davidgro
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- Comment on Impossible Islands 5 hours ago:
What is an impossible island?
There aren’t any example posts yet?
- Comment on CATL says next-gen sodium-ion battery supports 500 km range, readies for 2026 mass production 6 hours ago:
Sodium itself Is nearly double the density of Lithium. I don’t know how much that affects the whole pack, but it’s gotta be something.
- Comment on CATL says next-gen sodium-ion battery supports 500 km range, readies for 2026 mass production 6 hours ago:
It’s not though. Range is determined by how much battery is in a car, I could build a car with 500km worth of Ni-MH but it would be mostly battery.
Does the same car with 500km worth of lithium batteries have more or less trunk space than 500km of these batteries? I have no idea. I do know the sodium batteries will weigh a bit more, because the article actually gives Wh/kg - and that makes sense since sodium the metal is denser than lithium, but the headline is meaningless.
- Comment on CATL says next-gen sodium-ion battery supports 500 km range, readies for 2026 mass production 16 hours ago:
I really hate how all these headlines give battery capacity as a distance, as though that was a meaningful measure or allowed comparing different technologies.
- Comment on Why is the name of the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 hard-coded into the Bluetooth drivers? 1 day ago:
But in this case it’s first-party, and they still had to make an exception
- Comment on OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film 1 week ago:
That’s a good point, I didn’t know much about the Cannes film festival, but after looking it up I agree with you.
My comment would only apply if it sees a public release.
- Comment on OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film 1 week ago:
My guess is the audience simply won’t care and the movie will do reasonably average, depending on the script.
Sure here on a niche forum like Lemmy we care about the incredible energy waste, the artists being exploited, etc, and that “AI art” only looks good from a distance with all the little details being screwed up at a close examination. (When it’s not a lovecraftian horror right on the surface - see “bloopers” in that video in the article)
But the general public? To them “AI” is: Haha, funny Ghibli filter.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 2 weeks ago:
If you have ever done a handstand then you have lifted over your head the weight that the entire mass of the earth has in your own gravitational field.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 2 weeks ago:
I’d say that the original statement not including “sometimes” does in fact make it the ‘not a fact’ type of factoid!
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 2 weeks ago:
I wish that was updated for the current year (and beyond) It’s important to know when giving OP’s statement whether it’s outside the sun at the moment
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Some of them are definitely more descriptive than others.
Lemmy’s isn’t great, but at least it’s not a generic chat box or radio waves.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
It’s been the case ever since I started using Android (and modded APKs such as old versions of apps re-signed to not update) in about 2011.
Some of the root apps back then such as Titanium Backup had features to “unhook” an app so it wouldn’t appear as installed in the store, but my experience was that it never lasted long enough to be worth doing.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
That has just always been the case as long as the app in both stores uses the same package string. (Like org.blitzortung.android.app or org.videolan.vlc)
- Comment on Call of Cthulhu 4 weeks ago:
That version is probably too old and will complain
(Only partly /s)
- Comment on Get Clam'd 4 weeks ago:
Ok. I’m ootl. Please explain?
- Comment on Experts warn against YouTube’s “creepy” AI age estimation system launching in the US 5 weeks ago:
It will be great when it says I’m under 18 while my account is over 18.
- Comment on OpenAI claims GPT-5 AI model can provide PhD-level expertise. 5 weeks ago:
Awesome. My only critique is that microwave ovens actually work really well in their niche. I can’t say the same for LLMs.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I haven’t looked into it yet, but my guess is that this is only for new articles, but existing ones defaced by AI can just be reverted.
- Comment on Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst? 1 month ago:
- Perhaps Japan?
- I feel like the US is getting really close to this honor, but I would still name a different one. Not sure which.
- Germany being all anti-nuclear-powerplant without (in my opinion) good reason.
- Comment on "A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing. 1 month ago:
Some people call them Maurice.
- Comment on Oncoliruses: LLM Viruses are the future and will be a pest, say good bye to decent tech. 1 month ago:
Of course vulnerabilities exist. And creating a major one like this for an LLM would likely lead to it destroying things like a toddler (in fact this has already happened to a company run by idiots)
But what it didn’t do was copy-with-changes as would be required to ‘evolve’ like a virus. Because training these models requires intense resources and isn’t just a terminal command.
- Comment on Oncoliruses: LLM Viruses are the future and will be a pest, say good bye to decent tech. 1 month ago:
Why would someone direct the output of an LLM to a terminal on its own machine like that? That just sounds like an invitation to an ordinary disaster with all the ‘rm -rf’ content on the Internet (aka training data). That still wouldn’t be access on a second machine though, and also even if it could make a copy, it would be an exact copy, or an incomplete (broken) copy. There’s no reasonable way it could ‘mutate’ and still work using terminal commands.
And to be a meme requires minds. There were no humans or other minds in my analogy. Nor in your question.
- Comment on Oncoliruses: LLM Viruses are the future and will be a pest, say good bye to decent tech. 1 month ago:
If you know that it’s fancy autocomplete then why do you think it could “copy itself”?
It’s a stream of tokens. It doesn’t have access to the file systems it runs on, and certainly not its own compiled binaries (or even less source code) - it doesn’t have access to its weights either. (Of course it would hallucinate that it does if asked)
This is like worrying that the music coming from a player piano might copy itself to another piano.
- Comment on what type of laugh is this? 1 month ago:
Deleted? I’m seeing status 404 on that link.
- Comment on It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place 2 months ago:
The Dreaming
- Comment on Can I lick it? 2 months ago:
…then they built the super collider.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 2 months ago:
This incident will be reported. - Comment on YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process 2 months ago:
This is fixed now.
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 2 months ago:
I’d say that the one that’s written is the ‘true’ timeline in the story the same way that the reality we experience is the only one that matters.
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 2 months ago:
What would happen is entirely your responsibility as the author of the scenario.
Some options may be more “realistic” than others, but since the existence of a working time machine is already beyond what seems to be feasible physics (requiring ridiculous amounts and density of negative energy for example, where not even any has been shown to be possible to make) the scenario becomes soft sci-fi, or in other words magic, and that means it’s up to the writer to make up the rules.
Here is a post I found with many of the options you can choose from.