TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@midwest.social
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 6 days ago:
I’m sorry you experienced that. Personally I love Wellbutrin.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 1 week ago:
I never said that.
No, but the person I had replied to, hence the context for my post, did:
AIs will never be able to abstract away details correctly or design sensible workflows for boutique problems.
I’m not saying LLMs can, or will be able to, do these things. LLMs are likely a dead-end on the road to AGI. Dead-ends are part of progress. The crossbow eventually hits a dead-end in terms of propelling projectiles with ease faster and harder, but that isn’t the end of projectiles. We got cannons, then hand cannons, and then guns.
I’m saying if LLMs are cars, AI is “vehicles.” LLM is a subset of the broader category. We have helicopters and planes. They came later than horse carts and cars, but they’re still vehicles. And used some of what we learned building carts and cars, but also with new ideas and concepts.
And for all we know, someday someone will figure out how to harness the power of gravity like we did with electromagnetism, and we’ll have flying cars. We can’t know, but just because we don’t have the technology now doesn’t mean we never will.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 1 week ago:
Claiming it will never be able to do something is silly. We have no idea what advances will come in the future.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 1 week ago:
AIs will never be able to abstract away details correctly or design sensible workflows for boutique problems.
Not the current direction of AI, no. But the field is ever advancing. I won’t be shocked if we see AI capable of these things within my lifetime.
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 2 weeks ago:
Yep. I was really annoyed when Windows moved away from the aero effects of Vista and 7 to the flat look of 8/8.1, 10, and 11.
(Yes yes, Windows bad. I have to use it for work.)
I’m looking forward to this, I think it looks gorgeous.
- Comment on That's a good question 2 weeks ago:
Because according to the Christian faith, the death on the cross is the moment of victory. The divide-by-zero that absolves sin.
So, I’m no theologian, but I did grow up studying this stuff quite a bit. Here’s a probably-flawed explanation of my understanding of the teaching.
God created the world, and the creation fell short of his image for it. That’s what “sin” is, a falling-short-of-perfection. God’s perfect nature requires perfection for communion with his creation, so in an attempt to bring humanity back into communion with him, Jesus (who is both God and human) comes to live among the creation, lives a perfect life, and is killed. The teaching is that death is a result of imperfection, so the death of someone with human nature who was perfect wipes out the “cost” of sin.
So humans are again able to be connected with their Creator, despite the fact that none of them are perfect.
Christians are encouraged to follow the laws of scripture not because failure to do so will damn them, but because said laws can be good for them. The Bible outright says humans cannot get to heaven through their actions. So when Christians get all high and mighty about sin, they’re missing the point entirely. (Or, perhaps, they’re following what they’ve been taught by people who use religion to control people.)
It frustrates me to see Christians championing anti-LGBT causes and whatnot. Like, I don’t care if you think it’s sinful, the entire point of the religion is that everyone is sinful. The Bible is clear on this. Jesus came for sinners. After all, if people were perfect they wouldn’t need a savior in this system.
Someone can probably do a better, more theologically consistent job explaining this, but that’s my understanding.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 weeks ago:
Why would they “prove” something that’s completely obvious?
I don’t want to be critical, but I think if you step back a bit and look and what you’re saying, you’re asking why we would bother to experiment and prove what we think we know.
That’s a perfectly normal and reasonable scientific pursuit. Yes, in a rational society the burden of proof would be on the grifters, but that’s never how it actually works. It’s always the doctors disproving the cure-all, not the snake oil salesmen failing to prove their own prove their own product.
There is value in this research, even if it fits what you already believe on the subject. I would think you would be thrilled to have your hypothesis confirmed.
- Comment on Hell 2 weeks ago:
I often end up being a rubber duck.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 2 weeks ago:
We use plenty of biodegradable plastics. They’re not always the correct solution. You wouldn’t want an airplane biodegrading, for example.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
It’s doesn’t matter, since the absence or presence of light would still be perceived by colour blind people. It doesn’t change how they would drive, as they are already driving with the knowledge of colour blindness in mind when looking at tail lights.
Tail lights being red is fine if you live with the most common forms of colorblindness which fall into what we call “red-green colorblind.” It is still a different color than headlights.
Now put those same red-green lights on the front, and we have a problem.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 weeks ago:
I did the perpendicular thing for a while, but two of the magnets I use with the phone (one a charger, one just a mount) are strong enough that removing the phone perpendicularly is difficult.
If I ever decide I don’t want my printer case, I’ll try the loctite solution! Thanks!
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 weeks ago:
I 3D printed my phone case. I had considered going without a case, but the Snap 4 Luxe, which I absolutely love, adheres better to cases than the bare phone. That could be my fault, maybe I didn’t clean the phone or adhesive properly, but if I have the phone on a magnet sometimes the Snap stays behind.
So I found a case design someone else made, brought it into Blender (because I don’t know CAD), thickened the back to the same distance as the Snap, then made a hole for the Snap and made sure to include a lip to cover over its curved bezel. I printed the first few layers in a tough 68D TPU, then switched to a 95A TPU for the rest. The tough layers and the lip keep the Snap held to the phone even when the adhesive fails, and the softer TPU makes the case easy to put on and remove.
