Hamartiogonic
@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on xkcd #3202: Groundhog Day Meaning 1 week ago:
Oh wow! That’s amazing.
- Comment on xkcd #3202: Groundhog Day Meaning 1 week ago:
Groundhog (Gr), a unit of uncertainty in weather predictions. The value of 1 Gr means the prediction is as good as pulling it out of a hat.
- Comment on xkcd #3202: Groundhog Day Meaning 1 week ago:
You gotta have some standards. If you use a different rodent every year, you can’t realistically compare the results with one another. Who knows how wildly the measurement error varies from species to species?
- Comment on Loops is Now on the App Store 1 week ago:
Can confirm. There are lots of “boring” videos on Loops. Like, check this out. Yes, it’s an entire channel dedicated to chickens. I mean, it’s nice and relaxing, but nowhere near as addicting and engaging as tiktok or instagram videos. I’ll still count that as a win.
Regardless, @billinkc still rocks.
- Comment on Loops is Now on the App Store 1 week ago:
Before the app was released, I noticed that suddenly there were many new users. Previously, making an account wasn’t open to everyone, but apparently that has changed too.
- Comment on Whats the best alternative to twitch and youtube? 1 week ago:
Peertube for long tech videos. You’ll find lots of linux people here. Sure, there’s pretty much everything else too, but that’s what I use Peertube for.
Odysee for a wide range of videos in general. Many youtubers have backed up their videos here.
Loops for short videos… more like a tiktok clone really.
- Comment on xkcd #3201: Proof Without Content 1 week ago:
It’s the trivial proof.
- Comment on Science Is Drowning in AI Slop 2 weeks ago:
Seams a marker for quality and tells you a lot about the way the item of clothing was made. They can be uncomfortable, and that’s why well made clothes reduce the number of seams needed and hides the ones that are unavoidable.
This also applies to shoes. Well made leather shoes have only very few seams and they are definitely not located in annoying places. However cheap shoe manufacturers cut corners here. They use whatever scraps they could find in the trash, and sew them together into an abomination roughly the shape of a shoe.
That’s how modern industrial markets work, and we get what we pay for. We’ve been doing this for such a long time that we don’t even know what good clothes and shoes look like. Hobbyists do, but the mass market just ignores quality and gravitates towards any piece of trash that barely gets the job done.
I would argue that generative AI models are going to do the same thing with text, audio and video. Currently, the quality is just atrocious, but it’s getting better all the time. Maybe one day, people don’t really mind the minor glitches and artefacts in video, because they’ve been looking at that slop for so many years. Just like the awkward and numerous seams in industrially manufactures clothes, but in digital form.
BTW 3D knitting definitely solves the problem. Too bad, not that many companies are doing it. On the other hand, it doesn’t scale as well as the older methods. Economies of scale result in low prices, which result in greater quarterly revenue.
- Comment on Science Is Drowning in AI Slop 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s plenty of low-effort trash floating around the web these days. Then again, the industrial revolution has resulted lots of physical low-effort trash too. Some of that is somewhat useful, like cheap t-shirts, electronics and power tools, but none of that is actually good. It’s not good for the environment or the people using those things.
They all serve some strange purpose I guess. At least people with very low standards still buy those. I certainly don’t need a cheap bluetooth speaker that breaks after a month. Many companies still produce e-wasete like that, because people keep buying it.
I can see a similar pattern happening with AI-slop. People click those videos, read those articles, and that produces ad revenue. It’s basically the same incentive, and that results in everyone racing towards the bottom. The basic mechanics of the situation haven’t changed, even though the technology has. What I see here, is just history repeating itself in the digital realm.
- Comment on Science Is Drowning in AI Slop 2 weeks ago:
Making physical things by hand isn’t just a price issue. It’s also a quality issue. Just look at a hand made beanie and tell me where the seams are. Oh, there aren’t any, because the production method is radically different from machine made beanies.
With machine made beanies, they tend to have multiple seams. If the fabric comes in square format, you’ll end up with a seam in the back. If it comes in pipe format, you don’t need a back seam, but you still end up with several seams at the top of the beanie. We’ve been using inferior clothes for so many generations that most people don’t even know how good hand made clothes are. That’s also why people refuse to pay for quality like that.
- Comment on Science Is Drowning in AI Slop 2 weeks ago:
Also the textile industry is drowning in fabrics made with machines. Hands made clothes still exist, but they cost a fortune, just like all clothes used to. Back in those days, many people had only a single shirt to wear, and they couldn’t afford another one.
Nowadays, everything is drowning in things made with machines. AI just pushes that boundary to include text, audio and video.
