leisesprecher
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- Comment on Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in the U.S.. However, users in Mexico will see “Gulf of Mexico,” and the rest of its 1 billion monthly users will see both names. 1 day ago:
Well, maybe because this is just an empty symbolic gesture made exactly to trigger progressives and let the MAGAs cheer about their “victory”.
Google maps uses whatever the name of the feature in question is in the language of the user. For me, it’s not “Gulf of Mexico”, but Golf von Mexiko, and if you visit Europe (as an English user), you’ll see Munich in Bavaria in Germany, not München in Bayern in Deutschland, as would be correct.
- Comment on German Power Slips Below Zero as Negative-Price Phenomenon Grows 3 weeks ago:
I’m not arguing against the need, I’m saying that the economic incentives for private investors are not really great.
- Comment on German Power Slips Below Zero as Negative-Price Phenomenon Grows 3 weeks ago:
The thermos approach is unfortunately almost the best we currently have, because every storage solution would have to pay taxes twice, once for buying, once for selling. Not VAT, but Stromsteuer.
Also, these dips don’t occur that often, are usually not very long and it’s kind of a reverse game of chicken. The more storage we have, the less profitable each one gets. All that makes it rather unattractive to install grid scale plants.
- Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% 3 weeks ago:
Yet, you spout innuendos as if you’re knowing what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 3 weeks ago:
These people are fundamentally narcissistic and think they personally know not only how the world works, but also how it ought to work. You can see the somewhat innocent version of that in Apple’s “you’re holding it wrong” fiasco.
That kind of arrogance is kind of normal if you’re a very intelligent teenager, since most of the people around you are indeed less intelligent than you, but most people get their reality check pretty soon and grow up. Business ghouls like Larry, however, never got their reality check. They managed to become successful early in life and still operate under that childish mindset.
- Comment on Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing 2 months ago:
Yes, but that means unconsciousness (and later death).
- Comment on Is there any truth to this? 2 months ago:
It’s just a question of time. Every platform will devolve into either obscurity or cesspool.
- Comment on Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan 2 months ago:
Something like a 5 ¼" archival SSD would be really cool. Just a solid storage chonk, that you can forget in a drawer.
Pipedream, I know.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 2 months ago:
Especially if you’d add up all the inefficiencies already introduced in the name of efficiency. All those grant proposals, superfluous fluff articles to bump impact factors, etc. are all required overhead to game a system designed to seem efficient.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 2 months ago:
I heard the explanation “conservatives stop thinking if they like the current result”.
If immigrants committed any crime, the obvious solution is to deport all of them. Less immigrants, less crime, sounds great, no further research needed.
But if it’s about something like social security, they go to the ninth layer of indirection to “prove” that it’s bad, because now they found a study that slightly agrees with one of their talking points (p ≈ room temperature).
- Comment on Bombs Awat 2 months ago:
Problem is, you almost never know if that’s actually true or complete bullshit.
It seems plausible, but killing virgins for rain also seemed plausible back then in the 70s.
- Comment on Substack says it could be profitable — but it still isn’t 2 months ago:
Just like that boy in 8th grade could totally bang 100 chicks and jump over 5 cars with his bike. He just doesn’t want to.
- Comment on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports 2 months ago:
Exactly. And putting value into things just because they’re made by humans is a stupid idea.
Humans don’t exist on a separate plane, removed from everything natural and artificial. That’s hubris galore.
- Comment on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports 2 months ago:
So you’re out of arguments and resort to ad hominem?
Well, that’s not very poetic of you.
- Comment on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports 2 months ago:
Or, there simply isn’t anything to “get”.
Art is often enough deliberately made in such a way that you can’t know what was meant, without knowing beforehand what the artist meant. Framing that as some form of sophistication is simply delusional gatekeeping. It’s the attempt to set the own class apart, nothing more.
These are memes. Symbols that only make sense, if you know the reference. Treating these as indicators for anything is just an attempt to create an in-group.
- Comment on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports 2 months ago:
Or maybe accept that this idea was crap all along?
You desperately try to create some form of human superiority, just to feel important. That superiority doesn’t exist. There’s no value in anything just because it’s made with “love”, that’s an illusion.
- Comment on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports 2 months ago:
Most people don’t “get” poetry.
Did you channel your edgy 15 year old self for that? That’s incredibly arrogant and self absorbed.
- Comment on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports 2 months ago:
If it’s literally indistinguishable from human poetry, about as many people want to read it as there are people wanting to read human poetry. And that’s about 12.
- Comment on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports 2 months ago:
Or, maybe, we have to accept that art and all the grandiose and deep narratives around it are bullshit. It’s an illusion, it’s just a tool so some of us feel more important.
All that crap about not being made by humans is just the fear that the illusion of grandeur of humans might collapse.
- Comment on Guerrilla Women 2 months ago:
No, but it causes alpha particles to be emitted.
- Comment on Is an AI winter coming? Diminishing returns and scaling limit fears freeze AGI hopes 2 months ago:
No, line must go up!
- Comment on Oopsies 2 months ago:
Germany is currently considering a third way: they ask you.
Everyone in Germany has health insurance, so the idea is that the health insurance simply asks you directly to decide. Most people are in favor of organ donation, but never actually get an organ donor card or talk to their relatives. Asking them to decide won’t get anywhere near the donor rates of an opt-out scheme, but it could drastically increase them.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 2 months ago:
They don’t want to pay employees.
- Comment on The dead end of chips: Manufacturing semiconductors consumes as much energy as entire countries 2 months ago:
And that’s mostly the “bullshit IoT” category. It’s not like the demand for phones and laptops exploded in the last years, it’s IoT, AI and other useless crap - regardless of the process node.
- Comment on The dead end of chips: Manufacturing semiconductors consumes as much energy as entire countries 2 months ago:
What exactly do you think these chips are used for?
Because it’s often enough AI, crypto and bullshit IoT.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
These schemes never work forever. But the big investors usually know when to jump ship.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Not for the shareholders. And that’s exactly the problem.
- Comment on Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro 2 months ago:
Admittedly, I only ever entered an operating room under anesthesia, but could you just, you know, put the displays somewhere else?
This seems like one of those informercial “problems”.
- Comment on Absolute Units 3 months ago:
Why is that guy so annoyed, though?
A person being passionate about something is a good thing!
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 3 months ago:
Most companies seem to have don’t ask, don’t tell policies in place.
Technically we’re not allowed to use Teams on our phones, but most of us do, including management.
I’m also technically not allowed to use Spotify on my laptop, but if they’d enforce that ban, IT would be gone tomorrow.