thebestaquaman

@thebestaquaman@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  here you go

  I trusted the upvotes, and dared to click. It’s a safe, informative piece on the topic at hand that I recommend reading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I seem to remember reading that the US navy comes in second (which makes sense considering that a single carrier has a larger air wing than most countries air forces) but the point still stands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing could go wrong⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For all the shit that can (and should) be thrown for the blatantly illegal attack on Venezuela: Putins wet dream is that he could have pulled off the same attack against Ukraine.

  Full disclaimer: The attack on Venezuela’s integrity is horrendous and I condemn it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belief⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One has to wonder if that’s truly a highly specific incompetence, or intentional.

  I’ll apply Hanlons razor again: These people are stupid, therefore doing “everything in their power” involves using woefully ineffective means to achieve their goal. I have no problem believing that most anti-abortionists genuinely believe that they’re trying to save innocent lives. However, being relatively dumb people means they are primarily driven by feelings rather than logic, and are easily manipulated. This results in them using the means that they “feel” should be effective, rather than proven methods. It also means that the few people that actively are looking to oppress others can manipulate their feelings to make them support means that hurt the people they’re trying to help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anything from the lemmy universe ever went viral before Reddit or Tictac or Insta?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know for certain, but can’t really imagine that being the case. There are several reasons I can’t imagine something going viral off lemmy per now:

  1. The combined user mass of lemmy is probably smaller than the critical mass needed to really go viral 1a. This could be “worked around” if someone reposted from lemmy to some other, larger network. Still, I wouldn’t say that meant something “went viral off lemmy”, since that would imply it went viral before being reposted.

  2. Lemmy doesn’t (by default) push heavily to get trending stuff into everyones feed. 2a. I say “by default” because I’m assuming someone could set up an instance designed around maximising the views of trending material.

  3. Slightly related to 1, but afaik, there are few, if any, very big social media personalities on here. For something to go viral, you’re basically reliant on either an algorithm catching on to your stuff and shoving it in everyone’s face or some person with a huge following shoving it in everyone’s face.

  4. The very system of lemmy (following communities rather than users) makes it extremely difficult for any individual user to gather a large enough following to make things go viral by posting/sharing them

  Basically: Too small user mass, no big personalities, and a “following system”/visibility algorithm built around promoting interesting and healthy media consumption rather than cultish behaviour prevents things from going viral off lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨w e a k n e s s⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨w e a k n e s s⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I want to make a low-effort shitpost without spending energy worrying about whether anyone actually can, or even wants, to read it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨w e a k n e s s⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny, creative, smart woman that makes a living messing around with building cool stuff… was there anyone that didn’t have at least a little crush on her?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"i can hear the difference"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so glad this is illegal where I’m from

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  With modern tv/streaming, tickets aren’t a limited resource anymore, in the sense that by far most of the viewers are not in place live.

  Sure, you could price live tickets following “normal” market rules, since you still have the practical limitation regarding the number of people living in reasonable distance from the stadium. The idea of using pricing to regulate demand/consumption for streaming services doesn’t really make sense the same way, since the marginal cost of another viewer is essentially zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to admit that, without wanting to defend absurd wages for anyone, there’s a pretty decent explanation in the case of athletes. If you’re one of the top ten boxers in the world, there are tens (hundreds?) of millions of people that want to see your matches. It’s not unreasonable to ask for some compensation for providing entertainment, so let’s say each viewer is paying 1 USD / match. After paying the costs of setting up the match, you’re still left with millions of dollars per match.

  Specially in the case of top-level athletes, we’re in a situation where very may people want to see very few people provide entertainment. Even if they take a very low price, they’re still going to be making buckets of money. I don’t really think that would be unfair, provided they actually charged some small amount. What irritates me is that the sports associations have decided to charge absurd amounts to squeeze people fore mine to make even more. That should definitely be illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under what circumstances or axioms do spheres (the shape) have infinite surface area?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’m completely open that my factor is likely wrong here, the expression you provided is definitely wrong in both the 2D and 3D case (I’m assuming the r superscript on the pi was a typo), since it gives neither n = 2 => A = 2 pi r nor n = 3 => A = 4 pi r^2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under what circumstances or axioms do spheres (the shape) have infinite surface area?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the surface area of an n-dimensional hypersphere is (n - 1) pi r^{n - 1}. In that case (I may have some factors wrong here, just going off memory), an infinite-dimensional hypersphere has infinite surface area as long as it has non-zero radius.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hospital Bill 1961⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds so dystopian I’m having a hard time comprehending it… what happens when they provide the mandatory emergency care and invoice someone who just doesn’t have the money to pay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hospital Bill 1961⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wat? Are you saying that people who give birth in a hospital are sent a 13 000 USD bill afterwards? Like, is that actually what happens? I feel like I have to ask, because I actually cannot comprehend that being the case.

