lengau
@lengau@midwest.social
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
How are they gonna prove he’s alive?
Have him write “truths”? That’s just an LLM That’s trained to sound like him.
Get his voice somewhere? They just fed that LLM into an AI voice cloner.
Video? Ok so they added deepfake into the mix.
Short bits of him leaving the White House from afar? Body double.
He needs to travel the country doing rallies twice a day and shaking hands with all the people so we can actually see he’s alive. Anything short of that is just unconvincing.
- Comment on No title and I can't stop laughing 2 days ago:
I only know in this picture because of the monogrammed beds.
- Comment on Is it? 5 days ago:
A loaf of milk is probably my favourite snack.
- Comment on Why are they even doing this, the grass wasn't even that tall 1 week ago:
I used to have a neighbour who said he couldn’t live in a city because “it’s just too loud.” He would wake me up with his lawnmower at 7 AM every Saturday.
Anyway, now I live in the city and I get to sleep in because people on the whole are actually pretty considerate.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 week ago:
I initially read that as “stop using VPNs to watch child porn, ministers told” and was expecting a very different article.
- Comment on New project, new energy 1 week ago:
Unstarted project I’ve been thinking about for 13 years
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 2 weeks ago:
Integer storage in spreadsheets… There are a ridiculous number of ways to store any integer, and I don’t just mean because you could theoretically store
1and00000001and they’d be interpreted as the same thing. - Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 weeks ago:
Given that part of my job is evaluating applicants’ ability to do the job, and given that LLMs are very good at answering the sort of questions many people ask in interviews, AI is making my job significantly harder.
If someone could make a prompt that actually made an LLM write good code, I wouldn’t have nearly as much of an issue.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 2 weeks ago:
I would agree, except that every piece of it is significantly more complex than it needs to be. ODF is considerably simpler in part because it makes use of other pre-existing standards for things like dates and times. OOXML redefines so many of those things, and in many cases Microsoft Office’s implementation isn’t actually compatible with their own standard.
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 2 months ago:
I’m grateful to Microsoft for Windows 11 providing me a bunch of free machines to stick in my basement and put Linux on.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
You will then think about how you’re supposed to be relaxing but aren’t, which will spike your anxiety.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
Ohai fellow ADHD-haver!
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 months ago:
Congrats! You have this superpower and I am jealous.
Unfortunately you can now only concentrate on things you are supposed to do. You try to watch TV and you can’t follow the show because you’re thinking about how you need to mop the floors. Want to read? You can’t concentrate because you really should wash your windows. Your life becomes a hell of boring productivity. You lose sleep thinking about all the things you’re supposed to do, including how you’re supposed to be asleep by now. There is no more pleasure in life. There are no more quiet moments. There is only stuff you are supposed to do.
- Comment on Common British L 3 months ago:
American food relies far too much on capsaicin for making things spicy. There are other spices too.
- Comment on Common British L 3 months ago:
Most “American” foods were brought by immigrants too.
- Comment on Common British L 3 months ago:
Honestly at this point if people want to try this I’m not gonna stop them.
- Comment on Speak American 3 months ago:
I saw a New York Times recipe once that called for ¾ cup plus 2 tablespoons of all purpose flour.
They meant 125g.
- Comment on Don't ask for more pixels 3 months ago:
Because they know by doing that they can both get engagement and someone else to find the best quality version for them.
- Comment on Apple adds red exclamation mark warnings on EU App Store listings for apps using third-party payment systems, not Apple's “private and secure payment system” 3 months ago:
My experience with Apple has been more like
- Comment on Apple adds red exclamation mark warnings on EU App Store listings for apps using third-party payment systems, not Apple's “private and secure payment system” 3 months ago:
I credit Apple in many ways for their choice to design their business in a way that their profit motive often aligns with their users’ interests.
Their app store model for iOS is one of the strongest examples of them not doing that though.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 4 months ago:
Yeah, Steam is pretty much a monopoly. But I haven’t seen what I’d call monopolistic practices from them. It’s just that everyone else appears to fall flat on their faces when trying to make a competing product.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 4 months ago:
I’m less mad at Steam and Google because there are clear, simple ways to avoid their cuts.
I have no basis to say whether they’re providing a service worth the 30% charge. I’m also less mad at Steam than at Google because they’re being less shady about trying to push people into their store too.
- Comment on Based tesla user??? 4 months ago:
Anyone in tech who followed the rise of paypal
- Comment on Based tesla user??? 4 months ago:
He was always this bad and I’ve been warning people about him for a decade or more. That’s the point - own the fact that you were ignorant rather than pretending this was some sort of change in him.
- Comment on Based tesla user??? 4 months ago:
Honestly I view Teslas with these sorts of stickers as even worse than not having them, because Musk was always this bad.
An “I didn’t know and now I regret it” sticker would garner much more sympathy from me.
- Comment on Do it 4 months ago:
Blown by the Wind in my Ass
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 4 months ago:
I think a better analogy would be that you’re tuning your bike for better performance because the trade-offs of switching to a car are worse than keeping the bike.
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 4 months ago:
It’s all about trade-offs. Here are a few reasons why one might care about performance in their Python code:
- Performance is often more tied to the code than to the interpreter - an O(n³) algorithm in blazing fast C won’t necessarily perform any better than an O(nlogn) algorithm in Python.
- Just because this particular Python code isn’t particularly performance constrained doesn’t mean you’re okay with it taking twice as long.
- Rewriting a large code base can be very expensive and error-prone. Converting small, very performance-sensitive parts of the code to a compiled language while keeping the bulk of the business logic in Python is often a much better value proposition.
These are also performance benefits one can get essentially for free with linter rules.
Anecdotally: in my final year of university I took a computational physics class. Many of my classmates wrote their simulations in C or C++. I would rotate between Matlab, Octave and Python. During one of our labs where we wrote particle simulations, I wrote and ran Octave and Python simulations in the time it took my classmates to write their C/C++ versions, and the two fastest simulations in the class were my Octave and Python ones, respectively. (The professor’s own sim came in third place). The overhead my classmates had dealing with poorly optimised code that caused constant cache misses was far greater than the interpreter overhead in my code (though at the time I don’t think I could have explained why their code was so slow compared to mine).
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 4 months ago:
Well in that case may e he can find religion? amp.cnn.com/…/south-african-insecticide-prophet
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 4 months ago:
