FauxPseudo
@FauxPseudo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America 14 hours ago:
It’s too early for the Butlerian Jihad to start.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 1 day ago:
At your next job interview ask them if they are results driven or methodology driven. “If I were to take twice as long to do something by using a poorly designed tool will I be rewarded or punished?”
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 4 days ago:
Good to know. As my posting history on Lemmy will show I definitely watch bread recipes videos. In fact I became a mod for c/cooking today.
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 4 days ago:
You watch one ContraPoints video about Jordan B Peterson and the next thing you know … Still not any JBP video recommendations. So I guess there is an upside to the failure of big data.
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 4 days ago:
Each day I go to the YouTube app on Roku to my subscriptions tab and watch whatever is new. Then I go to Recommend and it’s 90% or more previous videos from those same subscriptions and very little new creators it hasn’t showed me.
After almost a year of this it figured out last week I might like AronRa, a person I’m very familiar with. And after countless videos on anthropology, evolution and paleontology he should have come up so much sooner. So much for big data.
But what is completely lacking is a “show me completely random stuff, old, new, not in my algorithm, short, long, completely against my algorithm, etc.” it lacks almost any way to discover new stuff that isn’t 100% related to content you already have.
YouTube gets more uploads than any one person can possibly watch and yet it’s almost incapable of showing me something unless I explicitly tell it to find it for me.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 6 days ago:
It capitalized Wash because spell checker is the leaf on the wind.
- Comment on Walmart Expands Rollout of Generative AI Search on App 2 weeks ago:
There’s not much that can make their web experience worse, but this is definitely one of those things.
- Comment on Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation 2 weeks ago:
You didn’t understand the assignment. Before asking questions do the required reading. You may find your questions have already been answered.
- Comment on Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation 2 weeks ago:
Look into the history of libertarians trying to set up paradises of like minded people to find out why this will fail. They start into the 19th century and just keep failing.
- Comment on UK vehicle regulator David Ward says cars sold in Europe are so much safer than in the U.S. 2 weeks ago:
So buy an American make and model car in Europe and have it shipped home.
- Comment on The New York Times stands by article mentioning Chinese women small fingers. The paper says Apple engineers privately talked about this 4 weeks ago:
Does anyone else remember this fake commercial from a real life movie with actual brand names in it?
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 4 weeks ago:
Does anyone else remember this fake commercial from a real life movie with actual brand names in it?
- Comment on Crypto Investor Charged With Kidnapping and Torturing Victim Over Bitcoin 4 weeks ago:
Nobody ever wants to talk about white collar on white collar crime.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 1 month ago:
Buddddiey
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 1 month ago:
Always read the fine print.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 1 month ago:
In plain English this means
Me “Have you checked for eggs recently? I just saw a bunch in the nesting boxes. Too many for one day.” Wife “Yeah, it’s been a while. Even Rose [the duck], who hasn’t laid an egg in five years, probably laid one.” Me “I haven’t seen our special needs cat, the one we trapped as part of a TNR run on our own property, in the last 12 hours. Have you seen that blessed dumb beast who walks like he is drunk? If you see him now could you bring him inside?”
Any sufficiently developed culture has its own language. In this house we go out of our way to make obtuse inside joke references to keep each other on our toes.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 1 month ago:
Or at least not in conversational English. Me “The cheese is old and moldy.” Wife “Roses eggs” Me “Bach unaccounted.”
- Comment on There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 1 month ago:
Jokes on them. I don’t have phone conversations
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Always a tradoff
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I don’t have a tower to put the poppy drive in. I’d rather make sure that these end up in a good home.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
A poor musician always blames their instrument.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
These came out in 98 And 99 so odds are they paid retail
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You are correct. Sorry about that everything after 8-inch floppy is a blur.
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 1 month ago:
I had that happen too. Couldn’t find something with DDG. Hopped over to Google and was shocked at how completely unusable it was.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 2 months ago:
I’m only going to focus on one part because it shows the disconnect between you and I.
If you have a working printer, toner, paper…
Who said anything about a printer? I said hard copy. Not printout. Write it down. Carve it into rock or shape it in clay. 3000 cycles and you keep limiting yourself. That 200 pounds of copper wire could be pounded flat and marked with a sharp tool to create a long lasting hard copy. So many options for a hard copy and you defaulted to the one option we can’t even get to work when everything is working.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 2 months ago:
90% of people would die within the first three months because they don’t know how to cook and we have a three day supply rule in stores relying on just-in-time delivery.
If you make it past the first 90 you probably have seeds in the ground to get you to the next 90. We don’t just inherit the environment, we shape it. We can start growing our own food within weeks, not reliant on ancestors
But let’s get back to the topic. 3000 charge cycles, your number, is a lot. All that time can be used to make hard copies of essential information. You can learn how to salvage wire and build new energy sources. An average 2100²ft empty house has almost 200 pounds of copper wire in the walls. 3000 cycles to learn.
But thanks for telling me who I am and what skills I already have.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 2 months ago:
The average hunter gatherer only worked for about 3-6 hours a day. They had more free time than we do.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 2 months ago:
Point is that 3000 cycles is more than enough time to find or make a replacement even if society doesn’t rebuild.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 2 months ago:
That’s… a lot of cycles. That’s almost a decade. Plenty of time to build an electric generator from scratch by traveling on foot to a copper mine and smelting the wire yourself. Unless you manage to pull an alternator from a car that can’t find gasoline and save yourself the trip. From that you could make a gravity battery or any number of other options.
