Semi-Hemi-Demigod
@Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
- Comment on The second matchup of the tournament 2 days ago:
Forrest like Gump or Forrest like Nathan Bedford?
- Comment on Tesla accused of union buster bluster at Buffalo factory 4 days ago:
Did the union buster bluster buffalo the buffalo Buffalo buffalo?
- Comment on Why tho 6 days ago:
Sorry! It's a story about shit, and not a shitty one
- Comment on Why tho 6 days ago:
Thanks for sharing your shit story, SatansMaggotyCumFart
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees 6 days ago:
It's a way to cut headcount without doing layoffs. It's usually followed one or two quarters later by an actual layoff.
- Comment on Seems legit 1 week ago:
Remind me of the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust
- Comment on Lemmy's major collective account cake days are coming up soon. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 week ago:
I remember when commercial breaks were the time when you went to the bathroom/got snacks and then ran back and jumped over the couch to get back before the show started again.
But most ads don't work on a conscious level. They're there to make whatever is being advertised seem normal and good, like birds singing in the trees, background noise you associate with good feelings. The point isn't to get people to engage rationally. The point is to elicit positive emotions and associate them with a brand.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 week ago:
I don't think I'm going to ever buy a car made after 2020. Maybe earlier. None of the new features really appeal to me, and there are a lot of things like this that actively turn me off from wanting a new car.
If they could just give me an electric version of a 1985 VW Golf I'd be happy as a clam. But they want to put me in some lumpy, heavy, clumsy CUV with tracking technology and all the touchscreens and I don't like it.
- Comment on this picture is 27kb 1 week ago:
I drove a lady home from a party in NYC at like midnight, and I said "Oh, it's only five miles that won't be bad"
It took an hour to get there and back. I wasn't really mad because she was cute and maybe into me but we could have walked that distance in the same amount of time.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 1 week ago:
I love how microchips look like really well-organized Factorio maps
- Comment on Does Big Ben imply the existence of a Little Ben? 1 week ago:
Not just Little Ben, but also Medium Ben and Not-Quite-As-Big-As-Big-Ben Ben
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 week ago:
Intermediate? Nah, junior. They're cheaper after all.
But senior devs do a lot more than output code. Sometimes - like Bill Atkinson's famous -2000 line change to Quickdraw - involve a lot of complex logic and very little actual code output.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 week ago:
I think the reason they're useful for writing code is that there's a third party - the parser or compiler - that checks their work. I've used LLMs to write code as well, and it didn't always get me something that worked but I was easily able to catch the error.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 1 week ago:
favored increasing revenue from ads instead of user experience and functionality
That just makes sense. Companies want to make their customers happy, and users aren't Google's customers
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
Nobody is going to re-certify a plant built on 1960s technology
Yeah, that's why they're re-starting one built on 1970s technology
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn't build a new power plant, but reactivating existing ones makes sense and is cheaper per GW than solar and reactivation has insignificant emissions.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
I don't think nuclear power was killed by NIMBYs, at least not entirely. In the 1970s and 80s the financial world started taking a much more short-term view. Nuclear power plants have such a huge up-front cost that you aren't going to see returns for decades. When the market wants numbers to go up every quarter they're not going to finance something that won't make a profit for 20 years.
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 2 weeks ago:
The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they’d have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City. It had never heard of Salt Lake City, of course. Nor had it ever heard of a quingigillion, which was roughly the number of miles between this valley and the Great Salt Lake of Utah.
- Comment on Oddly specific question 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but that's not the decadence they're talking about. They mean things like "feeling like yourself" and "having good sex."
- Comment on Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time, and it could be a sign of a shift in the workplace 2 weeks ago:
These higher-paid workers used to be promoted to senior management or even executive roles. But since people are working longer than ever, those roles aren't available and people are getting stuck.
- Comment on Oddly specific question 2 weeks ago:
Imagine thinking decadence is a bad thing
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 2 weeks ago:
And then programs it to play a nice game of chess
- Comment on Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return 2 weeks ago:
I agree that the tech isn't there, but unless we figure out some new physics it's going to be impossible to put enough battery, computing power, and cooling capacity in something the size of sunglasses. So the tech for VR like we really want is at least 20 years away, if not more.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 2 weeks ago:
I love how marketing people are so abnormal that they need tips on not sounding like a bot.
- Comment on What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet 3 weeks ago:
The US government has always cared more about national security than the privacy of its citizens.
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 3 weeks ago:
I can be at home, but it's not until I'm in comfy pants, on the couch, with a drink in hand that I'm home
- Comment on North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows 3 weeks ago:
The fact that it's not rotoscoped North Korean remakes proves we're not in the Good Place.
- Comment on Do We Really Want a Food Cartel? 3 weeks ago:
Someone dig up Robert Bork and tell him that he was wrong and an asshole
- Comment on Study: Social media don't displace in-person hangouts for teens 5 weeks ago:
My kids live within easy walking distance of most of their friends, but they don't hang out nearly as much as they want to because there's a stroad between them.