JuxtaposedJaguar
@JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 3 hours ago:
The lying is unacceptable, but either they hire temporary workers to obsolete themselves, or they force tenured people to obsolete themselves.
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 7 hours ago:
What would have stopped them from just collecting the data in their own stores, and then developed the tech?
I won’t pretend that Amazon avoided that due to ethical concerns, but doing that would have almost the exact same ethical concerns.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 week ago:
Congress has a lot of power to moderate the president, but the Republican majority has completely failed in that role.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 week ago:
Everyone talks about it behind your back. Sorry.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 week ago:
It’s basically “lose a huge amount of money or do me favours that cost you 1/100 as much”. Surprise, surprise, they do the favours.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
The real Pocket is the Google money they made along the way.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
I’d prefer a self-hosted option. They could even do it the KeePass way where it just saves to a file and you’re responsible for syncing it.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
They’re going to do that regardless.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 1 week ago:
There’s issues on both sides. A lot of people who ask questions are clearly just asking others to do their homework or otherwise haven’t made any effort, but there are also a lot of people who are unnecessarily hostile.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 1 week ago:
Then the author marks the question as answered because doing Y solves their problem…
Good for you, but I actually need to do X and Y wouldn’t work for me. At least change the title so it doesn’t come up as the top result in search engines.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 weeks ago:
Question closed as off-topic.
- Comment on Industrial Light & Magic's Chief Creative Promotes AI Slop During His TED Talk 2 weeks ago:
Anyone can write anything on UrbanDictionary. How often do you actually see that term being used?
- Comment on Industrial Light & Magic's Chief Creative Promotes AI Slop During His TED Talk 2 weeks ago:
You wouldn’t be calling it “slop” if you thought a human made it in photoshop, which means your judgement isn’t actually based on the quality of the image.
What’s the point of calling it “slop”, then? What is “slop” even supposed to mean if it’s not describing quality?
- Comment on Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers 2 weeks ago:
If you train a parrot to say “I can do calculus!” and then you ask it if it can do calculus, it’ll say “I can do calculus!”. It can’t actually do calculus, so would you say the parrot is lying?
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 3 weeks ago:
most
of lemmy’susers don’t know how janky it is behind the scenesThat’s technology in general
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure their TOU moves all risk and liability to the users, so if anyone is getting sued, it’ll be the users.
The more likely outcome is that Plex just loses most of their users, since pirates (the majority of Plex users) won’t be willing to pay to access the content they already pirated.
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 4 weeks ago:
Pure DHMO is actually pretty inert. It’s only once you add ions of sodium (a highly reactive metal) and chlorine (a highly toxic gas) that it starts damaging metal.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 1 month ago:
Google only checked out and cashed in after getting a monopoly. Mozilla let themselves fade into irrelevance.
- Comment on With the current state of the news, April's fools aren't fun anymore because they can't be distinguished as easily as before 2 months ago:
Businesses doing April Fools was fun until every gigantic corporation started doing it. Now it’s just bland, thinly-veiled marketing.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 months ago:
My thermodynamics professor made so approximations in his derivations that all of his equations had an “O” term to represent the inaccuracy. Every time he made another approximation he’d say “and, of course, the O sucks up the error”.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 months ago:
My high school English teacher still has night terrors about me starting sentences with conjunctions. And that was the least of their problems.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 months ago:
The trick is to round everything. Pi? Basically 3.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 2 months ago:
You can make commits on your system without pushing them to the remote server, and that’s the default behavior.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 2 months ago:
Nope
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 2 months ago:
These days I go 50/50 on Reddit and Lemmy. I know it’s a chicken and egg problem for content, but hopefully 50% usage is enough to change things over time.
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases. 2 months ago:
Haven’t you heard? It’s the year of the Linux desktop.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 2 months ago:
Tell those particular people. Maybe screenshot those particular messages as proof. But don’t publicly share everything.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 months ago:
I asked my MAGA coworker whether he thought Trump broke the law in the hush money case, and his response was “she should have kept her trap shut”.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 months ago:
“Shut up about eggs”
- Trump’s retweet
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 months ago:
Trump knows that his supporters are going to turn on him eventually, which is why he’s working so hard to set up an infrastructure that can crush opposition without due process. He’s also testing the waters about ignoring court orders.
If the supreme court lets him use the AEA then that means the president can use war-time statutes without Congress needing to declare a war, which means that he’ll be able to use a different statute to deploy the military on US territory. At that point, US democracy is officially over.