ChairmanMeow
@ChairmanMeow@programming.dev
- Comment on Teen denies twice setting wire traps on bike path despite alleged video 3 days ago:
The “kid” is an adult.
Brains don’t stop developing until 20-something. He should know better, but he’s young enough to be correctable.
He would have fucked up multiple lives if not stopped. Where’s the compassion for his future victims?
But he hasn’t fucked up multiple lives, because he was thankfully caught. His ‘future victims’ don’t exist, so having compassion for them is a strictly emotional response that shouldn’t determine how to act here.
This man needs to be corrected. Long sentences don’t correct people, it increases recidivism and creates a higher risk of future criminality, especially when done at a relatively young age. Meaning you increase the chance of creating future victims, so where’s that compassion of yours now?
What is most effective and best for society usually doesn’t line up with an emotional response demanding harsh punishments.
- Comment on ScIence 1 week ago:
Cookie Clicker doesn’t use SI prefixes. It just uses numbers (eg million, billion, octodecillion, etc…), which already extend into basically infinity I believe.
- Comment on For a group that considers .world to be Reddit 2.0 and a "CIA propaganda front" they seem to get awfully mad whenever it comes up 1 week ago:
The Netherlands isn’t a “fascist” country. Wilders’ PVV party is in government with three other parties, none of which are fascist. Before talks could begin they demanded strong protections for the constitution, which the PVV agreed to. They also agreed that the party leaders should not be in the cabinet, which is why Wilders does not hold a position in the cabinet, he’s still effectively a “house member” to use a US parallel. It’s why the current prime minister (Schoof) is a fairly apolitical bureaucrat and a former member of the PvdA, the Dutch Labour party.
One of the parties in government, NSC, is particularly twitchy about anything remotely fascist or unconstitutional. The initial PVV plan to use emergency powers to stop immigration was shot down by the NSC, and is now off the table. The PVV had to leave most if not all of their anti-Islam policies at the door. They are still fervently anti-immigration, but they’re not working on deportations or anything.
The PVV in government is basically neutered to just a very right-wing party. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a good government and I foresee it falling fairly soon, but they’re not fascist and the Netherlands isn’t a fascist country. Claiming it is just demonstrates ignorance of the Dutch political situation.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 2 weeks ago:
This is a massive cry from “behaves like humans”. This is “roleplays behaving like what humans wrote about what they think a rogue AI would behave like”, which is also not what you want for a product.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 weeks ago:
The Saarland, Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen are smaller than the average county, but especially the latter three have a bit of a special status because they’re essentially just cities.
The next-smallest one, Schleswig-Holstein, is more than 5 times larger than the average county. Bavaria, the largest one is more than 24 times as large as the average county.
I take the average here, because some US counties are absurdly large. The largest proper county, San Bernardino, is larger than 4 states combined.
The median county size btw is 5 times smaller than the average size. Only Bremen is still smaller than that.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think “AI tries to deceive user that it is supposed to be helping and listening to” is anywhere close to “success”. That sounds like “total failure” to me.
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 2 weeks ago:
Salmonella can be spread by eating undercooked or raw chicken. Anon hasn’t had it because he cooks it properly.
Washing chicken seems to be a very American thing to do? Here in the Netherlands I’ve never seen or heard someone do it. We just cook our chicken properly.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 2 weeks ago:
The tests showed that ChatGPT o1 and GPT-4o will both try to deceive humans, indicating that AI scheming is a problem with all models. o1’s attempts at deception also outperformed Meta, Anthropic, and Google AI models.
Weird way of saying “our AI model is buggier than our competitor’s”.
- Comment on Water 2 weeks ago:
How do you define “closer” here? I’m about 1.8m removed from the size of an atom but well over 299 thousand kilometers from a light second.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 3 weeks ago:
This sounds a lot like what Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance has been doing for ages, and that expansion came out in 2007. The only difference is the unit limit but that’s mostly for performance reasons (and is rarely hit in competitive matches anyway).
How are these mechanics next-gen if they’re more than 15 years old?
- Comment on Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher? 3 weeks ago:
Minecraft doesn’t need another distribution platform if players already know where to find it. So no point in giving Valve a cut.
- Comment on Saint Luigi 3 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Saint Luigi 3 weeks ago:
Depends exactly on what is taxed. Regardless, the tax increase would be so low that moving is almost certainly not paying for itself. The government could also just increase taxes by a flat amount rather than a flat rate.
Point is, there’s plenty of options that give zero reason to assume capital flight will happen.
