Apepollo11
@Apepollo11@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I didn’t say that, that was the guy you replied to before. I replied to your response to him, so I can see how the mixup happened though.
All I was saying is that there are no good guys here, and I’ve seen no evidence that anyone is implying anything other than that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Which people, though?
Neither the article, nor the OP are saying anything that could remotely be construed as support for Hamas. As far as I can see, nobody in the comments is either.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 3 days ago:
I love your commitment to spelling “hampster” with a “p”. At first I thought it was a typo, but now I see it’s crucial to the thing.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 3 days ago:
I want to be sympathetic but alarm bells are ringing with the immediate juxtaposition of “that’s all fine but I genuinely begin to develop feelings for her” and “I just don’t really care all that much for a friendship”.
If the issue was that painful to be around her until you can work the feelings out, then that wouldn’t be half as bad as saying that she’s not worth keeping as a friend if you can’t date her.
- Comment on How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ? 5 days ago:
At the end of the day, isn’t that just how we work, though? We tokenise information, make connections between these tokens and regurgitate them in ways that we’ve been trained to do.
Even our “novel” ideas are always derivative of something we’ve encountered. They have to be, otherwise they wouldn’t make any sense to us.
Describing current AI models as “Fancy auto-complete” feels like describing electric cars as “fancy Scalextric”. Neither are completely wrong, but they’re both massively over-reductive.
- Comment on Are their any romance movies where there is a male protagonist who is a part of the manosphere? 6 days ago:
So kind of like Taming of the Shrew but more so?
Instead of it being a man cleverly trying to win over a woman through manipulation and abuse, it’s a woman-hating man cleverly trying to win over a woman through manipulation and abuse?
Even if it did exist, I’m not sure it’d be that watchable. Taming of the Shrew is pretty dubious as it is, but it was written over 400 years ago, so it can be excused somewhat.
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 6 days ago:
Username checks out…
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 6 days ago:
Functionally, in conversation they’re the same. But, that said, if I was talking about somebody the listener was close to, I’d use “had died”, rather than “is dead”.
Why? Because it’s slightly less direct, and I’m British so that’s the path we take.
Pointing out that someone “is dead” directly alludes to them being a corpse right now. Saying that they “had died” merely references something that they did.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This. It always baffled me why the BBC legitimises it by including it in the newspaper summaries. Might as well have included the Daily Sport.
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 1 week ago:
You could just buy the book second-hand. Authors don’t get any of that money, and you’ll be able to get it for much cheaper than new.
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 1 week ago:
In the UK, certainly. It’s not the library’s job to censor what the borrowers want to read, even if it’s David Icke.
- Comment on how did you and your partner change after having a baby? 1 week ago:
One thing that’s overlooked is the catalyst for all these changes is the same thing. Massive massive sleep deprivation.
Honestly, to start with, some days you’ll be surviving on two hours of sleep. And it takes years to get back to feeling ‘normal’.
- Comment on What's the process of black market weed consumption? 1 week ago:
This, very much. You are an adult for a long, long time - there’s no need to do everything while you are still a kid.
Also this about being friends with at least one person who already knows what they’re doing.
If you’re planning to go to uni, just wait until then, you’ll have your own room, meet new people, and be more physically capable to handle it.
- Comment on YSK how to unclog a toilet 2 weeks ago:
I’m guessing it’s to break down the fat / grease in the poop.
The hot water will speed up the reaction, with the added benefit of possibly expanding the pipe just enough to make a difference.
Just a guess, though!
- Comment on YSK how to unclog a toilet 2 weeks ago:
Yikes. What are you flushing down your toilet that you need a plumber’s helper to unclog it?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
My wife still has a book from when she studied Archaeology at uni called “From Savagery to Civilization” by Grahame Clark.
Civilization is what we make it to be, and is usually measured by the norms and standards of the country doing the judging.
The book is from the 40s. By the standards of the day, a lot of what we do now would probably be considered uncivilised. We work from home, eat meals on our own, and rely on a court of opinion more than a court of law. Homelessness is endemic and many people are working around the clock for subsistence wages. Classical definitions of civilisations - community, care for the vulnerable, improved quality of life - are all being stripped away.
I don’t think the term “uncivilised” can really be taken as a slur, at least no more than the word “bad” can be, because it’s just a reflection of what the speaker values.
