Overzeetop
@Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 8 months ago:
They’re not looking for the exceptional, out there exceptions - they’re looking for statistical pattern which have predicted current success. You may as well say that BMI is a useless metric for long term health complications. They both explicitly misestimate anomalous outliers because they are not designed to identify or classify anomalous outliers.
- Comment on Ex-Apple engineer sentenced to six months in prison for stealing self-driving car tech 9 months ago:
Nice redirect - this is not about the theft of hardware but the divulging of [checks Republican notecard] Super Important Information (but not important enough to patent, or so simple as to not be patentable) that was given to [Checks skin color card] those theiving, IP stealing, red communist Chinese.
I hope your corporate masters give you a pat on the head and an extra Milk Bone tonight. You’ve worked hard for it.
- Comment on Ex-Apple engineer sentenced to six months in prison for stealing self-driving car tech 9 months ago:
stealing * information* Nobody was harmed; nobody was deprived of life, limb, security, or physical property or currency. Knowledge was transferred without authorization, meaning that only the potential reduction of future profits for a corporation is at stake. It’s a breach of contract - about the least impactful thing that a human can do to non-human. This kind of crime should never result in prison, or it should be applied to every knowledge worker, ceo, or vc who remembers any part of any business they’ve every been involved with in the past.
- Comment on Ex-Apple engineer sentenced to six months in prison for stealing self-driving car tech 9 months ago:
I’ll agree with you when a corporation is jailed for life when an employee or consumer of their product dies. Until then, this is simple theft and should be financially punished.
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 9 months ago:
That seems like a lot of work. It would be easier for me to write a bot that will post every article from my favorite sites to technology@lemmy.world. Then I could have another bot summarize it in the body.
Oh, wait…several people already have. :-/
- Comment on Universal Music says that it will pull its song catalog from TikTok tomorrow at midnight, as the companies are unable to reach a deal on rights. Huge implications. 9 months ago:
No, the music overlay music offered in the app is licensed and can be added. Creators who are performing covers, I believe, generally have the license held by TikTok or have their videos muted/taken offline. Special arrangements are made for intentional or encouraged content . That is a guess, but things like Megan Trainor’s “Gucci” where she is both the original artist and a participant would be a case like this. I would think Grace Kelly and sing alongs on arrangement-bound copyright material like Pentatonix doing public domain carols (or even Roger’s and Hammerstein) are negotiated licensing if outside of their pre-negotiated license.
- Comment on You know when something's on the tip of your tongue and — as frustrating as it is — you'd rather try and think of it rather than look it up? There should be a word for that. 10 months ago:
I was going to say “old age” but, yeah, stubborn is definitely the personality trait. :-)
- Comment on NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft 10 months ago:
Maybe their ability to go to the bathroom without making any noise was the inspiration?
- Comment on Betavolt's miniature battery could spell the end of smartphone chargers 10 months ago:
You’ve touched on a great point. The power provided is so low that solar can effectively provide equivalent power in nearly every application except one where the continuous operating environment is pitch black. 15x15mm for 0.0001w is small. For comparison, that’s about 1/6 of the power that falls on a 15x15mm patch in an indoor office (300lux environment with led lighting), out about the same as could be harvested by an efficient solar panel off the same size. You could collect a full days power from this battery (and store it in a 2mm thick li cell behind the panel) in roughly three minutes of sunshine or ten to fifteen minutes on an overcast day.
There certainly are applications where it would be useful, but most could just as easily be served by a small solar patch and lithium cell or super capacitor.
- Comment on I'm 99% sure it's not real 10 months ago:
I fix others people’s problems using math and a bit of physics. I keep people from dying. As long as those two things hold true I get shelter, food, and other necessities.
- Comment on For those who lurk on Reddit - my read-only, ad-free, open source Reddit viewer RDX is better than ever now 10 months ago:
Hey - thanks for doing this. There’s one sub for a specialty 3d printer I want to keep tabs on but the sub is “unreviewed“ and unavailable on the web as it may contain inappropriate content (it doesn’t, unless you count people bitching about component troubleshooting). It’s available on your gateway. It seems to bypass all content restrictions, convenient for mobile browsing.
- Comment on Hey, does this drink taste like quaaludes to you? 10 months ago:
This is a NoahGetTheBoat moment.
(Yes, of course I laughed - I’m going to hell and I expect to see you all there, too)
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 10 months ago:
I weighed anchor despite paying for Prime for years. For one, you never know when they’ll drop a show, and two I prefer all my media in my polled interface.
I ended up dropping Prime two years ago because Amazon simply can’t hold up their end of their 2 day bargain. I live in a college town and when the school year starts their delivery time stretches to nearly 2 weeks. The rest of the year it fluctuates between 3 and 7 days. That’s not Prime in any way. Of course, without prime, note they wait 3-6 days before even shipping my packages so everything is a week to ten days. OTOH, Walmart - though having a smaller selection- is being me next day service on about 60% of my orders and two day on the rest …for less than half the annual fee.
