Rhaedas

@Rhaedas@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Free-Market Advocate, Elon Musk, Asks for U.S. Government to Put Tariffs on Chinese EV Imports⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that's it's a "hate the game, not the player". The issue is how much influence he could have to steer the market to favor his product vs. the competition. It's happened so many times in history where the better product fails because they can't play the game like the inferior company.

  To quote "Pirates of Silicon Valley":

  Steve Jobs: We're better than you are! We have better stuff.

  Bill Gates: You don't get it, Steve. That doesn't matter!

  So is it fair for the consumer for big companies to be able to influence the game itself and not just play within the same rules? I'd say no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI pauses ChatGPT-4o voice that fans said ripped off Scarlett Johansson⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sam started this. The comparisons would have come up anyway, but it's a lot harder to dismiss the claims from users when your CEO didn't tweet "her" before the release. I don't myself think the voice in the demos sounded exactly like her, just closer in seamlessness and attitude, which is a problem itself down the road for easily convinced users.

  AI companions will be both great and dangerous for those with issues. Wow, it's another AI safety path that apparently no company is bothering exploring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That feels like a privacy issue, maybe related to the topic of whether or not they can force you to unlock your phone? I don't know where the current law is on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two dangers in the current race to get to AGI and in developing the inevitable ANI products along the way. One is that advancement and profit are the goals while the concern for AI safety and alignment in case of success has taken a back seat (if it's even considered anymore). Then there is number two - we don't even have to succeed in AGI for there to be disastrous consequences. Look at the damage early LLM usage has already done, and it's still not good enough to fool anyone who looks closely. Imagine a non-reasoning LLM able to manipulate any media well enough to be believable even with other AI testing tools. We're just getting to that point - the latest AI Explained video discussed Gemini and Sora and one of them (I think Sora) fooled some text generation testers into thinking its stories were 100% human created. In short, we don't need full general AI to end up with catastrophe, we'll easily use the "lesser" ones ourselves. Which will really fuel things if AGI comes along and sees what we've done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨efficiency⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I've seen this same suggestion years ago on Blender tutorials. Generating a scene isn't about making it realistic, it's about fooling the audience into thinking it's real without making it too hard to create. Look at videos from Ian Hubert on how to fake it well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven't seen them in production yet, but for years I've heard of the idea of infrared detection in car systems to see warm bodies better at night on a screen or heads up display. There was also the idea of using that along with IR lighting and road markings to light up the road better. Like having high beams on without blinding other drivers, something that is far too common these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know, their second album was okay.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when there was just one. I wrongly dismissed the cartoon as not real Star Trek for a very long time, I never realized how good they really were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The story of how the SSH port became 22.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True of many things we take for granted now. It would be a different world entirely. Another non-computer example would be the 3-point seat belt that Volvo left as an open patent, saving countless lives over the past decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should a toggle button show its current state or the state to which it will change?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or a different "feel" when turned on vs. off (more resistance or something). They spent effort printing all that text to show where the switch was when a universal 0/1 would have made it clear.

  I can't think of any example of a button or switch that by itself can be clear if it is engaged or not. A button could be assumed to be on if in, but that isn't always the case, like for example with emergency stops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uprising - Muse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let them warm up for a minute⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sprinkle a few drops of water in hot oil, or even just on a oven burner. See how it pops? Now imagine a lot more suddenly going from ice to vapor. It's explosive, and some hot oil is going to be thrown out on anyone in range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Be sure to have backups and not that sole location. Same is true of any physical drive, but at least a drive failure might be recoverable. A cloud storage can just be gone one day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2889: Greenhouse Effect⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their work resulted in the often-posted newspaper article speculating how in a few centuries the emissions of burning coal might become a problem for the world's environment. What they didn't anticipate was the rate of increase from a population explosion which would begin its climb in a few decades from various factors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA lost contact with its Mars helicopter⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  During a flight is a bit much, but some aircraft have a reboot between flights as a standard procedure to fix glitches that would happen if the plane was left on for the entire time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earth will be destroyed in 12 minutes...⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There were a number of books back then like that (mysteries and such), with the idea that you only revealed the answers to things you couldn't figure out.

