TexasDrunk
@TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
- Comment on Birds of a feather 4 hours ago:
“Which door would your brother point to if I asked him who prefers a donk to a heinie?”
- Comment on Rip Striker 2000-2024 😭 21 hours ago:
Striker was a lot of things to a lot of people. But, looking back, the number one thing I can say about him is this, and simply this: Striker was my friend.
- Comment on The Garden of Eden was based on The Galápagos Islands. 1 day ago:
I’m both, but apparently someone’s sarcasm detector needs calibration. Alternatively my sarcasm creator needs a bit of tweaking.
I’m well aware that Doc Brown, Marty McFly, Bill, Ted, and The Doctor are the only people who can time travel.
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 1 day ago:
Ah, so you’re not willing to answer questions. I don’t engage with lying pieces of shit. If you had, you could have changed hearts and minds. Instead you’re as worthless as PETA.
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 1 day ago:
2/10, mostly for the condescending use of “sweetheart”. Without that, 1/10. You can do better trolling than that.
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 1 day ago:
You haven’t answered any questions though. How many pets taken and euthanized the same day would be acceptable to you? How many animals that are adoptable, not ill, don’t have behavioral problems, and aren’t elderly should they be allowed to euthanize? Should they have to retract their ad campaign that ran for years claiming a link between autism and milk or should they be able to quietly redirect it and not confront it because the “science” was almost as laughable as the link between vaccines and autism?
You’ll willingly answer, so I am eagerly awaiting answers rather than redirecting or trying to be the Glen Beck of PETA by JAQing off (I’m just asking questions!).
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 1 day ago:
Euthanasia as in animals, no matter the quality of life, adoptability, and years left, are put down by the thousands because they’re inconvenient to keep alive and get adopted while PETA preaches that killing animals is wrong. Also, did you read the bit about them kidnapping animals from kids and old people?
Plus they’re cowards without the courage of their convictions. When I was growing up their protests included throwing red paint on people in fur but they wouldn’t do it to someone in biker leathers. One got them shunned and laughed at, the other would get them killed like the animals they stole.
TL;DR their whole schtick is to either destroy others’ property or steal loved members of families who have fur while killing many more animals than they save.
- Comment on The Garden of Eden was based on The Galápagos Islands. 2 days ago:
Do you really believe Jesus couldn’t travel through time?
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 3 days ago:
Or to watch porn in one of the states that block porn.
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 1 week ago:
Well if you’re in the US you can get it from New Mexico and Wyoming. We’ve even got a few mines here in Texas.
So in the US it’s a matter of getting licensed by the NRC and contacting one of the many processing facilities.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 1 week ago:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi storybook uses AI to create stories with pictures on its eInk display 1 week ago:
I want to preface this by saying I’m not doubting you, I just don’t know how it works.
Ok, but wouldn’t the training be weighted against older phrases that are no longer used? Or is all training data given equal weight?
Additionally, if the goal is to create bedtime stories or similar, couldn’t the person generating it ask for a more contemporary style? Would that affect the use of that phrase and similar cheesy lines that keep appearing?
I would never use an LLM for creative or factual work, but I use them all the time for code scaffolding, summarization, and rubber ducking. I’m super interested and just don’t understand why they do the things they do.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi storybook uses AI to create stories with pictures on its eInk display 1 week ago:
I have what is probably a stupid and misplaced question. The second picture in the article has the phrase “with hope in his heart”. That phrase repeatedly pops up in the hilariously bad ChatGPT stories I’ve seen people generate.
Is there a reason that cheesy phrases that don’t get used in real life keep popping into stories like that?
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 1 week ago:
I tried Stadia. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I played Cyberpunk mainly and didn’t have 90% of the problems that other players had. It was very enjoyable.
I likely wouldn’t sign up for another similar service simply because now I have a library on my Steam Deck (purchased with the Stadia refund) and that’s how I’m used to playing at this point. But it sure was a nice service while it lasted. I thought they were selling it to someone but I guess it didn’t end up happening.
- Comment on If people from the US love the imperial system so much, why are their musicians using metronomes instead of footonomes? 2 weeks ago:
Ok, understood.
- Comment on George Takei was on Colbert yesterday 3 weeks ago:
The thing is they’ve almost gone too far to satirize. I don’t really blame people for falling for it considering there are folks with paintings of TFG pasted on Rambo’s body seriously hanging in their houses (and in at least one case that I’m aware of, their bar where RATM gets played pretty regularly).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I know what you mean. I’m not hurting and I live a good life. But what I could have done with this kind of money just 5 or 10 years ago is far greater than now. Not just inflationary greater. It’s almost like the kinds of things that only went up only as much as inflation are luxuries. Everything in the bottom tier of Maslow’s Hierarchy except air and sleep seemed to get way more expensive than inflation can account for.
Or I’m just getting old and miss getting gas for $0.79
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Given the purchasing power of $100k, I feel like those numbers are woefully out of date. Not saying you’re wrong, only that the numbers themselves need to be reevaluated in light of what has happened in the last 5 years (and started well before that).
Otherwise, “middle class” is meaningless because it doesn’t represent purchasing power, only an arbitrary number.
- Comment on The Department of Justice is preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation 3 weeks ago:
Given the picture I bet your first guess is correct. That’s also what sparked this whole investigation.
- Comment on teachings 3 weeks ago:
Lost me at “I think”. I don’t, apparently.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 3 weeks ago:
There was a commenter the other day (I wish I could remember who) that said something along the lines of libertarians regularly reinvent things we already have.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Because it was her tour that sparked it and she’s more famous than the head of ticketmaster and the DOJ person put together. People making news like clicks. Why are you being weird about the fact that news companies like it when people consume their content so they can make more on advertising?
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 3 weeks ago:
Sort of. Texas and others instituted laws where websites have to age verify anyone looking at porn. So a bunch of websites just geofenced off those places. The easy way to watch porn is to connect to a VPN or go to shittier sites.
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 3 weeks ago:
It’s an easy way to bypass dumb states anti porn laws for those that already pay for extra space.
- Comment on High quality channel 3 weeks ago:
Yep. Chewing tobacco (go check out Red Man), or chaw, is coarsely chopped. Dip (fucking Skoal wintergreen, I can still smell it just thinking about it) is much more finely chopped. I believe chewing tobacco has fallen out of favor, but I still see a lot of dip rings in people’s pants.
Chaw is usually chewed a little to release some flavor before putting it between your gums and cheek. Dip is just placed directly there. You get flavor and nicotine. Always spit, never swallow.
I’m actually jealous of people who have never had the need to know the difference.
- Comment on High quality channel 3 weeks ago:
I went to school with both of them dudes in Texas.
- Comment on I am going to miss the mute and power buttons when they take them away. 4 weeks ago:
You can still get 10 free hours a month on their dialup. Over 10 hours and you have to pay for their super ultra extreme dialup.
- Comment on Leading the world in technology and ecological transit.. on 3.5" 4 weeks ago:
Ohhh, good info! I didn’t realize. Well, that’s gonna suck for a lot of people in a lot of industries sometime soon.
- Comment on Leading the world in technology and ecological transit.. on 3.5" 4 weeks ago:
As long as they can still get floppies to replace them as they go bad I don’t see a problem. They’re still being made for things like old geological and industrial equipment and will continue being made for a while.
- Comment on Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) 5 weeks ago:
That’s a great movie with some pretty awesome quotable lines.