OmanMkII

@OmanMkII@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty common in Australia, so long as we’re not swearing at people nobody gives a fuck. I’d say unless your manager has mentioned it to you, it’s not a huge deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three Mile Island nuclear plant set for restart on Microsoft AI power deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Even with the radioactive waste material, in 20 years that will just be more fuel for fission reactors. Even taking into account the deaths from atomic bombs, the death rate from nuclear materials is a factor of a few hundred lower than coal power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to add text to the bottom of prints and the quality is inconsistent⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had the best experience flipping the print and printing text on top. If it has to be on the bottom though, slowing the print speed and using a slicer with bridging settings may work better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for emotional game recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mass effect and dragon age series from bioware are excellent, they’re a little involved but the story telling is incredible in both. While it has aged and may be depending on a love for star wars, their knights of the old republic series was also excellent.

  They’re really damn good at making a story that’s worth being part of, often one of my first recommendations aside from the last of us, outer wilds, and a couple of others I’ve seen here already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really get why people are up in arms at this stuff. I hate the idea of doing these type of interviews, sure. But my grad program had 3k applications, 1k video interviews, 300 in person interviews, and only 100 actual roles. How the fuck else do they expect people to handle the sheer size of applications in management/HR roles?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was curious if a robots.txt equivalent exists for AI training data, and there was some solid points here:

  If I go to your writing, I read it & learn from it. Your writing influences my future writing. We’ve been okay with this as long as it’s not a blatant forgery.

  If a computer goes to your writing, it reads it & learns from it. Your writing influences its future writing. It seems we are not okay with this, even if it isn’t blatant forgery.

  [AI at the moment is] different because the company is re-using your material to create a product they are going to sell. I’m not sure if I believe that is so different than a human employee doing the same thing.

  news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34324208

  I still think we should have the ability to opt out like we do with search engines and webcrawlers, but if the algorithm works ideally and learns but does not recycle content, is it truly any different from a factory of workers pumping out clones of popular series on Amazon? I honestly don’t know the answer to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I joined maybe 6 years ago, and there was a bit of shit talking and most posts had a troll answer hitting the most votes for some reason, but it was usually pretty good to scroll straight past and find some really insightful comments. There was a lot of good stuff around reddit, but slowly the absurb number of awards, NFT avatars, reposts, and ads every third post started to corrupt it. It was simple enough to switch to a third party app for quite a while, but the garbage slowly took over.

  Even if they hadn’t pulled 3rd party apps, it was getting pretty close a point where it wasn’t worth scrolling past the bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow that’s the whole article? I guess the TL;DR is “pay me to find out literally anything”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My CR-10's had a good run but I made a slight upgrade today⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting idea trying to integrate Mastodon and Lemmy. From the readme:

  This is a simple script that monitors specific Lemmy communities and attempts to #hashtag new posts so that they are discoverable in microblogging services like mastodon.

  By integrating hashtags, lemmy posts will be discoverable by those following those tags in microblogging which could lead them to reply, boost etc, something which will appear as new comments in lemmy. Since microblogging fediverse has an order of magnitude more users than lemmy does, the hope is that this will allow to kickstart a lot of more niche communities and deepen the interaction between the two mediums.

  I’m all for it, even if it confuses the shit out of me that any Fediverse platform user can read and comment here from a platform with an entirely different purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, it was often a place where a lot of qualified people would essentially write blogs because hosting their own site for it would get utterly ignored by google. The last few years though I’ve got more utter morons than people who can write a good article, even for generic questions that they could straight up copy and paste from another site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While it likely is spam for the majority of users, I imagine the mods are looking at de-federating an instance that fulfills a specific need for a small number (keeping alien.top users updated on reddit). Because of that, it will likely have a bit of push back to de-federate entirely vs. a request to create the ability to block users/platforms. Think of it like newsletters, we need the ability to unsubscribe/block them, but we shouldn’t necessarily ban them outright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You may find these concepts interesting (if you don’t know them already) Recursion algorithms for graphs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortest-path_tree Dynamic programming: www.baeldung.com/cs/tabulation-vs-memoization

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The absolute state of housing in Australia at the minute - rent a caravan in a driveway in a semi-rural locality, only $200/week!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it is, most rooms are 200+ in the inner suburbs, 3 bedrooms are easily 6-800/wk. I was somewhat depressed by the number of people bombarding me with offers when we had a spare room to fill.