luciferofastora
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- Comment on You must tell me, please! 3 days ago:
That’s a low bar to clear
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 1 week ago:
Yeah, this smells a lot like Texas Sharpshooting. Figure out what people use, stuff Copilot in there then proudly present the target that you drew after hitting something.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 1 week ago:
I bet they’re gonna need money to stem that influx, and I’m worried where they’ll find it.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 1 week ago:
Half the marketing seems to be “Did you know the founder is a Palestinian?”
Yeah, cool, hope his background helps bring some light on the atrocities being done 5o his kin. But when it comes to the app, he could be the first child to be born in Antarctica for all I care. Is the product any use?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Celsius is great for engineering because Things Happen™️ when water starts boiling or freezing. But most people aren’t engineering daily.
I’d argue that it’s more covenient to use a common scale for all applications of the same measurement than to have multiple different scales, just because that would eliminate all conversion concerns. Someone I know is in engineering school has switched entirely to using °C simply because that’s what they deal with at school anyway, to the point they don’t even write °C anymore in casual chats.
For other applications, it seems like the scales we’re used to are more or less arbitrary anyway, so that’s really just a matter of getting used to it. Some are used to calling ~70°F room temperature, others say ~20°C,
So if it matters for one case, but not so much for others, and we were to pick a single scale, I should think it would be ideal to go with the case where it does matter.
Or we just keep doing this thing where people use what they’re used to and we just quickly look it up or someone comments with the conversion and move on with our lives.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 2 weeks ago:
Well, ideally the companies would crash before the chips are actually used, but I’d rather have cheap, used chips than my also used, but older and worse chips or new ones I can’t afford.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 2 weeks ago:
Maybe if the companies that secured dibs on the chips crash and have to fold, those chips will end up on the consumer market after all
- Comment on You never know who you're arguing with 3 weeks ago:
For one, it shouldn’t matter whether the other person who’s bad at the game is a kid, a senior, impaired, a noob, a busy adult or just someone who enjoys that game without putting in the effort to become really good at it: If you’re insulting someone over a game, you should sort out your priorities. I used to do that, because I was a miserable knobhead, but it really doesn’t make the game more enjoyable and made me even more miserable.
But secondly, it’s particularly bad with kids. Yes, life can be unpleasant, and learning to deal with other people’s disapproval is important, but there has to be a better way to ease them into that.
(Beating down on the impaired is also fucked up, obviously. Life has dealt them a shit hand already, so how about making an effort to include them instead? I promise, it’s more mutually enjoyable. Few good things are as infectious as the joy of someone used to being shut out with superficial pity. That’s not relevant to the topic, but I felt it’s worth mentioning.)
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 3 weeks ago:
That fix has a lot of side effects that might break something. Unless you’re intimately familiar with their setup and use case, destructive solutions aren’t a safe recommendation.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" 4 weeks ago:
I can see why people would attempt to abuse a bug bounty program for easy price money, but that’s just another case of greedy people fucking over everyone else by pissing on whatever trust and assumptions of good faith people might still extend to one another.
- Comment on Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways 4 weeks ago:
Unexpected in the same way as you don’t expect leopards to eat your face…
- Comment on PFP Evolution 4 weeks ago:
That, or just a general abbreviation. If doesn’t have to be a specific form of abbreviation.
Radar (Radio Detection And Ranging) also isn’t a strict initialism, or it would be called RDAR.
Phrases like etc. (et cetera), & co. (company), vs. (versus), are also generally abbreviations.
- Comment on PFP Evolution 4 weeks ago:
Abbreviations don’t strictly have to follow any specific logic, they just need to be understood. What you’re describing is an initialism, where you just take the first letters.
My best guess for pfp is that it’s an initialism of the first three syllables because the fourth is unintuitive, three letters was common enough back in the day of BBS and pfp was recognisable enough, while pp is fairly ambiguous. Someone started abbreviating it like this, people picked up on it, and by the time I was old enough to engage with English message boards it was the norm already.
- Comment on PFP Evolution 4 weeks ago:
That would be the initialism, yes, but pfp isn’t an initialism.
- Comment on PFP Evolution 4 weeks ago:
ProFile Picture
- Comment on Give me some good ones 4 weeks ago:
Most people like to feel like they’re better than most. Mediocrity is an insult to them.
Blessed are the simpletons that never realise or just don’t give a fuck.
- Comment on My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it? 4 weeks ago:
To the people their arbitrage would harm because it would result in the landlord ending the free water provision. If you abuse a good thing, even the most good-natured people eventually get fed up and stop providing it, to the detriment of those who used it fairly.
- Comment on AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations 4 weeks ago:
My aunt already falls for every religious scam under the sun. Donate for this good cause here, help build a church there, God told me to do whatever and I need some assistance…
Religion is one hell of a drug and I’m not surprised that a community convinced of their divine protection would contain enough gullible victims to make it worth the effort. They might not all be that stupid, but it’s like MMOs: some whales are enough to make it profitable.
- Comment on it's so fluffy 4 weeks ago:
hamsterdance.io is shilling a meme cryptocurrency though
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
In my opinion, there are two ways to deal with that (well, three, but the third is “shrug and find something else to do”):
Playing on easiest difficulty makes the combat a non-issue, little more than set dressing, and allows you to focus on story and exploration. The combat would still bore you, but at least it would be over quicker.
Playing on the second hardest difficulty makes combat challenging enough to scratch the same itch as Dark Souls et al. do for me, but that’s obviously a matter of personal taste. Full on Deathmarch is even better for that, but I’m not convinced it’s a good idea for a first playthrough.
If neither works for you, shame, but it can’t be helped.
- Comment on Belief 5 weeks ago:
I’ve started spotting more examples of goodness too, not just evil. I rather think society is polarising, with some people becoming more visibly selfish (out of desperation, I think: the more you worry about your future, the less charity you’re willing to extend) and others making a point of being nicer to counteract the negativity.
Part of that will be the influence of media. Outrage apparently sells better than kindness, and particularly where corporate influences are a factor, despair and division are useful to make the populace more pliable. If people are shit anyways, why bother trying to fix anything?
Lemmy is no saint either: It’s easy to jump to conclusions and throw accusations over what might just be genuine error or civil disagreement rather than fundamental hostility.
So instead, let’s also make a point of being nicer and more charitable to each other, and to others elsewhere. Good people aren’t gone, they’re just cowed and overshadowed. Let’s fix that, you and me and everyone else who wants a nicer world. The indifference wins if we stop, so let’s keep going!
I hope you have a nice day, a pleasen start into your year, and I hope you can find that faith in humanity again.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 month ago:
Just redirects me to the start page 😕
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
Admitting fault is good, offering a way to fix it is better. We should applaud that that recognise, admit and want to remedy their mistake.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 1 month ago:
Someone else pointed out they’re a right wing “news” account. They won’t cringe. Most likely, they got the implication but are trying to deny it.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 1 month ago:
The author is hella based.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 1 month ago:
This is one thing that irritates me about a tool I work with: It has built-in functions to calculate a median and to calculate an average, by which it means the arithmetic mean. I tend to use the median because the data I work with has severe outliers skewing the mean, but then I have to explain what that means (heh).
- Comment on Hey Grok 1 month ago:
How about “Sic Semper Tyrannis”?
- Comment on ‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition 1 month ago:
I mean, once they’re a state-sanctioned invader, it’s not longer illegal
- Comment on ChatGPT Is The Most Blocked Bot And .Christmas Is The Most Dangerous Domain 1 month ago:
And tomato does not belong in a fruit salad
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 1 month ago:
I don’t want to have a garbanzo bean on me