  What if you don’t have the money? Do they expect you to just hold it in until you’ve saved up? Or do they just prefer that people give birth at home with no access to medical care if something goes wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever considered THIS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know people that were actively hoping for twins and got them , twin-twin!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is fossil fuel still used?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That almost seems like a wilful misinterpretation of what I wrote, since I never claimed anything of the sort.

  What makes you completely wrong is that you’re using the fact that petroleum companies are filthy rich and bribe politicians to hell and back as an explanation for why we’re still reliant of fossil fuels. The basic answer to why is that “fossil fuels and combustion engines are pretty damn hard to beat” to the point where we still haven’t found a viable alternative for some applications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is fossil fuel still used?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get why you would say this, but it’s an oversimplification to the point of being completely wrong.

  Fossil fuels have an absurd energy density. They’re just really hard to beat. Modern batteries and liquid hydrogen don’t even come close. Pair that with the fact that we’ve spent a couple hundred years optimising the steam- and internal combustion engines, compared to some decades (in practice) for electric-based stuff, and you start seeing why fossil fuels are so hard to push of the top of the hill.

  Until very recently all alternatives were pretty much worse under every conceivable performance metric. There’s a reason electric planes are still in the prototype phase. It’s just technically really really hard to even get close to jet fuel and combustion engines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Thought I Knew You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All else aside, the biggest problem with putting a data center in space is cooling it. Getting rid of megawatts of energy at around 100 C when you have only radiative cooling to work with is an absolute bitch. For that reason alone, the “data center in space” idea is complete crap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2³² will get interesting...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, I actually have my doubts that the trolley could get through 8 000 000 000 people before stopping due to the resistance, so at least some people should be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨monumentale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I think massive “switchboards” can be relatively clean. The key is that each step contains little enough logic. 1500 lines of 13-14 cases means the average block was > 100 lines, and at that point I definitely agree that it should probably have been refactored a long time ago. Just splitting that into 13-14 smaller functions, and using the switchboard as a delegator could be completely fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3146: Fantastic Four⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whelp…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, I’ll speak English in meetings and other settings where we’re talking about work and need to minimise the language barrier for practical purposes. I’ll also speak English in a lot of social settings, because these are nice people that I enjoy talking to.

  What I’m talking about is the silent expectation that a group of Norwegians talking at the lunch table should switch to English if one or more non-Norwegian speakers enter the room. I don’t like that silent expectation, and really appreciate the colleagues that learn Norwegian well enough that I can just keep the conversation going without feeling like I’m excluding them or feeling that I need to swap to English and fill them in on what we’re talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it really makes a difference, as long as you’re staying somewhere for any significant amount of time (i.e. months) it makes sense to start learning the language.

  I mean, it’s common courtesy to try to learn enough of the local language to buy stuff and ask for directions when your just on vacation.

  I was in Germany for half a year during my studies. To me it was obvious that I needed to learn the language from day one, because I had no intent of going around and expecting everyone else to adjust to me not knowing the language. I have a very hard time understanding how someone could move to a country for years, and still not learn the language because “it’s not permanent”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also work in a very international community, with a small minority Norwegians (in Norway). While we often communicate in English, I have to admit that I find it a bit strange that people choose to move to Norway and work in Norway, but don’t learn the language well enough to participate in a conversation at the lunch table.

  Sure, often we’ll swap to English if a non-Norwegian speaker comes in, but sometimes I’m just tired and don’t want to bother with the extra effort. I massively appreciate the colleagues that bother to learn Norwegian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fundamental difference to me, which makes me not see “a website with extensive docs and a download button” as marketing, is whether you need to seek it out or not.

  If I need to seek it out myself, it’s not marketing, it’s simply “providing solid information” and “making your product accessible”, which is a whole different ballgame from “shoving your shit into peoples face in the hope that they’ll give you money”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s a substantial difference between “supplying information about a product without shoving it in people’s face”, and what most people associate with “marketing”.

  If a company putting up neutral, verifiable information about their product on their own webpage where I can find it by searching for something I’m looking for after reflexively scrolling past the ads counts as marketing, then yes, I “fall for marketing” all the time. However, what I typically associate with “marketing” involves me somehow being fed information about a product without seeking it out. Usually when that happens, I’ll actively look somewhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While Python’s version does feel a bit backwards, it’s at least consistent with how list comprehensions are set up (they can also feel a bit “backwards” imo)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly can’t see how this is more readable than

  x = (y > 5) ? “foo” : “bar”

  I get that it’s a syntax that needs to be learned, but it’s just so clean and concise!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For it’s faults, I think what makes C beautiful is that it gives you complete freedom do be an absolute idiot.

  Whenever I decide to hack something together with an arcane macro, I feel like an animal being released back into the wild, with the compiler yelling “Be free! Explore the mysteries of our incomprehensible world!”