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pruwybn , to lemmyshitpost in This is a Test
@pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

This is just like the dumb HR tests that are like "You see a coworker engage in inappropriate behavior. Should you A. Notify your supervisor, B. Punch them in the face, C. Piss on the floor.

LemmyKnowsBest ,

At least the correct answer is obvious instead of a test with vaguely-worded trick questions and ambiguous answers. Those are the tests that make me livid.

whoisearth ,
@whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

I know right? Clearly you piss on the floor.

frostysauce ,

The secret is to choose the most Ned Flanders response.

HawlSera ,

I work in a place that’s closed off to the public by Federal Law, where you need to badge in, just a janitor, nothing fancy, they make us watch training videos and stuff. They warn us to pay maximum attention, because we’ll be barred from the site if we fail, losing our jobs in the process.

And the questions are things like

“Which of the following is safe to drink? A) Filtered Water, B) Literal Poison, C) Lava, D, A School Bus”

It’s so blatantly rigged in the favor of the test taker that I suspect they literally wouldn’t even have the test if it wasn’t a legal requirement.

We also keep getting tested for things that don’t even make sense, like recently we were meant to watch a thing on where and when it’s safe to take a smoke break… Despite the fact that tobacco and marijuana are banned form the site and will be confiscated by security if we bring any… So what exactly are they smoking

Oh right, we’re meant to be smoking chocolate, forgot the Troy McClure film.

Seriously though, most of my training is entirely irrelevant as they involve scenarios I’d never be in due to the nature of my job, scenarios I’m literally not allowed to be in, or scenarios that don’t even exist in the first place…

And the questions are always things like

“If your supervisor asks you to do something illegal should you…” and the answers are non-sequitur alongside the real answer, like - A) Report it to the company hotline for illegal activity 555-555-5555 B) Oppress Women & Minorities, C) Run naked into a blizzard, D) Jump off a cliff and into spikes, or E) Pray to Magi-Chan Sonichu in order to hasten the coming of the Dimensional Merge"

The most subtle examples of this are when they ask a question, and one of the answers is suspiciously and overly detailed, while the others are so overly generic that it’s like they wrote the right answer for one, and then just whatever they can think of off the top of their heads.

shneancy ,

fun fact but I find the opposite to be true in trivia games, if an answer is too detailed it’s more likely to be false. That’s how I won a trivia game about the life of some guy when I barely recognised his name

Nithanim ,

We have such a test too, but not as extremely dumb. But it’s still in the realm of: how do you wear your high-vis-vest? A: well visible from all sides B: hidden under your jacket to not get it dirty.

Strykker ,

See, you and I may think things like this are obvious but there are some idiots out there that need to be told the obvious things otherwise they end up doing the truly stupid things.

Omgpwnies ,

These are less for your education as it is for management/HR to absolve responsibility: “We trained them to not do <xyz>, it’s not our fault they did it”

HawlSera ,

No shit

A_Chilean_Cyborg ,
@A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl avatar

I snorted while eating and almost choke thanks to your comment.

DeathbringerThoctar , to programmerhumor in Go cloud native they said...

Would it be a poor professional choice to send this to my bosses boss who’s current raison d’etre is getting our product on the cloud? I ask because I get the alert emails when we go over budget. And we always go over budget.

NightAuthor ,

Make another meme, maybe like that “days without an accident” counter…. Except it’s months without going over cloud budget

Then tell him that you made it, and that it’s true.

Deestan , to memes in Not looking to pick a fight but.. there's only seven stories in the world.

On this topic, I am optimistic on how generative AI has made us collectively more negative to shallow content. Be it lazy copypaste journalism with some phrases swapped or school testing schemes based on regurgitating facts rather than understanding, none of which have value and both of which displace work with value, we have basically tolerated it.

But now that a rock with some current run through it can pass those tests and do that journalism, we are demanding better.

Fingers crossed it causes some positive in the mess.

malean ,
@malean@lemmy.world avatar

We have to deal now with periods of crap content, until people will fatigue and became aware of the shitty ai things made for quick bucks.

uienia ,

The problem is that because the production costs of the crap content will now be near zero, it will always be profitable to create as long as there is just a fraction of the consumerbase falling for it.

It is never going to stop on its own because of lack of demand, it is going to continue and something drastic will have to be thought up to create an internet where everything isn’t buried in AI generated crap.

sukhmel ,

Yeah, I just noticed that with generated music getting better I feel more demanding towards the music I listen to.

