hildegarde
@hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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- Comment on NO MORE 6 days ago:
New bottom surgery just dropped
- Comment on I need an adult 1 week ago:
That’s the close the hood and run away light.
- Comment on I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it? 1 week ago:
Try getting a little bit victorian with it.
Back in the day, washing machines didn’t exist. Mass manufacturing didn’t exist. Clothes were very expensive so people couldn’t just wear a thing once, then put it in a machine to wash it. So they had other solutions that worked.
They would protect their clothes from getting dirty by wearing full coverage undergarments. Linen was quite common. This layer protects your actual clothes from the gross oils and stuff from your body. You have to wash the undergarment but your main clothing is kept clean and only rarely needs washing. Reduces the laundry to the minimal level that could be done by hand.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 1 week ago:
Then tie it to the lowest earners. You can pick a lowet percentile using the same methodology as finding the median.
Adding fixed percentage adjustments to the mean is not a good way of going about it.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 1 week ago:
Eliminating the top 1% of earners is a good policy I support, but I don’t think it makes sense as a way to calculate averages.
Though your proposal might work now, in the fullness of time things will change, and the 1% may not be the right number. I don’t think you can rely on governments to update numbers promptly. There are places in England that have fines in law defined in denominations that no longer exist. You can’t rely on governments keep things up to date.
But your doesn’t address the underlying problems with using the arethmetic mean. It seems like you’re just searching for justification to pay people you don’t like less.
I believe everyone should be able to live comfortably, and well designed incentive systems are effective at shaping behavior. Median is better on both fronts.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 1 week ago:
Median is a better choice as its less affected by outliers.
The mean average is the amount you compute by putting all the money that is earned and put it in a big pot and divide it up evenly amongst everyone.
Median is where you find the single most average person and ask how much they make.
Median gives them an incentive to improve the income of the average American. Mean average gives an incentive to increase national wealth regardless of who’s hands its in, and an incentive to decrease the population. That is not a good incentive.
But also keep in mind congress members are local representatives. They need to be in DC while in session, and in their state or district at other times to be available to their constituents. The job requires maintaining two households, so they should earn enough for that. Unless we provide them college dorm level mandatory housing in the capital. Then median alone is enough.
- Comment on Be prepared 5 weeks ago:
I bought my toyota before he went crazy.
- Comment on AI Job interview warns against using AI yourself 5 weeks ago:
The application process shown is clearly text based. Its not asking for images audio or video. The image and video tools you linked are designed for physical watermarks, not cryptographic ones. Its the same word, but very different in practice.
The text watermarking is embedded into the output’s word choice. It requires large amounts of text of text to be detectable, but it is there in plain text. Word choice is shifted by a biased random number generator based on a secret key. Without the secret key held only by the company, its not possible to tell which part the watermark is.
Most things can be circumvented. There are local models that do not watermark. But most people are lazy, most people go the simple route of copying the output of a corporate AI product. People literally publish articles that end with, “is there anything more I can do to help.”
- Comment on AI Job interview warns against using AI yourself 5 weeks ago:
That tester is old. It uses the technique of testing how predictable the text is, which is very inaccurate, especially on famous works that were in the training data. But recently, the major AI companies started watermarking their own outputs. It is now much easier to prove something is AI generated.
The watermarks are cryptographic in nature, and they rely on a secret key to both watermark and verify. So only the AI company can run the test, but it is accurate with long enough texts.
I’m sure its a cynical ploy to get people to upload future training data directly to the AI company’s servers, but it does mean AI is more detectable now than it was.
- Comment on Fuck the giant corporations 1 month ago:
You are allowed to say fucj on the internet.
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 1 month ago:
Or you want to open a lock without it being obvious that you did it. Picking the lock would make it look like the staff forgot to lock it, short of a forensic teardown of the lock.
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 1 month ago:
Its a masterlock you don’t even need a pick.
- Comment on Not Enough Hate 2 months ago:
He’s taking testosterone just like trans men. He’s been on it so long that his body no longer produces its own testosterone, just like trans men.
I think the term male to male transsexual was coined by Alexander Aveela, a trans man. His excellent youtube video goes into detail about the many similarities in both of their transitions. No, not transphobic. Accurate.
- Comment on Anon overdoes it 2 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on Anon overdoes it 2 months ago:
I can still get erections despite having T levels that are too low to measure with a normal blood test. Skill issue.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month 3 months ago:
Their main search has AI in it. They have a alternate non-ai version which they seem to be pushing in marketing.
They’re shoving AI where no one asked for it like every other tech company. However, it seems some small portion of their staff hasn’t drunk the AI coolaid, so they have a non AI search as a little side project.
- Comment on The Matrix 4 months ago:
Big pharma ruined the metaphor by changing the pill colors.
The blue pill was an antidepressant, the red pill was estrogen.
Also the main villian is a man in a suit who constantly deadnames the protagonist. The matrix is real life.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 4 months ago:
This is a US and Canada problem. This is basically a non-issue in the rest of the world.
There are two standards for headlights, one established by the UN that applies to 99% of countries. Whereas the US and Canada have the other standard that is far worse for glare.
