FourPacketsOfPeanuts

@FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “retention bots” of some description wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  endless wars of who’s federeated with who

  i’ve been here for months and months, i might have seen this mentioned as an aside once or twice. but “endless wars”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  hahahahahaha nope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if USA invades Canada?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Practically speaking since war is unthinkable is would result in as much economic isolation as Europe can bear. It would be the end of NATO. Almost immediately there’s be European voices saying ‘What’s the real harm?’ and other appeasers. I think the political lash back would only last 5-10 years as parties opposed would find the only tool at hand - economic punishment - to be unsustainable. It would legitimise nationalistic sentiments in Europe even further. Britain would, naturally, talk of betrayal but not be able to make any resistance of any substance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ♫ … Now don’t be sad, 'cause two out of three ain’t bad… ♫

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did people end-up agreeing on the name of rivers/mountains and seas ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And as a result there are 8 or 9 rivers called “Avon” in the UK…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard various explanations, I don’t know how accurate the following is. I’d be interested to learn more:

  • the very earliest colony settlements had to bargain hard and with precision in order to survive. It began a contractual culture that eventually extended into litigation

  • due to high immigration from many differing backgrounds, disputes had to be settled in litigation rather than relying on social understanding

  • the religious culture was largely inherited from the Puritans who had a legalistic and inflexible reading of the new testament. (This unwillingness to compromise is why they were persecuted in Europe and fled to the new world)

  • the American identity is ‘invented’ (in the sense that’s it’s an abrupt mixing of many old world cultures) and so national identity was initially based on cerebral activities (the Constitution, Bill of Rights) rather than evolved from a very long history of social bonds found in old world ‘nations’. This required a cerebral precision to be at the heart of identity which easily extended to legal rights and relations

  As I say, take with a pinch of salt. But this is the gist of what I’ve heard from people who know more than me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨005 is the most influential game you’ve never played.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because some unnoticed game implemented some fairly easy to conceive game mechanic doesn’t make that game influential. It’s just makes it first. To be influential you have to show that later game developers had played it and been inspired to build on it.

  And I can confidently state that without 005, there would be no Metal Gear.

  Ah c’mon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reads like someone took an English Lit major, switched to Philosophy, failed both, and is currently at a STEM major college party trying to sound sophisticated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will we have auto turrets mounted on plane engines to stop birdstrikes?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If anything like this was ever done it’s more likely it would be independent drones flying ahead of the plane at its 10 and 2 o’clock

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 100,000 homes in England could be built in highest-risk flood zones⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No need to crash it, they could build at a faster rate so that average house price growth is roughly the same as wage inflation, which seems moderately fair. The real problem is private builders with private investors will never be motivated to do this. The real problem is why they’re used at all…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was Hitler so mean and hateful toward one group or another? I find it hard to believe he woke up one day and said you and you suck but these people over here are good. Taking it so far as killing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget that for centuries Christianity considered lending with interest to be a sin and so delegated it to Jews so they came to dominate banking and finance. By the 1100’s Jews were considered the ‘property of the king of England’ and we’re granted special rights such as free travel and having their legal testimony given more weight than Christians because they represented the king in financial matters.

  Elevate an already hated minority to wealth and privilege as special servants of feudal power? What could go wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we put our hands on our heads when something makes us also want to yell "NO!"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s things like this that feel weirdly tragic, that our ancestors went through so much shit that only the ones with weird reflexes to grab their cranium made it. (Young enough to have not had kids yet mind you). And so here we are, grabbing our heads when our team doesn’t score, a chromosomal echo of some brutal day in the Kenyan Great Rift Valley…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are dwarf planets not considered planets but dwarf stars are considered stars?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How much bigger would Jupiter have to be before fusion started?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bullshit machines - How to thrive in a ChatGPT world⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We were promised hyper-intelligent computer systems that would usher in an era of unparalleled prosperity and innovation.

  With the advent of ChatGPT, some say these modern-day oracles have arrived.

  Others say they are nothing but bullshit machines.

  Technologists and publicists gush about how Large Language Models (LLMs) will revolutionize the way we work, learn, play, communicate, create, and connect to another.

  They are right that artificial intelligence (AI) will affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives.

