mindlesscrollyparrot

@mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the children don’t have a choice, so I assume you’re talking about the choice to target the militants there and not in another place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, specifically militants who are fathers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hamas uses phones, hence the “Where’s Daddy?” attack, which is not directed at tunnels. It’s more-or-less designed to hit civilians. The clue is in the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student dorm does not allow wifi routers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The email says that you can do it. It doesn’t say that you can do it without purchasing the upsell option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to be transitioning to zero carbon as fast as possible, period, and even that isn’t good enough. Moderating our energy consumption is vital. There is a cliff at the end of the road and business as usual means driving on down the road.

  I am not saying that we need to turn off our lights and heating. I am saying that we first-worlders use a lot of power on frivolous things that we absolutely can live without.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EVs still have major quality problems, and it’s mostly about the software⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your ICE has a significantly longer range, and the road network has evolved so that you can be reasonably confident that you’ll find a filling station when you need one.

  Today I’m driving an EV that doesn’t have it, and I’m missing it. Different EVs have different ranges and not every filling station on the autobahn has chargers. On the other hand, there are lots of places just off the autobahn which do have chargers. It’s a different game. Your mileage may vary of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EVs still have major quality problems, and it’s mostly about the software⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Megane E-tech has functionality in its satnav that lets you plot a route with charging stations on the way, showing how much capacity you will have left when you get to them. Not essential, but very useful for somebody who is new to EVs.

  Software that communicates with power companies to allow the car to charge overnight at advantageous rates, or even feed energy back into the grid. Again, not essential, but good for the customer and helps with the transition to green electricity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU finds Microsoft violated antirust laws by bundling Teams⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I can tell, Microsoft tried to hold off these anti-trust lawsuits by intentionally making the interoperability and feature-parity between its products shockingly bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But we do know how they operate. I saw a post a while back where somebody asked the LLM how it was calculating (incorrectly) the date of Easter. It answered with the formula for the date of Easter. The only problem is that that was a lie. It doesn’t calculate. You or I can perform long multiplication if asked to, but the LLM can’t (ironically, since the hardware it runs on is far better at multiplication than we are).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems to be a really long way of saying that you agree that current LLMs hallucinate all the time.

  I’m not sure that the ability to change in response to new data would necessarily be enough. They cannot form hypotheses and, even if they could, they have no way to test them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The period when dejanews just started to index newsgroups was a golden age for finding answers on the internet, IMO, and there’s a strong similarity to the fediverse. All we need is for it to be searchable… OK, I see your point now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England gets 27 new bathing sites – but no guarantee they’ll be safe for swimming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The water companies have been paying dividends to their shareholders while not doing anything to upgrade the sewerage system. Certainly the people won’t want to pay twice for the upgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. The fundamental thing about the rules of grammar is that they’re more like guidelines. In fact, I think OP’s example is hardly the most confusing or inconsistent thing in English, which is not to say that the question isn’t a really good one. The quirks, similarities and differences are one thing that makes language-learning really interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, “home” and “zuhause” mean the same thing but they aren’t exactly the same, zuhause is a compound word. English also has compound words, for example “aboard” and “abed”. The English word isn’t “ahouse”; it is simply “home”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t a big deal, but we do need the language to evolve a little bit. The problem with they/them is that it implies that you don’t know the person, or that it doesn’t matter who they are (like you say, you can’t or don’t want to use a more specific pronoun). It can feel quite rude to apply it to somebody that you do know.