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- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 2 days ago:
I wish I had will smith’s speech on his target of choice when interviewing in MIB. It would of been the perfect response to “an advanced book for a 11 yo”
- Comment on Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house? 4 days ago:
I would go longer on the clothes but otherwise good advice. Typically I figure 1 year. For example if OP is in the northern hemisphere, it’s winter and 2 months ago would be around Christmas time… He probably hasn’t worn any shorts and maybe not any short-sleeve shirts since then. That doesn’t mean he won’t wear them in 3 months when it’s warmer.
Typically I try to make it a early December tradition, anything I haven’t worn in a year gets donated for needy families before the holidays. Everything else gets washed and hung up backwards. Next December if a piece is still backwards, it gets donated.
- Comment on The Texas man who shot a British woman after an argument about President Trump won’t face charges. The jury hails from a pro-gun pro-Trump part of the state, a legal expert says 5 days ago:
My mother was on a grand jury in NJ. It was every Tuesday and Thursday all day, plus 1.5 hour commute each way.
She effectively lost her job over it. No, the company didn’t say that but she had the same responsibilities to accomplish in 24 hours vs 40 hours before and they fired her for “poor work performance” because she was unable to complete them.
I think she got paid $12 a day to serve on the jury which didn’t even cover gas and she had to pay $5 a day to park. Technically she didn’t have to pay for parking as she could park on the street and pay a meter but the meter had to be repaid every 2 hours and they only got a 1 hour break for lunch around the 4 hour mark.
She didn’t discuss any of the cases with me but I know there were multiple cases of csam and more than one case of fathers raping their children. The evidence was mostly photos and videos which the jury had to watch.
- Comment on Lawyers set to argue that Instagram and YouTube intentionally addicted and harmed teen in landmark social media trial 1 week ago:
True, nothing is perfect.
If I need a life saving operation and given the choice of a Harvard graduate at random or a random person in time Square… I know who I would choose
OK the person from time square but that’s probably just my depression speaking.
- Comment on Lawyers set to argue that Instagram and YouTube intentionally addicted and harmed teen in landmark social media trial 1 week ago:
This is a case where I wish we didn’t have a “jury of peers”. Most people don’t even know dompemine is a thing or it’s effects. Most people don’t know the effects a disfunctional family can cause.
No, I don’t understand them completely either. There are experts in these fields who have done valid research and run well documented studies to better understand these topics. They are who should determine this. No YouTube videos or a blog post don’t count. I mean actual real studies that stand up to scientific rigor.
I feel that YouTube/facebook played a part. But I want that to be true due to my inherit bias. I have no data or numbers to back that up. Experts probably do. There have likely been done studies about these things.
I know know there is a thing called a Skinner box but that was over 50 years ago and I’m sure we know more. That said I’d bet the average person on the street doesn’t even know that and shouldn’t be determining this case.
Ask your McDonald’s worker for something to release some dopamine after a long work day, based on their answer do you want them setting precedent on this topic?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Look, I know I am no longer young and hip but calling me a dinosaur hurts my feelings…
- Comment on The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone. 1 week ago:
I’ve said it in other similar articles, it depends on your definition of “Ai”. Marketing is insisting on “powered by Ai” on all sorts of products but that doesn’t mean llm. Some “Ai” may be useful, like the old on-star system on some cars. They had multiple inputs to determine if a crash occurred and alert emergency services if it did… Could be classified as Ai.
Your toothbrush example could be useful, if just finished cleaning cycle and battery level below 20% and not on charger, emit a beep to alert user to charge tooth brush. More advanced, and I doubt these are the case but would be cool and useful. If the could detect blood during a cleaning cycle, alert user to contact a dentist for possible gum disease. Or detection of a new/growing hole in a tooth based on the defection of the bristles and alert user to see a dentist for possible cavity.
Without a solid definition of “Ai” this is all marketing talk. Basically all “Ai” takes multiple inputs and then generates an output based on those inputs. If you say it must generate it based on a llm, then what about the image generating ai? If you say it must have natural language as in an input most of these “Ai” products don’t qualify unless they expect you to say “ok, sonic care end cleaning cycle” with a mouth full of toothpaste and water. Technically an argument could be made that a check engine light on a car is “powered by Ai”.
The only definition which goes against this and I would agree to is a system where given an identical set of inputs the output is not always(or ever) the same. If that’s the case then I am going to start making “Ai” powered lava lamps…
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Also true
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Think back… XP had many complaints at release too, wasn’t till sp2 or sp3 it was actually decent.
