Windex007
@Windex007@lemmy.world
- Comment on can they?? 1 week ago:
Can they SEE why…
- Comment on The Philippine vice president publicly threatens to have the president assassinated 1 week ago:
I mean, the Marcos dynasty has been assassinating political rivals for decades. It’s almost refreshing to see someone stop pretending assassinations aren’t the political reality in the Philippines.
- Comment on Petrichor 1 week ago:
I’m still missing something here. For it to be useful, I’d imagine that it would need to inform decisions, and do so where existing senses would fail.
At least in my environment, if I can smell rain, I could also just as easily use my eyes to see the cumulonimbus clouds and say “rain, due east”.
In the savanna are there scenarios where the only awareness of rain would be smelling it? Can you derive directionality at 5 parts per trillion? Does it matter?
- Comment on Susan 2 weeks ago:
Oof owch owie
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 weeks ago:
My mortgage was many times my yearly income.
So then you just have frequency, which is easily gamed by getting fewer larger loans. Maybe one every three to five years? At that point it really is just a mortgage with stock as collateral rather than a house.
Like, you’re not wrong in your intuition that the system is problematic. Mine (and others) point is that the devil is in the details, and they’re not trivial.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 weeks ago:
How do you establish that a loan is or isn’t “acting as income”?
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 4 weeks ago:
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 4 weeks ago:
I completely agree that if there are tools that can allow a vehicle to “see” better than a human it’s absurd not to implement them. Even if musk could make a car exactly as good as a human, that’s a low bar. It isn’t good enough.
As for humans: if you are operating a vehicle such that you could not avoid killing an unexpected person on the road, you are not safely operating the vehicle. In this case, it’s known as “over driving your headlights”, you are driving at a speed that precludes you from reacting appropriately by the time you can perceive an issue.
Imagine if it wasn’t a deer but a chunk of concrete that would kill you if struck at speed. Perhaps a bolder on a mountain pass. A vehicle that has broken down.
Does Musk’s system operate safely? No. The fact that it was a deer is completely irrelevant.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. I mean, I understand the premise, I just think it’s flawed. Like, you and I as vehicle operators use two cameras when we drive (our two eyes). It’s hypothetically sufficient in terms of raw data input.
Where it falls apart is that we also have brains which have evolved in ways we don’t even understand to consume those inputs effectively.
But most importantly, why aim for parity at all? Why NOT give our cars the tools to “see” better than a human? I want that!
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 4 weeks ago:
If you watch the video, the deer was standing on a strip of off coloured pavement, and also had about the same length as the dotted line. Not sure how much colour information comes through at night on those cameras.
The point here isn’t actually “should it have stopped for the deer” , it’s “if the system can’t even see the deer, how could it be expected to distinguish between a deer and a child?”
The calculus changes incredibly between a deer and a child.
- Comment on Clever, clever 5 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your point, so forgive me, but I expect carefully reading the prompt is still orders of magnitude less effort than actually writing a paper?
- Comment on here, kitty kitty 5 weeks ago:
Sadam in the tail?
- Comment on Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices 1 month ago:
Before the internet, every virus infected air gapped devices.
- Comment on What inspired you to get into clean energy? 1 month ago:
I agree it’s one piece of a much larger puzzle towards global sustainability. But for me, that’s still a very abstract concept and my actions are a less than a drop in the bucket in that regard.
However, being my own power plant, owning my own power… “Seizing the means of production”, if you will, is incredibly concrete. And selfish.
If I were selling PV to rednecks, I don’t even think I’d mention climate change.
- Comment on Poggers 2 months ago:
- Comment on If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine? 2 months ago:
No it is impossible for God to do that.
- Comment on Putin pressure 2 months ago:
I’m entirely unconvinced you read what I wrote
- Comment on Putin pressure 2 months ago:
This is why buddy said they’re being pedantic.
For example, if I found and posted a plain statement of fact headline for Russia, would that be evidence that manufactured consent isn’t a thing? No. Of course not.
To look at these kinds of things, you can’t just cherry pick. These concepts are laid bare as a result of aggregating reporting. It’s a statistical thing.
So while this is an example, for the reasons posted, it’s not a great one. And you could take that feedback and post a better one. You could understand the argument. You’re completely right, so why not choose examples that don’t leave yourself vulnerable to valid criticism of your specific choices?
- Comment on LLM's are just as revolutionary as Automated Assembly Lines were. 2 months ago:
Automated assembly lines had a net positive impact on productivity though.
- Comment on Flying Ants 2 months ago:
I met a guy at a bar once who was about ants at a bar one time. Wouldn’t stop talking about them. To get him to put the dimorphism into perspective I asked how Lage the women in the bar would be if the human ratio was like ants.
It was cool because I’d never gotten the opportunity to watch someone develop a fetish in real time before.
- Comment on China constructs world's first dual-tower solar thermal plant — and it will help generate nearly 2 billion kWh annually 3 months ago:
Don’t even get me started on how Wh is energy divided by time multiplied by time.
- Comment on This is so freaking funny to me. I love Lemmy 3 months ago:
And could you explain how, for the court, how can you be correct, when I explicitly made you Principal Skinner?
Jury gasps
- Comment on My dad fought the Nazi's they lost. The world knows it. What is the deal with their recent resurgence? 3 months ago:
There have always been susceptible idiots.
Nazi’s are just a byproduct of an eroding standard of living. When things are good and getting better, there just isn’t the fertile ground for that kind of ideology, even among the idiots.
When standard of living is on the decline? Anyone who gives a simple answer and a simple solution gets the attention of idiots.
- Comment on Everett True Comics - The Outbursts of Everett True 4 months ago:
“Oof! Maybe oppressing the working class ISN’T goated no cap”
- Comment on Everett True Comics - The Outbursts of Everett True 4 months ago:
Too late I’m doing this.
RcRs mechanic of a dialogue area at the bottom for enemies to give a last quip after defeat would be perfect
- Comment on When a medicine asks you to "take with food" how much food is enough? 4 months ago:
So you trick your stomach like you’d trick a dog by hiding medicine in their food?
- Comment on If anything happen to Linux today, like what happened to Windows, most of the internet would be dead. 4 months ago:
I think the shower thought is centered around IF a ubiquitous bug that required physical access to the machine to resolve occurred simultaneously across all Linux machines.
If you couldn’t remotely resolve the issues, regardless of your competence, simply the WALK to each machine and hooking up a KVM to each one would take a long time.
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized 4 months ago:
If it depends on how ES6 is received they still have another 6 or 7 years
- Comment on Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer 4 months ago:
Somewhere in an ancient crypt, the bones of Luther begin to twitch to life…
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 5 months ago:
Where I am the charging infrastructure is terrible and electricity prices are bad. I was considering a hybrid but I guess if it’s no better I’ll just grab a regular ICE
