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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In the UK we’re super lucky to have Scan, in-store if you’re in the North West or online otherwise, but for the US I guess it’s too big for a single good store to cover nationwide, then when you get too big you inevitably lose the quality that helped you grow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judging by how many users on the internet telling Americans to "just move to another country lolz", people must think immigration laws are very lax or something... (it's not)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I agree with that, but if you’re really desperate to move and worked in a way where it’s you’re only goal, it should be possible for around half of people. That may mean living in a shared room in the cheapest part of the bad area of town, getting around on a shitty bike, eating rice and beans while you save up level of frugality, but at that point it’s probably worth evaluating if it’s worth living like that to be able to leave the country down the line, and in most cases, it’s probably not.

  Essentially, not “git good,” just “it is possible, just probably not worth it.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judging by how many users on the internet telling Americans to "just move to another country lolz", people must think immigration laws are very lax or something... (it's not)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I was referring to someone in the top 50% of earners, still half of all people in the US.

  To get to most countries if you’re on that demographic, you just need to have a job.

  To get to the US historically, you needed to either get a H1B visa, which last I heard had a 9% chance per year, enter the green card lottery, which has a 0.3% chance per year, or transfer within your company after getting promoted to a managerial role via an L1A visa, which is a slow process and very dependant on who you work for, and on your origin country for acceptance rates.

  For people in the bottom 50%, I agree it’s historically been easier to go the US with the green card lottery, fairly accessible visas if you have immediate family living in the US, and even for illegal immigration with birthright citizenship, as then you can get a green card through your children.

  I was basing my comment on the fact most people on Lemmy are going to be nerds working in IT/Sciences/Engineering, but even then, if you take a mean “ease for a random sample to move” then it’s still harder to move to the US than out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judging by how many users on the internet telling Americans to "just move to another country lolz", people must think immigration laws are very lax or something... (it's not)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Immigration is very possible to a lot of countries via employer sponsored routes, generally for highly developed countries the requirement is “you have to be earning above average for your industry,” so essentially if you’re in the top 50% by skill/experience you should be allowed in. Others require certain levels of education, etc. but for US citizens those levels should generally be achievable.

  Relatively, moving to the US has been so much harder than moving out for a long time now, which is why people are saying “just move out.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing with PE is they only invest what they’re willing to lose, which the vast majority of their investments do, but the tiny fraction that don’t make enough money to fund profits and cover losses.

  If 95% of companies in the stock market lost money, that’d be the end of days, but that’s because generally once you graduate to an IPO you have to be pretty profitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole point of a pardon is “we know you did the crime, but don’t think you should be punished.” It can only come about if there’s an ulterior motive, like corruption or if you agree to work with the government towards their goals, initially working on dangerous projects etc. Allowing it to be overturned later would undermine that as it wouldn’t make the danger worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Essentially: it’s not designed as a change from North/East/South/West, it’s designed as a from-scratch way to refer to those directions.

  The sun rises in the East and sets in the West, so let’s say East is “Sun” and West is “Setting-Sun.”

  Polaris/The North Star is in the North, so let’s call that direction “Star” and the other direction “No-Star.”

  When you say “Setting-Sun-Sun-Star,” you’re saying the direction is more similar to the path the sun takes through the sky than it is to the North Star, and in the direction the sun sets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was assuming a conlang situation where “north” referred more to the axis, rather than the direction.

  Anti-north-north would be more “reversed-vertical-vertical” meaning it’s reversed vertical (south), and closer to the vertical axis than the horizontal axis. North would just be “vertical” without being reversed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In all cases, 2 at most.

  North North-north-east North-east North-east-east East Anti-north-east-east Anti-north-east Anti-north-north-east (south-north-east is impossible so the second anti would be redundant) Anti-north anti-east-anti-north-north (reversed word order to distinguish it further) Anti-east-anti-north Anti-east-east-anti-north Anti-east Anti-east-east-north Anti-east-north Anti-east-north-north

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  anti-north-northeast doesn’t sound unreasonable, but that’s being logical instead of just thinking about two directions, as written in text, as OP is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not even Japan, any European country has that as standard on showers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Inspired word of God” differs by denomination though right?

  I could be wrong, but I thought some viewed it as the exact word of God, others as the word of God as interpreted by the prophets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint: London.

  It’s easy to complain, with it being £2.80/$3.70 for a single zone cheap peak single, the frequent strikes, the noise, etc. but the trains are at worst every 5 minutes or so, they have the most frequent rail service in the world (Victoria Line), they’re constantly making improvements (Elizabeth Line, Battersea extension), it has fairly good coverage (when including national rail for south London), overnight service, and the busses are absolutely amazing.

  Is it on par with Seoul & Singapore? No. But it’s certainly significantly better than most cities worldwide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they just don’t know if they’ll want to raise children later…

  Sure you could say they should adopt, but they may see some value in the experience of supporting their partner as they go through childbirth in forming a bond to the child.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germany⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The flags are the nationalities, he gave germany as an answer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s ok.

  I think it’s not the state’s job to dictate whether people can do it. I have the exact same opinion for cheating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends how you define “racial hate” and how you define mental or social harm. I also do mean social harm, not societal, meaning to catch things like sunset communities (ie restricting where people can live, or where they can go), rather than “society is worse off because of people’s opinions.”

