Nalivai
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- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 day ago:
Right? “Yeah, there is scientific study about it, but what if I didn’t read it and go by feelings? Then I will be right and don’t have to reexamine shit about my life, isn’t that convenient”
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 day ago:
If my quick calculations are correct, the 70 inches screen at 1080p has a pixel size of about 0.7 mm give or take, where 4k would be about 0.1-0.2.
0.1mm is a smallest size of a thing a human could potentially see under very strict conditions. A pixel smaller than a millimeter will be invisible from a meter away. I really, really doubt its humanly possible to see the difference from the distances a person would be watching tv.The thing is, the newer 4k tvs are just built better, nicer colour contrast, more uniformed lighting, clearer glass, and that might be the effect you’re seeing
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 days ago:
youtu.be/V-a9VDIbZCU
This video exactly explains the thing you’re missing about it - Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 6 days ago:
It doesn’t matter if you can disable it by cutting a wire, it’s the same amount of security in this case.
There were of course alarms that you couldn’t disable by cutting an obvious wire, just like there are smart alarms that you can’t actually hack easily. - Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 6 days ago:
Do you seriously think old alarms were unhackable?
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 week ago:
Learn skills that will be easily transferable across countries. Look for a country you would like to live in, learn the language if necessary, research where they are hiring.
Do it before Trump’s third term, there will be a lot more chaos then - Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
I absolutely don’t. Since we’re talking about bad cases anyway, I don’t trust a developer to be diligent in finding bugs in their code more than I believe they will try to make all the tests pass. And it’s easier and better for the ego to achieve that if you write shit tests that only cover cases that you know will work.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 week ago:
What an inspiration to us all
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
Devs are more invested in code they wrote themselves. When I’m writing tests for something I didn’t write, I’m less personally invested in it.
This, I think, is a very bad part of the problem and shouldn’t be happening regardless
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
My main problem with that, is that it actually doesn’t use the sources it lists. It does it sometimes, and other times the links have nothing to do with the generated text, and some of them might be also non existent, but because it’s not always wrong, it makes people complicit, nobody actually checks the sources, but believe it more because the links are there.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
The issue is them adding it to your list without user’s input or even notification. This is unpleasant behaviour that shouldn’t be normal, even if this time there is no damage.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Thankfully it’s easy to remove yet. But this sneaky automatic addition is still annoying.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
It’s not a search engine, it’s a random text generator disguised as an engine. It’s worse than Google, if you can believe it. We don’t need more shit that is worse than Google
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
Just like shovels existed before the gold rush and will exist after humanity’s death. But we have a saying for a reason
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
Oh believe me, it wasn’t just luck. They have special labs full of people who’s whole job is to find another unexplored niches that can buy their cards. And they only make specific single purpose cards only when the market is mature enough to justify the spending, which is also smart.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
Nvidia are very smart in that regard, ethics aside. Very early on they decided that selling cards to gamers will not give them the infinite growth everyone so desperately desire, so they started looking for what does, and they were consistent at it ever since. Every tech bubble of the recent history is powered by Nvidia cards. How much they contributed to the hype (and damage) is not entirely clear, but that’s not zero for sure
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
Capitalism’s biggest lie is that people have freedom to chose what to buy. But they have to buy what the ruling class sells them. When every billionaire is obsessed with chatbots, every app has a chatbot attached, and if you don’t want a chatbot, sucks to be you then, you have to pay for it anyway.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 weeks ago:
Different set of cookies, different set of preferences, bookmarks, history, etc. If you need to completely separate two instances, for example one for work and one for everything else, you can only do it with profiles
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 2 weeks ago:
Morrowind. Playing it, modding it, breaking it, trying to fix mods, writing new mods, all of it. Morrowind was so fun, for some time it convinced me that Bethesda might be a competent company
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 weeks ago:
I use them all the time, they’re great. I learned about it from another random Lemmy comment
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 weeks ago:
You can use containers all you want, just don’t create another profile and you’re golden.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 4 weeks ago:
You can actually get some test validity oversight out of AI review
You also will get some bullshit out of it. If you’re in a situation when you can’t trust your developers because they’re changing companies every 18 months, and you can’t even supervise your untrustworthy developers, then you sure as shit can’t trust whatever LLM will generate you. At least your flock of developers will bullshit you predictably to save time and energy, with LLM you have zero ideas where lies will come from, and those will be inventive lies.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 4 weeks ago:
independence of review is a very important aspect of “harnessing the power of the team.”
Yep, that’s basically my rationale
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 4 weeks ago:
the tests are written after the code is merged - there will be gaps, and the second dev will be lazy in writing those tests
I don’t really see how this follows. Why do the second one necessary have to be lazy, and what stops the first one from being lazy as well.
The reason I like it to be different people is so there are two sets of eyes looking at the same problem without the need for doing a job twice. If you miss something while implementing, it’s easier for you to miss it during test writing. It’s very hard to switch to testing the concept and not the specific implementation, but if you weren’t the one implementing it, you’re not “married” to the code and it’s easier for you to spot the gaps. - Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 4 weeks ago:
Replacing the missing bits with AI is better than not having them at all.
Nah, bullshit tests that pretend to be tests but are essentially “if true == true then pass” is significantly worse than no test at all.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 4 weeks ago:
Why? The developer is exactly the person I want writing the tests.
It’s better if it’s a different developer, so they don’t know the nuances of your implementation and test functionality only, avoids some mistakes. You’re correct on all the other points.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 5 weeks ago:
“Linked to” means “might cause in some cases”. If it’s “linked” then it should be at least correlated. The disconnect between the two shows that it isn’t.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 5 weeks ago:
If there is a bump in cases of autism post-Tylenol, then it might be a cause, if there isn’t, it can’t be. That’s the reason for the timeline argument, that’s what it proves.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 5 weeks ago:
If you focus on nicotine specifically, nicotine causes specific type of cancer. Change in the delivery mechanism would cause fluctuations in dosage, but it doesn’t matter in this case (we ignore other types of cancer not to bog down the analogy).
If one would argue that Tylenol causes autism, two things should be shown, the delivery mechanism of Tylenol before it was invented/isolated, to explain pre-Tylenol cases of autism, and/or specific uptick in autism when it was started to be used as medication.
It’s possible that the meme is good you just didn’t get it. - Comment on proof of wormholes 5 weeks ago:
That’s because cancer is a category of diseases, not a single one. Specific types of cancer that are caused by smoking are caused by smoking (there is afaik 12 of those, and some are associated with prolonged inhalation of any smoke, and some are only tabaco-related, but it doesn’t matter)