flamingo_pinyata

@flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  First you need to persuade the police officer you’re white. If you think you can get away because your skin is pale, think again. It doesn’t make you white.

  American system of racism is not for beginners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When AI summarised you a 3 word post into a single sentence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s even better when it summarizes a 2 paragraph email into 3 paragraphs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alpha males⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Different people have different personalities? That’s how humans work. It’s not neatly categorizable. Not even on a single sliding axis. Multiple sliding axis for different traits is more like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shamelessly stolen from Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Serious question - in places where they offer military or veteran discount how do you check? Do you ask them to show some relevant id?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F*ck off Arnie, you're out of your element!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I went and looked it up

  Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; …

  If I’m interpreting this correctly, representatives are proportioned among states based on population. But there is no provision specifying that within a state the election must be based on electoral districts.

  And according to Wikipedia

  States entitled to more than one representative are divided into single-member districts. This has been a federal statutory requirement since 1967 pursuant to the act titled An Act For the relief of Doctor Ricardo Vallejo Samala and to provide for congressional redistricting.[21] Before that law, general ticket representation was used by some states.

  There doesn’t seem to be any constitutional requirements for electoral districts. It’s regulated by a law but not constitution, which should make it easier to modify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F*ck off Arnie, you're out of your element!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans will do anything except proportional representation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google replicated the mental state if not necessarily the productivity of a software developer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI claims GPT-5 AI model can provide PhD-level expertise.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Salesman gonna sell.

  Altman is quite good at it actually. Remember when he was saying how scared he was of his own AI. Or calling for increased regulation because their models are just sooo good that government has to nerf them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir: As Revenues Rise, Controversy Grows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They believe that they are a special breed of human being, the “new patriots” who are willing to take risks to restore America’s position in a place of global dominance

  All of their actions taken so far lead to a catastrophic failure of the stated goal. Either they’re not honest, or they’re stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anyone else think that LLMs have been regressing in the last 2 years. At least in the area of deep questions. Initially you could push the limits and actually bounce crazy ideas off of them and get some creative results.

  Now they basically they always give you a canned answer that sounds like it was pre-approved by a committee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers prove age verification systems on pornography sites can be bypassed in seconds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are not members of the party called the Conservative Party. It doesn’t stop them from being conservatives ideologically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The article is very unclear on the kind of model they used. Several mentions of ChatGPT, but it doesn’t really sound like they used an LLM.

  I really hope it’s not an LLM, this is a perfect case for specialized models trained just for surgery. I really wouldn’t want my surgeon to invent stuff when it doesn’t know what to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good, keep convincing them that copyright is woke. And we don’t want anything woke right, wink wink

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Humans suffer from the same problem. Racism and sexism are consequences of humans training on a flawed dataset, and overfitting the model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨freuidian slip⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The very reason we’re so good at treating cancer in rats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Says It Has Stopped Using China-Based Engineers to Support Defense Department Computer Systems⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Outsourcing your Defense Department to a foreign country is a choice. Not a smart choice, but a choice nonetheless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fullstack Engineer - Waifus (for people looking for job)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It means max 220k, the big number is there to give false hope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SHUT THE FUCK UP!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference between being technically right and knowing how to communicate.
  There’s like a 100 different ways to reject a PR without referring to a contributor as a moron.

  I think lately Linus learned how to do it correctly without going on rants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨News - Prevalence of Butchered Horse Bones Dispels Myths About Christian Dietary Habits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some amateur comparative anthropology (me thinking about the current horse consumption) suggests horse meat taboo is an Anglo thing, not a Christian thing.

  While horse is a secondary meat source everywhere, only in English speaking cultures like Britain and US do you get people horrified at the thought.

  Now the open question is where does it come from? Did it arise during the conversion to Christianity, or does it have older roots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the universe about to have a little minty b⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  DoS on the universe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like a Cassandra since I was warning about this for years now.

  The gender equality narrative got too focused on excluding men specifically, instead of including the less represented gender in each profession. Somehow the idea was that men are privileged in the system and women oppressed, while the truth is that both men and women are oppressed.

  Divide and conquer was a small step away from that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their shopping experience is so much worse than only 3 years ago. Whatever they are doing, they are doing it wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but it’s also the most logical place. What other activity do you dedicate so much time to? Maybe sleeping but it’s hard to build a community around that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m starting to understand that many people never felt the sense of community, in the workplace or otherwise. Yes it’s possible.

  The trick is that it doesn’t depend on the company, it depends on the people. Last time it happened to me, we pretty much all quit together because we were frustrated at the company but kept being friends afterwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A chess-specific algorithm beat a language model at chess. Shocking!

  Try training a chess model. Actually I think it’s already been done, machines have been consistently better at chess than humans for a while now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir Is Going on Defense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Musk is a narcissist who got very lucky in life. But still he is a human, bad human but relatable in the sense you understand his flaws.

  Thiel is something else. Sociopath I guess. Dude is not human and doesn’t function according to any understandable human psychology

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, a good use case for AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn lays off 281 workers in California, including many Bay Area engineers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m always surprised how many employees these companies have. 18.400?

  Working in a large software company myself I shouldn’t be surprised, the level of inefficiency is amazing. I’ve seen less inertia in government agencies. Dilbert comics were supposed to be an exaggeration, they’re not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually audit open source projects you download?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Packaged products ready to use? No.
  Libraries which I use in my own projects? I at least have a quick look at the implementation, often a more detailed analysis if issues pop up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's been a massacre!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume it would be a delicacy served for special occasions. Or a desert.