Saleh
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- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 1 week ago:
That is more than a 10% loss of that customer base in 2 month.
For any industry that is huge.
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 1 week ago:
If it is very dry, doesn’t that also mean it is less likely to spread/leak into the aquifer?
E.g. dried cow-manure seems to be fine for the environment to handle.
- Comment on Deportation? There's an app for that. 1 week ago:
Money really is not the issue here.
We see authoritarian and inhumane measures to “solve”, often exacerbate, societal situations that could have been dealt with much more effectively for way less money.
Being cruel is a means to intimidate the broader population and the people behind it are willing to pay a big premium on it.
- Comment on The duality of man 2 weeks ago:
Accepting either presented level of shittiness is what got us here in the first place.
Trump couldn’t have done it without Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. The House Reps would struggle more, if it wasn’t for people like Schumer. If Democrats had called out AIPAC over the past twenty years instead of drooling over the opportunity to aid and abet war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide for them, we’d never had the whole “yeah i am voting for the slow genocide” argumentation being somehow “acceptable”.
And the most important thing is that the current Democrats are not going to be a driver for positive change. They are still fighting against moderate progressives like Mamdani and pushing for neoliberal reactionaries like Newsom instead.
- Comment on Heroes with super strength would be really out of shape 2 weeks ago:
It is affected by how efficient your muscles are as you don’t reach a 100% energy conversion. Given the typical representation of Super-Heroes as muscular, but usually not hippo-sized, their muscles being “super efficient” would be one way of explaining why they manage to get more strength out of less muscles.
- Comment on Heroes with super strength would be really out of shape 2 weeks ago:
Also he worked out by lifting train carts.
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 2 weeks ago:
They are both linked through their families colonizing history in South Africa, including staunch Nazi support in their families.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Structural engineers: fire, water, air and earth. They are like the Anti-Avatar
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 2 weeks ago:
But imagine having to choose a server from which to access the fediverse! This is just too complicated!
- Comment on Intelligent Design 2 weeks ago:
I think you are missing the point that the limits are intended.
- Comment on Intelligent Design 2 weeks ago:
We can observe evolution. We cannot observe if the steps are purely random.
E.g. if you mix eggs and butter and flour in a specified ratio and put it in an oven, it is not random that a cake evolves in the oven.
- Comment on Intelligent Design 2 weeks ago:
The eyes of mammals are designed in a way that they “see less” than for instance certain birds or reptiles.
You call this “fuck up some weird convulted way”, when it is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. Thereby it is consistent with the way the visual nerve cells are designed and work together with the rest of physics and chemistry. The design is intelligent as it factors in all aspects as part of a coherent complete design. A design far too complex for any human mind to grasp in full.
Basically your question is like asking, why there is no “magic solution” that directly breaks the observable laws of physics. The genius of the design is in not requiring to break the observable laws of physics to achieve the desired outcome.
You say this is “unscientific garbage” when your only alternative explanation is “everything just happened randomly and here we are.” Neither approach, “intelligent design” nor “extremely long chain of random occurrences” can be empirically observed and only argued logically. I find it unscientific to denounce a hypothesis as “unscientific garbage” when it cannot be falsified, while the counter hypothesis cannot be proven.
- Comment on Intelligent Design 3 weeks ago:
Plenty of animals have their excretion outlet and their food inlet in the same place.
For birds the cloaca is both for excretion and sex.
- Comment on Intelligent Design 3 weeks ago:
From the point of intelligent design:
We see that there is different sensory focuses. For instance many animals can smell and hear much better than humans do. Some animals have exceptionally better eyes than humans, but overall humans are very focused on vision.
Now when we look at modern inner city environments and the like. Would you think it to be actually better if our senses, particularly our eyes were that much better and delivering even more input to our brains? We already see many people that are overwhelmed in terms of their sensory input and frankly the ones that aren’t still suffer slowly from living in cities. In terms of where we are now, i don’t think it is too bad that we don’t have hawk eyes.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 3 weeks ago:
It seemed that for Jackass ultimately noone was killed. Also it seems that the participants were not in a vulnerable situation that was exploited, but engaged with full consent and were able to give consent.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 3 weeks ago:
After the whole spiking their own wifes and mothers to pass around for rape online, including with making videos, i am starting to think France has a pretty bad problem with psychopaths and a society that is looking away or even encouraging it rather than stepping in.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 3 weeks ago:
I have an external hard-drive with some 300-500h of music on it.
