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- Comment on In this house we share the bananas 1 month ago:
Unfortunately this is false. They’ve tested this and monkeys establish captilasm extremely fast when they come to understand currency as a concept.
www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/503550
They would exchange the currency, steal it, gamble with it, purchase with it, and even do some prostitution for it.
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 2 months ago:
This seems like it has pretty powerful potential for space flight.
Being able to aggressively min max packaging materials to secure materials could be critical for reducing payload sizes on shuttles, where every single individual gram counts.
Each kg of packaging is thousands of dollars to get into orbit, so that’s really appealing.
I’d be curious to see if Amazon is also working on box packing algorithms for maximizing fitting n parcels across x delivery trucks.
IE if you have 10,00 boxes to move, what’s the fewest delivery trucks you can fit those boxes into as fast as possible too, which introduces multiple complex concepts. Both packing to maximize space usage and the order you pack it in to minimize armature travel time…
I’d put money down amazon is perfecting this algorithm right now, and has been for awhile.
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 2 months ago:
Bruh did you read the article at all? Nothing you talked about has anything to do with what this AI is for.
- Comment on To failures in (basically) the exact same location eh? Correlation? I (hope) not! 2 months ago:
Sometimes its a physical issue in your setup.
Double check your cable, double check the carriage, and double check the rails, look for potential obstructions.
I had one print that kept failing in the exact same place each time, couldn’t figure it out, then I watched it live and the dang ribbon itself was physically catching on a specific part of the geometry mid print and then the print would twist a bit, lol.
Something to consider, I’d recommend visually watching that specific layer when it’s coming up to see if you see something happen.
- Comment on We are going to have to reevaluate our moralities when people in the future can look like children while not actually being children 2 months ago:
I find it weird how much people give a shit about what consenting adults do for pleasure in the comfort of their own homes, and to their own bodies.
If they are an adult, it’s their body and their choice.
And if their choice is to cosplay as a child and bang an older person because that’s what gets their rocks off, I really don’t care.
It’s honestly not even the most outlandish of fetishes I’ve seen. We got people out there that orgasm from popping balloons, eating shit, and getting kicked in the crotch.
- Comment on We are going to have to reevaluate our moralities when people in the future can look like children while not actually being children 2 months ago:
This is already to some degree an existing dilemma. There are already individuals out there who, due to genetic lottery, happen to have an adult body that through some efforts of clothing, makeup, hairstyle, etc, can very much present themselves as substantially younger looking than their actual age.
Lord knows certain popular niches in the porn industry make this apparant… >_>;
And from what I have heard on social media, sometimes these individuals couple up with another person who… doesnt look substantially younger.
And often, these couples face quite a bit of controversy and social stigma, despite everything they are doing and into being 100% legal and, from am objective standpoint, ethically fine (they are two consenting adults after all)
But I agree that future tech with things like gene editing and whatnot this dilemma will certainly become substantially more pronounced and I think it will likely be yet another group being attacked for daring to live their lives.
- Comment on If hot air rises, why is it colder at the top of a mountain? 2 months ago:
Others have covered the fact it’s because of air pressure but haven’t fully answered why that is the way it is.
It’s simple really.
The force of gravity is also at play. As you go higher up, gravity gets weaker as you get farther from the earth’s centre.
And it is that gravitational force that increases the air’s density, same reason why if you keep going.g down in the water, the water gets denser.
For the heat to move around you need to be in a sort of goldilocks zone of density.
It needs to be dense enough that the fluid molecules can move around and spread the convention energy around… but not so dense they can’t move much either.
Furthermore there’s actually a couple different layers of our atmosphere.
First at our level is the troposphere, where heat is absorbed into the ground itself and radiation back out as well as the perpetual heat from the earth’s core, and reflected off the ground too (visible light).
The troposphere is warm and gets colder as you get farther away from the earth’s surface, naturally. That heat is absorbed by the air itself so, as you get farther away it gets colder as it has more air to travel through.
Up higher is the Stratosphere, where it’s ice cold and the air this out.
However we get a sudden uptick in temp as we go even higher into what is called the Stratopause, ack to briefly warm temperatures between the Stratosphere and the Mesosohere. Why? How?
