alsimoneau
@alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 days ago:
Engineers use milliinches all the time! They call it thous but it’s the same thing.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 1 week ago:
Now do it with 5 doors.
You can always make up examples where one is easier. The truth is the easiest one is the one you’re used to.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
No thanks. Make your own country and we’ll be allies.
- Comment on Immortals must be riddled with cancer thanks to gene errors in their dna replication. 1 week ago:
Wrong way around.
They’re immortals because they’ve left their cancer riddled bodies behind to become made of living metal.
Or I’ve been reading too much 40K.
- Comment on leading ai company 2 weeks ago:
I submit the fast inverse square root. That code needs to be in a museum.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
I really don’t get it either.
It’s not like it’s a paid product either.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
It is though.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 5 weeks ago:
It’s the ultimate yes man.
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 1 month ago:
Or go to Wolfram Alpha and gat actual computations done instead of ramblings?
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 1 month ago:
On Linux there’s also ‘units’ which is amazing for this.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 1 month ago:
Driving to Europe is a bit rough.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 2 months ago:
But then you see them inverted.
3d cross eyed pictures and magic eye work in similar but different ways
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 months ago:
So does sailing the high seas
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 months ago:
10 people or less.
Captain of Industry is a gem with a 4 person team Risk of Rain was 2, expanded to 3
That’s still at a human scale.
- Comment on Bounce bounce bounce 2 months ago:
There’s leg bouncing and there’s the house is shaking leg bouncing.
I draw the line at when my monitor is shaking.
- Comment on In heat 2 months ago:
Better for your health, better for students, safer for kids. Use local time!
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 2 months ago:
It’s also the length of a pendulum with a half period of 1 second.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 2 months ago:
The concept of a glass being full and of a liquid being wine can probably be separated fairly well. I assume that as models got more complex they started being able to do this more.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 2 months ago:
If someone ask for a glass of water you don’t fill it all the way to the edge. This is way overfull compared to what you’re supposed to serve.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 2 months ago:
Copilot did it just fine
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 2 months ago:
It’s not “practically zero”, it’s zero.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 2 months ago:
Isn’t that what Scion does?
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 3 months ago:
Luckily, Steam handles all of that for you.
- Comment on China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport. 4 months ago:
And 20
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 5 months ago:
Method chaining ftw Input.then().doThis().lastly()
Also it formats better.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
LaTeX is your friend
- Comment on What host names do you use? 6 months ago:
I do the same but Egyptian
- Comment on What host names do you use? 6 months ago:
I use Egyptian gods!
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 6 months ago:
Meta data manager, file organiser by metadata, upload a subset to your device, sync device metadata back to your library, built-in reader, file format conversion, file editing.
It’s a whole suite really.
- Comment on Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m 6 months ago:
They tried. Their pirate game came out last year.
