Thorry84
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- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 1 day ago:
These are all nerds who don’t follow sportball most likely. They are quoting the TV show “The IT Crowd” where the one of main characters Moss pretends to know about sports.
- Comment on Peculiar 2 days ago:
Use your pointy nipple antennae to transmit data back to Earth!
- Comment on Can you read and understand this passage? 4 days ago:
I can read it, but for some reason I read it like a screenplay being read about some old-timey detective story.
- Comment on Kids nowadays don't have many (if any) videogame heroes... 1 week ago:
CHICKEN JOCKEY
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 1 week ago:
Its profits are plunging, as is its share price.
Looks at share price: Up 10% in the last month…
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
Thanks, I’ll look out for that. Seems like the plain whiskey is available just fine, but the honey stuff is harder to find.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
Wow I’m going to Aldi tomorrow and will try this!
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
Yeah I’m having trouble finding the Honey flavored stuff.
I use fake Red Bull because I think it’s overpriced, not because it’s not American.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
That Tennessee Honey is one of my favorite whiskey drinks. However due to America being a total shit head, I can no longer buy it as I don’t want any of my money going there.
Anybody got an idea of what a good European drink is to replace it with? I drink it straight or when I want something more mellow I mix with fake DrPepper or fake Red Bull.
- Comment on xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs – Krebs on Security 2 weeks ago:
I don’t even know how they managed this. I regularly create test repos to reproduce bugs in open source software, to go with the bug report. When it contains some random generated credentials only used within that repo, Github freaks out and I need to tell it it’s just testing shit and perfectly fine to publish.
You’d have to be intentionally publicing shit like that.
- Comment on Recommendations for "girly" games? 2 weeks ago:
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
Very fun and puzzly and you get to play as Zelda this time.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 2 weeks ago:
I think you mean to say:
“Chat, is this generation COOKED?”
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 2 weeks ago:
He will have the concepts of a plan in a couple of weeks. Literally any day now…
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral 3 weeks ago:
When my grandpa used to visit every Tuesday, he would join us for dinner, then some coffee after dinner. We would sit on the couch and chat a bit and at some point grandpa would fall asleep. The rest of us just went about our evening, watching some TV, playing a game, just chatting or whatever. After an hour or so, he would wake up, slap his knee, tell us it was a great evening and head home.
It was actually kind of sweet how that old man would fall asleep. That’s why you don’t fucking elect grandpa to run the country.
- Comment on TIL about dating 3 weeks ago:
Yeah we’ve had snow in the end of April, spring just does their own thing. Today it’s 10 C outside, you most definitely need a jacket.
- Comment on My strategy to defeat AI is to be too stupid to realize I'm engaging with it and draining all their resources on the energy it takes to agrue with me. 3 weeks ago:
No, we need to stop using all AI systems as soon as possible. Show the companies behind them that there is no market, no interest, no future profits.
They’ve been dumping all this AI crap for free or way too cheap. The idea is to create a market which can be exploited in the future. However this isn’t sustainable, they have poured billions into this, there is no way they are ever going to make that money back. It’s just a matter of time before the bubble collapses and it will make the dotcom bubble popping look like a fish farted in the ocean. And for you people too young to remember what that bubble bursting was like, it was bad. The sooner the bubble bursts, the less bad it will be.
This all wouldn’t matter as much, fuck the companies right? Except the little side effect of this whole thing is us using up our precious resources, using up our planet, bringing about horrific scenarios at an alarming pace. We’ve barely seen what climate change can do, but at this pace we are going to find out.
And don’t get your hopes up on the technology improving and becoming more useful. More and more indicators have shown the diminishing returns are hitting hard. And it was a kind of one time thing, one opportunity to train models on all the data humans created and put on the internet. Now that more and more of the internet is being AI generated and people closing access to AI crawlers, the well has been poisoned. All that crappy data created worse performing models, not better. Sure with more raw power and clever tricks the performance can get somewhat better, but it needs to be much much better to do what companies tell you it can do, in order to sell it.
And I haven’t even mentioned the morality issues, copyright issues, propaganda/control and educational issues. Let alone accidentally hitting the singularly and wiping out humanity due to some paperclip problem.
Exceptions exist, like expert systems / machine learning in data processing and analysis. But we’ve had those for decades and just recently got the AI label to ride the hype.
AI needs to go away, sooner rather than later.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #59 - Far Cry 5 3 weeks ago:
Far Cry 5 is by far my favorite of the franchise. Interesting world, good gameplay, fun mechanics. It doesn’t take itself very seriously, but still has a more serious story. Everything meshes really well and it’s a ton of fun in coop.