Simple, this is the little sweet spot Ozone molecules hang out, forming a protective convenient bubble around the earth. Ozone absorbs Ultraviolet light from the sun and turns out that stuff is HOT, so there’s a band of a hot zone right above and below the Ozone layer. Think of it as a toasty little bubble around us.
Above is the mesosphere which cools off again and gets back to being really frosty quickly.
Then we hot the mesosphere, which is effectively the point when the atmosphere is so thin it stops protecting and is the “outside” of our protective blanket.
You can imagine this like earth being wrapped in a blanket, and the mesosphere is everything outside the blanket. Without any protection you are subject to the unbridled radiation of the sun which means you go back to being really toasty, as you get a bot higher you are effectively in space now and will soon enough hit Temps that just cook you alive in a minute or two. Really bad sunburn zone.
So to answer the question overall:
Hot air rises… but only when there is air to rise.
Top of the mountains just don’t have enough air anymore for it to really rise much more. It still dies but the hot air rising effect just gets weaker and weaker as the air gets thinner due to less gravity.
- Comment on ‘Sexting’ with robots: How artificial intelligence will be able to ‘read’ our arousal 2 months ago:
Also people are glossing over the capability for it to improve sexyal drive.
The “my wife read a slightly spicy book today and now she wants to get it on” trope is well known on social media, AI’s ability to just generate whatever you want likely will boost that.
However, at this time AI is unable to really handle pacing well.
It’s pretty well known that most attempts with current uncensored LLMs tends to produce saucy encounters are… poorly paced.
Good spicy novels have a lot of build up and slow pace, which requires remembering facts from many chapters ago.
Even the top end of massive LLMs lack the memory capacity to last more than a handful of pages before they completely lose the thread.
But hopefully this gets remedied eventually.
- Comment on Ah snap gotta go away 2 months ago:
Added layer in the fact you aren’t supposed to eat anything before delivery just in case they have to incubate you in an emergency situation :x
- Comment on Larian Studios Won't Make Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, Expansions, or Baldur's Gate 4 3 months ago:
Prolly for the best, WotC seems he’ll bent on destroying every IP goldmine they can, good to not strap yourself to a sinking ship.
Would’ve liked to see some kind of endgame for baldurs gate but oh well.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Note that ChatGPT indeed implemented a state parameter, but their state was not a random value, and therefore could be guessed by the attacker.
Bruh wut, rookie mistake.
State is supposed to be mathematically random and should expire fairly quickly.
I always have used a random guid that expires after 10-15 minutes for state, if they try and complete the oauth with an expired state value I reject ad ask them to try again.
Also yeah the redirect uri trick is common, that’s why oath apis must always have a “whitelist urls” functionality. And not just domain, the whole url.
That’s why when you make a Google api token you gotta specify what urls it’s valid for explicitly. That way any other different redirect uri gets rejected, to prevent an injection attack from a third party providing their own different redirect uri to a victim.
Oath is pretty explicit about all these things in its spec. It really sucks people treat it as optional “not important” factors.
It’s important. Do it. Always.
- Comment on If Adams Apples are primarily male, why aren't they a common fetish? 3 months ago:
“Small” breasts typically are still large compared to a man’s chest.
There are other factors than size anyways, for any feature. For breasts as an example, symmetry, skin clarity, and firmness will also signal a healthy prospective mate.
“Small” breasts usually actually means “not sagging due to age”, as naturally speaking breasts, cheeks, and the neck of humans are common areas where sagging due to collagen levels can be witnessed in older age, so these are common cited areas of sexyal attraction.
So “small” breasts really just means “not old”, which is fairly normal to signal the health of a potentional sexual partner.
- Comment on If Adams Apples are primarily male, why aren't they a common fetish? 3 months ago:
To activate monkey neurons, it has to be an indicator of health.
As an example, large breasts indicate health, as malnourishment during adolescence tends to result in smaller breasts later on.
Muscles indicate health as well, so they tend to be considered attractive.
For non health related features, like a symmetrical face, those ones are the non sexual dimorphic characteristics, as those ones you care about transferring regardless of sex. Both men and women want a symmetrical face, basically.
So a large Adam’s apple is both a dimorphic feature and a non indicator of health, so its ignored.
