KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 4 days ago:
That’s a good point; it becomes less economical if you need multiple of these cells just to counteract the self-discharge. Even so, it’s really just a demo of the technology; they do mention they expect to have a 1 watt model later this year.
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 4 days ago:
Almost nothing… Maybe some very basic scientific equipment, but they do note that they’d be able to use multiple batteries layered to produce higher output, and that they’re expecting to have a 1 watt version later this year; that’d be far more useful in practice.
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 4 days ago:
This is wild; the battery would outlive the electronics it’s powering in almost all cases.
The output is incredibly tiny, but I wonder if it could be used to trickle-charge a higher-output battery for use in electronics that only need to be used infrequently for short durations.
- Comment on The Palworld dating sim was supposed to be a joke, but now it’s not 6 days ago:
I think the trailer and Steam page makes it pretty clear that this isn’t just aimed at furries. Not that furries won’t jump on it - we will, but it’s not just for furries.
- Comment on I was supposed to pick him up from preschool today? Whoops. 1 week ago:
Checks out, that’s about what a house cost in 1979.
- Comment on I was supposed to pick him up from preschool today? Whoops. 1 week ago:
$14.99 in 1979? Christ. You could just about buy a house for that.
- Comment on The internet used to come through the phone, now the phone goes through the internet. 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t that basically just a modem?
- Comment on Late 1900s 2 weeks ago:
9/11/2001 is the date the simulation was turned on. Everything prior to that is just programmed memories and fabricated history.
- Comment on Late 1900s 2 weeks ago:
Which sounds worse:
- From the late 1900s
- From last century
- Comment on Something's wrong with denmark 3 weeks ago:
Your coloration took an innocent map of Europe and somehow made the thumbnail look dirty. Good job!
- Comment on If we need a common enemy for people to get along then society has already failed 3 weeks ago:
Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
- Comment on If we need a common enemy for people to get along then society has already failed 3 weeks ago:
This is the underlying plot of plenty of movies. The prevailing solution is to find something other than each other to be our unifying enemy.
Conclusion: Hopefully we get attacked by aliens or something.
- Comment on What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI. 4 weeks ago:
fancy version of piano
The organ? Or did the church you visited have something else?
- Comment on How do you feel about someone taking the coins people tossed into a fountain or other public waterworks display for "wishes?" 4 weeks ago:
I’d much rather someone who actually needs the money enough to pick up small change to take them than for them to just sit there. If someone’s desperate enough to fish coins out of a fountain for a few dollars, they can absolutely have them.
- Comment on Prime Video begins an AI dubbing pilot program on licensed movies and series. 4 weeks ago:
I’m convinced that the problem with AI isn’t its existence or uses, it’s just that we don’t have UBI to go along with it. It’s the obvious step, but we’re skipping it because capitalism. I don’t think anyone would care if all of the menial jobs were done by AI, as long as they didn’t need those jobs for basic necessities.
- Comment on Prime Video begins an AI dubbing pilot program on licensed movies and series. 4 weeks ago:
Is that actually what this is about, though? The article specifically says:
Prime Video will begin offering AI-aided dubbing on licensed movies and series that would not have been dubbed otherwise.
Obviously they might be misrepresenting the situation, but it doesn’t sound like “They were previously having employees do this and are switching to using AI”; it sounds like “This was not previously being done at all and is now being done by AI”.
- Comment on US | Firing squad could become Idaho’s main execution method if governor signs bill 4 weeks ago:
There’s a few choice people who I wouldn’t mind preserving it for, just for a little while, though there’s a more appropriate method than a firing squad, and they don’t live in Idaho.
- Comment on When Lemmy got named did no one think that the "lemming" association might alienate people? 4 weeks ago:
Well, I’m sold!
- Comment on Prime Video begins an AI dubbing pilot program on licensed movies and series. 4 weeks ago:
I guess AI is really gonna replace a lot of people jobs by the end of 2025…
I’m kind of torn on this. On one hand, if this starts getting used instead of traditional dubbing with an actual translator, that sucks. I’m sure the quality won’t be as good, at least initially, and the whole “AI taking jobs” thing sucks. (If we had UBI, it wouldn’t be an issue at all, for the record.)
On the other hand, if it’s used to add dubs to shows that didn’t have them at all / would not have had them at all, that seems like a fine use for AI. I don’t know.
- Comment on Is it a red flag if a potential employer rushes you? 4 weeks ago:
It’s time sensitive - she needs someone to fill this position right now. If it’s so time sensitive, she might be willing to pay more than she normally would to get someone to do so.
- Comment on Is it a red flag if a potential employer rushes you? 4 weeks ago:
Sounds to me like she put her cards on the table and gave you a nice bargaining chip when it comes time to discuss compensation.
- Comment on Does 'attempted murder' require a viable method? 5 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s not like it’s a serious question for which I need a specific answer. Folks have been replying with answers from various jurisdictions, which is great - all interesting!
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- Comment on Is this green or blue? 5 weeks ago:
The RGB value for this color seems to be:
(0,122,133)
As such, it is slightly more blue than green, if that helps you win your argument. If not, you can just say it’s “bluegreen” and only be half wrong.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 month ago:
Brad Wentworth? Is that you?
- Comment on stylish 1 month ago:
I’m not sure what’s better: The alligator wearing the hat, the conservation instructor seemingly grabbing its tail to stop it, or the alligator just not giving a shit and carrying on with its day.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 month ago:
Dude should just delete his account in a form of internet Harakiri at that point.
- Comment on YSK that scientifically and zoologically, there's no such thing as alpha males, and a human "alpha male" personality is a transgender identity/gender performance 1 month ago:
They had two wolves inside of them and the experience left them feeling weirdly aroused and it scared them a little.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It does, though, because not every instance federates with every other instance. If someone is coming from Reddit, and they interact with a set of specific subs there, and they want to interact with the analogue communities here, they don’t want to join an instance like, for example Beehaw, that has very strict federation policies, or (probably) .ml or lemmygrad, where they’ll be exposed to stigma they weren’t aware of going in and which might not apply to them.
A list of servers with very open federation could solve this problem in theory, assuming new users knew to reference it, but that might not be what they want, either.
The invite code idea is actually solid, I think, assuming they’re handed out to people who have things in common with the target userbase of the instance, and not arbitrarily.
There’s also some instances that hold united views on specific topics, for example blahaj with trans rights, and someone arbitrarily choosing that instance that doesn’t hold those same views might feel that they don’t fit in.
Obviously anyone can just choose a new instance and move, but for a new user coming in, that’s a ‘quit moment’ in many cases. Giving an invite code to someone that leads them to an instance that at least broadly fits what they’re interested in could help solve for this.
- Comment on Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies 1 month ago:
As a Venezuelan, I give y’all Americans the Welcome to the Authoritarian Countries club!
I want to get off Mr. Bones’ Wild Ride. :(