- Comment on GOG released "GOG YEAR 2025" personalized recap of your 2025 gaming stats like playtime, games bought/played, achievements, top favorites and more. Similar to Steam Replay or Spotify Wrapped 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t seem to support windows very well either. When I still had windows installed, GOG didn’t stay logged in very long. Epic and Steam actually do stay logged in, and made it hassle free to play wherever you want. GOG would always kick me out after a few days or weeks, so eventually I Just didn’t bother logging in again.
- Comment on How long would you survive with no DNA? 2 weeks ago:
I was thinking about that case too. There was also plenty of cellular damage, which obviously made everything a lot more painful, but probably also faster. If all DNA just vanished, cell replication would stop. I think the zombie phase could last surprisingly long.
- Comment on How long would you survive with no DNA? 2 weeks ago:
But RNA would still be there, right? Definitely not enough to save the day, but at least you would have some borrowed time.
- Comment on xkcd #3197: Cost Savings 2 weeks ago:
If we utilize the Eifel technique, we can easily push it to 300 m.
- Comment on xkcd #3197: Cost Savings 3 weeks ago:
The 0 m orbit should be ideal, because it reduces rocket fuel expenses to zero.
- Comment on xkcd #3193: Sailing Rigs 4 weeks ago:
What about the null rig where you have zero masts and sails?
- Comment on Is there any way to modify community subscription weight? 5 weeks ago:
Sorting by scaled helps a little bit, but some communities just post soooo much that they drown out everything else. In order to fix that you would need “multireddits”, which don’t exist on Lemmy.
I recommend making two accounts and using one exclusively to subscribing to the really busy communities. The other one could be used for everything else.
If you find that one feed is getting dominated by a single community again, you may need to create a third account to manage your subscriptions appropriately.
- Comment on xkcd #3188: Anyone Else Here 1 month ago:
Spoilers!
- Comment on xkcd #3188: Anyone Else Here 1 month ago:
It was inevitable.
- Comment on xkcd #3188: Anyone Else Here 1 month ago:
This timeline is ĉ̵̡̡̢͈̖̤͇̺̩̹̘͕̹͎̀͛̋̉͜ͅͅu̸̧̡̦̱͇̙͈̪̘̯̯̭̲̟͙͈̠̪͈̪̜͕̻̦͍͂͌͛̊̐̍̽͑̋̚͜͜ͅ2̷̳̬̰̦̀̈͆̑̎̔̍̈́̊̎͆̾͊́́̓̒̿͘s̸̞͒̋̐̏̎͑́̍̄͌̈́̾͌̆͒͑̆̎̀̇̈́̏̉̿̒̀̕̕͝͝3̶̲̙͈̈́̏̏̃͒̔͐̃͊̍̅̏̈́͆̅͂̂͝͝d̶̢̨̧͈̰̟̲̱̲͎͚͙̖̲̦̩̀̽͂̏̂̕
- Comment on xkcd #3188: Anyone Else Here 1 month ago:
Anyone else reading this in 2026?
- Comment on xkcd #3185: Sauropods 1 month ago:
Looks like sauropods also lived in a world with pacman style topology.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 month ago:
That number is just an example of a specific category of absurd humor. It’s rare to see that sort of thing applied to numbers though. In other situations, we’ve all seen it. Just repeat any dumb thing a hundred times and suddenly it becomes funny. You could look at pretty much any TV comedy. Pick any decade, like 60’s, 70’s, 90’s or whatever. The rule is very simple: Just repeat it and it becomes funny at some point.
- Comment on xkcd #3182: Telescope Types 1 month ago:
Forbidden juice…
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 2 months ago:
What if there was a federated platform for supporting the channels you like? Maybe something like Patreon or some sort of merch store?
- Comment on xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance 2 months ago:
The mass of the universe is not distributed evenly, so it gets really complex. However, as semi-qualitative assessment, I can say that the vast majority of the universe is just empty space, so you should be fine for the most part. However, the longer you allow the top of the lorry to scrape the edge of the observable universe, the more likely it is to hit something.
Think of it like throwing darts. The more you throw, the more likely it is for you to hit the bullseye. If you keep on driving your lorry for an hour or two, the top has already swept across an enormous arc and probably plowed through multiple galaxies along the way. Keep on sweeping and eventually you’ll smack into something.
- Comment on xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance 2 months ago:
Not just the moon. You can’t just drive here with a 46 billion light year tall lorry without crashing into some stars, galaxies, black holes and what not.
- Comment on the self-hosting rabbit hole is a bottomless pit, isn't it? 2 months ago:
Turns out, asklemmy just banned that account for being a bot.
- Comment on YSK: How to perfectly seal a bag of chips (or anything similar) without any clips or ties. 2 months ago:
The real tip is in the comments.