candybrie
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- Comment on Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework 5 days ago:
Why are we trying to give up everything that makes us human by offloading it to a machine
Because we don’t enjoy actually doing it. No one who likes writing is asking chat gpt to write for them. It’s people who don’t want to write but are required to for whatever reason. Humans will always try to come up with a way to not have to do the work they don’t want to but still get it done, even if it’s not as good. Using tools like this is very human.
- Comment on gen z gorillas 5 days ago:
Is it because of the kids or the admin/parents/political activists/gun violence/low pay?
- Comment on gen z gorillas 5 days ago:
Maybe the people complaining drown out everyone else. But people like David Hogg and Greta Thunberg are Gen Z and out doing more than most to fix the problems they see. Like maybe people complain that Gen Z has no idea what files on a computer are, but that seems like a different thing than helplessness.
- Comment on And 299999999 is divisible by 13 2 weeks ago:
I think it might be easier just to do the division.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 3 weeks ago:
Considering we’re trying to find lengths, shouldn’t we be doing absolute value squared?
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 3 weeks ago:
If your OS is competing instead of collaborating with the hardware and apps, that’s gonna be a bad experience.
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
This in reply to a person who took more effort to write a program that wrote out the steps for inverting a matrix so they didn’t have to do the busy work of inverting a silly number of them? Kinda sounds like they prefer really understanding and challenging work to busy work is all.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 4 weeks ago:
You get an offer letter that spells some of that out, but it isn’t a binding contract.
An employment relationship in the United States is presumed to be “at-will,” i.e., terminable by either party, with or without cause or notice. Indeed, a majority of employees in the United States are employed on an “at-will” basis, without a written employment contract, and only with a written offer of employment that outlines the basic terms and conditions of their employment.
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 4 weeks ago:
They phased out back scatter x-ray like a decade ago. They only use millimeter wave, which doesn’t have ionizing radiation.
- Comment on Biden 'doesn't know' if Netanyahu is trying to influence US election 1 month ago:
I think Netanyahu just doesn’t want a peace deal. That it results in helping to sway the election in a way he desires is just the cherry on top for him.
- Comment on I'm going insane 1 month ago:
Ok, I can see the point, but it’s not usually what people mean when they can see their whole body. In that example, you’re looking down or looking up. It’s not the whole body entirely in your field of view. For your whole body to be entirely in your field of view, it absolutely does matter how close or far you are from the mirror.
- Comment on I'm going insane 1 month ago:
The reflection being further is the point? The further away something is, the smaller it looks, so the less of your field of view it takes up, the more you can see of it.
If I put my hand on my eye, I can’t see much of it. If I pull my hand back, I can see more of it. If I put a mirror on my eye, I can only see my eye. If I put it back, I can see my face because the reflection of my face is further (i.e. smaller).
I’m very confused what you’re trying to say.
- Comment on Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home 1 month ago:
Do VPNs make that feature kind of pointless? We can’t access most things from home without going through a VPN. Every where I’ve worked (and gone to school) was like that.
- Comment on Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home 1 month ago:
Does your RSVP have options for remote vs in person? My options are “accept”, “decline”, and “tentative.” If I want to tell someone I’m remote that day, it needs to be a separate message.
- Comment on The three little pigs is actually just the aristocracy blaming the poor for their problems 2 months ago:
The version I remember being told had the first little pig just look around and see straw, the second little pig had to go gather sticks from the nearby woods, and the third little pig had to actually make the bricks over days.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 2 months ago:
Right? Grown ups can be trusted to get their work done without someone watching them all the time. It’s small children who need constant supervision.
- Comment on Symptoms of arsenic poisoning 2 months ago:
I think absent bowel sounds generally means no shitting. Bowels are apparently pretty noisy when they’re doing anything.
- Comment on well if you look at it that way 3 months ago:
I have yellow tape measurers that are like a quarter inch wide. It’s not that rare.
- Comment on well if you look at it that way 3 months ago:
I can cover the whole moon with my thumb. Is the moon the size of my thumb?
If I hold a ruler about mid-chest, I can get this effect.
- Comment on Lectures 3 months ago:
The aid is definitely for the audience. Otherwise, the presenter would just have some notes.
- Comment on US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century'. 3 months ago:
Ok then switch to streaming. My point was just that just because you have a VHS collection doesn’t mean you can’t get media in another way and still use your VHS collection. And most people would use both while they transitioned. Throwing out all your VHSs for the hot new thing isn’t something a lot of people did.
- Comment on Lectures 3 months ago:
Maybe for something non-technical that would be reasonable. But if you’re talking to a single slide for ~30 minutes, it’s unlikely to be an adequate aid for most people. Either the content is really complex and would benefit from additional slides that focus on each relevant part. Or a lot of what you’re talking about isn’t really represented, and people are likely to get lost without something to show what it is you’re describing.
- Comment on obesity 3 months ago:
Oh yeah. A PhD means you hyperspecialized for years. You get one by being the expert and advancing your field in, usually, one tiny tiny area. For anything that isn’t that tiny area? Likely to be a stupid as anyone.
- Comment on US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century'. 3 months ago:
My point is people still used that VHSs. They just also bought DVDs. For most people, you didn’t only use one. I think most people went through a period where they used both.
- Comment on US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century'. 3 months ago:
Because they’re engaging in harmful behaviors and need to be broken up and regulated.
- Comment on US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century'. 3 months ago:
I’m not talking about replacing your VHS collection but buying DVDs in addition. You would still watch both. Maybe buying a DVD player was a barrier. But it wasn’t that you owned VHS.
- Comment on US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century'. 3 months ago:
You don’t pre-emptively punish people not causing harm. That’s a bad way to go.
- Comment on US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century'. 3 months ago:
You don’t need to bring your library. Having your library split between multiple platforms isn’t a big deal and most people do it. You just don’t give them any more money.
- Comment on Statistics 3 months ago:
Dogs kill about twice as many people per year as cows in the US.
- Comment on If anything happen to Linux today, like what happened to Windows, most of the internet would be dead. 4 months ago:
Essentially no one has crowdstrike on their personal machines. Not Windows users, Mac users, or Linux users. So it’s corporate/large organization culture that matters. And they absolutely use it.