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- Comment on The more air conditions in an area the hotter becomes around it. In turn increasing the demand for AC. Talk about infinite money glitch. 6 months ago:
Wouldn’t those 2.5C already be included in cities being 5c warmer…?
- Comment on The new Twitter is becoming a cesspit of disinformation 1 year ago:
Not nearly this bad. Go read the article. It’s much easier to spread crap nowadays, even though you could before.
- Comment on Lemmy users when I mention I pay for Youtube Premium 1 year ago:
Only service where I’ve done the region thing. Paying 15 kr a month because I signed up through Argentina.
- Comment on Reviving !movies@lemm.ee following lemmy.film shutdown 1 year ago:
Yeah definitely. Feel like even Lemm.ee could be at risk, the admin have written once in three weeks. Might be nothing, but does not feel all too safe.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Nadella's compensation drops... to $48M — CEO to employee pay ratio hits 250 to 1 1 year ago:
There will always be loop holes, but then you fix those. And regardless, loop holes are not used by all, and they take time to find. So that’s no reason not to do it.
- Comment on Scottish couple facing $33k repair bill after driving Tesla in heavy rain 1 year ago:
Yes working old cars are cheaper than piece of shit new ones. How terribly observant of you*
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- Comment on Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder 1 year ago:
I mean most top searches are AI generated bullshit nowadays anyway. Adding Reddit to a search is basically the only decent way to get a proper answer. But those answers are not much more reliable than ChatGPT. You have to use the same sort of skepticism and fact checking regardless.
Google has really gotten horrible over the years.
- Comment on Why shouldn’t I just give up on Lemmy? 1 year ago:
Avalon works fine for me, and was updated just a couple of days ago. Voyager works good as well, though not as frequently updated lately.
- Comment on What is your favorite programming language? 1 year ago:
Couldn’t have said it better myself! Lovely that it’s the most upvoted one.
- Comment on [Lemmy active users] 28th of September was the only day with more monthly active Lemmy users than the previous one, probably thanks to the release of Boost for Lemmy 1 year ago:
I personally had 4 active accounts in August, until I settled on one instance I like. Very likely many others did the same, so these numbers are far from perfect.
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 1 year ago:
Well there is, if you wish for apps created by others than large corporations with hundreds or thousands of developers. It will get better with time now when progress is slower.
But phones 10 years ago were absolutely trash compared to those we have today.
- Comment on Which iOS app for Lemmy? 1 year ago:
I feel like the jury’s still out a bit. We had some insane development during July, then it steadily dropped off. Lots of decent apps, but not many being updated during the last month.
And they aren’t really in that good of a state, still many kinks to iron out.
Lemma is a newcomer that seems pretty great. I miss some sorting options, other than that it’s awesome.
- Comment on What hobbies did you pick up during the pandemic and have you been able to keep them up? 1 year ago:
Programming.
I don’t do it as much as a hobby anymore. But that’s because I switched careers and do it all day for work nowadays!
- Comment on Tony Blair says junk food should be made too expensive for the poor to afford through new sugar and salt taxes to tackle obesity 1 year ago:
Obviously.
Living at a hotel is also cheaper than an apartment if we consider the cost of rent, a bed, electricity, water and etc.
But living at a hotel is obviously not cheaper than renting an apartment. Perhaps for a couple of days, but long term it will get much more expensive.
As with fast food.
- Comment on Apple Maps will finally be getting offline downloads 1 year ago:
Fair enough. Guess we just have different views when it comes to that then.
For me “it just works” is much more about the OS. Sending files between my Apple devices, browsers and files syncing, having my Airpods switch from phone to Apple TV with the press of a button/automatically, face-id not failing 50% of the time, the watch works when I speak to it and does what I want it to.
These are by no means crazy and things, but I struggle daily at work with my none Apple headset, the windows computer, my android phone. It just “does not work” smoothly. And they all sync horribly with each other for some reason.
- Comment on Tony Blair says junk food should be made too expensive for the poor to afford through new sugar and salt taxes to tackle obesity 1 year ago:
I mean it really doesn’t. There’s literally no fast food you can’t do cheaper at home. Sure, you might have to pay a bit more, but you’ll then have at least twice the amount of food.
- Comment on Apple Maps will finally be getting offline downloads 1 year ago:
I mean it’s obviously not news, news. It’s marketing. Most people just don’t care about latency on a product, especially when it’s for use with another - not even released product. What do you expect?
