owenfromcanada
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 15 hours ago:
Dali/10
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 6 days ago:
No.
Exhibit A: current US administration…
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 6 days ago:
Sure, the earth will roast and people won’t have water, but they won’t have to fund artists anymore!
- Comment on Would it be weird to ask my brother if I could tag along when he goes out with his friends? 6 days ago:
You can ask him, just try to not put a bunch of pressure on him for it. Explain where you’re coming from and how you feel.
- Comment on Would it be weird to ask my brother if I could tag along when he goes out with his friends? 6 days ago:
Sounds reasonable from what you’ve said. What’s your relationship like with your brother? That’s probably the biggest factor.
- Comment on youtube thumbnail 1 week ago:
Based on Fediverse lore, I’d guess at least 3 days
- Comment on youtube thumbnail 1 week ago:
So this is what that person was doing…
- Comment on Why is the abusive parent always portrayed as being the father, why is the mother never portrayed as abusive? 1 week ago:
Watch Carrie
- Comment on Where is he going, chat? 2 weeks ago:
Are you to have me believe, as God’s own truth, that a hole full of water, a mere column of water, itself took parachute in hand and affixed it to this feline?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
except for “where should I pee?”
- Comment on Any good Android games that aren't roguelikes? 2 weeks ago:
Exiled Kingdoms is a great old-school RPG. Paid but worth it.
- Comment on Vibe check! 2 weeks ago:
BCCC
- Comment on nothing against that guy, but this was a funny glitch 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Funny how there were no food allergies 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How do I determine what a mystery dongle does? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that’s exactly what it is. I had to get one for work because they wanted everyone to use the MS authenticator app on their (personal) phones. I got the Yubikey instead.
But yeah, gotta watch that you don’t accidentally touch it. I had a colleague carry my laptop once and was surprised to find some interesting additions to my code.
- Comment on How do I determine what a mystery dongle does? 2 weeks ago:
Can confirm, I have one just like this. The giveaway is the conductive metal bit, to have it be able to detect finger taps.
You should be safe to remove it. It probably has some info stamped on the metal somewhere.
- Comment on Eh close enough 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
How does Wikipedia continue to be such a bastion of awesome in an increasingly shitty internet? Keep on, good folks!
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 3 weeks ago:
So whenever there’s a new tech innovation, there are two instances of it.
The first is the actual tech innovation, that often finds a specific use in a few industries, then just becomes part of how things are.
The second is the venture capitalist innovation. It has nothing to do with the technical stuff (as long as the tech is complex enough to impress the average 5th grader). It’s more a concept or an idea, and a lot of big promises of unending potential. And as soon as the potential is there, stock prices go up. And that’s the only point.
The second one blows up big, then deflates quietly when the next thing takes everyone’s attention away. The actual tech innovation usually just finds its niche and quietly chugs away.
Any time anybody talks about a “tech revolution” or some similar word vomit, they’re presenting the second thing. Currently we’re on “AI” (i.e. LLMs), which will become a niche novelty when the next big thing comes along (I give it a few more years).
- Comment on Biblically accurate SpongeBob 3 weeks ago:
BE NOT AFRAID, SQUIDWARD
- Comment on Is there a alternative platform to roblox for players and gamedevs? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Sounded great when I was young 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism 4 weeks ago:
In other news, water reports higher levels of wet. More at 11.
- Comment on Can LLMs Do Accounting? Evaluating LLMs on Real Long-Horizon Business Tasks 5 weeks ago:
LLMs can’t do basic math, and can be convinced that 2 + 2 = potato. Don’t put it in charge of your finances.
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 5 weeks ago:
No, crabhorse shoes didn’t come until at least 5 years later.
No idea when shoecrab horses came about, though.
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 5 weeks ago:
And don’t even get me started on horseshoe crabs. Older than plants, those ones.
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 5 weeks ago:
Sharks are also older than trees, flowers, Saturn’s rings, and the Atlantic ocean.
- Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s actually that the “toys” that can be easily printed are simple novelties, and lots of us get caught up in that. They look super cool online, then you eventually realize that they’re usually worse versions of happy meal toys.
But when there’s a broken part on our train set, or we have a dollhouse that needs another chair, printing is super great.
Printing is easy. Choosing something worth printing is hard.
- Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ve designed and printed extra parts for the wooden Melissa and Doug train sets. No more wobbly bridges for us!
- Comment on Gourmet chocolate 1 month ago:
All anus is edible if you’re into that.
