ZoteTheMighty

@ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hatred for new accounts on Lemmy is related to people's inability to debate the merit of a post on its own so they engage in ad hominem and strawmen fallacies to weaponize their weak arguments.⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not a shower thought. In fact, this opinion piece isn’t even a single thought. I’m not sure why some posts on this sub routinely have nothing to do with showers or thoughts, but I’m sick of it. I didn’t sub here for personal opinions on politics of how Lemmy operates. I would enjoy Lemmy a lot more if posters kept to the community’s subject area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨15 years after Fukushima, Japan prepares to restart the world’s biggest nuclear plant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For the record, the Fukashima disaster led to a number of new regulations that would have prevented the meltdown it had at a number of levels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If tomato is a fruit then lasagna is a fruit tart.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some people in the Midwest who like to put a slice of cheddar on top of their pie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I often wonder what Microsoft thinks their users do. I’m offline on my computer all the time, whether it’s a plane flight or at a place without good WiFi, there’s no replacing offline capabilities. Even when I am online, I don’t live in silicon valley where there’s fiber optic everywhere, and most Comcast users still live with a data cap, I don’t want to offload everything onto my internet connection. OneDrive is supposed to be a tool to make switching computers and traveling easier, but the result of how they manage it is the opposite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When you first start playing, you should be in a room that’s moderately graphically intense and you can stand there indefinitely doing nothing. I need some time to dial in my graphics settings and controls. I hate when a game immediately drops you into a combat situation and I’m joining the action 5 seconds at a time as I twiddle with settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your technology mispredictions?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My Steam Deck is basically that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That time Apple sent everyone a U2 album: 'I DONT WANT YOU.'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  U2 also devalued their art by deciding to make what was undoubtedly their worst album up to that point. I’m a U2 fan and I was annoyed by the album being in my library.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss the Intel Atom, not because I wanted to use it, but because of the positive impact it had on big tech and software bloat. I wish we could bring it back, but it seems nowadays, even Chromebooks have 16 GB of RAM and an i5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insider trading, but make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m willing go bet a lot of people making weird bets like this are doing the equivalent of insider trading. The whole concept of betting on random news is ripe for the opportunity for people with insider knowledge to always win big off of the losses of gambling addicts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Priorities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the reasons they’re popular is they’re a very short term high, so you can still drive home without issue. The same can’t be said about weed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an idea ☝️⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We can sustain everybody on Earth right now if we all eat beans and rice, give up all meat, stop plane travel, and limit your commutes to ones you can do without a personal car. Even if we get rid of billionaires, the rest of western life is unsustainable at this population.

  If you are reading this message on a smart phone, it’s already too late, you don’t meet this criteria. The only solution for us to sustain your lifestyle is to reduce the population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, lmao even. You must not work in software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How dare you suggest that there is a future beyond next quarter!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The free part is actually the harder thing to deliver on here. Free to play games are more recent than this hardware can handle since it’s a newer trend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t reliably detect all steroids. The Olympics has a long history of under detecting novel steroids. A lot of sporting competitions below the Olympics level have a tendency to undertest as well and underdetect. You could have a long and successful career as an athlete from doping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bloat, they wasted an extra integer operation with argc–.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s highly likely that EVERY video game dev team has at least one person who is using cursor, whether it violates their AI policy or not. It’s massively popular, looks just like VSCode, and can be hard to detect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Typically 10NM is the cutoff for what you’d call x rays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least she didn’t cut every interesting program in Mozilla’s portfolio when every other company was laying off employees. She wasn’t great, but she was operating in a bad economy.

  This new guy tho, he sounds like good news if you’re the CEO of Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The job offer would read “Let us use your voice to train an AI to replace you, and if you say no, we’ll hire someone else who will.” Most actors are highly replaceable, so they have very little bargaining power. This is why actors have unions and why they’ve been fighting AI hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I think GPT 4 will be the best “most human-like” model we’ll ever get. After that, we live in a post-GPT4 internet and all future models are polluted. Other models after that will be more optimized for things we know how to test for, but the general purpose “it just works” experience will get worse from here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bell peppers are the same colours as traffic lights⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, a real shower thought instead of a thinly veiled political commentary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent, I will catalog my journals of my metamorphosis into a giant worm on these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And their relationship with reality. It always reminds me of that graph that shows a modern tank is less likely to hit a child in the road than a GMC Sierra.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixIt announce FixBot: Your AI Repair Helper⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a pretty great use case for AI. Instruction manuals exist for almost every product online, so models would be trained on them. Most tech is very similar to each other, so in the context of hardware repair, it should be a reasonable tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies can’t do this if you don’t use an app to shop for you. There are a bunch of reasons you shouldn’t use apps to shop even before you get to the insanity of the video.

  • The people who fill your cart are instructed to grab older, worse looking produce to reduce waste
  • It takes someone filling 10 instacart orders longer to shop than you would, meaning cold items will warm up more
  • You are already being charged a premium for the service, as well as maybe a delivery fee
  • The items you see to choose from are pushed by an algorithm. You’re practically unable to find unpopular items or compare two similar products

  Don’t use an app, don’t use a rewards program. If those things didn’t end up costing you money overall, companies wouldn’t offer them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a lost cause. Essentially both crypto and AI were big because someone figured out how to offload shit to a GPU efficiently. There’s probably a ton of other appllications for GPUs we haven’t even tapped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHY???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s less weird when you realize it’s not a hexagon, it’s a sine wave in cylindrical coordinates. There are a lot of negative feedback loops such that a sine wave can turn into a standing wave. You just have to get a little lucky with a couple important things like your rossby number et voila, hexagon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who works in the field, that sounds like something I’d pitch to shareholders when I’m trying to steal their money, not when I’m trying to fuse particles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in video games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I played Saint’s Row 4, does that count?