turdcollector69
@turdcollector69@lemmy.world
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 1 day ago:
I think actually relaxing is productive, taking the time to be at your best possible performance is time well spent.
I just think that many modern activities are counterproductive to both rest and productivity.
Like doom scrolling is big-time counterproductive because it blocks rest by frustrating you but also doesn’t actually yield anything of benefit.
- Comment on grocery shopping 1 day ago:
I’ve literally seen people just walk out with a cart full of shit. Employees chasing and yelling but nothing comes of it.
Depends on where you are but where I’m at they don’t go after anyone for this.
It’s sad because everything is getting locked up or they just close locations.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 2 days ago:
Never has been free, the only difference is that there’s more junk to spend your time on now.
It’s always been up to you if you want to spend time productively or not.
- Comment on one bright second 6 days ago:
Black holes ain’t black because they didn’t vote for Biden
/s
- Comment on some days i cant even 1 week ago:
People who unironically think this should go clean some leaves themselves and see how long they stick with the rake.
It’s always so much easier to tell other people how to do their job.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 1 week ago:
It’s doing a shit job at replacing people, it’s still too prone to hallucinating for the vast majority of its applications.
In many of the applications where AI has replaced people the promised performance gains never materialized because of the insane amount of babysitting a LLM agent requires.
Doesn’t matter if it can write 10 hours of code in 5 minutes if you still need a software dev to troubleshoot the output for 25 hours.
They have like 90% reliability (figure pulled directly from my ass) but they need 99.99% reliability to actually be effectively reliable.
They’ve burned through all their hype and still haven’t made it reliable yet. I think they’re not going to get it done before the bubble collapses.
It’ll be similar to the dotcom boom, infinite hype implosion collapses the market to a few core players and then those core players will get there over the next 15 years.
Isn’t going to disappear but it’s absolutely going to fade into the background of day to day life.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 1 week ago:
Lemmy is structurally just super reddit. It just hasn’t been flooded by children yet so the discourse is still college level.
UI is too difficult for iPad babies but as the apps catch up the dumbass summer children will flood here too.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 1 week ago:
Most people who stay in academia do so because they couldn’t hack it in the real world.
That’s why they get so squirrelly when you ask about work experience, they either don’t have any or they blew it super hard and had to return to the academia bubble.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 1 week ago:
I find that people high up in academics tend to lose touch with reality.
I remember in college one professor ranting and raving about how students worry about grades too much and that we should all focus on actually retaining the material.
It’s like yeah that’s a pretty thought but 70% of the class was there on scholarship so if we don’t make the grade we don’t finish and have a mountain of debt.
On a separate occasion the dean of engineering wasted 2 full lectures of ethics class ranting about how we should give to the alumni association and how “it’s a privilege to be here so we need to pay it back.”
There were over 100 people in that room who were in at least $60k of debt to the school and we still had another semester left before graduation.
These people have brains the size of planets but couldn’t comprehend in the slightest how reality gets in the way of their pretty little egalitarian ideals.
- Comment on Poor salmon 2 weeks ago:
Sprint yourself to starvation then bust at the finish line and die.
Salmon are so based for doing this so I can have lox on my bagel
- Comment on It's about time we showed concern for the men 2 weeks ago:
I’m so tired of these woke ingredients and liberals ruining my food. Have you seen baby oil recently?
There’s no fuckin baby in it
- Comment on It's depressing, man 2 weeks ago:
I feel like it’s pretty common for kids to see the actions of adults and think they’re all stupid until they themselves become adults and finally see what motivated those actions in the first place.
The few adults I’ve run into who maintained the whole “everyone else is such a moron” both overestimated their own intelligence by an order of magnitude and were cripplingly narcissistic.
- Comment on Truly 2 weeks ago:
Slots are just reusable lotto scratchers.
Blackjack is probably your game because it’s simple and I’ve seen minimum hands as low as $3.
Just don’t do what I did and convince yourself that you’re good at it because you did well in New Vegas.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 3 weeks ago:
Different slopes.
On top you kill one person per whole number increment. 0 -> 1 kills one person
On bottom you kill infinity people per whole number increment. 0 -> 1 kills infinity people
You can basically think of it like the entirety of the top rail happens for each step of the bottom rail.