Lyrl

@Lyrl@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also see the “autonomous taxi” services that, when encountering anything outside the limited scope their programming can handle, are remotely operated by human drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fresh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone else posted firefighters working in high rises are trained on this. I haven’t seen anything more plausible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not possible at all, no permission exists that lets an Android app record something in another app. Much to the sadness of the mobile Hearthstone community that would love collection managers and stat tracking apps like what PC and Mac have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not possible on Android, which is incredibly disappointing because I play a card game exclusively on mobile, and would love to use a collection manager and stat tracking app. These exist for PC and Mac, but not for mobile because of the very hard no-record-other-apps wall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am sure boarding and deplaning takes longer if everyone is getting into or out of a prone position. The idea might have been standing seats for short flights where turnaround time between flights was a large percent of each trip leg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  doesn’t it seem silly to remove the leaves from a lawn, then buy and put down commercial fertilizer

  I think you are imagining leaves from small and widely spaced trees. We do not put down fertilizer, but we remove leaves from the part of our yard we want to include grass. The parts of the yard we let the leaves stay kills all the grass (hardier plants grow there, but they are not compatibility with mowing to a walk-over height). Leaf mould easily takes two years to create, and grass needs sunlight in a half year from fall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bizarre to have a headline claiming five “types” were identified, but then only describe the behavior of a single type. What are the other four?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This woman must have a really bad dog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The people who care about executions being humane are generally opposed to the death penalty. People who support the death penalty generally want suffering to be inherent to the process. Only limit is whatever the Supreme Court deems “unusual”. Cruelty is allowed by the Constitution as long as it is “usual” cruelty.

  In states that have death penalty (and federal when we have a president who supports death penalty), it’s the pro-death penalty groups - the ones that want it to cause suffering - that get to pick the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is deeply emotional resistance to the idea of topics being too complex for the average person to understand. The “experts” promote something that superficially contradicts our lived experience? They must be corrupt liars! Down with the experts!

  The economy had, on balance, positive trends in 2024? We felt poorer, so economists should be lynched! /s

  Feels scarily like America is moving towards something like China’s Great Leap Forward en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

  The Great Leap Forward stemmed from multiple factors, including "the purge of intellectuals, the surge of less-educated radicals… Mao was dismissive of technical experts and basic economic principles…

  Higher officials did not dare to report the economic disaster which was being caused by these policies… Mao did not retreat from his policies; instead, he blamed problems on bad implementation and “rightists” who opposed him…

  …dozens of dams constructed in Zhumadian, Henan, during the Great Leap Forward collapsed in 1975 (under the influence of Typhoon Nina)… with estimates of its death toll ranging from tens of thousands to 240,000.

  The failure of agricultural policies… suppressed the food supply… The shortage of supply clashed with an explosion in demand, leading to millions of deaths from severe famine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they lack a diaphragm. It was weird reading in my cockatiel care books that some handling on the neck was fine, but even small pressure to their chest could prevent them from breathing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently she started out saying AI, then switched to A1 mid-statement. Might have been corrected privately before, but it only partially took.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 33 cents a small amount of money?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of US benefits have “benefit cliffs” where making $1 more substantial reduces or even completely disqualifies a person from SNAP (food stamps) or childcare subsidies or Medicaid. ncsl.org/…/introduction-to-benefits-cliffs-and-pu…

  It’s not surprising people whose families are directly affected by, or who know people affected by, benefit cliffs think the lawmakers set up taxes the same way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A quick internet search suggests 36 weeks (eight months), which is well into the third trimester, is the most common start of restrictions, and many airlines will accept a doctor’s note the woman is low risk even past that. It was a 2008 election blip when the media got ahold of Sarah Palin flying while in labor because she wanted her special-needs baby delivered by the medical team that had prepared for him, which suggests even the written restrictions in airline policy are not consistently enforced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would require a lot of housing density for everyone to own four dwellings, but I wouldn’t call it infeasible. For everyone to have a quarter acre lawn and a 2,000 square foot house that shares no walls with neighbors? With those additional requirements having everyone own four is infeasible, sure, but a belief that’s the only dwelling worth owning is how we have throttled our housing supply in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you envisioning the government being a major landlord, like in Singapore? It seems to work really well for that country, but Americans seem uncomfortable with the idea of government housing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A responsible landlord is “doing” arrangements for property maintenance and handling all tax and other legal requirements, and my hard feelings are towards slumlords who let dwellings become unsafe, or property flippers who kick all the renters out and build new dwellings to sell to more wealthy buyers.

  But also, isn’t the hate for landlords equally applicable to banks and other financial institutions that hold mortgages? They really are earning money by no other responsibility than having the capital available at the start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That explains a lot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a surprising amount of empty space between atoms, and even inside atoms between the eleftron orbitals and the nucleus. Small black holes are so dense they mostly fall through this empty between-atom space and don’t actually hit anything. Even in a matter-rich environment like inside the Earth, you’d need a black hole with more than half the mass of the moon to be large enough to eat matter faster than it loses matter to Hawking radiation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That explains a lot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s wild that there is so much space between atoms (and inside them, between the elctron orbitals and the nucleus), and black holes are so incredibly dense, that a small black hole can fall all the way through the Earth and not hit enough matter to gain appreciable mass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sun God⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a time people thought Mercury would have some “twilight” acreage that was always at habitable temperatures. Then we learned that, while yes it is tidally locked with the Sun, it is locked in a 3:2 resonance so it does rotate with respect to the sun, and everywhere gets both scorched and frozen to uninhabitability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking pigeons⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I sometimes come across a dead baby pigeon inside my work building, a large manufacturing structure many pigeons find their way into. Presumably the death is from falling out of the kind of nest in OP’s image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bat Drip⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Estrus in bats - some bloody discharge while in the fertile part of their cycle. Only great apes have menstrual cycles (shedding unused uterine lining at the end of a cycle, NOT fertile when discharging blood).