Clent
@Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on My morning routine in 2026 1 day ago:
This is the current generations version of boomer humor.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 2 days ago:
What other poor decisions are they making all the time?
Not resigning.
- Comment on Outstanding in her field: cow recorded using tool for first time 3 days ago:
I don’t either believe that they are solving physics equations
If they had language and writing skills is there any doubt they couldn’t.
Thinking other animals are incapable of complex thoughts is so weird. We know that humans only have these abilities because of the momentum of society. Feral humans are proof none of what we do is innate.
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 4 days ago:
In my area they would get fined as a nusiance property and the fines involved are not cheap.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 4 days ago:
No, but I hope to be some day.
- Comment on Fear that quantum computing is on the cusp of cracking cryptocurrency's encryption spurs a global investment firm to remove Bitcoin from recommendations 4 days ago:
It’s also possible for bitcoin to switch algorithms so it would presumably switch to something quantum resistant.
There are already chat clients that have switched to these types of algorithms, Signal and Apple messages being the most popular ones.
- Comment on Fear that quantum computing is on the cusp of cracking cryptocurrency's encryption spurs a global investment firm to remove Bitcoin from recommendations 4 days ago:
There is already far more being spent on fusion research. It’s way more valuable than even a million dollar bitcoin valuation.
Jetpacks are a dead end. Automated Passanger drones make more sense at the moment, just need to work out the battery weight ratio. Automation so we don’t all need a pilot license to operate them.
Hoverboards are antigravity sci-fi. I don’t think anyone is seriously research anything there.
- Comment on US | Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines 1 week ago:
Does this mean pirate radio goes though the same process? That could get very interesting.
I’ve always felt the fcc is a violation of the first amendment. Speech was never meant to be limited to what I can do with my vocal cords.
Not problem if blasting radio waves into the air makes life difficult for profiteers.
- Comment on Parents... Huh... 1 week ago:
That’s not so much being upfront and honest with sex as it is trauma dumping on you. The fact that you’re emotionally scared from it decades later is a big clue here.
- Comment on Do you have to deal with this during your morning commute? 1 week ago:
I would say boomer memes.
- Comment on Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944 1 week ago:
What the fuck are you talking about?
The post is about the death penalty and you related mentioned how “we” forgot how barbaric governments are.
I mentioned I’ve never forgotten and therefore not part of that “we” and brought it back to the death penalty, you know, the actual topic of this thread.
Talk about silly, crazy and making things about yourself. The only explanation for all this is that “we” was referencing all the voices in your head.
- Comment on Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944 1 week ago:
It’s really weird how people use sloppy language in their statement and then are upset about it.
Then they ignore the rest of the comment because they are too triggered to do otherwise. Then end the comment by making about exactly what they claimed the first one wasn’t about.
- Comment on Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944 1 week ago:
Whose this “we” – I’ve been anti death penalty since before I could vote because I have never been able to forget.
I would go so far as to say not only is the death penalty anti American, any one who wants the death penalty to remains needs to be added to a pool from which some is randomly executed; affirming their resolve and devotion.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 1 week ago:
What a trash click bait headline. That’s not how the statement “saying the quiet part out loud” works. This isn’t a secret and it’s not unspoken and it certainly doesn’t not reveal some underlying motive.
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 2 weeks ago:
You failed to prove your assertions.
Ask an LLM it will tell you it’s not capable of thinking, it’s approximating thinking.
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 2 weeks ago:
Literally not thinking.
Artists would also be pretty annoyed to hear that they are doing a brainless activity.
I see you lack critical thinking skills so I understand the confusion. Unfortunately, I can’t fix stupid.
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 2 weeks ago:
None of that is it doing the thinking for you.
LLMs can be used as a research tool but require a human apply critical thinking to the output to be useful.
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 2 weeks ago:
I made that note when gta 5 killed off the storyline expansions.
I was never interested in world of war craft with cars.
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 2 weeks ago:
The LLM is absolutely not doing anything thinking for you. It’s can, at best surface someone else’s thinking based on a prompt.
Anyone that confuses what these things do with thinking is on a path towards psychosis.
Every 4 hours spent talking to one of these things is indistinguishable from talking to oneselves for 40 hours. It amplifies one’s inner thoughts in ways that prevoisly only a schizophrenic was able to enjoy.
- Comment on Is ice heavier than water? 2 weeks ago:
And I need a container to carry that many feathers.
I can carry the kg of steel in one hand.
- Comment on We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird. 2 weeks ago:
You may not own a tv but do you own a computer monitor? No one fixes those either and a tv is essentially a monitor with an extra control board. The screen is the device.
- Comment on Media zombies would be largely harmless if they lacked teeth and claws. 2 weeks ago:
There was absolutely no point where anyone was claiming the death rate was over 50% based on actual data.
Early estimates were 10% (based on symptomatic cases) but with better testing proved to be closer to 2%. This is similar to the Spanish flu’s mortality rate.
It mutated to be less deathly from there, down to less than 0.5% for the unvaccinated. About as deadly as common flu strains.
If we had allowed it to spread in freely that could have been 350 million dead. That’s a large pile of dead people to deal with. That was the concern. It would have overwhelmed everything.
- Comment on Media zombies would be largely harmless if they lacked teeth and claws. 2 weeks ago:
Makes me wonder if anyone has tried a zombie story line that is preindustrial.
- Comment on I love science 2 weeks ago:
Meaningless distinction. There are many fields of science an expert in one is not an expert in others.
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 3 weeks ago:
Popular mechanics is a terrible source. They post click bait trash like this on a consistent basis.
- Comment on If you save someone's life and then you save her life again next year, how many lives did you save? 3 weeks ago:
None. You didn’t save anything. You merely prolonged their suffering. Sicko.
- Comment on Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine? 3 weeks ago:
This must have been regional. I’ve always been able to use a card.
- Comment on Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine? 3 weeks ago:
Costco only takes Visa in store. Mastercard is only accepted for online purchases.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 3 weeks ago:
EU forced apple’s hand in implementing RCS
This isn’t even a little bit true.
If you need to claim this was external pressure, China was an actual driver of this but did not force this either.
The main reason is to get away from legacy sms/mms systems. Sending and receiving on the iPhone side is messy as a poor user experience for Apple’s users.
One small example is how SMS gets split at 160 and would often come out of order because of the limitations of sms.
The cell networks are moving to a pure data layer model. Sms don’t send over data, RCS does. Same reason everything it volte now.
Things currently fall back to sms, but expect it to be dead within a decade as future hardware cycles through (on the carrier side) and support is dropped in favor of streamlined protocols.
- Comment on So upset during the holidays! 4 weeks ago:
Am I supposed to pick up a the birthday cake or something? Is it cheating if I use the number candles?