Halosheep ,

I recently realized that I have some basic bitch music tastes and could likely listen to ai generated instrumentals for a long time

sukhmel ,

They fit some use-cases pretty well, like background music in stores or for doing something, I think

trolololol ,

Exactly

I hope it has same effect than mechanization for menial work. It raises the bar for what people expect other people to do.

Long term it helps reach a utopia, short term there will be a lot of people impacted by it.

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  • frezik ,

    One of the better tooling ideas I’ve heard is from a friend of mine who does board game development. One of the problems is going back and forth with the artist over what’s wanted. With an AI image generator, he can get something along the right lines, and then take it to the artist as an example.

    uienia ,

    The problem is that quantity is no longer going to be a problem, it can be created for virtually nothing, so basically just a tiny profit will be enough to warrant it in the outlook of those responsible for it.

    Now endless shallow spam, which slightly resembles something worthwhile, can be generated in an instant, because it will generate a meagre profit. It is already happening on the book market for example. Amazon is flooded with AI generated books, and proper authors are simply buried in the mountains of generated spam which is at best nonsensical but at worst genuinely misinforming.

    Perhaps consumers will become more discerning in the future (although to be honest not much in the present suggests that will be the outcome), but it will never remove the increasing mountains of spam, because it will be produced for as long as just a fraction of people buy into it. And this will be applicable to everything on the internet. If we thought commercialisation and spam was bad now, we have seen nothing at all yet.

    So even with proper discernment, it will take a lot of time and effort just to locate something earnest and worthwhile in the generated spam.

    Wirlocke ,

    And what about all the people who won’t be able to join the community because they’re terrible at making helpful and constructive co-- … oh.

    Alt Text: And what about all the people who won’t be able to join the community because they’re terrible at making helpful and constructive co-- … oh.

    Buffalox , to programmerhumor in Python tutorial moment

    How is this funny? 8 Upvotes at current writing???

    lupec ,

    My best guess is it’s a play at the usual “all you do in python is import libraries without knowing how they work lololol” dig but yeah, I don’t find it particularly funny either

    bjoern_tantau ,
    @bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

    It’s kind of funny because it looks like it is nonsense dreamt up by a non-programmer. But it actually works.

    mac ,
    @mac@infosec.pub avatar

    I thought it was poking fun at the tutorial saying instead of learning to code, import a library from someone who knows how to code.

    bjoern_tantau ,
    @bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

    Works as well.

    lowleveldata ,

    That’s what libraries are for. I’m no security expert and the sensible thing to do is using a library instead of taking a class.

    bort ,

    I’m no security expert and the sensible thing to do is using a library instead of taking a class.

    Counterpoint: “not knowing your libraries” + “blind trust in the maintainer” will give you stuff like this: bitbucket.org/…/cve-2022-1471-vulnerability-in

    (the thread itself is worth a read. But also very impressive is the list of big players who fell for exactly this mentality)

    gears ,

    Jesus that was one hell of a thread

    anguo ,

    I dont want to see the words “low quality tooling” ever again.

    Gabu ,

    Impressive and unsurprising. As soon as you start getting complex libraries with multiple dependencies it becomes nearly impossible to review everything. At one time I had an interest in contributing to some AI libraries, but they’re a mess as soon as you go looking for points of improvement.

    unique_hemp ,

    Love the part where he claims that if your users are authenticated, it’s not untrusted input. I mean, surely you trust all of your users to run any code on your server, right?

    WolfLink ,

    That is a large part of coding

    billwashere ,

    Which is funny because when I first started my CS degree in the late 80s (get off my lawn) we used to make fun of the beginning Java classes because it seems 90% of coding was to import the right library.

    mondoman712 ,

    It’s basically import antigravity

    mac ,
    @mac@infosec.pub avatar

    “I also sampled everything in the medicine cabinet”

    This made me smile.

    ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

    Time travel is a prerequisite but don’t worry, you can just

    
    <span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">from </span><span style="color:#323232;">__future__ </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">import </span><span style="color:#323232;">antigravity
    </span>
    
    Gabu ,

    Future libraries still makes me laugh.

    grue ,

    It’s literally this comic, five years and a research team later.

    tofubl ,

    More like all the research teams.

