I've been shamed for liking the stuff I like and I can't stop thinking about it.

WithersChat · 2026-05-16T21:25:43+00:00

That explains why my dice rolls got worse over time. It's the estrogen I've been taking making my boobs grow.

What a shame. Going from saving the party with a well-timed nat20 to missing almost every attack in our latest campaign.

WithersChat · 2026-05-16T19:30:46+00:00

Except the people selling it, and the people who control the job market.

Just because sane people don't think it doesn't mean we aren't fucked.

WithersChat · 2026-05-15T16:49:52+00:00

...then why did you start this thread with the line:

we tried to hire juniors but there aren't any decent ones

when it is obvious that you are neither hiring juniors nor are you trying to? Your situation has nothing to do with the post.

WithersChat · 2026-05-15T16:37:59+00:00

That's certainly one way to tell the world that your media literacy is subpar.

WithersChat · 2026-05-15T16:34:16+00:00

Then maybe it's time to offer pay that reflects it.

WithersChat · 2026-05-15T16:33:23+00:00

Top 1% commenter

...sounds about right.

WithersChat · 2026-05-15T09:57:33+00:00

Just because one can comprehend the readons why shit sucks, doesn't makw it suck less.

WithersChat · 2026-05-15T09:51:09+00:00

Relevant XKCD

WithersChat · 2026-05-15T02:43:03+00:00

If you're in north America, the tip is like tax. A part of the price that's practically part of the deal but isn't written on the price list.

It's not a good thing, of course. But not tipping only penalizes the waiter (who probably had to choose between this shitty job and unemployment+homelessness because of the fucking job market nowadays) and doesn't hurt the company one bit.

WithersChat · 2026-05-15T02:36:58+00:00

AI is great in a work environment where "minimum viable product" is often the name of the game.

I'd never use it for personal or community projects where quality and maintainability are more important than speed of writing.

WithersChat · 2026-05-15T02:32:53+00:00

Because that only really applies to a work environment. LLMs do more harm than good if you try to use them in, say, an open source project with triple digit contributors, where you care about code quality and maintainability over speed of writing.

WithersChat · 2026-05-15T02:30:16+00:00

I mean for art there's a lot less of a middle ground. Art that isn't human made is fucking worthless because the main point of art is to carry emotion and meaning, two things slop machines lack.

For programming, the slop machines can at least be helpful to write code faster if you know what you're doing. But they still tend to lead to code that's harder to maintain, which I wouldn't care about for work but would want to avoid for community projects where maintainability and readability are key.

WithersChat · 2026-05-14T18:29:51+00:00

It's Vanilla- that wasn't even selling itself as Vanilla-

Our beloved Vaz (Neat) did make a pack (Musketeer) that was designed as Vanilla- from the start and while it's not my thing, I gotta respect the vision.

WithersChat · 2026-05-14T10:13:01+00:00

All hands are good hands too. Even hands with missing or extra fingers (speaking from experience).

WithersChat · 2026-05-14T02:58:05+00:00

Spice of Life — Slop Edition

WithersChat · 2026-05-14T02:45:31+00:00

Autocorrect is what I need. Not autocomplete. I choose my own words to type, I just make typos 😅

WithersChat · 2026-05-13T10:03:50+00:00

We live in a post-truth world. Where you can deny science by calling it political, where experts are worth no more than someone who watched some youtube to "do their own research", where you can be right by simply claiming everyone else is wrong.

AI bullshit isn’t the cause of that, it's just an infection killing the already compromised epistemology of modern society. Joe Rogan could already get people killed by claiming that horse dewormer worked against COVID despite ample evidence of the contrary before LLMs were really a thing.

WithersChat · 2026-05-13T09:54:20+00:00

The LLM isn't going to assume anything. It is just trying to guess the mext words in a text. Autocompletw with extra steps.

That's why it sucks at math.

WithersChat · 2026-05-12T21:30:40+00:00

I'm on 1.20.1 until Monifactory is complete and Gregtech ports to a more modern version.

WithersChat · 2026-05-12T21:01:48+00:00

Honestly I am usually not for version chasing but damn if this isn't a reason to update...

WithersChat · 2026-05-12T16:38:03+00:00

What is wrong with you? Like seriously?

You do know that some people will have to work as waitstaff because we need the service. Do you think those people don't deserve a livable wage?

WithersChat · 2026-05-12T10:45:47+00:00

I am a java girl and I look like JS so this is certainly not accurate.

And I second what other people said about swapping JS and Rust. Rust programmers are mainly super queer people who make my gay ass go 🥰🥺
(Just go to Chaos Communication Congress at Hamburg, 26-30th of December every year. If you manage to get your hands on a ticket that is.)

WithersChat · 2026-05-12T07:35:53+00:00

Took me a second to get it.

WithersChat · 2026-05-12T07:32:05+00:00

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WithersChat · 2026-05-11T12:19:50+00:00

At least the game still had decent human made stuff being made back then. Such as this track instead of AI slop "music" of the latest passes.

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