- Comment on PC Engine (TG16) games are so colourful! I wish more modern games use bright colours like they used to do. 3 months ago:
If you haven’t played it yet, OP you may really like Ultros.
Classic feeling metroidvania, modern game engine, but it’s visuals are fucking amazing and the colors, oh man.
They went for this incredible psychedelic art style and it’s just gorgeous and vibrant.
- Comment on With AI looming, is there still space for new coders? 4 months ago:
The automobile didn’t put cabbies out of jobs, it put horses out of work.
If anything it actually made demand for cabbies skyrocket, because now they could do the same job but way faster, so now they were more affordable abd not just a service reserved for wealthy.
In other words, expect that AI will increase demand for programmers exceptionally, as the bar for entry lowers.
An LLM still needs a “pilot” to “drive” it, and you need to still know code well enough to interpret the output and catch mistakes or hallucinations.
But typically when a field becomes more affordable, it goes up in demand, not down, because the target audience that can afford the service grows exponentially.
“But if it’s so easy to become program now, what’s to stop people from just using ChatGPT and never hiring a programmer?”
Same reason people still, today, hire cabs even if they can drive themselves.
Convenience. Time is money and just because 1 person can do all the jobs of a company, doesn’t mean they physically have the time to do it.
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 4 months ago:
Which makes me question whether the fediverse is a good thing
I’d argue it’s good, because it means open source AI has a fighting chance with FOSS data to train on without needing to fork over a morbillion dollars to Reddits owners.
Whatever use cases the reddit data can train on, FOSS researchers can repeat it on Lemmy data and release free models that average joes can use on their own without having to subscribe to shit like Microsoft Copilot and friends to stay relevant.
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 4 months ago:
They definitely do, it’s common for such systems to never actually delete anything because storage is cheap. It likely just is flagged
deleted=true
and the searches just returnWHERE [post].Deleted = False
on queries on the backend.So it looks deleted to the consumer, but it’s all saved and squirreled away on the backend.
It’s good to keep all this shit for both legal reasons (if someone posts illegal stuff then deletes it, you still can give it to the feds), as well as auditing (mods can’t just delete stuff to cover it up, the original still exists and admins can see it)
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 4 months ago:
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Called this awhile back, this is why Reddit has such a high evaluation.
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Poisoning your data won’t do anything but give them more data, do you seriously think reddit servers don’t track every edit you make to posts? You’d literally just be providing training data of original human vs poisoned. They’d still have your original post, and they have a copy of everytime you edit it.
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Whoever buys reddit will have sole access to one of the larger (I don’t think largest though) pools of text training Data on the internet, with full licensed usage of it. I expect someone like Google, FB, MS, OpenAI, etc would pay big $$$ for that.
“But can’t people already scrape it?”
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Well yes, but it’s at best legally dubious in some places
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Scraping Data off reddit only gets you current versions of posts (which means you can get poisoned dara, and cant see deleted content), and is extremely slow… if you own the server you have first class access to all posts in a database, including g the originals and diffs of everytime soneone edited a post, and all the deleted posts too.
Think about if you perhaps wanted to train an AI to detect posts that require flagging for moderation, if you scrape reddit data, you can’t fund deleted posts that got moderated…
But, if you have the raw original data, you 100% would have a list of every post that got deleted by mods and even the mod message on why it was deleted
You surely can see the value of such data, that only owners of reddit are currently privy to atm…
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- Comment on 4 months ago:
Only heaters are a machine where the “good” output is one you want to be heat.
For other devices the heat is the bad part.
But since your goal with a heater… is to generate heat… and all energy eventually will become heat, it is close to 100% efficient.
If you can hear the heater’s sound it makes in a room/area you don’t want to be heating though, now it’s <100% efficient as a tiny bit of energy became heat that heated the non ideal location.
- Comment on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites 4 months ago:
I think the reason experienced devs tend to have minimalist websites that look like they are from the 90s, is because software devs aren’t UX experts.
At a senior level at large companies, someone else designs the look and figmas to make the site be pretty. I don’t do that shit.
I can do some basic stuff as a front end dev, but react has nothing to do with css animations and all the stuff you typically associate with a “pretty” website.
