Cocodapuf
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- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck 2 days ago:
Hah! Well played.
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck 2 days ago:
Wow, terraria looks really different in that screenshot, must have been a huge update…
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck 2 days ago:
Yeah!
New favorite character, Scilla and the sirens
- Comment on Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory 2 days ago:
Wow, that’s just incredibly dismissive and rude. And in response to a completely reasonable comment!
Look, forget the whole AI discussion, I don’t care. Here’s the thing, I really like Lemmy. I really like this community and I want to continue using it as a way to have discussions with people about interesting topics. What I don’t want to see is people yelling insults and swearing at any user they disagree with.
Frankly, that behavior is unwelcome. That’s reddit behavior, you can go there if that’s what you want to do.
- Comment on Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product 3 days ago:
I’m not talking about how efficient sea shipping is vs flying or driving.
Well I guess that was what made the original statement confusing, because that’s definitely what it sounded like you were saying . I imagine this feels like a frustrating conversation (and I am sorry for that), but it’s probably because of that lack of clarity.
- Comment on Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product 3 days ago:
I mean, yes. It isn’t longer enough to make sea travel anything but the most efficient method to ship something.
- Comment on Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product 3 days ago:
I just looked it up, it’s a huge distance between Thailand and Argentina, about 17,000 km if you were flying. Going around the tip of South America adds an extra 1000 km, making the trip 5% longer. Meh.
- Comment on Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product 4 days ago:
Someone is dropping pennies in the vacuum tubes again! Now the whole thing is jammed and we’ve got cargo backed up all the way to Guam!!
And yes Bob, we all know it was you!
- Comment on Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product 4 days ago:
By sea is an extremely direct route, and by land isn’t an option, so yeah, the only comparison left is by air. And shipping by air is less efficient in all respects except time.
So saying this route is especially inefficient by sea is just a confusing statement.
- Comment on Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product 4 days ago:
Longer than what? By plane?
Not not but much…
- Comment on Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory 4 days ago:
Wow, way to completely ignore the content of the comment you’re replying to. Clearly, some are better than others… so, how do the others perform? It’s worth knowing before we make assertions.
The excerpt they quoted said:
“Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.”
So that implies that “the other assistants” performed more than twice as well, so presumably that means encountering serious issues less than 38% of the time (still not great, but better). But they said “more than double the other assistants”, does that mean double the rate of one of the others or double the average of the others? If it’s an average it would mean that some models probably performed better, while others performed worse.
This was the point, what was reported was insufficient information.
- Comment on Should we treat environmental crime more like murder? 1 week ago:
Fantastic post, thanks for writing that all up!
- Comment on Should we treat environmental crime more like murder? 1 week ago:
So you think nothing should be done?
(Because that’s the sentence for genocide)
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 1 week ago:
The manual review though does improve your odds than an algorithm looking for keywords.
I mean… It’s a human looking for keywords…
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 1 week ago:
I mean, yeah. True. But to push back a little, driving at the actual speed of traffic is often safer than driving the official speed limit.
The real world and written law don’t always line up, the speed limit is one of those areas.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 1 week ago:
Job applications for one thing. When we were young, recruiters had to physically read the letters and/or places hiring had to physically see you in person.
Now hiring agencies just use automated tools (even before AI) and you get ghosted constantly.
Yeah, job applications haven’t changed that much.
It was still a dismissive black box, it’s just that the process was more manual. Instead of AI tools throwing your application away, someone skimmed it looking for a particular bullet point, if they don’t find it in 10 seconds your resume is tossed in the bin. Whether it was AI or a manager, either way you’re probably not getting a call back to let you know they tossed your application.
Comparing to book burnings is only a false equivalence, as you’re not destroying information, you’re destroying locks that require special keys, unlike FOSS.
I’m totally with you on this. It’s not book burning because this generation doesn’t own anything to burn in the first place. You don’t buy a movie, you “buy” a license to stream that movie for a period of time. Tragic.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 1 week ago:
I think a lot of us empathize with the protesters. I don’t actually see any posts saying “this is dumb”.
I am still confused though. I mean I understand protesting Trump, ICE, and the government in general. I can’t control that, so protest is one of my only courses of action. But with technology… we can just not use it. I think I haven’t used Facebook in over 15 years, I’ve never used Twitter. And I’m happier for it, they’re right, that works. I use a smartphone, but I limit the kind of apps I want to put on it. If I find that something, a phone, app, website, whatever, is impacting my life, keeping me from dealing with daily responsibilities, I know it’s a problem, so I’ll stop using it. My point is, I do have control over my tech use, so why rally about it? After all, all the protests in the world won’t give you better self control, that’s a skill you need to build.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 1 week ago:
Fuck yes. Especially printers.
