raltoid
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- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, one of our problems was rain and thick fog causing massive drops and even disconnects on the connection going out from the router. Which is why we did the can trick.
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 5 weeks ago:
Indeed, although this type of thing was more common with older wifi generations, so I’m not surprised kids these days wont know.
We cut the top off an old beer can once, poked a hole and stuck it onto the antenna to get across a courtyard and have a stable download.
- Comment on Kakapos 5 weeks ago:
The show is pretty good too.
- Comment on Would Frieren kill Nezuko? [Discuss] 1 month ago:
It would heavily depend on context and the situation. And in addition to the other replies, I think it would differ based on if Frieren was alone or traveling with someone, and who that was.
If she and Fern met them at a resturant, things might work out. But I don’t think there would be much left of them if they just popped out of thin air in front of her while she was traveling alone on a remote path.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 1 month ago:
Bing is used a lot more than most people think. It’s also used by sites like DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Swisscows, etc.
As for why: They want them to train their own replacement.
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 1 month ago:
Paywall it for short term gain, at the expense of long term viewership growth.
Making a company worse for short term revenue, at the cost of customer retention, product quality, etc. causing increased turnover which further compounds all the other issues. Is a common issue among all modern companies.
In short, there was a shift in MBA education a while back that includes a bunch of lies-by-omission and misrepresented data. Meaning that the only think on their mind when they graduate, is to please investors at any all costs, including the company longevity.
- Comment on Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare? 1 month ago:
Yes. Europeans themselves also travel to other European countries for cheaper healthcare.
For example, there’s a town of 35k people in Hungary that has over 300 dental clinics, because it’s close to the Austrian border and is about half the cost or less.
- Comment on Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure you can trace the management downturn of American companies back to a change in MBA curriculum.
You can see when they started getting hired after the shift. Where they were taught that as long as your department is doing well and has positive numbers, LITERALLY nothing else matters. The company could be crashing and burning around you, you might even be causing it, but as long as those numbers are going up, you’ll quickly get hired at another company. Because every single iota of their education is about pleasing investors who only care about money now, and not potential money in a few years.
- Comment on I want these walls back 1 month ago:
And it’s by Doctor Spin aka. Andrew Lloyd Webber. The guy who wrote the most famous songs in Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Evita, etc.
- Comment on Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR 1 month ago:
Literally the same reason why Ford sells 150s and 250s and Volvo sells 70s and 90s: They are different products and don’t base the numbers on their competitor.
- Comment on Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time. 1 month ago:
Yes, it’s obvious sarcasm. But reading comprehension has seriously gone to shit in the last decade or so.
- Comment on wtf 1 month ago:
It’s why the trope of an enemy that never stops/is endless is so terrifying, and thus common in media.
- Comment on Child Welfare Experts Horrified by Mattel's Plans to Add ChatGPT to Toys After Mental Health Concerns for Adult Users 1 month ago:
This is what happens when leadership listens to tech-bros and ignore everyone else, including legal, ethics and actual tech experts.
They’ll be backpedaling like crazy and downplay it like a furby-style thing.
- Comment on AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You 1 month ago:
It’s just as real at the OilWell app.
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In other words, it is not real.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 1 month ago:
Using modified hardware might break other regulations or terms of services, but using a backup copy of a copy you own to do so, is not piracy. Which is the answer to the question in the comment.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 2 months ago:
Because in the US and several other countries you can legally back up a cartridge that you have bought. Meaning it’s not piracy.
- Comment on I hate audio animal repellers 2 months ago:
Those anti-teenager ones are only put up by absolute sociopaths, or people who should not be allowed to make executive decisions in regarding own life.
Because they never even consider that kids younger than teens also hear them, and they can often damage the hearing of babies and toddlers.
- Comment on I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought.... 2 months ago:
A photojournalist was hit over the weekend and is still in the hospital after surgery.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 months ago:
I’m guessing it’s not even hard to get it to confidently violate the rules.
- Comment on 'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets 2 months ago:
Anyone who still doesn’t see how similiar this is to 1930s Germany, is lying, a child or ignorant to the point where they their opinion should be ignored.
- Comment on Everyone has a special talent. You just have to discover yours's 2 months ago:
Then why didn’t you post a picture from that? This is from the indy500.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 2 months ago:
Yeah, he’s still just as delutional and thinks the problem is everyone else.
- Comment on That's a good question 2 months ago:
Do you have any sources on the claim that it wasn’t a cross and was changed later for pagans?
No they do not, because the early symbol was already T.
There are writings from ~200s talking about how the letter T looks like the execution cross.
- Comment on Fractured Blooms - Official Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if it’s actually set in a more anime-style world, and that the “real” looking one in the trailer is imaginery or something.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 2 months ago:
Stuttering and changing FPS.
And it’s not exclusive to modern games, just a lot more common now if you don’t lower settings or lock the fps to keep it consistent.
- Comment on Three Maori MPs suspended over 'intimidating' haka 2 months ago:
In general, no. Historically and in the vast majority of cases it is done as a show of respect, to honor someone or something. It’s done for anything from dignitaries visiting to funerals. For example, Viggo Mortensen was very close with the stunt team on Lord of the Rings, and they performed one for him after he filmed his last scene.
The Ka Mate haka(which is the one they did), was popularized by the New Zealand national rugby team. And, is from what I remember a retelling of a story. Honoring someone who won by outwitting his enemies. It’s was never originally intended to be intimidating in terms of the vocalization and movement.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 months ago:
The “collected data types” in that comment seems to be copy/pasted from the actual one:
- Comment on Four NYPD officers converged on one woman on a bike because she smiled at them, then detained her because she wasn't carrying ID. 2 months ago:
No, they want people to literally cower in fear and lick their boots.
- Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July 2 months ago:
Long story short: They are not combatting bots on their platform. They sold training data to google and these guys aren’t paying, that’s why they’re suing.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 2 months ago:
I know, what are they making next? Lord of the Rings edition? Star Wars? Oh the humanities.