porous_grey_matter
@porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 6 days ago:
Anything is a normal thing for it to say, it will say basically whatever you want
- Comment on Surprise! 1 week ago:
It’s almost like there’s a spectrum
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 2 weeks ago:
What those criteria are matters
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 2 weeks ago:
CCC was collecting some money for them last year, not sure if this is still active www.ccc.de/en/updates/…/das-ist-vollig-entgleist
- Comment on Creepy find: German customs net tarantulas in cookie shipment 4 weeks ago:
Not to mention that farm animal welfare in Germany is extremely poor
- Comment on Yellow from the egg! 5 weeks ago:
Yes that’s why they should be allowed
- Comment on You got it, buddy 1 month ago:
French remained influential in the courts, higher education, and elite society long after it stopped being the “official” language. That last part is totally right.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 1 month ago:
Sure, but many of those words for specialised doctors came to English through French, not directly from Latin or Greek. And I don’t think that you can reasonably argue that English words with French origins aren’t by now a native part of the language. We use many of the same names in Dutch too, coming from French loanwords.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 1 month ago:
“ear-nose-throat” is commonly used in English.
And it kind of is like the medical field popped into existence in the 1700s.
- Comment on yeey 1 month ago:
Only stuff that starts off heavier than lead, and even then not everything, some decay chains stop at thallium instead. Cobalt, with atomic number 27, won’t ever become lead, with 55 more protons.
- Comment on yeey 1 month ago:
Nickel is not extremely edible lol
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Compute can be outsourced to the cloud (not that I think that’s good, but it does lift the limit on small devices)
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 1 month ago:
Those are pretty low taxes
- Comment on Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance. 1 month ago:
I miss orbs
- Comment on Perovskite-based image sensors promise higher sensitivity and resolution than silicon 1 month ago:
There have been some improvements but their poor stability is still the biggest problem yeah
- Comment on Perovskite-based image sensors promise higher sensitivity and resolution than silicon 1 month ago:
For many kinds of them, yes, but not literally all
- Comment on Who remembers alt.fan.tonya.harding.whack.whack.whack ? 1 month ago:
Really recommend listening to the “you’re wrong about” episode about her
- Comment on To thy own self be true 1 month ago:
That’s exactly what it is
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 1 month ago:
Not really, it has a couple of niche uses mainly because people externalised the cost of coming up with a good analytical solution to their data processing problem (e.g. medical imaging analysis) which would be vastly more efficient and give insight into the underlying mechanisms, but that would cost grant money rather than VC capital and further externalised energy and environmental costs which are finally born by us, the taxpayers. Ultimately the technology as a whole is delivering very little value and like all hype bubbles mainly serves as a way of further enriching billionaires. But text generator go brrrrr
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 1 month ago:
The github copilot in vscode is a little less shit than the generic ms copilot (but it still sucks ass compared to just writing anything yourself)
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 month ago:
Those people don’t exist, they are just an excuse for you to be cruel
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 month ago:
but even if we had enough of that, there’d still be mentally ill people and drug addicts that would prefer to live on the street
How about we get there first and then you can hand wring about any of these supposed people who are left?
- Comment on Fun to do 1 month ago:
Ok boomer
- Comment on I'd be screaming too lmao 1 month ago:
They’re quite a lot pointier, I think it would help
- Comment on I'd be screaming too lmao 1 month ago:
It doesn’t even have a tip on lol
- Comment on Due to American politics I'm afraid of using high speed rail in Germany 2 months ago:
Heh, “high speed”.
- Comment on p is for pHunky 2 months ago:
And the same origin, it’s not a coincidence they all start with P
- Comment on kiwis! 2 months ago:
The Tokoeka (North Island Brown Kiwi) has never been gone from the wild, there’s always been over 20,000 in the wild, mostly in Northland, Coromandel, Te Urewera, and Tongariro. The Southern Tokoeka is also hanging on alright in Rakiura (Stewart Island) and a little in Fiordland. The Roroa (great spotted) and little spotted are near extinct in the wild, the little one particularly is totally wiped out from the North Island and mostly only found on predator free island sanctuaries now.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 months ago:
See you’re looking at it from the point of view that it would serve the player experience, but that’s not what it’s for, it’s to mine your data
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 2 months ago:
Yeah but GameStop’s entire existence depends on crypto meme hype, while Meta’s depends on extracting our data as efficiently as possible