Slighted (u/Slighted)

Slighted commented on Meta plans to lay off 10k employees about.fb.com/news/2023/03... · Posted by u/darnfish

pavlov · 3 years ago

It's a sexist alt-right meme because they associate soy with estrogen. In this imagined causality, someone who consumes soy milk would be more feminine, and of course women are bad programmers.

Slighted · 3 years ago

>sexist alt-right meme

Don't make me laugh. "Alt-right" is a stupid, nonsensical term made up by news corporations to serve as a convenient boogeyman, and the meme itself isn't sexist in the slightest. Elevated estrogen levels in men ARE detrimental for numerous reasons. This has nothing to do with women, period.

Soy is associated with elevated estrogen levels because of phytoestrogens. Whether or not they actually affect the human endocrine system isn't clear, but you can't deny the customers of Soylent products all share... similar traits.

Slighted commented on Meta plans to lay off 10k employees about.fb.com/news/2023/03... · Posted by u/darnfish

zht · 3 years ago

Sorry what is a soy latte programmer

Slighted · 3 years ago

A different version of "Soyboy" which itself is based off of the "Nu-Male" meme. Defining traits of a "Nu-Male" include (but are not limited to):

- A lack of masculine and mature traits (Excessively self-conscious, weak-willed, a canvas for [Current trends], potentially narcissistic)

- Beard-and-glasses aesthetic (Also previously known as the "Hipster" style)

- Terminally online and outspoken. Slacktivists

- Usually (but not always) "Leftists" with pronouns in their bio, LGBT+, BLM, Etc.

- Usually (but not always) white, male, and lives in urban areas (Portland, New York, SF, Etc.)

- Tries to come off as more intelligent than they usually are. Lacks perspective of the world at large.

And there is no shortage of these kinds of people on social media and in large technology-oriented organizations and corporations.

Slighted commented on Repairing a tiny ribbon cable inside a 28 year old IBM ThinkPad 701c blog.jgc.org/2023/03/repa... · Posted by u/jgrahamc

Slighted · 3 years ago

Man that must've been difficult. Great job on it!

Slighted commented on ChatGPT's API is so good and cheap, it makes most text generating AI obsolete minimaxir.com/2023/03/new... · Posted by u/minimaxir

zirgs · 3 years ago

One of the biggest drawbacks of ChatGPT is that OpenAI knows everything that its users are doing with it. Every prompt and its answer are being logged. Hackers might breach OpenAI systems and leak its data.

If you're Rockstar that's working on GTA 7 then you'll propbably want to keep all the AI written mission scripts, story ideas, concept art and other stuff like that on your own servers.

Slighted · 3 years ago

>Hackers might breach OpenAI systems and leak its data.

I think you should be more worried about OpenAI themselves instead of "Hackers".

Slighted commented on FreeCAD User Book (2019) bassmatifreecad.github.io... · Posted by u/app4soft

Slighted · 3 years ago

This is a good opportunity to bring up Blender. Its quite powerful as a full 3D suite and can be used for modeling in 3D printing.

Slighted commented on Discord, or the Death of Lore ascii.textfiles.com/archi... · Posted by u/pabs3

Shank · 3 years ago

I ran a Discord community that had the privilege of being "permanently banned" from Discord for "distributing cheats" for a game, which was reversed when we explained that no, we actually distribute anticheat software, and discussed cheats quite heavily in order to ensure that the anticheat software was effective. While the ban was reversed after much campaigning and cajoling, Discord Trust & Safety informed us that the data was lost forever.

Unfortunately, we just couldn't back down from the demands to have a discord server, and thus, one was eventually recreated. But the point stands: if you're in a Discord server of sufficient size for something you care about, take note that it can go up in-smoke. If it's a software project, you owe it to yourself to at least have GitHub Discussions so that people aren't railroaded into Discord for everything.

Slighted · 3 years ago

>Unfortunately, we just couldn't back down from the demands to have a discord server

Except you could've, and still can. People need to learn how to adapt. There's no reason a Discord server is necessary for distributing and discussing anticheat software. Thousands of much larger, more important projects are doing just fine without Discord™ servers, and part of it is the people with influence putting their feet down at the mention of Discord, a glorified spyware platform populated with the socially deprived. Discord is rarely ever a key piece of infrastructure necessary for advertising and documentation for the majority of projects that have one attached to themselves.

Slighted commented on Discord, or the Death of Lore ascii.textfiles.com/archi... · Posted by u/pabs3

Slighted · 3 years ago

That NSA datacenter in Utah is probably at what, a few hundred exabytes of capacity now? They should make themselves useful for once and repopulate all the dead images they've certainly collected over the past few decades.