TheOakTree
@TheOakTree@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours 2 weeks ago:
The article mentions Grok being antisemitic and making non-consensual sexual images of people… But zero mention of the CSAM issue? Really?
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for not using ‘AI’ for this.
- Comment on Home renovations 2 weeks ago:
What does any of this have to do with the car battery situation? You can lick your fingers and touch each end of a car battery with a hand. It won’t hurt you, much less kill you. You are ignoring the resistance of the path the current needs to travel. Without enough potential difference, the current has no reason to pass through the body.
The level to which you fail to understand a basic concept while brandishing your credentials is a bit embarassing. There are certainly many others with the same or lesser amount of experience than you who understand this scenario better than you do.
Note that nowhere in my critique have I attacked or undermined your claimed experience, nor have I made any attacks on your character. Besides this: you are acting like a child.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 2 weeks ago:
It’d be cool to see a compatible tip with some additional breakaway segments to bypass the logo law.
- Comment on Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models 3 weeks ago:
Never underestimate AMD’s ability to miss good opportunities.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 4 weeks ago:
No worries, I still knew where you meant to end them, it just took me a second pass.
- Comment on How accurate is this? 4 weeks ago:
My partner thought this. Turns out, people feel more comfortable causing a scene over the phone than in person.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 4 weeks ago:
4K vs 8K on a 49" screen across the room is going to have much less of a noticeable difference than 4K vs 1080p on a 24" screen a foot or two away (dancing around the boundary of retina).
I think an 8K 42" would make a great single monitor for productivity, I just can’t imagine driving 8K at idle is very efficient if there aren’t software/firmware solutions to recognize non-moving screens.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 4 weeks ago:
I’m being annoying, but why do you keep opening parentheses without closing them 😭
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 1 month ago:
If my 3600X has taught me anything, it’s that AM4 platform is truly a long-haul legend.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 1 month ago:
For me, it’s rarely ever furries. Usually it’s the waifu posts that get the hammer from me, mostly because I scroll this thing in public and around people I know.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 month ago:
Same goes for Korea (since it was defined by the reigning Kingdom)
- Comment on Get on that grindset 1 month ago:
It’s real. I knew about him already, but I didn’t know about his tweets.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 1 month ago:
Because it has to be here.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 month ago:
Not if you do an ungodly amount of sanding!
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 month ago:
Maybe not 11 close friends, but I have enough friends to get 11 people invited to place… I think that counts! If I could fit them.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 month ago:
Lol, give it to a kid and watch the bands snap on the first jump 😔
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag 1 month ago:
Yes, that too.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag 1 month ago:
Grok must be tired of switching between mechahitler mode and trying to logically think through questions.
They’re just not compatible, and yet somehow they keep trying to force it.
(I know, LLMs do not have feelings or get tired)
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 1 month ago:
Infinitely better, as long as your network and encoding are set up properly. At the very least, you won’t need the ice bricks.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 1 month ago:
I feel like the “AI capable” marketed CPUs are a sham. For the average user, it’s just going to feel slow compared to cloud compute, so it’s just training the average person to not bother buying AI-labelled hardware for AI.
- Comment on I love science 1 month ago:
I know they’re not a scientist. But to say they have no grasp or interest in science would also be wrong, so I think the answer lies somewhere in the gray area, and not this black and white perspective presented in OP.
You can be enthusiastic and have a simplified-but-robust understanding of some kinds of science, that doesn’t make you less of an enjoyer. But there are certainly people who only understand at a surface level, yet pretend to be immersed in the material.
- Comment on I love science 1 month ago:
Does an F1 driver need to understand and utilize advanced calculus on the track to do well? I feel that concepts like grip/slip, aero, centripetal force, and weight transfer are intimately linked to an intuition for physics, even if they aren’t being understood at a calculus-requiring level by the driver.
Yet, I would struggle to call that situation “outreach” or “popularizarion.”
- Comment on I love science 1 month ago:
And then we have things that remap what seems one-dimension into abstract spaces, so that we can draw new conclusions.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 1 month ago:
This is why I can’t discredit faith, but I still do my best to point out how organizational religion has always exploited people. Not that all of it is bad. But there needs to be better safeguards for people to have the opportunity to find or reject faith for themselves, and instead it’s mostly indoctrination.
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 2 months ago:
Even the clean energy supplied data centers will heavily pollute the water used to cool it. So, even if we do that, we should still be pushing to reduce the amount of datacenters being built right now…
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 2 months ago:
Hah. I never even said the comment hurt me.
I’m just speaking on behalf of those who have been hurt. If you can’t recognize why someone might do that, you’re either a rape apologist or you’re an incel troll. Probably both.
- Comment on If you were dropped into a pool of people's spit and prevented from getting out, would you melt to death? 2 months ago:
This person would answer “not if you drink it all”
- Comment on Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense 2 months ago:
Fun fact: the S24U and S25U pictured in the preview have the same camera sensor set, despite marketing materials boasting camera improvements.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 months ago:
They had a little bit of reprise with the surge of SFF PCs but not much.
