petrol_sniff_king
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- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, I think that’s what the part after the colon was for.
- Comment on It's called "social jet lag". Yes I know about sleep hygiene. 2 weeks ago:
I did this recently with FF7 Rebirth. It might have looped twice, honestly.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 2 weeks ago:
Well, a lot of these points are really more about readability than they are about reducing the abstraction. Smaller, labeled chunks of information are easier to process than larger ones with no anatomy.
But even so, abstractions, especially in programming, are often made because a pattern was noticed between concrete examples. Teaching the abstraction first or even alone does inherently skip a lot of context for why it was made in the first place. Sometimes, you need to know what problem a function is solving before you can truly know the function.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 3 weeks ago:
If not, that would indicate that this newfangled self-driving is more dangerous than a little ol’ “caught in the stone-age” Nissan Leaf, wouldn’t it?
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 3 weeks ago:
If their level of self-driving is so new and revolutionary, maybe it should be kept in the oven to bake a little longer.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 4 weeks ago:
I’m surprised I haven’t seen it yet.
- Comment on NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden 4 weeks ago:
Nothing, really.
It means you get a little certificate.
That says you own the article.
But you can’t edit it.
But you can show it to your friends.
But not if the site is down.
And the resale is gonna be like, whoa~
Maybe $50 less than you paid for it.
But the sentimentality is worth it.
You should definitely get two. - Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t call out libertarians specifically, but it’s appropriate. :p
Also, hello Piped bot.
- Comment on Turn up the heat 4 weeks ago:
Oh, I know what you mean. I’m sick to death of this debate, haha.
- Comment on Turn up the heat 4 weeks ago:
Why do people “feel” 80, though
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 5 weeks ago:
“Immutable” in a mathematical sense probably isn’t true, yeah.
I imagine people forget that biology and evolution will do literally anything that doesn’t not work. And the whole male/female thing isn’t really a fundamental truth, it’s just a really popular answer.
- Comment on Amazon "search through reviews" is blindly just running an AI model now 2 months ago:
Ohh, it’s because they’re different kitchen appliances. I’ve been going about this all wrong.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
I’m not understanding what problem this is solving.
The ESRB is a “cross-ecosystem” institution to keep games producers honest—what does this… DCL(?) actually do?
From what little I’ve read here:
csa-iot.org/…/white-paper-distributed-compliance-…
All I can say is that this protects companies from homebrew “infractions” on their software copyright by making it difficult to install un-attested firmware updates.
I’m not even confident in that summary. What does this do?
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
Why would people do something stupid and against their best interests?
Hm, I wonder. - Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
It failed because an “immutable cryptographic proof” that the information being represented is valid is about as useful as a handwritten certificate that says you own Sagittarius.
Cryptography cannot verify your ownership of Sagittarius; it is not an authority. It cannot prevent you from claiming you do, either: anybody can enter whatever they want into the system.
And funny enough, this cryptographic lock and key isn’t even undisputable. If you have a dated record from 2020, and someone else wants it, they can just verify theirs on a different chain. Who is to say which chain is “more correct”? The dates? Dates don’t matter. If you were unlucky enough not to publish your work before someone else does, you don’t cryptographically own your work. If you were lucky and you had published, someone else can just lie that they weren’t ready and you stole it from them. So, even with all of our fancy math, we’re still back to he-said, she-said.
Worse, most blockchain records I know of are way too small for images, let alone video, so all they do is cryptographically “verify” URLs to the work. What exactly is the point of this? Can the files served by these URLs not simply be… changed?
I know they can be changed because C2PA has this very same, exact problem.
The blockchain is, at best, a database. The fact that it’s public doesn’t mean anything—it might be worse, even.
Why bother reinventing all of this? We have institutions already that keep records. What social good is bought from having the most public of all records?
- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 2 months ago:
Am I paying for Bitwarden?
I’ve legit been telling people that it’s free. xD
- Comment on The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes 3 months ago:
You might find this interesting. www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/101…
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 4 months ago:
it’s a good idea not to allow your site to generate any kind of circular self-referential loop that can be achieved via navigation or clicking on things
Don’t nearly all sites have a logo at the top that will take you back to the homepage? I’m not really following.
My intuition is that the only safe solution is to rate limit requests; a poorly coded bot could definitely just be a while loop for the same URL ad infinitum.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI 4 months ago:
To be fair, we’re getting diminishing returns every iteration. 7 is only 1/6th more than 6. And 8 will be just 1/7th. I don’t blame people for being a little fatigued by this.
- Comment on These aren't "feel good" stories, they're "we live in hell" stories. 4 months ago:
It drives me crazy how people almost always fail to see the other answer.
“well if they don’t get sick days and proper pay the economy shuts down”
Like, you’re not even having a debate about which framing makes the most sense, they just don’t see one of them.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value 4 months ago:
Their comment is very confusing, but I think they’re complaining about other people complaining about seeing Elon headlines. Meaning, we might all agree here.
- Comment on Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say 4 months ago:
No, the point is hurting the aristocracy is good, and I like doing it. This is just intellectual honesty. Taking your opponent’s chess pieces is an aggressive behavior, but it’s still a good thing if you want to win.
- Comment on Headlines be like 4 months ago:
I like the job I have now, too, but I barely got it. If I ever want to leave, I have no idea who to ask to be a reference.
- Comment on Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say 5 months ago:
That’s… that’s not what they’re saying.
- Comment on Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say 5 months ago:
Yeah, the “average person” has greater specificity.
- Comment on You can't win the lottery 5 months ago:
What is the mathematical definition of “slight”?
- Comment on You can't win the lottery 5 months ago:
Well done! You got the joke. :)
- Comment on Tesla Whistleblower Says 'Autopilot' System Is Not Safe Enough To Be Used On Public Roads 5 months ago:
We should be inserting them into congress.
- Comment on Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam 5 months ago:
Ohhh my godd, me too. It’s so anti-intellectual.
To anyone who might care, you can identify an apple as a low-quality orange, but that doesn’t also mean the apple is a low-quality apple; they’re optimized to different ends. That is, I think, the point of the expression.
But, if we’re trying to evaluate them on something like taste, which is entirely subjective, yeah, I’m comparing those shits. And, I’m going oranges all the way.
- Comment on Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games 5 months ago:
And how are you going to convince, let’s see, something like 130 million people to just go along with that plan?
Do you actually want change or are you just bitching?