    Bene7rddso ,

    And 10 years

    dandroid ,

    It’s funny how solvable that problem is now. I remember seeing that comic, I think over a decade ago now, and thinking about how true it was. It really shows you have far we’ve come in CS.

    RobertoOberto ,

    From the hovertext: “I wrote 20 short programs in Python yesterday. It was wonderful. Perl, I’m leaving you.

    After years of a dozen other languages, I finally tried Perl the other day.

    Never again, if I can help it.

    otter ,
    
    <span style="color:#323232;">from Lemmy import Upvote
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">from Fediverse import Posts
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">from ActivityPub import Submit
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">target_post = 'https://lemmy.ca/post/18691085'
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">num_votes = 8
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">post = Posts.open(target_post)
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">package = Upvote(post, num_votes)
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">package.Submit(target_post)
    </span>
    

    or something

    billwashere ,

    Good because I was confused. I’ve written similar code

    akhial ,
    @akhial@lemmy.world avatar

    It’s funny because

    
    <span style="color:#323232;">from apps import facebook-killer as fb
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">fb.start()
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">// 3 million seed investment 
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">
    </span>
    
    zaphod ,

    SyntaxError

    pewpew ,
    @pewpew@feddit.it avatar

    : Inconstistent indentation

    CanadaPlus , (edited )

    Because this example isn’t really programming, it’s just calling an existing library. Which is the big joke about Python.

    Buffalox ,

    OK that way I get why it could be considered funny.

    undergroundoverground , to lemmyshitpost in The world has become Applefied.

    No, it doesn’t look like a prison. It looks more like a school or a factory.

    …wait a minute.

    Jilanico , to memes in This causes me psychogenic pain to look at.
    @Jilanico@lemmy.world avatar

    Reminds me of the silverware from 2001: A Space Odyssey https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e6263d1f-e383-4ce7-b752-2b8fbe8de00b.jpeg

    MechanicalJester ,

    Want

    droog_the_droog ,

    Use this set at home. Really like it! Especially that the forks forces you to eat smaller bites. :)

    Empricorn ,

    Use chopsticks?

    Akasazh ,
    @Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

    But how do you consume your moloko?

    whoisearth ,
    @whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

    It’s like if AI made utensils. Kubrick was ahead of the game.

    BirdyBoogleBop , to lemmyshitpost in Elon Tusk

    I never see it brought up but. We were told not to constantly! Unless you were rich you weren’t supposed to have kids and now they are shocked people listened to them. It’s been said for at least 100 years

    volvoxvsmarla ,

    I had the same experience and always wondered whether I lived in a weird bubble. Maybe there’s a couple of weird bubbles out there. But no one I know in my generation or the adjacent generations has ever been told or pressured into having kids. Hardly anyone had parents who took it for granted they’d have grandchildren. It was more like school first, career first, stability first, happiness first, self fulfillment first, and then maaaaybe you can think about whether you want a kid in your life but we don’t recommend. All the sex ed throughout school was focused on how to avoid pregnancy and STIs and how to pleasure oneself and your partner (which I don’t want otherwise, just pointing it out).

    AA5B ,

    You may need to listen better. In all of that was the implied, “so you’ll be able to provide a good home for your family”. In all of that was the expectation that getting married and having kids were a normal part of life, but work much better when you establish yourself first

    MrJameGumb , to mildlyinfuriating in My socks. The left foot indicator is on the right side of the sock. The right indicator is on the left side of the sock.
    @MrJameGumb@lemmy.world avatar

    That’s probably so it’s easier to see them instead of being hidden on the outside edge of your foot I’m guessing?

    Ghostalmedia OP ,
    @Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

    Why not in the center of the socks then?

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ,

    So they’re right next to each other when you’re looking at them.

    MrJameGumb ,
    @MrJameGumb@lemmy.world avatar

    I’m not entirely sure. I’ve never had socks that were labeled left and right like that so this is all just my best guess. Maybe they were trying to keep it discreet?

    Fermion ,

    Because the way you probably raise your foot toward you when putting on your socks ends up with that spot pointing toward your eyes.

    As to how that helps before you’ve actually got the sock on, you’ll have to ask the designer.

    Ghostalmedia OP ,
    @Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

    This guy socks.

    Rentlar , to lemmyshitpost in Guys, lots of people on other communities are unsubscribing from here because of all the inane, boring "jeans" karma-whoring. Its "shitpost", not "shit post"

    This is just the latest trend of shitpost, I mean we had beans, we had Beef Stroganoff, and now people are posting Jemes, each time people say they are fed up with it after a couple days. This too shall pass.

