leisesprecher
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- Comment on nature be freaky like that 16 hours ago:
Follow up question: do you need to feed one blended billionaire to one unblended billionaire, or would it be sufficient to feed just a certain percentage?
- Comment on Ughh 5 days ago:
Maybe I’m too autistic to read her, but that woman is not mourning looking.
- Comment on GRINDSET MINDSET 2 weeks ago:
There’s a really annoying subgroup of developers who are convinced that typing itself magically produces good code and the only bottleneck in their productivity is how fast they can smash keys.
These are the ones who are hellbent on not using anything graphical, a mouse or any tool they deem too advanced.
It’s super annoying, especially since they often spend more time “optimizing” their setup than actually working, and even more time talking about how efficient they are.
- Comment on GRINDSET MINDSET 2 weeks ago:
You didn’t get the joke, did you?
- Comment on IEEE 754 2 weeks ago:
More than a surface level understanding is not necessary. The level of detail in the meme is sufficient for 99,9% of jobs.
No, that’s not all just accounting, it’s pretty much everyone who isn’t working on very low level libraries.
What in turn is important for all sorts of things is knowing how irrelevant most things are for most cases. Bit level is not important, if you’re operating 20 layers above it, just as business logic details are not important if you’re optimizing a general math library.
- Comment on DNA 4 weeks ago:
I recently learned that mastodon (the animal) literally means breast tooth, because some thought their teeth (or tusks?) looked, well, breasty?
- Comment on My shit doesn't even stink- honest 1 month ago:
Wait, so some people just have a dangling piece of colon attached to nothing but their anus?
- Comment on 🗣 📢 W A T E R 1 month ago:
Honestly, it could be kind of cool.
If you’re doing it right, the juxtaposition of “profound” graphical appearance and nonsensical/banal text content can be funny.
- Comment on Pass the football 1 month ago:
My thoughts exactly.
- Comment on I can't imagine being paid to act like I enjoy working in the office 1 month ago:
I think this video gets flak, because (in your scenario) not you and your coworker made a video about having fun, but your boss made you come to the otherwise empty office to act like you’re having fun and use that as advertisement.
- Comment on Just the essentials 1 month ago:
It’s wild to me, that there seem to be so many payment schemes.
In Germany you get paid monthly, either always on the first or always 15th, but that’s pretty much all variation we have. Even unemployment benefits and parental leave support is monthly.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 1 month ago:
Especially if you’d add up all the inefficiencies already introduced in the name of efficiency. All those grant proposals, superfluous fluff articles to bump impact factors, etc. are all required overhead to game a system designed to seem efficient.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 1 month ago:
I heard the explanation “conservatives stop thinking if they like the current result”.
If immigrants committed any crime, the obvious solution is to deport all of them. Less immigrants, less crime, sounds great, no further research needed.
But if it’s about something like social security, they go to the ninth layer of indirection to “prove” that it’s bad, because now they found a study that slightly agrees with one of their talking points (p ≈ room temperature).
- Comment on Bombs Awat 1 month ago:
Problem is, you almost never know if that’s actually true or complete bullshit.
It seems plausible, but killing virgins for rain also seemed plausible back then in the 70s.
- Comment on Apple Explains Why 256GB Storage Is Better 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t call it perfectly fine. It’s a bad decision made for the wrong reasons, but it’s also not a disaster.
It’s like coke in a mug. Weird, not ideal, but serviceable.
- Comment on Apple Explains Why 256GB Storage Is Better 2 months ago:
Most people don’t shut down their Macs that often, the fingerprint sensor on the keyboard acts as a power button 99% of the time.
Stupid decision, but almost inconsequential in real life.
- Comment on Guerrilla Women 2 months ago:
No, but it causes alpha particles to be emitted.
- Comment on Oopsies 2 months ago:
Germany is currently considering a third way: they ask you.
Everyone in Germany has health insurance, so the idea is that the health insurance simply asks you directly to decide. Most people are in favor of organ donation, but never actually get an organ donor card or talk to their relatives. Asking them to decide won’t get anywhere near the donor rates of an opt-out scheme, but it could drastically increase them.
- Comment on ‘Star Wars’: Simon Kinberg to Write, Produce New Trilogy for Lucasfilm 2 months ago:
No, it’s a desert planet that’s legally distinct from tatooine, but still very obviously inspired by it.
Just like starkiller base was definitely not a death star and this weird mining site in 8 was definitely not inspired by hoth, it’s salt and not snow afterall!!
- Comment on A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed 2 months ago:
It’s interesting in the sense that something went catastrophically wrong here.
This isn’t just a small indie dev wasting a bit of money, it’s hundreds of millions set on fire by an established company in this industry.
The fact that “no one heard of it” is exactly the point. What went wrong here?
- Comment on 5 days with new phone number - 84 spam calls 2 months ago:
It only started this year for me (had this number for 15 years or so), and it’s mostly numbers from the UK and India for some reason (I’m in Germany).
- Comment on Absolute Units 2 months ago:
Why is that guy so annoyed, though?
A person being passionate about something is a good thing!
- Comment on Joy & Curiosity 3 months ago:
Even ascribing consciousness into others or ourselves is actually pretty stupid if you think about it.
Stemming from religion there’s this idea that human “souls” are somehow special and exist on a plane outside reality. But that’s not the case.
We are just semi-rigid blobs of mostly water that grew into weird shapes.
- Comment on Economists be like 3 months ago:
As an academic discussion, sure.
But why exactly are these guys in charge of almost everything to some degree? Economics is essentially string theory for people who are not smart enough for physics - theoretically maybe sound, but utterly useless for reality.
- Comment on Goos-Hänchen effect 3 months ago:
Hähnchen means little rooster, btw.
So this is an article about Hähnchen energy.
- Comment on Indie movies are having a surprising comeback in a bleak time for Hollywood 3 months ago:
And don’t forget that they’re not even good. Like, the CGI looks bad, the writing is bad even for action movies, the acting is weird.
It’s a simulacrum of entertainment. Why would I pay 20€ for that?
And on that note, why 20€ for a movie that shows very clearly that hardly any money went into actually making a good movie?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Wouldn’t that break the necks of everyone over 50?
- Comment on c o e x i s t 3 months ago:
And let’s be honest: the Mongolians were probably not worse than any other invader. War, destruction, looting and raping is kind of par for the course for most civilizations in history.
- Comment on ‘Transformers One’: Sleeper Box Office Hit in the Making or Franchise in Decline? | Analysis 3 months ago:
I think the implication is that a movie without large marketing budget or much attention of media became “silently” successful.
- Comment on Covert Racism in AI: How Language Models Are Reinforcing Outdated Stereotypes 3 months ago:
The real problem are implicit biases. Like the kind of discrimination that a reasonable user of a system can’t even see. How are you supposed to know, that applicants from “bad” neighborhoods are rejected at a higher rate, if the system is presented to you as objective? And since AI models don’t really explain how they got to a solution, you can’t even audit them.