Meron35
@Meron35@lemmy.world
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 3 days ago:
A lot of the academics associated (formerly or currently) with Chicago Booth are highly respected as economists but highly conservative. As influential and famous they may be, their personal blogs and twitter account are yikes.
E.g. Harald Uhlig, Joch H Cochrane
- Comment on rollin' coal 4 days ago:
The frogs only stayed in the water because Friedrich Goltz lobotomized the frogs beforehand. Which makes it a perfect metaphor because the Murdoch media has definitely lobotomized the public.
- Comment on How do recommend eating this? 5 days ago:
Citrussy
- Comment on Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing. 6 days ago:
No? Searching for “digital picture frame” brings up pages of results. These are popular enough because they are much cheaper than an equivalently sized tablet, e.g. a 10 inch digital picture frame details for around $150, which is less than half the price of a crappy android tablet.
Also, tablets don’t really exceed 12 inches or so in size, but you can get digital picture frames as large as TVs.
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 1 week ago:
Non alliterative sports drinks are unholy, got it
- Comment on Jellyfin: Can I disable HEVC playback on ONE device? 1 week ago:
You can try to make an additional “user” that the TV uses, and set user specific transcode options.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 2 weeks ago:
The precedent was already set back in 2020 when the US government forced Kunlun to sell Grindr
- Comment on Giving someone oral is the most intimate thing you can do for someone. (IMO) 3 weeks ago:
Collegehumor did this exact skit a decade ago.
- Comment on Limited edition Great Gatsby 3 weeks ago:
This is the green light that Gatsby was orgastic about
- Comment on I am going to miss the mute and power buttons when they take them away. 4 weeks ago:
You get a cheaper TV. Just disable all their smart features.
- Comment on I am going to miss the mute and power buttons when they take them away. 4 weeks ago:
The use of a smart TV is to make manufacturers money by selling your personal data to advertisers as part of their post purchase monetisation strategy. Literally admitted by Vizio’s CEO (who are really following other brands).
- Comment on Are we still doing these 4 weeks ago:
sü🅱️
- Comment on average reddit user 5 weeks ago:
Actually, “gay hentai” could refer to yaoi (gay hentai for women), “bara” (gay hentai for men) or “shota” (gay hentai for those who belong in jail)
- Comment on What is the word for someone who is friends with different groups but doesn't have loyalty to any one group? 1 month ago:
Maybe fickle
- Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 1 month ago:
I prefer the term lobotomize
- Comment on Ides of March 1 month ago:
Actually, a d4 only had an expected value of 2.5, so the expected damage output from the senate should be 2.5600.55 = 82.5.
Sounds impressive, but more interesting is the actual chance of success of killing Caesar. Each senator has a 0.45 chance to miss and a 0.55/4 chance of doing 1-4 damage respectively, for an expected value of 1.375 and variance of ~2.23. Formally modelling the distribution of the sum of 60 of these variables requires a 60 fold convolution which is too difficult. Instead, we can approximate the sum of total damage as a normal variable with an expected value of 601.375 = 82.5 and variance 602.23 = 134.06.
The probability that this is less than 60 is around ~0.43, so Brutus’ plan had a less than 60% chance of succeeding. That’s… rather terrible for an assassination plan. The addition of sneak attack rolls wouldn’t help much, given that the variance of dice rolls is just so high.
- Comment on Delicious. 1 month ago:
Are these the anal option?
- Comment on Need Space 1 month ago:
amogodes
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 1 month ago:
You could try to convert it to a “headless” laptop.
Some cash savvy people have been buying M1 macbooks with broken screens and converting them into headless laptops. For the price of a broken MacBook and some tinkering, you can get what is essentially a Mac mini with a touchpad and keyboard.
- Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense 2 months ago:
Not the worst example for Japanese. The verb kakeru 掛ける is very common and has ~25 different meanings. This is before you count the other verbs also pronounced as kakeru such as 翔ける、賭ける etc
- Comment on Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom? 2 months ago:
Bus seat couture
- Comment on Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes 2 months ago:
AI generated medical research can’t make it past peer review, it can’t hurt you
AI generated medical research that made it past peer review:
- Comment on Are there any genuine benefits to AI? 2 months ago:
Maybe you only do an “odd bit” of mundane writing and the image/music generation is a gimmick, but a lot of the modern world is mundane and pays people lots of money for mundane work. E.g. think of those internal corporate videos which require a script, stock photography and footage, basic corporate music following a 4 chord progression, a voiceover, all edited into a video.
Steve Taylor is most famous for being the voiceover for Kurzgesagt videos, but more generally he’s a voiceover artist that features in lot of these boring corporate videos. This type of content has such high demand there is an entire industry dedicated towards it, which seems well suited to AI.
This does raise further ethical/economical issues though, as most people in these creative industries actually require income from this boring work to get by.
- Comment on Meet generation stay-at-home: ‘You don’t need to pay to go clubbing: you can sit at home and watch it on your phone’ 2 months ago:
Because they broke lol. A night out is expensive, and can easily cost over $100.
Public transport to club: $5 Dinner/pre drinks: $30 Club entry: $25 Club drinks: $18 x 2 = $36 Uber home: $30
Sure you probably save money by going for cheaper drinks etc, but then you spend a lot of effort worried about costs for what is meant to be leisure time.
Tbh I didn’t really understand paying for online events like twitch donations, but then realised that a night in with supermarket liquor + sub donations is much cheaper than going out.
- Comment on This is so true 2 months ago:
I think it’s converse. Just say talk.
- Comment on Unnamed island 2 months ago:
NEW - New East Wales
- Comment on Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI 2 months ago:
Don’t have to imagine. Microsoft Tay already happened
- Comment on Pride flags make rainbows straight 2 months ago:
❌straight rainbows ✅Gay bars
- Comment on I lost my job after AI recruitment tool assessed my body language, says make-up artist 2 months ago:
This isn’t new. Recruiting firms such as HireVue have been pushing out “AI” interviewing platforms which automatically judge your body language, fashion choices, tone of language etc since at least 2018.
Companies are using AI to stop bias in hiring. They could also make discrimination worse. - vice.com/…/companies-are-using-ai-to-stop-bias-in…
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 2 months ago:
The ASMR and meditation community sometimes embrace a specific colour aesthetic for videos. They’re also all pretty similar in terms of audio level etc so I can see this working well in that niche.
E.g. youtu.be/lziFPKhsJ2A