billwashere
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- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 day ago:
Well shit….
Reading is fun for mentals…
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 day ago:
Every gen-x’er is gonna score a 20.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 3 days ago:
So you can’t be Angry and Horny?!?!
- Comment on Sen. Schumer: 'My Job is to Keep the Left Pro-Israel' 4 days ago:
It’s not marketing. It’s a targeted campaign to intertwine the two… oh wait yeahs it’s marketing 🤣
- Comment on Sen. Schumer: 'My Job is to Keep the Left Pro-Israel' 4 days ago:
I mean how is it much different than “I hate Trump and Elon” but I don’t hate Americans … (well I am an American but still).
- Comment on Heroic dog 4 days ago:
I’m so confused. The dog is heroic just be being able to not eat the ham on his face.
- Comment on ISO Selfhost 6 days ago:
I gotta comment on the mid 70s thing and how great it is to hear that. I have also been into computers since the late 70s (well and early 80s) although I imagine I got started a little younger than you … like I was 8 and writing basic/ assembly on my various machines back in the day (TRS-80 Model III, Tandy CoCo 2, Coleco Adam, C64). So I’m only mid 50s and I thought I was the old guy around here :) But damn if you don’t give me hope that I can stay like this for many years to come.
- Comment on ISO Selfhost 6 days ago:
I’m not sure “Reddit levels of activity” is necessarily a good thing :)
But yeah that takes some getting used to for sure. I would think this is one of the more popular communities here for kinda obvious reasons given the nature of Lemmy. I’ve only been here since the first great migration but I’ve already seen Lemmy in general grow tremendously.
And I must comment on the mid 70s thing and how great it is to hear that. I have also been into computers since the late 70s (well and early 80s) although I imagine I got started a little younger than you … like I was 8 and writing basic/ assembly on my various machines back in the day (TRS-80 Model III, Tandy CoCo 2, Coleco Adam, C64). So I’m only mid 50s and I thought I was the old guy around here :) But damn if you don’t give me hope that I can stay like this for many years to come.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
That is a very good question.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
Man he’s such a little fucking snowflake isn’t he?
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 1 week ago:
I can totally relate to this.
- Comment on Papua New Guinea shuts down Facebook in test to stop 'pornography, misinformation, hate speech' 1 week ago:
Yeah I’m not sure Facebook is what I’d be worried about for porn.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 1 week ago:
No it isn’t … 😂 (I’m in the same boat by the way).
If you can injure yourself sleeping, you are NOT younger… 🤣
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 1 week ago:
I’m 54 so not that young but I find myself watching more very specific videos of subjects I’m interested in than more mainstream movies or tv shows. I mean occasionally I’ll watch a movie or show but probably 90% of the time I’m watching content creators on YouTube or the like.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 week ago:
I have a ton of these in the garage for woodworking. Screw the carpenters pencils, these are way better.
- Comment on fetching bleach after this one 1 week ago:
I don’t wanna upvote this. But I have to.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 2 weeks ago:
Tell me you don’t know how income taxes work without telling me you don’t know how income taxes work.
My question is who does their taxes then?
- Comment on Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test 2 weeks ago:
He did state that he hit the brakes. Just on the fog one, not the wall. 🤷
- Comment on Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test 2 weeks ago:
Lidar is clearly superior and Musk removed it because it was more expensive. The obvious conclusion is any self driving car should be made to use lidar and not simple vision based on cameras. Well at least not solely vision. Musk’s sycophants are just going to keep providing excuses and “whatabout’isms”. But there really is no doubt.
- Comment on Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test 2 weeks ago:
He stated in the video he tapped the brakes. Doesn’t that disengage auto pilot?
- Comment on Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were posted 3 weeks ago:
No kidding. I found an extension that did it awhile ago. I fucking hate Pinterest shit.
- Comment on Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were posted 3 weeks ago:
Garbage in, garbage out
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 3 weeks ago:
Jesus… ITT I learned mods on Reddit are fucking snowflakes.
- Comment on I am at a loss on words 4 weeks ago:
Dad, is that you???
(No joke, my dad had a Chrysler New Yorker that would talk to him and he’d argue this same thing with it. He’d say something else like “Mason is a jar.” ).
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 4 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on ByteDance's custom chip made by Broadcom has been canceled, Broadcom to lose $2B to $3B 4 weeks ago:
Someone should tell them they should sell VMWare to make up for the loss.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 4 weeks ago:
They are very impressive to where we were 20 years ago, hell even 5 years ago. The first time I played with ChatGPT I was absolutely floored. But after playing with a lot of them, even training a few RAGs (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), we aren’t really that close and in my opinion this is not a useful path towards a true AGI. Don’t get me wrong, this tool is extremely useful and to most people, they’d likely pass a basic Turing Test. But LLMs are sophisticated pattern recognition systems trained on vast amounts of text data that predict the most likely next word or token in a sequence. That’s really all they do. They are really good at predicting the next word. While they demonstrate impressive language capabilities, they lack several fundamental components necessary for an AGI: -no true understanding -they can’t really engage in the real world. -they have no real ability to learn real-time. -they don’t really have the ability to take in more then one type of info at a time.
I mean the simplest way in my opinion to explain the difference is you will never have an LLM just come up with something on its own. It’s always just a response to a prompt.
- Comment on The UK will neither confirm nor deny that it’s killing encryption 4 weeks ago:
I absolutely detest it when politicians are just this fuckin’ clueless. I rather hope the lot of them have their bank accounts tampered with.
- Comment on 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material 4 weeks ago:
First off I’ll say this topic is very nuanced. And as sick as any child porn is I completely agree. This, in my gut, feels like a weird slippery slope that will somehow get used against any AI generated images or possibly any AI generated content. It makes me feel like those “online child protection” bills that seem on the surface like not terrible ideas, but when you start thinking about them in detail are horrific dystopian ideas.
- Comment on The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too 4 weeks ago:
Yes, this. I’m kinda my families personal Netflix. I use Plex but I’ve been meaning to try Jellyfin.