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- Comment on Neighbors Rally After a Manhattan Preschool’s Corn Stalks Are Vandalized 3 days ago:
Even if it wasn’t it’s literally destruction for purpose of destroying someone else’s stuff…
- Comment on Neighbors Rally After a Manhattan Preschool’s Corn Stalks Are Vandalized 3 days ago:
If you confuse weed and corn, again… The fuck wrong with you?
- Comment on Neighbors Rally After a Manhattan Preschool’s Corn Stalks Are Vandalized 4 days ago:
Only thing I can think of as logical is if they think the world’s happiness is zero-sum so if kids are sad there is more happiness for them to have???
Maybe if they are sad the kids deserve to be sad too???
Either way… Seek help because those are not good ways of thinking
- Comment on Neighbors Rally After a Manhattan Preschool’s Corn Stalks Are Vandalized 4 days ago:
I never understand these types of actions(the destruction I mean). Like ok, you’re a criminal… You steal from a store, you get a benefit (what ever you stole)… You kill someone, you were worried for the rest of your life(either they were going to kill or harm you or you were going to be caught and go to jail)… You rape someone, you couldn’t control your emotions or desires… You drink and drive or do drugs, ok you get some sense of pleasure from the chemicals… Maybe you destroy property because you feel like it violated your rights(flock cameras). Not condoning these acts but I can kind of see the logic.
This was like thinking “these kids don’t deserve happiness” … The fuck is wrong with you?
- Comment on non issue 5 days ago:
Ok, all I said was the Bing porn video player was better than Google… Didn’t say it was the best
- Comment on non issue 5 days ago:
Ok, haven’t tried that. Bing is better than Google, yandex might be better I don’t know
- Comment on Wait, you mean workers *don't* love the automatic dumbass machines that constantly threaten their jobs? 5 days ago:
Ignoring environmental issues, the issue at the moment is the tool is not production ready. If I design a tool to measure length of something but I can’t be confident the measurement will be right within a specific tolerance the tool is useless. If the tool is just guessing, well I can do that without the tool. Yeah it may be 85% accurate but I still have to employ someone to verify each one or risk selling bad product, because I can’t trust the tool.
People don’t “solve the same problem” over and over again, they learn what the solution is. You probably know a^2 + b^2 = c^2 or the Pythagoras theorem. You learned that. You didn’t “solve” it.
Now in addition you may have learned some uses of it. Things like measuring a shadow or knowing how long a road is going up a mountain. You also probably learned it won’t work to calculate how to shoot a basketball. Yes you know height of hoop and can measure the distance from you to hoop but the result is wrong because you throw on a parabolic curve not in straight line(not to mention gravity and air resistance etc). Ai doesn’t recognize those differences. If you tell it “given the height of a hoop and distance from the hoop, how can I tell how hard to throw a ball to get it into the hoop” it will give you an equation, probably calculate the distance with Pythagoras, then gathering average mass of standard basketball, and incorporating them into an equation for force required to push that mass to that distance.
From a software developer perspective another issue is context. I’ve seen alot of Ai slop where they calculate a value(say distance to monster in a game) each time it’s needed. Any software dev would calculate it once, store in variable, use it as many times you need, recalculate on next frame.
Again this is all ignoring the environmental, legal, societal, medical, mental effects. Just focusing on the fact the technology is several generations behind hoping to be production ready.
- Comment on Big if true 5 days ago:
If I’m not mistaken the church of Satan is not much better than Christian churches but the satanic temple is great.
- Comment on non issue 5 days ago:
Mostly only porn, their video search/player for porn sites is far superior to google’s
- Comment on non issue 5 days ago:
Bing is better for porn anyways
- Comment on Machine Rights Will Give Us A Harder Fight 6 days ago:
They are right. Most machines require some sort of rotational action and as such need transmissions.
Also machines get commands either wired or wireless typically which both are another type of transmission.
If we don’t have the rights to transmissions neither of those are viable and will make machines much harder.
That’s what the post was about right?
/s yes I know it’s referencing Trans rights as in rights for transsexuals. I was just having fun playing with the words.
