SorryQuick

@SorryQuick@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this accurate, Canadians?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hardly any maple syrup outside of quebec. One of the few things that keep me here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they don’t put the effort in.

  Add a simple “the video isn’t served until the ad’s length has elapsed” and suddenly your only workaround is to spend 30s staring at a black screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I built a self-hosted period tracker because I couldn't find one worth using⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use it all the time as a kind of brainstorming tool.

  “I want to do X (and details), can you tell me what tools or algorithms are available to me? List their pros and cons and give me some comparison”

  Or on a somewhat recent project of mine, I has to effectively stub an entire library (but didn’t have to be done well), so I just told AI “take this page (the docs) and generate empty function stubs from it”. It doesn’t need to be high quality since it doesn’t run, it’s just to fool the dotnet engine.

  I also tend to ask AI to add logging to some functions, since it’s annoying to do and impossible to mess up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The major complaint I hear is that it takes forever to charge. It’s fine for commuting if you charge at home/work, but sounds a bit rough for road trips and the likes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨visiting family back in switzerland for the weekend & airspace home gets closed🤪⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I’m happy to be a dude. Pregnancy and periods are not something I ever want to deal with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Parking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s good.

  If parking is free, you’d still be paying for it indirectly through your tuition. By charging for it, only those who actually need it pay for it.

  Imagine you don’t have/use a car but still indirectly pay for other people’s parking spots because they can’t be bothered to walk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's easy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly you don’t need your family to be rich. A family well-off enough to give you:

  • Good financial education
  • Doesn’t kick you out at 18 or require rent
  • Pays your tuition (maybe not in the US)
  • Supporting in your endeavors
  • Family loans (not having to pay interest is massive)

  Makes a HUGE difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friends are by my side⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Buying supplements for this harmless a phenomenon is kinda crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typical monopoly people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The vast majority of mongols are in china, not mongolia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose it could be considered a trade-off? There’s the obvious advantages of longevity and possible size(?), it van still be viable in some niche uses where that matters. Github’s code vault from a while back could have benefited from that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is explicitly stated to be for cold storage though. It doesn’t have to be fast at all. And they’re supposedly aiming for 500mbps soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you read the article? 30mbps is faster than a lot of people’s internets. It’s not fast, but for a prototype, it’s not bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you ask a question online and a person answer you instead of telling you to Fuck yourself or Google it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DDG also censors results indirectly since they use bing, which microsoft controls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with not wanting AI in your microwave or your file manager, but it seems the vast majority around here oppose any use of AI entirely. There are soooooo many uses that are legitimate and say what you want but they aren’t going away once the ai bubble pops.

  Even as a dev, AI has tons of uses besides using it to code. I constantly use it to discuss algorithmic options for some pieces of the code. In the end it’s not coding it for me, but giving me ideas I wouldn’t have had without it. It can also explain a variety of things in a simplified way. I’ve used it for purchase recomendations (comparing product specs). In the end, as long as you don’t treat it like it’s always right and verify the information before acting on it, it’s a huge time saver accross many fields.

  There were a couple “ai memes” that got downvoted on here. If the entire meme is ai, sure, but what’s wrong with using an ai image to illustrate your joke? As long as you don’t try to pass something as a fact, it’s just a joke, why does it matter if they used ai instead of a shitty photoshop?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True, honestly I’m no game dev, but I’d assume it would be hard to get anything “custom” for free. A lot of people don’t wanna have to spend much on a game that might just not work out. To be fair in this sotuation you could also just use free assets and replace them later. I’m just not a fan of the lemmy “black and white” AI is evil approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well to be fair for quite a few people it’s either them and AI creates a game, or no AI and no game. Though if it were me, I’d use AI art, put it in early access and use the money on art commissions to eventually replace it. Then again, in this situation I wouldn’t be agaisnt an AI disclaimer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's important!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It will always feel so weird to me watching a movie in French french, the villain trying to sound badass or evil but then says something in the parisian accent. It fails everytime, it basically sounds funny. Hell even their insults sound funny for some reason, not in their choice of words but in the delivery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's important!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if you go back 500 years, every little corner of france has their own version of french, with Paris speaking roughly what they speak today. Canadians descend from other regions, mostly the north and west and inherited their way of speaking. So I call it “actual french” but really I just mean the french that was most common at the time, since this was the most populated region of france with a lot less people living in Paris.

  This can be traced to a variety of sounds that we have in canadian french that are present throughout France as accents but not in the modern “standard french”. Such as the “eu” in “beurre”.

  I don’t really have a source for this, this is what they teach us in school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's important!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty of dialects in france similar to or worse than Quebecois. Maybe I’m biased, but to me parisian french is the one that sounds bad. In the end it was the accent of the nobility, hence why it sounds so pompous, while Quebecois was the accent of the commoners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's important!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vous parlez mal". i.e. You speak badly. I’ll never forget the horror in her eye

  It’s funny that she would think that our french is worse than theirs, when canadian french is closer to actual french than parisian french.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's on a mission⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For some reason Newfoundlanders have been the butt of every joke for a long time and I still have no idea why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no clue what you’re trying to say.

  If I ask an AI to write an email and it does so both better and faster than I could, how can you say it’s inconvenient and doesn’t save time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But if it saves time on some simple tasks, how can you say it’s not convenient?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you trying to deny that AI is also convenient for regular people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Though generally with fruits the added amount of vitamins and all the good stuff that’s concentrated in the skin far outweighs the small amount of pesticides you might consume.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s something I’ll never be able to understand. Something having no beginning. Just like I’ll never be able to understand a moment before the big bang, or at the moment of the singularity, where time did could not exist. If there’s no time, how can anything, like the big bang, happen? Unfortunately the singularity is something we know nothing about whatsoever, and probably will never know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But in this case, this “theory” has a precedent. This energy and matter we have now must have come from somewhere. Whatever your personal belief on the matter is, what’s to say that event can’t happen again? If a god created the universe, then surely he can pump some more into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy (or most social media) in a nutshell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO 26300⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To our collective social woe, disinformation succeeds because so many people care deeply about injustice but do not take the time to study the facts before passing along or acting on disinformation.

  Something many of us should learn from, even more appropriate on lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the problem. The interaction you describe is what happens IRL. On lemmy, or most of the “left” internet, it’s the total opposite, with people getting offended at the slightest misstep. Somehow being ignorant in some areas makes you evil or a jerk. People all have a limited amount of time to spend, and not everyone choses to spend that time learning all the politically correct ways to call people.

  I also wouldn’t refer to someone as “an illegal immigrant” the same way I wouldn’t refer to them as “that fat man” because you just don’t refer to people that way. But I don’t have any issues talking about fat people, or illegal immigrants, in general. Or if it’s specific, it’ll probably be something like “John got deported last week because he was an illegal immigrant”. Not “get out of here you illegal immigrant”. Not that it sounds much worse than “get out of here you undocumented migrant.”