GissaMittJobb
@GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
- Comment on I can't believe it 2 days ago:
I’d eat that, especially at that price. Not even British
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 3 days ago:
While I broadly agree with your sentiment,
Why can’t you compile Swift outside of MacOS
You can compile Swift on Windows and Linux. There are other tools required to build macOS and iOS-apps bundled with XCode that prevents building those on other platforms, but Swift itself is available standalone.
- Comment on Anon is looking for a new video game 5 days ago:
I believe that was implemented for people getting the mobile version after having played on another platform and not wanting to unlock everything again?
But yeah, you can certainly go that route, making it all mechanics and no numbers
- Comment on Anon is looking for a new video game 6 days ago:
Largely mechanics, apart from the need to unlock jokers.
Fun for a game so centered around numbers to not actually be numbers
- Comment on 'Adolescence' Becomes No. 9 Most-Watched Netflix Series of All Time in Just 3 Weeks 2 weeks ago:
It’s very much worth it.
- Comment on Yemeni shopkeeper during US bombing. 2 weeks ago:
Brutally ‘solving’ a problem entirely caused by the U.S, all while trying to demand gratitude from the rest of the world.
U.S foreign intervention in a nutshell, really
- Comment on What exercises should i do at the gym to correct winged scapula and rounded shoulders? 3 weeks ago:
I’m convinced doing deadlifts has helped me posturally.
- Comment on Anon calls in for financial advice 3 weeks ago:
The average person in finance has different flaws than this particular douchebag.
- Comment on One-handed games? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think I changed the difficulty-settings.
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 3 weeks ago:
Realistically, people aren’t going to attain their goals trying to do a Twinkie CICO diet though, even though it might be theoretically possible.
I wish people would just move on from posting about CICO already, it’s long since outlived its usefulness as a concept
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 3 weeks ago:
The best form of exercise for you is the form that you actually do consistently week after week. If this means working out at home, then that’s fine. Given that you’re not trying to break any records, this might just be fine for you.
I’ve done many different forms of working throughout the years, one of which was to work out at home/local outdoor gym. I did this because there were no gyms at what I considered to be a reasonable distance from home, and I considered that to be too much of an impediment to actually get the work done consistently.
I did get stronger from it, and used it as a part of losing weight, which I wanted on account of being overweight at that time.
I’ve since stopped doing that routine and moved to lifting weights at a gym, which I considered attainable since I moved to a place with gyms very close by. I did this because working out at home had basically reached a plateau as far as strength was concerned - lifting weights at a gym will get you stronger at a faster pace.
I think checking out the stuff that Hybrid Calisthenics does could be worthwhile for you. Do some stuff at home for now if that feels better for you, and then evaluate later on if it keeps working for you.
- Comment on One-handed games? 3 weeks ago:
How do I get into it? I’ve tried and it’s not really sticking, to be honest.
- Comment on find404 - I Worked Out Like David Goggins for 100 Days [19:50] 3 weeks ago:
A quick journey through the microcosm that is the toxic world of fitness influencers.
I wish it was spelled out more clearly in the video, but please don’t approach fitness the way this guy did.
- Comment on Hexadecimal 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think DeepSeek has the capability of generating code and executing it inline in the context window to support its answers, in the way that ChatGPT does - the “used”-part of that answer is likely a hallucination, while “or would use” more accurately represents reality.
- Comment on Hexadecimal 4 weeks ago:
The concern is that the model doesn’t actually see the world in terms of distinct hexadecimals, but instead as tokens of variable size - you can see this using the tiktokenizer-webapp: enter some text and it will split it into the series of tokens the model actually will process.
It’s not impossible for the model to work it out anyway, but it is a reason for this type of task to be a bit harder on LLMs.
- Comment on Hexadecimal 4 weeks ago:
It’s not out of the question that we get emergent behaviour where the model can connect non-optimally mapped tokens and still translate them correctly, yeah.
- Comment on Hexadecimal 4 weeks ago:
It is a concern.
Check out tiktokenizer.vercel.app/?model=deepseek-ai%2FDeep… and try entering some freeform hexadecimal data - you’ll notice that it does not cleanly segment the hexadecimal numbers into individual tokens.
- Comment on Hexadecimal 4 weeks ago:
Still, this does not quite address the issue of tokenization making it difficult for most models to accurately distinguish between the hexadecimals here.