My only lament is the weird Chinese electronics/components Amazon sellers stock FBA. It doesn’t take me too long to get to $35, but I do miss the $5 impulse buy of small packs of arduino actuators or pneumatic push connectors when inspiration strikes.
- Comment on A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system. An aviation expert says the technology could address the pilot shortage. 10 months ago:
This is what I expect to happen to truck drivers first. Automating driving still needs help in the last mile conditions but can navigate distances easily. I foresee fleets of automated trucks which are remotely connected to pilot centers where truck “drivers” sit at simulated driving stations and connect from truck to truck as they enter or leave warehouses or transfer stations. Instead of a small percentage of high-stress driving separated with stretches of monotony, it will be 8 hours a day, 5 days a week of high stress operating.
- Comment on A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system. An aviation expert says the technology could address the pilot shortage. 10 months ago:
I remember back in the 80s (middle school career days) commercial pilots were near the top of paid professions, topping 100k on average.
- Comment on IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip 11 months ago:
More importantly, how long until I can guarantee a 51% chance of solving every bitcoin block?
- Comment on Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation 11 months ago:
It’s not code. It’s a matrix of associative conditions. And, specifically, it’s not a fixed set of associations but a sort of n-dimensional surface of probabilities. Your prompt is a starting vector that intersects that n-dimensional surface with a complex path which can then be altered by the data it intersects. It’s like trying to predict or undo the rainbow of colors created by an oil film on water, but in thousands or millions of directions more in complexity.
The complexity isn’t in understanding it, it’s in the inherent randomness of association. Because the “code” can interact and change based on this quasi-randomness (essentially random for a large enough learned library) there is no 1:1 output to input. It’s been trained somewhat how humans learn. You can take two humans with the same base level of knowledge and get two slightly different answers to identical questions. In fact, for most humans, you’ll never get exactly the same answer to anything from a single human more than simplest of questions. Now realize that this fake human has been trained not just on Rembrandt and Banksy, Jane Austin and Isaac Asimov, but PoopyButtLice on 4chan and the Daily Record and you can see how it’s not possible to wrangle some sort of input:output logic as if it were “code”.
- Comment on Have you tried sunning you perineum? 11 months ago:
Don’t you be doing Jen and Kira dirty like that.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Congress threatened to stop the program: “ The biggest objection came from New York Republican Congressman Andrew Garbarino, who said the program would “end up hurting consumers.”
After that, Fannie didn’t take long to abandon the program.”
Authorization comes from Congress. No matter how useful a program is, Congress still has to fund it.
- Comment on Weird 🤔 1 year ago:
It may depend on your politics or maybe just where you hang out. I know that Beehaw gets a lot of shit for their pre-emptive defederation but it may be the nicest general online community I’ve encountered in a long time.
- Comment on Too many products are easier to throw away than fix—consumers deserve a 'right to repair' 1 year ago:
You know what needs to be added to this? Cars. The amount of body damage needed to “total” most cars is almost trivial these days.
- Comment on Revolutionary Bionic Hand Fuses With Woman's Bones, Muscles, And Nerves 1 year ago:
It’s not the up front cost that makes the investors money, it’s the maintenance plan.
- Comment on T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans and tells them it’s not a price hike 1 year ago:
No, no - that guy is (was, literally) the Verizon spokesman.
- Comment on Rethinking care: With the population set to age further in the decades to come, the ever-expanding marketisation of care must be replaced by a system based on solidarity 1 year ago:
“Did you vote for Brexit?”
“Yes”. “Ahh, good. Here’s a pamphlet in eldercare and the free market. Have a nice day, and good luck.” - Comment on What quality PLA filament brand have you standardized on? 1 year ago:
Ouch. I wonder what causes that? I’ve had good luck, I guess.
- Comment on What quality PLA filament brand have you standardized on? 1 year ago:
ESun pla plus. Consistent, reasonably priced in quantity, rarely out of stock.
- Comment on Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company 1 year ago:
I have a mix. Ripping your own is in line with format shifting. Putting a cad into a cassette for use in your car that didn’t have a cd player is the old school equivalent. I believe it is a valid fair use case.
- Comment on France bans iPhone 12 after finding radiation levels are too high 1 year ago:
If you or a loved one owned an iPhone 12 and have developed mesothelioma, you may be due compensation. Our lawyers are standing by to evaluate your claim so call today!
- Comment on Its not wrong though 1 year ago:
I was too young/poor to afford an assembler for my 6502 so I wore out the assembly long hand on a legal pad and then manually converted each operation to machine code.
Needless to say my programs done this way were exceptionally simple, but it’s interesting to understand the underlying code.
- Comment on Close to half of American adults favor TikTok ban, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows 1 year ago:
We need to ban talk radio and Fox News and OAN, too.