lennivelkant
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- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 2 days ago:
Product packaging for non-foods
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 2 days ago:
What, you don’t think 1cm² of product should be packaged in a 7×10 cm doubled-up plastic sheet?
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 6 days ago:
The fact that you launch into some part of your day doesn’t change that it’s gauging your mood on her end.
Maybe not, but the fact that me launching into that is an accepted and expected part of the response does.
If a manager calls me about a project and asks how I am, they don’t want me recounting an earlier frustrating interaction. As you say, they’re trying to gauge my mood, but ultimately my mood or how it came to be are irrelevant because we’re here to talk business. If I omit my headache, they don’t care.
If my GF asks me, she actually wants a response. If I omit my headache and she finds out later, she’ll be upset: “Why didn’t you say so earlier?”
That expectation is the difference.
- Comment on Airbuddy 🦛 6 days ago:
Only for bipedals. Quadrupedal animals can well keep a leg on the ground at all times even when moving at speed. To borrow from another comment here: Would you call a stampeding elephant “walking”?
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 6 days ago:
Charitably, it sounds like someone highly competent in one field dramatically misjudging their competence in another: Just because you’re good at chemistry doesn’t meam you also know how that chemistry acts on an ecosystem.
Cynically, it sounds like someone coming up with a genius idea, hoping to make money and dismissing any shortcomings because they get in the way of money.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 1 week ago:
It was a really stupidly worded comment on his part. If he meant Big Tech and Little Tech spwcifically rather than Big Business in general and individual people, his choice of words and the claim that the tables had “completely turned” are really unfortunate. Tagging the annoying orange directly also doesn’t help make this look like it’s about the pick, rather than the picker.
As an aside, forgive me if I withhold my enthusiasm until I see her actually pull something through and not just end up another way to cripple ElMo’s competition.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 1 week ago:
If a colleague asks me “Hi, how’re you doing?” it’s small talk and I’ll respond something like “Oh you know, the usual.” If my partner asks me “Hi, how was your day?” it’s a genuine question and I will respond “That fucking dickhead at work that always plays nice and personable came around with another set of “urgent” requests and no fucking clue what he’s actually asking for, whether it’s possible or why I told him last week it isn’t.”
The difference is in how serious I take the question.
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 1 week ago:
The reasons I personally know are “I have to use an app for work, there is no interoperable alternative, I have no leverage to replace that entire ecosystem and it won’t run with wine” and “It’s a company-issued device where I have no rights to change anything anyway.” Combined, they make the reason that my work Laptop runs Win11, but my private PC is Linux through and through. I’d like to be able to use said app on my private PC too, but if it doesn’t, no big deal.
- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 1 week ago:
You’d need something to hook into the memory or storage of the app I guess?
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 1 week ago:
There is a difference between wanting to live comfortably, which is rational, and actively seeking ways to exploit others for your own gain beyond what you need to live. Greed isn’t “I want to have enough”, it’s “I can never have enough”.
Society has always thrived on a measure of generosity. So many cultures have customs around giving gifts, because that’s how you build a support network of people that will help you out when you need it. Greed is shortsighted and destructive.
Or would you want to voluntarily waive parts of your salary?
Depends on the reason. If the waived amount goes to paying for healthcare, support someone suddenly unemployed or maintain infrastructure that I or other people need? Sure.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 1 week ago:
That’s war. That has been the nature of war and deterrence policy ever since industrial manufacture has escalated both the scale of deployments and the cost and destructive power of weaponry. Make it too expensive for the other side to continue fighting (or, in the case of deterrence, to even attack in the first place). If the payoff for scraping no longer justifies the investment of power and processing time, maybe the smaller ones will give up and leave you in peace.
- Comment on Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says 3 weeks ago:
Are we talking about the same guy that opted to scrap all sensors for his self-driving cars because he figures humans can drive with eyes only, they don’t need more than a camera?
- Comment on Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says 3 weeks ago:
“I didn’t give you permission to get caught!”