- Comment on Apple Maps will finally be getting offline downloads 1 year ago:
That it just works does not mean I’m bound to Apple apps only. It just works includes having fantastic third party apps that do the job when Apples are lacking.
Calendar, maps, music, password manager and the likes are such for me. But it still “just works”.
Missing features at OS level is one thing. But missing features in a goddamn app, when there are alternatives? Common…
- Comment on Apple Maps will finally be getting offline downloads 1 year ago:
I mean their events are literally held to give news about updates. Revolutionary or not.
Why would they not mention stuff people could make use of, just because it’s not some amazing new things.
Events are rather decent to be honest, no that I look at them. But people do, so it’s very easy to get an overview over upcoming features.
- Comment on Microsoft cuts ties with the Surface Duo after just 2 Android version updates 1 year ago:
You obviously do not live in a cold country. iPhones up until version 5-6 or so (when this was introduced) was notorious for turning off at 25-30% battery if it was slightly cold outside (sub 5 degree Celsius or so). It was a horrible experience that was completely slowed by clocking down processors of battery worn phones.
I’ve never heard of a person turning off the option now when we’ve got the choice either.
It’s 100% beneficial to the customer.
Though, they should’ve been clearer with what they did and added a toggle from the start. Which is why they were fined.
- Comment on ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row 1 year ago:
Of course there is. But weather forecasting have also gotten ridiculously much more accurate with time. Better data, better models. We’ll get there with language models as well.
I’m not arguing language models of today are amazingly accurate, I’m arguing they can be. That they are statistical models is not the problem. That they are new statistical models are.
- Comment on ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row 1 year ago:
So you can feed a weather model weather data, but you cannot feed a language model, programming languages and get accurate predictions?
Basically no one is saying that “yeah I just go off the output, it’s perfect”. People use it to get a ballpark and then they work off that. Much like a meteorologist would do.
It’s not 100% or 0%. With imperfect data, we get imperfect responses. But that’s no difference from a weather model. We can still get results that are 50% or 80% accurate with less than 100% correct information.
- Comment on ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row 1 year ago:
Well, we are back at my earlier point. There is no need for knowledge if the statistical models are good enough.
A weather forecast does not have any knowledge whatsoever. It has data and statistical models. No one goes around dismissing them due to them not have any knowledge. Sure, we can be open to the fact that the statistical models are not perfect. But the models have gotten so good that they are used in people’s everyday life with rather high degree of certainty, they are used for hurricane warnings and whatnot.
Your map app has no knowledge either. But it’s still amazing for knowing with a high degree of certainty how much time you’ll need from place A to B. We could argue it’s just a parrot on steroid, that has been fed with billions of data points with some statistics on top, and say that it doesn’t know anything. But it’s such a useless point, because knowledge is not necessary if the data and statistical models are sound enough.
- Comment on ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row 1 year ago:
Meh.
That’s a very fallibilistic viewpoint. There are lots of certainties that can be answered correctly.
- Comment on ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row 1 year ago:
It’s just very quick at doing simple things you already could do - or doing things that you’d need to think about for a couple of minutes.
I wouldn’t trust it to do things I couldn’t achieve. But for stuff I could, it’s often much quicker. And I’m well equipped to check what it’s doing myself.
- Comment on More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user 1 year ago:
Oh yes, because automating a search for csv and json files to search for mail addresses and passwords can’t be done by malware. It must be a human.
Common. This happens on massive scale, wether you like it or not.
securityboulevard.com/2023/06/…/amp/
- Comment on More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user 1 year ago:
There are plenty of use cases for going after self hosters. Bot farms are basically made up of “regular” computers infected with malware.
While you’re at it and have access to tens of thousands computers, also grabbing their passwords is just a nice bonus.
- Comment on There's no way for teachers to figure out if students are using ChatGPT to cheat, OpenAI says in new back-to-school guide 1 year ago:
I’ve done that more than most. But it’s very hard to get it to lose its style.
- Comment on There's no way for teachers to figure out if students are using ChatGPT to cheat, OpenAI says in new back-to-school guide 1 year ago:
Meh. You’ll do better if you actually know some math as well. No engineer is going to pull up the calculator to calculate 127+9.
Same goes for writing. Sure, ChatGPT can do amazing things. But if you can’t do them yourself, you’ll struggle to spot the not so amazing things it does.