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- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 4 days ago:
I see the shit that people send out, obvious LLM crap, and wonder how poor they must write to consider the LLM output worth something. And then wonder if the people consuming this LLM crap are OK with baseline mediocrity at best. And that’s not even getting into the ethical issues of using it.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
You, and I, typing this, in a thread about non-standardization certainly blows a hole or two in your simple thinking. It’s weird to think of flexible thinking as simple. I would say I envy your rigid comprehension, but I don’t. It would be awful to be lost when someone says N Celsius instead of N Fahrenheit or vise versa. What a miserable, difficult way to try to make it through life.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
These threads always make me laugh. Maybe because of the way/where I was raised I really don’t care at all what anyone uses.
- Comment on What's the cure to doomerism? 1 week ago:
Cryofreezing
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 1 week ago:
Looks like you’d have some good point breaks. Like legendary.
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 1 week ago:
I am NOT a power user of my phone. That said, I’ve liked YAM Launcher for a while. It is minimalist and does everything I want in a launcher.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 2 weeks ago:
And I was suggesting that the middle class already pays a wealth tax as most of their wealth is in their home. I agree with OPs sentiment, but have it start above $5 million and have it pretty steeply progressive.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 2 weeks ago:
You’re probably right. I last read part of it for a class about 35 years ago, and I no longer trust my memory anyways.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 2 weeks ago:
I don’t remember it being that big of a book.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 2 weeks ago:
If you are in my state, it’s taxed via property tax.
- Comment on ICE arrested a Navajo man and dismissed all the proof he presented of his identity, claiming he faked it and that they'd "get his family next". 2 weeks ago:
Damn. So fucked he (and all the others) went through that. Fuck ICE, and the MAGAts.
- Comment on Pew! Pew! YouTuber Builds Sound Laser That Works as 'Invisible Speaker' 2 weeks ago:
I want something like that, but so small it fits in my phone, then I can say shit to my friends when they’re across the room.
- Comment on YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain 2 weeks ago:
I enjoy both ways, but I can’t grasp how people think they are the same.
- Comment on If you record yourself talking to someone and then watch the video... it feels very weird... like a bizzare out-of-body experience... 2 weeks ago:
I used to find myself kind of floating above the meeting or whatever I was in. Just observing, while also still participating. I wonder if that’s similar. I don’t think I’ve ever filmed myself talking to someone.
- Comment on YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain 2 weeks ago:
According to this page, that is just not true.
When you read, your brain is working hard behind the scenes. It recognizes the shapes of letters, matches them to speech sounds, connects those sounds to meaning, then links those meanings across words, sentences and even whole books. The text uses visual structure such as punctuation marks, paragraph breaks or bolded words to guide understanding. You can go at your own speed.
Listening, on the other hand, requires your brain to work at the pace of the speaker. Because spoken language is fleeting, listeners must rely on cognitive processes, including memory to hold onto what they just heard.
- Comment on YSK You may have unclaimed funds held by your government 3 weeks ago:
Hey thanks. I found 3 claims and almost $200.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 weeks ago:
Huh, I didn’t know that about China. TIL.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 weeks ago:
Russia invaded Ukraine and was immediately under many sanctions. I don’t get why the world doesn’t treat the US the same way. Aside from greed.
- Comment on Meetings 4 weeks ago:
Most meetings, in my obviously limited experience, are held by people who don’t have anything else to do. And all the people who need to get shit done are pissed about having to sit through a meeting that could have been handled with a short email.
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t read Strauss in so long. I need to go back and reread them. His books were always a lot of fun.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 4 weeks ago:
Ah, I thought that Hillary ended up getting more votes. I must be wrong. I’m in no way denying the fuckery that went along with it, from the DNC to media doing everythign they could to keep Bernie out, but in the end, voters are the ones who vote. Tell me again about how it’s not ultimately the voters.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 4 weeks ago:
How does/did Schumer, Grassley, Graham, Pelosi, McConnell, Feinstein, and so on, stay in power? I always get downvoted and naysayed when I say this, but American voters fucking suck. Just the absolute worst. People will blame the two party system, and they do have a point there, but those same people don’t show up in the primaries to make a difference. They’re too scared to vote for change, as they’ve shown over and over. Just a bunch of ignorant, self-satisfied, cowards.
- Comment on Rare Earth 4 weeks ago:
I’m wondering at the couple downvotes. What am I missing?
- Comment on Why do Interstate highways exits post the nearby jail/prison/detention center? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve only noticed them at the prisons that are out in bummfuck Cali. Off the 5 in the Central Valley, like OP said, or out in the desert off the 10.
- Comment on Why do Interstate highways exits post the nearby jail/prison/detention center? 4 weeks ago:
So you won’t pick up escapees hitchhiking.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 5 weeks ago:
Saw them live 3 times before that shit. Never listened to a single song since.
- Comment on Word. 1 month ago:
I thought Typst looked interesting, I just have too many years of LaTex mental patterns and Vim shortcuts to be bothered to try it. I’ve suggested Typst to a couple of friends who later said,“thanks.”
- Comment on Word. 1 month ago:
How does gnumeric work for you? That’s my spreadsheet goto, but to be fair I have very simple demands.
- Comment on it is legal to keep a kangaroo as a pet in oklahoma 1 month ago:
Now I’m off to see how they are as pets. Awful would be my guess.
- Comment on UK Wants All iPhones to Block Explicit Images Unless You Prove Age 1 month ago:
The things politicians will do to keep the plebes from focusing on real problems…