T156

@T156@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Or “if only the city would open a new lane, it won’t be as congested”. Sometimes followed by “why dId the city shut the road, that’s just going to make traffic worse” when the council shuts the road for expansion works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now, I suppose if you only need 32GB RAM and a CPU that’s pathetic by modern standards, then this is a viable path. But that’s going to be a very small group of people.

  It’s not that bad. For the most part, it would still be a viable machine these days, though weaker than it used to be. Computers haven’t changed quite as much as they used to, compared to the period leading into the 2010s.

  My desktop is still a 4th gen intel. You’re not going to get bleeding-edge performance or efficiency out of it, but it’s hardly a slug. If anything, I’d argue it to more likely be the majority of computers. People don’t upgrade that often, especially if the computer works fine and doesn’t lag horribly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor Jeremy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Snail sex is weird and complicated

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You say that, but analogue computers are quite good at what they do. Issue tends to be that they’re specialised, so aren’t very good at general tasks.

  Brains are a rare exception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it not be self-correcting in the end? The various bits of debris that form the Kessler cloud would collide so much that they would eventually fragment into little more than dust, or lose enough energy that they are no longer in a stable orbit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Credit to u/donner1701 on Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The seasons are also smaller. Take the episode count, for example. Season 1 of TNG was 26 episodes. Discovery’s S1, by comparison, is only 15.

  That’s ten whole episodes of development space lost. Would be curious what’s driving the trend, whether it’s the network not wanting to pay for “filler” episodes, or the producers not wanting to put “filler” in for one reason or another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  The Matrix

  If humanity’s first reaction to sapient machines is to blot out the sun without thinking about what would happen to them, that’s on them at that point. They’re lucky the machines cared enough to try and help humans, rather than leave them to the consequences of their own actions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus people are mean all the time. We don’t live in a comic book world, where a moment of fury at someone on the internet turns people into supervillains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t a lot of their tomfoolery why people relocated to Reddit to begin with?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The old technologies that we used to use for websites never really went away. They’re still around, and you can use them to make websites again if you want.

  It’s just that it won’t be as fancy looking as a newer web-site, but you don’t lose too much on functionality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I publish my memoir and wrote about every bad thing people did to hurt me while the people mentioned are still alive, how much trouble could I get in?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also stops them from getting attention, and dissuades people who might commit similar crimes for the notoriety.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman among billionaires investing in 'Freedom City' to be built on Greenland⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably less that and more that he was asked to/promised something if he did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue schooling in general. Instead of being something you do because you want to and enjoy it, it’s instead a thing you have to do either because you don’t have the qualifications for a promotion, or you need the qualifications for an entry-level position.

  People that are there because they enjoy study, or want to learn more are arguably something of a minority.

  Naturally if you’re there because you have to be, you’re not going to put much, if any effort in, and will look to take what shortcuts you can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or end up provoking someone who might not have the most reasonable reaction to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just take the app name, for example. From memory, single letter app names aren’t typically allowed.

  X got a special exemption to let them use that name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At the same time, they could easily be a crutch. Why bother designing a good, accessible website if most of the users are just going to access it via a chatbot?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like it’s going to incentivise developers to either make bad puzzles, or bad hint systems. Why bother with a good one if the platform has a “complete this for me” feature? It is basically impossible for players to get stuck or struggle, when they’re either shown the solution, or the game completes it for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand the point of sending the original e-mail. Okay, you want to thank the person who helped invent UTF-8, I get that much, but why would anyone feel appreciated in getting an e-mail written solely/mostly by a computer?

  It’s like sending a touching birthday card to your friends, but instead of writing something, you just bought a stamp with a feel-good sentence on it, and plonked that on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still trying to figure it out...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or rabies. Australians might have to watch out for their own brand thereof, but they don’t have rabies to contend with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Storage. There aren’t enough hard drives, so datacentres are also buying up SSDs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chasing the Elephant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Although it really only happened recently. If you look at older generated images, they don’t have the yellow colouration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you want to see this site do differently from Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit more of an issue in its earlier days compared to now, but it also needs to stop copying Reddit. People aren’t going to go to Lemmy if its communities are just copies of Reddit posts.

  At the same time, there’s an argument that it shouldn’t be trying to compare itself with Reddit anyway. It should try to be its own thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you want to see this site do differently from Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a whole, Lemmy isn’t really big enough to branch out into individual game communities just yet. They just end up petering out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “The customer is always right” might get misused a lot, but it is correct in this instance.

  If a lot of your customers don’t like something, it’s not something wrong with the customers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s something of the law of averages. At their core, an LLM is a sophisticated text prediction algorithm, that boils down the entire corpus of human language into numeric tokens, that it averages out, and creates entire sentences by determining the next most likely word to fill the space.

  Given enough data, and you need a tremendous amount of it for an LLM, patterns start to come about, and many of those end up the ones that we see in LLMs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or if you have good hardware that doesn’t need the transcoding. If I was loading up h265 video on my server, I’d need to convert it to h264 or something else compatible if I wanted to use it with my iPad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hasn’t bitcoin not been viable on GPUs for over a decade? Most of the cryptocurrency hype was mining other coins on GPUs, or using them to do blockchain calculations for NFTs and things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God ****** dammit, here we go again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the same time, it is trivially easy to strip a + alias, so I’d not trust it to do anything much at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To a lesser extent, so did the Lorax’s Aloysius O’Hare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The anti-vegans, who are strong proponents of an all-meat diet.