Olap
@Olap@lemmy.world
Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru
- Comment on Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? 2 days ago:
Musk, Bezos, Zuck, Page ruined the internet for us. That’s who to blame
- Comment on Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts 1 week ago:
It encourages dog-piling essentially
- Comment on Simple Wikiclaudia: Chrome extension that finds a simple.wikipedia.org version of any wiki article. If one exists, click to open it; otherwise, it uses Claude or ChatGPT to simplify it. 1 week ago:
Because AI sucks at basically all tasks. And if I wanted the simple article I’d have visited the simple article. What you have done is denied entry to one of the most valuable resources ever created: wikipedia
- Comment on Simple Wikiclaudia: Chrome extension that finds a simple.wikipedia.org version of any wiki article. If one exists, click to open it; otherwise, it uses Claude or ChatGPT to simplify it. 1 week ago:
Thanks, I hate it
- Comment on The Education Crisis: How AI Is Failing Students for the Future Job Market 1 week ago:
I suspect people (not billionaires) are realising that they can get by with less. And that the planet needs that too. And that working 40+ hours a week isn’t giving people what they really want either.
There’s also the value of money has never been lower either. Working for less isn’t rewarding. And so demand is getting intensely squeezed, and this is likely to continue with a planet that is full of enough stuff
- Comment on US debt is now $37trn – should we be worried? 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t bet on that. American military might is still untouchable, and America is still a huge oil producer
- Comment on US debt is now $37trn – should we be worried? 1 week ago:
Trump understands that it doesn’t matter about the debt. Who does he owe it to after all? The banks won’t call the debts in, cause they don’t need to, and if he devalues the dollar he sees it as a win for exports
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 week ago:
I work in this field. I’m trying to change these numbers! We are heading the right direction is the good news. China may well save us all with cheaper panels and battery manufacturing. And if 97% reduces our emissions even 50% on todays emissions then we can start talking about actually meeting some climate targets.
So this is all good news, but as I also said: I work in this field and know we have a long way to go yet. There also isn’t a single answer. Batteries, smart grids, grid-interconnects, efficiencies, supply mixes, demand offsetting; power is the best thing in the world to work in right now, it touches sooo many aspects of humanity and is changing so fast!
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 week ago:
Coal has long been unprofitable, and nuclear has always needed huge state funding (you get weapons as the byproduct of nuclear power, hence the subsidies). Until it beats gas it still isn’t cheap enough imo. Gas of course is still massively subsidised too though, and that’s where we need to continue to work: our policy makers need to end fossil fuel subsidies
- Comment on I want a community to exist like 4chan greentext here 2 weeks ago:
Fesshole
- Comment on Marginalized Americans are highly skeptical of artificial intelligence 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got some bad news for you. They will never fix the mistakes as it cannot reason, it has no actual intelligence. LLMs are already plateauing and are miles away from being trustworthy. And they steal copyrighted work every request
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 3 weeks ago:
Gemini protocol is fab btw. Come join the tildeverse
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts 3 weeks ago:
I will chortle a lot
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 4 weeks ago:
Clearly never played proball, a quake3 mod which was a fucking hoot and laid a lot of groundwork for Rocket League. Did hours of this at LAN parties
Soccer tournament for unreal was also excellent. Deathball for 2004 for was also brilliant. I’d love to see CoD or Fortnite do a modern fps take on the concept
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Hey Dan, any chance of some more links, I can’t find anything about this package. And community isn’t a repo in archlinux land
- Comment on The New Digg’s Plan to Use AI for Community Moderation 4 weeks ago:
Lolz, this is sure to endear users
- Comment on What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion? 5 weeks ago:
Blood Dragon. Best tutorial ever
- Comment on Pull request to begin to add ActivityPub support to the bluesly PDS 5 weeks ago:
This is big. Bluesky is getting lots of traction with normies who want off Twitter. Mastodon and pleroma and pixelfed all about to become much more discoverable
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 5 weeks ago:
I am whelmed. Never been the biggest mobile gamer, will skip
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 1 month ago:
Baba Yetu is also great
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
No
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 1 month ago:
Fair play to Microsoft here. Hopefully we see some pull requests from non-ms employees and a better wsl experience for us all
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 2 months ago:
It is lemmy essentially. By far most communities, users, and a single point of failure in essence. That makes is quite good for getting it technically correct however, the best kind of correct
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 2 months ago:
Reddit took many years to build that reputation. And earned creepy badges along the way. I’m not saying the fediverse doesn’t need to do it, but let’s not be in a rush. We have technical challenges, and a lemmy.world, and a .ml problem before we’re ready for the big leagues
And being niche is fine for now, email was tiny for decades
- Comment on Boys and beans and... 2 months ago:
When the ends of our jeans looked all freyed and hemmed
- Comment on The Original Gears of War Is Being Remastered For PS5, Xbox & PC 2 months ago:
…wikipedia.org/…/Gears_of_War:_Ultimate_Edition
They have literally already done this job!
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 2 months ago:
You’ve never had to reason in a test? Problem solve in a test? Design in a test? Sure, some tests are memory tests, but plenty aren’t
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 2 months ago:
Mini vivas for every assignment, yaldi!
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 2 months ago:
Papers are being disrupted. Exams will become more relevant. Can’t use AI with only a pencil and paper
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 2 months ago:
Yeah, my favourite ever laptop. Would love to see the netbook return. Cheap and cheerful. Chromebooks just not the same