Madrigal
@Madrigal@lemmy.world
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 1 month ago:
OP might be talking about the user base, not the owners.
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 1 month ago:
Call it “eX-Twitter”.
- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 1 month ago:
I hope this is the case, but I can’t see the creators getting paid more than a small fraction of the value of their work even so.
- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 1 month ago:
This is exactly what will happen.
/s
- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 1 month ago:
It has its uses, but it us being massively overhyped.
Having trialled Copilot and a few other AI tools in my workplace, I can confidently says it’s a minor productivity booster.
- Comment on OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet 1 month ago:
There are better ways to do that even in Excel!
- Comment on AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbage. 3 months ago:
“On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” - Charles Babbage
- Comment on Apple is reportedly planning a big AI-focused M4 Mac upgrade 7 months ago:
Just give it a couple of years for the hype/boom/bust cycle to complete, then it’ll settle down and people will start using the tech appropriately.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Main home and a holiday home/cabin or similar. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 9 months ago:
My work machine is W11 and has options to change it. Not one of those stupid ‘home’ vs ‘pro’ version things is it?
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 9 months ago:
They used to have that as a filter. Although for a long while you could pick short (<4 mins) or long (>20 mins) but not medium length videos.
This, too, was a sign they had no fucking idea what they were doing.
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 9 months ago:
Nope, I’ve seen it myself. Cannot imagine a more useless feature.
- Comment on 9 months ago:
Some older online games have pretty good latency tolerance because they were built in an era before broadband was widely available.
Vanilla World of Warcraft, for example, has a ‘spell batching’ mechanic that helps to equalise things somewhat. You’ll need to play on a private server though because Blizz changed spell batching in Classic.
- Comment on A sports arena in my city is was in debt and a supermarket chain stepped in to ease the debt. The catch? The stadium has to name itself after this supermarket chain. 10 months ago:
Personally I’d rather supermarkets charged more reasonable prices for groceries.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
ADHD is definitely a possibility. I have it and can relate to those issues. However stress, anxiety and fatigue can also cause problems like this without there being an underlying condition like ADHD. Definitely agree on seeking professional help though, if that’s possible.
- Comment on Would nuclear reactors be feasible everywhere? 1 year ago:
Wouldn’t want them anywhere that is prone to earthquakes - the entire Pacific rim, for example.
- Comment on TIL Press win + k to quickly connect to a bluetooth earphone in Windows 10 1 year ago:
Right up there with Ctrl-X, C and V for Xut, Copy and Vaste respectively.
- Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers. 1 year ago:
That’s commerce, not capitalism.
- Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers. 1 year ago:
I wouldn’t object to paying if:
- Their pricing was more reasonable
- A fairer cut went to content creators
- They had something that actually qualified as a search function on their site
- They weren’t trying to bully everyone into paying
- Comment on Scrollbars are becoming a problem 1 year ago:
I recently had to talk a designer out of implementing a “webpage progress indicator” that was a thin horizontal bar across the top of the page that filled in as you progressed through the content.
- Comment on Scrollbars are becoming a problem 1 year ago:
And just straight up broken by idiocy like infinite scroll.
- Comment on "God works in mysterious ways" basically means "this doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm gonna ignore it" 1 year ago:
Worse. It’s “attempting to understand this might cause me to question my faith, so I’m not going to even try.”
- Comment on Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in 1 year ago:
Ahh, if only I had such control over a company assigned machine.
- Comment on Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in 1 year ago:
Much better multi-monitor support
Tell that to the Snipping Tool.
- Comment on George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement 1 year ago:
Most of us have reached the Acceptance stage now.
- Comment on George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement 1 year ago:
Well, assuming it wasn’t all nuked over the past few months, the fan theory stuff on Reddit was probably a pretty good training dataset.
- Comment on YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star 1 year ago:
I think you might be misreading.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 1 year ago:
This is true, and suggests maybe a broader recategorisation is in order.
I’ve heard one expert suggest that while many disorders feature executive dysfunction, ADHD is executive dysfunction.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 1 year ago:
So much to unpick here, and so little inclination to bother. Like many with ADHD, I’m sick of dealing with the constant disinformation and toxic positivity that surrounds this condition - and which you’re contributing to.
If you think ADHD is about attention, then you really still don’t get it. Go and watch Dr Russell Barkley’s videos on YouTube. There’s a seminar about 2.5 hours long that is well worth the time.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 1 year ago:
That you don’t understand ADHD.