Rhaedas
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- Comment on what would happen? 3 hours ago:
Great additions. And the biggest Imperial vulnerability remained the same as it had always been throughout. Cassian points this out in an early episode - they're so full of themselves being the Empire that you can just walk in if you blend in. They can't imagine someone having the balls to do that. Even in late RotJ we see that, the trick to open the door to the shield control. Of course someone with a walker is going to be them, telling them to open up. Who else could it be? Arrogant to the end. Hell, Palpatine at that point, even after him devising this plan for so long and right under the Jedi, is so proud and sure of himself at the end. He has foreseen it all, and how could these rebel insects win now?
And I mean he's almost right. He's just not paying attention to minor details.
- Comment on what would happen? 9 hours ago:
In the original movie we see them devastate the rebels when capturing the ship. We see Obi-Wan mention that the shots on the jawa transport are too accurate for sand people so they must be Imperial. We see a lot of missed shots as they escape, but as you said and as Leia herself noted, they got away far too easily.
And then there's Rogue One/Andor that shows the true side. Andor kicked scary up a notch for even the base stormtrooper.
- Comment on Bread mold 9 hours ago:
If you can see mold on part of bread that's wrapped up, that means there's probably microscopic growth that's already spread past the part you see to other sections. Cutting the big part won't help you. The whole thing needs to go, it's contaminated.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 10 hours ago:
They originally were the Knights Who Say Ni, but broke up for a while for some solo work, then reunited as The Knights Who Say Ekki Ekki Ekki Pitang Zoom Boing. Best rap album ever, with the chart topper "Only a Flesh Wound".
- Comment on Chimes 1 day ago:
Note: the frequencies you get will vary depending on the brand, as well as beef vs. chicken.
- Comment on WHY??? 1 day ago:
Get out of here with your real answers. 😜
I think the actual answer even with this source is, we sort of have some clues, but we have more questions too.
- Comment on It will not be long before we see ads claiming no ai was used in their product 2 days ago:
Useful maybe. For what purposes though... getting labor costs down, pumping out stuff fast assuming it's correct because it's AI, being ahead of their competitors. Useful as in productive? Maybe for some cases when they know what AI can and can't do or its limitations. I get the impression from this year's news stories that a lot of them jumped on it because it was the new thing, following everyone else. A lot got burned, some backtracked where they could, some are quiet but aren't pursuing it as much as they advertised.
OP is right, companies will go the direction they feel consumers will buy more from, and if that's a "No AI" slogan, that's what they'll put. There's no regulations on it, so just like before with ingredients or other labeling before rules were set, they'll lie to get you to buy it. Hell, from a software pov there's a big thing now on apps being sold as "FOSS" that are not, because there's no rules to govern it. Caveat emptor.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 2 days ago:
Or left as Reddit burned down. Not everyone needed a ban to look elsewhere, we just needed an elsewhere to find.
- Comment on xkcd #3175: Website Task Flowchart 2 days ago:
Needs a continuation of the help desk, where you end up educating the person on the topic. And at some point get transferred higher up to someone who might actually be able to help, and it disconnects while on hold.
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 3 days ago:
Have to be migratory, of course.
- Comment on Any guesses? 3 days ago:
I've seen some trucks in the US that had an L for low gear. I had a 3500 that had the normal manual shifter but also had another shifter at the base which would put you into Low mode for all those gears including R. It was VERY low, like the truck barely moved but it had all the torque you'd need to pull something.
- Comment on YSK about SearXNG - an open metasearch engine 4 days ago:
I've switched the default search engine in Firefox to DDG finally, and I honestly haven't noticed a difference in results. This may not be the best praise though, since Google has sucked for a number of years now.
- Comment on I can't eat it all! Don't be shy! 6 days ago:
I had a professor (psychology I think) once ask the class if they were presented with a toilet bowl full of water and guaranteed it was brand new and never used, would they drink the water? This sort of falls into that, and maybe it wouldn't be quite as bad if it was covered, or a food container of that size. But it feels wrong as presented.
- Comment on No one else in the world matters but me 6 days ago:
What other rules would be broken? I can't think of one. Sometimes you have to adjust your speed. You should always be looking ahead to anticipate if a lane change would cause a problem.
The funny thing is that there is so much anxiety and rage built over being a bit faster or first in line, and yet most of the time all the anger at being stuck in a lane or slow is an illusion as the entire traffic mass is moving at the speed limit or higher. It is just your relative perception and you'll still get to your destination at the same time.
