Hacksaw
@Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 1 week ago:
The engineers only make the listed limit speed. Government officials make the listed limit. It used to be EXTREMELY popular for government official to knock 20-25% off the design limit of the road, ironically so they can tell everyone how safe they were.
- Comment on shrooms 2 weeks ago:
From the first:
This is the first documented case of Klingsor syndrome related to psilocybin, in which a psychologically disturbed person self-inflicts harm on their genitals. Plus the dude was already messed up and an alcoholic.
The second guy was on ADHD meds and hypertension meds:
Although some might be tempted to draw broad conclusions from this single case, it is important to understand the nature and role of case reports in medicine. Case reports are detailed descriptions of unusual or novel clinical events involving one patient. They do not establish cause and effect or generalize to larger populations.
It’s pretty common advice not to mix drugs unless you know what you’re doing, which is something that happened in both cases.
But the point is your “warning” is the same as telling someone about to drive or fly about the worst accident on their mode of transportation. It’s just a paranoid thought (and a dick move), not a reflection of reality.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Young adults are going to have sex.
They can have sex in the safe home where they live. Or they can have sex in less safe places like parties, frat houses, in cars where they can collect a public indecency charge, etc…
That’s the choice you get to make as a parent.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 3 weeks ago:
Recognising the “AI voice” isn’t just the voice. It’s also the clearly “written by AI” circuitous script that keeps talking without saying anything and non-stop clickbait “but wait until you find out what the answer is” crap.
The other type of AI voice is people just stealing Reddit stories and putting them to AI. Also lame. I want my stories narrated with human emotion. The point of stories isn’t to transfer knowledge, it’s an art form, I don’t need shitty robot emotions thank you very much.
So no, the use case for AI voice is very narrow. Some of my favorite YouTubers use text narration. Maybe they don’t like their voice, or speak a different language, I don’t know, I’ve literally never heard them. It doesn’t stop them in the least from showing me amazing things. They don’t need to resort to polluting their video with the lowest garbage idea humans have created so far.
I’d like to see a video that is improved by the use of any AI.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 3 weeks ago:
If nobody bothered to make it why should anybody bother to watch it?
- Comment on (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 1 month ago:
They just interface with the shape of the mouth so well. Truly the best strawberry!
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 2 months ago:
The idea of letting young engineers at a university design production equipment is WILD to me. Universities make PROTOTYPES. The gap between prototype and reliable production equipment is so big you could drive a bus through it.
A good production engineer is worth their weight in gold but when you have shitty ones you’re better off letting the workers run the ship. At least they know what’s happening and where the hangups are. You’ll know a good engineer because they’re down talking to the lead hands on the shop floor because they want to understand what’s actually happening and run ideas through the shop before they fuck with things.
- Comment on Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in Israel’s war on Gaza: ‘Close to a tipping point’ 2 months ago:
If anyone is wondering what happened here (since half the comment section got nuked): it was mostly a political discussion not related to technology that was rightfully removed by mod imo.
- Comment on In heat 2 months ago:
I use duck duck go as well. I wish it wasn’t just anonymised Bing search. One of these days I’ll look into an open source independent search engine.
- Comment on Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in Israel’s war on Gaza: ‘Close to a tipping point’ 2 months ago:
He changed his legal name to “Nazi Apologist”, unfortunately.
- Comment on Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in Israel’s war on Gaza: ‘Close to a tipping point’ 2 months ago:
LMFAO I’ve got you tagged as “Nazi apologist” ever since the thread where you were defending Musk and his Nazi salutes and his Nazi cars.
Love to see that the “straw that broke the Nazi apologists back” was about opposing complicity in genocide!
Good riddance. You shouldn’t just leave this community, leave Lemmy altogether!
- Comment on Jeff Bezos is scared to have an open debate on economics 4 months ago:
Adam Smith, the father of modern capitalism, was very clear that free markets had to be well regulated by definition otherwise they would tend towards monopolies and non productive rent seeking behaviors. Only a well regulated free market can remain stable and competitive in the long run.
The capitalists aren’t even playing by their own playbook anymore they just want all the money and everyone else to die I guess.
- Comment on It's just a Planck bro 5 months ago:
Max Planck: I just discovered the shortest amount of time something can last any ideas what I should name it? Marie Planck: Planck time Max Planck: :'(
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 7 months ago:
No child calls the ‘wrong’ person dad. Dad is an earned title between a parent and child. Ejaculating doesn’t make you a dad, just a sperm donor.
Same goes for Mom by the way unless you think adopted parents are also illegitimate.
- Comment on Ban on Chinese tech so broad, US-made cars would be blocked, Polestar says 8 months ago:
US government gutted manufacturing? Last I checked companies chasing endless profit did that. Then when the government tried to stop them they used their money and power to elect a government that let them outsource US jobs to China. They’ve been rolling in money ever since.
- Comment on Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information. 8 months ago:
This is exactly what Disney is trying to do by throwing an ex employee under the bus.
If people’s lives depend on your systems, and your systems can be undermined by a single person and not caught for years, then you’re playing with people’s lives.
Secondly, even if this was the case, how could they possibly justify trying to get out of being accountable by saying she signed away her rights by using a free month of Disney+?
This is just Disney moving on to their next bullshit excuse to not pay after the first one didn’t work.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 8 months ago:
This is in comparison to private corporations who have a profit incentive to monetize your data in every disgusting abusive way possible. Companies with a fiduciary duty to exploit every possible potential for profit or they can be sued by shareholders? Companies that aren’t publicly auditable so you’ll never know who they’re sharing your data with? Like the recent trend of cars selling your location data to your insurance company who then uses it to hike your rates?
You’re comparing a government who has to be bribed or break a law in order to share your data at all with corporations who have a duty to sell it to the highest bidder. And in this comparison your conclusion is it’s the government that you can’t trust?
Sorry, I have to say I’m completely baffled by your statements right now.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 8 months ago:
That’s true, but the government is auditable by citizens though. We can legislate them to not keep logs and most importantly we can see if they’re sharing data with advertisers.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 8 months ago:
This is the right way to protect privacy. Auditable government departments have your data anyways. They don’t provide the data to companies, but they answer questions like “old enough to drink?” With yes no answers.
- Comment on Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. 8 months ago:
If your phone is in a Faraday bag how would you get phone calls?
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 8 months ago:
A white strike, like all strikes works because of collective action, not because of some tricky technically lol.