br3d

@br3d@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do British elites get their news? Publishers, social media and AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably classed as a magazine rather than a newspaper?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Climate change doesn't exist,' says Reform UK mayor despite third summer heatwave⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good time to remember that Reform UK are heavily funded by the fossil fuel industry (as if their words and actions left you in any doubt)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Solar and AC is a great combo. Almost by definition, when you need AC you know the sun is shining and so the energy to run the AC is therefore free

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CursorAI "unlimited" plan rug pull: Cursor AI silently changed their "unlimited" Pro plan to severely rate-limited without notice, locking users out after 3-7 requests⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was questioning the use of the word “prolly”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CursorAI "unlimited" plan rug pull: Cursor AI silently changed their "unlimited" Pro plan to severely rate-limited without notice, locking users out after 3-7 requests⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Prolly”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fixed speed camera toppled hours before switch-on⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deliberate destruction of property to influence the government, with an ideological cause. I dunno - not hard to see the people behind this having an ideology and wanting to influence the government with their destructive act

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI's most prominent skeptic doubles down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea of general intelligence (g) is that you’ve got some overall capacity that can be turned to any task. Human intelligence is probably much more like a big toolbox of skills, and though. I worry that people who get excited about AI are kidding themselves a bit as it isn’t going to be general - it’s going to be a toolbox at best: an LLM for writing, a totally different system for drawing… And at that point you’ve not got some special interesting AGI - you’ve just reinvented the idea of apps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI's most prominent skeptic doubles down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If AGI is made of components, you could argue that it isn’t “general”. Which would be fine, as most psychologists would say the same about human intelligence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where does technology come from in Star Wars?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A few years ago I’d have jokes about data ports being the same fitting as power sockets, but USB-C has ruined that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piss off!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing there were three authors on this study, based on the “human” dots

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has the use of a comma instead of the word "and" in English news headlines always been a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a very American style thing. UK English media don’t do this, and it always feels strange when I see it in US media

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is, a lot of these aren’t that bad? Making an oxygen mask feels really different to just setting fire to the fossil fuel to shift a 3-ton vanity pickup truck half a mile to Starbucks. And lots of the others can readily be replaced. Clothes, for example: rayon from bamboo can replace a lot of polyester and nylon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fly-tippers’ vehicles to be crushed in bid to save England from ‘avalanche of rubbish’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Premeditated littering as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone in Europe looking for an alternative might want to check out Tado

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s what I was thinking of with that final sentence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s probably a case for saying it doesn’t need specifically to be the PM. In principle Starmer could crack on with things behind closed doors as long as there’s somebody sharp, likeable and media-savvy to counter Farage every day. I guess the risk is you’d have to be a very self-confident PM, unafraid of leadership challenge, to go for that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it make sense to persue higher education after 40 years ood?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d much rather employ a 50-year-old recent graduate than a 21-year-old recent graduate. There are lots of reasons for this, not least all the extra life experience and the hard evidence of being able to make major decisions and follow through with a difficult challenge.

  No employer expects a new graduate employer to stay with them more than a few years anyway, so I can’t see you’d be disadvantaged there either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing: Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These language models don’t get the meaning of anything. They predict the next cluster of letters based on the clusters of letters that have come before. Sorry, but if it feels to you like they’re captured the meaning of something, you’re being bamboozled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or an Office 365 Group

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These authors (and my work is in there) did not write so that Mark Zuckerberg could steal our work and profit from it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Old man here… The first online bubble was probably the dot.com bubble of the late 90s, when lots of people first went “This internet thing is amazing and we’re all going to make millions!” I remember boo.com being one of the first high-profile crashes, but pretty soon a lot of that first wave of internet retail businesses folded, with notable exceptions like Amazon, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Psychology⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Psychology gets unfairly singled out wrt replication but the same issues are found in a lot of other disciplines, such as biomed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retro tech: Using the PSION Series 5 in 2023⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Psions were amazing. I had a Psion 3 in the 90s. That thing fell out of my pocket when I was cycling and a van drove over it - still worked fine. I’d like to see an iPhone manage that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oil extracted near the UK doesn’t get used in the UK - it goes to the global market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All oil goes on the global market. Drilling for it here doesn’t mean we use British oil here, and doesn’t meaningfully mean the Saudis produce any less. The only way forward is to wean ourselves off being dependent on oil

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smoking ban introduced to protect children and most vulnerable⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they really cared about children and the most vulnerable they’d be taking much firmer action about car pollution, especially near schools and hospitals

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK will have removed China’s Hikvision surveillance cameras from sensitive sites by April 2025 as further risks through connected cars, EVs are addressed, report says⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any vaguely recent car is constantly reporting its location back to its manufacturer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beginning of the End⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing that’s Venus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interestingly, my family subscription more or less halved a few months ago, which I was NOT expecting, but which was very welcome