- Comment on If I publish my memoir and wrote about every bad thing people did to hurt me while the people mentioned are still alive, how much trouble could I get in? 5 weeks ago:
Look… The other night I was drunk and mistakes were made
- Comment on If I publish my memoir and wrote about every bad thing people did to hurt me while the people mentioned are still alive, how much trouble could I get in? 5 weeks ago:
Anyone can sue anyone else for anything…
I could sue you for having anal sex with my night stand… I would lose since you didnt(I hope) and that’s not illegal but I could sue you for it…
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 1 month ago:
People said the same time with windows 8…and ME
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 1 month ago:
I didn’t consider direct x to Xbox connection but it makes sense… After the initial release it’s insane. You want to be next generations idea of gaming, make it understandable to a non-gamer cause they are likely buying it. Hell Nintendo entertainment system vs super Nintendo entertainment system… Which is better? Which will make your granddaughter or grandson happy?
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 1 month ago:
I tend to like every other one… 3.1, 98, 2000, xp, 7, 10…maybe 12?well see of the pattern continues.
I find Microsoft releases a good os… Gets drunk and comes up with crazy ideas… Refines ideas into usable os… Gets drunk and more crazy ideas… Repeat
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 1 month ago:
Microsoft can never name products… Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox one, Xbox series x, Xbox series s… Hell I’m currently watching agdq and can’t tell you the best one, imagine a grandmother trying to buy a gift for her grandchild. Atleast it’s Playstation 1, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Playstation 5 obvious which one is newest. Or Windows 3.1, nt, 3.1 with workgroups, 95, 98, 2000, me, xp, 7, vista, 8, 10, 11…wtf?
- Comment on it's so fluffy 1 month ago:
Only downside is with global warming and no air conditioning the studios they use are typically warmer then people are used to, as a result you won’t see many of their talents wearing sweaters or jackets…
- Comment on it's so fluffy 1 month ago:
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- Comment on It’s good to know what to do in an emergency 1 month ago:
Additionally only the black guy is exiting as the white people are molesting eachother…
- Comment on Agdq 2026 has started 1 month ago:
Yup, well first time for one of the big stages. I believe they have done YouTube on some of the smaller events like femme fetals and black in a flash as a “test” of their setup to ensure it would work right for the big event.
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- Comment on ‘I’m just a girl in Canada trying to get everyone their vibrators’: Why a Toronto sex toy store got a letter from the U.S. Department of War 1 month ago:
Free beer vs free speech in another context
- Comment on I'm looking for the best free online storage site my files. That is heavily encrypted and respect people's privacy, what would you suggest? 1 month ago:
CCC would also work. I think at either convention that talk would be standing room only if not shut down by the fire Marshall
- Comment on I'm looking for the best free online storage site my files. That is heavily encrypted and respect people's privacy, what would you suggest? 1 month ago:
You know if somebody did this with an encrypted data but only like every 50th frame on a video like that old “smiling man” videos or they “watch Ian sleep” videos then someone saw it and posted it either here or Mastodon or one of the forbidden companies it could generate a new conspiracy.
Would be great if a bunch of people did like a full deep dive. Getting the raw videos, figuring out the frames to extract, determining the encryption method, find a method to decrypt it, combine all the fragments back together, figure out its in some obscure latex format, write a custom interpreter for that format which hasn’t been used since the early 90s…people online thinking it’s some state actor or like a command and control module for some bot net… They finally crack it all and access the raw data and it’s just a backup of pornographic slashfic from usenet back in the day.
Especially if breaking the encryption was like a novel and new approach. Imagine like a talk at defcon “how I found about Harry Potter’s sex with Gwen from Spiderman…and broke aes256 in the process”
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 1 month ago:
I sometimes wonder what the kids iq would be… He is 12 physically but I would put at 3 max mentally. Not saying anything negative but being honest.
He can use the bathroom but can’t put his underwear on. He knocks on the door till someone comes put his underwear back on.
Eating a bowl of cereal is 50/50 if he can do it himself.
He likes watching blues clues, Thomas and friends, paw patrol. He yells the answer to most questions but I don’t know if he knows the answer or just knows they say this so I should say that.
He is severely autistic and epileptic among other problems. He is sweet and loving but how to measure what his actual intelligence I have no idea.
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 1 month ago:
You’re forgetting about Duke nukem as being controversial
- Comment on Day 528 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Is it rpg? Fps? Rts?
- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 1 month ago:
Yeah because people afraid of vaccines never grow up…
- Comment on Day 528 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
I’ve never heard of this game. What kind of game is it? Based on the screenshots it kinda looks like undertale and a bullet hell made a game together.
- Comment on Alternate Ending [Death Note] 1 month ago:
Didn’t I tell you tomorrow that time isn’t linear?
- Comment on Alternate Ending [Death Note] 1 month ago:
Interesting question(don’t mean any offense by it)… If you had transitioned already and he wrote your transitioned name… Would you transition back to avoid death?