5too
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- Comment on mensa 4 days ago:
Mesa is a flat hill.
Mensa describes itself as a “High IQ Society”. Essentially, anyone who scores well on an IQ test can join, and they have plaques, membership cards, and such they give out. As far as I know, the whole point of Mensa is to say you’re smart enough to be in Mensa.
- Comment on mensa 4 days ago:
At a guess? Smart people like validation too; and are just as vulnerable to manipulation that uses it. Potentially even more vulnerable, in fact.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 week ago:
Steam works fine for me offline, though I can’t speak to all the games - what are you running into with it?
I hear you on Minecraft, though…
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 week ago:
On Java edition at least, it wants you to be signed in with a Microsoft account. I haven’t dug too far into it, but I know our custom launchers break without a network connection. Once launched they work fine.
Had many a car trip trying to get the kids’ Minecraft session restarted off of a gas station’s WiFi connection…
- Comment on He suffered so we could learn from his mistakes 1 week ago:
Android 18’s baby daddy
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 3 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong, and I feel like it was a developing problem even before AI - everybody wanted someone with experience, even if the technology was brand new.
That said, even if you and I will be fine, it’s still bad for the industry. And even if we weren’t the ones pulling up the ladder behind us, I’d still like to find a way to start throwing ropes back down for the newbies…
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 3 weeks ago:
No, but that’s the only way you get senior engineers!
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 3 weeks ago:
My fear for the software industry is that we’ll end up replacing junior devs with AI assistance, and then in a decade or two, we’ll see a lack of mid-level and senior devs, because they never had a chance to enter the industry.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 3 weeks ago:
The difference being junior engineers eventually grow up into senior engineers.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 3 weeks ago:
Okay, I’m not a huge griller, but wouldn’t it be better just to build in a thermostat? Let it maintain its own temperature?
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 4 weeks ago:
I rarely have sound in my dreams. I hear fine (when awake), just… don’t bother rendering that part when I’m asleep!
I talk with people in dreams, sure; but there’s no dialogue - I just kind of know what’s been said.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 1 month ago:
The police running into the crowd are violent, certainly; as is the white mob. The response to a movement being violent doesn’t make the movement violent, any more than getting mugged makes the victim violent.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 1 month ago:
I understood US Civil Rights movement to be peaceful, as in the people in the movement did not instigate violence. Calling a protest violent because those in power struck back violently seems nonsensical to me.
- Comment on How often do you take him for a walk? 1 month ago:
It’s usually for the kid’s safety. Little kids especially run off sometimes; and while it’d be nice to be able to be a continuously attentive parent, sometimes you need to get shit done out and about while they’re with you. Sometimes they’re fine with just being carried or sitting in a shopping cart, but if not, a leash & harness (usually just integrated into a backpack) lets them wander safely while you take care of what you’re there to do.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a kid older than 4 or so in one.
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 1 month ago:
Nice, thanks!
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 1 month ago:
It sounds utopian…
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 1 month ago:
It’s not that we don’t want robots doing it - honestly that’d be pretty cool. It’s that we want to be sure the people that are being replaced are being taken care of.
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 1 month ago:
…okay, I really want to know the story behind that picture!
- Comment on Most American headline 1 month ago:
That can easily lead to “othering” those kids as well. Also, many parents who can still give their kids food from home might still struggle to do that at times.
Schools are already monitoring a whole mess of kids at once. Why not just take care of feeding them too? That ensures that, regardless of what happens at home, they have at least one good meal each day.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
Reading through the article, it seems like one scenario is that a vehicle stopped at an intersection might be about to pull out, endangering another vehicle about to cross? It seems like the thinking is, if you notice a front/side brake light stops being lit as you approach the intersection, it might indicate they’re about to accelerate - be cautious!
I’m not fully convinced either, it seems like a lot of the benefit they’re projecting is based on analysis of historical accidents, rather than any kind of experimental results. It sounds like the study is to justify expanding research to that sort of simulated experimentation, though - I’m curious what that kind of testing would find.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
Sounds like it can help oncoming traffic as well as traffic to either side of the vehicle
- Comment on Far-right websites got hacked and defaced; 6.5 terabytes of data got leaked. 1 month ago:
Pretty confident that’s the intention of that name
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 2 months ago:
Given the state of the US justice system, that’s not much of a gotcha.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 2 months ago:
For example, my grandad was a killer. Fought Nazis in WW2.
- Comment on Grieve with me 2 months ago:
Might consider how you’re storing it, too - used to keep my phone upside-down in my pocket (so the charging port was pointing up), because that angled it so it would be upright when I pulled it out. Also let all the gunk fall in and stay in - seems like it takes a lot longer before this happens now that I pocket it with the port facing down!
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 2 months ago:
“The AirCar fulfills a lifelong dream to bring the freedom of flight into the hands of everyday people.”
The price? Between $800,000 and $1 million, depending on specs.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 2 months ago:
We also now have “COVID kids” who are struggling to socialize, because they were quarantined from their peers during crucial stages of their social development.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 months ago:
Or I don’t actually get to update the version my company is using, is there a workaround?
- 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 months ago:
This is what I’ve been calling it. Not as a pejorative term, just descriptive. It has no concept of truth or not-truth, it just tells good-sounding stories. It’s just bullshitting.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 2 months ago:
Nah. The current crop of US pickups is, I’ll agree; but there’s plenty of older pickups that are much more reasonably scaled. Not to mention non-American models.