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- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 3 days ago:
It’s true. Using floppies is too easy for decent nostalgia usage. To prove the point: how many people do you know who use floppies for nostalgia reasons?
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 3 days ago:
In terms of nostalgia-buying, we millenials are now the older generation. I doubt it’s all the 15-20yo who are buying CDs.
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 1 week ago:
“Uhg, McDonalds again. These assholes always waste my time with the same ad over and over again. I just want to watch a video. I hate these idiots.”
Yes, the brain registers. If a brand keeps annoying me over and over again with intrusive ads, the breain does register.
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 1 week ago:
They make money for those who sell ad space.
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 1 week ago:
You’re drowning out the potential of your competition. That’s marketing, and if you stop then your competitor takes over or a small business won’t grow.
Tbh, I don’t think it’s that powerful. I’ve been happily googling on DuckDuckGo for years, same as I have been using Post-its from all sorts of companies and in fact never from Post-it. I don’t think this brand is even available in my country.
I’ve been using “Tixo” for “sticky tape” even though the Tixo brand went out of business around the time I was born.
In fact, if a brand name becomes genericised, it loses its power. It stops being a brand and becomes a generic term for anything in that space.
Brand recognition also goes the other way. You know, like when you see a McDonalds and you instinctively go “Ugh, these asshats who keep wasting my time with always the same ad over and over again when I try to watch a youtube video.”
Intrusive ads don’t further positive brand recognition but instead cause brand fatigue.
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 1 week ago:
That’s the neat thing, they don’t.
Marketing looks like it is there to make you buy products, but it’s a well-known fact that this doesn’t work, and online ads specifically allow performance measurements, and they show that it’s not worth the money.
So what are ads actually there for then?
First, remember that the thing that marketing departments are best at is marketing their own importance to company management. They are really good at convincing their companies that if they stop marketing, everything will collapse. So in this way, marketing is there to finance the marketing department, and everyone’s too scared to stop marketing, because if they do they will be seen as the biggest idiots ever.
Second, marketing is there to provide a small revenue stream to the platform where you see the ads, but more importantly to punish you for not paying premium. Youtube makes you watch a shitton of ads, not because they care about whether you buy anything from the ads, but to punish you for not paying premium and to get you to do so. A premium customer brings in orders of magnitude more money than an ad-only customer.
- Comment on What do your teeth taste like? 2 weeks ago:
If you want to know, I can remove them from your mouth for a few days and return them after.
- Comment on A happy consequence should be called a prosequence 2 weeks ago:
Only if you are a really bad father.
- Comment on AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles 2 weeks ago:
There’s a huge difference between “Creates intelligible single-use text that’s good enough that I can understand what the text is roughly about” and “Creates text at a quality high enough to work as a quotable source”.
For the first use case, infrequent hallucinations are no problem. I read it, if I understand a bit about the topic I might catch it, if not it probably doesn’t matter too much either. Especially if it’s about non-critical topics.
For the second use case, infrequent hallucinations are a massive problem. Most people who use Wikipedia use it like a primary source. Even though sources are linked, they don’t go hunting for sources but instead rely that the information in the article is accurate. Every article is read not only once by one person, but thousands or hundreds of thousands of times. That means every single line is read and believed. You can bet that if there’s a hallucination in there, someone will read it and believe it. That’s requires a completely different level of accuracy, and doing that kind of crap translation work on such a large scale as OKA is a massive disservice.
- Comment on AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles 2 weeks ago:
“Just tell it to not make mistakes.”
Yeah, right.
- Comment on he forgor 3 weeks ago:
The process for this is usually like that:
- Software dev team lead: "We need another senior frontender."
- HR person: "Ok, what are you looking for?"
- Software dev team lead: "Someone who knows how to use Angular."
- HR person: "Great, so which version of Angular are you using?"
- Software dev team lead: "Version x.y.z"
- HR person (thinking, not saying): "Ok, so senior means 5+ years, so 5+ years of version x.y.z it is!"
- Also HR person: “Why can’t I find anyone who’s qualified?”