    ARk ,

    Because new people are hopping on the bandwagon late so instead of the shit lasting a couple of days it becomes over a week of shit

    Mr_Blott OP ,

    Yep it’s the low-effort AI generated stuff that’s the problem. Some people just… aren’t funny, sorry 😅

    bstix ,

    Same thing happens in the communities for AI images. Some user will make a picture of a clever idea, but then other users copy the idea and beat the dead horse.

    I don’t get it. They literally have the tools to make images of any idea, and they choose to use it to make somebody else’s idea over and over.

    elvith ,

    Depends - sometimes you see a concept that you think you can improve on. Or maybe you read about their workflow how they did the image, learn something new and want to add your own spin. I don’t think, that’s a problem per se, as art is often iterating and innovating and that this is the root of creativity.

    The problem is more when everyone does it and the whole community gets flooded with the same image concepts/jokes. In this case, the AI communities may get hit even worse in this regard, as it’s very easy to generate images and there’s less skill needed than if you had to draw/photoshop/… the whole meme all by yourself, which means it’s easier to enter the dead-horse-beating.

    MotoAsh ,

    Many people are insanely uncreative and rather dim.

    KingJalopy ,

    And want to be part of something, even if it’s obnoxious.

    MotoAsh ,

    Sadly. I will ever understand the mindset of taking joy from bandwagoning. “yay, I’m doing something completely and utterly unoriginal for the 10000th time, wooo!”

    I’d fucking die of boredom.

    DistractedDev ,

    What exactly do you think a meme is?

    MotoAsh ,

    Lazy jokes that are sometimes funny. Just like normal lazy jokes people repeat. It’s not a new phenominon. It’s just a new medium. A “new medium” that’s decades old.

    Aceticon ,

    Welcome to the vast majority of social settings …

    Sabata11792 ,
    @Sabata11792@kbin.social avatar

    The lifecycle continues.

    AdmiralShat ,

    Did you say piss is the next meme? Alright, well, I’ll do what I can

    Krauerking ,

    I mean I’m pretty sure he agrees “this too shall piss” cause we all know it always comes down to piss.

    gravitas_deficiency ,

    Also, most new Reddit refugees at this point (and I feel like there’s been a minor surge lately because of all the IPO crap) probably haven’t internalized that there’s no system-wide karma here, and karma-whoring is entirely pointless in the context of the fediverse.

    andrew ,
    @andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

    I’m sure some people left reddit when Javert memes were the hot item. This is good for Lemmy.

    Rentlar ,

    Ah yes, and at some point we will look back fondly at the Jemes, and say “those were the days…”

    TotallyNotSpez , to lemmyshitpost in Scottish art critic

    True Scottish art looks like this!

    …wikipedia.org/…/Equestrian_statue_of_the_Duke_of…

    Shiny, shiny hat…

    FlyingSquid OP ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Now that is a work of art.

    ininewcrow ,
    @ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

    Beautiful, this is why indigenous people loved the Scots and the Irish so much

    TotallyNotSpez ,

    Aw, you’re too kind! :)

    vaultdweller013 ,

    Also my ancestors sold them firearms, cause who doesnt like a musket.

    eya ,
    @eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    i visited this in person, they even sell mini versions of the statue with the cone on the head. kind of weird that the government still considers it “vandalism” at this point

    bort ,

    if they would stop calling it vandalism, it would take away all the fun

    BleatingZombie ,

    I also worry what some people would do next to keep the tradition of vandalism going

    Hubi , to fediverse in Fediverse spammer group's executive Amex got arrested

    This totally reads like a E-Mail you’d find on a random PC in Deus Ex.

    pipows , to lemmyshitpost in Taylor is getting all the attention
    @pipows@lemmy.today avatar

    His dick got leaked, that’s the news… Reminds me of

    Sexual intercourse. That’s the answer for all of these. Every single one of you that uh “oh if you had 24 hours with me what would you…” Sexual intercourse. Every single time. We don’t need to do any more. All done. You’re so hot. Hubba hubba. Wanna have sex. That’s it. No more. The dude that’s like “Oh if I brought you Domino’s and I worked at Domino’s what would you do?” I’d take the pizza and I’d have sex with you. Cause you’re so attractive. The girl “If I worked at Starbucks and I gave you your drink that you paid for but I looked at you, what would you do?” Intercourse. I would take you to the back and have intercourse, because I can’t resist you. Okay? We’re all done. There’s no more. What more do we n- I need to fucking delete this app dude.

