finitebanjo
@finitebanjo@lemmy.world
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 22 hours ago:
I just have a hard time picturing things being so different from when I left academia only a couple of years ago. Everybody still had pen and paper notebooks
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 22 hours ago:
TBF it took awhile to work out vacuum chamber technology, and some people did throw some spherical stuff off the tower of pisa at one point.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 2 days ago:
Bros are living in a fantasy, site was broken wide open years ago.
- Comment on Get up, soldier 1 week ago:
Thanks Chadwick Boseman, I love you
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 week ago:
It would explain how Trump had that tweet ready so quickly.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 week ago:
TBF the laws in the USA are wack enough that the weapon might not fall under the definition of deadly weapon and therefore firearms related crime.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 week ago:
What was the theory before? Crime of passion, gun and run?
Like he just had a “say what again” moment to that bullshit Kirk was saying on stage?
- Comment on Aged like milk 1 week ago:
Aged like fine wine you mean
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 week ago:
Sigmund Freud’s work proved humans are very very very very easy on a large sample size to mislead.
Theres even a phrase “you are not immune to propaganda.”
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 week ago:
The Chinese have sort of lost their credibility on Politics and History, this last century.
I’m actually less inclined to listen to anything associated with them.
The only proverb I wanna hear out of China is “of the 36 stratagems, fleeing is best.”
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 weeks ago:
People who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The USA has been in a constant power struggle between monied interests and liberty since the founding days. The same party has been in control of China since before Mao was starving millions of people. A lot of european countries are literally still monarchies.
This is the normal.
- Comment on Metal genres 2 weeks ago:
Check out “Rare and Obscure Metal Archives” sometime, very nice
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really call them lemmites, haven’t seen anybody else do so either, I think Lemmings has such a cool ring to it, very cute animals that travel in groups.
As for Piefed users if it’s competing with something that cute then my vote is Piefolk.
- Comment on Left-handed sep funnel anyone? 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of the study that proved the four distinct klein flask orientations after realizing the 4th was the inverted topology of the third.
- Comment on Llama 2 weeks ago:
American Quarter Horse © Scott Smudsky
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 3 weeks ago:
Would have been the smart move for business, too.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 3 weeks ago:
TBF Taco Bell and other large chains can afford to be their own distributors and not have to pay interest on financing their vehicle fleets (although they might do that anyways if their accountants decide the interest rate is lower than the RoR of investing the cost of the vehicle minus down payment).
A food truck guy pays interest on his truck, and they pay whatever distrubutors and vendors charge for supplies.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 3 weeks ago:
Does not matter, all useless.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 3 weeks ago:
We’re talking about different things. This article is about Language Models. The discussion is about Language Model.
If you ask a language model via prompt to organize patterns you will get slop that small children would recognize is wrong. It’s garbage.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 3 weeks ago:
Unlike vaccines, AI has no use case and is always a net negative.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 3 weeks ago:
Even if it’s only a receipt for 18,000 waters or it fills up a screen it costs them time and resources.
Every single AI halucinates, always has and always will. It’s useless for this.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 3 weeks ago:
I would definitely bet against that because the article states they’re not putting any AI in the drive through going forward.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 3 weeks ago:
The article quotes an executive saying they’re indeed backing down, just like McDonalds did the year before when they tried this.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 3 weeks ago:
Taco Bell doesn’t compete with mexican food, it competes with Jack in the Box and Taco Johns, perhaps anywhere that has a salad bar.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 3 weeks ago:
Because it costed them money, lol. The suits upstairs gave a quote in the article talking about how they will withdraw AI from all 500 locations they were implemented, and it also talks about how McDonalds did the exact same little dance over a year ago.
- Comment on Intelligent Design 3 weeks ago:
I also subscribe to this ideology. If there is a god, he was never on our side.
- Comment on Intelligent Design 3 weeks ago:
Also, Appendicitis is when your Appendix, a vestigial organ which produces small amounts of Vitamin C, randomly explodes and kills you.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 3 weeks ago:
In addition to what MotoAsh said, it also has a definite external influence and a well defined force acting upon it. It boiled because it underwent a change in pressure.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 3 weeks ago:
A lot more people than that astronaut are going to see the post reply, though. A lot of them probably haven’t taken a thermodynamics lesson.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 3 weeks ago:
I like to imagine replies are more often for future readers than for the OP.