OhNoMoreLemmy
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- Comment on Texas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victim 1 day ago:
Go on, drop a rocket on Zuck’s Bond villain hideout.
Let’s see what happens.
- Comment on Oh Kurt Gödel, you lovable logician freak. 1 week ago:
Everytime the supreme Court does something batshit that allows Trump more power, I wonder if this is what Godel was worried about.
- Comment on Does vibe coding sort of work at all? 2 weeks ago:
You absolutely can’t use LLMs for anything big unless you learn to code.
Think of an LLM as a particularly shit builder. You give them a small job and maybe 70% of the time they’ll give you something that works. But it’s often not up to spec, so even if it kinda works you’ll have to tell them to correct it or fix it yourself.
The bigger the job is and the more complex the more ways they have to fuck it up. This means in order to use them, you have to break the problem down into small sub tasks, and check that the code is good enough for each one.
Can they be useful? Sometimes yes, it’s quicker to have an AI write code than for you to do it yourself, and if you want something very standard it will probably get it right or almost right.
But you can’t just say ‘write me an app’ and expect it to be useable.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 3 weeks ago:
Commercial versions of these systems exist in the UK.
theguardian.com/…/shopper-facewatch-watchlist-39p…
The Gdpr and AI act make these things harder to do, but not automatically illegal.
Surely you have noticed that there is a lot of criticism of the GDPR and EU tech regulation.
Yeah, and some of it is even true.
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 1 month ago:
There’s a bunch of women specific legislation in the equality act as well.
For example, it allows for the existence of women only spaces which include gyms, refuges and toilets.
If you say that women is used in its biological sense, you’re saying that trans men can use these spaces but trans women can’t.
However, the ehrc is going full terf and saying that despite the ruling that women is used in its biological sense, they think that all trans people should be prohibited from using some of these spaces.
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 1 month ago:
The EHRC are political appointments that were selected for agreeing with the politics of the previous government.
That’s why they sound like anti trans activists.
The whole thing needs to be burnt down. There’s no room for political appointees in legal bodies.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 1 month ago:
You know open-source doesn’t mean publicly available. It means the person, or in this case the US government, that brought the software should have free access to the source code to edit and distribute it as they like.
So yes, the military should use something functional equivalent to open source to prevent vender lock in and to allow for external audits. They probably shouldn’t give it to Russia or make it freely available online though.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
BMI works quite well for typical people.
Either you do so much more exercise than everyone around you that it’s not a good fit for you, or you should take it as a warning sign.
If you think it’s muscle and not fat, there’s another test that you might like to try instead which is the waist to hip ratio. www.healthline.com/health/waist-to-hip-ratio
But if you want an honest appraisal of your fitness, just do a fun run. The shortish runs round a park with a bunch of normal people. Either you can keep up without killing yourself and everything is fine, or you’re not as fit as you think.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 1 month ago:
If LLMs just copied stack overflow they’d respond to every question with “Closed as duplicate. Question already answered.”
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 2 months ago:
How have you managed not to get fibreglass on your skin when handling it?
I used to install it professionally, and even with goggles, a mask, and overalls tucked into your socks and gloves, that shit gets everywhere.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 2 months ago:
What is a game that wouldn’t be solvable if you removed most of the pieces and positions?
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 2 months ago:
I mean, yes. Any game with only a small number of possible moves can be solved with brute force trial and error.
All unsolved games must have a “sufficient amount of positions” that brute force isn’t an option, and enough complexity that there’s not a cute maths trick to solve it despite the number of moves.
Chess is one of these unsolved games.
- Comment on I love you 3 months ago:
Mostly.
- Comment on I love you 3 months ago:
That’s exactly how I handle my five month baby, just with more screaming and pooping.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 3 months ago:
A big shout out to Oxford spelling which mixes American and English spelling and is incredibly hard to find a spell check for. It gives you all the extra u’s and z’s you could ask for.
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 3 months ago:
The supreme court has already ruled that the 14th amendment isn’t self executing and congress is required to disqualify someone from being president.
The legal argument holds for any decision about presidential eligibility. So Trump can just stand and see if congress are brave enough to disqualify him in an open vote.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 months ago:
You’re in a car. There’s probably a charging port there. Sucks if you don’t have a phone, but it sucked before when you didn’t have change.
Parking has always been a privilege not a right, and if you’re not prepared you’re going to get a ticket.
I get that it’s annoying but if my phone broke and I suddenly had to pay for parking with coins, I don’t know what I’d do either. Everything is cashless now, where would I get coins from?
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 months ago:
Yeah but parking has always been bad.
You had to carry change. Meters were always out of order or would just eat your change without issuing a ticket, and the people checking never gave a shit and would give you a fine anyway.
My only complaint is the app, everyone should offer a website or an app, but if you’re going to park there a few times an app does make sense.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 4 months ago:
Because they’re fucking stupid.
I can pick up a phone in either hand and type on it, and I can play games using both hands at once. If I’m using a bracer, it means I can’t do anything else with either hand or use my off hand to interact with it.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 4 months ago:
This is the most famous example, but it’s for phones rather than desktops.
- Comment on I thought he died before they invented baseball 4 months ago:
It’s really progressive of them to show a Jesus with Down syndrome.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 4 months ago:
Same with OneDrive.
It’s just a folder of markdown files, basically anything should work.
- Comment on Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain 5 months ago:
There’s been a lot of occupation as well. E.g. the hundred year war.
If we can say Russia invaded Ukraine, England invaded France
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 5 months ago:
Just asking questions makes it harder to sue under English libel law.
Look at the difference.
Elon musk is a Nazi.
A clear factual statement leaves room for disagreement. Maybe he’s just an edgelord fascist radicalized by 4chan but doesn’t have enough fashion sense to be a Nazi.
Elon musk is a Nazi?
Perfectly safe.
- Comment on A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. 5 months ago:
Hash trees are super efficient when they’re not nearly full. So the standard trick is just to resize them when they’re too close to capacity.
The new approach is probably only going to be useful in highly memory constrained applications, where resizing isn’t an option.
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 5 months ago:
There’s no way a serial liar and Nazi could ever tell lies about how much money he’s making.
Twitter was a money pit before the take over and Elon has run it into the ground. It must be bleeding money.
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 5 months ago:
It’s not road legal, but you can own one. If it came in on the back of a lorry, with the right paperwork, there would be no reason to stop it.
- Comment on Neurosurgery on Saturn 7 months ago:
- Comment on NHS-branded baby formula could prevent parents paying too much, watchdog says 8 months ago:
Just calm down and wait. You don’t actually need massive amounts of milk from start, and it takes time for everything to kick in.
- Comment on NHS-branded baby formula could prevent parents paying too much, watchdog says 8 months ago:
The important thing about NHS care is that half the midwives are completely insane, and they all contradict each other. They have basically no medical training and are just meant to get someone qualified if anything goes wrong. Instead they go mad with power and use it to bully first time parents into doing what they say.
Our midwife was insistent that if there wasn’t enough breast milk immediately after birth we had to switch to bottlefed. I don’t think you can figure out the official NHS approach based on anything a midwife says.