sort of way. But with no way of absorbing moisture & nutrition, they do die prematurely.

You might be interested in learning about Mike the headless chicken, who lived for 18mos after being beheaded:

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

Well, shit, that sounds really weird.

Are you in a position in which you can take that to Lemmy-World-Help…?

I like the UI we have, simple, sleek, easy to use

I want to point out that the UI can very widely when hooked up to the Lemmy side of the FV. It can look significantly different from PF or Lemmy desktop and all the various apps that hook in, with different kinds of features and abilities.

With Reddit declaring war on 3rd-party apps, the user experience there is either their godawful in-house app or browser mode old / new. Just for comparison’s sake.

…in which you post to directly connect to other people…

I’m pretty sure that a big part of that perception simply stems from Reddit’s userbase being so much bigger. The ability to connect is also endemic in the Lemmy / PF structure, it just doesn’t have the number of users to facilitate that.

With the filters and barriers I mean inviting people in, any type of people, advertising Lemmy more over the internet and I don’t like using this word but as I can’t think of an alternative right now “recruiting” people without filtering them out.

AFAIK all that’s pretty much going to be down to word of mouth / etc, as always.

Timmy from reddit may be super right wing and close-minded…

People like that have been a thing forever from what I’ve seen, and indeed I think there’s a certain bias for non-ideal users who couldn’t fit in to Reddit joining the FV and other places. It many ways it makes things a bit harder and weirder here.

Big agree with all that. Also, I’m curious what OP might mean by this:

As you relax filters and barriers to entry

Does that just mean the usual improving of interface & features over time?

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Nice work as always, OP.

The film “Ed Wood” is such a loving, hilarious tribute to her and many more. (like “Criswell” for one)

I guess this was a fun post in that the very last thing I cared about was the actual quality of the item in question, but it was interesting to hear all these reactions from all of you who do. Too bad the product wasn’t better-quality, but oh well.

Seems to ring true with the javascript mess over there.