calcopiritus
@calcopiritus@lemmy.world
- Comment on If you live a million years you'll still never understand why someone would park right next to you in a forest campground when there's dozens upon dozens of empty spots with more privacy available. 8 hours ago:
Not saying I’d do it, just throwing one more option out there.
- Comment on Casual reminder 19 hours ago:
Source?
- Comment on If you live a million years you'll still never understand why someone would park right next to you in a forest campground when there's dozens upon dozens of empty spots with more privacy available. 22 hours ago:
It’s easier to park when there’s another car already parked, for reference.
- Comment on Casual reminder 22 hours ago:
And only stole most of east Germany’s infrastructure.
- Comment on Steam announces game recording beta. 6 days ago:
That’s easy to explain. EGS managed to make everyone hate them just as it started. How do they expect to be profitable if they piss off the entire market?
There are other stores such as GoG that have actual users.
- Comment on Electricians of fediverse, should I have my selfhosting box grounded? 1 week ago:
You don’t need to have wired across the room. You can put them through the wall like every other cable. If the wire tubes are not full, it isn’t very complicated. I put my Ethernet wires in the wall.
- Comment on Wouldn't it be funny if there ended up being a plastic-based life form and they wondered how they came to be... 1 week ago:
Considering everyone’s sperm is bathing in plastic rn, who knows lol.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
I doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
At least reddit didn’t have .ml
I swear people in Lemmy don’t even want to argue, all they want is pure confrontation about every single opinion there is.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
The entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive.
Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
Prices should go down with scale not up though.
There’s initial investment on the initial servers (and the software), and afterwards it should be a linear increase of server costs per user, with some bumps along the way to interconnect those servers.
The cost also scales per content. Because that means more caching servers per user and bigger databases, and licenses.
So this service has less users and more content, it should be way more expensive. The only reason they are cheaper is because they don’t pay those licenses.
- Comment on EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones 1 week ago:
Telnet? Banned. You now need the EUs approval to use networking software. The only apps that any EU users can use that uses the network interface are those whitelisted by the EU.
That’s the only way that this is enforceable. And still pretty easy to defeat, or are they gonna Linux too? Since Linux comes with the source code, anyone could recompile it removing the restriction.
It’s just absurd.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 1 month ago:
It’s easily the worst problem if Lemmy. Sometimes one guy has an issue with something and suddenly the whole thread is about that thing, as if everyone thought about it. No, you didn’t think about it, you just read another person’s comment and made another one instead of replying to it.
I never heard anyone complain about the term “hallucination” for AIs, but suddenly in this one thread there are 100 clonic comments instead of a single upvoted ones.
I get it, you don’t like “hallucinate”, just upvote the existing comment about it and move on. If you have anything to add, reply to that comment.
I don’t know why this specific thing is so common on Lemmy though, I don’t think it happened in reddit.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 2 months ago:
When you’re being compared to typescript, you know you’re not the best language.
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 2 months ago:
And that maximum length is… 6 characters. S I X
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 2 months ago:
In video games the AI have access to all the data in the game. In real life both the human and AI have access to the same (maybe imprecise) sensor data. There are also physical limitations in the real world. I don’t think it’s the same scenario.
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 2 months ago:
That’s 480 million
- Comment on Please Stop 3 months ago:
Just because it’s open source doesn’t mean it’s good. Also not every situation is the same. Using Linux instead of windows has advantages/disadvantages very different than using crypto instead of fiat.
I can think of thousands of reasons to pick Linux, thousands to pick windows and thousands to pick fiat. I’d have to think real hard to even think of a single reason to pick crypto over fiat.
- Comment on Please Stop 3 months ago:
Such as?
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 3 months ago:
Trucks are driven by people that are supposed to be way better than the average driver. They also would need huge (and expensive) walls. At some point you have to compromise. It’s not feasible to truck-proof the roads.
- Comment on Should a toggle button show its current state or the state to which it will change? 4 months ago:
Yeah you’re right. Didn’t see it was a crosspost and infered from the title.
- Comment on Should a toggle button show its current state or the state to which it will change? 4 months ago:
Toggle buttons are not normal buttons, they are toggles. Which have the same functionality as check boxes. They are a toggle between 2 states. The only difference is visual.
If they toggle more than 2 states, (like a discrete slider), it is the same as a drop-down menu.
Some widgets are the exact same as others, where the only difference is their visual representation.
- Comment on Should a toggle button show its current state or the state to which it will change? 4 months ago:
In the specific case of a dark mode, it doesn’t matter since the whole aspect of the app changes. You could not label the individual states and it’d be fine.
Also, as soon as you add another theme it does no longer work, for a theme selector you need a drop-down selector which lists all the themes.
- Comment on Should a toggle button show its current state or the state to which it will change? 4 months ago:
Never said nothing about a button. Toggles are just check boxes with a different aspect.
- Comment on Should a toggle button show its current state or the state to which it will change? 4 months ago:
Toggles should not exist. They should be check boxes. Checked if “ON”, unchecked if “OFF” with a mouse over tooltip if there is any chance that it’s ambiguous.
- Comment on SilverBullet: the self-hosted notes app for people with a hacker mindset 4 months ago:
Well, that implies that it is made with that community in mind, not that everyone in that community needs it.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 4 months ago:
So it’s okay for crypto to consume more energy than banks because… Banks somehow limit the purchasing power of the poor?
I don’t think I’m understanding your argument.
- Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 5 months ago:
Yes. But it’s always been like that. The shipping quality hasn’t declined, therefore “Amazon is no longer good at shipping” makes no sense. Of all the things to complain about Amazon, that’s not it.
- Comment on The NSA advises move to memory-safe languages 6 months ago:
Not really manual memory management. I’d say C++'s memory management is automatic, just not safe.
Yes, a lot of programming languages are memory safe, maybe it would be faster to list memory unsafe popular languages.
- Comment on GitHub Desktop or Git CLI? 6 months ago:
IDE git is less powerful than CLI git. However I’m pretty confident that most people use more features of git by using a GUI.
CLI feature discoverability is pretty awful, you have to go out of your way and type
git help
to learn new commands.With a GUI though, all the buttons are there, you just have to click a new button that you’ve been seeing for a while and the GUI will guide you how to use it.