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- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 3 days ago:
They used Cloud Computation and AI (“Actually Interns”) way before it was cool.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 4 days ago:
Yeah, that sounds seriosly painful.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 5 days ago:
It’s not about condemming him.
What he did was basically kick off the whole genre of research. And for that he is still credited and well-known.
But it seems you missed the context of this thread. It started with someone sarcastically joking that cocaine is “famously good for your health”, to which someone sarcastically mock-backed the claim by referencing that Freud did back cocaine.
There’s no need or point in defending this very debunked claim.
Btw, Freud recommended cocaine as a medication against alcoholism. He administered cocaine to an alcoholic friend of his, and it did nothing against his alcoholism. In fact, the friend died soon after off a combined alcohol-cocaine overdose. This did not stop Freud from claiming that cocaine is great. He even got his girlfriend hooked on it.
Freud did start the whole field of research, but his own research has been debunked a very long time ago. There’s basically nothing of his research left that still counts as “state of the art”, but sadly many uneducated people still repeat his nonsense.
It’s kinda like believing that Carl Benz’ earliest car patents still have any relevance in modern car design. We credit Carl Benz for kickstarting the research in combustion engine cars, but nobody would be stupid enough to think that early research in that field has any relevance to today’s practice.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 5 days ago:
Actually, masturbation as treatment for “hysterical paroxyism” had its peak during victorian times.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 5 days ago:
That is true, but that still doesn’t make any of his advice correct.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Trust a random studio with some long-dead IP in the hopes of making a little cash? Not so crazy imho. Nothing to lose.
- Comment on Why I Think the AI Bubble Will Not Burst 5 days ago:
LOOOOLOLOL. I think there are some initial investors who, in the beginning, legitimately thought it would be a good deal. At this point, the investments are driven by hype, and investors know they are, but they’re gambling that they can ride it to the top without being caught holding the bag. That’s why it will collapse violently. Because the moment it starts going down, everyone is going to dump it.
This is it. Bubbles happen BECAUSE investors know what they are doing. They ride the bubble hard, hoping to get out just before it pops. The later you jump, the more you gain. Unless you jump too late.
All this, including the popping of the bubble, is done on purpose.
High-level capitalism is certainly the place where you should never mistake mallice with incompetence.
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 5 days ago:
ChatGPT is a fronted for specialized modules.
If you e.g. ask it to do maths, it will not do it via LLM but run it through a maths module.
I don’t know for a fact whether it has a photo analysis module, but I’d be surprised if it didn’t.
- Comment on The amount of ghost towns in the US and elsewhere will skyrocket in our lifetimes and become a normalized thing 6 days ago:
It happens everywhere.
Current structures favour moving to cities. Farming and mining (which are the biggest job sectors that require people living in rural areas) are getting more and more automated, which means that there are fewer and fewer jobs in these fields. At the same time, huge, automated businesses win financially against smaller businesses operated with manual labour, so the small farmers are dieing off as well.
Manual jobs are often seasonal (e.g. picking fruit), and they are filled with seasonal foreign workers who don’t live in the rural areas either.
WIth fewer people living in rural areas other jobs (e.g. factories) also move to the cities, further removing rural jobs.
All of that push more people to move to cities and so on.
The impending demographic change accelerates that trend too.
- Comment on This, a pen, and coffee 6 days ago:
Nostalgia is a hard drug. I replayed Pokemon Red easily 10 times over the years. I tried Pokemon Gold (an objectively much better game) probably about the same amount of times, but I could never get through it, because I didn’t play as a kid and thus have no nostalgia for it.
I have more nostalgia for Keitai Denjū Telefang, which I played in bootlegged form mis-labelled as Pokemon Diamond (that was before the real Pokemon Diamond was released), and even though this bootleg is horrible in quality, it’s easier for me to play than Pokemon Gold.
- Comment on Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood. 6 days ago:
This. In the golden age of record sales (pretty much the time before tape recoders became a thing), there were also thousands of musicians for each one that could actually live off their art.
Since people love making art even when they don’t make money off it, there’s always been an oversupply of artists.
Same with all other kinds of entertainment. For each football superstar there’s millions of kids who will never earn a cent for playing football. Same with painters, musicians and any other form of art.
- Comment on Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood. 6 days ago:
Is Mozart’s music culture?
He was doing his stuff almost 100% for profit and was seen as a sell-out by a lot of the musicians at his time. He wrote his songs in German instead of Latin because he wanted to make essentially pop songs that were sung by kids on the street, and the musical establishment derided him for it, because they didn’t think what he was making was actually art.
- Comment on Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood. 6 days ago:
This is very much it. If there’s people doing it for free, that pushes the resale value down a lot.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
That logic applies identically to a valid patent.
The difference is that in the case of transferring the patent to the university, there’s a legal department at the ready to defend the patent. The same is not the case for a disclaimed patent.
