MirthfulAlembic
@MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world
- Comment on Yep 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure this is a Demetri Martin joke.
- Comment on Uncle brian... I get you now 2 months ago:
It was the inverse in my family. The uncle who extricated himself from most of the family was actually a huge piece of garbage and did everyone a favor by cutting us off. I don’t think he expected that nobody would make an effort to re-establish contact.
- Comment on Duolingo is wild 3 months ago:
Nothing beats Junior talking about his job or children.
- Comment on Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes 4 months ago:
Check out their controversies section on Wikipedia. This doesn’t seem out of character for this publication. It’s more likely incompetence than malice.
- Comment on Google Bard is dead, long live Google Gemini 4 months ago:
Especially with certain accents. You really want your voice commands to be quite distinct. There’s virtually no extra labor is saying two or three extra syllables.
- Comment on Mothers know that this is a wholesome combination. 4 months ago:
Pepsi just does international distribution of it. Keurig Dr Pepper owns it.
- Comment on AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’ 5 months ago:
As someone who’s consumed every album and special George Carlin produced, it felt like someone retelling their memory of some of his bits. Like regurgitation. It’d be impressive if your nephew performed this at his thirteenth birthday party after becoming obsessed with Carlin.
- Comment on Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain. 5 months ago:
I tried it a few times when it came to my area after hearing people rave for years, and I feel the same. It’s good, but that’s it. On par with KFC.
Popeye’s is way better in my opinion. It’s also cheaper, and the staff tend to be pretty entertaining in an unintentional and chaotic way. It’s the only fast food restaurant where employees are consistently very honest. Like, if they don’t have red beans because somebody fucked them up, I have been told exactly that.
- Comment on The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement 5 months ago:
The physical limitations are an important difference. A human can only read and remember so much material. With AI, you can scale that exponentially with more compute resources. Frankly, IP law was not written with this possibility in mind and needs to be updated to find a balance.
- Comment on Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit 6 months ago:
Ave! True to Caesar.
- Comment on Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit 6 months ago:
Vegas already has a poorly implemented monorail.
- Comment on Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers | Twitch confirmed its policy banning nudity was sexist. 6 months ago:
I don’t think that’s the message at all. It’s disproportionately punishing women for nudity that is sexist.
- Comment on Nvidia's employees are suddenly so rich and happy that the company's got a 'semi retirement' problem, insiders say 6 months ago:
It’s ok if they buy lunch for the juniors every one in a while.
- Comment on Nvidia's employees are suddenly so rich and happy that the company's got a 'semi retirement' problem, insiders say 6 months ago:
Sometimes it’s really valuable to have a greybeard with no fear for their job who just stops everyone from making stupid decisions that they’re too in the weeds to appreciate. Hopefully they’re one of the funny ones, and not one who condescends everybody constantly.
- Comment on Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales, testing customers and partners 6 months ago:
I used to root against the Golden State Warriors solely because they played at the Oracle Arena.
- Comment on AI one-percenters seizing power forever is the real doomsday scenario, warns AI godfather 8 months ago:
Was that the Adam Kinzinger one? It’s a low bar, but I’ll give him a modicum of credit for saying his vote against the first impeachment was cowardice and that he’d vote for Biden in 2024 if Trump is the Republican nominee. Doesn’t totally feel like a lesson learnt that he still considers himself a Republican, though.
- Comment on Sometimes i sit alone on a room, wondering if people know what words actually mean or have we ventured past the idea of strict language and we've finally embraced the fluidity of language... 8 months ago:
That would be terribly boring. It would take the art, nuance, and fun out of language. It would also curtail the development and evolution of language. Can you imagine language without innuendo or double entendre?
- Comment on Microsoft Fixes Excel Feature That Forced Scientists to Rename Human Genes 8 months ago:
Took long enough. Now let’s see if they can give an option to turn off Lotus 1-2-3 compatibility stuff like single quotes starting a cell being hidden as markup.
- Comment on Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful. 8 months ago:
The government did not for Pfizer. That was Moderns. Pfizer did spend billions of their own cash. This move is largely because the executive leadership way overestimated the amount of covid vaccine and drug treatment revenue for this year, and they are desperate to make up ground.
So they are raising prices and cutting across the board rather than admitting they didn’t know what they were doing in their projections. CEO isn’t taking a pay cut though. Morons got a winning lottery ticket in the pandemic and assumed they’d keep winning every year.
- Comment on Roblox tells employees they have to come to office three days a week or take severance package 8 months ago:
Read the details first though and compare to what else you can find out. Some companies are sneakily reducing severance package standards just for remote employees. It may be better to just aggressively job hunt while still getting a full paycheck as long as possible.
- Comment on Roblox tells employees they have to come to office three days a week or take severance package 8 months ago:
At a lot of orgs, I think executive leadership are basically buying the service of assigning blame to the consulting firm if things go wrong. If that happens, they can tell the board they took the advice of one of the big consulting firms everyone has heard of. The consulting firm got paid and will still get business, so I doubt they care. Though they are certainly also farming out critical thinking at the same time.
- Comment on Delta is fourth major U.S. airline to find fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents from U.K. company 8 months ago:
It’s not necessarily about difficulty. It’s mostly about risk and consequences. If a company fucks up the screws I buy to hang up pictures, I might get a dent in my floor or a bigger hole in my wall. If a company fucks up the screws keeping a plane together, it might fall out of the sky.
- Comment on Journalist asks GM CEO Mary Barra about $29 million paycheck after UAW strike — On average, the Detroit Three's CEOs are making 40 percent more today than they did four years ago 9 months ago:
“So if the company has performed so well, surely there’s plenty of capital available for increasing worker compensation!”
- Comment on Monitor Alignment Alignment Chart 9 months ago:
I’m both chaotic good and lawful neutral, depending if it’s for my job or not. I suppose that’s a fair assessment of the difference between my professional character and home character.