Vanth
@Vanth@reddthat.com
- Comment on Spotify Wrapped 2024 controversy explained — what you need to know 3 weeks ago:
Why this even calls for generative AI is beyond me. Just post my top 5 artists and top 5 songs. It’s data already available.
Mine said my top artist is Hozier, driving my Goblincore Fantasy Forest phase. I couldn’t name a Hozier song since Take Me To Church, a song that falls into Nickelback territory for me, as in sellouts that get way too much playtime. And no idea how that turned into goblins and fantasy forests.
- Comment on Better luck next time 5 weeks ago:
Man, that’s like another 4 hours of embroidery. Accurate, but sooooo loooong.
- Comment on Israel using AI weapons system co-produced with Indian firm in war on Gaza 1 month ago:
Am I reading the techno-babble accurately?
You would muzzle sweep your target with the trigger pressed, and it would fire as your gun is actually aimed for the most-probable strike. If off target = it doesn’t fire = bullets saved and probably better targeting because the shooter isn’t dealing with as much recoil.
So even less training needed and even further removed from human decision making. Soldiers didn’t murder that unarmed civilian, AI did.
- Comment on Legal complications await if OpenAI tries to shake off control by the nonprofit that owns the rapidly growing tech company 1 month ago:
Missing some punctuation.
Don’t. Be evil.
- Comment on "Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online 1 month ago:
You could have just agreed that it’s crazy how far religious zealotry [has gone].
And you could have followed this exact same advice.
- Comment on "Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online 1 month ago:
For funsies, I websearched “movement stop male circumcism” and the three top hits were articles written by or groups founded by women speaking up for men.
I’d love to see a real effort to stop genital mutilation of all babies. When the most visible time men speak up about it though is when they insert themselves into a conversation about women, it does not build sympathy for the issue.
I mean this sincerely. If you are at all serious about stopping the genital mutilation of babies, I suggest you rethink your strategy.
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 1 month ago:
But did they pinky promise?
- Comment on YouTube Jewels look like they were ripped straight out of the Reddit Gold playbook 1 month ago:
Vertical live streams? As in camera orientation? Vert videos will have this feature and horizontal won’t? Not knowing the intricacies of the content creator world, I don’t get why vertical vs horizontal should make any difference.
- Comment on lab supplies 1 month ago:
Free pair with a purchase over $1000. I firmly believe in the existence of someone buying a pile of lab equipment for a university grant and they pocketed the undies for themselves.
- Comment on Tag your lab-mates 1 month ago:
Toxic gas
- Comment on Meta is reportedly working on its own AI-powered search engine, too 2 months ago:
Meta wants to decrease its reliance on Google
Ugh, get a room already. Everyone can tell those two bicker because they want to be in each other’s pants.
- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers | "Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal," Redditor says. 2 months ago:
It’s the new WallStreetBets GameStop saga. Fine when big companies manipulate the market, bad when normal people do it on a much smaller scale.
- Comment on Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro 2 months ago:
It’s not just the $3.5k cost of a headset. There are recurring costs to maintain the headsets. Even larger than that is cost of converting existing work instructions into the virtual environment and maintaining them. Plus expect push back from some workers, possibly losing some to other companies. And if it’s a union shop, expect them to use the change as leverage in next negotiations.
I would absolutely require more money to strap a chunk of electronics to my face for 8+ hours a workday.
- Comment on Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro 2 months ago:
Airbus in Toulouse has one section of a production line where work instructions, tool tips, and prints are available to the mechanics on VR headset. There are surely other industries that are further along, but in aerospace, that Airbus line is goals. I’ve seen it in an open house / show off situation. I am still skeptical how mechanics use VR headsets for 8+ hour shifts day after day.
I’m sure they’re not as intense as video game VRs, those start giving me headache and nausea after about 45 minutes. 8+ hours seems like it would be a lot. And at 8+ hours, it’s not even just the vision/nausea, I have to assume it becomes a question about ergonomics of neck and shoulders supporting the extra weight.
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 2 months ago:
Well, it is public knowledge that layoffs and furloughs are happening, so sadly, you’re not wrong.
And they somehow enticed Kelly Ortberg out of retirement to take over as CEO. There’s the hella juicy c-suite compensation package you talked about. He was already riding golden after he maneuvered that Rockwell Collins sale/merger/whatever.
