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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more like the ancient phenomenon of spaghetti code. You can throw enough code at something until it works, but the moment you need to make a non-trivial change, you’re doomed. You might as well throw away the entire code base and start over.

  And if you want an exact parallel, I’ve said this from the beginning, but LLM coding at this point is the same as offshore coding was 20 years ago. You make a request, get a product that seems to work, but maintaining it, even by the same people who created it in the first place, is almost impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports."⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, the important thing is that this is a vibrant community.

  That means that from the mods’ perspectives, they don’t get too loaded down with moderation work, or need to defend themselves and create friction with the community.

  It also means that when people want to contribute to the community, they’re not afraid of what the mods will say. If they post without reading the rules, like probably most people do, it’s really the poster’s fault. But if they are afraid to post even after reading the rules, then I think that has a freezing effect on the community.

  As for people who are looking for loopholes, I think they’re trying to make the mods’ lives harder, and so I don’t really think they’re worth worrying too much about. They’ll probably get banned sooner or later because that is the attitude of a troll.

  Just my opinion. I’ve never been a mod, and I don’t think I could handle that responsibility. I just try to be empathetic with everybody involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports."⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. One problem is, even though mods already have the power, specifically saying in the rules that the criteria is subjective sounds like something that a mod would make when they are tired of having to explain their moderation choices.

  They can just say that it was low-effort, and problem solved. They don’t need to explain themselves, right?

  But when the rules are vague, I think they’ll end up with more complaints from people who have different criteria of low-effort from the mods. This sort of interaction leads to accusations of mods power-tripping.

  If the mods can nail down exactly what is low-effort, like, “X will always get removed. Z will never get removed unless it violates other rules. Y may be at risk of the moderator’s mood. You have been warned.” If they nail things down a bit more, then they will probably make things easier for themselves in the long-run than just keeping things vague.

  Plus, if the rules are not vague, then people can discuss them safely when the rules are changed. When rules are vague, people will simply be upset that moderation was sprung on them, and everything will be discussed while people are upset. My belief is that people best discuss things while calm, and not while experiencing one person having power over another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread mold⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  if you don’t need penicillin does it actually help you at all?

  No, it has virtually no chance to help you, and most probably can only hurt you.

  First, it kills indiscriminately. If you’re not sick, what are you killing? Your own healthy gut flora. That’s what.

  Second, what if you are slightly ill? Guess what? It still probably won’t help. Doctors don’t just throw penicillin at you in random amounts. They prescribe a specific dose that has been shown to be effective. Having one untested dose of unknown quantity isn’t going to help.

  Third, when you’re given antibiotics, you are told to take it over a number of days, and to take the entire amount, even if you feel better. They do this for several reasons, but one of the reasons is that, if you only kill some of the bacteria, but not enough of them, the remaining bacteria have a small chance to evolve to become resistant to antibiotics. By taking antibiotics without the guidance of a doctor, you have a small chance of making yourself even more ill with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. I want to emphasize that this is a very small chance, but unlikely things will happen when given enough chances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One women's theory on the ballroom, pulled by Larry Ellison. Thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying that they’re not building a data center there, but her evidence seems to be that it’s far more expensive than the most expensive federal buildings and that the administration is lying and saying that the ball room is larger than it actually is.

  Two things that describe exactly what we’ve seen Trump do in the past. Trump may overspend on decoration because he has to make everything gold, or because he’s pocketing the extra money. Trump’s felony convictions were related to his lying about the square footage of his properties, in signed contracts, that they were bigger than they actually were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t read the article, but I have read previous accusations of the same thing, so I assume it’s the same.

  Basically, the new AI companies are all losing money, but they are all investing big money in each other which makes it look like the industry is doing well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you make a similar comment to OP, who only spoke negatively of a well-used and well-understood system?

  What is OP’s proposed alternative? What’s a realistic plan to get there?

  Here’s what OP said in the body of their post.

  Most european countries use 2 round elections or proportional representation.

  Although I’m not sure when they wrote that. The post was edited, so it’s possible that it wasn’t there when you first saw the post, and didn’t re-check the post before writing this comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What is your reason for saying that?

  Just saying something negative makes it seem like it’s a bad idea, but that just encourages people not to change at all. A voting system that tries to satisfy the Condorcet criteria will be far better than any FPTP system.

  It’s easier to tear down than it is to build up. What’s your proposed alternative?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DAE name their characters by their official name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that there is a time factor and a complication factor. Like the longer the game lasts and the fewer characters available to name, the more people who will name and customize characters.

  I wonder how many people completed Skyrim with the name “Prisoner”, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Title text:

  A lot of the highway department’s budget goes to adjusting the sign whenever the moon passes directly overhead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The sign on the left is mounted on a pole that extends 10 ft 6 in above the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Jurassic" Park⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to Cretaceous Park!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assumptions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen videos of horses and deer eating small animals. I don’t remember which was which but one just picked like a pigeon up off the ground and started chewing.

  Anyways, the point is that the herbivores we know today will often eat meat if it’s an easy meal. There’s no reason to think that a brachiosaurus would be any different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember that story that some egghead science person decided to look closely at their own back yard and discovered a bunch of new species?

  This reminds me of that. We’d assume that it’s more rare to find some unknown animals in the sea than it is to find some unknown animals in your suburban backyard. Or at least I would think that’s a natural way to think. But it’s really not that different. If you walk through your backyard, you might step on an animal that is rarer than the chirodectes maculatus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The problem with common names⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wikipedia continues to not disappoint:

  The name ‘hellbender’ probably comes from the animal’s odd look. One theory claims the hellbender was named by settlers who thought “it was a creature from hell where it’s bent on returning.” Another rendition says the undulating skin of a hellbender reminded observers of “horrible tortures of the infernal regions.” In reality, it’s a harmless aquatic salamander.

