JohnnyCanuck
@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 1 week ago:
Yes but when you ask a question in no stupid questions you are prompting a discussion. And now we’re discussing how water changes the taste of food for you, and you’re willing to drink sugary, unhealthy drinks with your dinner instead.
It sounds like you’re extremely addicted to sugar.
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 1 week ago:
Sorry, water makes your food taste weird, but energy drinks are just fine?
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 1 week ago:
Other things give you energy…
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 1 week ago:
Watch out for the random cans with alcohol though 😉
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 weeks ago:
It’s marketing making them think they want to own that stuff.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 weeks ago:
Developers rarely control the tools budget; their managers do.
So this whole article is a moot point
Developers detest marketing. If you want to sell them a tool, make it easy for them to find the information they need and leave them alone to try out your tool.
So marketing does work, just not “traditional” or “mainstream” marketing. We’ve had shareware since the beginning times, which was the ultimate try before you buy. Now we have the subscription model (fbow).
Yeah I’d like to think I’m better than marketing, but really, it just takes the right marketing,and I’m putty in their hands.
- Comment on Psychonauts, 3D platformer with a big heart 2 weeks ago:
I don’t remember that level.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Your father might be a witch.
- Comment on Dia and Arc maker The Browser Company is being acquired by Atlassian for $610 million 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t been following Atlassian recently and was wondering if you were just tossing that out there… But no, that is literally their plan:
This deal is a bold step forward in reimagining the browser for knowledge work in the AI era,” Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s CEO and co-founder, said in a statement.
“Together, we’ll create an AI-powered browser optimized for the many SaaS applications living in tabs – one that knowledge workers will love to use every day,” he added.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 5 weeks ago:
Yes, that’s what I meant with my “for now” and “for the moment”.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 5 weeks ago:
Microsoft has already said it doesn’t matter where your data is stored, it isn’t safe from the United States.
But you can change this behaviour in settings, it’s just the default for now.
So, if you don’t trust Microsoft to handle your documents, but still somehow use MS Word and OneDrive, for the moment you can still stop it from saving your Word documents to their servers.
- Comment on Doctors hate these simple tricks. 1 month ago:
Here, I made a screenshot so someone else can repost it.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Well shit, now I understand the picture!
- Comment on 0°mg 1 month ago:
They only use Kelvin
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 1 month ago:
Good thing he didn’t actually say it would be the next Windows doing any of those things. He didn’t even say it would be the OS:
“I think we will see computing become more ambient, more pervasive, continue to span form factors, and certainly become more multi-modal in the arc of time … I think experience diversity is the next space where we will continue to see voice becoming more important. Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”
The important and scarier part is actually the last sentence, not anything from the article title.
- Comment on Water Snek 2 months ago:
I think you mean “sinusoidal”.
- Comment on If computer screens had a physical dimension, they would be infinitely deep. 2 months ago:
This is too deep for me to fathom right now.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 2 months ago:
I’m not trying to “win” anything, don’t try to dismiss me because you perceive you’re “losing” and you don’t understand word definitions.
Do you even know what semantics is? Do you want me to give you the definition of that, too? If you’re going to use it as a pejorative, you better learn the meaning of the word.
I’m telling you what the definition of simulation is so you understand why some of us are saying why Simulated Intelligence is the correct term, literally, since you seem focused on the literal. You’re the one who started arguing semantics (in your first comment), but got it wrong, by implying a simulation had to be the actual thing (“literally”) . Then I showed you that the definition of simulation is that it is an imitation, not the actual thing and you say I’m arguing “semantics”. Well yeah, that’s what we’re doing here, we’re both arguing the semantics of what it means to be Simulated Intelligence. If that’s not what you’re doing, then why did you comment at all?
The whole point of creating a simulation is that it doesn’t take the same amount of work as the actual thing, but it can - and it doesn’t have to be perfect - make you think it is the real thing. If it was perfect, then you’re done, you don’t have to make the real thing, and it’s no longer a simulation.
A flight simulator doesn’t actually fly. If it did, it would be an airplane.
Simulated Intelligence doesn’t actually have to be intelligent. If it was, it would be (Artificial) Intelligence.
You can say what we have is a bad simulation, but it’s still a simulation, and it’s a much better simulation than it is real intelligence. So Simulated Intelligence is the correct term.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 2 months ago:
Mimicry is what simulation is.
Definition 3a from Merriam-Webster: the imitative representation of the functioning of one system or process by means of the functioning of another a computer simulation of an industrial process
- Comment on I finished my 3D Printable screw design! Excellent print ability, reliable for simple use, though the head is prone to strip... can't win them all. 2 months ago:
Yeah, those were my original thoughts. I think it would take some experimentation to see what works.
- Comment on What's the story in your field? Here's mine 2 months ago:
Dev, but we’re all in this together!
- Comment on What's the story in your field? Here's mine 2 months ago:
Probably, I didn’t get a lot of results when searching
- Comment on What's the story in your field? Here's mine 2 months ago:
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 2 months ago:
Doesn’t seem to be catching on…
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 2 months ago:
A simulation doesn’t have to be the actual thing. It implies it literally isn’t the true thing, which is kind of what you’re saying.
Simulated Intelligence is certainly more accurate and honest than Artificial Intelligence. If you have a better term, what is it?
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 2 months ago:
Is that available somewhere?
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 2 months ago:
Yeah I found the poster’s advice worked well. I.e. hold your finger between your eyes and the image and start focussing on your finger and them drop it away as the dots approach. It made me realize I wasn’t normally crossing my eyes (for say, magic eye images), I was looking past the image and kind of uncrossing my eyes.
With these ones, they definitely work by crossing your eyes.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 2 months ago:
That’s so weird, I always thought I was crossing my eyes when doing this…
- Comment on I finished my 3D Printable screw design! Excellent print ability, reliable for simple use, though the head is prone to strip... can't win them all. 2 months ago:
I wonder if 3d printed driver tips would be better for matching the material strength and reduce stripping. Or maybe they wouldn’t have enough strength at all and would just twist and fall apart.
I was also wondering how well printing drywall anchors would work.
- Comment on Why This Python Performance Trick Doesn’t Matter Anymore 2 months ago:
TLDR: 3.11 is twice as fast as 3.10 at doing global name lookups, so an old speedup hack of aliasing a global function locally isn’t needed.
For example, when calling len() in a loop, going l=len, and calling l() in the loop was faster in 3.10. In 3.11, moreso in 3.13, it’s almost a wash.
However, the author says this:
Accessing functions through a module [e.g. math.sin()] or a deep attribute chain can still carry overhead. Creating a local alias or using “from module import name” continues to be effective in those situations.
But when I look at the numbers, I would say 3.13 is pretty close to making it an unnecessary optimization in general. A little subjective on how you interpret the numbers.
Great info, but this was like trying to use a recipe and reading the author’s life story to get there.
