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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  AI: Dave, turn right and walk across the bridge. Dave : But AI, there is no bridge AI: I am 99% sure based on 99 billion images that there should be a bridge Dave: ok , you’re the smart one Dave: aaaargh SPLAT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything which drives nails into the xitter coffin is a good thing as far as I’m concerned. Bluesky may not tick many people’s boxes here on lemmy, but this migration shows that lots of people wanted to leave xitter but didn’t see an option. Threads clearly didn’t attract them, likely due to the owner. I hope it nothing else, Bluesky is a less toxic place and xitter and musk become less relevant. In the long run Bluesky may end up being another head of the hydra , but for now, it’s not, and it may get people used to the idea of federation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know what the point was, but Biden is included as if he is part of some political dynasty. He was VP. A very normal situation, 19 out of 49 have run for president. It’s like being promoted through the ranks until you get to the top. Isn’t that kinda in most careers?

  So why is it “insanely improbable” for Biden, someone who qualified for the job over decades, to be “chosen” as opposed to anyone else.

  We aren’t talking here about how it requires cash to become president which raises the bar above most people’s head.we are taking about political dynasties.

  So I say again, including Biden as if it is some statistical anomaly or stranglehold on politics is disingenuous, especially if you exclude Harris.

  Her situation of running for president after serving as vice president is EXACTLY the same as Biden unless you want to split hairs and say he served 2 terms and her only 1. So if you want to say Biden was given a silver spoon, so was she.

  Biden is not a dynasty. But if you insist he is, so is Harris, and that makes the original premise flawed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s really fair to include “Biden” alongside “Bush” and “Clinton” and NOT include “Harris”, just to make a point. The point is the Bush and Clinton represent two people each, a dynasty as it were. Biden is just one person. You might as well add then Harris since she has served as VP just like Biden, or Trump but I get the feeling this is intended to somehow make the statement that Harris represents a new breed of politics, a break from the old. That may or may not be true, but it doesn’t hinge on this meaningless metric.

  “since 1981 there has never been an election without a Bush, Clinton, Biden, Trump or Harris.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An informative martial arts infographic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He did a follow up study in 1998 co-authored by some people he met at a bus stop which confirmed these results. hoo cha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨jants⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jrousers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like a manufacturer problem. I’ve have the same LED bulbs in my house for 5 years plus with no replacements. Various makes too .Some of them came with me from my old house. No idea how old they are. With incandescent bulbs, I used to have to replace at least 1 a year. I used to keep a stock in the back of a cupboard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X sues Media Matters to silence moderation criticism⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree that if an incident happens in a particular jurisdiction, the local court should handle it. That makes sense, no argument here. But here they get to choose the set of laws because there was no physical location? That just feels wrong somehow. Anyway there is a physical location and if anything, the incident was ‘perpetrated’ by a person who was physically located somewhere at the time. It should be handled by the court local to them at the time. In the case of organisations, I guess this would mean where the defendant company operates from. Or if we accept it is virtual and everywhere then, it should be governed by federal laws not state laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X sues Media Matters to silence moderation criticism⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is it OK for an American company to headquarter in one state then cherry pick another in which to file a lawsuit. Surely a company should be governed by the laws of the state in which they are based. It seems weird to choose the set of laws you want to be judged by when the defendant cannot do the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone feel like an actual adult?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d call ‘actual adulting’ having responsibility for another’s welfare. Whether a dog, cat or human, they are all varying levels of “if I fuck up, someone else suffers”.

  I still don’t feel fully like an adult, but I do feel the responsibility of ensuring there is food on the table and a roof over our heads. My partner is also responsible for these things so it is a little less pressure.

  All said I do not feel as adult as I saw my parents when they were my age. They seemed very grown up and very responsible compared to how I feel today. I was 11 when my dad was my age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I did online dating for many years. I used match, eharmony, tinder, pof, okcupid.

  I fully understand the ‘soul destroying’ comment. For me it was a lot of work for little return. I started off being selective. Messaging one person at a time so I didn’t end up getting two responses and having to put someone off or turn one of them down. That was naive it turned out as I got very few replies. So I started messaging multiple people at once. I always tried to personalise things but my effort varied with how optimistic I was feeling about online dating.

  Ultimately I think I got responses about 10% of the time. From them, 10% turned into a date, from those maybe 50% would get to a second date.

  So overall it every hundred messages I’d write , 1 would end up in a date. I went on quite a lot of dates over the years, but I had to devote so much time to getting them it was, soul destroying.

