flamingo_pinyata
@flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 3 weeks ago:
Every company’s lineup these days:
Pro > Pro Max > Pro Max Ultra > Pro Max Ultra Black Edition
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 3 weeks ago:
Better headline: Dell kills all brands
Given that Dell has lost most of it’s old reputation in the last couple of years, not surprising that radical moves were taken. Trying to navigate Dells product range was a quick way to get a headache.
- Comment on China to subsidise smartphone purchases in bid to lift spending 3 weeks ago:
Ah, the myth of infinite growth again. I guess the majority of Chinese people have a smartphone by now, why would they constantly buy new ones
- Comment on New data shows the number of new mobile internet users is stalling 2 months ago:
At some point the growth can only follow fertility rates from 10-15 years before.
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 2 months ago:
Basically none. Both are mainstream instances, not practicing any extreme moderation policy.
You might have confused lemmy.world with lemmy.ml which does have some communities with bad reputation.
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 2 months ago:
There’s a huge difference between a tankie and a socialist:
- Socialist supports economic policy aimed at just distribution of resources
- Tankie supports fascist-like authoritarianism under a mask of socialism
- Comment on Mind your accents! 2 months ago:
- Great I just ordered 6 boxes of Chilean rose
- You mean Chilean rosé, right? … please tell me you mean Chilean rosé
- Comment on Intelligence Tests 2 months ago:
Are you suggesting crows are not proud of it?
- Comment on Excuse me? 2 months ago:
Was this written by the mentioned multi-layer perceptron?
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 2 months ago:
English is long overdue for a spelling reform, but just taking all fancy looking characters from other germanic languages is not the way
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 2 months ago:
The only thing changed between photos is clothing and pose. Is that gender? Well maybe it is, but it’s useless for classification.
- Comment on Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed 2 months ago:
It’s good to have competition. Dropbox has to rethink their plan if they want to keep existing
- Comment on Bill Would Force The Department of Veterans Affairs to Overhaul Suicide Prevention Algorithm That Favors White Men. 2 months ago:
It’s such a harmful aspect of American culture not just in this case - they treat White and Black people as fundamentally different and separate, and each must have it’s own kind of healthcare.
- Comment on Meta's Controversial Shadow Ban: Are Pro-Palestinian Voices Being Silenced? 3 months ago:
I think it’s not even intentional, or not as much as claimed, but a consequence of the algorithmic bubble .
For example on Meta platforms I only get pro-palestinian content, I still haven’t seen an explicitly pro-israeli publication. But many people complain about pro-palestinian ban, so it leads me to a conclusion that it’s something else.
- Comment on hard to argue with 3 months ago:
FYI If you don’t have any connective tissue between your breasts, ovaries and womb you might have a problem. Your doctor should check you for vitamin deficiency
- Comment on Just So 3 months ago:
There’s probably some link between human genetics and psychology. It makes sense knowing how other mammals work. However the studies are overwhelmingly so flawed and irreproducible that the entire field can be dismissed
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 3 months ago:
I think Meta is doing a decent job with Instagram. I mean except for collecting all possible data and psychological profiling of users to serve them targeted ads, it’s a decent enough platform. And the only one still allowing for engagement with your actual friends rather than professional content creators.
- Comment on OpenFreeMap - a public vector tile server for OpenStreetMap 3 months ago:
There is no tile server running; only nginx serving a Btrfs image with 300 million hard-linked files.
Wow. Btrfs ftw
- Comment on the problem of sex 3 months ago:
2 billion years ago a random mutation caused a local optimum in gene recombination and now we need to have gender studies
- Comment on 2real4me 4 months ago:
And then it gives you the most generic answer how to run a docker build, that doesn’t actually address the problem
- Comment on stacked 4 months ago:
It started with “we have no idea how they did it”. Then over time it morphed into “we have several hypotheses but don’t know if it any of those is realistic”. The current state of things is still there regarding the construction technique itself.
In the meantime the village where construction workers lived has been found. Now we know the profile or people who built the pyramids, how they lived and what they ate. Even some details about work organization.
All of this still didn’t propagate into the popular culture which is still stuck in the 1980s regarding pyramid knowledge.
- Comment on Mental hell 4 months ago:
Is the paper itself product of a PhD study?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Um, companies wanting to charge for their services? Sure it not as nice as getting stuff for free but how else are they supposed to fund the insane cost of running LLMs along with at least some profits.
- Comment on Religious people: The world is ending 4 months ago:
Making decisions in God’s name - that should be heretical or something?
- Comment on Religious people: The world is ending 4 months ago:
The mayan one in 2012 was the best one so far. There was some real hype about it, movies, media, news, everyone was on it.
In the end it turned out that it was the day Gangnam Style became the first youtube video reaching 1 billion views. Some would say it really was the apocalypse.
- Comment on What kind of messaging apps do you use? 4 months ago:
Currently I have WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, Signal, Viber, a Matrix client (Fluffy), Discord, Slack, SMS, email.
I try to use Signal whenever I can, but convincing people to install yet another messaging app is hard. I don’t see the situation getting better, none of the major players is close to going out of business.
- Comment on Blocked 🚫 5 months ago:
If someone needs another existental crisis here’s a prompt:
- Is math universal or is it a system of thought invented by humans and it only makes sense to us?
- Comment on biology subfields 5 months ago:
Where do I get a job in bioinformatics? Now that AI hype is on the way out (and I missed it) my best guess is that it will be the next big thing. And unlike LLMs it’s actually interesting.
- Comment on Centipedes Don't Fuck 5 months ago:
Maybe they were those queer centipedes that fuck in person. Degenerates
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
The point is not in the form but in the critical mass of users to achieve an active community. Lemmy (and Reddit before) are way superior in every way to forums on the technical software side.
We need more people. Share, comment and participate. That’s the only way to create a community