wetbeardhairs
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- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 21 hours ago:
First one for when you havent showered for a day or so
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 1 day ago:
Yeah a lot of them really make you think they phoned it in.
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 1 day ago:
Pretty sure they’re all handmade and approved by someone at google.
- Comment on Android 16 is here 1 day ago:
Yeah now we’ve gotta use the pickle. Image
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 1 day ago:
It’s not ai generated… yet. Right now these are made and approved by google. That’s why you don’t see the eggplant, peach or gun.
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 1 day ago:
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- Comment on Android 16 is here 1 day ago:
Oh my god it is real!
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 days ago:
Machine learning based pattern matching is indeed very useful and profitable when applied correctly. Identify (with confidence levels) features in data that would otherwise take an extremely well trained person. And even then it’s just for the cursory search that takes the longest before presenting the highest confidence candidate results to a person for evaluation.
And what we call “AI” right now is just a much much more user friendly version of pattern matching - the primary feature of LLMs is that they natively interact with plain language prompts.
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 2 days ago:
Only places that have those foggers have produce bags.
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 3 days ago:
OK that was a bit much. I thought you were saying you went and licked your fingers each time you opened the bag just before squeezing the store tomatoes to find the right one.
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 3 days ago:
The produce is all wet. Just touch the thing youre going to buy to get your fingers wet - not lick it you foul fuck
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 4 days ago:
No he just got lucky a few times. Then he flagrantly broke the law because he realized the SEC would never hold him accountable and that let him turn Tesla into the first memestock. That’s why he is megawealthy. Luck and fraud.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 4 days ago:
Yeah I really hope he goes after Vought and the truly evil people next. It’d be glorious to watch them all fight and get ripped apart so they can’t harm anyone else.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 5 days ago:
possedong
I’d like to know how your autocorrect learned this word
- Comment on Damn Led Zeppelin and their Stairway to Heaven! 1 week ago:
There are those weird flat airport escalators to Nirvana, though.
- Comment on I think we've all been there. 1 week ago:
I wonder what kind of conditions might allow that state chart to have a transition from Death back to Diarrhea.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 1 week ago:
And we will let you because no one cares.
Hey look Neatnit’s corpse is getting eaten by birds. Well… they’ve got to eat something. What was it he died for again?
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but all of the other Wall-Es were left broken by a mandatory Tuesday Windows Update
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 2 weeks ago:
“well the military was ultimately responsible for holding those contractors accountable,”
This is arguably one of the worst aspects of contracting any kind of service. The contractors act like they don’t have a duty to listen nor are they willing to be held accountable. Once the contractor and the signor shake hands then the contractors just go and do the worst fucking job possible with no one to steer the ship. The money has been spent, and accountability is nowhere to be found.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 2 weeks ago:
I see what you did there.
For real though it’s going to be hard to undo all of this. The political process for all public services is being hung by a noose made by contractors and GOP voters.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 2 weeks ago:
No my point is they offload too much to corporations and thus are beholden to the same concerns of those corporations by proxy.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 2 weeks ago:
Honestly I didn’t even realize until now how good the cropping is on lemmy compared to redd*t. holy shit the number of memes that came from screenshots of twitter screenshotted on insta screenshotted on whatever the fuck but this one was profile.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been in PTA fights over this and yelled at superintendents in multiple school district meetings now. The real answer of where the money is going? Contractors.
Everything is done by contractors now because it’s easy to sever and it allows organizations to focus on one thing they’re good at. Do you need janitorial staff or do you need to keep things clean? Well the answer is you need to keep things clean - so how? Just pay the contractors because the school board got bribed. Sure, it turns out the contractors cost 3x the cost of a dedicated janitorial staff in the long run, but they were quicker to set up and the board wanted a turnkey solution.
That’s the approach that every school board uses to answer that question. Need X - ok well we don’t want to hire anyone because that makes people mad about how we use money… so we’ll spend MORE money on Y over the long run for something that will be a permanently reoccurring cost. Anyone go to a school cafeteria recently? Did you get food served on disposable styrofoam treys or were you given a melamine tray and plate with reusable utensils? Just kidding I know the answer to that already. Do we provide school supplies to students at the district level? No, every man for themselves go to walmart and pay $60 for school supplies for each child with all the markup instead of letting the district buy them by the pallet and distribute at the cost of wholesale for 15% the total price of everyone wastefully purchasing their own.
Don’t forget that school boards are notoriously easy to corrupt. Usually it’s something relatively benign like a board member has a family member that owns a company that does contract work and they were recommended to the rest of the board. But often it is outright bribes.
But this short sighted view of how to run things is making everything expensive in America. Everything has ten fucking middlemen between you and what you want. And they’re all goddamn contractors now. Cheap in the immediate but far more expensive over time. Why? Because we aren’t allowed to have honest conversations about government expenses anymore. We aren’t allowed to ask for real services for our children because of the short term demands of the bottom line.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 2 weeks ago:
School board officials are frequently bribed to hire expensive contractors.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 2 weeks ago:
Honestly it’s not the administrators. They usually reduce overall headcount by performing the tasks of multiple other dedicated people with one role.
The answer of where is the money going? Contractors. Everything is done by contractors now because it’s easy to sever and it allows organizations to focus on one thing they’re good at. Do you need janitorial staff or do you need to keep things clean? Well the answer is you need to keep things clean - so how? Just pay the contractors because the school board got bribed. Sure, it turns out the contractors cost 3x the cost of a dedicated janitorial staff in the long run, but they were quicker to set up and the board wanted a turnkey solution.
- 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 weeks ago:
It could crawl elements within the DOM to save a word cloud of visible text for each bookmark as metadata for later searches. I think it’s doable. Separating nonvisible and visible stuff is very difficult though.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 3 weeks ago:
I had a decently awarded account on SO because I joined it in 2012. I asked and answered questions. For the first few years it was fucking awesome as a professional developer. Then it’s popularity on google search results ended up making it too well known and the comment quality dropped substantially. Then the fucking powerusers popped up and started flagging almost everye one my questions as duplicates while pointing to unrelated questions. The last I really used SO was around 2017. I got too fed up to participate in the platform because when I spent the time to make a well formed question, it would just got shut down and my time wasted.
- Comment on Thoughts on the recent Swiss law that might require ProtonVPN to start blocking certain domains? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t have patience for sealioning. Expect rudeness while doing that.
- Comment on Thoughts on the recent Swiss law that might require ProtonVPN to start blocking certain domains? 3 weeks ago:
Oh fuck off they lost power for over a million people last year because of a cat 1 hurricane that didn’t even directly hit them.
