tiredofsametab
@tiredofsametab@fedia.io
Reddit -> Beehaw until I decided I didn't like older versions of Lemmy (though it seems most things I didn't like are better now) -> kbin.social (died) -> kbin.run (died) -> fedia.
Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.
- Comment on Which stage are you at? 5 days ago:
I was redhat/mandrake of which neither worked well on my PC, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and mint (playing with distros like LoaF at various points).
- Comment on Which stage are you at? 5 days ago:
I got started on Linux at home from the valley of despair on early-2000s Gentoo. It wasn't that bad, but I did have a lot more time on my hands being too poor to go out most of the time.
I just put mint on a laptop yesterday; got no time for it anymore
- Comment on You are stardust. 1 week ago:
My brain added an 'n' to the first word of "waking universe" and I think it still works
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 1 week ago:
Yup! It's dumb. Bonus one: one could get sued by posting on social media a pic/vid that shows someone cheating and they get caught. It's profoundly stupid
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 1 week ago:
In Japan, a person can get sued for leaving an honest, negative review. One has to be careful with wording to avoid that completely (i.e. making sure that it's clearly stated that the content is a personal opinion (as opposed to an accusation, I guess?)). Some people still do write them and some get scary take-down notices (which may or may not be real or enforceable). As far as I know, someone could leave a low rating on like a star-based system or whatever and be fine, but I am not a lawyer.
- Comment on Japan | An AI simulation of a Mount Fuji eruption is being used to prepare Tokyo for the worst 2 weeks ago:
I think there are some other areas that have a lot more to worry about than Tokyo. I don't remember for sure, but I think the expected path this time would be north in Yamanashi (I looked into what predictions were when I was house-hunting a few years ago).
“Are there actually any signs of eruption?” said Shinichiro Kariya, a 57-year-old hospital employee. “Why are we now hearing things like ‘10 centimeters of ash could fall,’ even in Tokyo? I’m wondering why this is happening all of a sudden.”
I'm shocked that this is news to anyone. Most schools send kids to a disaster prep field trip at least once where they would cover all this stuff. I guess maybe some part of Japan doesn't talk about it, but there have definitely been TV shows about it, even in the decade I've been living here.
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 2 weeks ago:
My wife and I are almost 10 years apart. We met right before her 30th birthday, I was also once the younger partner when I was 20 and my then-gf was 34. That failed for a number of reasons, but I don't think age was one of them. With legal, consenting adults, whatever works for you is fine, I think.
- Comment on AI Killed My Job: Translators 2 weeks ago:
My company thankfully still employs simultaneous interpreters for meetings and has one translator on staff. I think, at least in part, because of how bad translation tools can be from EN <> JA.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 2 weeks ago:
I think Feynman would be interesting based on the videos of him I've seen. It probably also aligns best with where my knowledge is. Einstein is probably too theoretical and too much math I don't know (or have long forgotten in the decades since I learnt it).
I have zero Polish and my French is mostly forgotten so Curie is out, though she would be my second choice of those listed (I don't recall if she spoke English off-hand).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I see dead people (because movies and such exist). In person, though, you're right unless you've got a time machine hiding somewhere.
- Comment on South Korea makes AI investment a top policy priority to support flagging growth 2 weeks ago:
Both BYD and Tesla have announced humanoid robots for around $10k starting next year.
I can't speak to BYD, but Tesla has claimed all kinds of things that never materialize or are not what they claimed to be.
That aside, I don't think most people have $10k laying around. Most couldn't even afford a $1k expense (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saving-money-emergency-expenses-2025/), so I don't think we'll be seeing any widespread adoption at that price in the near future (which is what I took your comment to mean, but maybe that's not what you meant).
For clarity, I'm not someone who's just anti-AI, I'm just someone who thinks it's way over-hyped, is being shoved in places it doesn't need to be (especially in a half-baked state), is an environmental disaster, and has many other problems.
- Comment on South Korea makes AI investment a top policy priority to support flagging growth 2 weeks ago:
Computer vision to track inventory and expiration of food in a refrigerator could be useful for busy households
I don't think this is a problem in a lot of the world. Commercial kitchens already have rules and inventory management systems. The only thing I could think of where it might be useful is looking for mold on things, but I suspect most people are using containers into which something couldn't clearly see.
A dishwasher could cut its cycle short if it sees that dishes are clean, saving water and energy.
Maybe? It would still need to learn all the dishes the person has and what clean and nonclean versions are. That training and calling the model has its own environmental impacts and I don't know that implementing it would save energy over the life of the appliance due to the extra costs in energy to train and call it.
My washer has settings for heavier and lighter washes based on what's going in (as does my clothes washer)
In addition, robots are home appliances that require AI
They do not.
Robotic vacuum cleaners learn their surroundings and navigate using machine learning
This could all be done with sensors and rules and, in fact, was. Unless we're being super loose with what "machine learning" means here. We've been teaching robots to semi-autonomously navigate courses and return for ages.
We’re also likely to see humanoid robots(or similarly flexible platforms) becoming household appliances in the near future.
That's so gross to me personally that I don't want to think about it. Both from a security as well as environmental perspective. I also disagree that it's close, at least for how I think you're using "close" here.
- Comment on Bro wake up it's 1997. 3 weeks ago:
Not my 1997; we were way too poor for that. My asshole first stepfather would be alive again and I would be back in the latter half of highschool, so a pass all around from me (but y'all feel free to enjoy good memories :) )
- Comment on South Korea makes AI investment a top policy priority to support flagging growth 3 weeks ago:
As a software engineer, hard disagree. There is no need for any AI in any of that. The device will have gone through various testing. If they wanted to implement this, they could use what they learnt in all the testing to set threshold values and run occasional diagnostics, all on-board with no internet, to know about such things. The only internet even required might be updates to those tables of values (or if a user wanted to opt in to sharing their data for whatever reason).