- Comment on A Simple Software Change to Add "Bricklayer" Mode to Slicers Delivers Truly Water-Tight 3D Prints 1 week ago:
That’s a core problem with the patent system:
- Patent offices don’t really check for prior art. There’s a short period between patent applications and patents being granted where the public can submit prior art. If nobody notices that such an invalid patent is being applied for and thus nobody submits prior art, the patent is granted. Patent offices are of the opinion that it’s the responsibility of courts to sort out invalid patents like that.
- Patent litigation is super expensive and time consuming. So if a huge corporation like Stratasys holds a patent, most smaller companies (and yes, in this context Creality, Prusa and Bambulab count as small) usually don’t want to spend all the time, effort and risk of a patent fight. Also, even if you win, you don’t get your legal costs back. So even if e.g. Prusa fights Stratasys over that patent and wins, Prusa will still lose all the money they spent on legal costs for the lawsuit. All over a feature that, while cool, doesn’t bring them any money at all if they implement it.
- Comment on Creating bots that show russian-like speech that are anti-US would be a good use of AI 1 week ago:
Chemotherapy is bad for the person receiving chemo, it’s just even worse for the cancer. Yes, it cures people, but nobody in their right mind would use chemo on a healty person and claim that it wasn’t bad for that person.
If you have ever seen someone going through chemo, it’s really rough on them, and it’s only done in the hope of getting rid of the cancer and being able to stop using chemo.
But the analogy doesn’t make sense for the discussion on hand, because what propaganda bots do is polarizing, creating distrust, dividing society and cause people to do stupid things due to being angry.
Propaganda bots do that by posting extreme statements on all sides of the political spectrum. They post both pro-russia and anti-russia stuff, pro-capitalism and anti-capitalism, pro-trans and anti-trans, and so on.
So making bots to post anti-russia stuff is doing half their work.
An anti-russia bot would not be chemotherapy, it would be injecting cancer cells into the patient.
Maybe one could make a bot that posts moderate views and content advocating for reconcilliation or something like that.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
Nowadays you just google for other patents and done. But back then, I guess that searching for prior art was quite a lot more difficult. Gifting the patent to an university so that they defend open access to the patent sounds like a more reliable plan.
I mean, even nowadays patents are greenlit my patent offices even though there’s clear prior art (Nintendo’s recent patent for catching monsters in a ball in a game comes to mind, which Nintendo would have to have patented before publishing their first game with that mechanic around 30 years ago), and even today it’s really difficult and expensive to get such a clear nonsense patent invalidated.
So difficult that e.g. Palworld opted to change the mechanic instead of fighting the patent.
So I do understand why someone would instead gift the patent to an university under the condition that they keep access to it open, especially 100 years ago.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
Remember, the 1920s is long ago. Giving the patent to the equivalent of a non-profit organisation was probably better than disclaiming it, since it’s easier to have one large, well-known entity that will fight off people trying to re-patent it than to disclaim it and hope that no patent clerk ever lets a fraudulent re-patent go through.
In 1920 you couldn’t just google for prior art when fighting a fraudulent patent.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 week ago:
They stopped eating meat 3 million years ago. That’s longer ago than the appearance of the first animal of the genus Homo.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 week ago:
Pandas stopped eating meat about 3 million years ago. That’s before the first being of the genus Homo appeared. Not Homo Sapiens (that was 300 000 years ago), but Homo Habilis (2.5mio years ago).
If evolution can take us from something that’s barely an ape to humans in that time frame, you’d expect that it can fix an omnivour’s digestive system to work with plants.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 week ago:
Google tells me that pandas started eating bamboo 6-8 million years ago and stopped eating meat 3 million years ago.
That’s not exactly recent.
For reference, the first Homo appeared 2.8 million years ago and the first Homo Sapiens 300 000 years ago.
The last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees lived 5-10 million years ago.
So if evolution can evolve humans in that time frame, you’d expect that it could also adapt an omnivour to a herbivour.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 week ago:
Nature has proven over and over again that it doesn’t like neat categories :)
Evolution happens and it follows whatever works, and it certainly doesn’t care about any clever categories and rules we humans come up with.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 2 weeks ago:
The same holds true for a lot of animals. There aren’t many purely “vegan” animals. A horse will snack a mouse too if it gets the opportunity.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 2 weeks ago:
Pandas as well. Non-predator but clearly front facing eyes.
- Comment on Libraries are cool 2 weeks ago:
This. In Austria most libraries have a self-scan machine where you have to return your books and the librarians will sort the books back in. Part of the reason for that is that they need to check the condition the books were returned in.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Patriotism is nationalism for people who say “I’m not a racist, but”.
- Comment on Insulin 2 weeks ago:
They sold the patent to the University of Toronto, so they didn’t exactly sell it to a for-profit patent troll.
But also, that was in 1923, so the patent has long since expired.
- Comment on Zero Chull 2 weeks ago:
Check out this post, btw: lemmy.world/post/39372777
There you can see the USB to LAN adapters dangling off the bottom row of phones.
- Comment on Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle 2 weeks ago:
It is not. This is just yet another piece of garbage science made to get into headlines, nothing more or less.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 2 weeks ago:
Do they still offer a Win10 theme? When I first tried it, they still had a Win7 theme.