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- Comment on Same day shipping 1 day ago:
Yeah, and most of the time when you trip on a curb, you don’t die. Doesn’t mean we can’t talk about the fringe cases.
- Comment on Same day shipping 1 day ago:
Meanwhile, other people jump out of a plane with a broken parachute, land in a haystack and escape with a broken leg and some bruises. It’s wild how the human body can be so resilient and fragile at the same time.
- Comment on You can't argue with his logic 1 day ago:
You’re right, I was thinking of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
- Comment on You can't argue with his logic 2 days ago:
In my experience, each flavor of Christianity handles this a little differently. IIRC the reason the Mormons are extra aggressive about hounding your door is because they consider it an obligation to spread the good word, while there are other groups who just stay out of your business entirely.
WRT the quote, there’s very little talk of heaven and hell at all in Lutheran churches in my experience, just as an example. Although I have only been exposed to the Norwegian state church, which is pretty laid back about most things, so your mileage may vary with other Lutheran churches.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Complaints about the AI art aside., I really don’t understand the joke here. Do I just not know enough about stamp collecting and all the stuff this comic equates to it, or is the joke written by AI, too?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s an ad for prostitution. Brand new user, only ever posted this.
- Comment on Just wash your hands or something after, Junior. 4 weeks ago:
Literally every chore I give my kids would have been faster and easier to do myself. Saving time or effort is not the point of the exercise.
- Comment on East Asia 4 weeks ago:
You can visit North Korea. They assign a guy to you to make sure you only see the approved stuff.
- Comment on East Asia 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never been to Mongolia and have no connection to it whatsoever, but Yuve Yuve Yu somehow fills me with national pride on their behalf anyway.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 1 month ago:
I don’t know, I’m not that deep in Excel lore. But sometimes things change.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 1 month ago:
You can certainly use AI to generate the function and paste it in, but that is not what
=COPILOT()is for. You could just have any other LLM do that. - Comment on Very normal and safe 1 month ago:
I genuinely cannot think of a single use-case where you would want Excel to look at your entire spreadsheet without it being a horrible mistake. You definitely do not want AI to do math for you, and that is thankfully not what this thing is designed for.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 1 month ago:
Excel sees the cells you tell it to operate on. When you’re working with code, all the code is relevant. Usually in Excel, you have specific cells you want to do an operation on, and those are provided to the function, just like any other thing you do in Excel. If you want to operate on the entire spreadsheet, just provide a range including the entire spreadsheet, but this is not done unless you ask for it.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 1 month ago:
That is true for a lot of things, particularly every AI feature ever.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 1 month ago:
It’s a lot simpler than that.
=COPILOT()can only see cells provided in the second parameter, and the user didn’t provide one. It’s just giving you what a typical answer to “compute the sum of the numbers above” is. - Comment on Very normal and safe 1 month ago:
No, it’s a lot more basic than that. You provide
=COPILOT()the cells to operate on in the second parameter, and the user didn’t provide it. Copilot cannot see any of the spreadsheet and just reported what a typical answer for a request like that is. - Comment on Very normal and safe 1 month ago:
People do all sorts of weird non-math stuff in Excel. The stated use-case for this feature is stuff that operates on text. Say for example you fill column A with quotes from your customers about your product. Then you can tell Copilot to provide a summary of each row in column B, and whether the sentiment is positive or negative in column C. You could aggregate the results as well.
There are better tools for that sort of thing, but a lot of people really love their Excel hammer, and they see nails everywhere.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 1 month ago:
It didn’t consider any of the numbers, because the user didn’t provide the context argument to the function.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 1 month ago:
It pains me to defend an AI feature, but this whole tweet is disingenuous and stupid. The documentation for
=COPILOT()says a few things which are relevant to understand what we’re seeing here:- You’re not supposed to use it for math
- It only has access to the parts of the spreadsheet you pass it as the second argument
In this case the user has not provided copilot any cells to look at, do it’s jus asking what the typical answer on the Internet is for the question “sum the numbers above”. And the sum of numbers above things are apparently often 12.
- Comment on 😉 😉 1 month ago:
Don’t forget the boomers who haven’t had sex yet.
- Comment on tech never works for long 2 months ago:
I have some smart home stuff, but if it needs the Internet to function, it’s not going into my house. And if any of it fails, the house reverts to its old, dumb self.
- Comment on Enshittiflation 2 months ago:
I don’t think we’re contradicting each other. Sometimes the manufacturer themselves (or other Chinese entities) will be the ones creating the spec.
It also makes sense that the trash products, which compete exclusively on price, will mostly be coming from the area able to manufacture products for the lowest price. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t also able to manufacture higher quality things when requested to.
- Comment on Enshittiflation 2 months ago:
It doesn’t matter where it’s produced, what matters is who designed it and for what market. Things tailored for the mass US market are usually designed to minimize the cost of manufacturing above all else. Things tailored for Europe are a little earlier in the enshittification process.
There are tons of high quality products manufactured in China, the only difference is that the specs for those asked for high quality, while the things you associate with Chinese manufacturing are when they were asked to make trash.
- Comment on I guarantee this is a waste of time 3 months ago:
Yeah, at least explain the physics of some advanced fucking.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Yes, these are social norms, and those are taught.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I don’t think we’re using the same definition of stigma.
Stigma is a profound, unfair negative belief or stereotype attached to a person or group, causing shame, social rejection, and discrimination.
I’m having a hard time making any of the stuff you’re saying make sense with that definition, and the whole word is inherently social.
The fact is that a lot of people think it’s nasty to fuck your brother, and that you should stop fucking him when you realize you’re related to him. I see the nuance in this situation, but a lot of people don’t, and if they maintain the relationship they will have to deal with those people. It’s already hard enough to deal with homophobia without this on top.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I’m not sure what biological stigma is supposed to mean. Sexual relations between siblings gives most people the ick regardless of technicalities, and that is a social stigma, the only kind of stigma I’m aware of.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
While the medical concerns with incest don’t apply here, the stigma of having sexual relations with a relative usually doesn’t take such technicalities into account.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 3 months ago:
If you’re a birthright citizen, why would you be proud over something you did nothing to achieve? It’s also not your fault, so there’s nothing to be ashamed of either.
It shakes out a little differently if you’re naturalized, but only marginally. That naturalization test isn’t much of a barrier.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Maybe I didn’t scroll far enough, but it looks a lot like all the top lemmy posts are about Lemmy or about how Reddit sucks.