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@kadup@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this month's Humble worth it if I'm not into Persona?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In my opinion, nope, not worth it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet kind of sucks right now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cryptocurrency is a pyramid scheme and has no real utility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little... why not?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Join us over at /c/singlepurpose ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any nominations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty woman stepping on you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I see we have a cultured scholar among us

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Financially rewarding and you will always have a job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is not my point at all.

  If my brother, at a very young age, had made the reasonable decision of pursuing higher education as a path in life, and due to a wide variety of circumstances is in financial trouble and I could help…

  Guess what, I’m helping. I do not give a fuck if there’s a difference, my guy. And I also know my brother would stop in the middle of a career defining work meeting and come rescue me if I was in trouble.

  And I wouldn’t trade that kind of relationship for your world view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Financially rewarding and you will always have a job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If that’s how you see our familiar relations sure, you’re your own individual. But boy wouldn’t I want to be your family member.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitch shape attack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a fantastic question… which is exactly what I’m pursuing in my master’s degree right now :). The goal will be to have a full metabolic map showing all the involved genes and how they interact, when they’re triggered (and by which signaling pathways) and how it all comes together for placental development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitch shape attack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically, yes. Viruses came up with the syncitins to fuse with host cells, then when they infected us and integrated their genome we had the code for making these proteins… and turns out “invading tissue” was a really useful tool for the embryo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitch shape attack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Happily! Basically, the true placenta we mammals (Eutheria) have is what allows such a long gestation period. Unlike our closely related marsupials, that quickly deplete their resources and must give birth, our placenta allows for a continuous exchange of nutrients. This involves a quite complicated process of embryonic tissue invading the uterine wall, so you can imagine the kind of immunological regulation that must be taking place for that to work.

  So you’d assume we have several genes highly specific to our placenta that appear when we Eutherians first appeared… right? No! Turns out the vast majority already existed in jawed vertebrates (our common ancestor with sharks), then quite a lot show up in bony fish (our common ancestor with most things you call fish), and just one shows up in Tetrapoda (our common ancestor with amphibians).

  So most of the framework for developing an organ such as the placenta already existed for millions of years, so what exactly was missing before it can finally show up in evolutionary history? The two genes that are absolutely required for this whole crazy “let’s invade the mother’s uterine wall tissue but NOT trigger her immune system” part: CSF2 and a group of closely related genes called syncitins.

  Syncitins are the star here, because they’re actually a gene that came from ancient retroviruses. In the virus, they were expressed in the envelope and controlled the fusion between the viral particle and the host cell. These viruses got integrated into our genome, and this “fusion with the host cell” mechanism became extremely useful and crucial for the placenta, basically allowing it to exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It works in the same way that dumping your GameCube games and running them on Dolphin works… It’s quick and easy, but it’s against the ToS and requires breaking DRM.

  Steam’s DRM is weak, and in some interviews some Valve developers even gave hints that this is on purpose. Many Steam games will simply run without Steam if you just double click the .exe in the install folder, and the vast majority that only rely on Steam’s DRM can be opened by running a free “Steam Emulator” software that pretends to be an active Steam account with a correct license.