Nalivai

@Nalivai@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What were its advanta over Firefox?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the scary thing about LLMs is that by their very nature they sound convincing and it’s very easy to fall into a trap, we as humans are hardwired to misconstrue the ability to talk smoothly for intelligence, and when computer started to speak with complete sentences and hold the immediate context of a conversation, we immediately started to think that we have a thinking machine and started believing it.
  The worst thing is, there are legit uses for all the machine learning stuff and LLMs in particular, so we can’t just throw it all out of the window, we will have to collectively adapt to this very convincing randomness machine that is just here all the time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with degrees and decades of experience, I urge you not use it for that. It’s a cleverly disguised randomness machine, it will give you incorrect information that will be indistinguishable from truth because “truth” is never the criteria that it can use, but be convincing is. It will seed those untruths into you and unlearning bad practices that you picked up at the beginning might take years and cost you a career. And since you’re just starting, you have no idea how to pick up bullshit from truth as long as the final result seem to work, and that’s the works way to hide the bullshit from you.
  The field is already very accessible for everyone who wants to learn it, the amount of guides, examples, teaching courses, very useful youtube videos with thick Indian accent is already enormous, and most of them are at least trying to self-correct, while LLM actively doesn’t, in fact it’s trying to do the opposite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t overestimate LLMs, it can’t code and never will be. It can create templates convincingly enough and do boilerplate parts that are nonsense only sometimes, but those aren’t the fun parts of the coding process anyway. In my experience, LLM isn’t helping at all and I spend more time fixing it’s nonsense than I would do if I don’t use it at all, so I don’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And for the crime of being send to death they should be punished by not having the newest divers. That’ll show them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But social media don’t have to burn tar. They chose to because this way they can get more money, but it’s not an inherent part of the system, it’s an exploitation of it for profit, and can be separated

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bike and rock climb, I walk long walks and overall in a good shape, not great, not terrible. When the doctors see my bmi without other metrics, they immediately tell me to lose weight and don’t take anything else seriously. I missed very serious illness because of that, every symptom I had was thrown into a pile of “your bmi is bad, lose weight”, until one doctor was smart enough to check on me for real.
  BMI is incredibly oversimplified and gives lazy or overworked doctors easy way out of doing their jobs, which kills people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, you just butthurt that your putinsucking goes unappreciated

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are asleep, post European windows⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe isolate your house and turn off the AC and delay global warming for a bit then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bitcoin is anything but reliable and independent. And it’s 2% for the miniscule inconsequential amount of transactions it does compared to the amount of transactions happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poignant post on the state of things⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Workers own the factory. Collectively. Through democratic process of any variety.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Counterspell this⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am so much ready for Artificer dlc. I am ready with every fiber of my being