- Comment on Saint Luigi 3 weeks ago:
There’s a variety of ways to implement it, but the vast majority save trillions in the long run. citizen.org/…/fact-check-medicare-for-all-would-s… has a couple sources listed, even a Koch-funded institute found it would save money.
The reasoning is simple: you cut out the middlemen who demand a portion of the premiums for themselves. Those costs are instantly removed, and there isn’t really anything that starts costing more in return.
There’s also collective governmental bargaining on procedures and medication which lowers prices.
- Comment on Saint Luigi 3 weeks ago:
No, the sum of all premiums paid by all Americans is way more than is required. You could make it a flat tax and it’d still be cheaper.
The tax increase is more than offset by the cost of premiums.
- Comment on Saint Luigi 3 weeks ago:
Why? UHC is cheaper than the current system. You wouldn’t need any extra taxes.
- Comment on Let's Build a Dungeon (in development), a MMORPG development game with both management elements and world creation, releases a demo on Steam 4 weeks ago:
I’ve toyed with this game concept in my head for a while, really happy to see some studio just built it. It looks a lot like what I had envisioned!
Instant wishlist for me!
- Comment on Reading into something that is said 5 weeks ago:
States that governments don’t need taxes to finance stuff
Lists reasons why governments really do need to do so and that not doing so is a terrible idea
Refuses to elaborate
Leaves
What did he mean by this?
- Comment on Javier Milei ends budget deficit in Argentina, first time in 123 years 5 weeks ago:
I mean, inflation is mostly down (still high compared to other nations but it’s not monstrous anymore). The big issue is that poverty rates have skyrocketed. The big question is how he is going to address that (if at all).
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 1 month ago:
82% positive just means that out of everyone who decided to buy it in the first place, 82% feel like they got what they expected. If you don’t expect greatness, then perhaps this game is exactly what you thought it’d be.
- Comment on Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension? 1 month ago:
The difference between ban and suspend isn’t a temporal difference. Here’s the Cambridge dictionary definition of “suspend”:
to stop something from being active, either temporarily or permanently (see: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/…/suspend)
Here’s the definition for “ban”:
to forbid (= refuse to allow) something, especially officially (see dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ban?q…)
The difference between the two is the subject: an active process or service can be suspended, but something specific (e.g. an action, object or person) can be banned. Ban also implies a more official act in order to punish someone or prevent something (Johnny was banned from entering the bus), whereas a suspension doesn’t necessarily have that ‘negative’ context (e.g. the bus service was suspended, which doesn’t imply this happened because the bus driver was drunk or something).
In a more Lemmy-specific context, you could say you suspended someone’s access to the platform, or that you banned them from the platform. Neither way of saying it implies anything about the duration. You can’t however really say you suspended someone from the platform, that doesn’t really work.
In this context, I think the direct implication that a ban is handed out because someone did something bad is a lot clearer than when you use the word suspension. Because of that I believe ban to be the more context-appropriate word here. Suspend does not carry that connotation as something can be suspended for a whole host of reasons, none of which have to be related to rule-breaking. For example, federation with another instance could be suspended temporarily until the other instance does (or doesn’t do) something that is required for technical reasons.
- Comment on Anon doubts WW2 Germany 2 months ago:
America would have likely joined the war regardless of whether or not Japan had attacked.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 2 months ago:
“I have 99,99% uptime I swear!”
- Comment on Journalist asking the hard questions 2 months ago:
Georgia and Moldova both are struggling against Russian influences in their elections.
- Comment on "EU-Linux:" Petition calls for the implementation of an EU-Linux operating system in public administrations across all EU countries 2 months ago:
LinEUx
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 2 months ago:
That’s not true. Infinite doesn’t mean “all”. There are an infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1, but none of them are 2. There’s a high statistical probability, sure, but it’s not necessarily 100%.
- Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 2 months ago:
Wouldn’t wanna miss “Nazi gets kicked in the balls and cries” tbh.
- Comment on New mobile features are sh*t these days 2 months ago:
Sometimes it can be used for comedic effect though. Like with “Fr*nce”.
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 2 months ago:
He’s already given you 5 examples of positive impact. You’re just moving the goalposts now.
I’m happy to bash morons who abuse generative AIs in bad applications and I can acknowledge that LLM-fuelled misinformation is a problem, but don’t lump “all AI” together and then deny the very obvious positive impact other applications have had (e.g. in healthcare).
- Comment on NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives 3 months ago:
Yes, but at least there they still use “Earth time”, just slowed down. For the moon it gets a little bit more complicated I guess.