RedFrank24
@RedFrank24@lemmy.world
- 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:
To be fair, the internet was fucking everywhere once the dotcom bubble kicked off. Everyone had a website, and even my mum was like “Don’t bother your dad, he’s on the internet” like it was this massive thing.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 1 week ago:
If he made a Christian AI, it would be shut down within a week for being too woke.
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 week ago:
Where are you living where you can get a good console for $400?
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 week ago:
I am immediately skeptical of the 90% claim. There are a lot of Windows games, going back decades! Not even 90% of those work on Windows, let alone Linux!
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 weeks ago:
Ah, Real Cheese brand cheese flavored product.
- Comment on #environmentalist 2 weeks ago:
Some people can’t hold objects with any dexterity due to disabilities etc. So they use straws.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 weeks ago:
You’re not quite there yet. It still says ‘real cheese’.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 3 weeks ago:
Will it have Margot Robbie in a bathtub?
- Comment on Ferns 3 weeks ago:
The thing is, back in the day, you couldn’t just look up ferns on the internet, you actually had to go looking for information on ferns specifically, and it’s very likely that after a lot of really annoying visits to various libraries looking through botany textbooks, an author (or a group of authors) decided they were going to collate everything they found about ferns and stick it in one collection.
So when someone else comes along and goes “I need to know something about a very specific fern”, the librarian can go “You want that 8 volume encyclopedia on ferns over there” because they know that it has every single fern on the planet in there, and you don’t need to spend 8 hours looking through every botany textbook and making the room smell like cheap coffee.
What I’m saying is it was probably done out of spite, not genuine interest.
- Comment on Simpler times? 4 weeks ago:
What would I even SAY to goth baddies?
“Hey do you like tabletop? I do, I like playing Barbarians because it makes me feel strong”
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 4 weeks ago:
The trick is to find a game that has a mounted turret with infinite ammo and then tape the button down. The warthog in Halo, or the Street Sweeper in Mercenaries (with the infinite ammo cheat on).
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 4 weeks ago:
Assuming they’re a teenager, you trusted your parents not to search through your stuff a lot more than most. Parents aren’t going to give you any lectures or punish you for having a PS5 controller in your room.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 4 weeks ago:
The problem here is that all these major anime providers are owned by Sony, so you’re kinda fucked if you want to boycott them.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 month ago:
…So what learning styles are there?
- Comment on Lies, all lies 1 month ago:
I’ll listen to it, it doesn’t mean I’ll like it. If you can tell me what you like about it, maybe I’ll also like it.
- Comment on arriving 1 month ago:
British summer is nice if you have air conditoning, otherwise it’s hell. British winter is nice for exactly 24hrs if it ever snows. You know that first 24hrs when it’s deathly silent at night because the snow is deadening all the sounds, and when you get up in the morning and the snow is still fluffy? That’s when British Winter is good. The rest of the time, the snow melts but not enough so it just turns to ice, you’re slipping everywhere, it’s freezing cold and extremely wet so you’re just completely soaked at all times.
Autumn and Spring don’t exist. You have Cold, Hot and Overcast.
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 1 month ago:
Great, I’ve been suffering through Capitalism and now I have to learn that it’s not even real Capitalism.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 month ago:
I like to think there’s a bit of a difference between copying something from stackoverflow and not being able to read what you just pasted from stackoverflow.
Sure, you can be lazy and just paste something and trust that it works, but if someone asks you to read that code and know what it’s doing, you should be able to read it. Being able to read code is literally what you’re paid for.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 month ago:
Given the amount of garbage code coming out of my coworkers, he may be right.
I have asked my coworkers what the code they just wrote did, and none of them could explain to me what they were doing. Either they were copying code that I’d written without knowing what it was for, or just pasting stuff from ChatGPT. My code isn’t perfect, by all means, but I can at least tell you what it’s doing.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 2 months ago:
Not fair to the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs got hit by a meteor, humans are destroying themselves.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 months ago:
Absolutely not, that would never happen. Why? Because there’s a load of stuff that runs on Windows that is ancient and only exists as legacy software and never receives updates.
If anything, Windows is the last operating system that will have locked bootloaders, because if they do, there’s gonna be some bank somewhere in the world suing them because their ancient counting software was originally made for Windows 3.0 back in the day and Microsoft has had to build their entire operating system around making sure that software continues to run.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 months ago:
Yeah but my banks don’t support my small portable PC, nor does my mobile phone provider. If I wanted a small portable PC I’d get a small portable PC. What I want is a smartphone.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 months ago:
I already tend to buy the expensive flagship models of phones. I buy unlocked and it lasts me ~5+ years, so I get the best phone I can get at the time and make it last, so money isn’t as much of an issue if I were to move to an iPhone.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 months ago:
If Google is going to lock down my device to the point where I can’t install apps without their permission, I might as well dump Android and go straight to Apple. I sacrificed my phone being good for the openness of the platform, but if Google loses that openness, why shouldn’t I go with Apple?
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 2 months ago:
I don’t care enough to have an argument with you about it.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 2 months ago:
It’s not the social housing that’s the problem though, it’s specifically the tower blocks. Social housing by-and-large worked pretty well, with some pretty nice council housing being put up and people living in them without too much issue. The thing is, there’s a big difference between a socially isolated tower block and a council house in the suburbs, a lot of which was eaten away by Right-to-Buy because it turns out they were really nice houses so people wanted them. Almost nobody wants to buy a flat in a tower block.
The 'Stay Put thing for Grenfell Tower was actually good policy… When the tower was built. Each apartment acted essentially as its own fireproof box, so under the original design, staying put is actually the best policy to have, because you knew a fire was only ever going to exist in one of the boxes. It’s when those boxes are compromised that things become a problem, stuff like unauthorised knock-throughs and especially the flammable cladding (that was added later) on the outside of the building. It turned all those fireproof boxes into fireproof boxes except on one side, so when that cladding caught fire, it just set fire to all of the boxes.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 2 months ago:
Except a lot of the brutalist architecture in the UK looks like shit and the towers are shit, which is why they’re being knocked down. Those tower blocks are SUPPOSED to have shops and amenities inside them, but the British ones don’t, so they exist solely as shitholes nobody with a choice wants to live in.
It also doesn’t help that tower blocks very quickly became a dumping ground for local councils to throw unwanted tenants into, so troublemakers, those who can’t be housed anywhere else. The image of a tower block became one of high crime, social isolation and poor construction. Couple that with Grenfell Tower and you’ve got “Death trap” added to the list.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 2 months ago:
The copy of the web browser is mine, the data I’ve downloaded is mine, I can do what I want with it.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 2 months ago:
Well it’s not like there’s much else.
Lemmy is dominated by exactly three topics and nothing else.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 2 months ago:
The only time I would give a military discount would be if you are a military member that meets the following criteria:
- You were conscripted for a defensive war OR
- You volunteered (as in you weren’t paid) to fight a defensive war