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 3 weeks ago:
Let’s put an end to the discussion
lol
lmao - Comment on Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back 3 weeks ago:
In that respect, I’m rather glad my employer is on the slow and steady side. Yeah, sure, they’re very much behind on some topics and just recently started catching up on others, but their cautious scepticism towards new tech has spared us some headaches. I’d rather take the frustration of not getting all the tools I’d like to have than the stress of “ooh, look, this new shiny thing is gonna replace that other system you just got used to!”
- Comment on Chromium Blog: Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome 4 weeks ago:
I love this
I hate it too but I love it.
- Comment on xkcd #3087: Pascal's Law 4 weeks ago:
Arse nemesis
- Comment on Cardinals most likely to be the pope 5 weeks ago:
I mean, this is the Catholic Church we’re talking about. They’re not particularly known for fair hiring policies.
- Comment on Snapchat scraps ‘simple’ redesign as it loses users in North America 5 weeks ago:
Corporate management often seems to think of changes as isolated, independent events, where the measurable impact of each change can be attributed to that change. I think it’s a symptom of the pathological need for KPIs and Data-based decision-making. Making big decisions is scary, and data can help with informing them, but I get the impression some managers grow so dependent on using numbers as a crutch to spare them from having to justify their decision with their own best judgement.
- Comment on Microsoft's AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages 5 weeks ago:
They didn’t fully hand it to Linux yet. We still have to earn that. Ideological appeal / privacy concern alone isn’t enough for many people if the jump seems too scary, particularly if it feels like a one-directional leap of faith. What if they don’t like it on the other side? Better the devil you know…
We need to build bridges, in both directions: help and encourage people to switch to Linux, but also promise them help to get back, basically an “out” if they don’t like it. I see plenty of guides for migrating to Linux, but how about getting back to Windows?
It’s okay not to like Linux, it’s okay to be scared or apprehensive, and it’s okay to get cold feet and return to the familiar. Maybe some time in the future they’ll try again.
- Comment on I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server 5 weeks ago:
That’s the usual case with arms races: Unless you are yourself a major power, odds are you’ll never be able to fully stand up to one (at least not on your own, but let’s not stretch the metaphor too far). Often, the best you can do is to deterr other, minor powers and hope major ones never have a serious intent to bring you down.
In this specific case, the number of potential minor “attackers” and the hurdle for “attack” mKe it attractive to try to overwhelm the amateurs at least. You’ll never get the pros, you just hope they don’t bother you too much.
- Comment on I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server 5 weeks ago:
Still illegal. Not immoral, but a lot of our laws aren’t built on morality.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation 1 month ago:
That was my point, actually, expanding on the previous point of the policy being designed to kill small businesses. The big corps can do that, pretending to be ever so regretful about the firings, while small ones face insolvency.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation 1 month ago:
Everything about this seems almost designed to murder small businesses.
Those with enough capital backing, resources and funds can take the hit, maybe cut some expenses, shedding crocodile tears about how terrible the economic impact of this trade war has affected them while dispassionately watching scores of no-longer-employees pack their things and try to figure out how to tell their kids that the promised trip next month they’d been looking forward to all year is cancelled.
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 1 month ago:
The point is that the company being sued has to pay those millions in the first place. The law firm does pay itself rather well for that work, but I’d consider class actions to be one of the more defensible legal actions.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 1 month ago:
The “Contain, Verify, Explain Foundation”, dedicated to the study of and protection against cyber-anomalies
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 month ago:
Satin undies?
Close. Soiled undies.
- Comment on Describe conservatives with one picture 1 month ago:
Is it me or does that post author name look like a lot of the bots named “WordWordNumber”?
- Comment on I hope she found herself 1 month ago:
Because that’s what the other person asked. “Secluded myself” isn’t really an answer. I can seclude myself counting leaves in the forest, lay down and stare at the ceiling, walk circles around my room and try to make them perfectly circular…
It’s not that you have to tell; saying “I don’t know” or “I’d rather not say” would be an answer too. But you made a snide remark regarding the other person’s reading comprehension (why?) and fail to properly comprehend their question (or mine).
- Comment on I hope she found herself 1 month ago:
…and what did you do while high?