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- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 2 weeks ago:
It’s just like any big technological breakthrough. Some people will lose their jobs, jobs that don’t currently exist will be created, and while it’ll create acute problems for some people, the average quality of life will go up. Some people will use it for good things, some people will use it for bad things.
I’m a tech guy, I like it a lot. Before COVID, I used to teach software dev, including neural networks, so seeing this stuff gradually reach the point it has now has been incredible.
That said, at the moment, it’s being put into all kinds of use-cases that don’t need it. I think that’s more harmful than not. There’s no need for Copilot in Notepad.
We have numerous AI tools where I work, but it hasn’t cost anyone their job - they make life easier for the people who need them. I think too many companies see it as a way to reduce overheads instead of increasing output capability, and all this does is create a negative sentiment towards AI.
- Comment on Is it normal for people to ask where you are from online? 3 weeks ago:
“Not being cool enough to say where you are from” is a weird way for them to phrase it. If they’re British, they might be saying it ironically (I use the phrase “well, if you’re not cool enough…” as a reference to the old peer-pressure educational videos myself). Otherwise, they might be young, and clumsily trying to peer-pressure you, or old and out-of-touch enough to think that’s an effective way to get a young person to give up information.
So, three options. They’re either being ironic, clumsy, or creepy. No harm in playing safe and blocking them.
- Comment on YSK: there's a petition in europe to ban conversion therapy with a deadline in a few days. 3 weeks ago:
I was about to sign it, and then I remembered…
Stupid Brexit. 😠
- Comment on Why does it seem like every other post on here is deleted shortly after being posted? 4 weeks ago:
It’s because there’s a disproportionate number of bad-faith actors starting threads in this community.
Even though there’s no stupid questions, it turns out that there are many terrible people.
- Comment on At least there's no ads... 4 weeks ago:
I might be reading this wrong, but does it not say “yearly”? It may be repeating, but if that frequency is once a year, I’m willing to live with that.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I think this is the key. If the plane’s going anyway, the additional environmental impact of you being on it or not is essentially moot.
As for whether the plane should be flying in the first place, well obviously not.
If it helps you rationalise it at all, if anything you’re making the plane more efficient by essentially halving your friend’s carbon footprint.
- Comment on How do I decrease acne after shaving my face? 5 weeks ago:
Have you considered an electric shaver? It doesn’t cut as close, but by the same token, it also doesn’t scrape across the skin. You’ll avoid catching the tops of any spots that you may have, and until your skin becomes happier with wet shaving, it’ll keep the whiskers away.
- Comment on Need help automating my cleaning business, Does this AI request make sense (tech related)? 5 weeks ago:
Before you post your listing, have a look here:
It’s a platform for setting up your own custom marketplace, which is exactly what you’re describing. It’s a no-code solution and pretty customisable.
At the best, it might give you an immediate solution to your needs. At worst, it’ll give you a starting point to explain to your dev what you want. Win/win.
- Comment on Need help automating my cleaning business, Does this AI request make sense (tech related)? 5 weeks ago:
As a developer, it looks clear enough to me, but I’d suggest two changes.
“Status updates” - You don’t say who you want to be able to view the status of a posting.
“Bonus if you can connect it to my Wave account…” - probably better to phrase it “Ideally it would connect to my Wave account…”. You’re listing requirements, after all.
Also, you might need to consider adding an admin page where you can manage accounts, see all jobs listed, etc.
- Comment on What's the next stop on the authoritarianism express? 1 month ago:
A return of the concept of “unamerican” art and activities, to support the destruction and suppression of said things.
I’d normally say book burnings first, but those have been an on-off thing in some parts of the states since the 50s.
So I’ll go with “officially endorsed” book burnings. Not officially organised, mind, but an actual expression of support shown.
- Comment on Why is the NFL draft day so "special"? 1 month ago:
Sports go sports!
Athletics are number one!
Participants are heroes!
Go team yeah!
- Comment on Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box? 1 month ago:
“You’ll be pregabalin’ these capsules”
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 month ago:
That’s not the definition of a game, though.
Loads of games need co-ordinated access to specific resources, from chess to the 2001 release of Halo. Doesn’t mean they’re not games.
The line between games and sports is entirely arbitrary, and changes from person to person.
