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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s only after the electoral college votes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this one of the LLMs that was partially trained on Reddit data? LLMs are inherently a model of a conversation or question/response based on their training data. That response looks very much like what I saw regularly on Reddit when I was there. This seems unsurprising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleepy Bees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For those wondering, this appears to be true. Most sites that say it all reference the same person, whose study doesn’t seem very scientific, but I found this much more controlled study that did indeed replicate the conclusions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if that’s related to a user base that skews heavily toward techies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did, thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely agree. I personally I’m fine with the trade-off I made. There’s even some benefits to a smaller site. I remember on Reddit there were lots of times I didn’t make a comment, even when I had something to say, because there were already literally thousands of comments, some with thousands of upvotes, and I figured anything I said would be lost in the din. Here, if you’ve got something to say, it’s very likely to be seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure, though that really doesn’t solve the problem. If I’m really into sports-themed shot glasses, making a post in a community for drinking ware, or for sports merchandise, isn’t going to mean I get more content about sports shot glasses, and it doesn’t increase the number of people on the site who have something to say about them. On a platform with millions of users, there might be enough other people with the same interest to generate a critical mass of content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, exactly. And let’s not forget that a healthy percentage of all online communities is made of lurkers who don’t really want to post at all, but they enjoy reading stuff they’re interested in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is kind of bullshit. On a big platform, like Reddit, where there are orders of magnitude more users, the likelihood is that there are a good number of people interested in whatever niche topic you want. That’s a draw for a lot of people. I left Reddit for Lemmy for good, but we’re just not up to that kind of user base.

  And it’s not zero effort to get a community going and keep it active, especially with a small user base. It’s perfectly reasonable for someone to want a place that discusses their niche interest without wanting to be responsible for running that place. It doesn’t make them bad or lazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to improve your Lemmy experience⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, I’d like to be able to block a community from the main page as well. I have no issues with things like gay porn, but it would be nice to be able to block it from my feed without having to open the community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to improve your Lemmy experience⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no issues with any of them. I don’t think I’d be a frequent Lemmy user if that’s all there was though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to improve your Lemmy experience⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You must get nothing but memes, Linux, and porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic Mineral⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad was a contractor and he had a big sheet of it in the garage that was leftover from some job. It looked kind of like a sheet of drywall, but was grey and rougher. I used to take it into the back yard with a little blow torch and and lay on it while I melted metal things. I was probably ten to twelve at the time.

  It was a different time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I always get them confused.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is that if the rules aren’t grounded in science, it’s not science fiction. You can have the trappings of science, like space travel or whatever, but if people are moving objects and doing impossible acrobatics by using a magical force, it’s fantasy.

  Though not mine, I personally think that definition works better than most. Still, if you pin me down, I’d say that there’s a spectrum, with hard SF (where everything is rigorously anchored to scientific principles) at one end, and pure fantasy (with magic and such) at the other. There are lots of things between those endpoints, with some being closer to one or the other, and some being very much in the middle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I always get them confused.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, it’s fantasy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I always get them confused.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I always liked the distinction (I forget who originated it) that science fiction is a story set in a world where the rules are defined by physics and fantasy is a story set in a world where the rules are defined by the author.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burning Up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The zero C is freezing and 100 C is boiling, so not really arbitrary.

  But it’s pretty hard to define a scale that has intuitive, round numbers for everything we might care about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ladies and Gentlemen, the sate of AI.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m far from anti-AI, but we’re just not anywhere close to where people think we are with it. And I’m pretty sick of corporate leadership saying “We need to make more use of AI” without knowing the difference between an LLM and a machine learning application, or having any idea *how" their company could make use of one of the technologies.

  It really feels like one of those hammer in search of a nail things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ladies and Gentlemen, the sate of AI.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs don’t “understand” anything, and it’s unfortunate that we’ve taken to using language related to human thinking to talk about software. It’s all data processing and models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do boomers hate squirrels so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the same thing racists say when they get to know a minority.

  The way people talk about boomers here is pretty awful, and it wouldn’t be tolerated for any other group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do boomers hate squirrels so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t? Boomer with bird feeder who loves squirrels.

  I don’t think it’s age related.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toot toot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, and it’s sad. I mean, I work at a highly technical engineering company. Everyone has at least a BS, and this guy was probably in his 60s with 30+ years of experience. Yet here he was repeatedly farting by a woman because they had a disagreement. It shows you that age and education don’t guarantee maturity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toot toot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  She wasn’t interested in suing, she just wanted him to stop farting in her doorway. I didn’t know the guy, so I started by talking to his manager, who talked to the guy. Sounds like he initially tried to deny it, but in a way that made it clear he was doing it on purpose. His boss was pretty clear that it wouldn’t be tolerated and it never happened again.

  Some people are so weird and petty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toot toot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a female employee come to me to complain years ago. She had had a disagreement with an older male employee (thankfully not mine) some weeks prior, and since then, every time he walked by her cube, he’d pause at her doorway, fart, and then keep walking without saying anything.

  She at least was aware of how absolutely ridiculous it was, but legitimately didn’t think it was something she should have to deal with. One of the stranger management issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get in touch with the creator of lemmyworld or the one who was the first to create the fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, seems like a bad idea all the way around. Not sure Reddit would want it either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get in touch with the creator of lemmyworld or the one who was the first to create the fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a really strange “or.” .world has only existed for about a year, since the big reddit exodus, and it’s just an instance, running Lemmy software on a server. The Lemmy software was first released five years ago, but that wasn’t the beginning of the fediverse. Like all fediverse apps, Lemmy makes use of the Activity Pub protocol, which came out like a year earlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harris campaign tweaks Walz biography amid scrutiny of military credentials⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So ridiculous to call this stolen valor. It’s a rank he held, but before he retired they reverted it to a lower rank because he didn’t have all the coursework. So yes, he didn’t retire at that rank, so the correction is good, but he didn’t claim military experience that he didn’t have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK most US states assign their electoral college votes by the state's popular vote⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But if you live in a state that is overwhelmingly one party, your states votes are going to go to that candidate. I live in California, and there not much chance that any California delegates are going to go to Trump. True, the districts didn’t matter for the EC votes, but that doesn’t mean everyone’s vote counts the same.

  Also worth mentioning that the number of votes each state gets is based on very outdated logic.

  It would be different if there were no EC and it was decided based on the national popular vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are my standards for women to high?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the risk of making a serious reply in a shitpost thread…

  Who you’re attracted to and what you’re looking for is subjective. No one else gets a say in what that is.

  However, there are repercussions. The more rare what you’re looking for is, the harder it is to find. The more broadly desired what you’re looking for is, the more you’re competing with other people.

  So sure, go looking for what you want, but be aware that you might be looking a long time, and they might not be interested in you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yesterday in Kroger (a supermarket for you non-Americans) I saw a bunch of cans of potato salad. Why would someone buy canned potato salad?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, people eat uncooked ramen noodles? That sounds vile, even without it being a ludicrous replacement for bread on a sandwich.