kadup
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- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 4 days ago:
Like there is a lot of stupidity on reddit but usually someone comes in with actual knowledge
Be careful with that, actually. Reddit mastered repeating an explanation or analogy they read on another thread or saw on YouTube, but being quite eloquent at explaining it. Problem is, if they misunderstood it to begin with, they’ll just as confidently repeat a broken version.
I didn’t notice it at first… then I started seeing explanations for things on my field and cringed at how wrong they were, and then I started noticing the pattern and the very repeated analogies on other areas too.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You know, I think there might be dumb questions after all
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 1 week ago:
a justifiable explanation for why the licensing exists in the first place.
“because people doing it wrong would make it look bad” is a terrible reason. I’m fairly certain I can buy an OLED TV and mess with the settings and make the picture look horrendous - time to create a restrictive license on who gets to buy TVs?
- Comment on Nintendo’s Switch Mario Galaxy collection will retail for $70 1 week ago:
I got a Wii for $20 and it runs Mario Galaxy from the SD card for free
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I found an old ipod 6th gen at a thrift store. Threw linux on it, and its such an easy device to work with.
They are amazing indeed, I just avoid them because everything from finding an used one to parts is 10x the price in my country, so I’d end up settling for a beat up unit with a bad battery and no real funds to upgrade it. But where this is not the case, they feel great in the hand and just work.
What kind of mp3 player did you get?
The first one I bought was an Innioasis Y1 - an iPod Classic clone. Super thin, USB-C, a simple OS that can be changed for Rockbox if you so desire, and a functional click wheel. Sounded good, synced just fine with the computer, and was nice and compact. But the screen is very very fragile, changing the SD card requires opening the unit and it never closes the same again, and behind the scenes it’s just a simple Mediatek Android phone without a modem. Tip for anybody buying this one: there’s a very hard to remove screen protector that makes the screen look very grainy… do NOT remove it even if you’re tempted to, the plastic behind the protector is the softest plastic I’ve ever seen and it will scratch if you look at it wrong.
I then tried the Snowsky Echo Mini, which has no click wheel so navigation is harder, but uses an even simpler and directly to the point OS, easy to swap microSD, super nice retro design, a leather case, and two very high quality DACs with both regular and balanced output. Sounds really good, on both headphones and speakers, so I kept this one and it’s my current daily driver.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Not an iPod (because you need to mod in a new battery, new connector, patch the firmware, play the lottery with local market places, etc)
But I’m back to a dedicated MP3 player with a headphone jack, SD card slot, FLAC files, and it beats streaming every single time.
I tested two modern (and cheap) models, picked my favorite, and found my favorite combo to acquire and sync music. After these initial days of getting everything setup… The experience is frictionless. Music sounds great, battery lasts forever.
- Comment on Kinesi Protein 1 week ago:
Then a little friendly chaperone protein would come and beat the living shit out of it until it folded itself again and stopped medidating, back to work :)
- Comment on Is this month's Humble worth it if I'm not into Persona? 4 weeks ago:
In my opinion, nope, not worth it
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 4 weeks ago:
So what? You can still sell it to AI companies without assigning an user to each message. They don’t care about who wrote it when stealing the content.
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 4 weeks ago:
Do we want it to grow to the size of traditional social media?
I want people here, not US politicians, the Pringles social media account and three bots.
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 4 weeks ago:
What absolute scares me is how even if you download Windows Enterprise IoT, which already comes extremely clean out of the box, and then run your favorite debloating script (removing even more crap)… the system still shows a noticeable delay when opening the right click menu, or the start menu, or a new Explorer window. So the most basic possible tasks, that you do constantly, for some reason are slow on a modern multi-core processor and a clean build of the OS.
How the hell did they manage to downgrade… the start menu? the right click menu? How?
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 4 weeks ago:
Imagine an alligator. Quite good at catching prey with their current anatomy.
An alligator that shoots laser beams for tracking and bullets would be even better. There’s however no path from their current anatomy to this state, regardless of the randomness and timescale for mutations. In fact, in order to achieve this higher state several non advantageous intermediates would be necessary and therefore never selected for.
So no, evolution can’t achieve global maxima, it can however optimize the shit out of what it’s given to work with.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 4 weeks ago:
Apple also considered printers for a while and decided this mess is untouchable
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 5 weeks ago:
whether farts are denser than air
They are.
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 5 weeks ago:
Conservation of mass would prevent any outcome other than the scale showing you getting lighter.
