makeshiftreaper
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- Comment on What OS does the Batcomputer use? 9 hours ago:
I would guess the Batcave uses something proprietary based off of Wayne tech because he’s very paranoid. I’d also imagine it integrates some watch tower tech which is likely mostly from Cyborg
- Comment on Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull' 18 hours ago:
A huge point of I, Robot is that there isn’t some exact instructions you can give robots that will have them always protect humanity. They have an inherent danger in their literalism
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think you’re just beginning to identify what The Hero’s Journey is
- Comment on Simplest Path to Jellyfin Access for the Developmentally Disabled 1 week ago:
Well you see one device is made by Microsoft which has been the defacto way to watch videos for a large chunk of its lifespan and the other gave us UMDs and camcorders with cables that could only connect to Vaio laptops, which were the only devices that supported writing to mini-disc
- Comment on Simplest Path to Jellyfin Access for the Developmentally Disabled 1 week ago:
I would not recommend PS5+Plex. I went through the whole set-up and the PS5 couldn’t encode over half my videos. When playback did work it was often choppy. I dislike that it has ads all over the place but the ONN Streaming Pro does a way better job as Plex streaming device at $45 than my PS5. Plus the controller will be much easier for simple tech users, you can rebind one of the buttons to go directly to Plex
- Comment on Protip: Don't lose count 2 weeks ago:
2nd pro tip:
If you’ve never attempted this before, when someone is pointing a gun at you is probably the incorrect time to try it out
- Comment on Is AI self-selecting through the stock market? 2 weeks ago:
You’re correct on fundamentals and technicals, it’s been a while since I took a Financial Mathematics class and I don’t remember doing very well in it regardless
- Comment on Is AI self-selecting through the stock market? 2 weeks ago:
Most algorithmic trading is not done by AI and won’t be at any time in the near future. Algo trading is primarily used for HFT (high frequency trading) and fundamental trading, both of which AI are terrible for. In the HFT world traders are fighting for fractions of microseconds, so AI is far too slow to be helpful. Trading on fundamentals also won’t work with AI because AI makes frequent (by trading standards) math errors
- Comment on exam cheating 2 weeks ago:
You’re putting words in the mouth of someone uninvolved in the conversation. Hank Green wasn’t in anything you posted and you’re slamming him like he is. I posted evidence in contradiction of your baseless statement
Truly, what the fuck are you talking about?
- Comment on exam cheating 2 weeks ago:
I find it weird you’re criticizing Hank Green in your comment but use 2 links that don’t directly reference him at all and in fact the 2nd link uses AI generated art and summaries of the article. Hank Green has had a varied and nuanced take on AI that largely lands on it being a negative for society
Here’s him calling it a bubble: youtu.be/Q0TpWitfxPk
Him saying AI generated videos are bad: youtu.be/Vz0oQ0v0W10
Talking about AI datacenters being a problem: youtu.be/39YO-0HBKtA
All within the past 2 months
- Comment on What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? 3 weeks ago:
That is indeed what Randal concludes in the video
- Comment on What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? 3 weeks ago:
Arguably you don’t, considering your matter will likely undergo a fusion reaction with what could nominally be called the ball, you and the ball will make a form of contact
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 4 weeks ago:
As someone who works in tech I occasionally point out to people that if Jeff Bezos decided to go full supervillain he could hold the internet hostage. If you disabled AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud individually the cascading failures on the various systems would take weeks to fix, which we might not have with a supply chain collapse. Genuinely, I think there’s a real chance it could trigger the collapse of human civilization
- Comment on metamorphosis 5 weeks ago:
Honestly the monkey’s paw wouldn’t have to do anything. Back when we had dinosaurs the earth had significantly more oxygen in the atmosphere which helped them be as large as they were. Most dinosaurs would probably slowly suffocate to death today from oxygen deprivation
- Comment on Batman probably checks for the bat signal the way we check our screens for notifications. 5 weeks ago:
Gotham is so perpetually fucked by so many supernatural phenomena that it’s actually rare for that to happen
- Comment on PayPal's Honey to integrate with ChatGPT and other AIs for shopping assistance 1 month ago:
