AwesomeLowlander
@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on UK: China academic intimidation claim referred to counter-terrorism police 3 days ago:
An offence is committed if someone behaves in a way that “intends that conduct to materially assist a foreign intelligence service in carrying out UK-related activities,” or in conduct likely to assist that service.
- Comment on Air India sole survivor says plane crash ‘took all my happiness’ 4 days ago:
He might be speaking metaphorically about his past working experience. Methinks you’re reading too much into a single line.
- Comment on Superman is a terrible person who wants to take away people's freedom. 4 days ago:
Superman has kids? How?
- Comment on EA insists it will "maintain creative control" and "creative freedom" if sale to consortium goes ahead 4 days ago:
Considering their current level of creative control and freedom, that’s like Kim promising nothing will change for the worse in NK.
- Comment on How many virtual machines can you nest? 4 days ago:
I would like to subscribe to more deep dives on random topics
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 4 days ago:
- Comment on How come NK doesn't just come out and say we are in trouble and need help? Like their lack of food and stuff? I really don't see a downside for a country admit they were wrong and need help 4 days ago:
It’s been a while, but there used to be a joke that whenever NK needed an aid package, they would fire off a missile. This was in the years before the world went bugfuck right wing crazy
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 4 days ago:
Is there a reason why people on the metric system have a need to be learning imperials? (I know 1 mile = 1.6 km, but that’s another matter)
- Comment on What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell? 5 days ago:
most Christians would disagree with the notion that Satan rules hell,
Doubt. Most Christians have never read the Bible, and their understanding comes from pop culture.
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 5 days ago:
Because everybody wants to invent dynamite
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 5 days ago:
Guinness They got Sir Alec to do lifetime marketing for them, hard to top that.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 5 days ago:
Yes sorry, I took that as one and the same.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 5 days ago:
”computer” in the mathematical sense is well defined of what it can and cannot do.
It is in this universe. Who’s to say the same holds remotely true in a different universe that may have entirely different laws of physics?
- Comment on if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people? 5 days ago:
It’s called getting along with others. And like it or not, will be expected of you at any job that doesn’t involve you working alone. Quite honestly, you’re the issue here, not your co-workers. Figure out your personal strategy for dealing with extroverts, or look for a job as a warehouse night security guard.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 5 days ago:
Which is worse - AI slop, or people decrying everything they see as AI slop, even when it isn’t?
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 5 days ago:
The Nature paper says they’ve done a proof of concept with a few bits, and concluded that they can reproduce it with cutting edge processors. That’s akin to ‘Mice survive cancer longer’ becoming ‘We’ve cured cancer forever’.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 5 days ago:
If this is the case, then we don’t live inside a computer. Something more than pure computation is required.
SO many assumptions in that statement
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 5 days ago:
Creationism usually implies the creator put a lot of thought, care, and love into the creation. Knowing what I do of software development, fucking lol.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 5 days ago:
Or we can stick to kph for discussion purposes, since that’s what most of the world uses
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
Issue was fixed several months ago, but yeah it was a problem for quite a while
- Comment on xkcd #3162: Heart Mountain 1 week ago:
Think of it as a really large boulder thrown from a volcanic eruption
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 week ago:
Gods sounds perfectly usable in this example
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 1 week ago:
Sometimes, a simple ‘no’ will suffice.
- Comment on Would one run faster without arms? 1 week ago:
Surprised nobody has mentioned this yet, but the Paralympics may bear you out to some extent. In a lot of events their finish times are similar to normal Olympians, suggesting the reduced weight burden compensates significantly for reduced physical ability.
(It’s not super clear cut, because apples, oranges, and bouncy prosthetics).
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 week ago:
- Comment on Emergent introspective awareness in large language models 1 week ago:
Mmm. Wake me up when there’s 3rd party confirmation of these things that isn’t just a marketing ploy.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 week ago:
3 companies is not competition, 3 companies is collusion.
- Comment on Fictional 1 week ago:
Sorry, your reply is still hosted on the feddit.org instance, it’s still unavailable to me :(
- Comment on Fictional 1 week ago:
Can somebody reupload the image at a non-feddit.org host? Feddit is incredibly annoying in that it geoblocks most of Asia.
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Wait what? Why?
Well apparently asia is the source of a lot of scraping traffic, and they’re an European focused website, so they went with the nuclear option of blocking the entire continent and change. Never mind that as one of the bigger instances on the Threadiverse, they’re degrading the user experience for an entire continent. I brought the issue up to them previously, but they didn’t seem too concerned about it.
Example of degraded user experience for Asia: Image
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 1 week ago:
Yes, but apple has been charging double the price for their products on the basis of ‘privacy’ and ‘premiumness’