Problem is i don’t want to clog up my SSD and i often am too lazy to plug it in. But i have been listening to a lot of songs i haven’t archived yet and risk losing with the digital platforms failing me sooner or later.
- Comment on leading ai company 3 weeks ago:
Producing rockets faster than they can explode during launch!
- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 3 weeks ago:
Also they all hold the bows completely wrong.
Angled arm, turned the wrong side, wtf?
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 3 weeks ago:
Depends on what you want to do. Wood buildings have more limits in terms of height and structural load. But wood usually means much lower emissions and easier recycling of the building. Of course fire safety is another issue. In comparision to steel, wood does surprisingly well, as a thick wooden column can be burning on the outside, but maintain its load bearing capability on the inside. steel transmits the heat to its inside quickly and looses its stability faster.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 3 weeks ago:
bricks made by burning clay aren’t that much better. Especially considering that you need more bricks for columns and other load bearing structures.
- Comment on 'Where's your America First?': US teenager stuck in Israeli jail for six months 3 weeks ago:
It seems the difference between Biden sucking up and Trump sucking up to Israel is that Trump got to rape some children for it, while Biden did it for free.
Either way completely disgusting and pathetic. Trump is betraying the USA and doing everything for the USA to be the subordinate of a state with less population than NYC. MAGA is a complete joke.
- Comment on Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contractsIt’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft. 4 weeks ago:
Putin cant visit most countries anymore. Netanyahu neither. Exceptions are the US who want to destroy the ICC anyways and recently Hungary who now want to leave the ICC to suck up to Netanyahu.
- Comment on Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contractsIt’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft. 4 weeks ago:
As an internationally active company there is many jurisdictions, where Microsoft can be held accountable.
- Comment on Jump on in. 4 weeks ago:
Serotonin can’t past the blood-brain barrier.
You have two serotonin households and it serves different regulation purposes in your body and brain.
- Comment on Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contractsIt’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft. 4 weeks ago:
Helping a genocide is very much illegal. If you sell precursor chemicals for poison gas to a death camp operator, you are also complicit.
After Oct. 7 the usage by the IDF exploded. In early 2024 reports about the AI tools used to justify slaughtering Civilians en masse came out, employees have been raising alarms through the “proper” channels and then went to public protest as Microsoft ignored them and cracked down on any mention of it in Forums, Town Halls and the like.
They absolutely know that they are complicit and would rot in prison the rest of their lifes if this goes to court properly.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 4 weeks ago:
As fiber is rolled out more, i see less and less why it would be cost prohibitive?
All you need to do to connect a remote place is lay a cable. More expensive if you need dig a trench and put the cable in there. But if it can be done for electricity it can be done for fiber.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 4 weeks ago:
Which are based on LLMs or other statistical language models. It is kind of the thing that language models are good at.
See DeepL for example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepL_Translator
The service uses a proprietary algorithm with convolutional neural networks (CNNs)[3] that have been trained with the Linguee database.[4][5]
According to the developers, the service uses a newer improved architecture of neural networks, which results in a more natural sound of translations than by competing services.
The translation is said to be generated using a supercomputer that reaches 5.1 petaflops and is operated in Iceland with hydropower.[6][7]
In general, CNNs are slightly more suitable for long coherent word sequences, but they have so far not been used by the competition because of their weaknesses compared to recurrent neural networks.
The weaknesses of DeepL are compensated for by supplemental techniques, some of which are publicly known. - Comment on that's a sunday night 4 weeks ago:
Birds are dinos.
- Comment on Just a reminder of how many out there are completely clueless 4 weeks ago:
Flying straight over the arctic is a great idea (for Putin and Trump only).
I once had a flat-earther use this as an argument that the earth must be flat. “if the earth was round, why don’t they fly over the arctic?”