PetDinosaurs
@PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world
- Comment on ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis 11 months ago:
It’s just modeling humans. I was only a lab TA for two semesters, and I caught so many fake data sets.
- Comment on Did Amazon change their theme colors or did I unknowingly change them myself? 11 months ago:
Ok. I’m also not crazy.
- Comment on Would life be significantly different if no light were detectable when closing our eyes? 1 year ago:
Nothing would happen. You blink for a fraction of a second.
Also, note that the eyelids of people with darker skin already pass less light than those of people with lighter skin. (That is the purpose of darker skin)
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 1 year ago:
I’m thinking you are agreeing with me on every thing I said.
Jd is bad. Maybe you don’t agree that CR is, but that’s minor.
Tesla’s reliability is the topic at hand. That was my introductory statement.
Per the fires, that’s exactly what I meant. I’ve seen enough burning cars and had my other calls recalled. That’s just not news. It’s news when an EV does that.
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 1 year ago:
A legacy industry funded advertising group is criticizing the disruptive novel EV companies. All of them, lucid, rivian, and polestar plus tesla.
I’m shocked.
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 1 year ago:
I have yet to see any believable evidence that there is any excessive reliability problems with Tesla cars. And don’t try to cite consumer reports. They lost my business after they wouldn’t stop recommending Samsung products.
We have lemon laws for a reason. Because lots of cars are lemons. You are just only hearing about it because every car fire or trim problem or excessive repair needs on a Tesla is a news story that you recall. There are many similar phenomena that are at play here. Start with the availability hueristic if you’re interested.
I’ve seen lots of lemons in my life. My parents car blew a transmission right away. So many car fires on the side of the road, and I bet you don’t even know that Hyundai and Kia owners are being advised to park outside because there’s a high risk of fire. That’s really bad. If your ice catches fire when it’s parked and off, that’s a serious design flaw.
- Comment on Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices 1 year ago:
I’m hoping most of big tech and media get broken up
It’s just hope though.
- Comment on When the natural gas industry used the playbook from Big Tobacco | As early as the 1970s, research showed that gas stoves produced indoor air pollution. 1 year ago:
It’s the same gas, and it is dangerous. Not as dangerous as actually inhaling smoke or cooking over a wood fire, but a bit dangerous.
All combustion products, including the ones that are created when you cook food on an electric stove, have a camp fire, or are passed by an ICE car.
- Comment on Why is the DEA and ATF separate? Seems like they cover similar things from similar circles. 1 year ago:
Governments are organized according to political processes rather than rational ones.
Even under ideal conditions, any (especially larger) organizational body is extremely difficult to keep from falling into these type of irrationality.
We have many names for variations on the phenomenon. I’ll cite groupthink. You can fall down a rabbit hole on your own from there.
- Comment on Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis 1 year ago:
💯🐴🔋(umm, staple)
- Comment on Does anywhere online, shipping shoes in the USA have European sizes as a legitimate search option? 1 year ago:
Exactly. Convert your size to the seller’s size and buy that one. You may need to experiment, but shoe sizes are not scientific units.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Yeah. That’s because of the cold.
If you had said pedestrian deaths, you would have had a solid argument.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Agreed.
Leap seconds are even worse.
That’s for a different discussion, imo.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Because people would start showing up earlier or later depending on whether we decide solar noon is 12:00 or 1:00.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It’s about the change being important.
If we stay on a single “time” (say standard work day starts at 4 hours before solar noon), we’ll drift the work time to start/end the work day at some appropriate time.
The issue is that what that time is that most socially useful changes greatly over the year unless you live close to the equator.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I don’t adjust my lifestyle for this.
The rest of the world does.
That’s the point.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
My 5 yo’s schedule is already messed up from the darkness.
He wasn’t even out late last night.
We decided to wake him up at 8, while it was plenty dark.
I’d rather it be that dark at 7.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
You kinda need the back and forth or the work day start will drift whichever way.
That’s knew of my major thoughts in favor of DST.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
So weird.
Who on earth thinks I’m criticizing my wife for anything other than liking a candy that’s widely disliked?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I suppose it is horrific to make a joke about Halloween candy that has been complained about for decades and only seems to show up at Halloween.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Exactly!
At least someone here has a sense of humor.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I mean. I coconut and chocolate are great.
These are just these are gross on both parts.
It’s just fuel for the insular Europeans being like “American chocolate has vomit in it”.
That’s gas station chocolate for children, and butyric acid is something that occurs naturally in chocolate.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
At least it’s not as bad as spunow
- Comment on Are there any people who hates music? 1 year ago:
Music was much better when I was younger and more emotionally vulnerable.
I also like music from before my time, when they used to let ugly people make it.
It’s complicated.
- Comment on University of Chicago researchers seek to “poison” AI art generators with Nightshade 1 year ago:
There should be no need to mention these limitations. They sold be obvious to people using them.
Anyone who uses models should know that all models are wrong, but some models are useful.
- Comment on Everyone's favorite show from the 90s 1 year ago:
It’s not your day, your week, your month, or even your star date.
- Comment on The Problem with Jon Stewart cancellation highlights a problem for Apple’s content 1 year ago:
They all want access to the Chinese market.
- Comment on Green Light: Using Google AI to reduce traffic emissions 1 year ago:
This doesn’t appear to be anything new. Traffic engineers have been optimizing lights in large networks for decades.
They just have access to all the data they’ve been collecting on you, which is way more than the traffic meter cords can provide.
- Comment on What is the best website to search for scholarly articles? 1 year ago:
Google scholar is fine. There’s little opportunity for them to enshittify since it’s quite easy to construct a journal crawler and there really can’t be that much revenue from people searching for these highly esoteric topics.
And, the people you’d be pissing off would be the ones that are capable of creating a competitor.
Also, their own employees.
- Comment on The fastest ever human-made object keeps breaking its own speed record 1 year ago:
Oh. I hate it here. I’ll never be back.
It’s awful. I don’t party or gamble or smoke or really do much but outdoor and educational, and I particularly hate people trying to extract more money from me.
I’m fine with paying what it costs, even if that’s a lot, but once I’ve paid, you don’t talk to me about money again.
The airport was bad, then we realized that the Lyft driver ran up the meter on us by going the long, more trafficy way. I didn’t even know that was possible.
Plus I now am away from home without a pair of glasses and with a bilateral case of pinkeye that I must’ve picked up at the optometrist on Wednesday.