Rhaedas

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and no. It's not all fake, there's stuff going on, it's just not what they're selling it to be, and highly pushed into places it needs to stay away from, for safety and for inability. My takeaway on him being surprised as how people aren't impressed isn't the LLM factor of what it can do (well or not), it's that HE isn't aware that other LLMs are doing better than Microsoft's version. He really is deep if he doesn't know what the competition has. That's why there's a lackluster interest (as well as burnout of AI "solutions" for every damn thing, often worse than just doing it like before).

  My coworkers use Co-Pilot. When they have downtime, just for amusement, just to see how badly it mangles things it ought to be good at doing. Never mind the fringes where an LLM isn't suited at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dads be like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You're god damn right.

  Sorry... I mean... as a dad who did some driving with younger kids at night with their stuff with the backlights. You have to understand that you've just blinded me to everything, and it's also very distracting. But to be fair, it wasn't just the kids. My wife would do the same damn thing with her laptop, and that was a far bigger light. And a far more delicate method of approaching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw your zodiac sign, tell me..⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pattern: 7, but I swear they were a different color.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be a friend to the animals⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are topics to debate on concerning AI use, but in the end art itself is always subjective. What's funny is that AI has gotten to a level now where if used carefully it might fly under the radar of AI critics, meanwhile they are attacking artists who aren't using AI but have a style that seems to them to be "fake".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨r u human?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wonder what the audio version sounds like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feynman rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except Feynman did answer in the end, or at least gave us an idea of what's going on without diving into the hard physics. The journey there was to teach us that asking questions doesn't always lead to a simple answer, and can lead to more questions.

  Trump probably got two of those very strong neodymium magnets together and can't get them apart, so now he's confused and pissed at China because that's where they were bought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'TISM ALERT!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then the country's population will get better at math again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's on a mission⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You're right about it being different. That's why the argument of driving in snow doesn't hold up. Driving in snow that stays crunchy snow *IS easy. Northerners who have that as well as plowing equipment think it's easy because it is for them.

  The temperatures are another thing. They can keep them. Not a fan of negative numbers, regardless of which scale is used. Definitely not F, nope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's on a mission⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or it just stays in the conditions where it's more likely to sleet, which builds up and freezes into a sheet. Doesn't matter what tires you have, what 4-wheel drive, where you're from, or how much experience you have driving in snow... if there's a lot of ice on the road, you will hit some slick spots, and how sure of your being immune to physics will demonstrate itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's on a mission⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I understood that reference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become unrecognizable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There's only one on there that I simply can't do.

  I can't stand the sun for long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct, which is why it should be pronounced just like the word that was meant to be typed, only replacing the "o" with a "p" sound. It wasn't that hard to figure out when it became a thing, people just like word drama.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I swear half the posts on here are just slop now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And the comments are worse!! Someone will ask a simple question and get back three paragraphs of perfectly structured nothing that somehow says less than "idk man" would have.

  You would have loved Usenet in the 90s. That's how a lot of people are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And I presume popped up when opened. Then that suggests contamination prior to sealing, which is a little worse problem than damage during shipping or a bad sealing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything Is Great!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  "This is fine."

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might have had one of those pop up buttons to show the seal is broken. Ideally a stocker would see it, or the customer when selecting it, but I wonder how many people look that closely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No better testing than in production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A hypothesis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  C-64 -> DOS (at school) -> Unix (at uni) -> Every Windows from 3.1 to Win10 including some NT -> Linux/Win10

  That pretty much dates me, with that huge stretch of time.

  Messed around with Linux a few times on and off (Mandrake was first), never took the plunge until recently where it's now my primary. And it's not Arch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check your candy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mmm, that iridium goodness!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never buying milk from Walmart again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whole milk will go bad very quickly, especially once opened and if not kept below a certain temperature. 2% lasts a lot longer. Also changing the location in the refrigerator makes a huge difference, the door area is the warmest part. If you haven't had an issue before, then it could be that at some point in handling from the store or you the milk was allowed to warm a bit too much. Again, for whole milk it doesn't take a lot, and any perishables from Walmart is taking a risk vs. other groceries. Find a store that gets local farm stuff if possible, and try 2%, it's possible to wean off that sweet whole and buy some time and health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stay Golden⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That last scene with the dying torch... he deserved it, but that was disturbing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Federation and how things are pushed out is complicated. World is pretty big (it was one of the initial places during the first growth spurt from Reddit) but I don't know the current state of them allowing material from other instances. I think it's okay, I see a lot of world users in my feed, but I don't know what THEY see.

  The caveat of making other accounts is that they are different accounts, so your posting and history are only there (although there was research on ways to transfer or share, but I don't know where that is atm). But if another instance is open to new signups, nothing wrong with trying them out, see if you see things differently, end up using that one if it feels more open.

  Go visit https://lemmyverse.net/ and see what's out there. There's three big "types" now, Lemmy, Mbin, and Piefed. I can't tell you which is better, as everyone has their own take on things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since there's many different sources (federated) instead of a single one like Reddit, maybe how you're connected and being fed things is limited, giving you an impression it's less. It was much worse in the beginnings obviously, until moderators and instances grew and learned how to better pump things out. It still has its issues, depending on where you are.

  It's also not equal to compare a still new network of Lemmy and others to a long established Reddit structure of niche subs for everything. At some point there were none of the subs we now see. Maybe some of them aren't needed at this time, as setting up a new community is not hard to do (moderating it and growing it is work though).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're just puppos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it's supposed to be a werewolf technically. To ancient man though, a big hungry wolf would seem as much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're just puppos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It's a classic meme to show a contrast between things, but we never see the other picture of the dog ancestor creeping up to the fire submissively with its tail down, begging the nice humans for a bit of meat from their food. Would I trust it as far as domesticated dogs, hell no. But they had their "cute" side at some point, otherwise we would have never formed a bond.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halo: Campaign Evolved | The Silent Cartographer Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Proper remake was the Cursed Halo variants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One more LLM⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I've tried a few of the newer local ones with the visible chain of thought and thinking mode. For some things it may work, but for others it's a hilarious train wreck of second guessing, loops, and crashes into garbage output. They call it thinking mode, but what it's doing is trying to stack the odds to get a better probability hit on hopefully a "right" answer. LLMs are the modern ELIZA, convincing on the surface but dig too deep and you see it break. At least Infocom's game parser would break gracefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One more LLM⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember that LLMs were trained on the internet, a place that's full of confidently incorrect postings. Using a coding LLM helps some, but just like with everything else, it gives better results if you only ask for specific and small parts at a time. The longer the reply, the more probable it will drift into nonsense (since it's all just probability anyway).

  I've gotten excellent starting code before to tweak into a working program. But as things got more complex the LLM would try to do things even that guy who gets downvoted a lot on Stack Overflow wouldn't dare suggest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably could if that was the command. However Tony wanted to keep what had happened in the five years since the snap so he didn't lose his daughter, so the second snap couldn't be to put things back like it never happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kiss Guitarist Ace Frehley Dead at 74⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither is falling and getting a brain bleed. That can happen at any age.