betanumerus
@betanumerus@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Having grown up on sci-fi I always knew there would be people who reject robots and AI on a visceral level, I just thought it wouldn't be me. 23 hours ago:
Well it depends if you and the AI robots are on the same side or not.
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 2 days ago:
Born with free speech and no one gets to change that deal.
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 3 days ago:
Protester was saved by real law enforcement, the kind that’s qualified and doesn’t overreact.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
Unless they lso give me a face scan of each Discord employee and member, I’m out. Enough is enough, nothing is free.
- Comment on The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 1 week ago:
More nails in the coffins of privacy and free speech.
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 1 week ago:
What’s your plan to protect yourself from abuse?
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 1 week ago:
“as they beat you to death” 🙄 … You must have been the valedictorian.
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 1 week ago:
They’re not anti-ICE, they’re anti-abusers. Now if ICE abuses people, ICE chooses to become a target of the anti-abusers.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 week ago:
In Canada (2023), renewables make up 66% and nuclear makes up 13% (79% together). That’s also pretty good.
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 weeks ago:
Is it better to pay a bank for a mortgage?
- Comment on New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it 2 months ago:
If they’re hiding something and aren’t comparing apples to apples, it wouldn’t be a scientific comparison and they wouldn’t be scientists. Let us know what you find.
- Comment on The reason women cover their drinks 2 months ago:
Stephen Miller on CNN actually said he considered djt to have limitless power (plenary authority) and then awkwardly froze as if he hadn’t wanted that to slip out.
- Comment on Libraries are cool 2 months ago:
Ok. Sometimes I don’t bother trying to tell apart a joke from a real concern. I mean, who knows what a struggling publisher would say. No worries.
- Comment on Libraries are cool 2 months ago:
First time I’ve ever seen anyone speaking out against lending and borrowing.
- Comment on An academic disagreement 2 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
As an expert in biting, expanding domains and arrogance, I can confirm more research might not be enough to invalidate this hypothesis
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 months ago:
C-3PO and Clippy or Clippit but ok.
- Comment on An academic disagreement 2 months ago:
Celsius died in 1744, but according to Fahrenheit, that will only happen in 3171.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 months ago:
I’m impressed by AI, but I don’t want AI, now go away, AI.
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 2 months ago:
Political views are reactionary: if they’re against you, then naturally and by no real choice of your own, you’re against them.
So if anyone goes against you for your political views, they’ve made that decision long before you even learn about the political issue.
- Comment on Fourier 3 months ago:
It’s one of the sine waves making up the mixed signal and he’s got its frequency and amplitude, which is what fourier analysis is about.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 3 months ago:
M’eh at this point I have to assume his bots are to carry out mass extinction.
- Comment on Research shows research is the leading cause of research 3 months ago:
That may be so, but do your own research.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 3 months ago:
“climate activists have been taking over commercial apartments” So … trespassing? They breached privacy for apparent trespassing? Is that it?
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 3 months ago:
ICE don’t even show their ID do they? They think real police only have warrants and show their ID for no reason. They smahter than all of history combined you know. /s
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 3 months ago:
Those trying to sell it are trying to figure out where it’s most useful. In one way, I think it’s an amazing technology, and I also wonder how it can be best used. However, I can’t stand it being pushed on me, and I wish I could easily say no.
- Comment on Scientific explanation 3 months ago:
I know this is only for fun, but what you have to do is: fix cat weight and calculate cat radius (instead of fixing cat radius and calculating cat weight). 🙂
- Comment on Scientific explanation 3 months ago:
Well anyway, that’s wrong too. Density makes a black hole, not just weight. And you’re on the wrong extreme of density.
- Comment on Scientific explanation 3 months ago:
(no one does … he doesn’t say if that’s a number of ounces or a number of metric tons …)
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 3 months ago:
On the smartphone App, I see a map of all the rooms, and while I sit on the couch, Wi-Fi allows me to watch the robot vacuum go through all the rooms. I suppose if it got stuck, I’d know where to find it. Not critically important, but kind of fun.