Having the model write code to solve an issue and then ask it to execute it is an established technique to circumvent this issue, but all of the model interfaces I know of with this capability are very explicit about when they are making use of this tool.
- Comment on Hexadecimal 4 weeks ago:
Is this real? On account of how LLMs tokenize their input, this can actually be a pretty tricky task for them to accomplish. This is also the reason why it’s hard for them to count the amount of 'R’s in the word ‘Strawberry’.
- Comment on Why hasn't video quality improved much over the past ten years? 4 weeks ago:
As others mentioned it’s diminishing returns, but there’s still a lot of good innovation going on in the codec space. As an example - the reduction in the amount of space required for h265 compared to h264 is staggering. Codecs are a special form of black magic.
- Comment on you know this sound, but not its name.. 5 weeks ago:
Dude has a crazy distinct Swedish accent
- Comment on I'm looking to buy something like a reverse wheelbarrow, what do I call that? 5 weeks ago:
You might be looking for a handcart. Popular during medieval times, and among Mormon pioneers.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
There’s potential for mitigating some of the negative impacts using a mixed approach, although I’m not convinced it’s going to be straightforward or even worthwhile.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Please refer to the section about the negative effects of reducing property taxes.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Using retirees as a tool to work against property taxes has historically been an effective strategy, but it’s important to remember:
- What we’re actually trying to accomplish
- Will the proposed change be effective in accomplishing the goal
- Will the change have other consequences that are negative to the extent where the potential benefits outweigh the consequences in aggregate
- Are there any alternative means to accomplish the original goal
One-by-one:
What we’re actually trying to accomplish
Seems to me that the root question is one of housing affordability, in particular for retirees, who may have a lot of assets, but limited cash flow
Will the proposed change be effective in accomplishing the goal
Reducing/capping property taxes does indeed make it easier for some retirees to keep affording their homes, but reducing property taxes makes real estate a more lucrative investment, driving up the overall prices of real estate. This applies for both private persons intending to use the property to live in, for private persons looking seek rent, and corporate actors doing the same. Messing with property taxes is a large part of the housing affordability issue present in many places in the U.S and elsewhere (zoning laws being another major contributor, in particular those mandating single family homes, and lack of public housing being the other major contributor). Hence, this change would only benefit those lucky enough to have purchased a home in the past, at the expense of all retirees not already that lucky, which are now less likely to be able to do so.
Will the change have other consequences that are negative to the extent where the potential benefits outweigh the consequences in aggregate
Apart from driving up the prices of real estate for other retirees, everyone else interested in purchasing a home will also feel this broad increase in prices. This has led to large swaths of the population being effectively priced out of home ownership. This has the second order effect of making owning rentals more lucrative, as higher rents can be charged, further exacerbating the larger problem of housing affordability, but now also for even poorer people.
Finally, reductions in real estate taxes limit what public services can be funded through their use. In the U.S, this primarily means schools, infrastructure, firefighting, transit etc, all of which are suffering a lot in quality, much as a consequence of having messed with property taxes in the past.
There’s a very, very strong case to be made that the consequences have very much outweighed the benefits in this scenario. I would even say that they have been devastating, being part of the root cause of a large amount of issues seen today.
Are there any alternative means to accomplish the original goal
There clearly are good means to tackle this problem in other ways, the principal of which I believe should be massive public investment in social housing. By building a huge supply of high quality homes affordable to everyone, we make sure no one will have to be forced to go without an acceptable home, regardless of whether they are retired or not.
The second strategy should be to entirely remove the kind of zoning laws that have contributed to the kind of increase in housing prices seen today - mandating that only single family homes should be allowed to be built on massive lots with low utilization is hugely harmful to housing affordability.
These two measures would address housing prices having gone up in the way they have historically, which would also lead to property taxes not rising in such a dramatic fashion.
What should never be done, however, is reducing or capping property taxes.
- Comment on 🐸 time 1 month ago:
True? Yes. Climate solution? No.
- Comment on Please answer. 1 month ago:
American English (derogatory)
- Comment on proof 1 month ago:
Time to invest in vaccine makers right away, it’s going to the moon
- Comment on Murica 1 month ago:
That blows. Glad the infrastructure helps your chair get around, though. Also, every biker not using a car gives you more space, so that’s an additional plus
- Comment on Murica 1 month ago:
Sorry, a car can’t take me across the ocean. From now on, all of my trips will be made by airplane as this is the only vehicle that can cover all of my needs.