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• It’s worse than that, because “to queue something” can mean “to add it to a queue” such as to the queue of music. In some music players, queueing a track while nothing is playing will also start playing it. So in that specific circumstance, the meaning is pretty much the same.

  But the idiom is broader than that; you could say “cue man falling out of window” to mean that a man should fall out of a window right now. There’s no queue of people falling out of windows, I hope.

  on \*queue epic home depot music\* in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9h ago

• If you either pronounce e and a the same, or s and sh the same, it’s a fine pun. But with both being different in English, it’s bad IMO

  on redis cluster in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1d ago

• The original comment is in English. The “übersetzen” link is to translate to German.

  I have never seen “spielen” be translated as “to touch”. On the other hand, colloquial English using “touch” as a whimsical way of saying “interact with” is common among my English-speaking friends.

  on asking the existential questions here in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1d ago

• We pronouncing “redis” like “radish” now?

  

  on redis cluster in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1d ago

• Never played WoW - so many lives were ruined at university that it was basically a cautionary tale. Don’t do crack, don’t do WoW. Been playing some Big Walk recently though, and I think the appeal is the same - it’s a chill activity to do with friends. Played a lot of Deep Rock Galactic previously and I think it’s the same (on haz 3) - a load of chill busywork, a bit of more exciting fighting, then back to chill and chat. Haz 4+ is a bit more focused.

  on MMO Quests Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2d ago

• Do you enjoy the fights in WoW/Skyrim/whatever? If so, surely an uninspiring quest is still fun because it gets you to engage with a fun mechanic?

  If not, then you can at least understand that other people do?

  on MMO Quests Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2d ago

• Cats are dumb and stubborn. Mine start to get annoying about 1-2h before they’re fed in the morning. I solved this by feeding them later, which not everyone can do.

  on Cats Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 Sep 2026

• Sounds insufferable!

  on Tomato rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 Sep 2026

• Do holes make it directly hurt more or just go faster?

  on Healthy ruleationship in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 Sep 2026

• But the bit of the post I’m talking about isn’t about students.

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• Uh, yes?

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• I think it is what the original post is talking about - it literally says “We’re doing this in software now … Nobody’s asking what happens in month 18”!

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• Oh, I have read it.

  Luddites were strongly motivated by loss of jobs. The article refers to this, and you can find plenty of examples of pamphlets and letters about this:

  

  http://faculty.humanities.uci.edu/bjbecker/SpinningWeb/week8d.html ("We know that it have been mentioned to our great men and Ministers in Parliament by them that have Factorys how many poor they employ, forgetting at the same time how many more they would employ were they to have it done by hand as they used to do.")

  You can characterise this as “technology should serve the common man, not the rich people” through a modern lens of class struggle, but the clear motivation at the time was simply loss of employment and the problems that brought. If they had a more complex understanding like I think you’re voicing, I think you would see their ire directed elsewhere rather than destroying the machines.

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• This is probably overly pessimistic/optimistic (depending on your outlook) in terms of timing. You won’t forget how to code after 18 months of using AI to do it instead; if you decide to go cold turkey, or OpenAI turns the screws on pricing, or whatever, you’ll be back in the swing of things in no time. The lesson from schools is that junior programmers who are learning now are not going to gain the same ability we did. (Besides that they’re finding it difficult to get hired because the AI can do junior programming fairly OK, that is). So the problem won’t be in 18 months; it’ll be in a few years at least, from that point of view.

  There’s the separate question of architecture and code quality; by this point we’ve probably all seen the impenetrable morass that vibe coding leads to. That, I’m guessing, will cause problems much sooner.

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• You think we should all be hand-weaving textiles because power looms took jobs away? 🤔

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• This one I’ve not seen. It seems fairly ok at not going completely batshit like that. But the design, layout and comments tend to be awful. It’s pretty good at solving isolated tasks though.

  on Peer reviewing is torture now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026

• REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  on Peer reviewing is torture now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 11 Sep 2026

• You think asking a question - providing the opportunity to give this answer - is chicken shit?

