CoggyMcFee
@CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 3 weeks ago:
How long was Prince “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince”?
For about seven years, and then he went back to calling himself Prince again.
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m not as addicted to Lemmy as I was with Reddit, because there aren’t as many comments and niche communities and an algorithm messing with me, but like I check Lemmy throughout each day and if I’m honest there’s not much purpose aside from getting that hit.
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
When they announced the ads it was just the incentive I needed to quit Prime totally. I don’t miss it. I’m glad buying my stuff elsewhere except when I can’t find something somewhere else
- Comment on Would America be as divided if Trump lost to Hillary in 2016? 4 months ago:
I think that electing someone as deranged as Trump — who basically would try anything and everything that a sane person wouldn’t risk out of self-preservation, we basically saw a speedrun of finding out all the weaknesses and exploits of our government, combined with proving that impeachment and removal is basically impossible as long as one party is in collusion with the president.
We might have gotten here anyway, but it might have been a decade or two rather than four short years.
And the Supreme Court wouldn’t look like it does and be doing what’s it’s doing, which is also now a speedrun of horror.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
It’s a frigging figure of speech. It doesn’t literally mean both options are “evil” anytime it is used. And you’re not “choosing evil” by voting for Biden — not for the people whose lives will be ruined if Trump wins.
If a few more people in a few states had chosen the “lesser evil” of Hillary over Trump, the Supreme Court wouldn’t be delivering supreme evil every few months for the foreseeable future.
(I don’t need to hear about how Hillary did a bad job in the election — it doesn’t change the fact that the consequences are what they are.)
- Comment on Apple Hits a Major Roadblock as EU Targets App Store 4 months ago:
It is crazy when you think about it. Everybody learns about right-wing takeovers of government in history and generally agrees the outcome is pretty horrible, and yet it just happens all over again. I guess fear is a hell of a drug.
- Comment on All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup Full of DNA. This Is MIT’s Jurassic Park-Inspired Project 4 months ago:
Tap for spoiler
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- Comment on I don't know which one of you needed this information, but you're welcome. 5 months ago:
The fact that it happened more than one time makes it so much funnier
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 6 months ago:
*Babbage’s’s
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 6 months ago:
You’re saying that trying to motivate people positively to move on from meat is “push the blame away” behavior. But I think tut-tutting individuals who eat meat is pushing the blame away.
While there are some people who believe that eating meat is an absolute moral wrong, a lot of people who feel eating meat is immoral because of what the meat industry does, both to the animals and to the planet. Five thousand years ago, people eating meat didn’t support the meat industry and all its wrongs.
So considering it to be pathetic to try to effect real reduction in people’s meat consumption because the methods shift blame away from the individual meat eater seems really ironic to me, as well as completely counterproductive.
- Comment on Trust issues 6 months ago:
I’m very suspicious of what you guys are saying but don’t want to check
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 6 months ago:
I think you make a valid point that it’s extremely difficult to avoid buying from companies or CEOs you disagree with on political or moral grounds.
However, in the case of Tesla, I’ve lost faith in the product. I don’t know if I will discover that corners were cut, that features will be removed over the air, or that the company won’t crash and burn.
So, the erratic, narcissistic CEO is the reason I won’t buy a Tesla anymore, but it’s not a sacrifice because I consider it to be the pragmatic choice as well.
- Comment on Is this a 16th-century smartphone? 7 months ago:
- Comment on Oh the wonders of technology 7 months ago:
They all played music but they didn’t serve the same purpose, thus why I had all three. The CD player was for listening in my room, the boombox could be brought anywhere, and the Walkman was for privately listening on the go.
- Comment on How did overalls and jumpsuits went from male work clothe to female fashion without becoming "male fashion" ? 7 months ago:
In the latter half of the 90s it was popular with young people in general
- Comment on Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter 8 months ago:
- Comment on Why do some languages use gendered nouns? 8 months ago:
I can say that having gendered nouns does add a little bit more information to communication. Like if we are talking about a man and a woman and we’re using pronouns, then “he spoke to her” is unambiguous as to who is doing what. Likewise, if all nouns have a gender, you encounter more situations where the gender adds some extra context and leads to marginally less ambiguity. So if you’re at a bakery and there are two adjacent items behind the counter, one with masculine gender and one with feminine gender, and you point and say “can I have her please”, there is no need for the baker to ask if you mean this one or that one, they know based on gender.
