Mirshe

@Mirshe@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. startup nails flight test of a drone built for hypersonic speeds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus all the shock absorption for the lense. And the avionics if you don’t plan to just have this thing drop film into a predetermined area (like the old Keyhole sats or the U-2).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Legitimately nothing. I think this is MS looking for use cases, because they have sunk all their capacity into AI. They cannot detangle themselves from their AI, and they’re trying to course correct into SOMETHING that might be profitable and pull them out of their death spiral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Legitimately the dude is a sociopathic teenager.

  “Why would I wanna spend time with Grandma or the kids or my wife or my dog when I can sit and play video games and draw cool stuff in my notebooks.”

  I don’t think any of these fucking weirdos know what “genuine human connection” IS. I don’t think any of them have actually internalized a genuine, caring relationship at any point. They know how the steps of the dance, they can do it on command, but it’s soulless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting every episode of Dr Oz uploaded to your frontal lobes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Mar-Kwane⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, Corey is out of the house now too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You would be extremely surprised. Car maintenance is expensive, and lack of inspection very often leads to people driving vehicles that should have been off the road years ago simply because a lot of states that axe it, axe inspections because they’re expensive for the driver (a lot of these states are in the former Steel Belt). In better-off areas or places where people have more time/money/equipment/space to wrench on cars, then yes, but here in my city, I definitely have seen cars where the entire frame is basically being held together by Bondo and prayer, cars where they’re running on 4 spares, cars where enormous sections of the body paneling are just gone. I’ve nearly been hit by people who clearly relied on yearly inspections to tell them “hey your brakes are failing” because they drive on autopilot and just adjust how they drive to accommodate failing/failed brakes.

  In fact, I suspect maintenance costs are HIGHER in areas without inspection, because shops could rely on that regular-ish influx of cash even if it was only like $50-$100 a vehicle, AND you have the customer in the shop, so it’s easier to go “hey you really need brakes, it’ll cost you an extra $200 and take an extra hour or two”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much exactly this. You stick useless people in these important roles so they can’t get enough traction to try for your chair, but you also want people who are at least smart enough to do whatever you tell them to do. Patel is actually a smart pick, he;s just too dumb to know how to push around actual field agents and only knows how to push around analysts and media

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moats are back!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the love of God, Montressor!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moats are back!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if they’re wanting to do the old castle thing, they forget castles had funny things like ways to produce food and unblockable access to clean water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No no no! I don’t know who started this fucking thing, Cincinnati chili has never contained cocoa. I literally live here, and I’ve heard it from tons of transplants and natives alike. No chili parlor here uses it, no recipes I’ve seen use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person’s account to keep posting and chatting - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ehhh, the idea predates Cyberpunk pretty well. Digital immortality was a theme in some sci-fi going all the way back to the 50s with Asimov’s “The Last Question” (though that was more Matrix-style consciousness upload).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bingo. You use ML to narrow down results, not to give you answers. I have a friend who uses ML models to analyze radio telescope data, because it’s really good at the mind-numbing work of throwing out noise and junk from broadcast satellites and known radio sources. Then you go through the narrowed stuff to see if anything in that is more interesting.

  It’s the question between sifting a million hits or a thousand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the fact that there’s an enormous machine of conservative think tanks and funding groups and PACs and corporations that will fight every and any change tooth and nail. The obvious ones like abolishing ICE? They’re an enormous source of revenue for dozens of companies, from tech to defense, not to mention that private prison companies are running the concentration camps. They’d need to be ready to effectively run things as a true dictator in order to get anything done, because large portions of the economic sphere have been retooled to rely on things continuing the way they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All of those are MORE expensive, at scale. If you can just hand 1500 kids a $200 Chromebook that fulfills ALL those functions, that’s $300k, vs 1500 e-ink readers at $40 a pop, 1500 digital typewriters @ $100 apiece, etc. Hell, that scientific calculator ALONE might be $200+ in some markets because Texas Instruments practically has the market cornered (to the point that I had to go to the administration of my school district to show them that the Casio I had was functionally identical).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So many donations and funds for schools are earmarked, you can only spend them in specific ways. If you spend them in ways that don’t align with the earmark, it’s incredibly easy for the donors or the state to claw them back. So that $40mil your local suburban school district spent on a new football stadium? That was likely earmarked SPECIFICALLY for football, they can’t really just swish the money to better textbooks, or whatever. Same with tech funding - you get $250k to upgrade your school district with Chromebooks or whatever, you MUST buy within what the funding packet tells you you can buy, and you can’t really do anything else with it.

