gammasfor

@gammasfor@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Case in point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  See I get that but I also feel like Lemmy in some ways has more hostile discourse. Too many people with incredibly entrenched opinions about something incredibly niche who then proceed to shout down anyone who doesn’t partake in that niche.

  Like at least on Reddit the aggressive circlejerks tend to align with mainstream thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just sayin'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And the command prompt uses the directory terminology anyway with the dir command.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They meant in the sense that crypto/nft was the last fad that VCs were throwing money at.

  It’s actually hilariously transparent how dumb VCs are and how much tech companies exploit that. Every now and then they randomly get hyped by some big tech company over some ‘new’ Y idea, then suddenly they throw money at any company suggesting they are doing Y thinking they will be the next Google or Meta. Then they inevitably doesn’t materialise and they move onto the next fad.

  Through the years I’ve been in the industry we’ve had Big Data, followed by AI, followed by blockchain, followed by nfts, followed by metaverse and now back to AI again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I was going to say VC throwing money at the newest fad isn’t anything new, in fact startups strive exploit the fuck out of it. No need to actually implement the fad tech, you just need to technobabble the magic words and a VC is like “here have 2 million dollars”.

  In our own company we half joked about calling a relatively simple decision flow in our back end an “AI system”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Northern Ireland’s Unionists Are Fighting for Survival: A sense of betrayal by Westminster and lost status have fueled extremism and weakened commitment to peaceful power-sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I always feel it’s a weird contradiction in beliefs there: “we want the UK government to have direct rule over Northern Ireland but we also don’t want them to make decisions we, a local party, don’t approve of”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah at the end of the day the fact the Fediverse is decentralised doesn’t grant some magic immunity to local laws. I’m surprised there are people who think this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone recommend a NuTrek viewing order? Or does it not really matter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It mostly doesn’t matter except for a couple of linking points:

  • Strange New Worlds effectively directly follows events of Discovery Season 2 with a plot point introduced in season 2 being a bit of a focus of SNW S1

  • It is probably advisable to watch Picard S1 before Discovery S3 and 4 as the first season of Picard introduces lore elements that have relevance.