jqubed

@jqubed@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They have a right to feel smug⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We took my in-laws back to my father-in-law’s hometown in France this summer and it was kind of mind-boggling to me how most of the homes had no air conditioning but also no screens on the windows to keep bugs out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tying into this, I feel like in the late-’90s/early-’00s there were a lot of people using the internet every day and some of the benefits and potential were already obvious. Office jobs were extensively starting to use email already and many people at home were checking email at least once a day and looking at online news. E-commerce was basically an improved mail-order catalog, but the improved selection, availability, and prices really were an improvement. Instant communication was an immediate benefit and digital media was showing obvious promise.

  I don’t feel like I see nearly the same widespread use of “AI” today. Some of the things that are getting big money don’t really seem like they have a lot of practical application. I don’t think many people have a daily need to generate images or videos. A lot of the things that seem more promising, like improved translation or voice to text, also might not be very profitable, as in people probably won’t want to pay much for them, and they definitely won’t be unless the astronomical resource costs currently projected come way down.

  I think where they’re very similar is there are a lot of companies rushing to slap the craze into their business, transform the business for the craze, or create a new business capitalizing on the craze, whether or not it actually makes sense to do so and whether or not the technology is actually useful for the stated purpose yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FlatEarthers will work around it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On a globe, yes. If the earth were flat as depicted in the above map with Antarctica as the edge then no. This simply points out one of the many illogical points to flat earth conspiracies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your test for people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I almost never had a table stack their stuff the way I wanted. Just make sure your spot is tidy, easy to grab, and there are no surprises like silverware or a tiny dish wrapped inside a napkin. Definitely don’t stick a paper napkin inside your cup that still has a drink in it. By the time it gets back to the dish station it will have turned into a paste someone has to dig out and will be cursing you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The only place I ever saw it was at Costco or a little specialty health food store mom used to go to when I was little. I haven’t been to the latter in decades, and Costco got rid of theirs a couple years ago. I think Costco’s reasoning was mostly about them being underutilized compared to the cost. My parents were never coffee drinkers, though, and I started trying when I was dating my wife but also started getting ulcers soon after, so coffee hasn’t been something I’ve really paid attention to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y = -x²⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for the formula

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinions on Jurassic Park as a Zoo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d never considered how much this applies to the general “tech bro” mindset beyond the chaos theory parts of the book

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Integrates Google Lens for Visual Search in Firefox Desktop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Upvoting for awareness, not because I’m happy about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Autism has been announced!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Please drink a verification can”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whats your dumb purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it taste different than what you get in cans/bottles for home use?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's got the juice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crabgrass was once a food crop and not a weed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 429 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve certainly considered it just for the upgraded image/TV compatibility and I think the price is reasonable, but their products always seem out of stock and I would assume the original devices are still less-expensive, though less compatible with current TVs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 429 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a part of me that would be tempted to buy a Nintendo 64 if I ever found one, just for the authentic experience with Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye, and a few others.

  The classic tracks usually vary some in newer versions of Mario Kart. Typically I’d say it doesn’t make a difference, mostly cosmetic, but sometimes it’s significant. SNES Rainbow Road is one I’d say is dramatically easier in the remakes, and I’ve seen comparisons showing wholesale changes on others to the extent they’re hardly even the same track. It mostly seems to impact the SNES and GBA tracks, though. Not as many real differences in tracks that were already 3D models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyway I started blasting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but one would think organic would show a difference then since the rules are much stricter for organic products and they seem to require some external verification to get the label. Since this is all anecdotal it’s probably worth asking if the person experiences a difference between organic and conventional wheat from North America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyway I started blasting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, that’s too bad. I can absolutely sympathize with all you’re going through, including not getting much help from doctors. As much progress as we’ve had medically over the past century+ it seems like medicine is still just scratching the surface of what can be wrong, so as we get into more unusual things there’s a lot they just don’t know and can’t answer. I’ve had stomach issues for over 15 years and the diagnosis I’ve had is “Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)” or more recently “IBS-D” to indicate diarrhea-predominant as opposed to constipation-predominant. It’s not life-threatening but can be very disruptive. Sometimes the name bugs me, though, because it just seems to be a catch-all for when they’ve rolled out all the serious things they can test for like Crohn’s disease, cancer, or celiac’s. I have friends with the same diagnosis but very different symptoms and triggers, and I’d say it’s pretty clear we don’t actually have the same condition.

  I’ve tried all sorts of diets and medicines, things that worked at first but stopped, and at least now have some sort of equilibrium. The pills don’t cure whatever the underlying cause is but at least it keeps things more controlled. Maybe that’s the best I can hope for right now. Avoiding certain foods, taking my pills, and hoping nothing external happens to upset the balance. It sounds like you’re finding your equilibrium at least, so I hope that keeps working for you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Yeah, let’s try it. [Korean-style steak sauce is] not something I’ve made before,” says Mancuso, remembering his script, “so I could definitely use the help.”