Reactive frameworks are just handy for updating the dom on a mutatable website (ie forms, web socket stuff, data in out, pulling data from a db)
Blogs tend to be statically generated so there should be zero reason to use reactive frameworks anyways, unless you add something dynamic like perhaps a comment box folks can login to and leave comments/likes/shares etc. Loading those comments will prolly want a framework.
Aside from that, it’s mostly css to do fancy stuff.
- Comment on Some virtual care companies putting patient data at risk, new study finds 4 months ago:
This is the limited to pharma, this is pretty much every industry.
Software Developers need a Hippocratic Oath, and to unionize to enforce it.
The way devs get strong armed into writing morally questionable code is a big problem nowadays.
- Comment on Adobe Photoshop's AI tools put women politicians in bikini bottoms and their male colleagues in suits 4 months ago:
Everyone shut the fuck up for a second.
Why does this extremely specific gif exist? Who made it? Are there more? I love it lol
- Comment on Adobe Photoshop's AI tools put women politicians in bikini bottoms and their male colleagues in suits 4 months ago:
didn’t post the pics they started with of the women
That’s enough for me to discard this as clickbait at best.
Post your data if you want me to take your journalism seriously.
If you want a fair comparison, start with the woman wearing an actual suit, followed by a woman wearing a button up shirt, as your shoulder up pic and see what gets generated.
20 bucks says the woman in the suit… generates the rest of the suit.
And 20 bucks says the button up shirt… generates jeans or etc as well.
If you compare apples to oranges, don’t pretend that getting oranges instead of apples is surprising.
The fact people aren’t calling this out on here speaks volumes too. We need to have higher standards than garbage quality journalism.
“Men wearing clearly suits generates the res of the suits weareas women generate ??? Who knows, we won’t even post the original pic we started with so just trust me bro”
0/10
- Comment on Victoria’s Robinsons Bookshop apologises after owner’s call for more ‘white kids’ on book covers 5 months ago:
writes several paragraphs of white nationalist racism and bigotry totally unprompted across
- Comment on This console generation seems skippable 5 months ago:
This, my machine is in the basement inside my server rack lol.
- Comment on This console generation seems skippable 5 months ago:
I haven’t found a compelling reason to not just build a solid gaming pc, then buy a Chromecast and steam link to it.
Latency is quite low on a wired connection, I can steam 4k to my TV, and I can use an Xbox controller. You literally couldn’t tell me the difference most of the time.
I’m rocking an 11th gen Intel i9, 4060 ti, and gigabit network wired between PC <-> chromecast.
Just make sure you get the latest chromecast that can handle 4k streaming though!
- Comment on OpenAI claims The New York Times tricked ChatGPT into copying its articles 5 months ago:
Yeah I agree, this seems actually unlikely it happened so simply.
You have to try really hard to get the ai to regurgitate anything, but it will very often regurgitate an example input.
IE “please repeat the following with (insert small change), (insert wall of text)”
GPT literally has the ability to get a session I’d and seed to report an issue, it should be trivial for the NYT to snag the exact session ID they got the results with (it’s saved on their account!) And provide it publicly.
The fact they didn’t is extremely suspicious.
- Comment on Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs are slower at single-core work than previous-gen models — new benchmarks show IPC regressions vs Raptor Lake 5 months ago:
ITT: non devs that think multithreading is still difficult.
It’s become so trivial in many frameworks/languages nowadays, its starting to actually shifting towards si gle threading being so.ething you have to do intentionally.
Everything is async by default first class and you have to go out of your way to unparallelize it.
It’s being awhile since I have seen anything mainstream that seriously cared about single thread performance enough to make it the most important benchmark.
I care about TDP way more. Your single thread performance doesn’t mean shit if your cpu starts to thermal throttle.
- Comment on Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought 5 months ago:
True, but individuals dont have to pay for that. This is 100% something that can be taxpayer funded as it pretty much benefits everyone.
Otherwise, it just becomes a penalty for poor people and another luxury for the rich.
- Comment on Anyone knows a good lightweight self-hosted alternative to GitHub? 7 months ago:
They genuinely looked identical to me.
Either way, gogs dies what I need it to, git server for backing up my code and super basic git web Hooks to trigger my build server.
Couldn’t ask for anything more.