  As for the game itself, the one part that I have a continued memory about is where you could press the button labeled "Do Not Press". Only doing it a few times gave you the same "nothing happens" message, but being persistent got a different one. Infocom games were so great and full of humor, even the non-Douglas Adams ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I've always been about kids getting out there early and getting a taste of working, but these days feel different. I wouldn't want to go back into customer service now and I've got experience and age to back be up in dealing with customers.

  I do think that people who cause the disruptive behavior that I'm referring to should be required to serve time doing those jobs, as I think part of their entitlement is ignorance of what's it's like behind the counter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the new President doesn't necessarily have to pick a VP, it's just expected to fill the vacancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it would be pretty suspicious given he's the world's healthiest man. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New creations from existing training data from an actor should have some type of royalties involved. The complication with that is the AI tools are largely a black box and it can be murky on where things come from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI notes: make face and body images more symmetrical, but not 100%. Got it.

  The only reason it hasn't done that yet is because it's not really AI, but large model probability with training feedback, and so far the feedback has enforced the "close enough" aspect. The next versions will cross the lines that still let us sense something isn't quite right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Forget the pig is an animal - treat him just like a machine in a factory" | Source: Washington Post⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It applies in many places. After all, H.R. stands for Human Resources, and that doesn't mean Resources for the Human Workers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friday night plans?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if they had gone with an instrumental version instead it it would have been accepted much better. Not exactly classical music, but it was having lyrics/established song from a popular singer that hit the wrong way. Ironic that the TOS theme had lyrics as well, although I don't think any episode that I recall ever played that version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientist Discover How to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The sell of the paper is a new fuel storage medium. The positive part is that creating a fuel from existing carbon sources means (hopefully) less petroleum pumped out of the ground to contribute more carbon. The negative is that it leans more to that than the permanent sequestering, and I can't seem to pick out a net energy use anywhere, but basic physics tells us it will take more energy to do the process in entirety, even if most of it results in large scale storage. I doubt that happens because removal of carbon vs. putting into a new form to be used is like burying money. Which leads to something I've noticed pop up only in the past month or so...a new term added. "Carbon capture, utililization, and storage". CCS has already been very heavily into the production of carbon products to support their efforts, after all they have to make a profit, right? The only real storage done is a product to inject into the ground to help retrieve more oil. Again, they aren't going to just bury the money, that's foolhardy for a business.

  Sorry for more negativity in the thread. Just calling a spade a spade. Those who don't like the feeling that gives can just ignore it and focus on the new science that will save us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientist Discover How to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A third question is, can it scale up to what's needed to begin to make a dent in the problem. The answer will unfortunately always be no, not even close. That's how much we've put in the air and oceans, the numbers are huge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists unveil methane munching monster, 100 million times faster than nature⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's complicated. The breakdown of methane in the atmosphere depends on hydroxyl radicals that are created at a regular rate. If you have more and more methane released, and/or you have other chemicals that also react with those radicals, the overall average half life will increase. Both those things are happening, so the old half life really isn't as accurate as it used to be. Guess which number the IPCC still uses for its models though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's canon now. And so is a certain image format.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The funny thing is that even though there are people on both sides dead set they are right, if they hear someone say the opposite pronunciation they still understand what the speaker is referring to. So there's absolutely no context lost, it's just preference, and I have a feeling given the age of the name GIF those preferences are very regional, as the internet had not become a national/international thing yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's canon now. And so is a certain image format.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  to be published in a limited gold embossed leather bound volume with 500 pages of commentary, March 2024

  Tolkien fanatics: "Link?"

  Also...link?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is .webp exactly⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every webp image I've wanted to save I just renamed the extension to png and it works fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What DID Apple innovate?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t create the first MP3 player, but they created the first massively commercially successful one.

  Going back to what others have mentioned about Apple, the iPod's success was a big part because of the intuitive interface. If it's easy to learn and use, it will become popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can never be sure⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Strive to be the Moriarty you might be.