NegativeInf
@NegativeInf@lemmy.world
- Comment on Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” 3 hours ago:
Roll all of the Amazon marketplace into the fucking postal service. Clogging up the damn systems anyways. Might as well fucking turn the warehouses into sorting centers for mail too and pay their workers well, have benefits, a pension, ac, and bathroom breaks.
- Comment on Mothers of Miss USA and Miss Teen USA allege 'abuse' 1 day ago:
They start em real young with smile juice and candy.
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 week ago:
Both have a storage problem. But coal has a destroys the atmosphere problem. So, yes, trade-offs.
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 week ago:
My apologies.
D. Grenêche, ‘Déchets radioactifs, la vérité des faits et l’exactitude des chiffres’, Revue nationale du nucléaire, 2019.
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 week ago:
Studies show that ash from coal power plants contains significant quantities of arsenic, lead, thallium, mercury, uranium and thorium[1]. To generate the same amount of electricity, a coal power plant gives off at least ten times more radiation than a nuclear power plant.
The process of burning the coal concentrates contaminants of all kinds tenfold compared to their original concentration. So even if it isn’t significantly radioactive, we shouldn’t be allowing the other shit in there either.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 week ago:
The point being, they are charging 200 bucks for hardware that is superfluous and low end for an incomplete software experience that could be delivered without that on an app. The question is, are you going to give up your smartphone for this new device? Are you going to carry both? Probably not.
“It can do 10% of the shit your phone can do, only slower, on a smaller screen, with its own data connection, and inaccurately because you have to hope that our “AI” is sufficiently advanced to understand a command, take action on that command, and respond in a short amount of time. And that’s not to even speak about the horrible privacy concerns or that it’s a brick without connection!”
Everything about this project, other than maybe the aesthetic design from teenage engineering, but even then, they’re design work seems a bit repetitive. But that may be due to how the company is asking for the work. “We wanna be like Nothing and Playdate!!” “I gotchu fam!”
To address your point about e-readers, they have specific use cases. Long battery lives, large, efficient e-ink displays, and the convenience of having all your books, or a large subset, available to you offline! But when those things aren’t a concern, yea, an app will do.
Like with most contemporary product launches, I simply find myself asking, “Who is this for?”
- Comment on Calculus made easy 1 week ago:
All of geometry is a cult. The only kind I like. Math cult. Good people. Great orgies.
- Comment on Octopus facts 2 weeks ago:
As opposed to a pentapus, which will give you pentapox.
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 2 weeks ago:
Tensors are easy!
- Comment on Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' 2 weeks ago:
I wish more forms of travel were based solely on bistromathics.
- Comment on I learned so much 3 weeks ago:
This resonates. I had 3 English teachers from 3rd to 6th grade that were replaced by either long term subs, which was decent, or a rotating cast of clowns that shouldn’t have been around children.
- Comment on NASA 3 weeks ago:
Your fancy decimal/comma swapping sure does make this seem like nothing with extra significant digits.
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 3 weeks ago:
Nah, it’s make money. Being evil is just another perk!
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 3 weeks ago:
So why not say fascist strong men are manipulating the Jewish peoples for their own personal benefit. Aka, to not be voted the fuck out/thrown in jail.
It’s not like anyone’s out here trying American presidents for war crimes either. Lots of assholes get away with shitty things. It’s kinda like, the defining feature of all of history.
- Comment on Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record 3 weeks ago:
I… I don’t think they are generating the history on the fly for each individual playback. Probably just generating images based on the concept, iteratively tweaking until it conveys the message that is desired by the artist. You know. Like most artistic works. AI is another tool.
Not to say training data being copped from hardworking artists is good, but an ethically trained AI for image generation for this context is not necessarily evil if it is used in the context of executing the artist’s vision in the way they deem necessary and sufficient. Relying on outside people can often cloud the vision of a project.
That being said, pay artists for their work, license if you want to train, and credit/royalties should be paid until copyright expires or the rights are purchased outright for a competitive compensation.
- Comment on RTX 40090 3 weeks ago:
Rookie numbers. Def not poisoning enough children. Gotta pump those numbers up.
- Comment on ‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram 3 weeks ago:
“Nice data you got there. Be a shame if someone sold that for a premium”
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 3 weeks ago:
We dine on the rich during month 13.
- Comment on Getting old sucks 4 weeks ago:
Oh no! How did he post the comment after Candlejack got hi-
- Comment on I have so many lists... 4 weeks ago:
I tried, but then I just ended up on the List of Lists of Lists wiki page.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I had to complain to my school multiple times during highschool like 15 years ago for the same shit. Texas public school. I remember Atheism being blocked for being a cult then, which was just… infuriating as a tiny atheist.
- Comment on magic beneath the forests 4 weeks ago:
But sir, why are the trees dancing?
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 5 weeks ago:
Bro, the works cited is the SEO.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 5 weeks ago:
Oh! Gotcha! Makes sense. Forgot about crystal vibrations for clockworks. Thanks!
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 5 weeks ago:
How do you feel about water ice being a mineral?
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 5 weeks ago:
P6/mmm?
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 5 weeks ago:
Piezoelectricity is the only other I can really think of.
- Comment on Mona: Court rules women’s-only exhibit must allow male visitors 5 weeks ago:
To deny access to any one group on the basis of an immutable characteristic of their physical being is a dangerous precedent to set for a government. It just gives a license to discriminate against any out group. I believe you have a right to do whatever you want, so long as doing so does not violate the rights of others.
To take it to a logical extreme, would you defend the right to drink and drive, given that stupid people should be allowed to do stupid things, even if it is incredibly dangerous to the drinking party and everyone else around them? No? Then don’t tolerate the intolerance of others. That’s how the social contract frays.
- Comment on Biden announces new plan to cancel student loans for 30m borrowers 5 weeks ago:
It is. Just Devos et al just kept rejecting all applications, denying all forgiveness, even to those that already qualified under the law. While this is not the blanket forgiveness promised, they tried that and the radical courts said no. So they have to work with what they have until a new (functional) Congress is voted in or someone blows up the supreme Court. What it really shows is that every official appointment matters.
And don’t forget all this student debt is Reagan’s fault. Picked a fight with Berkeley, called em commies, reduced public funding for colleges and then made the people of California pay tuition for the first time. All just to keep “the wrong kind of people” out of college.