(This is like, my seventh iteration of this case, and it sure seems flawless for the past few weeks.)
This lets me use the Snap with as little wireless charging distance as possible. I found that some cases added to the inherent 2.5mm of the Snap are just too much distance to reliably charge using weaker qi chargers. With this setup I can wirelessly charge much more reliably! And since I thickened the back of the case, the magnets on the Snap now sit flush with the rest of the back, making qi2-based external batteries more manageable.
- Comment on Floodlights P1S with relay 3 weeks ago:
Oh I totally get it, and probably would’ve gone that route if my DIY skill level was higher. My benefit of maintenance lighting is a lucky accident. 🤣
- Comment on Floodlights P1S with relay 3 weeks ago:
Well I can certainly send you links to the brilliant work of others that inspired me. 🤣
This is the base slider I use for the glass, with these risers for the AMS and this addon for an LED strip.
The LED strip I purchased is this one. I did have to use a dremel to widen the wire way on the slider/riser system, and (of course) had to cut off a good length of excess LED, but there was a very convenient cut point that means most of the back edge isn’t covered by light, but it still works great.
- Comment on Gillibrand Announces Legislation To Ban Distribution Of Blueprints For 3D Printed Firearms And Curb Epidemic Of “Ghost Guns” - Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New York 3 weeks ago:
Pass around schematics on flash drives like its cod3 in your computer class in high school.
Why would you infest your fellow classmates with that Treyarch nonsense? Give them CoD2 or CoD4MW like a good Infinity Ward fan.
(This take on Treyarch/Infinity Ward brought to you by the year 2008 or so, when I last cared about it. 😅)
In my class it was Unreal Tournament. Or a version of the open source Cube 2 where I had replaced all gun models with fists and rockets with couches so our teacher couldn’t complain about us shooting one another. 🤣
- Comment on Floodlights P1S with relay 3 weeks ago:
Oh those look great!
I have a COB LED strip plugged into a USB port on the same power strip as the printer, installed on a riser/slider system for the glass top and AMS, with the wire running through said riser.
At first I was frustrated that I wouldn’t be able to use the printer’s light control with this, but it has actually turned out pretty nice since the lights stay on for maintenance work and nozzle changes, when the printer is turned off.
I like your solution though!
- Comment on Don't Look Up 3 weeks ago:
In Nate Bargatze’s recent standup special he talked about how he, a water meter reader at the time, was tasked with protecting his town’s water tower after 9/11. With a flashlight. He did a much better job making it funny than I can, but I remember that level of fear. “It’s called terrorism because they make you afraid they can hit anywhere!” I remember hearing.
Which is silly in retrospect, Al Qaeda only hit major, symbolic targets in the US and never did “hit anywhere.”
- Comment on Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50% 3 weeks ago:
Yep. I understand it, being able to stream my physical Xbox to my phone or tablet when I’m away from home is awesome.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 3 weeks ago:
There are a staggering number of varieties of plastics, and an insane number of uses for them that aren’t easily replicated with other known materials. Some of those plastics are much worse than others.
Plastic is not inherently “pollution.” That’s not to say that plastics don’t make up a significant amount of the world’s pollution, but like literally everything in life, it’s not as simple as a black-and-white.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 3 weeks ago:
Plastics aren’t inherently bad. Just like anything else, it’s the misuse that makes them bad.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 3 weeks ago:
Largely done already, as I understand it. Most use zinc now.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 3 weeks ago:
I kind of love that about his videos. I scoff at the time, but then start the video and next thing I know it’s a half hour later and I’ve learned something in a surprising amount of depth.
I like a world where not everything needs to be 5 minute videos. Some things can be longer form.
- Comment on What a wonderful world we live in! 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 4 weeks ago:
Remarkably, it has happened. People suddenly decide to pay attention to authority when they’re in a terrifying situation they’ve never experienced.
- Comment on Pooping with friends 4 weeks ago:
I’m not your buddy, guy.
But I am also poopin’.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 4 weeks ago:
I guess “love” is a strong term. It does everything I need it to and I have very few complaints, the same experience I had with my Android phone.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 4 weeks ago:
so many apple shills here… why not upgrade to an adult phone?
So this makes me laugh because when I was younger and had more time to spend with rooting and custom ROMs, I used Android phones. And I loved them!
Now that I’m older I use an iPhone (for a number of reasons) and I also love it!
It’s almost like smartphones are tools that fit their use case, and not something else up be tribal over.
- Comment on The fact that some dogs are used to the groomers and some aren't is wild. 4 weeks ago:
We have a very reactive pup and have had a couple sessions with a dog trainer to help us curb that reactivity. She taught us some neat methods to redirect his attention and eventually get him to a point where we treat him (with very high value treats) when he sees another dog and then lets us redirect him.
Over time he’s learning that the emotion he should feel when he sees another dog is excitement! It’s slowly working.
- Comment on 7 for me 5 weeks ago:
Nah, it’s fantastic. Crazy soft. Softer than cotton.
- Comment on 7 for me 5 weeks ago:
It’s a type of rayon fabric made from beech tree cellulose. Some underwear manufacturers use it. Very soft, very comfy. It’s the reason podcasters successfully sell MeUndies. 🤣