But my IT guy advice on the matter is this: ink jet is a scam, don’t buy one, ever. If you print a lot, get a laser printer for home, if you only print a few times a year, get a laser printer for home.
- Comment on xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings 1 week ago:
Unintentional sick burn on Saturn.
- Comment on xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings 1 week ago:
Hah, if satellites were actually that large… It still wouldn’t actually be a problem. It’s really hard to grasp just how far things are apart up in geostationary orbit, there is a truly immense amount is space. There’s plenty of elbow room for thousands of Rhode Islands floating around up there, no reason to worry about collisions.
- Comment on Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data 1 week ago:
I mean, some parts of the protocols we use for the Internet need to be in the clear to work, DNS comes to mind. If you want that kept private as well you need to use something like tor.
But regardless, what people generally actually care about keeping secret is the content, not the protocol.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 2 weeks ago:
It would be amazing if there were a more open source option.
It’s unfortunate that cars are so big and complex to manufacture. With a just as complex a set of regulatory systems around verifying their safety and roadworthiness. I really don’t see something more open source being a realistic expectation at any foreseeable point going forward.
- Comment on xkcd #3151: Window Screen 2 weeks ago:
If home improvement and DIY were actual categories for the Nobel Prize, i’d be running out of places to put all my Nobel prizes.
I’d probably have to put in a new shelf. Maybe use some nice cherry planks…
- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 3 weeks ago:
Well that’s all true, we don’t actually know what the real filters are, are we already past them, or are they still ahead of us? Certainly people have speculated about this for a long time, and I won’t pretend to have any more real answers than anyone else. But honestly, I’d have a hard time believing that the really rare event, that the great filter lays somewhere between the development of the brain and the development of the kind of intelligence humans have. It just seems like a relatively small jump (relative to all the other hurdles) between many of the smarter animals on earth and human beings. For example, many species use tools a whole lot actually. Only a few other species actually make tools or alter them to a large degree, but you know, give it 10 million years and see if that changes. Likewise, many species have languages, some species even give themselves names, so they can intentionally address other individuals in their social group.
If you don’t mind a bit of total speculation on my part, in my opinion, the explanation to the Fermi paradox is actually pretty simple, there really is no paradox. Intelligent life is probably relatively common in the universe, the reason we don’t see aliens all over the place is that intelligent life thrives too well for that. Once a species is capable of traveling other stars, it’s just a matter of time before they settle most of their galaxy, like within a million years (which is very quick on evolutionary scales). We’re just the first intelligent life in this galaxy, we can assume this because if there were others, they’d already have colonies right here on earth, because it’s a great planet.
- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 3 weeks ago:
Well, I’m not sure you’ve considered the time-frames involved in that concern. We have a whole lot of time before the sun goes out on us. It took Earth about 2 billion years to develop multicellular life. It then took another 2.5 b before we got vertebrates. That was the hard part though and it’s done, I don’t think there’s any undoing it. There aren’t many things that could wipe out all forms of vertebrates on earth, so I’m confident that would be as far back as the planet could reasonably be set back by any disaster.
Just 60 million years ago, mammals were not at all a dominant form of life, yet that’s all it took for early rodent-like mammals to evolve into human beings (as well as all the other mammals we know today). So based on that timeline, if all human life on the planet were wiped out tomorrow, I’d estimate (pessimistically) it would take less than another 200 million years before another species gained a similar level of intelligence and began a new era of civilization (and perhaps as little as 10 m years, as some species are already quite intelligent). In fact, if the next species screws up, and gets themselves killed, I expect earth will get another go at it in another 10–200 million years, over and over again.
On the other side of the equation, the sun will expand into a red giant and consume the earth in about 5 billion years. That gives us a whole lot of tries to get it right.
- Comment on xkcd #3150: Ping 3 weeks ago:
A reminder that all packets are delivered on a “best effort” basis, and some packets will be simply dropped en route.
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 3 weeks ago:
Uh, I think it’s called the world wide Web.
I mean, I’m joking, but I do remember buying games directly from a developers website, that’s a thing that used to happen.
- Comment on Life imitates art 3 weeks ago:
I would have if I hadn’t gleaned the premise instantly as soon as I saw the logo.
- Comment on Life imitates art 3 weeks ago:
I mean, as it’s made by ubisoft, it would be pretty funny if they leaned heavily into the evil Abstergo storyline.
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 4 weeks ago:
I think that’s what most people do, they get their piece of paper.
A 4.0 GPA is nice, but a bachelor’s is a bachelor’s.