  That doesn’t even get into the cartelization of textbooks and school software. There’s so few real options that it’s incredibly easy for these companies to collude without really looking like it’s collusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The SAM episode was a little meh, personally, but I like that they’re dealing with the shorter season format and still doing episodes based around each character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nice horsie! 🐎⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC a few African groups have legends of people trying to tame zebras as long term mounts or livestock, and these legends rarely end well for the attempter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve stated elsewhere that even though they’re deploying “age inference” (whatever that is), verification is mandatory if you don’t want your account to be restricted to PG-13, basically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure, Jan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also doesn’t help that they apparently gave a bunch of half-truths to every other artist on the card (like Shinedown), and potentially just added some names they thought they could dial last-minute (Ludacris).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now he’s also retooling Tesla facilities to build his Optimus humanoid robots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except your managers might think it’s important, or you’re a shitty manager trying to fill their time and look important by micromanaging your employees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s anticompetitive. Trying to keep up will kill off many businesses, which can be snapped up by the larger firms and corpos that can either afford to pay the fines or can simply ignore new regulations while their lawyers try to fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that takes more time and actual work. By forcing her to trial, prosecutors and police get to up their numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨u WoT m8⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This. They need some form of actual income, and ad revenue gives them theoretical capital to loan against.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure a good chunk of them didn’t view him as a child.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you also thought of the idea that maybe she’s masking some of those symptoms around you? A lot of the language in your post seems judgmental, if just ignorant. It could be she’s willing and able to internalize those symptoms around you or other people in order to make her life easier - lots of us do it around family because a LOT of parents wind up coming out of the gate sounding like you, and it’s easier to just go “look I’m fine” rather than have to justify our diagnosis constantly.

  Autism, especially what used to be considered “high functioning” autism like Asperger’s, isn’t always a “constant” feeling of these symptoms anymore than an average schizoaffective person or someone with BPD or someone with bipolar is constantly experiencing their own symptoms. You have good days, you have bad days, and you have triggers and sometimes you can nut up even on the bad days and go to work or school or whatever. Autistic people aren’t constantly Rainman-ing their way through life, or constantly reenacting Sheldon from Big Bang Theory or whatever your popular conception is.

  You’re already saying “she’s mostly not off”, so why is it so hard to believe that she has this disorder, or that it’s hard to take the next step and say “huh, she says that the medicine really helps and makes it easier for her, so I’ll believe her on that.”. I understand wanting the best and worrying about things like chemical dependency, but her doctor should be - and almost certainly IS - monitoring for this at regular checkups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I feel like we couldn’t let Congress know first on the off chance someone actually grows a spine and says you can’t launch a war without approval from us.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That would make sense. Remember all the hullabaloo in the first go around every time he wound up anywhere near Walter Reed. Now, I’m unsure if there are even DOCTORS there anymore, given that DOGE determined that the VA is a horrible waste of money, but if I were wanting to keep my daily dementia drugs secret, I’d convert an interior room at Mar-A-Lago for the setup. No cameras, no paparazzi, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨☪️⛎♑️☦️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t look too Old, because then your audience might not take you seriously. Mid-20s at BEST, unless you can look Old And Erudite, in which case you might be able to pull off mid-40s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"enjoy the show"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, early antifascists kinda sucked too. It didn’t help that the leader of the SA was openly gay, so a lot of antifascists latched onto that as an attack and a rallying cry.