  Sorry but this is one of the problems of our time. It’s not the job of a journalist to ask questions whose premises you agree with for goodness’ sake.

  on The Wirule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 Sep 2026

• Thanks, that’s not something I’d heard, I’ll see if I can find out more

  on let go rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 Sep 2026

• This is an interesting perspective. In the case of JK it contradicts my understanding of the timeline but I’m only remembering some account I heard ages ago…

  I think there is a synthesis though, because I think your social entrenchment could quite happily take place offline or online or “parasocially” if you prefer. Someone with offline friends who are reinforcing their beliefs is unlikely to be deprogrammed by the internet, but someone who doesn’t have many of those offline friends can be influenced. (Or they could work in concert)

  on let go rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 Sep 2026

• I think you’re focusing on what she could have done differently, and I’m focusing on what I believe will inevitably happen to some people, even if individuals can choose differently. So I’m not saying that “she needed to be on Twitter and engage”. I’m not disagreeing that you can attribute blame to her for engaging in that way, besides blame for her initial opinions.

  I’m saying that, from a practical perspective, you can think all of that, but still acknowledge that many people just are not good at disengaging from criticism, and that services like Twitter will inevitably attract people because they’re designed to attract people. So it would be a good idea to try and move away from ways of acting which tend to cause that.

  Basically I think we can break down JK’s personality into three initial relevant features:

  • somewhat bigoted
  • the kind of person to want to use twitter
  • stubborn in the face of criticism

  Of these, I think only the first is a true flaw and worthy of blame. The second would carry some blame nowadays but back then it wasn’t owned by a Nazi. The second and third both describe a huge portion of humanity. I use Mastodon and other social media, so I don’t feel like I can judge someone negatively for being the same, and I too can be stubborn in the face of criticism, as can many people I know, so same. But bigotry is clearly wrong.

  All this means I really only feel like it’s valid to judge JK as if she were the somewhat bigoted person she originally was, rather than today’s turbo-Nazi version of her.

  on let go rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 Sep 2026

• I really disagree that twitter arguments are the same as “moderate criticism”. Even if every single person who criticises someone does so moderately and reasonably, which is already very unlikely, simply being moderately criticised by hundreds of thousands of people is not something the human mind is equipped to deal with in a healthy way.

  on let go rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 Sep 2026

• All that is true but I think we need to acknowledge how JK started off a fairly moderate TERF and only became what she is today because of the interaction of her stubbornness with the reaction she got. If the goal is fewer bigots, there are lessons there for how to deal with TERFs.

  on let go rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 Sep 2026

• With some minor adaptations, step 1 can still be “cut a hole in the box”

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026

• My take is that people who say “transitioning is worshipping yourself” mean it like “it’s done for your own idea of yourself, not for your god-given one”.

  It seems very unlikely to me that any transphobic Christian thinks transitioning is anything like “surpassing” God by being able to change oneself, because:

  • humans change themselves every day in many ways. A lot of these ways are uncontroversial. Learning changes oneself, for example. Christianity is all about the change of baptism and the change in forgiveness.
  • the constancy of God is not generally seen as a limitation or flaw.

  On the other hand, “it’s not God’s will” is given as a reason or excuse to oppose many things that can be seen as “unnatural”. More innocuous examples are the many religions and denominations which forbid cutting (some of) the hair, often with the reason that God gave it you so you should keep it how it is.

  And while this principle generally isn’t applied consistently at all - (uncontroversial) medical interventions are surely as “unnatural” as transition, but are opposed only by the loopiest of religious people - that doesn’t mean it isn’t the principle behind any particular bit of thinking, such as opposition to medical care for trans people. (I think folks often call out inconsistencies of thought as if it reveals that the true reasoning must lie elsewhere… as if humans are incapable of holding inconsistent beliefs :P)

  on This rules in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026

• interested but skeptical.

  on bike rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026

• I don’t understand, what scandal was the Golden State involved in?

  on Color Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026

• People who describe this as a problem with headlight technology are idiots. The problem is over-bright headlights shining in people’s eyes, regardless of the technology.

