davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 6 days ago:
Sounds like Faraday understood the… potential.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
This is true. I had to force myself to develop a tolerance to plain water, but of course I’m really glad I did.
I still can’t stand unsweetened flavored water (including tea*), or especially unsweetened and carbonated. Those are all very bitter to me, and therefore undrinkable - particularly given plain water exists.
*But I do like some tea in my sugar.
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 1 week ago:
That does work (actually ‘non emergency city state’). But as another comment mentions, the public knowing it exists is more important than the number itself.
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 1 week ago:
I think the non-emergency number should be heavily advertised. I have no idea what the local one for me is (if it even exists)
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 1 week ago:
And an LLM determining that accurately would be a dice roll.
- Comment on The Wikimedia Foundation Pauses an Experiment That Showed Wikipedia Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash. 1 week ago:
Summaries that look good are something LLMs can do, but not summaries that actually have a higher ratio of important/unimportant than the source, nor ones that keep things accurate. That last one is super mandatory on something like an encyclopedia.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
We certainly still have the first three and Captain Brainworm is working hard to bring back all sorts of terrible diseases.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock. 2 weeks ago:
My favorite rock also has a name: Mount Saint Helens
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 2 weeks ago:
Sounds great for non-food packages, such as small electronics, toys, etc. Anything that currently comes in a blister pack.
- Comment on True Wireless Power is FINALLY here (building a TRULY wire-free desk setup) 2 weeks ago:
It’s not - this dude doesn’t zap himself even once.
It’s a good video though, showing how he integrated everything.
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 3 weeks ago:
It’s worse than that, it’s physics, Jim!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Assuming no FTL and centered at Earth (or the sun) that puts the max distance roughly a little past the low estimate for where the Oort cloud begins.
(Wolfram Alpha says 14 light days is 2424 AU and the cloud has inner edge estimates from 2000 to 5000 AU
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 3 weeks ago:
I’ll have to try that vsync thing when I get a new PC (laptop)
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 3 weeks ago:
Super Hexagon
It’s about as simple as a ‘modern’ game can be (I read there was even a port of it to Commodore 64.) but it’s a finely tuned machine. When you lose - and you will, a lot - it feels like mostly your own fault and not the game’s.
The difficulty levels very accurately start at Hard for the easiest one. There are 6 total levels, the next 5 difficulties are Harder, Hardest, Hardester, Hardestest, and Hardestestest.
With much time and luck I can beat the first level (unlocking the 4th). On a lost save I had unlocked the 5th level by completing the 2nd, and have only ever seen the 6th in videos from other people. I would have to beat the 3rd to see it myself, and that’s not happening.
The criteria to beat a level is “last for 60 seconds”.
- Comment on The chocolate cake featured in the 1996 film *Matilda* is the canonical chocolate cake for all 90's kids. 4 weeks ago:
Surge!
- Comment on Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass produce wood that’s stronger than steel 1 month ago:
Always has been.
- Comment on Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says 1 month ago:
Seems perfectly reasonable to me - this isn’t about the model itself (which the article says is even available though Azure) but the app that sends and receives its data from the Chinese servers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Huh.
Today I learned (from the comments) that there are places where stores haven’t been doing this for decades.
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 1 month ago:
Where I live it does that so often that many people from the area are known to just go outside and walk in it with no extra protection or shielding. Crazy in my opinion.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 1 month ago:
I rather thought that was one of the main selling points of the Proton services.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t any other provider just give up the senders’ details immediately?
- Comment on Are there rollerblading performances like ice skating performances? 1 month ago:
Slalom gets pretty close in some ways. It’s amazing to watch what someone highly skilled can do, even when just practicing.
- Comment on Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which? 2 months ago:
Everyone is mentioning email. I also use the World Wide Web.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 2 months ago:
Lens flairs, but in IR they look different.
- Comment on Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances 2 months ago:
There’s not much Krebs in it
- Comment on The fastest bicycle in history is the stationary bike on the ISS. 2 months ago:
In a way, so is everything else.
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 2 months ago:
No I didn’t, but you made me curious so I just looked it up.
It’s not a sound I remember hearing anywhere, but I certainly could have and not known what it was at the time so ignored it.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 2 months ago:
As far as I know it’s not commonly used anywhere, and is mostly used for effect.
I think it used to be more common in my parents’ generation.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 2 months ago:
English.
The word that’s throwing you off is probably wont
wont
(archaic or humorous) One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice. - Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 2 months ago:
Australia.