mhague
@mhague@lemmy.world
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 days ago:
I don’t see how what conservatives say has anything to do with reality.
Biden has been “senile” and “too old” for years now, during which time we’ve had a functioning Biden administration.
The Trump admin was limp, chronically understaffed, weak, ineffectual. That’s what they’re pretending is better than Biden. Conservatives don’t even care about senility so if you hear them rag on Biden and think they’re right, you’re not understanding what they’re really saying.
- Comment on The most irreplaceable thing 1 week ago:
Memes According to Garp
- Comment on Eco-friendly beyond comprehension 1 week ago:
Why walk when you can ride?
- Comment on How do you even call that? 1 month ago:
Looks like a lava shader material preview but instead of a ball they used something food shaped.
- Comment on ‘Nothing short of horrific’: Amnesty criticises arrest of man in Qatar ‘trapped’ by police on Grindr 1 month ago:
Why didn’t the gazelle just be in the middle of the pack? Then it wouldn’t have been singled out and hunted down.
- Comment on we are in dire need of new memes to criticize marxist-leninists 1 month ago:
It’s funny seeing it out of nowhere when you’re used to it being like giving somebody the middle finger.
- Comment on Goku gives Cell a Senzu Bean 1 month ago:
On one hand, the point of Goku is that he isn’t a good person, he’s more like a force of nature. A lot of things he does isn’t good by normal measures.
On the other hand, he’s a messiah figure. He is the savior of earth, a god, and his actions have worked out so far. If it’s bad but Goku does it and nobody can change his mind, then it’s good.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 1 month ago:
When a computer reads some signal, the 0s and 1s in it’s memory is the data. The data must be processed so that the computer can understand it.
This computer is using threads to read neuron activity. It must necessarily receive data because if it didn’t it wouldn’t be reading neuron activity. They’re the same thing.
This data is processed so that the computer can make sense of the brain. Once it understands some activity it generates signals that can control external devices.
Here’s another example. Imagine a device that monitors the heart and does something to fix a problem. The device would get data on the heart and process the data so that it can perform it’s function.
Wouldn’t monitoring health concerns and mitigating data loss be extremely important in these scenarios?
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 1 month ago:
Put it this way: If you took a thread talking about some tech from a joke community, and a thread about the same topic from a generic technology community, you won’t be able to tell them apart. People will bring the same energy and mindset to both. Jokes and “lol get rekt company I hate” will be pushed to the top, because they totally contribute to the discussion, while basic observations like “removing functionality is bad” will be pushed down. 👍
- Comment on Israel-Hamas war: Netanyahu vows his country will 'stand alone' if it has to after Biden's weapons supply threat 1 month ago:
“We will give you weapons for the iron dome, for your missile defense systems, for your operations in the north, for anything involving Iran, and of course we’ll give you anything needed to defend from a direct attack.
We just won’t give you anything to use in Rafah.”
“I guess I’m all alone then!”
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 1 month ago:
Not SO or it’s methods, I mean the human experience. It can be awkward to be new to it all and to feel the frustration/tunnel vision associated with being stuck on one problem… and then step back and have to dissect your issue, structure your question correctly, etc.
It’s just how it is, for exactly the reasons you stated. You can capture every little problem people face in programming, or you can hone in on useful patterns in goals, problems, and solutions, and educate people on how to see these things.
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 1 month ago:
The idea of SO is a little awkward too I think. With something like Wikipedia we’re presumably in an academic mindset. Carefully gathering information, sources, structuring it all. And even then people can get turned off by the ‘bureaucracy’ or nitpicking or whatever.
When people show up at SO they’re probably more in a “I can’t figure this damn thing out!” mode. We’re struggling with a problem, keeping a bunch of junk in our head, patience being tested, but we’re still expected to have a bit of academic rigor in our question and discourse.
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 1 month ago:
Yeah but a lot of people don’t really know what SO is for. They think you just go there and get help and call it a day. But the entire point is to produce structured questions, discourse, and answers aimed at future readers. Super specific, no-context, or duplicate problems are not useful. If you are not trying to generate useful content, don’t go to SO.