  I never thought i was unattractive, but online dating made me question if I really was. I never thought I was an ass, but online dating made me question if I really was. I would sometimes have very long conversations before meeting to find there was no chemistry in person. Sometimes I would like them when we meet and they would ghost me. Sometimes they liked me and I didn’t like them, but I always tried to be honourable and tell them, not ghost them since I didn’t like it happening to me.

  I am male in case my experience doesn’t make it obvious. I often spoke to some of the women I got on better with about how online dating was for them and their experience was pretty awful for different reasons. Generally they were bombarded by messages and a good number of them were obscene. Guys trying to hook up rather than date. To manage their inbox was a real challenge and they probably missed out on good matches because of the noise.

  My overall impression of the whole thing is that it generally sucks regardless of whether you are the one doing most of the messaging or whether you are receiving messages. I also think it makes it more like shopping than dating, dehumanising people. Do I want the 8K 42 inch TV or the 4K inch TV? Actually, can I even afford it?

  All that said in the end it worked for me. Over 6 years since I last logged in and I think it was a bit of an addiction, or perhaps desperation born of loneliness.i also have a daughter now and there were times I thought that was never going to happen.

  So for me online dating was years of frustration, difficulty and upset, but in the end I’m glad I did it but it took a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You’ve just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription | Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn’t making quite enough money...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying baby monitors are the only reason for improved SUID rates. I’m saying they likely played a role. Despite your sarcasm, you might also be right that lead could have adversely affected unexplained infant mortality. The point I was trying to make was that baby monitors are not useless devices designed to extract money from you as implied by OP, whose comments by the way, were anecdotal.

  $400 is excessive though. As is a subscription.

  And data on SIDS is freely available. www.cdc.gov/sids/data.htm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You’ve just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription | Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn’t making quite enough money...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve also not been fine.

  SUID Death rate for infants has decreased even since 1990. Baby monitor likely had a role in that.

  FYI not supporting subscription for features a device has in hardware, just saying I’d rather have a monitor that never went off than no monitor and a dead child. There are plenty of alternative devices without subs that cost a lot less to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple says it will fix software problems blamed for making iPhone 15 models too hot to handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pesky Uber!!! I knew they’d be to blame somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is bolstering perks like happy hours and company swag as it pushes staff to return to office, despite its 'year of efficiency'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Upper mgmt “We need our employees back in the office.” Lowrt mgmt “Did you see the numbers? Since our employees started working from home, we’ve been smashing targets.” Upper mgmt “Yeah that’s why we need them back. Just imagine how much better the numbers could have been if we were making sure they weren’t slacking off.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? | Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the most important things in a tool line this is long term stability. Unity just showed anyone intending to use their engine they are not a stable choice. I wanted to use unity for a recent project and found unreal engine terms more acceptable for my use case before these changes. Now there is no competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire grindset⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember one of the question styles in those crappy online iq tests being: If some clots are blahs and all blahs are ploots, are all clots ploots?

  Interesting that the meme is about iq

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MS to update Windows every 3 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Many many people have no choice.

  A number of software companies have software which has become industry standard and do not support windows. That means any new employees have been educated and trained in using that software. So to defy that , you are either the odd man or in the company, or the odd company out in the industry.

  That causes you disadvantages of interoperability with colleagues or a need to train your new employees with skills that are typically only useful within your own company and delay the return on investment of your new hire which has financial implications.

  Wine has come a long way but many industry standard softwares do not play nicely. E.g. Adobe software, autocad, solidworks. If you get it running, you are not guaranteed the next version will work and if your whole team upgrades except you, you might lose the ability to work with their files. Your boss may not be happy if you need to spent x hours or days getting up and running again because you had to upgrade from v21 to v22 and it didn’t work out of the box in wine.

  Businesses need and require a different level of support vs home users so that issues can be fixed in a timely and reliable manner. Adding wine into the mix means every software problem now has potential causes not just in the software itself, but also in the wine setup.

  So ultimately where no native application exists and no compatible application exists, wine is not yet an acceptable solution for business use except in very fringe cases. So that leaves virtual machines as a solution, but then you are running windows with extra support issues again. So why would you not just run windows.

  I offer this answer as the reason windows is and will remain ubiquitous not as my own personal preferences or opinions.

  I tried working in Linux for several months but I kept coming up against barriers that cost me time , solely because of my choice to use not use windows. When I encountered issues, it would not and could not help. In the end I deleted my Linux partition because I simply could not work with file formats colleagues were exchanging and I would have to switch to windows.

  I’d you want windows gone, the only way is to convince large software companies to support other operating systems natively or for wine to reach 100% parity with the experience on windows. The former will only hassocks if there is a financial positive for the companies and the latter with likely never happen, or take a very long time due to windows being a moving target.