  And they are right that by providing a way for people to talk with machines in ordinary language, LLMs constitute a dramatic step forward in making computing accessible to everyone.

  Yet for all the good that AI systems will do, they will also saturate our information environment with bullshit at a scale we’ve never before encountered.

  “I think it’s going to be the most transformative technology humanity has ever created, potentially on par with or exceeding the invention of the printing press, electricity, and the internet.” Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO

  For better or for worse, LLMs are here to stay. We all read content that they produce online, most of us interact with LLM chatbots, and many of us use them to produce content of our own.

  In a series of five- to ten-minute lessons, we will explain what these machines are, how they work, and how to thrive in a world where they are everywhere.

  You will learn when these systems can save you a lot of time and effort. You will learn when they are likely to steer you wrong. And you will discover how to see through the hype to tell the difference. ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I lose a beer belly working out one day a week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exercise in someone not particularly fit is also likely to trigger a stress response and their appetite will overcompensate. Exercise is good but for fat loss is pointless unless eating is well under control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I lose a beer belly working out one day a week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The human body is absurdly efficient. Fat weight is tackled by reducing calorie intake (using whatever tactic works for you). Exercise only makes a small difference by comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you considered putting your gaming pc in one of the storage fridges? /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I am not impressed by A.I.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s predictive text on speed. The LLMs currently in vogue hardly qualify as A.I. tbh…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Coup Is In Progress In America⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My history might be dusty but I don’t think Hitler ever said he intended to become a dictator before people voted for him. His deception is what you might refer to as the coup.

  Trump on the other hand…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Coup Is In Progress In America⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a coup if people vote for it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a metaphor you like in your language?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re not here to fuck spiders

  Borrowing this one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m neither. Things could be worse in the UK, could be better. It’s bad, but “ok”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could Trump Force X To Become The Everything App For Government Payments⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is not interesting to take a single prediction of a totalitarian leader controlling commerce and play games with the number 666 while ignoring that earliest manuscripts had 616 and the beast is mortally wounded / crowned with ten crowns / originates from the sea / persecutes Christians etc etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could Trump Force X To Become The Everything App For Government Payments⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump had enough similarities with the anti-christ/beast without having to resort to silly numerology…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wimbledon school crash: Woman rearrested over deaths of two girls⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole thing seems incredible.

  How is “oh it was epilepsy” a defence when you’ve never had an epileptic fit before? No history of it.

  You’ve all seen a million YouTube videos of someone panicking and hitting the gas when they meant the brake. Unfortunately far far more likely than “invisible epilepsy”.

  I can’t believe they didn’t charge her (first time round).

  She was probably haring it along Camp Road (as well-to-do Chelsea tractor types are known to do). And completely fails to take the right hand bend properly. This leads directly into the school playground.

  Or by some miracle are we to believe that of all the moments for it to happen InViSiBlE ePiLePsY struck at the exact point where someone driving too fast might lose control?

  Pls…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-based automation of jobs could increase inequality in UK, report says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The thinktank have since moved on to their next study: “The defecation habits of ursidae in arboreal contexts”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z far less likely to be atheists than parents and grandparents, new study reveals⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Saved you a click of the Independent’s usual clickbait nonsense:

  • the research is conducted by an author of a new book he would like to sell you

  • ‘spiritual’ has such a vague definition as to almost mean anything

  • one characteristic is “a yearning to connect with something bigger than myself”.

  • entirely unsurprising this is how a younger generation categorise the lack they feel as a result of covid isolation and disillusionment with unobtainable material life goals

  • ‘spiritual’ in this context means ‘life feels empty but I think there should be something more’

  • aside from that there’s a small minority of the conservative religious seeing a small increase (muslims, evangelical Christians)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southport killer stopped engaging with mental health team, NHS trust says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mentally unwell person: acts mentally unwell

  Mental Health Team: “weelllll, what can ya do?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not money, power. There’ll always be affordable consumables: clothes, food etc. It’s just the quality will go down to accommodate how squeezed the consumer is. But the limited resources: a stay at that resort, a home with space and good schools, the seats at the sports game etc those the prices will continue to race away. Which is just a different view of power (choice/control) shifting into the hands of an increasingly small proportion of people. Those places will still be full - but the chance of getting to them for the average person will grow dimmer with every passing year.