Botzo
@Botzo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs 1 day ago:
Well, that explains why corporate is so intent on them. They’re creating the perfect little KPI-driven stooge.
Heck, now I’d like to see a study on KPIs (as a concept) as a reality distortion lens. It would seem like they have inadvertantly created a way to calculate a reality alignment index for a given KPI. Is it reasonable to conclude that using KPIs to measure performance is, in itself, unethical behavior?
To go a bit further: Is there a correlation between the number of KPIs and the likelihood of creating scenarios in which the only desirable outcome lies outside reality? That is, how many KPIs does it take to get sufficient competition between priorities that it effectively requires hallucinating a solution to achieve a sufficiently aligned result?
- Comment on Just say the word 1 week ago:
I can empathize. I went back to work a month ago now. It was/is hard to be unavailable.
Luckily, I work from home in a fairly independent role and my wife is still on leave, so we’re still largely co-parenting. We could afford to have me stay at home, but we’re saying that the extra I make above the truly wild cost of daycare will go to his education, financial security, and cultural enrichment.
We’re also telling ourselves that daycare will be a positive/important social experience for him because we have a small friend group locally and family is halfway across the US.
- Comment on You could convince evangelicals that AI is bad by saying it's converting children to satanism or making them gay 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of my first day of intro to programming my first semester of freshman year at a small Christian Reformed college.
It opened with prayer and then a lecture on how technology is inherently evil. Then we started writing a java applet.
I applied to a state school within 2 weeks of starting.
- Comment on Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up 1 month ago:
Final fantasy 7 for pc was also 4 cds in 1998.
I scratched one of them and had to beg a friend to lend me their disc so I could get through the story.
- Comment on They see me rollin... 1 month ago:
Definitely going on my list of “memes you can hear” … Or at least we olds can.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Cowboy caviar
- Comment on Na Na Na Na Na Na 1 month ago:
I think we’re only missing Wham! Last Christmas for my nightmare list from working retail.
Well, and anything from the Amy Grant Xmas album, but that’s my dad’s fault.
Oh wait, can’t forget Christmas shoes… (Shudders involuntarily).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Love it. Gives a new meaning to JBOD too: junk box of disks!
- Comment on What life hack helped you this year? 2 months ago:
Drei bier ist auch ein schnitzel und dann hast du nichts getrunken.
Three beers are also a schnitzel and then you drank nothing.
- Comment on Dealing with an old sink and looking for help. 2 months ago:
Instead of the plug, you could get a soap dispenser for $25-30.
- Comment on Northern lights 2 months ago:
It’s beautiful!
- Comment on Northern lights 2 months ago:
- Comment on A hypothesis 3 months ago:
TRS-80 then IBM PCjr here. Both hand-me-downs though.
Mom wouldn’t let me on the 386 until I could touch-type and write a program in BASIC. She was a Cobol and IBM RPG programmer.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
“Vexillophile” is a word you probably won’t ever need again.
- Comment on $1,000 richer 3 months ago:
Omg thank you for the money!
- Comment on God did not intend for us to fold fitted sheets, and if you can it's witchcraft. 3 months ago:
It’s really not bad with full elastic bands. Make a rough square using the point of the corners as one corner and the only non-elastic fold as the opposite. Just flop the sloppy elastic to the inside. I then fold in thirds and again in thirds. Just fold the weird parts to the inside each time.
My wife still thinks it’s magic after 20 years.
- Comment on Where should I start? Absolute newb with a kit 3 months ago:
Yeah, the plum wine is a simple infusion.
- Comment on Where should I start? Absolute newb with a kit 3 months ago:
You haven’t tried it before, so I’ll suggest just brewing one of the kits you have. Use it to figure out some process and hey, you might still get something drinkable. If not, you’ll still be setting yourself up for success with fresh new ingredients.
- Comment on What's the best chat to self host? 3 months ago:
I see. Yeah, that compose file is gross unless you’re running this on a dedicated vps, and even then…
- Comment on What's the best chat to self host? 3 months ago:
I haven’t run snikket before, but it looks straightforward to me. Maybe the documentation has improved?
- Comment on The Steam Controller's stick is upgradeable! 3 months ago:
It is. I even got it working wirelessly once for shits and giggles using USB/IP.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Don’t forget multicast (live streaming)!
- Comment on Really liking glance 4 months ago:
Tiling WM and Gruvbox. Doesn’t get any better!
- Comment on Learn this one weird trick! 4 months ago:
Also don’t forget your locking nut key for those pesky lock nuts
Leaving only those will make for a bigger surprise a few minutes later when they take a corner at speed. Or hit a bump.
- Comment on Learn this one weird trick! 4 months ago:
Battery powered impact driver plus a deep socket set = you can remove lug nuts or bolts (securing a wheel to a vehicle) in very quick fashion.
- Comment on These mugs are getting out of hand 4 months ago:
You joke, but we learned “tons” and “metric tons” in elementary school.
I assume it’s the reason “metric” is used as an adjective this way.
- Comment on rootless backup or rootless podman volumes? 4 months ago:
It seems like the only time I encounter this oddness is when some upstream docker image maintainer has done a weird with users (I once went 3 image levels up to figure out what happened).
Or if I borrow a dockerfile and don’t strip out the “nonroot” user hacks that got popularized years ago.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 4 months ago:
Cheddar Cheeseius.
- Comment on Oktoberfest! 4 months ago:
Märzen is traditionally brewed in March because that’s what märzen means!
But we don’t need to be overly prescriptive, that’s no fun!
I’m mostly just jealous because I didn’t get to it this year.
- Comment on Fall Sale Days are here 4 months ago:
Oh man, I grew up with those intercoms on the top right.
So weird to see them again.