The global standard has strict rules on glare, requiring a sharp cutoff line at the top of the beam. The american regulations do not have this. American regulations do not account for headlight height off the ground, defining alignment purely with angles. An SUV or pickup with its headlights mounted above your eyeline can legslly shine the fullest part of its lights directly into your eyes at all times. In contrast, the international regulations account for height, and require tall vehicles to incline their headlights further downward to avoid dazzling other drivers.
This problem can be solved for new cars instantly by switching to the international standard. The auto industry is international. They sell in markets with the global standard and could switch their headlights immediately after a change in the law. This is an easily solvable problem.
- Comment on How to sexualize males for a female audience? 4 months ago:
To sexualize men for women, you have to understand women.
To men, attraction is largely visual. So to sexualize a woman for a male audience means making her look attractive, and dressed in a revealing outfit. Swapping the genders doesn’t work. A visually attractive man in a revealing outfit is far more likely to appeal to either gay men sexually, or men generally as a power fantasy. To appeal to women you need a fundimentially different strategy altogether.
Consider erotic literature. Its a genre that is disproportionately popular with women. Its basically anti-porn, no visuals all story. Male characters in these stories are almost always sexualized by women for women. The attraction mostly from their choices and actions than appearance. You need a completely different approach.
Go read some smut. Talk to straight women about who and what they find attractive. You have to learn a lot about women to appeal to them. What they are looking for, and how they are looking for it is entirely different from men.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
If that’s how you feel about your penis, you should consider taking hormones about it.
- Comment on klown show 6 x-treme 5 months ago:
That’s just KDE. But why am I imagining a mirror dimension universe where its called CDE and all the software names are normal words with the k’s replaced with c’s.
- Comment on It's been a tough month 5 months ago:
You sound like someone with little to no experience with breasts. Breasts are squishy. Their shape is greatly effected by clothing. That is exactly how it works.
- Comment on Why are prop, non functioning guns way more expensive than airsoft guns? 5 months ago:
Props are low volume specialty products for professionals. Airsoft guns are high volume toys for the mass market.
A theater or film production company can afford expensive quality props, because they are an organization with an orginizarion sized budget. Airsoft guns have to be cost cut and mass produced to a low price point because they sell to normal people with human scale budgets.
Also the brown furniture on the NCR service rifle is wood. Be authentic, learn carpentry.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 6 months ago:
Crude MS-Paint drawings are the best placeholder art. Scribbles can be made as fast, if not faster than AI. It shows the information it needs to show, but most importantly its incredibly obviously unfinished art that needs to be redone before release.
AI art looks pretty good at a distance without close inspection. You have to look closely and spend time to tell AI from art. Late in production when rushing for the deadline is not a point when you have the time to look closely at the assets, so AI placeholders will get missed.
Placeholders is a bad use case for AI.
- Comment on it really do be like that 6 months ago:
This girl gets it
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 8 months ago:
The sun is white, but the atmosphere reflects and scatters blue, allowing red and yellow to pass through. You see this effect in mornings and evenings when the sun’s light passes a much further distance in the atmosphere due to its low inclination. Your logic is sound, the clouds do appear orange at that time.
The only time you can safely look at the sun enough to determine its color normally is a sunset when it is tinted orange. I can see how he might have come to this conclusion but… wow…
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 9 months ago:
I see no issues here. These AI tools came out during the game’s development. Its not unreasonable to try using new tools upon release. And its reasonable to be unaware of the harms of these new tools before the harms are widely reported on.
If things were as described, this seems fine. They now have a clear policy against AI. People, even in groups can be mistaken and learn and change their was, which is what appears to have happened here. I can’t fault anyone for making the occasional misstep.
So long as they stick to their commitment to not use AI.
Not only is AI bad it is also bad —
- Comment on Are there supposed to be other options? 9 months ago:
If you ever have to use the oxygen masks and it smells like burning don’t worry that’s normal.
The passenger masks use a chemical oxygen generator. Pulling on the mask starts the reaction. Deploying the masks would require the plane to be taken out of service to replace the generators and inspect the system.
Sadly, no airline would ever let a pilot be that fun.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 9 months ago:
You can only feel what it feels like to be you, and since you’ve only ever been yourself you have no point of comparison.
I don’t think gender feels like anything. I am trans, I have been both a man and a woman and in my experience they don’t feel different. In this moment I feel like myself, just as I did a decade ago.
The things that have changed is that I no longer suffer from a crippling depression with an unclear cause. I have a range of emotions, and can feel emotions correctly. I consider my body to be part of myself.
All the above are now clearly signs of gender dysphoria, but at the time were hard to identify. The depression always has a more plausible explanation. The other two, I barely noticed I had because I experienced that my entire life.
It took me a very long time to discover that I am trans. It took a lot of self reflection to figure it out. Feelings were useless. I did think I would be happier as a woman, but that always seemed like a logical deduction than a feeling.
- Comment on Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’ 10 months ago:
I’ve gone back to physical cookbooks from the last century. SEO slop has made the the internet useless for recipes for years, and now this.