Waldowal
@Waldowal@lemmy.world
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 3 weeks ago:
Yes, and add an Agile framework. Extreme Monkey typing.
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 4 weeks ago:
I’ve heard this but I’ve also never heard of hand smegma, so…
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 4 weeks ago:
Some additional info based on their published material (screenshot below). The software gets its data from “publicly available sources” which includes tracking information from many different online advertisers, public social media posts, etc. As we know, the advertising data can sometimes have your personal info attached - sometimes not. Babel Street claims to anonymize the data, but let’s assume there is a $$ amount at which they won’t.
So, theoretically, if you can successfully avoid ad trackers, and you don’t post on social media platforms except where you want to be “seen”, you can avoid this tracking (granted that seems quite impossible these days).
- Comment on Empires fall 1 month ago:
Circuit City blew all their money trying to create a disposable DVD called Divx. It was intended to replace video rental stores.
- Comment on The Sam Vimes boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness 2 months ago:
It’s not about diarrhea?!
- Comment on ATM Software Flaws Left Piles of Cash for Anyone Who Knew to Look 3 months ago:
“The Projects” is a term used to describe government provided housing for poor people. The term is generally used to indicate “a place in a city where income is low and crime is usually high”.
- Comment on Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools 3 months ago:
AI Engineer: So, more glints in the eyeballs?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It needs to be a nobody. Frankly, probably an boring older white man, so people could picture them in the Pres seat if needed, but otherwise unremarkable. Keep the interest on Kamala.
- Comment on Octopus facts 6 months ago:
- Comment on ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Play Starring Tom Holland and Francesca Amewaduh-Rivers Faces ‘Barrage of Racial Abuse,’ Producer Says ‘This Must Stop’ 7 months ago:
It’s clearly there in the first lines of the play:
Two households, both alike in dignity and whiteness, In fair Verona where we lay our scene,
- Comment on Screenbound is a platformer where you play in 2D and 3D together 7 months ago:
All the thrills of texting and driving?
It’s novel, but watching the video, I just want them to put the damn device down and focus.
- Comment on Chinese scientist who gene-edited babies is back in lab and ‘proud’ of past work despite jailing 7 months ago:
It does seem suspicious to claim you did something that can only be disproven if this child purposefully exposes themselves to HIV enough times that it’s statistically impossible not to have caught it.
I, on the other hand, have made hundreds of people immune to HIV just by shaking their hands. 🤝
- Comment on Dell tells remote workers that they won’t be eligible for promotion 8 months ago:
Time for all the good employees, worthy of promotion, to go elsewhere. Dell’s strategic direction is the “Dead Sea effect”.
- Comment on What does "araffe" mean? 8 months ago:
Whatever/whoever posts these captions used to often use the word “lingers” to describe lingerie. Ex: “Women in lingers on a bed.”
One day, some guy responded to a post and said he couldn’t take it anymore and to stop saying it. It actually stopped. Hasn’t used that word since as far as I’ve seen.
- Comment on What does "araffe" mean? 8 months ago:
It’s the new “lingers”
- Comment on oc based on a true story 8 months ago:
Did he hit his head? The lead kick in?
I’m only half joking. I had a neighbor who I used to describe as slightly conservative-leaning. He suffered a brain injury on the job and is now a full tilt QAnon MAGA goofball.
- Comment on Can you live a fulfilling life with autism? 8 months ago:
Autism, especially higher functioning, often comes with clinical-level anxiety. Definately talk to a psychiatrist and therapist. If you’re already on anxiety meds that aren’t working, try a different one. Keep in mind that the wrong one can cause suicidal thoughts. They vary quite a bit, and new ones are coming out all the time. You’ll eventually find one that helps take the edge off your anxiety. That will help you cope with the other things better. From my experience, things also get naturally better as you age, so there is light in the tunnel.
- Comment on A top auto safety group tested 14 partial automated systems — only one passed 8 months ago:
Just guessing but maybe (G)ood, (A)cceptable, (M)arginal, (P)oor? Or perhaps (G)od-tier, (A)ss, (M)eh, and (P)wned?
- Comment on What Do People Think of Apple's Vision Pro Headsets? 8 months ago:
Are you commenting on 3d headsets in general or specifically Apple’s? Have you used other ones before?
- Comment on Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot 9 months ago:
Pretty confident if this happened because they hired a new (real) support operator who just didn’t understand the policy, they would have made a concession to the customer and the support person would likely just get more training.
But because it’s a chat bot that they really don’t understand (outside of their IT department), they go to court and shut down a system they likely spent hundreds of thousands of dollars developing.
This type of advanced decision making is why we pay CEOs the big bucks.
- Comment on Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims | Comcast said it will drop "Xfinity 10G Network" brand name after losing appeal. 9 months ago:
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- Comment on Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people 11 months ago:
Uh dude, your girlfriend is pregnant
- Comment on Reactionaries and inconsistency are a match made in heaven 11 months ago:
I think your 100% right, and it’s a cognitive bias referred to as the Halo Effect.
- Comment on Reactionaries and inconsistency are a match made in heaven 11 months ago:
People at your work just drop n-bombs in casual conversation? I’m in Georgia, and even the most inbred rednecks here aren’t bold enough to do that at work.
- Comment on Boffins convert typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy 11 months ago:
New policy from the corporate office: If you are working in a public place, like a coffee shop, please scream while typing your login password.
- Comment on Maybe (HBO) Max Just Isn’t Worth It 1 year ago:
Once they fired the old CEO that partnered with Warner Brothers and had a streaming-first mindset, the service has gone way downhill. Most of the new content is dumb shit like syndicated reality shows.
I may tune back in for the occasional series releases like Rightous Gemstones, but then I’m out.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It’s fallen out of popularity over the years, but reading programming books. The big ones. There is an expectation that a book will contain every bit of info about a technology, and you can learn it, in depth, in one place. Online articles, videos, etc., often just skim the surface. You don’t get that deep learning and facts that the books would have. I find even “Official documentation” online is sparse and often doesn’t include examples to gain understanding.
Unfortunately, the pace of change, especially in cloud services, cause books to be out of date too quickly, so I don’t see it making a comeback.
- Comment on What's your warp slogan? 1 year ago:
Still bugs me that, in the more recent movies, Pike said “Punch It”. Would have been so easy to keep that for the show.
- Comment on Ozone hole goes large again 1 year ago:
If this is the true cause, I wonder if we’ll see a “Volcanic Winter” the next few years: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter
This phenomenon is the kind of shit that makes “climate change” controversial. Because temporary events can cool us down while the macro-pattern is increasing heat.