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026

• It’s getting worse in Europe too.

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026

• True but it’s what I thought about so you may draw your own conclusions

  on The cure! in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 Sep 2026

• If you have an obligation to speak up, your obligation surely is to speak effectively. So if you’re trying to convince children who are hearing from others that being gay is a choice and an immoral one at that, this analogy is unlikely to do anything.

  This is my point: it’s an analogy that only works if you already agree with its conclusion. If you’re trying to convince kids at risk of being turned into bigots, you’re better off just exposing them to positive representation and positive talk. Getting there via an argument that only works if they don’t believe the bigotry is ineffective - or at least, it’s no more effective than just saying “being gay is OK,” while being less direct. And a smart kid who is hearing “being gay is an immoral choice” will realise that this analogy doesn’t contradict what they heard from their dad or their friend and may become harder to convince due to having heard a shit argument.

  on The cure! in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 Sep 2026

• The people this is targeted at don’t believe that though, so what’s the point?

  on The cure! in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 Sep 2026

• Trying to avoid anthropomorphising something with which you interact via natural language is incredibly laborious, and achieves nothing.

  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• Why assume straight porn is as potent as gay porn?

  Rhetorical but homophobes don’t think that way. If you think being gay is some kind of aberration the way people think paedophilia is, you might think about gay porn, or positive gay characters in books, as showing that being gay is ok, leading to more people doing it.

  on The cure! in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 Sep 2026

• That analogy was never going to work on anyone though…

  on The cure! in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 Sep 2026

• I think if you stick to this you end up with a No True Scotsman. There are lots of obviously smart people on Twatter, they just happen not to agree on this one thing

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 Aug 2026

• Yep, and sector. Twitter active usage dropped a lot after musk bought it but then rebounded a bit, so it’s still in the hundreds of millions from what I can work out

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 Aug 2026

• Unfortunately this isn’t true

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 Aug 2026

• AI means, and has always meant, artificial means of doing what before computers seemed only possible with real, human intelligence. Another good way of looking at it is algorithms for problems for which it’s not practical to explicitly write an algorithm to solve.

  It’s meant this since Turing. That’s a remarkable foresight if it’s “purposefully poisoning the well.”

  on Do not use ai in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 26 Aug 2026

• No, but I believe machine translation is now powered mainly by LLMs, which is a damn useful application of the technology.

  I was surprised to learn recently that a few of my friends pay for Claude to help with personal projects and things like that. This particular AI tech is quite new so it’s surely too early to declare axiomatically that it has no uses. That sounds like an emotional reaction to me.

  on Do not use ai in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 26 Aug 2026

• Could you directly address the use-cases that the person you replied to brought up, because they seem pretty important to this discussion to get swept aside?

  Forecasting wildfire spread, feeding people better… finding novel drugs, curing illnesses, cheap accurate translation, these all “pale in comparison” to the costs? Even though those uses have all existed for years before ChatGPT?

  on Do not use ai in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 26 Aug 2026

• A lot of people don’t want to understand anything bad. They want to condemn the people who think bad, and they feel like any kind of understanding results in less condemnation, which is bad!!

  I see it as very analogous to the war on drugs. A lot of people think that “drugs are bad mkay” and so any sensible policy like drug harm reduction is bad because it sends the wrong message - even if it doesn’t really increase use of drugs much. Even if understanding (large numbers of) sexists doesn’t result in more sexism, it seems to send the wrong message.

  on Big mistake rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 Aug 2026

• Unfortunately you are now cursed <3

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 Aug 2026

• I count myself lucky that I don’t know whether this is another impression of Musk or something else

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 Aug 2026

• Are there people taking this seriously? Concerning.

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 Aug 2026

• It’s ok, hun

  on LMAO in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026

• The meme isn’t very good though

  on LMAO in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026

• It will have been systemd-oomd

  on You have lost CPU time privileges in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026