- Comment on Raise the jolly rancher 2 months ago:
My brother did GM a one-shot set in a brewery staffed by magical creatures once. He was trying to draw in a sister who is into homebrewing and no previous experience with TTRPG. It kinda worked, she was willing to play but then kept correcting my brother when he got brewing specific facts wrong.
I am already a fencsitter on TTRPGs, I want to like them but find so many people wildly annoying during them. If ever I run into another intersection fo TTRPG fan and homebrewing fan, I’m out. It was so terrifically pedantic and unnecessary.
- Comment on Telegram is exposing their users privacy. 2 months ago:
My younger sister (Gen Z) talks smack about my generation (millennial) overuse of emojis and this Telegram post is making me agree with her. The attempt at cutesie emojis is jarring.
- Comment on What’s the most overhyped tech trend right now? 3 months ago:
Do you just do CAD though? Our Mech Es do a lot in CAD but not solely. Even our drafters do a lot of things not in CAD. If anyone ever asked me what I do for work, “CAD” would not be my answer.
- Comment on What’s the most overhyped tech trend right now? 3 months ago:
The two nuclear developmemts I’m watching closest are the test molten salt reactor in Oak Ridge, TN and just recently heard about a new permit to build one for Abilene Christian University in Texas.
- Comment on What’s the most overhyped tech trend right now? 3 months ago:
I was at my company’s booth at a career fair earlier this week and it felt like every other student was looking for an internship in “machine learning”. When I asked follow up questions about what sort of experience they’d had or projects done or what they wanted to do with it in their career, crickets.
To be fair, 2nd most popular was “CAD” which is also not a job.
- Comment on Alcohol from peppers? 3 months ago:
Ever had a spicy margarita?
- Comment on Alcohol from peppers? 3 months ago:
Such a good addition to my liquor shelf. It is a liquor and if one likes spice, it opens another layer of variation to margaritas, Manhattans, Palomas, negronis, and so many more.
- Comment on Any non-tech-background self-hosters? 3 months ago:
Nope, I work in STEM but not IT nor software.
I’m a serial hobbyist and actively pursue projects outside the scope of my job and education background.
- Comment on Flying through Seattle's hacked airport 4 months ago:
FlightAware shows their departures looking pretty typical for on-time 🤷
- Comment on "REM sleep is the next AI" 4 months ago:
So will people pay to have Nicolas Cage in their dreams, or will they pay to not have him in their dreams?
- Comment on As He Realized His Mistake, Elon Musk Begged Twitter Staff to Turn Off the New Feature He'd Pushed For 4 months ago:
Careful there, bud, you’re singing the siren song of bank bailouts.
- Comment on Peloton to ruin the secondhand market by charging a $95 ‘used equipment activation fee’ | It doesn’t apply to refurbished models bought directly from the company 4 months ago:
Could one just swap the credit card and email associated with the Pelaton account, and transfer the account to the new owner of the used machine? No “reactivation” fee needed if it never goes idle.
Caution needed if handing it over to a rando from Craigslist, ofc. But if I were selling to friend or family, I’d be willing to put in a little effort to save them $95.
- Comment on Peloton to ruin the secondhand market by charging a $95 ‘used equipment activation fee’ | It doesn’t apply to refurbished models bought directly from the company 4 months ago:
The few people I know who are into the Pelaton community do it for the competition/gamification element. They watch their status against global leaderboards and are highly motivated by it.
For those that it works for, great. I am highly motivated by competition, but those prices are too rich for my blood.
Maybe there are also people into Pelaton who are like those who pay a monthly gym subscription even if they have space at home? And could buy a home setup that saves them money. The monthly pay makes them commit financially and motivates them to go to the gym consistently.
- Comment on Threads spotted exploring ads, but says 'no immediate timeline' toward monetization 4 months ago:
I interpreted it as you don’t heat the pot while the frog is still in the pond. You only apply heat slowly once the front is already in the pot.
Don’t load up the ads until the users are already on Threads. Wait until they are active on Threads, then crank up the ads when it’s more difficult for the users to leave.
- Comment on We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why 4 months ago:
Not Ello!
Jk, I was the only person I knew with an Ello account. I know more people on lemmy and mastodon and fediverse stuff than I did on Ello. It didn’t take much to predict it wouldn’t work out.