  And this:

  Other vernacular names include snot otter, lasagna lizard, devil dog, mud-devil, mud dog, water dog, grampus, Allegheny alligator, and leverian water newt.

  Lots of fabulous nicknames there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The crusade against Lemmy devs, lemmy.ml, and so-called "tankies"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I often feel a strong desire to downvote in retaliation to other people’s downvotes, so I certainly don’t expect others to be perfect when I’ve probably not perfectly lived up to my own ideals in the past. The real answer, I think is to remove downvotes, even from the underlying message formats, and somehow rework the “report” button so that it’s not a burden for mods to deal with. Maybe something like Slashdot’s community moderation could ease the burden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The crusade against Lemmy devs, lemmy.ml, and so-called "tankies"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kolanaki downvoted your comment asking what they meant, but didn’t even respond. That was what my link showed. I don’t think their initial comment explained itself, and so downvoting a simple question without responding to it is simply arguing in bad faith.

  Basically a comment downvote is an attempt to silence the person who wrote the comment.

  My personal opinion is that every comment downvote, outside of comments that deserve to be removed by mods, is done in bad faith. A comment downvote is for things you are sure are spam or trolling. That sort of thing. Using it as a “disagree” button is a bad faith use.

  I think most people are unaware that comment votes are public information, and so if you look at how they vote, often, all of their hypocrisy will be laid bare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A seagull alone may be dumb and have very little memory of the past, but I am sure that A Flock of Seagulls can remember all the way back to the 1980s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The crusade against Lemmy devs, lemmy.ml, and so-called "tankies"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. Anybody who comments or even votes on comments in bad faith isn’t worth much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just seen the latest American Opinion polls.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is that Americans on the Left would be offended to learn that their political leader was a complete hypocrite, so they assume that Americans on the right would feel the same way. Meanwhile, the truth is that Americans on the Right only pretend to have moral standards, while in actuality, they will simply follow their leaders regardless of what they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sony has been shit for much longer than 20 years, kiddo.

  It’s interesting. I did a quick search, and couldn’t quickly find many complaints about them before 2000, but technical people complained a lot about Sony products back then. The biggest complaint was that Sony did everything themselves. So, every component inside a piece of electronic equipment was made by Sony, and every time they could get away with it, it would have a custom footprint or custom specs, so that it was impossible to find replacement parts without getting them directly from Sony at huge markups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the main picture, about half of those videos use filters that do something based on the location of the person’s head. Unless they’ve changed the definition since I went to college, that would be classified as a type of computer vision, aka AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine that. You not only paid for the refrigerator, but also the electricity and the internet access. And it uses all of that stuff to display ads to you. You’re literally paying for every ad it shows you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what would you do with an old dell server?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what would you do with an old dell server?

  I thought this post was going to be a sea shanty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the main device to hammer in a nail?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As you say, the question presented to Fry doesn’t mention a question at all. Only an answer. So, you could make an argument that any answer could be the answer to something, and therefore you’d have to choose a 100% chance, which isn’t an option.

  On the other hand, it asks for the chance of “picking the correct one”, clearly meaning “the correct answer”. So, as there is no answer that is the correct answer to everything, the correct choice would be 0%, which is an option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a phone that I put the charging cable in backwards, and the port was completely broken. Bought a wireless charger and never had any problems.

  (Whoever decided to standardize phone chargers on that connector should be put into prison.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d guess Valve wants whatever makes more games work on Linux so that their Steam Deck works better and is more compatible.

  And that means the most important thing is Linux desktop adoption by game developers so they make more native games. So somewhat ironically, I don’t think SteamOS would be as high a priority as other distributions, since it focuses on players instead of developers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Biden Administration Policies Led to a 0% Market Share in China", Claims NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, as He Hopes for a Breakthrough in the Region⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Today, we have 0%. At the beginning of the Biden administration, we had 95%. The policies of that administration really caused us to lose practically the entire China market. - NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

  The article says that both Biden’s and later, Trump’s policies have decreased NVIDIA’s market share. He’s really phrasing it in a favorable way to Trump. Like, the same way, you could say the following, “At the beginning of the Obama administration, we had zero deaths from COVID. Now, we have millions.” Just skip over the part that is inconvenient for propaganda, right?

  However, the loss of NVIDIA’s market share in China isn’t only attributed to the previous administration, since under President Trump, Team Green had to halt the sales of its H20 AI chip temporarily, and they were resumed only after the firm agreed on a ‘revenue sharing’ model with the Trump government. More importantly, with US-China trade relations being influenced, NVIDIA also suffered a significant setback from China, as domestic regulators and authorities began persuading Chinese Big Tech companies not to use Team Green’s AI chips.

  Also, Jensen Huang’s statement betrays an insane naivete about China. Newsflash: China always tries to take international industry and make a domestic Chinese version. If you have a 95% share of something in China and you’re a foreign company, that simply means it’s related to some fresh technology, or that it’s virtually worthless. If it is believed to have value, China will have their own stuff before you know it, and don’t expect IP laws like patents or copyright to slow them down. They don’t give a shit about that stuff for foreign companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of how police abuse any new tool they’re given.

  Like how while trained dogs can actually sniff out drugs, when they’re given to police, they get retrained to simply alert whenever the police want them to, and essentially become a flimsy reason to let police violate your rights and search anybody they want to.

  And the police suffer zero repercussions for their actions. If they don’t find drugs, there’s nobody who’s going to take them to court and force them to retrain their dogs or to disallow drug dogs from being used as reasonable suspicion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what the deal is with people who say that. They’re good for several days, and they even have a very convenient method for showing you whether they’re good or not. You don’t really need bananas to last more than a few days, because by then, they’re all eaten.