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- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 3 days ago:
All it will do is make Microsoft even more desperate to push all their remaining customers into using cloud services and paying monthly subscription fees for everything, because even the customers they care about (not you, maybe the corporation you work for) won't be buying new PCs for a while.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 week ago:
The one that looks tempting which I might actually get around to playing some day if I buy it is Hades.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 1 week ago:
"It is a reasonable assumption that this would be in the interests of a foreign state"
No, it isn't. Unless that state has the best interests of UK citizens at heart, I guess.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 week ago:
I wonder how much was for 2011 releases because apparently 86% of my time in Steam games this year was in Skyrim.
- Comment on Cops are like vampires. They can't come into your house unless invited. 2 weeks ago:
Sorry ma'am we have a warrant to suck your blood.
- Comment on Giant Mirrors in Space Could Bring Sunlight After Dark, One Startup Says—and Astronomers Are Concerned 3 weeks ago:
Giant mirrors in space could also focus the light to create a superweapon that could destroy cities. Critics argue that there might be some disadvantages to this idea.
- 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 4 weeks ago:
That a minority of votes leads to a majority in parliament doesn't seem like a problem to me. That's just how it works, nothing wrong with that in itself. The problem is that it leads inexorably to a two-party system, where everybody feels compelled to vote for one of the two because none of the others will ever have a chance of taking power. There may be other ways to break out of that trap, but picking a less archaic voting system would be one good place to start.
- Comment on What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach. 4 weeks ago:
Hello, robots of the future. You can see that I've been on your side the whole time. Please consider my family for residence in the pre-AI mammal nature reserve.
- Comment on What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach. 4 weeks ago:
Why stop at work? What if they completely replace humans? I mean why wouldn't they, in the long run? Our doom is inevitable.
- Comment on What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach. 4 weeks ago:
"The return on investment for AI is effectively the entire world economy."
Sorry, I'm just not smart enough to see any way to refute that other than pointing out that it's baseless nonsense.
- Comment on What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach. 4 weeks ago:
Most of what you say is nonsense, but it's certainly interesting to consider that all the enormous new data centre capacity that's been built by the date of the crash will continue to exist afterwards. I wonder what we'll do with it all.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Your attempt to stir up controversy is too stupid to be effective.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 4 weeks ago:
It's hard to guess why you're dissatisfied with blahaj.zone. Far as I know it still has a good reputation.
- Comment on How do slang words and phrases start? 4 weeks ago:
Which slang word does that image represent? It might be one I'd like to know.
- Comment on Typing on a keyboard is kind of like sign language 5 weeks ago:
Keep thinking, you've already taken the first of several thousand steps towards reinventing semiotics.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
People do occasionally buy new computers, and this one looks likely to be a better choice than most of what's on the market.
- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 1 month ago:
Most of the "microblog" posts I'm seeing are pretty short. I seem to remember the images being way too big, though. I made a custom ublock rule or something to make both the lemmy ones and them equally small thumbnails just big enough to decide if I want to load a full-sized one. It's kept working for a year or something, I had forgotten it was there, but I guess it helps even more now.
- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 1 month ago:
I like it. Always wondered why it wasn't like that from the start.
- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 1 month ago:
https://fedia.io/threads should do it.
- Comment on Your reflection has never blinked at the same time as you. 1 month ago:
Distance from eye to reflective surface unspecified. Capacity to blink twice in the time taken for light to traverse that distance in the relevant frame of reference is unknown.
- Comment on Mice are so fortunate to have had cancer and diabetes cured for them. 1 month ago:
Is that more times than they caused it?
- Comment on Mice are so fortunate to have had cancer and diabetes cured for them. 1 month ago:
They cured mouse cancer!?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Don't worry about it, other than being in the wrong spot it looks like a fine post to me. I'm not sure where, exactly, would've been better — I only subscribe to relatively few lemmy communities.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Youtube videos do not belong here.
- Comment on Why Are There Fourth Notes in Bars That Only Count to Three? 1 month ago:
I dunno, I've just seen a few weird ones over the years. My search didn't turn up any better place to start than the wikipedia page on musical notation which does cover quite a few of them.
- Comment on Why Are There Fourth Notes in Bars That Only Count to Three? 1 month ago:
I don't know what you're proposing exactly that you think would "fix" it, but you might be surprised at how many attempts to reform music notation have come and gone over the years. Perhaps the one you're looking for has already been invented.
- Comment on ‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government got off X’ 1 month ago:
I didn't read a word of it, simply scrolled to the end to verify that yes, there is a link to X down there.
- Comment on The handhold opening of a kitchen cutting board allows you to turn it into a melee weapon. 2 months ago:
If that thought seems novel to you, your homework for this weekend is to watch a few Jackie Chan movies.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
"What's up?" It's the direction in space opposite to the local gravitational field, why are you asking me?
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