I’m sure people know this but Honey is a surprisingly shitty company for such a simple product: youtu.be/vc4yL3YTwWk
- Comment on A question for the ages 1 month ago:
There’s precedent for tall:
- Comment on Hades II | Review Thread (93/100 OpenCritic) 1 month ago:
I remember when Hades came out and my buddy was saying it was going to be GOTY over Cyberpunk 2077 and all of us just laughed at him. I think he was on the right side of history
- Comment on Misogyny or something... Idk 2 months ago:
Look, people showing cleavage are aware it’s going to draw attention. In the same way women know if they put words on their tits you’re going to read them. There’s a difference between noticing something and staring right at it
- Comment on High School DxD returns with release of two new volumes in October 2 months ago:
I’ve always loved that there was a controversy because another studio took over the anime and ruined “the artistic vision” of the creator. So much so he basically made a whole season rebooting a previous one just to make his story. His masterpiece including:
Pailingual… The spell is powerful and feared (by women), and used to gain information.[1] It has, since its introduction, become one of Issei’s trademark spells. However, it has been banned during Rating Games When cast, it causes a mysterious space to expand and unfold with Issei at the center, and only Issei and Ddraig can hear the voices that it creates Pailingual is an area-effect spell that causes women’s breasts to speak, revealing their thoughts and plans and allowing Issei and his allies to come up with counters or defenses
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 2 months ago:
Your mom has been posting a lot more on Instagram recently
- Comment on what does it mean being nice to your coworkers to you? 2 months ago:
An important thing to remember is that your job represents about a third of your life and almost half of your waking life. People as a species are sociable and want to know more about the people they spend the most time around. A lot of those interactions are not inherently trying to get something from you but are rather people just being interested in the person ls around them
- Comment on Creative way to boost your business 2 months ago:
Imagine being the woman who drags herself in there, still mostly asleep, orders her coffee, gets it free?, drinks it, goes outside and sees this
That’d be pretty fucking gross
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
Software Engineers hate stand-up
- Comment on What is "human husbandry" called 2 months ago:
Online dating
- Comment on Fox Host roasted for absurdly hypocrital take on Gavin Newsom’s posts mocking Donald Trump 2 months ago:
Hypocrisy only works on people capable of feeling shame
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 2 months ago:
It’s not pointless, it has a very clear point: centralize the police in the single territory free from the federal/state devide, where the entirety of the government that controls the country functions, and place under the direct control of an autocratic ruler who has previously used control of this territory to avoid consequences for his crimes
The primary difference is he’s doing it in year 1 in preparation for what he’s about to do instead of retroactively in the last 20 days to try to save his ass. If that doesn’t scare the shit of of you then it should
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think the US infrastructure leads to a confirmation bias. There probably aren’t that many people who are actually “bad” drivers out there. The majority of people aren’t getting tickets, damaging their car, or hurting people most of the time when they drive. Our culture being so car centric however means that the actually bad drivers don’t have a choice but to be on the road. Bad driving also calls a lot of attention to itself because it’s dangerous. So when you drive you frequently see bad driving when realistically most people are just fine drivers, leading to you thinking more people are bad, and thus you must be better
That and American exceptionalism probably
- Comment on AI IS BURNING THE PLANNET!! 3 months ago:
I never said useless. Mustard Gas is really useful, State Sponsored propaganda is useful. Usefulness does not equate to goodness as much as capitalist will try to convince you otherwise
- Comment on AI IS BURNING THE PLANNET!! 3 months ago:
“It’s just the corner of the fireworks store that’s on fire, I don’t see what you’re concerned about”
AI power growth is projected to grow exponentially for a service a lot of people view as morally reprehensible and actively harmful
Spencer Weart identified the dangers of global warming in the 50s, we ignored the warnings and now people and entire species are dying. Excuse us for trying to prevent accelerating the problem
