It is awesome that you left the previous comment in place. Mad props!

Well, I’m not a code monkey, between dyslexia and an aging brain. But if it’s anything like the tiny bit of coding I used to be able to do (back in the days of basic and pascal), you don’t really have to pore over every single line. Only time that’s needed is when something is broken. Otherwise, you’re scanning to keep oversight, which is no different than reviewing a human’s code that you didn’t write.

Look at it like this; we automated assembly of machines a long time ago. It had flaws early on that required intense supervision. The only difference here on a practical level is about how the damn things learned in the first place. Automating code generation is way more similar to that than llms that generate text or images that aren’t logical by nature.

If the code used to train the models was good, what it outputs will be no worse in scale than some high school kid in an ap class stepping into their first serious challenges. It will need review, but if the output is going to be open source to begin with, it’ll get that review even if the project maintainers slip up.

And being real, lutris has been very smooth across the board while using the generated code so far. So if he gets lazy, it could go downhill; but that could happen if he gets lazy with his own code.

Another concept that I am more familiar with, that does relate. Writing fiction can take months. Editing fiction usually takes days, and you can still miss stuff (my first book has typos and errors to this day because of the aforementioned dyslexia and me not having a copy editor).

My first project back in the eighties in basic took me three days to crank out during the summer program I was in. The professor running the program took an hour to scan and correct that code.

Maybe I’m too far behind the various languages, but I really can’t see it being a massively harder proposition to scan and edit the output of an llm.

Yeah, this is actually one of the good things a technology like this can do.

He’s dead right, in terms of slop, if it’s someone with training and experience using a tool, it doesn’t matter if that tool is vim or claude. It ain’t slop if it’s built right.

You know, as much as I dislike the way llms and other models have been made and used by capitalists, I agree with you that the moral panic around it has turned into a form of slop itself.

It isn’t like people haven’t been dreaming of what the technology could be for decades. And it isn’t like it wasn’t inevitable that something would be created like the various generative models. The only part that’s bad is the execution. Which is extremely fucking bad, and it’s disgusting that it is happening. But that’s not the same thing as the underlying concept and technology being bad.

Well, security isn’t 100% the same as private, if you meant here as in this C/, rather than here as in this post. I tend to favor security over privacy, when only one is possible, but there is a small difference in how they apply to phones.

But, yeah, afaik, rooting a device decreases security. But if you can’t/don’t want to jump through hoops, not having it is also a decrease in entry level personal choice. But that’s true of any android rom, not just graphene. It’s just that graphene is explicitly against root because of the holes it can cause.

Again, on my end, root isn’t currently high value. The things I would do with root access aren’t worth the extra hassle and decrease in efficacy of graphene to do what it is intended to do.

Mind you, there are devices I would root if I weren’t too lazy, for a small number of options. Just being able to easily use older apks is becoming a huge pain in the ass, and it’s annoying enough that my irritation will eventually outweigh my laziness on a couple of devices, just not those I use for anything beyond playing games and writing fiction (where keyboard choice matters a lot on android, and my keyboard of choice is 32bit based, which you have to root for two of my devices to fix).

Anyway, tangents aside, I appreciate your extra detail :)

Alas, I suspect that by the time it comes out, I won’t be able to afford it.

Which is a shame, because I would fucking love one. It would be the perfect gaming platform for my household (I prefer the deck for my own play; being able to just chill in bed and play while my back recovers from life is too damn sweet) since we all prefer most games as they exist on PC, when they aren’t console exclusive.

But damn, the price tag that was being floated a few months ago was at the upper end of the amount of debt I’m willing to take on for entertainment, no matter how long it would last. And I would have to go into debt because damn, fixed income bullshit isn’t great for mom essential purchases like that. I can’t just lay out several hundred at once for anything without sacrificing something else. Doing that for a gaming device would be impossible.

100% love it.

I was worried that I would try it, not be able to use it for my needs, and be stuck hating what android has turned into, but not yet able to jump ship for linux phones (because moving to apple is as bad as what android is turning into).

