saltesc

@saltesc@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I grow a lot of my food in a fairly small space, and it’s quite easy. There’s also a community garden a few blocks away. Everything else is avoiding franchise supermarkets as they seem to have the worst quality at the highest price for meats, baked goods, etc. So I’m rarely doing a grocery shop and notice my money goes much slower.

  If you’re struggling to get groceries, assess your receipt and look for alternatives. Reducing spend while increasing quality is definitely a thing with staples.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems right to me. Think in centuries and not your lifetime. Your lifetine is more likely to span two centuries, so while the 1950s was just recently, you’ll be in the 2050s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I avoid becoming conformist, lazy and completely incapable of learning something new?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I will. I’m getting along in years and am about to pick up split boarding for backcountry. I could learn to just ski, but I’ve lived life surfing and skating, so I picked up snowboarding real fast and been doing that a while now.

  Kinda always been into the idea of towing with a snow mobile too, so maybe I can afford that around then haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I avoid becoming conformist, lazy and completely incapable of learning something new?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t act your age. Get to a point where you’re so dismissive of your age you have to think hard about what your age actually is.

  If I stopped and started doing things based on what I’m meant to do at an age, I’d be a miserable piece of shit. I just do and think what I want. When I’m 60, I’ll still be learning and doing what I want because I rejected the idea that I’m too old or too young for something.

  Rather than setting sights on what you want to achieve, set sights on what you never want to become. The rest just flows around that and happiness is always there because you’ve identified what unhappiness is and stayed clear of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The pre burn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s 13,310 eggs per second continuously for 48 hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Facebook Messenger for me. It’s impossible to get everyone to shift. Many of us have had Signal for years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is not satire this is not satire this is not satire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was a kid, every time I tried to draw something it just ended up being a dick and balls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you really have to let everyone know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect their performance is disappointing experience. Though, there would be at least one person out there that would be into being a part of…whatever this is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the struggle bus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OP can count to eight!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI in Australian workplaces: Michael used AI to write a work email. It ended up costing him $2000⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Confirmed. New to the concept of AI.

  A link to an LLM back end that’s not even in code.

  And a link to something AI has been used for for years, just as I mentioned in my OC, but you’ve been hyperfixated on Clippy, so unsurprisingly things have whooshed past you. A traveller shone light on your magic and you don’t want to accept it’s not magic.

  Also, I assume you have subscriptions or single pay options for papers, or at least access to a university that can get them for you at the normal fees?

  Since you Google things and share them with me like they’re of any value, you can use Google to learn more about that too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI in Australian workplaces: Michael used AI to write a work email. It ended up costing him $2000⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. I even currently work at a university and am on the committee for AI so I can get a few of the others to share theirs on Monday too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida’s New Social Media Bill Says the Quiet Part Out Loud and Demands an Encryption Backdoor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the point of encryption then? lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI in Australian workplaces: Michael used AI to write a work email. It ended up costing him $2000⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plebs?

  I’ve been working on and with AI since 2012 lol.

  And yeah, “practically magic” has told me enough. When we joke about people, the m-word is the always used when putting on a “normie” persona. I’m having an actual “found one in the wild” moment, it’s great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI in Australian workplaces: Michael used AI to write a work email. It ended up costing him $2000⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your exposure to AI is maybe new?

  If you could understand what’s behind the curtain, you’d realise not much magic is going on back there. What you’re instead noticing is hardware improving, allowing for more aggressive training and processing. The recipe is otherwise pretty much the same as it was five or even eight years ago. This is why we still have the same old issues and they don’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon because the tech is still the same old shit.

  And, no, these things you have raised are not new. Perhaps new to some as AI has recently been put on the radar thanks to large-scale training. I can’t explain how someone could draw a conclusion like yours unless the current state of AI seems new to them.

  “Echo chamber” is a coincidental selection of words in this context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI in Australian workplaces: Michael used AI to write a work email. It ended up costing him $2000⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clippy and I are old fr-… acquaintances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI in Australian workplaces: Michael used AI to write a work email. It ended up costing him $2000⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like standard genAI to me. Train on shit; output shit. It’s not thinking, it’s just loading in the next likely words on a topic.