- Comment on he forgor 3 weeks ago:
Friend of mine applied for a job where they asked for at least 5 years of experience with Angular version x.y.z (can’t remember the exact version). The friend responded that he had 10 years of experience with versions x-3 to x+1.
The HR person doing the hiring asked back “But do you have 5 years of experience with the exact version x.y.z?” to which he answered “Version x.y.z has only been out for 3 years so it’s impossible to have 5 years of experience with it.” HR wrote back saying that he was rejected because he didn’t have 5 years of experience of experience with that exact version.
- Comment on MIT-developed 3D printer can output a fully functional electric motor in a single process 4 weeks ago:
The only mistake here is that the author switched the term “tools” for “extruders”. They did list four tools (FDM extruder, Pellet Extruder, Ink extruder, Heater).
This sounds to me much more like a human error than an LLM one, because the source material calls them “tools”.
In this work, three out of the four original filament extruders were swapped for a pellet extruder, an ink extruder, and a heater. The tools that make up the final configuration of the machine are:
Filament extruder (Figure 1a): one of the original E3D Hemera direct drive filament extruders of the E3D Motion System and ToolChanger was kept in place. It features an E3D 24 V 30 W heater cartridge, an E3D thermistor cartridge, and a 0.4 mm nozzle.
Pellet extruder (Figure 1b): a Mahor v4 70 W Pellet Extruder (Mahor.xyz, Spain) was incorporated to the system to enable 3D printing from pellets. A custom case was designed and 3D printed to adapt the pellet extruder to the E3D ToolChanger. The case wraps around the extruder and provides anchor points to the E3D toolhead plate and docking port, necessary to allow the pick-up and drop-off of the tool by the robotic arm.
Ink extruder (Figure 1c): a syringe pump was custom-built from scratch, combining an E3D Hemera XS stepper motor, a lead screw, a linear rail, and custom-designed, 3D-printed parts, to enable 3D printing with inks. The syringe pump is designed to be compatible with the docking system of the E3D ToolChanger and accommodates a three-milliliter syringe that can be easily swapped, enabling seamless material exchange.
Heater (Figure 1d): an E3D Hemera extruder with its nozzle and silicon insulation sock removed was installed to enable the curing of inks on the printer bed. During operation, the ink extruder and the heater can be used sequentially: first, the ink extruder prints a pattern; immediately afterward, the heater reproduces the printing trajectory of the syringe, drying the deposited ink as it hovers over it. This strategy enables the drying of ink while printing, facilitating the deposition of subsequent layers on top of the dried ink.
- Comment on Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media 4 weeks ago:
I agree, but to be fair, this is not a new problem, nor is it one limited to the US.
I’m from Austria, and during the London riots (IIRC, that was in 2010 or 2011) I lived in the UK.
My parents frequently sent me news articles and snippets from TV news about things happening in the UK, and it was constant horror stories, almost apocalyptic. They claimed that all of UK was in riot and specifically also mentioned the area where I lived in.
In fact, all that I noticed of the riots was one peaceful demonstration on one afternoon and that was it.
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s not a job I’d be comfortable doing.
- Comment on Really tall people see others differently. For example, they see more of others' heads and less of others' bodies. They also see more of the background. 4 weeks ago:
Depends on the size of your fridge.
- Comment on Acciracy 4 weeks ago:
We wasn’t exactly as nice about it as I was lead to believe a Canadian would be.
- Comment on We live in the future! 4 weeks ago:
Break laws and move things.
- Comment on ESL homework 4 weeks ago:
You are acting like you deliberately want to be offended.
- Comment on ESL homework 4 weeks ago:
Which makes my assertion correct.
Can you grow up in Wales never learning Welsh? Yes.
Can you grow up in Wales never learning English?
- Comment on Rayman 30th anniversary has save data bug and Ubisoft support says post launch support has ended 5 weeks ago:
There’s a ton of precedence for this.
We have accepted that our clothes don’t fit, that our non-fitting shoes ruin our feet, that our furniture all looks the same and doesn’t fit into the spaces we have, that consulting by knowledgeable sales people was replaced by product listings that can’t even reliably tell you if a printer is monochrome or color.
Enshittification is nothing new. It’s something that has been going on for at least the last 70 years.
