HeyListenWatchOut

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Child labour with 10 years of experience, 'AI-native' accepting 250k lines of Cursor codeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The democratization of technology is a double-edged sword.

    For every improvement in UX and lowering of a once impassible barrier of entry, we seem to inevitably gain a massive number of “eXpErTs” who can suddenly stand upon the now much lower skill floor.

    Shortly thereafter seems to be a destruction of the general reliability of whatever field these “eXpErTs” flood - usually a field which used to be inherently cryptic and had complex prerequisites just to begin operation within, let alone master.

    Like… it makes me almost miss when “using a computer” meant you had to understand how to browse a directory in DOS…

    Because at least then you literally couldn’t begin to operate in the field unless you could wrap your head around understanding the basics of syntax.

    Now you can just have an entire legion of dullards misspell or misspeak 30% of a malformed question to some random free LLM that still has trouble telling you “how many Rs are in the word strawberry,” and have it confidently fart back out a wrong answer that they will then copy-paste into a paper or article which will then be added to the pile of growing misinformation currently stuffing a frighteningly expanding part of our collective knowledge base.

  • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldtoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon considers LASIKEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Had all-laser LASIK done in 2007.

    Was scary, and the excimer laser sounded like a giant electrical wasp, but overall, I’ve had zero problems. Best procedure I’ve ever had done.

    My older sibling had it done back then, too. No issues. 2 other close friends did the same. Not a single issue.

    Give it a rest people.

    Go get checked to see if you’re a valid candidate, and have the procedure done by a professional ophthalmologist with an “all-laser” setup who has more than a decade or so of experience and also has the $200,000 equipment to do it right and a lifetime contract-backed guarantee, and you will be happy with the choice you made.