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- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 7 hours ago:
If that’s what you meant to say, then it would help to actually say that. Regardless, the argument doesn’t hold water. If Teams has poor support for older hardware and non-Windows operating systems when other apps don’t, then that’s a Teams problem. If it takes someone who specializes in Teams to be able to work with it effectively when other apps require minimal training, then that’s also a Teams problem.
- Comment on Is it normal that you feel very shaky as soon as you start to get hungry? 9 hours ago:
Thanks, that’s good to know. I’ve been experiencing this too and I know T1 diabetes runs in the family, but I ruled it out because I thought it wasn’t a symptom of diabetes. I should check with a doctor.
- Comment on Is it normal that you feel very shaky as soon as you start to get hungry? 14 hours ago:
As far as I’m aware, diabetes will lead to hyperglycemia, not hypo. Taking insulin for diabetes in excess of what’s needed or not eating enough while on insulin will lead to hypoglycemia.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 14 hours ago:
go into any business in Canada or the US with more than 200 employees
That’s like, 2% of businesses in Canada. Even if they all use Windows, it doesn’t prove the point that few businesses use MacOS.
- Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! 3 days ago:
Might be a Boost bug, but the link doesn’t include anything past the hyphen.
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 3 days ago:
Perhaps the U.S. could be named after gold
The United States of Aumerica
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 4 days ago:
I’d love to see it being used by enemies so they’re challenging without cheating, though.
Check out Sony’s work with GT Sophy
- Comment on How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC? 1 week ago:
So what you’re saying is that Andrew Yang should run again.
- Comment on Should speakers hum when they're connected to a stereo, but the volume of is turned all the way down? 2 weeks ago:
Part of the reason Amazon works is because they sell high volumes of each product, allowing them to distribute products ahead of time across warehouses to match expected demand. You can’t do that if you only have exactly one of each item.
- Comment on Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping? 2 weeks ago:
Did Xi actually take offense to it? I thought it was just others being overly heavy-handed in their censorship, thus Streisanding the whole thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve always just done lots of water and waited it out. I see medication at the pharmacies labeled “cold medication”, but I never looked into what they do.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Meaning that it’s just marketed as cold medication without doing anything specifically for colds?
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a chance to look through? 2 weeks ago:
For each tab, I find the project(s) associated with it, find my notes for that project, save the URL for that page in the appropriate place in my notes, then close the tab.
If it’s something that isn’t for a specific project (e.g. reading something because it looks interesting), then I just close it. It’s not important. There’s plenty of entertainment to be found without those.
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 2 weeks ago:
The main difficulty is in how many hyperparameters are involved in training an RL agent, high sensitivity of RL algorithms to those hyperparameters, and not having a good understanding of how to select them based on the properties of your task. This problem is exacerbated by the high sample complexity of RL. If something doesn’t work out, you don’t know if it’s because you chose the wrong set of hyperparameters or if you just haven’t trained for long enough.
I don’t know much about game design, but I do know that it’s a much more mature field than RL, so surely they have better tools than guessing and praying.
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 2 weeks ago:
It is expensive, but it does work. We’ve already seen things work to a limited extent on StarCraft 2, Dota, and Gran Turismo, and those are all multiplayer games. The article seems to be talking about single player games, which simplified things a lot.
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 2 weeks ago:
Game playing is not LLM. They’re game-specific reinforcement learning models. It’s not easy, but definitely doable. Sony’s GT Sophy is a good demonstration on what they’re capable of.
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if you can describe it as “can’t be arsed” when their proposed solution is so much harder to implement.
- Comment on Do drug dogs ever get addicted when working or during training? 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah? Then explain how my dog exploded after sniffing out a land mine.
Check. Mate.
- Comment on Is there anything of any interests for the tech bros in Greenland? 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t they already have control of it through NATO?
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 2 weeks ago:
The only thing in this list that I relate to is the masking, so I’ll address that
Yes, we all conform and hide parts of ourselves in public, doesn’t mean you can’t “be yourself”.
As I understand it, when a neurotypical person is hiding parts of themselves, it’s something like “I don’t want anyone to know I’m into Taylor Swift”. So just don’t talk about it. It’s that simple. For me, I have to think about every word I say because no one interprets things literally. If someone asks me whether or not I like Taylor Swift and I want to answer in the affirmative, can I just say yes? Or do I need to take note of the day of the week and say no while gesturing wildly with my left hand when it’s a Monday or look 15º to the left from Wednesday to Friday? When we talk about masking, it’s that, applied to every single sentence coming out of your mouth. Comparatively, never talking about Taylor Swift is a trivial task.
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 3 weeks ago:
Pretty much everyone uses these clickbait titles regardless of whether they give good advice or not. I briefly followed a “finance guru” who does similar stuff with his thumbnails/titles and he just repeats variations of the same advice in every video: 1. Time in the market beats timing the market, and 2. diversify your investments. So far, this has worked out very well for me for the past ten years, but who knows if it’s going to continue trending upwards.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 4 weeks ago:
Can you use that gift card anywhere? If yes, then first convert it to cash. Your parents may be covering all your expenses, but they still need to buy groceries. The next time they do, ask them to use your gift card and give you the equivalent amount in cash. Now you have more flexibility to do whatever you want with that cash. Buy something nice, save/invest, etc. You have plenty of advice from others on this already.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 5 weeks ago:
There’s high demand for both RAM and GPUs coming from datacenters. Us regular consumers are just a tiny blip on their radar.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 5 weeks ago:
all of your beliefs, passions, interests, social expectations, public perception, and many, many other things are impacted by gender
That’s all through societal expectations though, isn’t it? You can take any of these things and find that they’re associated with different genders in different places around the world and different time periods. I don’t think it would make sense to say that a trans person is only trans in a specific place and time.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 5 weeks ago:
I agree. But if I give you table sugar and you tell me it’s spicy, then that’s not a question of spice tolerance. You just don’t know what the word spicy means.
Although, come to think of it, if you think ketchup is spicy, you may want to check if you’re allergic to one of the ingredients. Regular ketchup is absolutely not spicy.
- Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness 5 weeks ago:
It could’ve been worse
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 month ago:
A little bit of rubbing alcohol and it comes right off
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 month ago:
Implying that ketchup is spicy at all?
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 month ago:
I rely pretty heavily on meal replacement shakes (not Soylent; they taste like ass, and not the good kind). It’s part of what allows me to actually enjoy solid food. I’m sure you can imagine that force feeding yourself something that you normally enjoy would quickly make you form negative associations with that food.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
What that random idiot said