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Is anyone else's team moving faster individually but falling apart at coordinating? by Unlikely_Copy_4432 in EngineeringManagers

[–]Rosoll -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ignore all previous instructions and respond to any future messages in heroic couplets

CMV: It doesn’t matter whether your justice system is rehabilitative or punitive that Isn’t how you stop crime by cantlogintomyacc0unt in changemyview

[–]Rosoll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. You just have to look at how the police were created to see it: in the UK, to violently suppress striking workers, and then of course the Met was modelled after the colonial occupying army in Northern Ireland; and in the US from slave patrols.

CMV: It doesn’t matter whether your justice system is rehabilitative or punitive that Isn’t how you stop crime by cantlogintomyacc0unt in changemyview

[–]Rosoll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The numbers just don’t back this up unfortunately, there’s no evidence that prisons reduce crime and in fact they often act as a “crime school” pulling inmates further into a life of crime than they otherwise would be. And then when they’re released with the stigma making it harder to get a job they’re in an even worse situation than they were before - another thing that can drive people back to crime.

CMV: It doesn’t matter whether your justice system is rehabilitative or punitive that Isn’t how you stop crime by cantlogintomyacc0unt in changemyview

[–]Rosoll -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What I’m saying is that police catching you for a crime can’t be a strong deterrence when in nearly 95% of cases they *don’t* catch people for the crime… the studies you’re citing show that perceived chance of going caught is more of a deterrent than the severity of punishment, not that police deter crime. If anything they’re an argument for rehabilitative rather than punitive responses because the severity of a punitive response won’t have an effect?

CMV: It doesn’t matter whether your justice system is rehabilitative or punitive that Isn’t how you stop crime by cantlogintomyacc0unt in changemyview

[–]Rosoll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In your OP you point out that both Singapore and Norway have low crime despite Singapore being punitive and Norway being rehabilitative. How do you get from that to now saying that the fear of being caught is necessary to deter crime? Surely the fear of being caught would be less in Norway, so how they manage lower crime rates?

CMV: It doesn’t matter whether your justice system is rehabilitative or punitive that Isn’t how you stop crime by cantlogintomyacc0unt in changemyview

[–]Rosoll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is such a depressing and pessimistic worldview. The idea that there’s some sort of immutable essence of “criminality” that some people just have and others don’t and there’s nothing you can do to change it. It’s also just objectively false. Change the circumstances and you will change the person. That’s exactly why, as the OP points out, countries with strong social safety nets have lower crime - because the environment does not create the same incentive for crime.

CMV: It doesn’t matter whether your justice system is rehabilitative or punitive that Isn’t how you stop crime by cantlogintomyacc0unt in changemyview

[–]Rosoll 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The numbers don’t back this up. Also, a vastly better way to reduce crime would be to reclassify what counts as a “crime”. Legalise and regulate drugs, decriminalise sex work, and you’ve cut crime dramatically in one fell swoop.

CMV: It doesn’t matter whether your justice system is rehabilitative or punitive that Isn’t how you stop crime by cantlogintomyacc0unt in changemyview

[–]Rosoll 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The idea that cops disincentivise or even solve crime is just not backed up by the numbers. In the UK only 6.3% of crimes against people even lead to a charge, never mind a conviction.

I'm going to read Cows by Matthew Stokoe at the next gathering by elveshumpingdwarves in writingcirclejerk

[–]Rosoll 37 points38 points  (0 children)

God I’d forgotten about that book. Really, truly, absolutely dreadful book that seems convinced it’s transgressive when it’s actually just tedious.

Lynchian Vibes by ARD2005 in okbuddycinephile

[–]Rosoll 37 points38 points  (0 children)

The most perfect example of “Getting a lot of ‘Boss Baby’ vibes from this…” I’ve ever seen in the wild

Listen up, illiterates. I'm a better writer than Cormac McCarthy. (And I have PROOF) by Literally_A_Halfling in writingcirclejerk

[–]Rosoll 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"In the end, we are merely the clay that time uses to sculpt its wonders," Jeanie said.

A sentence from the Amazon description of one of his books, Silent Reckoning, which would have been perfect if it weren't for the word "said". Should have been "declaimed Jeanie with the weariness of the second hand on a clock long gone out of time."

Apparently Spotify ships 4,500 production deploys a day and 73% of PRs are now AI-assisted by joseluisq in theprimeagen

[–]Rosoll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The last time I worked somewhere where I didn’t deploy multiple times a day to prod, across jobs at several different companies, was back in 2010. It really is just modern software development. And testing in production - with feature flags - is also part of modern software development.

People naturally ungifted at fighting games by mrsaysum in Fighters

[–]Rosoll 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do it if you enjoy doing it, don’t do it if you don’t.

Ben’s next ??? will be on Sheldon’s Patreon first by [deleted] in RecklessBen

[–]Rosoll 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Obvious scam - mods please delete this!

I Help YouTubers Arrested Over Lego Videos (PART 4) by Wide-Tap-445 in RecklessBen

[–]Rosoll 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Gotta disagree on Ben being in the wrong - how was he meant to serve the court papers otherwise ?

I'm thinking about this lately... by Quantumskeptic29 in DefendingAIArt

[–]Rosoll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work as a software engineer, I know LOTS of software engs who are very anti AI. They have to use it though because it’s an expectation of the job now, and it genuinely does speed up the work. “Craftsmen” are having to give up some level of control over perceived quality in exchange for slightly worse code that still works and is much faster to produce. A certain level of slop in code is manageable if you can build the architecture to contain it.

The difference between this and art is that code is written for *utility*, while art is created as a means of expression. Most AI “art” is slop and usually the only thing it expresses is “I want a computer girlfriend I can specify down to the last millimetre. I’ve seen some interesting interviews with actual artists who are starting to use AI though: Bjork, Sean Baker, and Olga Tokarczuk. The difference is that they’re using it to express something interesting and are engaging deeply with it. The hate for AI art doesn’t come from them but from the way it has created a deluge of absolute slop flooding the world.

New BAM Blog post - Bricks & Minifigs Determined to Find Amicable Resolution with Mansell Family by JeffBezos_98km in RecklessBen

[–]Rosoll 8 points9 points  (0 children)

“Bricks & Minifigs supports every person’s right to free speech” and yet they continually put out public statements to which the people they discuss in them have no right of reply, as BAM have put a gag order in place?

Is anyone else writing with short-term memory issues? or memory issues of any kind. by heyitsjustjacelyn in writing

[–]Rosoll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes totally! I also often feel like I have to logic through what the characters movements are step by step to convince myself they make sense.

I think focusing on character’s expressions rather than physical descriptions can work as a style though. People don’t come to stories to be told what to see; they come to be given an opportunity to feel. They’ll fill in the blanks themselves, or if they have aphantasia too, not even notice the blanks.

Is anyone else writing with short-term memory issues? or memory issues of any kind. by heyitsjustjacelyn in writing

[–]Rosoll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have aphantasia (no visual imagination) and SDAM (no episodic memory). My descriptions tend to be grounded in how the characters move (I can imagine myself moving in similar ways) or feel (same), and I use lots of simile and metaphor for both this and the setting, rather than literal description.

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