Far Cry 6 was a huge letdown, I hated it. Lots of re-used assets, dumb game mechanics, story very predictable and not interesting. When it released performance was terrible with lots of crashes and bugs. And not the fun kind of jank like in most FC games, the this is annoying my mission is softlocked kind of bugs. Plus it felt like 3 games in 1 which didn’t really have anything to do with each other. Later I found it this was because multiple teams worked on the different parts which didn’t really communicate as much due to covid.
- Comment on I really thought I'd learn more about towers from a book that's about two of them. 3 weeks ago:
Chapter 1
Aragorn sped on up the hill. Every now and again he bent to the ground. Hobbits go light, and their footprints are not easy even for a Ranger to read, but not far from the top a spring crossed the path, and in the wet earth he saw what he was seeking.
Suddenly a new voice could be heard. ‘Hi, I’m Brady and this is Practical Engineering’, Brady said.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Please send flowers, I just died from cringe
- Comment on Haribo gummies are so hard you can use them instead of rubber bullets. 4 weeks ago:
They are very good indeed. I love the taste of sour in candy, but since I’m an old man my stomach can’t take it.
- Comment on Project to suck carbon out of sea begins in UK 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Project to suck carbon out of sea begins in UK 4 weeks ago:
If you want to embed gifs you have to toggle the switch from suck to blow
- Comment on Haribo gummies are so hard you can use them instead of rubber bullets. 4 weeks ago:
Cola is a bit harder than the bears tho. The bears are like silk, very soft and bouncy and melt in your mouth.
Why yes I do have a bag of bears in front of me right now. I know it says Share size, but this is my bag. Get your own bag if you want some.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I always laugh when movies or TV portrait a character being good at strategy by depicting them being good at chess. Those two have zero relation. Total war on the other hand, get good at that and you’re cracked at strategy
- Comment on Light switches should be glow in the dark 4 weeks ago:
I was in a hotel last month that had that, and the led was blue as well. I pulled it forward out of it’s little cubby and unplugged that fucker right away. I meant to plug it back before checkout, but I forgot, oops.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s so dumb, like we have amazing technology, yet the software is fucking terrible.
For example with most keyboard you can have a heat map of where you hit each button. So you can clearly see where the buttons should most comfortable be. However I’ve never seen any keyboard that could ever make use of that data to morph the shape of the buttons to my patterns. It seems so obvious, otherwise why collect that data?
Instead we keep making the same shitty keyboard over and over again. And big companies monitor all our keypresses because number must go up. And put dumb ass AI powered autocorrect that are trained on all data ever instead of my personal data. I swear that thing “corrects” the right word into the wrong word more often than the other way around.
Somehow touchscreens and keyboard have also gotten worse. I remember my old IPhone 4 I could type so fast without errors. And that screen was fucking tiny. Maybe I’m just too old but modern phones make my hands hurt and I still have errors all the damn time.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 5 weeks ago:
And Trump wears those weird lift shoes all the time as well
- Comment on Trump reportedly suspends Nvidia H20 export ban plan after $1 million dinner with Jensen Huang 5 weeks ago:
I bet it was the jacket that sealed the deal
- Comment on am i stupid or are solar panel's efficiency independent on latitude 5 weeks ago:
Please note whilst the jist of this diagram is correct, it’s not drawn properly. The sun is so far away and much larger than the Earth. This means sunlight is about as parallel as it can be once it gets to Earth. So the lines aren’t going through the atmosphere at different angles. The angle is the same, but since the Earth is a sphere it will travel through more atmosphere before hitting the ground.
- Comment on am i stupid or are solar panel's efficiency independent on latitude 5 weeks ago:
It’s not just the cloud cover and going through more atmosphere, it’s also the amount of energy per square meter hitting the ground. But a large part of it is most solar panels aren’t tracking and even if they are it’s usually in the horizontal and not in the vertical.
It’s impractical to mount solar panels at such an extreme angle, but it also won’t help very much since the sun is so close to the horizon shadows will be terrible. Imagine two rows of panels, once you set up the first one almost vertical, the second row won’t get any sun. And that’s if there is even a clear view to the horizon, in most places that’s not true. It’s also very hard to mount panels at such an extreme angle because the wind will catch it more easily. Mounting flush to the roof is usually preferred, or at a fixed angle with struts for flat roofs.
Because the panels don’t track, higher latitudes are less efficient, as the sun varies more in angle during the year. From just peaking out over the horizon in winter, to high in the sky in summer.
