CannedYeet

@CannedYeet@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually we have “right to try” laws for the scenario I described.

  But the FDA could use some serious reform. Under the system we have, an FDA approval lumps together the determinations of whether a drugs is safe, effective and worth paying for. A more libertarian system would let people spend their own money on drugs that are safe even if the FDA’s particular research didn’t find them effective. And it wouldn’t waste tax payer money on drugs that are effective but exorbitantly expensive relative to their minimal effectiveness. But if a wealthy person wants to spend their own money, thereby subsidizing pharmaceuticals for the rest of us, that’s great in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that simple. Imagine you’re dieing of a rare terminal disease. A pharma company is developing a new drug for it. Obviously you want it. But they tell you you can’t have it because “we’re not releasing it until we know it’s good”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As an exercise to remove the bias from this, replace self driving cars with airbags. In some rare cases they might go off accidentally and do harm that wouldn’t have occurred in their absence. But all cars have airbags. More and more with every generation. If you are so cautious about accidental detonations that you choose not to install them in your car, then you’re being too cautious.

  I can’t agree that they’re not being cautious enough. I didn’t even read the article. I’m just arguing about the principle. And I don’t have a clue what the right penalty would be. I would need to be an actuary with access to lots of data I don’t have to figure out the right number to provide the right deterrent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s actually a backfire effect here. It could make companies too cautious in rolling out self driving. The status quo is people driving poorly. If you delay the roll out of self driving beyond the point when it’s better than people, then more people will die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pegged⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be a good use for Pepsi nitro

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminder, when you don’t do things by the book, the perp wins in court on technicalities or wins on appeal. For example, see Harvey Weinstein.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s the little things⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can add a wetting agent to water to decrease the surface tension

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perspective matters. There’s a couple things you can do to majorly reduce your carbon footprint. Beyond those it gets increasing difficult to have smaller and smaller effects. At some point the next most effective things to do with your time and effort become

  • do activism
  • earn more money
    • to buy offsets
    • to donate to activist charities

  The time and effort you spend living like a weirdo has an opportunity cost that you could be doing those things. Furthermore it looks bad. There was a study that found that when you tell people that tackling climate change requires major sacrifice, they became more likely to deny climate change is even real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatmeal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A bag of dicks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legends is among us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked with chatgpt to since I’m not a python dev, and this is what I came up with

  from time import time
  
  class PlaySession:
      def __init__(self, data: dict):
          self.guild_id = int(data['guild_id'])
          self.user_id = int(data['user_id'])
          self.timestamp = data['time']
  
      def is_longer_than_half_hour(self) -> bool:
          return self.timestamp + 1800 < time()
  
      async def resolve_member(self, bot) -> "discord.Member | None":
          guild = bot.get_guild(self.guild_id)
          return guild.get_member(self.user_id) if guild else None
  
      @staticmethod
      def is_playing_league(member) -> bool:
          activity = getattr(member, 'activity', None)
          name = getattr(activity, 'name', None)
          return name and name.lower() == "league of legends"
  
  async def ban_for_league(member):
      await member.send("The 30 minutes has elapsed and you are still playing league, get banned.")
      await member.ban(delete_message_days=0, reason="playing league")
  
  async def process_entries(bot, entry_dicts):
      sessions = [PlaySession(d) for d in entry_dicts if PlaySession(d).is_longer_than_half_hour()]
      for session in sessions:
          member = await session.resolve_member(bot)
          if member and PlaySession.is_playing_league(member):
              await ban_for_league(member)
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Marty ate some of someone else’s pizza

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bachelor Chow slabs, anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta be Mac and Cheese inside. What the Canadians call Kraft Dinner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a service. It doesn’t just run in the browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Noo! I loved Pocket. It’s integrated into my Kobo eReader. It was the only good way to get articles easily synced on to an eReader. I hope Kobo buys Pocket. Or Rakuten, since that’s a tech company and they own Kobo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Land Value Tax would solve this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When New Jersey Switches Prison Tablet Companies, I’ll Lose 10 Years of Family Memories⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He was sentenced to prison for that crime. It wasn’t part of his sentence for everyone to impose their own abuses and disrespects on top of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resistance is futile⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Linux. Can someone explain this meme to me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for "girly" games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Monument Valley

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s stuff comes on the regular release cycle. Chrome and Firefox are both on a release every 4 weeks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Netflix knows I’m watching Stranger Things. But afaik they don’t sell that information. And even if they do, there’s still reason for this company to try to get it themselves for cheaper. And they know something else about you based on these crappy apps they’re embedded in. So that’s all extra data points they can cross reference and get even more data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s trying to figure out if you’re watching Stranger Things it can look for when your stationary at home and just needs to record a few seconds at a time every few minutes. I don’t know how the fingerprinting works. It might be able to run locally and not use a ton of power. We’re talking Shazam, not full text transcription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we talk about how screwed up that streak notification is? Let’s encourage people who show signs of unhealthy usage of the platform to further their addiction?

  You have a 300 day streak of using heroin, don’t stop now!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This. Use bullets or bold each question so the number of questions is clear before each question is fully read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like that’s exactly what they’re trying to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For further details, see “The Master Plan” podcast series from The Lever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thinkpad for the win⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope they used the official Apple cleaning cloth that’s certified compatible with that model of MacBook