- Comment on A first-person 3D adaptation of Zork I 6 days ago:
Images and code are all slop
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 week ago:
I live in a suburb of a large city. These might be higher since it’s me, gf, and kid. Rent with all included fees: 1850
Utilities(basically just electric): 200-400 per month depending on weather
Phone : 40 per month(had to buy phone out of pocket first)
Food: 400-600 recently with only groceries no eating out
Transportation(gas for car): 100 minimum
Car insurance: 275 (no tickets, 1 accident 4 years ago but I was found 0% at fault)
Car payment: 350 (paid off next month)
Total(check my math I did it in my head) 3250 per month for essentials
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What else was I supposed to do with that homeless man?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What concerns me is that it’s not THAT the person clogged the toilet… But HOW???
What did they do to the toilet to clog it?
- Comment on It's time to move on....to JEANS! 1 week ago:
We might get in trouble when we get to t and start posting teens…
- Comment on It's time to move on....to JEANS! 1 week ago:
Ok, you win… I nominate Mr. Feeny for the next meme
- Comment on It's time to move on....to JEANS! 1 week ago:
That will be duplicated when we get to j.
I was thinking more out side the box like feans = flying scenes, yeah spelling is off but pronunciation aligns…
- Comment on Anon learns about cars 1 week ago:
That’s to limit your speed in reverse, don’t want to go 60 mph backwards
- Comment on It's time to move on....to JEANS! 1 week ago:
That doesn’t follow the pattern… We skipped a and started with beans… Skipped c and went with deans… We need to skip e and meme feans then skip g and meme heans… At last skip ieans and we get to jeans. After that we skip K and meme leans.
Now from a quick search feans and heans are not real words which means before we can advance we need to define them. Anyone have any good ideas for definitions of feans and or heans?
- Comment on In solidarity with my GenX brethren, with added falling on my ass at work 1 week ago:
Ok, if it was just a minor bump I wouldn’t worry about it. I know I sometimes sit wrong and can’t walk right for a few days.
- Comment on In solidarity with my GenX brethren, with added falling on my ass at work 1 week ago:
My lungs are fucked from smoking, my liver is fucked by drinking, my internal organs are fucked by poor nutrition, my mind is fucked by well… Everything
It’s bots just shape, it’s every aspect of my body… Take care of yourselves kids!
- Comment on In solidarity with my GenX brethren, with added falling on my ass at work 1 week ago:
Maybe I just had a good company, I don’t know. I understand there’s assholes and bad situations. Maybe I got lucky. I’m just stating my experience and you stated yours. Yes they are different but everyone has different experiences.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I did but it happened during a solar eclipse and now I’m blind…
- Comment on In solidarity with my GenX brethren, with added falling on my ass at work 1 week ago:
I don’t know, I only had 1 experience (small-ish explosion causing temporary hearing damage and temporary back pain). I had multiple witnesses, approved procedure by ehs rep and video evidence of adhering to procedure. Co-worker tried to “help” and caused it. Never even saw a bill or got a single call for money. I think it may just vary by company.
- Comment on In solidarity with my GenX brethren, with added falling on my ass at work 1 week ago:
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If you really did this at work, make sure they know and report. Then you can get medical care on their dime.
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I’m only 40 but my body feels like I’m 80. I moved apartments 2 years ago, 3rd floor to 3rd floor. I literally almost died, my chest was pounding I couldn’t stand I was struggling to breath. I ended up laying on the floor for about an hour, being wiped with wet washcloths to stay cool and trying to drink plenty of water.
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Take care of your body, mine is too late but hopefully you still have time.
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- Comment on Would moving/shifting in the 4th (spacial) dimension be fatal? 1 week ago:
If you like ideas like this I highly recommend flatland by Edwin A. Abbott.
It’s available for free here: www.gutenberg.org/files/201/201-h/201-h.htm
Part one is a lot of social and religious critiques of the time it was written (1884 for second edition). Part two covers a lot more of the questions you brought up.
Warning: it is a work of fiction. Don’t expect hard science but my understanding is a lot of the ideas expressed here match modern math ideas.
- Comment on is there a name for when you stop preventing a problem thinking it's solved and it comes back? 1 week ago:
My house was haunted by ghosts so bought the annual subscription and they went away. I canceled the subscription and my house got repossessed!
- Comment on Anon has a paranormal experience 1 week ago:
I always laugh when mine is sleeping then wakes himself up by farting…
- Comment on Now we're cooking with gas! 1 week ago:
Did they copy that from the msds of the Asbestos cigarette filters?