  Then at the end of the article they embed an Instagram video from 2023 of Mancuso making a Korean-style steak sauce. *chef’s kiss*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyway I started blasting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you live in North America? Have you tried eating products with European wheat? I haven’t done much research into if there’s any serious research on this, but I’ve seen some anecdotal instances (including a close family member) where people seem to have problems eating wheat and do better with a gluten-free (wheat-free) diet, don’t have celiac’s disease, but have been fine eating otherwise similar foods when made with European wheat. It seems different varieties are typically grown on each continent, so I’m guessing there’s some sort of subtle impact. Again, I haven’t looked into this yet so it’s basically just anecdotal as far as I’m concerned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Italians were also targeted. Being from a Catholic country was sometimes enough to get targeted. Always found it funny (Woody Allen marriage funny, not Woody Allen film funny) that the Protestants who came to what is now Massachusetts seeking “religious freedom” meant it only for themselves and drove out anyone who didn’t subscribe to their views.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you recognize this PC case?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It reminds me of a Compaq we had around then. HP had bought Compaq at the time and used the brand on some of their low-end PCs. I don’t know if they were sold in Germany under that name, but it might be another angle to pursue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw something within the past year or so that looked like a new version of Paperboy and I got excited but then it turned out it wasn’t and I was disappointed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My brother got arrested for a dime bag. His picture got put up on the jails website. And they advertise. So shouldn't my brother get paid at least a little for providing clicks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding on, there can be good reasons to have arrest records be public and accessible. It can be beneficial for people to know if someone in the community has engaged in dangerous activity that could threaten others around them. Even if that person is able to avoid conviction or negotiate a lesser charge, you might personally want to change your interactions with them. The most common example might be with sex offenders, but that’s also being used for a lot of disingenuous arguments right now, so I’ll offer some others. Say someone is arrested for driving while intoxicated, perhaps someone you know. You might have never noticed them intoxicated before but perhaps they’re just good at hiding it, and you would probably choose not to ride in a vehicle with them driving or let a family member ride with them. Or perhaps you see someone arrested for a violent assault and you’ve also had past experiences with them that were also violent or threatening but never felt like it was worth reporting or felt that reporting the crime might make you less safe. If you or others know that person is in jail it can be easier for you and others to come to the prosecutors to report your own experiences and make it easier for the prosecutors to get a dangerous person out of the public.

  On the flip side, the US is supposed to have the principle that someone is innocent until proven guilty. Publicizing arrests before a conviction can make that harder, and there are plenty of examples of innocent people who were “convicted in the media” but later found not guilty in court. That can often place a burden on innocent people to continue defending themselves for years afterwards.

  In theory an open and transparent judicial process makes the system harder to abuse. In an effort to prevent punishing innocent people for crimes they did not commit, a judicial process might be designed in way that sometimes allows guilty persons to avoid punishment. The public has a right to know about threats so they can take actions to protect themselves. Wrongly accused individuals should not have to be burdened by false accusations after successfully defending themselves. People who have served their sentence for crimes they committed should not continue to be punished after completing their sentence.

  Balancing these different interests is challenging and I think it’s pretty easy to say the current system is not at a good balance. Perhaps a good balance isn’t possible. The world is far more complicated than little comments online can make it seem. I think it’s pretty easy, though, to say the government should not be arresting people and making money by selling information about those arrests. A commercial entity taking that information and publishing it for a profit can also be morally questionable and should perhaps have legal restrictions. Outlets that exist solely to find the most attractive mug shots are at least in bad taste. But the question gets harder the closer this gets to a reputable news organization that is also trying to responsibly balance these considerations.

  I’d certainly be interested to see the results of a lawsuit based on the original question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UltraRAM scaled for volume production — memory that promises DRAM-like speeds, 4,000x the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years, is now ready for manufacturing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Like DRAM, FeRAM’s read process is destructive, necessitating a write-after-read architecture.

  So that’s why it’s still called RAM? It can hold the data a long time but the data is lost when it’s read?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the main differences between GPLv2, GPLv3, AGPL, and LGPL?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really have answers for you, but you might find this website helpful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think in this case they’re referring to Chrome on iOS. Apple doesn’t allow any browser engine except WebKit on iOS so to many people that means Chrome and any other browser on iOS is really just Safari with a different interface. Pretty sure I saw something recently about the EU considering forcing Apple to allow other engines on iOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨17k+ indexed adult games from itch.io on goony.dev⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole saga has been fascinating in that it has revealed an entire side of gaming I really didn’t know existed. I’m not looking very deeply into it, but just seeing how much exists and how many categories and classifications go into it is surprising, although I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised given how long I’ve been online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buyer Beware: Some 4K discs and streaming versions of cult classics have soundtrack changes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  WKRP in Cincinnati was a famous case of that, where the music was often important. Interestingly in that case the Shout Factory DVD release actually restores most of the music, but they still couldn’t license everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon did philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That would not surprise me since I often see symmetry listed as a fairly constant criteria for attractiveness in most human features. In practice I’m not sure how dissimilar one breast would have to be from another for me to actually notice but I’ve never seen asymmetric breasts even when my wife has tried to point it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon did philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s another version I’ve seen of this where some commenters don’t understand and are arguing about it which is pretty entertaining

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon did philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All other things being equal I’d generally say bigger is better, but size is nowhere near the top of my criteria. That’s what I mean if I’m saying I don’t care about size; maybe that’s what others do too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commit culinary crimes in management sim The Diner At The End Of The Galaxy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From a studio that also released a winemaking sim called Terroir. Seems like an interesting outfit!