Not saying this makes gender “worth it”, but in an emergent system, small things like this might have given it enough of a foothold to exist.
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 9 months ago:
It takes very little imagination to realize that this would not be an issue. “Tomorrow” would almost certainly be interpreted as roughly the next daylight period.
So when someone is doing this international meeting scheduling they have to be very careful about saying “let’s look at this tomorrow” because in various places that can mean different things depending on when each person’s night is.
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 9 months ago:
Here’s a hypothetical store in a place where, say, 9:00 is now 23:00 using global time. The store would have been open 9:00-21:00 Mon and Wed, and 10:00-22:00 on Tuesday. But with global time it would look like this:
Mon 23:00 - Tue 11:00
Wed 0:00 - 12:00
Wed 23:00 - Tue 11:00
Not to mention the general headache of having the day change over in the middle of the day every day. “Meet me tomorrow” when tomorrow starts at lunchtime.
Plus, although you’d easily be able to set up international meetings in terms of getting the time right, you will have no idea whether any given time is during work hours in the other country, or even if people would be sleeping. Instead of having time zones you could look up, we’d have to look up a reference chart for, say, when lunchtime is in a country and extrapolate from there. Or imagine visiting a country and you need a book to figure out the appropriate time for everything throughout the day.
Books that reference time would all be specific to their time “zone”.
It would make so much sense to have a universal time that everyone can refer to for that use case of wanting to schedule things. And, in fact, UTC already exists.
- Comment on Why is the caret made, and why does it blink? 9 months ago:
“Thinned to a line” makes it sound like it was an aesthetic change. The solid block means “a character will go in this spot, and if there is already something in this spot the new character will overwrite it”. And the line means “a character will go in between whatever is to the left and right of this line”. And you might switch between them for various reasons.
- Comment on Vivaldi explains why they will not embed LLM functionality in their browser 9 months ago:
They did say “most”, so I’m not sure what you’re trying to call out here
- Comment on I had some that looked exactly like this 9 months ago:
Yeah, I had one for third grade, and since we weren’t near any drinking fountains, we got our own water cooler, which the other classes were jealous of! That place was like our little apartment, I loved it.
- Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave 10 months ago:
I have YouTube premium and an adblocker and I don’t have this problem. I’m skeptical that it’s related.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
Or, worse, they don’t even understand it. I definitely have people in my life who know about the idea of cybersecurity and are terrified of getting hacked, but constantly do things the wrong way or worry about the wrong things. Because it’s just too confusing for them.
- Comment on Driverless car startup Cruise's no good, terrible year 10 months ago:
There are lots of awesome things that help me with my job but still require me to be there. But you were saying the help it gives with the job is more limited than it seems to be at first. And I’m just saying in my line of work it’s actually a huge help.
It’s not like Clippy or templates. I have to spend time setting up templates and following a specific structure and syntax, remembering to use them. With Copilot I turned it on one day and it was instantly helping me with whatever I was working on, and continues to do so no matter what comes up.
I wasn’t making any assertion that it could do my job without me, but it seems far more useful in what I do than what you had described.
- Comment on Driverless car startup Cruise's no good, terrible year 10 months ago:
I agree with what you’re saying about your line of work. I code for a living, and Copilot is genuinely useful all day long. I use it now and again to generate a script from scratch, but most of the time it functions as either an incredible autocomplete of whatever I am coding, or it converts a chunk of code from one format to another, with just a description of what I’m trying to do, instead of me having to write a complex regular expression or do it by hand.
- Comment on Researchers come up with better idea to prevent AirTag stalking 10 months ago:
It would be like me telling you “just start having more human empathy”. You can’t just tell someone to do something that doesn’t come naturally.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
And the iPhone screen size didn’t change until the App Store had been around for 4 years. I am not sure why this person is trying to discount what you’re saying.
- Comment on Almost Half of Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway's $365 Billion Portfolio Is Invested in Only 1 Stock 11 months ago:
I was responding to purely hypothetical odds that someone just made up, in which case things can be as complicated or simple as one wants them to be.
But even if I were making an actual prediction based on real statistical data, I am not sure why you would think that having an expectation of the approximate distribution of something given its statistical likelihood is “mistaking statistics for actual reality”.
- Comment on Almost Half of Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway's $365 Billion Portfolio Is Invested in Only 1 Stock 11 months ago:
If something has a 1 in 100M chance of happening to someone, you’d expect that about 80 people in the world now have had that thing happen to them.