No household scale would be precise enough for this experiment though.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 5 weeks ago:
Nope, not going to argue against obviously dumb points from executives. Do it. Raise your prices yearly. Fuck it, you think prices need to incrsse? Increase them.
It takes me five clicks to close Steam, open Firefox, open my favorite piracy site and download your game. Raise the fucking price, test how much I value my money versus five clicks.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 month ago:
Seashells require face to face interaction, they weigh a lot and they are not convenient to obtain. Nor are they fungible or even anonymous
That’s all true, which is why seashells are terrible. But even being terrible, they beat the imaginary crypto bro token. That’s how bad the crypto bro token is.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 month ago:
so you agree that Monero has value then
Nope, I’d rather use seashells than something like Monero. Crypto is got negative value, the time wasted hearing people like you preach about it is never going to be returned to my life.
especially in countries like the US?
Seashells would be an upgrade in a country like the US, but failures of your payment systems do not change anything for the inherent value of random online tokens.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 month ago:
Pix sounds trivially easy to censor, freeze, or control from the government’s perspective
If the Brazilian government decided to go against the constitution to censor my online purchases like that, buying hentai games would be the least of my concerns. And then it wouldn’t matter if I’m using your fake crypto bro tokens or not.
And we don’t have anything like it in the US
Of course not. You live in a weird techno feudalism where the government can’t do anything because that’s socialism and the only solutions you trust are some random tech bro dependent crap like CashApp.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 month ago:
Monero, a decentralized censorship proof cryptocurrency, has no real utility with regard to solving MasterCard’s censorship and only depends on a pyramid of investors to function at all?
Monero - the digital token with no real world value, yes. You don’t need crypto to fix this issue. Brazilians can use Pix and would not depend on MasterCard and Visa, and this includes everything from physical purchases to digital storefronts to paying in installments and more. All attached to currency that actually means something and zero crypto bros trying to pump the value up or down on their delusional subreddits.
- Comment on It would get old fast 1 month ago:
I also really respect and like the finale, which is rare for a cartoon
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 month ago:
Cryptocurrency is a pyramid scheme and has no real utility.
- Comment on Just a little... why not? 1 month ago:
Gemini will also attempt to provide you with a help line, though it’s very easy to talk your way through that. Lumo, Proton’s LLM, will straight up halt any conversation even remotely adjacent to topics like that.
- Comment on Just a little... why not? 1 month ago:
That’s what people (and many articles about LLMs “learning how to bribe others” and similar) fail to understand about LLMs:
They do not understand their internal state. ChatGPT does not know it’s got a creator, an administrator, a relationship to OpenAI, an user, a system prompt. It only replies with the most likely answer based on the training set.
When it says “I’m sorry, my programming prevents me from replying that” you feel like it calculated an answer, then put it through some sort of built in filtering, then decided not to reply. That’s not the case. The training is carefully manipulated to make “I’m sorry, I can’t answer that” the perceived most likely answer to that query. As far as ChatGPT is concerned, “I can’t reply that” is the same as “cheese is made out of milk”, both are just words likely to be stringed together given the context.
So getting to your question: sure, you can make ChatGPT reply with the training’s set vision of “what’s the most likely order of words and tone a LLM would use if it roleplayed the user as some sort of owner” but that changes fundamentally nothing about the capabilities and limitations, except it will likely be even more sycophantic.
- Comment on oof 2 months ago:
Masters in bioinformatics, but I’d be proud to be on art or history, your comments only reflects the limitations of your own weak mind.
- Comment on oof 2 months ago:
What’s with the recent influx of posts against higher education, or more in general, anti-education posts?
- Comment on Everything is a problem 2 months ago:
Join us over at /c/singlepurpose ;)
- Comment on Any nominations? 2 months ago:
Plant morphologists: Nooo you can’t just call a drupe a schizocarp! That’s a totally different fruit type! Plant phylogeneticists: Sigh… yeah, I guess technically this tree is just a highly derived type of cabbage.
- Comment on Thoughts?? 2 months ago:
Excel I agree with.
But sometimes there is value in teaching the old tools/frameworks for doing something. For instance, in bioinformatics, I prefer students that can explain what the FASTA format is versus just boinking the pretty GUI button on the proprietary format used by their sequencer.
- Comment on Are we still doing moths? Here is a happy one to start your day. 2 months ago:
You’d be surprised at how quickly you can become partially incapacitated due to dehydration in certain scenarios.
Go out to a nice summer break in a sunny Brazilian beach, and if you’re not careful with purposely drinking water, even when you don’t feel like you need it, you might soon find yourself being carried by an emergency worker or friend.