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- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 5 hours ago:
I think they necessarily will. I can’t imagine retailers eating the lost margin.
- Comment on Say thanks 2 days ago:
New fear for couches unlocked.
- Comment on Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms? 2 days ago:
Betteridge’s law applies. The answer to a yes-no headline question is always no.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 2 days ago:
I don’t want to ask ai. Google automatically gives me ai search results that are piss poor. Those useless results still use energy to generate.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 2 days ago:
And the quality of the AI output sucks. I was recently looking for information about positive convention for yaw, pitch, and roll in aircraft. I was looking at az and yaw and got reasonable results from the AI, but when I looked at pitch and el all of the results were about elevator pitches. Even when I spelled out elevation it insisted on elevator pitches. I scroll past the AI results as a matter of principle, but I usually look at them so I have something specific to complain about when people ask why I am so virulently anti-AI.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 days ago:
Cause it’s too old for the list writers to know about? Also, their adoption rate was pretty poor.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 days ago:
One point. I have never owned an encyclopedia unless Encarta counts. My parents owned one when I was a kid, and I used the library encyclopedia a ton. I’m in my early 50s. I’m surprised the encyclopedia is not the most common point.
- Comment on We are so cooked 3 days ago:
Bees aren’t the only arthropods having this problem, but for most of the other non-pollinators people seem to think "good less bugs to bother me. " I guess we should just give up on the survival of the food chain.
The news for insects is not entirely bad, emerald ash borers are finding the ability to survive in areas that were formerly too cold for them. This allows them to kill more trees turning them into kindling for lightning strikes and other fire starting events.
Who could have known that fucking with our habitat might have negative consequences for us?
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 1 week ago:
Lots of free movies on Tubi. I watched a few old movies that I missed there. I just don’t watch movies much anymore.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 1 week ago:
Yay, my 50 something butt is a younger people.
- Comment on Found at work. Send help. 2 weeks ago:
Resume: “Experienced Excel Wizard”
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 2 weeks ago:
LLMs don’t even think. Four year olds are more coherent. Given the state of politics, the people thinking LLMs are smarter than them are probably correct.
- Comment on The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat” 2 weeks ago:
As someone who survived the Reagan administration, this comment really sums the sensation up well. Like did you MFers have the same Reagan, I did? The one that was open and shameless about trickle down economics? Yeah, the wealthy get everything amd a little bit will trickle down to the vast majority of you (don’t mind the urine smell of that trickle).
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases 4 weeks ago:
I wonder what happens if you use Pale Moon but set the user agent to Firefox.
- Comment on Good boi 1 month ago:
Hands are too big too.
- Comment on I miss myspace 1 month ago:
I can hear the music just by seeing the picture.
- Comment on Funny this never made it into a James Taylor song 1 month ago:
Much, much saltier than concrete.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 1 month ago:
Why does it get more embarrassing to be an American every year?
(Hypernormalization and resistance is futile)
- Comment on Hyper-Normalization 1 month ago:
Fair warning, this is fairly painful to watch. Well worth watching though.
- Comment on US Government said try working, you can return to disability during trial period. Now they claim unable to go back during trial period because of obscure technical reason. 1 month ago:
Contact your local legal aid organization and see if they can help you. Having an attorney helping navigate the procedures can help - sadly the administrative “professionals” often take people with bar cards more seriously.
- Comment on Scientists brace ‘for the worst’ as Trump purges climate mentions from websites 1 month ago:
I am just going to ignore this big lump growing in my scrotum. I’m sure it is fine.
- Comment on Caveman technology 2 months ago:
The caller is inside the house with you.
- Comment on I put on my robe and my wizard hat 4 months ago:
An older reference, but a meritorious one. We will need to delve deeper into this dungeon to determine how you master it. Perhaps there’s a tome of rules to guide our journey into this pursuit.
- Comment on It’s been 30 years since Intel’s infamous Pentium FDIV bug reared its ugly head – a math bug caused Intel’s first CPU recall 5 months ago:
This still stresses me out because my software is mission critical, safety related, and blindly assumes that the calculations will be correct.
- Comment on Cognitive Biases 5 months ago:
To be clear, sometimes authority bias is good and proper. For instance, valuing the opinion of a climate scientist who has been studying climate chaos for thirty years more than your Aunt who saw Rush Limbaugh say climate change is a hoax in the 1990s is normal and rational.
Basically, authority bias as a reasoning flaw stems from misidentifying who is authoritative on a subject.
- Comment on Ah yes, regression 5 months ago:
They’ll also try to linear fit even the most obvious exponential curve.
- Comment on Oh Shit 5 months ago:
Rumor is he is going to release an album that is hours of recordings of Boris just destroying that toilet. Preliminary grammy favorite for best new artist.
- Comment on Sample Text 5 months ago:
At least it isn’t a couch at Ashley’s.