  Common AI in its current state is just 2025 Clippy and finally most people are starting to realise. There’s been no major leaps and bounds in technology, just how that tech was applied to stuff and made more available to the masses.

  AI is excellent for many things. GenAI is not for most things. There is no magic, just easier access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the person who winks the Winkor and the person who receives the wink the Winkee ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  -ar is a person that does a thing. -er is a person that does action of a thing. A winkar in practice is a winker, but a winker isn’t necessarily a winkar.

  But a winkee is definitely someone subjected to a wink, whether by a winkar or a just a normal person winking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but Paul kind of ruined Greece via Thessaloniki and Korinthos. Granted, the social hierarchy around the old gods backed by “the one true God for all” Christian narrative sure made it easy to turn common Greeks against their ancient culture and religion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On Reddit, I once bragged about having universal healthcare and got called a Nazi and a communist at the same time.

  This is what happens when Xbox kids that use the n-word grow up. They learn new “bad” words and throw them around out of context and contradictingly. They don’t actually know what those things are, though, so it never makes sense.

  I’ve been called a tankie here. I didn’t know what it was and looked it up, just to discover it was the literal opposite of the things I was saying. I was very confused and just put it down to frustrated self-projection. At some point they had been called that, it upset them, so now they use it to upset people too but they still don’t actually know what it is they’re saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just racial stereotypes but it’s funny because the words Donald John Trump are randomly at the top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At least Quark had some integrity.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in statistics and we never use girl of woman, only female. The line is vastly different in age and meaning depending on culture, religion, law, or heritage. Even in western societ, 13, 16, 18, and 21 are all valid before tipping to 40, 50, 60, 65, 68, and 70 where the term can be prefixed with some form of adjective.

  It’s old-fashioned. Just say female and every culture/society understands you without confusion or insult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks to coding, I see center as a position and centre as an object. But for the most part, I find US spelling to be lazy spelling for poor pronunciation. Like people just started saying the word wrong and rather than fixing that, just started spelling it wrong too.

  Aluminium is prob the weirdest. Like everything on the periodic table ending with -ium; the Latin morpheme in chemistry. But the US just-…like, how?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the more I use it, the more I regret asking it for assistance. LLMs are the epitome of confidentiality incorrect.

  It’s good fun watching friends ask it stuff they’re already experienced in. Then the pin drops

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flushing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I first went to eastern Europe, I was confused why there were signs saying to not flush paper down the toilet. Like, obviously. That’s for body waste and TP only.

  “Paper” means “toilet paper”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh NOOOO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  St Germaine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The System Shock 2 remaster comes out June 26th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unpopular opinion, but I actually didn’t like Bioshock. Loading it up first time it was initially cool and all, but after a while of playing, I realised it lacked a lot os “somethings” and I only completed it because I’d gotten far enough in, may as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Game Workers Launch Industry-Wide Union with Communications Workers of America⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This should be good for games being finished on launch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Papers, Please: USA Edition | Official Trailer - YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You may enjoy Contraband Police. A well done first person take on such a game. I’d also still consider it “casual gaming” in difficulty, pace, and length.

  At first I thought it was just a cheap knock off, but the devs have been very active since release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna be really pissed if my chtistofascist parents were right⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, there’s an apocalyptic phase that goes on for a long time and chances of ultimate survival are quite positive. Six billion could perish, making life much easier for the remaining, though there’d be hard times for a few generations during recovery.

  Always look on the bright side of life 😙🎵

  Or, ya know, astroid… Whatever it is, it beats dying of dysentery at age 34.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna be really pissed if my chtistofascist parents were right⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The book states ‘no one knows when’ several times; even in Revelations, the book literally about end times.

  And there are many times in modern human history that people were sure it had kicked off. But it didn’t and things just got better again. It’s like our thing to almost wipe ourselves out but miserably kick on for another day.

  We only just appeared here anyway so we’ll likely disappear just as recently as well and some other living thing will have its turn, and so on, and so on, until the sun takes out the atmosphere and then the planet. And fin.