The same thing happens in slow traffic. People spend so much energy trying to weave back and forth between lanes, almost causing collisions, only to stop a few feet again.
- Comment on No one else in the world matters but me 6 days ago:
Good. There used to be signs on major roads for slower traffic to stay right, but it was more of a notice than a hard law. And that's the real issue, a law is only as good as its enforcement, and if everyone is doing all sorts of things wrong there's only so many that can be pulled over at once.
- Comment on Your job is going to fire you for an unexcused absence. So you send them a pic to prove that you are in the hospital 1 week ago:
"Okay, I'll take this out of your vacation time. See you tomorrow."
- Comment on Billionaires are robbing us blind, but i still feel like a theif taking a few hundred dollars in cash out of my bank 1 week ago:
Sometimes? I wouldn't worry about your unease in walking out of your bank with your money, I'd worry about having your money in that bank where they apparently give money out to anyone.
- Comment on HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use 1 week ago:
I blame the drive to use anything new before the competitor does and gets an advantage, added to worse and worse IT departments that don't really know what they're doing. There could be some companies that have a good IT that just get overruled, of course.
- Comment on Billionaires are robbing us blind, but i still feel like a theif taking a few hundred dollars in cash out of my bank 1 week ago:
Seems a bit too easy if that's all you're doing without any verification. If they're checking that you are who you say you are, then it's your money.
- Comment on Apertus: Switzerland government release a fully open, transparent, multilingual language LLM 1 week ago:
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- Comment on In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse 1 week ago:
I see your point, but that exactly was a coping mechanism for something that didn't have a solution. Is assisted suicide a modern version as a way to deal with an unsolvable problem (and I'm all for it btw, just comparing the goals of both).
I don't think they are the same as finding ways to avoid grief, which is what the topic of a replacement of the lost individual is about. I'm sure anyone in the therapy field has already explored this to find any benefits of prolonging.
But in regards about the claim: I don't even know how far the cloning has gone, or how it's been accepted. But I have heard that immediately getting another pet to replace that loss isn't a good thing to do for similar reasons for owner and pet, and the cloning is worse because it's pretending it's the same animal (in most cases, I can't say everyone). That's how it was sold, getting your pet back. I can't see how this can turn into a better route for grief when there isn't any, and might turn to despair or anger when the new version of the pet doesn't act the same as the old.
But you're right, there's no data, it's just a gut feeling based on my own experiences that I'm still dealing with in some respects.
If anything, the AI acting as far as just visual is not a huge jump from watching old video of them from the past. It's a bit odd, but I can accept that times change and some things become normal that were not. Having an AI that responds back as if they were the person crosses the line that I've been talking about. Some people think ChatGPT with its flaws is still a person, so they'll fall for this being the loved one from the grave, and I still hold that living in that fantasy is not healthy for the mind.
- Comment on Current state of the internet 1 week ago:
Here's the link to the ExplainXKCD about this image.
The one mentioned is the node.js story. It wasn't a long term thing, as it was just a matter of replacing the code and many had their own local versions and weren't relying on a core source like others that broke. But dependency, no redundancy, not breaking gracefully, they all are avoidable problems that are all around waiting for whatever little block topples for them.
- Comment on In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse 1 week ago:
A source about grieving and acceptance vs. refusal to acknowledge a death? Realizing that people and things die isn't romancing anything, it's being realistic instead of pretending nothing happened or that they're "back" from the dead.
- Comment on In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse 1 week ago:
The issue of giving people ways to avoid grieving and letting go of their loved ones popped up a number of years ago when places started offering clones of your deceased pet. Even that isn't a good idea, and not fair at all to the animal. But it's not good for the mental well being of the person. Death is part of life, and pretending someone is still here is not healthy.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
Some software clients parsing the Fediverse protocol treat some special markdowns differently. It's gotten better as new versions are updated to recognize more, but it's still a thing.
- Comment on Amazing 1 week ago:
Not ISO 8601 format, can not read.
- Comment on Sensory issues 1 week ago:
I took it as a sex joke too, but actually meaning if the mother hadn't skipped out on the previous sex the person wouldn't have been conceived because there was already someone else.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
But He loves you. And he needs MONEY!
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
I tried to duplicate what you have (which works in your example) but it broke it badly, so I left it. One day all the Fediverse will be universal in how it works.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
The video explains how a single needle can play stereo sound, but in doing so explains how the basic idea works before going into the incredible design to do two channels.