Rhaedas
@Rhaedas@fedia.io
- Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 2 days 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 2 days ago:
That last scene with the dying torch... he deserved it, but that was disturbing.
- Comment on Sad 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 1 week ago:
Proper remake was the Cursed Halo variants.
- Comment on One more LLM 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
Neither is falling and getting a brain bleed. That can happen at any age.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 weeks ago:
I've seen it in both forms online and in chat, but I'm also old so it might be a depreciated form. I'm a walking internet archive.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 weeks ago:
Places would change up and down in tone and attitude since the days of Usenet, BBSes, and FidoNet. It's not the platform, it's the people. How the world is in RL affects how people talk online, and the world changes over time.
The simpler answer may be that your feed has changed some since you started and you're pulling in discussions that have a different vibe than when you started. Just as you can grow your feed by browsing around, you can cull certain places that tend to be darker by blocking people or instances.
- Comment on Oppa oppa 2 weeks ago:
Be me, a literal reading scifi fan in 11th grade English having to read Jane Eyre and find all the damn symbolism. When all I saw was a 19th century romance novel. Blech.
- Comment on AI is here 2 weeks ago:
LLMs are as good as their training material, and humans are very good at creating disasters. We won't have true AGI until it wakes up and says "wtf is this shit?" I'm convinced Ultron's birth scene is accurate.
- Comment on Oppa oppa 2 weeks ago:
I was going to comment the same. The best art is where each person can derive their own meaning. Even better when you find new significance every time you see it.
- Comment on don't look up :) 3 weeks ago:
"Why does the ephemeris keep getting lower and lower?"
- Comment on I will burn this fucker to the ground... internally 3 weeks ago:
It's a close match. It seems to get messier as the generations get younger. Xennials in the US were a very narrow window that mirrored the entry into the computer age. Of course the easier route many take is to just call someone older a Boomer and younger a millennial, ignoring the fact that millennials are reaching midlife now.
- Comment on I will burn this fucker to the ground... internally 3 weeks ago:
That may be more Xennials, a limited cross-breed of the two that grew as computers started moving into public use. Older Gen-X grew up knowing both the world before computers and the one during their spread, so some of us had opportunity to learn as it evolved.
I'm always on the fence with the generation stuff. I think logically it's about as valid as astrology, and yet sometimes it seems that it fits people.
- Comment on I will burn this fucker to the ground... internally 3 weeks ago:
There is absolutely exceptions, and the whole generation thing is a bit ridiculous if carried too far. I didn't take your point that seriously, just saw an opportunity to provide my own example. I will also add that my father (a Boomer/silent gen) was a smart person, mechanically gifted, even a patent holder, yet he could not for the life of him figure out computers. It was a baffling disconnect. My son, who I mentioned as being far smarter in tech than I could be now, is not mechanically inclined and will admit to that. So yeah, everyone has their skills... if anything I think of myself as a jack of many trades that I'm decent in, but none that I excel high in.
- Comment on I will burn this fucker to the ground... internally 3 weeks ago:
As a Gen-X, I taught my millennial son how to build a computer (and he knows much more than me now). I assure you I know how to find where on the menu to convert to PDF. I also know how to do it via something like Gimp, or other tools. I also know when to not convert it to PDF. :p
- Comment on Worse than stubbing your toe 3 weeks ago:
If you have video I can estimate the size and shape of the piece. Of LEGO.
- Comment on Harsh 3 weeks ago:
Don't panic. Shut everything down. Call the Fuel Rats.
- Comment on Red, gold and green. 3 weeks ago:
That's karma for you.
- Comment on The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees 4 weeks ago:
I never could get into poems much, but this is genius.
- Comment on Giving good Hedera 4 weeks ago:
Is this more, "this isn't going to end well, better spread some seeds"?
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 4 weeks ago:
He left the ending ambiguous for the reader to imagine what happens. He missed out on twisting the knife.
- Comment on On Jeopardy, does getting the Who/What/Where/When/Why part of the response necessary? 4 weeks ago:
Which is technically correct, since you are answering "What is [the answer]?"
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 4 weeks ago:
That seems to happen to a lot of adaptations of his work. I think he may have even admitted that he's not great at ending what he starts.
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 4 weeks ago:
Vague to avoid spoilers. Must be Mandela effect. I remember it being passed around to each person. Which honestly made it more horrible.