JeremyHuntQW12
@JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 4 minutes ago:
Why do you need to learn reams of facts when you can get an answer in the fraction of a second ? Seems pointless anyway.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 5 minutes ago:
Essays and projects were of marginal educational value in grade school and won’t be missed. They were always just a cop out for lazy teachers.
Until the 1990s, 100% of the university grade was based on examinations, so AI would have been irrelevant, that was watered down to save costs.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 2 days ago:
Its worth it for school essays and prawn jesus though.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 days ago:
Not necessarily directly, many people may have abandoned learning programming because of LLMs, rather than Stack Overflow specifically.
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 2 days ago:
Four image actions are currently being tested in the latest Dev Channel builds of Windows 11, including Bing visual search to find similar images on the web, the blur background and erase objects features found in the Photos app, and the remove background option in Paint.
Only one of those things could be called AI.
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 2 days ago:
It does appear to be local.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 days ago:
The left wing vote is split, so the Republicans can win just by getting the largest number of votes with first-past-the-post.
- Comment on Why do they call it a corn maze and not a maize maze? 5 days ago:
Because they were made from sheafs of wheat in the past.
“Corn” was the name for any grain in Britain.
- Comment on What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything? 1 week ago:
Malaysia has a king, so they would remain a monarchy.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 1 week ago:
That’s 80,000 vehicles. The production capacity is 250k. Ford sold 460,000 F-150s last year.
Chrysler had an inventory of over 1 million last year, they’ve ran through that by March.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 weeks ago:
The Type I plug was developed by the US government but blocked in Congress during the FDR administration by the Republicans and southern Democrats on the basis that it was a change from the multiple different outlets being used at the time. The 3 core plug didn’t become standard until 1965.
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 2 weeks ago:
But that’s what they’ve always done. The NES used a 6502 processor that no one used anymore, and the Sega a Z80 after CP/M went the way of dinosaurs. The Xbox and PS2 used out of date Pentium processors.
- Comment on Federal Reserve likely to defy Trump, keep rates unchanged this week 2 weeks ago:
Trump will just put out an executive order demanding the issue of Bonds, thus driving the effective rate down.
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
Its enough to prove the concept.
If it saves 1% of operating costs trucking businesses will be falling over themselves to implement it.
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
They already are automated trains on freight only routes like mines.
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
Not much competition in railways. Like literally none.
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
Why do you think a morbidly obese truck driver would have any luck against blaggers with shotguns ?
- Comment on What are some of the impacts of a power outage that isn't that obvious / isn't talked about a lot? And What happens to restaurant bills? Do Buses still work? (since card payments wouldn't work) 3 weeks ago:
Cell towers only have about half an hour of battery back up. Its the switched network (landline phones) that will last for a few days.
- Comment on What are some of the impacts of a power outage that isn't that obvious / isn't talked about a lot? And What happens to restaurant bills? Do Buses still work? (since card payments wouldn't work) 3 weeks ago:
Switched telephone networks run on lead-acid batteries, they will last for a few days without power.
Hospitals, airports and tower blocks have back up generators, although in the case of hosiptals, people on respirators can sometimes die as the generator takes a while to build up voltage.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 3 weeks ago:
A GWM Ora is about the equivalent of US$20K in Australia (no subsidies). So its doable.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 3 weeks ago:
You can buy a mid-range loudspeaker for like $5 at an electronics store.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 3 weeks ago:
It will need to have a screen to comply with safety standards. A back up camera is mandatory.
The Citroen Ami is a “cycle car” under French law and doesn’t have to meet the same standards.
- Comment on Coffee is not brewed homogeneous 3 weeks ago:
OP is either referring to a drip filter, which makes brown coloured water, or one those cartridge things, which forces boiling water through ground coffee beans. In either case, swirling the jug is pointless.
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 3 weeks ago:
Head to Google, type in any made-up phrase, add the word “meaning,” and search. Behold! Google’s AI Overviews will not only confirm that your gibberish is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived.
Your search - “yellow is a true badger” meaning - did not match any documents.
Suggestions:
Make sure that all words are spelled correctly. Try different keywords. Try more general keywords. Try fewer keywords.
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 3 weeks ago:
Its a language model not a dictionary. By puuting the term “definition” before the sentence you imply that the following sentence has a definintion, hence it vectors down to the most likely meaning.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 4 weeks ago:
Apparently its based on the field rotations in the motor or something, remember this is a fixed gear vehicle. I don’t think ICE cars use a gear either anymore, its based on the crankshaft sensor for the EFI, multipled by a gear ratio figure in the ECU. Even pushbikes don’t have gear sensors for speedo reading, they count magnetic fluctuations in the rim.
- Comment on Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. 4 weeks ago:
people buy them for the motion sensors and the games. the tech is irrelevant. The NES was ancient tech when it came out. Most of the games on PS are too hard and/or inappropriate for children.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 4 weeks ago:
In fact I believe the odometer reading is calculated from the electricty consumption, not from a meter in the gearbox. So if the range reading is inaccurate (and they are) it would throw out the mileage as well.
Should be super easy to prove too… Take an assortment of Teslas to a 1 mile stretch of road, drive it up and down 20 times, measure the mileage before and after.
Not necessarily, the incorrect readings may only occur at certain speeds or conditions.
- Comment on There's probably some kind of deal between cellphone and pants makers to keep pockets small 5 weeks ago:
but wouldn’t it squah your testicles and it keeps working its way around to your bum
- Comment on Cucumbers taste like the white part of watermelons 5 weeks ago:
What ? I’ve study botany and the term fruit is used extensively.
A fruit is the heterozygotic offspring of the parent plant. A seed is the male zygote, with the female zygote being pollen. So “seed” oils are made from fruit, just like olive oil.
A tuber (potato) or rhyzome (ginger) is a homozygotic offspring. A vegetable is a part of the plant that is not the offspring, like the leaves, stem or root.