Photuris
@Photuris@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Radio transmissions 5 days ago:
I unironically love Latinisation (and Greekification).
“Crabification” would have worked just fine to express this idea, but “carcinisation” sounds so scientific and erudite.
People dog on English, but I think it’s really cool how we have other ancient source languages to pull from to coin “smart” words when needed. And when you dig into the etymology of the “fancy” word, it adds texture, layers, history, and extra context to the whole thing.
Ok, that was a tangent. Carry on.
- Comment on Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report 1 week ago:
Automation is going to chew up jobs faster than new ones are created, too.
Reduce the value of white collar labor, and white collar workers will flood to the blue collar trades, drastically reducing pay there as well.
Not a suitable environment for growing large families.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 week ago:
But the general public (myself included) doesn’t really understand how our own reasoning happens.
Does anyone, really? i.e., am I merely a meat computer that takes in massive amounts of input over a lifetime, builds internal models of the world, tests said models through trial-and-error, and outputs novel combinations of data when said combinations are useful for me in a given context in said world?
Is what I do when I “reason” really all that different from what an LLM does, fundamentally? Do I do more than language prediction when I “think”? And if so, what is it?
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 week ago:
Jesus Christ software’s about to get far, far worse innit?
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 3 weeks ago:
Land of the Free.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 3 weeks ago:
I don’t regret deleting mine. I don’t need any of that shit, fuck ’em.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 5 weeks ago:
Lol here in the US there are no such protections. You have to fend for yourself.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 5 weeks ago:
I feel for this guy.
But I’ve also learned a valuable lesson in my travels: never, ever quit an existing job until after you’ve started your new job.
Not just accepted the offer, but attended your orientation day and got your new badge in hand. Then give your resignation.
Yes, I’d love to give my coworkers more of my time for offboarding and project hand-off, but in this world you have to look after yourself first. It sucks, but it’s how it is.
Never give a two-week notice. When you do that, your current employer may give you a new offer, but if you accept it, your tenure will not be the same, since you’re now seen as a flight risk, and they’ll look for a way to dispense with you and replace you within a year, or two, max.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 5 weeks ago:
It’s more than that. They want training data for their LLMs. With enough training data, they can train these models to do office knowledge work themselves, removing the need to employ cubicle drones at all.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 5 weeks ago:
Ok that’s cool
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 5 weeks ago:
I have high hopes
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 5 weeks ago:
If only we can somehow figure out how to bring back something like the web of the ’90s
- Comment on David Hyde Pierce declares he would appear in a second Frasier reboot 1 month ago:
I was sorely disappointed to learn that Grammer is a member of the MAGA cult.
- Comment on Trump orders Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS 1 month ago:
Judges can make rulings “blocking” Trump’s actions. But he ignores those rulings and keeps on going.
At some point, push will come to shove; meaning, these judicial rulings will have to be enforced, somehow.
There’s not really a good vehicle for enforcing the law on rogue presidents. Unless someone is willing to physically arrest and detain him, possibly muscling past secret service in order to (attempt to) do so.
If someone will be willing to enforce the law, and can successfully do so, the Constitution may be saved.
If not, we de facto have a king, regardless of de jure court rulings.
- Comment on Streaming Is Now Just As Crowded With Ads As Old School TV 1 month ago:
I’m (barely) old enough to remember when cable television was touted and sold as “ad free.”
I’m also old enough to remember when satellite radio was touted and sold as “as free.”
Never believe them. Enshittification is inevitable, and planned.
- Comment on Anon owns a fan 1 month ago:
Anon has never heard of lamps, either.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 1 month ago:
Cool, I’m done with Perplexity.
- Comment on succession 1 month ago:
Basically, how can we, as humans, use our propensity for destroying entire species, but do it on purpose so we can eliminate ALL TICKS FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH‽
- Comment on Abuse 2025 is a modern port of the original game from 1995/1996, updated to run on modern systems and with new features like high-resolution graphics, controller support, and more. 1 month ago:
Buried memory unlocked
- Comment on Birth control: US scientists develop world’s 1st male contraceptive pill 2 months ago:
Cool, I just won’t touch my wife ever again, thanks for the advice.
- Comment on Birth control: US scientists develop world’s 1st male contraceptive pill 2 months ago:
Vasalgel is a better, proven, effective, safe, and easily reversible option.
Why hasn’t it been approved yet?
- Comment on Cutting Off NPR and PBS 2 months ago:
My representatives and senators are all republican ghouls.
- Comment on How to satisfy your merry Curieosity.... 2 months ago:
This is how life should be.
- Comment on Divided and conquered 2 months ago:
Some are dumb, some are evil. Some are both, but none are neither.
- Comment on Common Ground 3 months ago:
That’s how we got the Nazis to stop the first time around: we sat down with them over a cup of tea and expressed our unity with them.
Oh no, wait, that’s not how we defeated Fascism, at all.
- Comment on Common Ground 3 months ago:
We didn’t defeat the Nazis the first time with amnesty, conversation, and kindness.
We defeated them by stabbing them, shooting them, and fire bombing their cities.
We will have to do it again.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Y’all still using paper money and coins?
I haven’t used physical bills in twenty years.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I always park strategically - not closest to the front door, but right next to a cart corral if possible.
This is triply important when you’re lugging kids around.