  Again, in my opinion, it depends on intent. If you make a post on your blog with 200 followers saying “I’m tired of X race moving to my city,” I don’t think that should be illegal, even if it is disgusting behaviour. If you post it to (eg) a community group for those people, I’d say it should be illegal. That said, I’m very liberal on policing, so believe that the state shouldn’t be responsible for policing morality, which people may not like when they realise it involves making things that are pretty much objectively immoral legal, regardless of what they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say intent matters and while it’s impossible to truly determine it, we still have a distinction for murder/manslaughter and negligence.

  If a politician lies or hides something for personal gain, that should be illegal, but there’s so much stuff the state does where it’s best if the general public don’t know, public order would probably break down pretty quickly otherwise.

  Same with racial hate. If it’s just stating an opinion, fine, I probably don’t agree but go ahead. If you’re actively trying to harm (mentally, economically, socially or physically) that group, or inciting others to do the same, then that’s not fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone has a different definition, but yeah generally free speech in an ideal sense extends to just before you start causing what a reasonable person would concern harm to someone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, there’s a lot of blending of conjecture, opinion and fact all presented as truth, and their handling of mistakes could be better - they’ve openly said if they consider a mistake to be minor then they don’t issue a correction or update.

  I personally think that attitude towards production pushes it towards slop, as it means you don’t actually care about what you’re talking about, just entertainment and getting views, so why does it matter if it was created by an AI or a human, but everyone has a different bar for this and is entitled to opinions on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking for a chocaholic friend⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Germanic speakers moment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  떡볶이us (or 떡볶이ius I guess?)

  no complaints actually it sounds kind of cool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, as a European this is pretty un-American

  Their propaganda is usually much more subtle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Leif Erikson one is very subjective though; you could celebrate:

  • The first humans to cross the Bering Strait, which is a long extinct lineage
  • The earliest ancestors to settle the Americas, whom we don’t even know the descendants of
  • The first Europeans to reach the Americas, ie Leif Erikson (Polynesia did it much later)
  • The first people to cross an ocean to get to the Americas, most likely Polynesians but possibly Columbus
  • The first Europeans to form a permanent settlement in the Americas, ie Columbus
  • The founders of the forerunner to the US, ie Walter Raleigh & co
  • The founding fathers for founding the US

  And plenty more I’m sure you could come up with

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about “art”, a big part of ai image generation is of replacing stock images and erotic photos which frankly I don’t have a huge issue with as they’re both at least semi-exploitative industries anyway in many ways and you just need something that’s good enough, but obviously these don’t extend to things a reasonable person would consider art, but business majors and tech bros rebranding something shitty to position it as a competitor to or in the same class as something it so obviously isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re bringing up edge cases for #1, and it should be replacing google translate and basic human translation, eg allowing people to understand posts online or communicate textually with people with whom they don’t share a common language. Using it for anything high stakes or legal documents is asking for trouble though.

  For 2, it’s not for AIs finding issues, it’s for people wanting to book a flight, or seek compensation for a delayed flight, or find out what meals will be served on their flight. Some people prefer to use text or voice communication over a UI, and this makes it easier to provide.

  For 3, grammar and spelling are different. I said it wasn’t useful for spellcheck, but even then if you give it the right context it may or may not catch it. I was referring more to word order and punctuation positioning.

  For 4, yeah for me it’s on par in terms of results, but much much faster, especially when asking followup questions or specifying constraints. A lot of people aren’t search engine powerusers though, so will find it significantly easier, faster and better than conventional search than having to manage tabs or keep track of what you’ve seen without just scrolling back up in the conversation.

  For 5, recipes have been in the gutter for a decade or more now, SEO came before LLMs, but yeah, you’ve actually caught on to an obvious #6 I missed here of text summarisation…

  What I’m getting overall though is that you’re not considering how tech-savvy the average person is, which absolutely makes them seem less useful as the more tech savvy you are, both the more you’re aware of their weaknesses and the less you benefit from the speedup by simplification they bring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who said you were scary?

  Frankly I pity you more than anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And no matter what I picked, you’d reject them because you’re not actually considering them, you’re just either a troll, a contrarian or a luddite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice, here’s a gold star for finding one case of it doing something wrong. I’ll call the CEO of AI and tell them to call it off, it’s a good thing humans have never said anything like that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to limit to LLMs as that’s the generally accepted term and there’s so many uses for AI in other fields that it’d be unfair.

  1. Translation. LLMs are pretty much perfect for this.

  2. Triaging issues for support. They’re useless for coming to solutions but as good as humans without the need to wait at sending people to the correct department to deal with their issues.

  3. Finding and fixing issues with grammar. Spelling is something that can be caught by spell-checkers, but grammar is more context-aware, another thing that LLMs are pretty much designed for, and useful for people writing in a second language.

  4. Finding starting points to research deeper. LLMs have a lot of data about a lot of things, so can be very useful for getting surface level information eg. about areas in a city you’re visiting, explaining concepts in simple terms etc.

  5. Recipes. LLMs are great at saying what sounds right, so for cooking (not so much baking, but it may work) they’re great at spitting out recipes, including substitutions if needed, that go together without needing to read through how someone’s grandmother used to do xyz unrelated nonsense.

  There’s a bunch more, but these were the first five that sprung to mind.