Kornblumenratte

@Kornblumenratte@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They did not use coal back then – I’m not sure whether it was even known to the Mediterranean culture. Forests were plundered for shipbuilding. Crude oil was only available as naphtha in the Middle East, barely enough for the local fishermen to pitch there boats and for the Byzantines to use in their flamethrowers. Furthermore, crude oil was not used in steam engines — you cannot shovel a heep of oil under a kettle. Fuel existed, yes, but they had no access to it.

  All it would have needed is fixing the steam exhaust and have it drive a shoveled wheel.

  So a completely different machine? Shoveled wheels were invented centuries after Heron. Even if they played with such a setup – an open, non-pressurized turbine has no usable power. To use steam, you’ll have to pressurize it, and the technology to tame high pressure was only developed to build cannons that do not burst.

  In the history of the steam engine, the fuel supply was available before the engine. IIRC, Watt’s incentive for the invention of the steam engine was the need to drain coal mines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Herons steam “engine” had no power whatsoever and was not scalable. And even if it would have been scalable, they had had no fuel to drive it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well – this might be more succesful in boostering the IT skills of France’s next generation than any curriculum reform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨world changes so fast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  [1939](en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flash}

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep ocean technology offers never before seen images of lost WWI submarine⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL 200 m and beneath is regarded as deep sea. Just 200 m! 2000 bananas!! 20833 full and one flat lego brick!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨>:)>⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it wasn’t. Or to be exact, we don’t know, but it’s highly unlikely. In 2009, the bone growth pattern of Myotragus was thought to occur only in cold blooded animals, but in 2012 they found it is widespread in extant mammals as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My browser eats timestamps, til. And yes, that is impressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I’ll listen into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is far worse than being not a reliable source of info. Ms Chen had all the info she needed, and Claude falsified it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm. I wasn’t able to listen to all 9:53:57, but in the samples I watched I heard a voice resembling the classical computer voice of Science Fiction movies of the 70s. Better than most YouTube AI generated audio content, but good enough to narrate audio books? Well, we’ll accustom to anything, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To rephrase my question: where can I listen to an example of good AI spoken content?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doctors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People are more complicated than cars, and surgeons are no magicians. I think your idea of the reason of your mother’s surgeon for refusal might be a bit off:

  1. Without adequate pre- and post-op physiotherapy, a joint will likely be worse after surgery.

  2. If simple physiotherapy is already too painful, cutting into this overexcited tissue risks inducing a complex regional pain syndrome.

  3. If someone suffers from both depression and from too much pain to do physiotherapy, they need a multimodal pain therapy to prepare for surgery.

  So, based on the bit of info you provided, refusing surgery was very likely the right thing to do to avoid worsening your mother’s situation. What I di hate is when doctors don’t explain themselves and just say “I can’t help you”, but do not point patients to someone who can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Using different voices to read different parts of a book turns an audiobook into a bad audio play, and arguably, a bad audio play is worse than a mediocre audio book.

  What audible misses is, that, while reading is a technique that can be automated, narrating is an art. They can use AI to read books, they cannot use AI to narrate books.

  Your example of AI use is a good example of this: AI can read your content. AI can enhance your capabilities. But only you can narrate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you ever heard a single AI-narrated content that did not make you run away screaming?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a Mexican coworker. She was terrified when she returned after her first sickday, fearing a profound scoulding by our consultant. She did get one - when she turned up sick a couple of weeks later :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, after using Lemmy for 1.5 Years. You are telling I am not even allowed to use Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Different providers have different spamfilters, different rules regarding html mails, attachment file size, use of tls, policies regarding exspired certificates, and might have different log in procedures, so yes, if there are problems the question which providers are involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually not true. It’s made out of dozends independent non-profit organizations that are backed by hundreds of companies. And thousands of different independent hobby projects.