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- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 1 week ago:
t’s coming whether we like it or not.
Counterpoint: LLMs are a dead-end for AGI. And outsourcing tasks to a “sometimes correct, but very often wrong” bot starts looking like a not-so-good idea once you actually need to pay for the compute.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 1 week ago:
If you’re thinking of the list that I’m thinking of: that is completely unfounded. They started with the premise “AI will be perfect in 2 years” and then drew a graph that looked good-ish. There is no scientific value to it.
- Comment on Nier Automata 1 week ago:
Please make sure to do B, C, D and E as well.
- Comment on where? 1 week ago:
So what. I’m sleeping, remember?
- Comment on where? 2 weeks ago:
Obviously next to House. He wants his seat neighbors to stfu and let him sleep. I want the same. It’s perfect.
- Comment on AI generated t-shirts... 2 weeks ago:
Definitely, yeah
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
- German (native)
- English (pretty well I hope; half my work life and almost all my free time spent on the internet, shows, books,… has been happening in English since, like, 8th grade)
- Japanese (learning; enough for talking about food, the weather, hobbies,… in somewhat acceptable grammar 😄)
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 2 weeks ago:
That’s why safewords should be passphrases! /s
Hold on, actually no, not /s
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It absolutely is.
There’s also a lot of different variations of fetishes involving piss. For the “get pissed on / in / drink it” part of the fetish, I have a hunch that piss sits right on the boundary of gross/humiliating, but not actually harmful.
Well.
For me at least.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 month ago:
Shouldn’t it be the other way round? If I’m a guest at someones house, IMO I should go out of my way to do as the host does.
- Comment on No need to be rude 2 months ago:
Not sure. You mean something like r/NuclearRevenge and Co?
- Comment on No need to be rude 2 months ago:
We really, really do. I miss r/PettyRevenge and cousins, plus r/TalesFromTechSupport.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 2 months ago:
And yet, in non-English speaking countries, virtually every kid is taught English to a level that’s at least “roughly business”.
I also reject your premise of 8 hours / day for a year; how about 1-2 hours / day for 4-8 years.
In the case of English, school kids would get more like 2-4hrs per week and be perfectly fluent after a couple of years, btw.
- Comment on all the proof i need 3 months ago:
My favorite math joke to this day is:
How many math professors does it take to change a lightbulb?
The answer is trivial and left as an exercise to the reader.
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 3 months ago:
I’ve actually been having a great time with simple-nixos-mailserver.
Running with a dedicated ipv4 at a highly reputable hoster, to my knowledge, I haven’t landed in a spam folder yet!
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 3 months ago:
Wait, why? I thought I was generally gold at spotting these things, but here I’m struggling. The only thing that looks a little out of place to ne is the ring on his pointing hand, but that might genuinely be a dark band + shadow. What else have I missed?
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week 4 months ago:
Sorry to be a pendantic ass. But. Jellyfin, in and on itself, has absolutely nothing to do with docker.
- Comment on HELL YEAH Onee-san be like :3 4 months ago:
Plus oneesan is “older sister”.
- Comment on You should quit social media for good 4 months ago:
About the same here, though I have to say… Reading the “3 hours per day” part out loud still seems… Insane somehow.
In a similar vein, I’m currently staying at my mom’s house, and the internet is too shit to use my Jellyfin. As a result, I haven’t been watching any shows, and my day seems to be infinitely longer, like a million more activities fit in the sake 24 hours.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 5 months ago:
FWIW, I went to school in mid-2000. My sibling even later. They still taught it back then, and at least here, I am pretty sure they still do. (And why would they not, after all…)
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 5 months ago:
Literally noone I know in real life has any problem whatsoever reading analog clocks, no matter the “brain capacity”, neuro-typicality, state of drunkenness,… It is an extremely simple “skill”.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 5 months ago:
Yeah, vibe of the time is a good description
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 5 months ago:
Because it’s not! Glad to help you clear that up.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 5 months ago:
Disagree - it rarely matters to me if it’s 13:24:56 or 13:25:05, but I do find the instant and intuitive gauging of time deltas super useful (as in, how long it’s going to be on to the full hour / two quarter past / … ). Not saying you can’t get that info from a digital clock as well, of course you can; but the physically of analog clocks lends a good bit of intuition, I feel.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 5 months ago:
I feel like I’m going insane reading these comments about how difficult it is to read analog clocks, how it needs too much understanding of maths, how it takes too long,…
Can someone please confirm: you just look, for a fraction of a second, at the clock face and know the time, right?
Learning to read the clock was like… A couple of lessons and some homework in the 2nd grade, and everyone got it.
- Comment on New trailer for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown has a rather bald Borg crew member 5 months ago:
Amazing. She’s a great role model.
- Comment on New trailer for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown has a rather bald Borg crew member 5 months ago:
Ah! Finally! Something where I can look up at the sky and go:
What would Janeway do…?
without people looking at me like I’m a weirdo and that wasn’t what everyone does when faced with difficult questions.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 5 months ago:
What’s a tomato?
- Comment on Chat Control 2.0: what if Signal supports user-made Add-ons, one which encrypts all messages? Could that circumvent Chat Control 2.0? 5 months ago:
It’s not about prohibiting e2ee; it’s about enforcing client-side scanning.
Yes, that also breaks e2ee, but they can still go “nooo! E2ee is still perfectly fine and legal! You know, as ling as we get to read anything anyways”
And realistically, this will probably end up being implemented on an OS-level as well. So even using a self-hosted matrix server would not be immune.
Not to mention that both you and your conversation partner needs to take steps to evade this; one party is not sufficient.
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 5 months ago:
Not OP, but: watched Haruhi a while back in English Dub, because there’s no German one. It was ok. The main POV character’s monotone voice was fitting in a fun way, but almost everyone else still has this fake energy to it (esp Haruhi and Asahina). Really hard to describe.
In general it’s baffling to me how fake English dubs sound, especially because there clearly are a lot of talented English voice actors doing the voices for cartoons etc.
I have the privilege of comparing the English Dubs to the German ones for a lot of shows, and it’s really interesting how, while the German VAs sound distinctly different from the Japanese originals, they sound natural and not overacted, while the English counterparts almost always sound like they were told “make it sound as fake as possible”.