ranzispa
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- Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot 3 days ago:
Sure, but I doubt RAM plays a big role in this.
- Comment on Did we win? 1 week ago:
I consider price and technical specifications. I don’t have 200€ to spend on a phone. Most phones I bought were less than 100€ new. What I care about a phone is that it supports two SIM cards.
With such constraints, choice is quite limited unfortunately.
Is it worth having a free device? Indeed. Is it worth spending 4 times the price just for that? Not to me.
- Comment on Did we win? 1 week ago:
As long as your phone model is supported by any custom mod. I have checked compatibility for almost all smartphones I owned, some 7 or 8 through the years.
Not a single one of them was ever supported by a custom mod.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 1 week ago:
I like to have a separate partition for /home Whatever happens I can wipe root safely and install something else.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 1 week ago:
Vista is the reason I started using Linux.
- Comment on The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer 2 weeks ago:
Food is very cheap and available everywhere. Clothing is basically free, and clothes are now easily high quality.
his and 90% of people’s material conditions are shit
Other people is richer than you does not mean your conditions are bad.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for the article, it really was a great read.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I work in the field of drug development, and I am very impressed by what this one guy was able to do. There’s people who worked in the field their whole life and don’t know even half the things he was able to do using chatgpt to plan out a project.
You should indeed read the article, it is quite a nice read and may show how chatgpt used in a proper manner can be a very useful tool.
- Comment on The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t read the article yet.
I have a good friend who is homeless and begs for money. He says his life is much better than the life of the richest people of just a few centuries ago.
- Comment on spoopy figs 2 weeks ago:
I used to have some fig trees, I’d always have to be careful around them as they’d be full of wasps.
- Comment on LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t know calc could do that, cool!
- Comment on LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats 3 weeks ago:
Do you know of any software which stores formulas in CSV?
- Comment on LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats 3 weeks ago:
CSV does not allow storing formulas, just results. It is a good format to share data, but it is not a good format to store spreadsheets which very often contain such formulas.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 3 weeks ago:
Self checkout is only a valid option if you are stealing. No, I’m not going to do your job to increase your profits by having less employees. Fuck those things.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 3 weeks ago:
Those are some huge price swings for some chocolate in just a couple months time span. Is it common for products to fluctuate so much in price in your area?
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 3 weeks ago:
Don’t you do that already? Do you just go to one store and buy meat, fish vegetables, alcoholics, cleaning supplies and so on in the same place?
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 3 weeks ago:
The fact that the other guy who buys the same crackers, but they know they have to give a $0.10 discount so that he’ll buy a beer with it, is also walking down the same aisle. That is likely what would prevent them.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 3 weeks ago:
How would that work? I go to a shop and I know the price of what they are selling. It is not so easy to rapidly change prices without people noticing. There may be variations on vegetables, fish and meat according to availability but everything else has a clear price. Some products do have some seasonality or good and bad years but when I go to the shop I’ll mostly be accounting for those. It would be quite strange to go to the shop one day and buy something for 5€, the following time for 6€ and another time for 4€. You see, if I know this system is in place I will just not buy it whenever it is at an higher price. Moreover, changing prices while shopping is probably illegal. I am not sure about this, but I believe in Europe large shops are obligated to clearly state the price for every product. By changing the price several times per hour I do not think that would comply with such regulations. While personalised pricing itself may be legal, and I’m not sure it is, changing the stated prices while people are shopping probably isn’t. Besides, when I check out how will they charge me? This is 6€, no it was 5€ yesterday, you see the price changed to 6 while you were walking in front of it but it now is at 4€.
- Comment on Just one more square bro 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure a big square inside the main square would have a higher surface area than this. Calculations over the top of my head tell me this, but then again, I didn’t publish an article on the subject.
- Comment on Name this Paper 4 weeks ago:
Systematic review of lab equipment and techniques applied after the prohibition of bunsen burners
- Comment on YSK that editing Wikipedia is easier than it looks (and where to start) 4 weeks ago:
I started editing a page which was a list of scientific software for a specific application. Something really useful if you ask me, as it’s difficult to find a complete list of those, you’d mostly be waiting for someone to publish a review on the topic. After a while someone came around and decided a bunch of items in that list were not relevant, he did in fact delete the most widely used software and left some very old and discontinued ones. I explained that was a mistake and that it would render the page useless, but apparently it is not considered useful to have a list of things if the individual elements of that list are not considered worth having a page, and those were not considered worth having a page because nobody had decided to make one page.
I turned to wikidata and found a very good source of data and a much friendlier community.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, this forced friendlies I have found in many restaurants and bars in the US. A very annoying behaviour. But apparently, people over there will complain if the waiter has not been around annoying them by asking if they need something else all the time. Workers are already being forced to put up such a show because customers like it. I don’t think the problem is using AI to check this, but rather that this behaviour is being forced onto workers in the first place.
- Comment on AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains 5 weeks ago:
Who the fuck wrote such a terrible article? What is described is not a problem with AI per se, but rather automation and poor security. AI may be part of that automation system, but this is a trend which started with the dot com bubble and not something new. Besides, the models they reference to check plant diseases and so on are most definitely not the LLMs which have now become synonyms of AI.
Sure, a cyber attack can lock down your production; but it is mostly not AI who generated this problem. It may intensify the problem, but as of now we don’t have many examples in which that happened.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 5 weeks ago:
Red Hay has helped a lot the Linux system, I doubt desktop systems would be a good viable idea by now without their contribution. Does your analogy imply that you think Red Hat made systemd to eventually break it and thus make Linux not viable? I doubt they could do that without losing all their customers.
I mean, systemd can indeed do a lot of things but it mostly is used for startup and service management. And I prefer systems services to a cronjob.
- Comment on If at first you don't connect 5 weeks ago:
Is that a USB to USB adapter?
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 5 weeks ago:
Came from Italy and to be fair I didn’t try too much American food, I guess some corn meal and pancakes, meat was really good; but the real greatest thing I found in the US is the HUGE sandwiches they make in the Publix supermarket. Great stuff, loved it.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 1 month ago:
I know plenty people who are currently homeless in Europe originally lost their job following the 2008 crash.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 month ago:
Do you often cut and join audio that you did not record yourself?
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 1 month ago:
Same, my conclusion is that we have too much faith in medics. Not that Llama are good at being a medic, but apparently in many cases they will outperform a medic, especially if the medic is not specialized in treating that type of patients. And it does often happen around here that medics treat patients with conditions outside of their expertise area.
- Comment on Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet? 1 month ago:
I mean, AI is what took the focus away from QC, especially after AlphaFold. Quantum Computing is potentially a society changing technology, now regarding practice we are really far away. The main expectations are in the field of medicine. I work in that field and I reckon that if the expectations placed on quantum computers were to come true, we’d be able to study the human body much quicker than now and to develop drugs much quicker than now. However, I do work nearby a Quantum computing centre and I have met quite a few persons who work in the field, both as researchers and entrepreneurs. Currently no computer can be used to make any real calculations and it is actually unclear if the molecular simulations are actually possible with a quantum computer. As far as I understand it, it may not be possible to encode the whole system in a quantum computer before it loses coherence. This may be an intrinsic limitation as for real problems you’d need to encode tens of thousands of electrons.