xantoxis
@xantoxis@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 3 days ago:
You can infect a hospitalized patient with MRSA by paying off one (1) nurse, and I guarantee you can find a nurse who will play for cheap. At this point I’m 50/50 on whether the second whistleblower was murdered.
- Comment on palaeoartists are dreamers 1 week ago:
Inscrutable? The message here is clear
- Comment on party poopers 1 week ago:
This whiteboard all by itself could be used as data that students need to be allowed more sleep.
- Comment on Your body is completely dark except for the 1 molecule outside layer that light hits. 1 week ago:
You can shine a flashlight through your entire hand, OP. Light probably reaches most of your interior at least in small amounts.
- Comment on evangelism 1 week ago:
This revelation is about to change my whole lunch (I’m also gonna have a sandwich)
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 1 week ago:
That’s who I was thinking of when I wrote this!
- Comment on Antybooties 1 week ago:
This one’s not even that far out there. Understanding how ants think has direct applications! Ants must take many thousands of steps in a day; being able to count them precisely requires certain cognitive facilities we wouldn’t otherwise know existed. Next step: figure out how those things work with such simple cognition. Then apply that to self-organizing robots and use them to cure cancer or something.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 1 week ago:
The main thesis here is good, but that’s a mischaraterization of what people consider “failed” writers.
Someone who wrote one novel and had it published is not considered a failed writer, no matter if they then stop writing immediately. “Failed writer” is pretty much reserved for people who tried writing and couldn’t get anyone interested enough in it to publish it.
I’m not sure what labels would be applied to someone who exclusively pursued self-publishing, but that’s not really the common way.
- Comment on Chinese swimmers won Olympic golds after testing positive for banned drug 2 weeks ago:
The IOC should start branding their own performance-enhancing drugs for sale to participants and the audience, then only allow athletes to compete if they test positive for IOC-brand Olympiroids.
What, don’t tell me you think the IOC is too ethical to let this happen.
- Comment on I think the original name was "dysaesthesia aethiopica." 2 weeks ago:
They made up a new word for hating your job and then put in three pictures of people on the edge of a breakdown. That’s not hating your job, that’s being crushed by your job. It’s right there in the photo. You can see it in their eyes.
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 3 weeks ago:
That’ll fix it.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap 3 weeks ago:
His reply included a dig against gnu make for making tabs mandatory, so I don’t think this was a “stance” as in taking a pro-tabs position. He simply, reasonably, thinks parsers should be able to deal with all types of whitespace.
- Comment on When historians are trying to credit the invention of generative AI, they may have to hunt down that one social media post that started the "use only auto-complete to finish this sentence" trend. 3 weeks ago:
OP, do you think autocomplete was invented by the people who talked about autocomplete on Twitter? I just want to know how this fits together in your mind
- Comment on self-defence deez nuts 3 weeks ago:
Moreover, eating the mushroom isn’t even hurting the original organism. It’s pretty vestigial once the spores have found a way to get out.
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 3 weeks ago:
It’s odd that someone would be like “I espouse all these awful, awful ideas about the world. Not because I believe them, but because other people don’t like them.”
And then build this bot, to try to embody all of that simultaneously. Like, these are all right-wing ideas but there isn’t a majority of wingnuts that believe ALL OF THEM AT ONCE. Many people are anti-abortion but can see with their plain eyes that climate change is real, or maybe they are racist but not holocaust deniers.
But here comes someone who wants a bot to say “all of these things are true at once”.
- Comment on AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey 4 weeks ago:
Well it’s good to know 59% of execs are aware that AI isn’t gonna change shit
- Comment on A Mysterious Impact Left 2 Billion Craters On The Surface of Mars 1 month ago:
~ Mysterious ~
I guess it’s true that we don’t know exactly what kind of rock hit the planet and created 2 billion craters from ejecta.
On the other hand, that makes every impact on every planet ~ mysterious ~
clickbaity.
- Comment on Study Shows OpenVPN Traffic Can Be Easily Identified and Blocked 1 month ago:
Now do wireguard
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
The witcher games preceding Witcher 3 did very well, and TBH Cyberpunk turned out pretty ok as well. So I’m not sure your example really fits. For its own part, Larian was picked to make this game because the Divinity games are so popular and successful.
But I’ll agree that it’s really unlikely to do this more than once on purpose, but clearly it can be done by competent studios.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
No we don’t. BG3 is great for a lot of reasons, but nowhere on the list is “it uses the rules of D&D”. D&D is a terrible game system. Make a game like BG3 that isn’t… that.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 1 month ago:
Unsatisfied with merely shooting themselves in the foot, glassdoor has had the foot surgically removed
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 1 month ago:
From a technical stance, it’s right. This top comment does the math pretty well, and I’ve done it myself recently trying to decide if I should add a battery backup on my fridge. If you can overcome the startup surge (and a car battery definitely can), a modern fridge doesn’t draw very much power.
Of course, there’s a lot of details missing about how you do this without dying of electrocution. So I think it’s also a fair criticism of the LLM.
- Comment on Pre-IPO Reddit lets ads be dressed up as promoted user posts 1 month ago:
That is wild. Are you sure it’s not the author of that comment editing their post to become an ad? Screenshot?
- Comment on Not hiding it 1 month ago:
Then you understand nothing about politics. Imagine being so dim that you don’t realize you can promote any person you want, at all, for any reason at all, and that it benefits you to do so whether they’ve made any political statement about you at all. Do you think the trash collectors’ union carefully vets the statements of candidates with regards to trash collection before issuing their endorsement? Or perhaps they simply look for anyone who seems aligned with union interests at all? Jesus christ.
- Comment on Not hiding it 1 month ago:
lol stfu you conspiracy-addled clown. this is not real.
- Comment on Not hiding it 1 month ago:
their original countries
What? Most Israelis were born in Israel, just as you would find in any other nation on Earth.
- Comment on Not hiding it 1 month ago:
No, I don’t wonder why. They’re going along with a political trend because bucking the trend is politically dangerous. It’s cowardly, but it’s not a top secret conspiracy. Or do you really think the Democrat running for Missoulah comptroller is being paid off by Bibi?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Don’t forget price controls, strong anti-collusion legislation and strong antitrust.
- Comment on Not hiding it 1 month ago:
… hiding what? I certainly don’t like AIPAC but this tweet has no real differences from any other org getting electoral wins for their candidates.
- Comment on is this copium or hopium or schizophrenia? 1 month ago:
The first paragraph? Can’t say I disagree.
Second paragraph? Delusional.