Instead, graphene reminded me of why I loved android in the first place. It genuinely works so much smoother, I don’t have to worry about much of anything at all, but can relatively freely do whatever the fuck I want on my device.

As usual, you do have to be aware that some apps just will not cooperate with any OS changes that aren’t OEM. And graphene isn’t root friendly. So that’s why the “relatively freely” is present in the previous paragraph. Within those bounds though, holy crap is it a better experience than anything else I’ve ever used since my lgg3 was new. Faster, better battery life, and zero bloat to deal with. That’s compared to pixels I had fucked with that weren’t the same model as the one I was so generously given me by a great friend. Can’t say for sure that if graphene was available on my other devices that it would be better in terms of speed and battery life, since that’s hardware dependent to a great degree.

But I can say that when I fucked around on pixels newer than the one I have, that they were less responsive and drained battery faster doing similar tasks, despite having newer hardware.

I’ve said it elsewhere before, but my experience with graphene pissed me off. It makes me so angry that this experience isn’t the default experience for all devices, out of the box. I hate that until the recent announcement, that having this experience meant being limited to the shitty choices Google made for pixels (like no sd card, not the chipset or anything like that). I’m hopeful that the Motorola option is realistic for me once this phone has met its end of life. I’m riding it until the wheels fall off though lol.

Legit, if you aren’t limited by work requirements regarding apps you have to use, and your bank app isn’t pissy, don’t hesitate. I haven’t been this happy with any device since I put lineage on an old tablet years ago and it fit my needs so perfectly I couldn’t believe it. Even my beloved g3 didn’t work as well with any rom as this pixel does with graphene.

Nah, nothing wrong with that. The problem isn’t users, it’s what the company expects from users.

Kneeanu

Man, if I ever find my books via their search, I’ll be so hyped

That’s da rudest thing I’ve seen in years

I’m stuck in DDD land too. It totally sucks, and you have my sympathy

A lot of the time, coming in with visual examples to help guide the conversation will help.

Like, if you know cosmetology terminology, just going that route is great, but even with my best friend teaching it, I don’t have enough grasp to pull it off. So find visuals. From what my friend has said, it’s going to go a lot smoother than just using words even if you do have some jargon under your belt.

It’s also important, imo, to realize that unless you just let it stay natural, you’ll be changing styles a few times as you progress from shoulder length to properly long hair. Not just because it’ll frame your face different, but because the weight of the hair changes how it hangs and flows.

I’ve had long hair since I was 12ish, and until my balding progressed far enough that my only style option was skullet, I tried all kinds of styles. I agree with my friend (who, unfortunately, didn’t get into the field until after my ass went bald heavily); the best cuts I ever had were when I took visuals in and used them as a framework for figuring out what I wanted on my head shape with my face.

If it helps, I did find that I looked more androgynous (despite being a beefy dude with a beard) with more layered or feathered styles. It kinda took the harder edges of my features and softened them a tad. Since I have a generally round face and head, it also lengthened my face more than I had thought just a hairstyle could. So, I reckon if my features could be softened that much, it might be a good starting place to look for visuals of androgynous vibes.

that’s kinda where I was in my early twenties after letting it grow back out from a high school mullet.

Something like that might be a decent starting point since you haven’t reached shoulder length yet.

But it really comes down to how it fits your face, so pics are only a starting point for a good stylist to work from

I don’t know what you mean. They who?

Maybe, but from what I’ve heard, there’s not much in the way of a coherent society outside of cities. It’s insular and scattered, but that’s where the crazies come from.

Since leadership can also run and hide in those same places, it might not be enough.

Nothing other than the difficulty of the region.

The terrain over there is brutal. To kill everyone, you have to be able to get to them. That’s not an easy prospect.

Afghanistan is essentially impossible to “defeat” unless you commit genocide, or drop nukes.

Even then, I suspect there would be a few dudes left in caves waiting for their chance

There’s only twelve lemmy users anyway.

There was a dude on reddit that bigot watch kept nailing because of that.

Dude used the same patterns and words, thinking that switching user names would matter.

But, what if I use my real name and just lie all the time?