ohwhatfollyisman
@ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft is scraping Word and Excel data to "train AI models" 1 week ago:
yeah, no. looking at how the average person uses excel, this isn’t the greatest idea.
- Comment on Check Out the Highest-Resolution Images Ever Captured of the Sun's Entire Surface 1 week ago:
when i read “hi-res images from The Sun”, this is not what i expected.
but this was better.
- Comment on The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying 2 weeks ago:
is it, though?
a stomach can stretch upto 4 litres in capacity when pushed (one source). that’s 4000cm³ (or 244 cubic inches).
to fill that capacity, the volume of a pizza needs to be 4000cm³ or 244 inch³.
take πr²h = 4000 for thin crust pizzas, if we assume the average height of pizza and toppings as 1cm, our equation simplifies to πr² = 4000; which gives the radius of the pizza as around 36 cms – or a diameter of 72 cms (or 28").
if we take a thicker pizza of an average crust thickness of 1", then our equation for square inches simplifies to πr² = 244. which gives us a radius of about 9" or a diameter of 18".
since most pizzas top out at 12"-14" diameter (thin and thick crust volume varying between 700cm³ to 2600cm³), if anything, we’re nowhere near achieving our full potential!
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 2 weeks ago:
they are very different in my mind. perhaps because i first came across them in their respective contexts through reading.
even when speaking, to me, lose rhymes with booze and loose rhymes with goose.
this has never been a problem for me, personally.
- Comment on Email is still great for DMs if you only use it for talking to individuals, and not to sign up to things 2 weeks ago:
why people have moved from email to im is beyond me.
one gives up topical conversation threads with relevant aubject lines, easier search and retrieval, thread-specific groups and readers, more robust spam-filtration, the lack of necessity of a phone number, more flexible options for cross-platform access, downloadability of your messages, options to host your own server, and so on.
in return, you get perhaps a tad more convenience from an im – even that is debatable, though.
it’s high time we all returned to the friendly envelope instead of the intrusive chat bubble.
- Comment on Spain seizes record 13 tonnes of cocaine in Ecuadorean banana shipment 3 weeks ago:
was it found in a six-foot, seven-foot, eight-foot bunch?
- Comment on topical 4 weeks ago:
it’s possible to make tonnes of mistakes, lose, and still claim you didn’t make any mistakes.
that’s not fodder for a pithy quote. that’s denial.
- Comment on Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds 4 weeks ago:
i think that milestone has already been achieved – at least in terms of the expected quality of the final manuscript.
have you read the da vinci code?
- Comment on Be a rebel, pick up trash. 5 weeks ago:
huh. live and learn.
i guess for other species it’s pizza?
- Comment on Be a rebel, pick up trash. 5 weeks ago:
turtles eat jellyfish?
- Comment on Senior Modi cabinet minister linked to India-supported violence in Canada: officials 5 weeks ago:
The Washington Post first reported that Canadian officials alleged Indian Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah was behind a campaign of violence and intimidation targeting Sikh separatists in Canada.
Shah is not just a “senior member of Modi’s cabinet”. he’s the architect behind Modi’s tenure as prime minister since 2014. he’s very much the king-maker in this story.
he’s one of the stokers of the fervent right-wing saffron-tinged flame of hindutva that’s consumed so many voters into blind allegiance over the last decade. he’s smart, cunning, and perhaps one of the most dangerous persons alive today.
- Comment on How The New York Times is using generative AI as a reporting tool 5 weeks ago:
In general, the report found that the AI summaries showed “a limited ability to analyze and summarize complex content requiring a deep understanding of context, subtle nuances, or implicit meaning.” Even worse, the Llama summaries often “generated text that was grammatically correct, but on occasion factually inaccurate,”
how is this being accepted? one would have to go through any output with a fine-toothed comb anyway to weed out ai hallucinations, as well as to preserve nuance and context.
it’s like the ai tells you that mona lisa has three eyes and a nose and her mouth is closed but her denim jacket is open. you’re going to report that in your story without ever looking at the painting?
- Comment on If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards? 5 weeks ago:
wait till you hear about white and black boards.
- Comment on How are scammers getting my email address? 5 weeks ago:
employees of companies with whom you’ve registered that email id sell it for some quick cash on the side.
i can aver this confidently since i know someone from dominos pizza has leaked my email id. i have a convoluted gmail id which i use to register to all these services and – because it’s gmail – i can set up random dots and a custom phrase behind a + to register specific variants to specific companies (e.g., abcxyz123@gmail vs. ab.c.xyz123+dominos@gmail).
all the spam and pseudo-phishing email is sent only to the variant which i’ve registered to dominos and not to a different variant (e.g., a.bcxyz123+bankname@gmail) registered to any other company.
the leaked email id doesn’t contain a name and is too random for it to just be “guessed” by the spammers.
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 5 weeks ago:
maybe that’s just the ai’s internal monologue leaking through?
- Comment on “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock 1 month ago:
or, alternatively, their lifetime offer has truly been honoured.
- Comment on Wagon Train to the Stars 1 month ago:
you would do well to stay away from firefly.
- Comment on Latest Windows 11 preview update is causing widespread system crashes and failures 1 month ago:
#defenestrated
- Comment on YouTube Shorts can now run up to three minutes 1 month ago:
youtube bermudas.
- Comment on Father horrified by an AI Chatbot that mimicked his murdered daughter 1 month ago:
pet sematary.
- Comment on Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera 1 month ago:
or build in a return-to-factory-by-yourself feature into them.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will stop working on outdated Windows 11 and Windows 10 versions 2 months ago:
i’ve stopped working on microaoft teams.
- Comment on Every phone call you make with just the mic near your mouth and the speaker near your ear, you are having a conversational 69 where both of you are placing your mouths next to each other's ears. 2 months ago:
topologically, though, isn’t that just the same as all speaking and listening? it’s all mouth to ear.
if anything, force-fitting 69 seems unduly contrived. like if you shake someone by the hand, the top of your palm 69’s the bottom of theirs. or if you give them a high-five, it’s the forefinger and pinky.
or if you respond to this comment, we’ll be 69ing each other’s eyes with our fingers.
- Comment on Terminator’s Cameron joins AI company behind controversial image generator 2 months ago:
it’s almost like he wants life to imitate his art.
- Comment on Does the word "burger" have any extra meaning in some parts of the gay or lgbtq community? 2 months ago:
conjecture: maybe autocorrect once got hold of “bugger” and things kind of evolved from there?
- Comment on This Android Malware Has Infected Over 11 Million Devices 2 months ago:
how would you feel about an article titled,
“This” word in article titles infuriates internet readers
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 2 months ago:
especially since just reading the headline made me cry.
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 2 months ago:
so, old Wine in a new bottle?
- Comment on YouTube Hype gives smaller creators a place to shine 2 months ago:
is this similar in concept to the scaled sort on lemmy?
- Comment on Butts 2 months ago:
well, that shouldnt have been a surprising find. we’ve already had millions of examples of people talking out of their arses over the years.