knightly
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- Comment on place yer bets 7 hours ago:
Well, yeah. Deflecting an impact that’s scheduled 4 years in the future wouldn’t take much force and we did it once before with the DART mission. We can just do that again in the months between when the asteroid comes back around and when it flies past us.
- Comment on place yer bets 13 hours ago:
We’ll get a better idea of whether it’ll hit or not in 2028 the next time it passes close to earth, which will give us plenty of time to respond before it might hit in 2032.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 days ago:
Seems to me that the most generous interpretation would be the preponderance of Oracle’s DBs in the government, and Musk being pedantic since they aren’t literally called SQL like MySQL, MSSQL, or PostgreSQL (even though they all fall into that category).
- Comment on In the 1985 movie Teen Wolf, when Scott Howard turned into a teen wolf, would he have had a human penis or a wolf penis? 6 days ago:
Yes.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 days ago:
Not unless the data associated with that SSN is itself inconsistent.
For example, when multiple people are fraudulently using the same SSN, the fraud monitoring DB would neccessarily need to record several entries with the same SSN.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 days ago:
Indeed, that’s a possibility, but I’m not privy to the structure of the social security administration’s databases so I couldn’t say if it was indeed the case.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 days ago:
To oversimplify, there are two basic kinds of databases: SQL and noSQL (“Not Only SQL”).
SQL databases work as you’d imagine, with tables of rows and columns like a spreadsheet that are structured according to a fixed schema.
NoSQL includes all other forms of databases, document-based, graph-based, key-value pairs, etc.
The former are highly consistent and efficient at processing complicated queries or recording transactions, while the latter is flexible and fast at reads/writes but not neccessarily consistent.
All large orgs will have both types in use for different purposes; SQL is better for banking purposes where consistency is paramount, NoSQL better for real-time web apps that need minimal response times and scalable capacity.
- Comment on My German is a little rusty, but... 1 week ago:
Counterpoint:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Second one I tried:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Try typing the URL into your web browser.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You leave your current instance and go there instead.
- Comment on Can you spot the glitch in the Matrix? 1 week ago:
Lets see, 80 visible cars and only one of them is blue.
Given that blue cars make up about 8% of those on the road, the odds of a random assortment of 80 having only 1 blue car is about 5/32, or just a bit under 16%.
So, unlikely, but not notably so. Given that there are about 140 million cars in use in the US, if we grouped them all into random sets of 80 cars we’d expect to get 265,500 sets with 1 blue car.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
If AI can push us to be post scarcity, capitalism stops making sense.
Why would “AI” businesses want that? Without scarcity, they wouldn’t be able to exploit unmet needs for profit.
The idea that capitalist enterprises would destroy their own shareholder value by rendering themselves obsolete is a delusion of the highest order.
I’m not a communist in terms of present day reality.
Nah, you just imagine that businesses will gladly share the profits of their “labor saving” inventions rather than jealously keeping as much of it for themselves as possible. If you think you aren’t a commie then you’re just fooling yourself.
Not that the first thing you tried to label as communism was even remotely related to it. It sounds like you just slap that label on things as a way to dismiss them in your mind.
Says the guy who wants companies to share the profits they normally take for their shareholders, lol.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
Because people are largely ignorant and latch onto buzzwords that the media repeats endlessly without understanding what’s going on behind the scenes.
I’m not “people”, I’m a sysadmin for a Fortune 500 company that has to put up with my bosses trying to shoehorn LLMs into everything.
Do not presume to talk down to me on this topic, I’ve been complaining about so-called “AI” chatbots since Eliza.
Stopping technological progress because bad people might do bad things with it, is attacking the problem the wrong way.
LLMs aren’t “progress”, they’re multidimensional maps of human language use. Interesting from an academic perspective, but not useful for any real work.
Stop the bad people, not the technology.
You sound like a communist.
Replacing jobs/reducing the burden on people to labor isn’t a bad thing if we can prevent all the riches going to a few wealthy owners.
So you are a communist, then?
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
Dude, wtf are you talking about?
When people complain about “AI” they aren’t talking about aerodynamics simulators, they’re talking about LLMs built on stolen content for the express purpose of stealing jobs and recommendation algorithms designed to push people into right-wing rabbit-holes. Those are entirely a zero-sum game where corporate gains can only be achieved by consumer losses.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
Large Language Models are the form of so-called “AI” that’s being crammed into everything at our expense.
The stuff that’s actually useful, like engineering and bioscience models, are not getting trillions in investments in the hopes that they’ll render the majority of the population unemployable.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
and btw - it is not a ‘youtube video’ - it is a link to a rumble video
If I said things like that in public, I’d have died of embarassment.
It just shows you how an economy works and the effects (negative and positive) of governments.
If that’s what you’re interested in, then I’ve got a few book recommendations for you:
The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics by Alastair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita.
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin
Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Picketty
Don’t be scared, he is not an anarchist.
He’d be cooler if he was.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
How many trillions of dollars have been wasted on teaching chatbots to lie better?
- Comment on The eye-popping amount of money Elon Musk has already slashed from the Education Department as staff melt down 1 week ago:
We already have:
itep.org/a-distributional-analysis-of-donald-trum…
Unless you’re already in the top 5%, your taxes are going up.
- Comment on DOGE website is live! 1 week ago:
So you admit that even your favorite economists are commies that have read Marx?
- Comment on DOGE website is live! 1 week ago:
Please answer my question.
- Comment on DOGE website is live! 1 week ago:
Will this figure account for economic losses as a result of decreased spensing or do they get to ignore the effects of these cuts?
- Comment on DOGE website is live! 1 week ago:
“Basic economics” like Adam Smith?
“For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.”
-Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Or would you prefer we quote “advanced economics” like Marx?
- Comment on Finding an "unavailable" video in a YouTube playlist is a pain 1 week ago:
If you’re on Android, grab PipePipe from the F-droid store. That’ll handle the mobile use case.
- Comment on The eye-popping amount of money Elon Musk has already slashed from the Education Department as staff melt down 1 week ago:
You’re still going to have to pay taxes, in fact your taxes are probably going up next year.
The government cutting its budget doesn’t automatically mean tax savings.
- Comment on Finding an "unavailable" video in a YouTube playlist is a pain 1 week ago:
When it comes to music videos on youtube, it’s best to save a copy in case the video gets taken down in the future.
- Comment on someone tell Luigi about this 1 week ago:
That exists as a product you can buy. They call them “Blast Diverters” or “Blast Projectors”:
- Comment on someone tell Luigi about this 1 week ago:
This is an actual product:
They’re called “Blast Diverters” or “Blast Projectors”, and they’re technically a safety device that directs the sound waves from gunfire downrange, reducing the impact on the user’s ears without falling afoul of the restrictions on suppressors.
- Comment on Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum supercomputer 1 week ago:
It’s real, but the jargon is unintuitive.
“Teleportation” in the field of quantum mechanics refers to the process by which a quantum state can be copied from one place to another.
This process is like Shrodinger’s Cat, both alive and dead until you open the box to check. Quantum information simply does not exist until a measurement collapses it into back into classical information.
- Comment on Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum supercomputer 1 week ago:
Nah, this technique is more like having a Shrodinger’s Cat that’s in two places at once. It won’t collapse the tyrrany of space, but it will allow us to build bigger and better quantum computers.