I mean, just compare the fabric of clothes from 20-30 years ago to new stuff. I still got some clothing from the early 2000s that holds up just fine, while the newer stuff just falls to pieces after a year or so. You can even see that in the marketing. If you look at clothes ads even of cheap brands from the 80s, they all advertise with long-lasting quality. Pretty much no brand does that anymore.
So yes, AI will just make customer support, marketing and software quality way worse and we will just accept that like we have done for the last 70 years.
- Comment on ESL homework 5 weeks ago:
I’m not argueing that it isn’t the national language. I just said that you could grow up in Wales never learning Welsh, because English is just as much (if not more) the language used in every-day dealings.
That said, the farthest north I have been was Merthyr Tydfil.
At least in the areas I have been in and the time that I lived there, Welsh was a language you had to actively seek out and not a language that was necessary to know if you lived there.
And that’s the point of the 3rd category: That’s the language you need to know to get around well in that country. If you go to the doctor’s, if you want to talk to your coworkers, if you want to make friends with the locals, which language do you need?
I’m from Vienna and it’s a similar thing with the Viennese dialect. While there is a limited revival happening, it’s mostly a cultural relic more than a necessity in every-day life. 70 years ago, if you didn’t speak Viennese you’d be an outcast. Now it’s rare that someone speaks it.
While I was in Wales I got myself Welsh language resources and actively sought out Welsh speakers to try to learn the language, but of all the people I met there, I only met two adults who could fluently speak Welsh. The kids learned it in school as a second language, but by and large the adults didn’t speak it.
- Comment on OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI 5 weeks ago:
I think now is a good time to get into malware AI plugins.
- Comment on ESL homework 5 weeks ago:
I lived in Wales for a year and I managed to learn some very basic Welsh myself. It’s been about 15 years now, but at least back then it was mainly old and very young people who spoke Welsh. Most people aged 20-60 didn’t speak Welsh at all, with the younger ones learning it at school.
But I guess with that generation being up to maybe 35 now, speaking Welsh is likely much more common than it was back then. So yeah, my chart above is likely outdated.
- Comment on ESL homework 5 weeks ago:
Not any more. It used to be, which is where the term comes from, but it hasn’t been for a long time.
- Comment on ESL homework 5 weeks ago:
Languages come in tiers. English is the global lingua franca. People use it to speak to anyone, no matter whether English native speaker or not. If someone from Norway wants to talk to someone from Japan, they’ll most likely use English since both of them likely speak it.
Then there’s regional lingua francas, languages like Spanish, Russian or Mandarin. These languages are popular in specific parts of the world and often used to get around there. Someone from Ukraine can speak to someone from Belarus using Russian.
Lastly, there’s local languages that are spoken only in a country (or even only a part of a country). People speak them because that’s what they were grown up with.
So in general, there’s 4 “language slots” of languages people speak:
- The global lingua franca
- The regional lingua franca
- The language of the country they live in
- The language they grew up with
One language can fill multiple slots.
So for example, if you grew up in Ukraine and moved to Germany, you might speak the following languages, according to the slots above:
- English
- Russian
- German
- Ukranian
If you are born in Wales and never moved away, it might look like this:
- English
- English
- English
- Welsh
If you spent your life in the US, it would be like this:
- English
- English
- English
- English
This is the reason why people living in countries with lower-tier languages frequently speak 3-4 languages, while English native speakers really struggle to even learn the basics of one additional language. Because the former group has an actual use for more than one language, while the latter one don’t.
- Comment on The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling 5 weeks ago:
Infinite scroll amplifies the “I’m never going to find that again” problem. That’s the thing I hate most about it.
- Comment on Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel 5 weeks ago:
There’s not really anything on that account, tbh. I only ever used it a few times to talk to friends when playing minecraft.
- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 5 weeks ago:
2D printers are way more difficult than 3D printers. The only reason we didn’t have 3D printers in the 90s is Stratasys and their stranglehold patents. Hobby-level 3D printers only became a thing because the Stratasys patents expired.
Before that they were just able to ask for €70k for what’s essentially a cheap ABS FDM printer.