It’s no different than people thinking Wikipedia is rude because they don’t differentiate between useful knowledge for a general audience vs unsourced ramblings about a topic.
Just look at all the people getting frustrated at being told “you should probably do it a different way.” They really don’t understand that just because they’re asking the question, it’s not all about them.
- Comment on I discovered the beauty of AI music today. Check it out. 2 months ago:
Just curious, but does your favorite genre include guitars and drums?
- Comment on “pink and gold are my favorite colors” 2 months ago:
“He liked yellow. He was played by an actor who said he liked yellow. However, the room was yellow. Yellow gives me headaches.”
That however kind of feels like a non sequitur.
- Comment on Tower of Babel 2 months ago:
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
Isn’t “it’s good enough for most users” a little too close to “it’s good enough to be bought, used for a bit, and then tossed”? Usually computers that were adequate for X stop being able to do X. There’s little to no margin and you can’t upgrade it?
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 2 months ago:
I don’t get it, what makes the output trustworthy? If it seems real, it’s probably real? If it keeps hallucinating something, it must have some truth to it? Seems like the two main mindsets; you can tell by the way it is, and look it keeps saying this.
- Comment on I hate the band, I hate the song, and yet... 2 months ago:
I’ve never known what song the infamous wonderwall was but I can hear that maayybeeeee
- Comment on onemilliondollars123 4 months ago:
It’s because it’s a shorter mate so the engine considers it a better move.
Qh5+ g6, Bxg6 hxg6, Qxg6#
vs
Qg6+ hxg6, Bxg6#
- Comment on to fist God 4 months ago:
That’s going in the Minecraft architecture references folder
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 4 months ago:
I’ll try that out. Thanks for the heads up.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 4 months ago:
youtube-dl -F url Get one of the audio only formats youtube-dl -f 140 url
Bonus is that the script works for lots of sites. It can get movies from tubitv for example
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It’s because cigarettes are addicting and so when someone harming themselves says not to do it, it makes sense.
Someone proclaiming the virtues of simple living but the way they got there is unobtainable for anyone hearing the advice makes no sense.
They’re both hypocrites on the surface but only one survives scrutiny.
- Comment on Anti-racism be like 4 months ago:
I notice that a lot of people make sense of life using a series of rules. “if X then that means Y!” I think they’re bad at sussing out what’s right by reading the room, and they also can’t make sense of a complex world. They just default to thinking of the world as if we’re in a video game. It’s like they lack empathy or the ability to read humans or something.
- Comment on Palworld isn’t slowing down, hits 19 million players across Steam and Xbox 4 months ago:
Interesting, I thought they were more… disposable? But now that I think about it, in ark, you had your near and dear creatures and then you had the faceless workers.
- Comment on Palworld isn’t slowing down, hits 19 million players across Steam and Xbox 4 months ago:
Yeah I would like a better Pokemon game, not an fps survival with monsters. The idea is that people looking for a Pokemon game probably aren’ simplyt looking for a collectible monster game, they want the things that are associated with Pokemon games.
- Comment on Palworld isn’t slowing down, hits 19 million players across Steam and Xbox 4 months ago:
I like Pokemon games for the adventure, turn based combat, and polished stable of monsters. Does palworld have those things?
- Comment on AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’ 5 months ago:
I’m not reading into it literally, that’s the point. On the surface, Carlin “tells it like it is.” He says things that the people agree with.
You know what? Just look at the praise for Carlin. You’ll see things like “genius” and “prophet” or “brilliant insight.”
Then look at people criticizing him like me. Suddenly people defend his character by pointing out he’s just a comedian, it’s just jokes, judge him as a comedian, it’s not serious, etc.
He’s the Trump of his domain.
- Comment on AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’ 5 months ago:
In a scenario where the average IQ is 200? Do you understand what you’re talking about? You realize that the majority of people are exactly average, right? No? Then I guess Carlin is for you.