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- Comment on I try to spice it up with some VB Macros but it's still ultimately just a spreadsheet. 5 days ago:
There is no real math on that graph. It’s just what anyone learns in a good education. Well, that and probability theory, combinatorics, and statistics.
I’d really expect more from a math student.
- Comment on Tastes bubbly 5 days ago:
Nice try. But all Cartesian Theaters use DCI-P3.
- Comment on Tastes bubbly 5 days ago:
I’m sure I never drank shampoo and yet I feel I know what it tastes like. Odd.
- Comment on Name him. 6 days ago:
When asked about his name, he said : “YARGHARGAHYARGHARGGGLLLHHHH”. It may have continued, but his lungs had deflated at that point.
- Comment on i love orchids 1 week ago:
C’mon. Look at her. Who wouldn’t want to be sucked dry by her?
Actually… Do they do that? Or is that just spiders?
Anyway, I’m sure that their lovemaking involves giving head.
- Comment on i love orchids 1 week ago:
I don’t know much about mimicry, but I’m pretty sure the point of praying barbie’s outfit is, that butterflies and bees also love her.
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 1 week ago:
Spilled the secret on the flight to Avignon. Today’s Snowdens have it easier. They spill less unpleasant secrets, too.
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 1 week ago:
Ahh. But have you evolved your tailbone into a pilot light?
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 1 week ago:
“Help him, help him,” Dobbs was sobbing. “Help him, help him.”
“Help who? Help who?” Yossarian called back. “Help who?”
“The bombardier, the bombardier,” Dobbs cried. “He doesn’t answer. Help the bombardier, help the bombardier.”
“I’m the bombardier,” Yossarian cried back at him. “I’m the bombardier. I’m all right. I’m all right.”
“Then help him, help him,” Dobbs wept. “Help him, help him.”
- Comment on crunchi 1 week ago:
Well, is it crunchy? Such a disappointment when they don’t crunch after all.
- Comment on Finally a solution to the Königsberg Bridge problem. 1 week ago:
This must be the true reason the whole city got razed.
Allegedly, the Russians wanted to negotiate about Kaliningrad in 1990 but Germany was more horrified than interested. Straightforward decision at the time. No one wanted a reprieve of the whole Polish Corridor thing, especially without even Germans living there. Rather a mistake in hindsight.
- Comment on Well, I mean they probably... Maybe they... 1 week ago:
Yeah, the problem isn’t getting Americans to use metric. It’s getting them to stop using everything else.
For some reason, English derived cultures have this incredibly conservative streak. Like the language lugs around letters that no one has pronounced in centuries. Maybe it comes from stare decisis. You start doing this differently, and it’s all Mad Max from there.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 1 week ago:
Oh right. It’s Thursday. Hail Thor! Hail the Protector of Mankind!
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 3 weeks ago:
A GPU?
- Comment on Happy 30th Anniversary! 3 weeks ago:
Hmm. There’s only 1 thing I know about top gear. That presenter guy, the old one, what’s his name? His father-in-law was awarded a Victoria’s Cross for actions during the Battle of Arnhem; the famous a bridge too far. 7 VCs were awarded in that battle, but he was the only one who made it out alive.
I wonder if that ever became awkward. Like guy comes home and says:
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I did this super dangerous stunt for TV today!
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Oh, you did something dangerous, son? Do tell.
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- Comment on Contributions 3 weeks ago:
smh
That guy should be happy that no AI will ever be trained on their work. It’s ok to contribute to progress, but only if it’s progress the cool kids approve of. Know your place, nerds.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 3 weeks ago:
The most striking image yet to emerge from the fall of Srebrenica comes in a BBC film to be screened next week. It shows the indicted Serb war criminal General Radko Mladic presenting the commander of the UN peacekeeping force at Srebrenica, Colonel Ton Karremans of Holland, with gifts wrapped in Christmas paper. Mladic was evidently in a expansive mood and he had good reason to be: at that very moment his troops were preparing to massacre the 4,000 men and boys who the UN had handed over to him.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 3 weeks ago:
Oh yes. If you’re a Dutch soldier you even get free drinks, and it only costs your honor.
“Toast of shame” - Mladic and Karreman drinking together
Happy 30th anniversary. Cheers to the Dutch Army.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 3 weeks ago:
I never understood why Starbucks became big in the US, but I always assumed it was something like that.
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- Comment on Pirates are Popular 3 weeks ago:
You asserted that models are trained on private data. You were unable to back up the assertion.
I am not interested in psychological or rhetorical tricks. I see no value in it. If you’re willing to have a rational, fact-based discussion, science-style, then I am willing to assume good faith until evidence to the contrary is apparent.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 3 weeks ago:
Just a recent example. Of course they’re vague about what “public” means, but if you really believe they aren’t using all the photos, you’d be pretty naive in my eyes.
Ok. You can’t give an actual example, so you use emotional blackmail to discourage disagreement. Noted.
If that’s what you want to call conservative go ahead, although it’s not what I’d typically associate with that word.
It’s called Chesterton’s fence.
Not sure where you see the problem?
To cut right to the chase. The problem is your intellectual dishonesty. First, it’s privacy, then it’s intellectual property, then privacy again. You try the spiel about sticking it to the corporations. When that is debunked, inequality is fine. Now it’s about “intellectual workers”, as if any of the higher-ups would share the loot.
You don’t give a fuck about logic or reason. You’re just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. You’re working through a list of talking points without ever engaging your brain. A third world guy will do that for a dollar an hour.
And don’t tell me that you’re doing this for free. Doing free labor for billionaires so that billionaires can get some free money from the rest of us is the stupidest thing I ever heard of. Ahh. But I have heard of it.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 3 weeks ago:
I companies are training models on photos and texts posted only for your friends
Can you give me an example or two of such a model?
And yes of course I believe in intellectual property and copyright, if that was your question. They’re there for a reason,
Thanks for bringing us back there. That’s the classical conservative argument. It’s not wrong.
One thing you said earlier was: You can have limits on inequality by implementing rules.
So, how do such reforms stack up against your conservatism?
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 3 weeks ago:
stealing.
Stealing is something you do with property. It’s not something you do with privacy.
So what do you mean by “personal privacy”? Most would consider stuff intentionally made public to be explicitly not private. What actually is the problem?
- Comment on If corporations are the GOP and the GOP are corporations why isn't it assumed that corporations will stem inflation due to tarrifs while the GOP is in power even if its at loss? 3 weeks ago:
Mostly, they can’t. Businesses like Walmart have margins of around 3-4% or so. If the cost goes up an extra 10% or more, that’s it.
I don’t see why they’d gift billions to customers, to prop up a guy who’s ruining them.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 3 weeks ago:
You obviously have strong feelings on intellectual property. What actually are your views on that?
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 3 weeks ago:
You can have limits on inequality by implementing rules.
Ok. And how would these rules fare against your convictions on property?
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 3 weeks ago:
Again, don’t treat me like an idiot. Lemmy is full of threads where people cheer on big corporations like Disney when they go to court. I get that you only care about your ideology and not whether Disney, Adobe, or any other of them profits. But that’s how it goes. Either you change your ideology or you accept what kind of world you are fighting for.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been saying that each person owns their data and have the right to decide what it can be used for.
Fair enough, but that’s a really fine point. You can do what you like with your property; use it, make it a gift, destroy it, give it to charity, … But in daily life of most people, property rights are all about money.
Your ideas demand a massive amount of free money for the likes of Disney. On a societal level, that’s basically it. I feel justified in ignoring a few people who have idiosyncratic plans.