    Twinklebreeze ,

    I love this video so much.

    volvoxvsmarla ,

    What… What was that

    Waraugh ,
    Cryophilia , to lemmyshitpost in This is so true

    Bit of a red flag to call other human beings NPCs imo

    Duamerthrax ,

    Ever talk to someone about politics only for them to come to a dead stop? They reached the end if their script. I’ve had so many unwilling conversations with right wingers regurgitating what they just heard without actually thinking about what they’re saying.

    Jumuta ,

    I don’t think it’s just right wingers, I’ve seen people that just regurgitate information in most social groups I’ve been in, including lefty communities.

    magnusrufus ,

    Sure it’s not just right wingers… But they are easily in the lead.

    Duamerthrax ,

    I’m just speaking from personal experience and using right wingers as the ironic example as the Manospere is what popularized the term. I’ve also had this experience with tankies as well. The Lazerpig vs Lira debate where Lira was absolutely running off a dialog tree he made is another example.

    thecrotch ,

    Information is fine. A lot of people just regurgitate talking points and clearly have no idea what they mean. I call it bumper sticker politics, and both sides are guilty of it (“Go woke go broke!” “Corporations aren’t people!”). If your entire belief structure can be boiled down to one sentence that you don’t even understand, you are not helping.

    Cryophilia ,

    Sure but the difference is NPCs do not have the capacity for thought. These people have the biological capacity yet choose not to use it. That’s a huge difference. Most of these idiots if they had been raised properly would be just as varied and dynamic as you or me.

    They’re not fundamentally different than us, they’re just mentally stunted by their upbringing. We shouldn’t think of them as a lesser class of human beings, because we all know where that train of thought takes us.

    RGB3x3 ,

    You may be overthinking the idea. Referring to someone as an NPC is just a shorthand to describe people who fit into the crowds, who don’t make real impressions on you, who really don’t have anything to contribute to your life, but who likely contribute a whole lot to the people in their lives.

    You’re an NPC to almost everyone, just as everyone is an NPC to almost everyone else.

    You can’t always drill down into people’s personalities to give them real unique identities in your mind.

    It’s like walking into a crowd during a concert. Everyone else is an NPC to you except the couple people you went with.

    Cryophilia ,

    Yeah and I’m saying that’s a dangerous mental habit to fall into. Keep in mind that all people are people, and at least have the capacity for rich, varied, interesting lives and thoughts and emotions. You don’t have to care about them, but keep it in mind.

    AlexWIWA ,

    I’d personally prefer the terms “cliche” or “basic” just due to the baggage npc has, but the meme does accurately describe 70% of my graduating class.

    gmtom ,

    Sounds like something an NPC would say.

    What can you tell me about the mountains next to the village?

    Cryophilia ,
    ComradePorkRoll ,

    But is it union?

    Andonno ,

    In this period of history? The union is murdering the Jarls every couple of generations.

    EnderMB , to lemmyshitpost in Conservatives on Facebook absolutely believe this.

    Oh man, that’s nothing. Did you know that during her song Style she takes a random man from the crowd, assigns them new pronouns, and transitions them into a femboy?

    Blackmist ,

    She turned me into a newt!

    jaemo ,

    Clearly you got better though…

    havokdj ,

    Taylor swift confirmed to be made of wood

    chuckleslord ,

    A newt‽

    toiletobserver ,

    I got better…

    Fungah ,

    What’s the average speed of an unladen Taylor Swift?

    AtariDump ,

    African or European?

    superduperenigma ,

    Brb, buying front row tickets to every single Taylor Swift concert.

    RGB3x3 ,

    Surely “The Man” would be a better song for that.

    pastaPersona , to lemmyshitpost in Mothers know that this is a wholesome combination.

    “delicious blended food drink”!

    Advertising written by the utterly deranged

    pancakes ,
    @pancakes@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Go easy on them, this was from a time before humanity had the sun.

    blanketswithsmallpox ,

    Or color.

    DanglingFury ,

    The phone number is 4 digits. I realize we added area codes. I didn’t realize we had already done it once before that wet the other 3 digits.i wonder if they still have a xxx-xxx-3577 phone number floating around the company somewhere

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