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- Comment on 9 hours ago:
Honestly, I find it somewhat refreshing that a company offers this choice. It seems like a more honest, transparent way of doing business.
It’s terrible from a marketing perspective though (this post is a good example of why)
- Comment on 9 hours ago:
The ads chosen from tracking generate more revenue, unfortunately
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 3 days ago:
Ever had a meal with a group of US military guys? They’re done in like 3 minutes. It’s wild
- Comment on What is the best and worst USA state to live in? And why? 6 days ago:
If you say anything even slightly anti-America on Lemmy, it will get upvotes. Ironically, upvotes are practically worthless, but some people seem to enjoy the validation from strangers on social media.
- Comment on What is the best and worst USA state to live in? And why? 6 days ago:
I broke down in West Virginia once, when passing through for work. It was a very unusual experience. Some people were very helpful and nice, a few were creepy, and the scariest person was both.
Also, we had to wait 12 hours for a tow truck to arrive, which then towed us for several hours to the nearest repair shop.
This was like 20 years ago, so I guess I’ll never forget it.
I can confirm it was very beautiful though. The fresh snowfall on the mountains looked amazing.
The remote parts of Pennsylvania are also very beautiful.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
That sounds like a nightmare. I’m so glad that kind of garbage doesn’t show up in my YouTube feed. I don’t think I ever would have been able to break my AI hate, being exposed to that bullshit. That sounds like something from Idiocracy.
What a terrible waste of compute. I can understand how that could make people see AI as just a vehicle to waste resources while making everyone dumber.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
I think most of them are 15 year old kids whos experience with AI is what they see on TikTock
Honestly, I really didn’t get that vibe from any of them… I have no idea what the kids are like these days though, and I’ve never used TikTok, so I guess I can’t say for sure.
I got banned from a sub for being a shill because the mods did not believe me when I told them we use AI to transcribe our morning meetings, make tasks on our kanban board, review code, run tests, and manager our build pipelines
Wow. That’s… really far behind. Anyone who is familiar with what those words mean, really should know that those are pretty basic features by now.
Man, their minds might be blown if they were to see Hermes’ Kanban feature in action. It’s basically AI running its own Kanban board with a team of agents. You throw a task into the “Triage” lane and a “decomposer” agent breaks it down into smaller Kanban tasks (including research/exploration if your triage prompt is vague), which automatically get picked up by whichever model the decomposer chose as the best fit for each task.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
Correct. I suppose I could have linked to that context or something. Thanks
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
Heh, I’ve been abusing em dashes for years – even before LLMs.
But yeah you’re right. The “luddites” (not meant in the derogatory way) exist among many demographics. I’ve actually noticed an interesting dichotomy with many very skilled engineers who I greatly respect: Some have embraced AI and leveraged it to build some VERY cool things, while others still think AI is incapable of anything because they haven’t figured out how to get decent results with it yet.
One of them even handed a somewhat complex task to Claude Haiku (the model that generates the title of the conversation based on the first prompt), then determined that AI is just trash 🤦🏻♂️. Claude Sonnet was able to get it done though.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
Beautifully written tbh
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
Many Lemmy users’ (understandable) hatred of AI seems to have stunted their abilities to keep up with AI advancements. Some of them even sound like they’re at least a year behind.
This is probably fine for most of them (sometimes I envy that, tbh), but some of them might be setting themselves to be blindsided.
BTW, for people who absolutely hate the idea of learning AI, but might have to: I get it. I did too. Maybe I can offer a weird perspective after being forced to cross over to the “dark side”…
weird perspective
This might not apply to most people, so I tucked it away here to take less space… Do you find it really satisfying to “dial in” something? Anything. Maybe dialing in your home espresso shots, calibrating a 3D printer you built or modded, setting up a guitar to get the action and intonation right, getting an old motorcycle’s carburetors in sync, iteratively tweaking a recipe to perfection – whatever might scratch that itch for you. If you’re way into that kind of thing (and maybe pretty tech-oriented), you might actually enjoy build AI agent “skills” (basically instruction files for specific tasks). On the first run of a skill, it might get some things wrong. But as you run it through each round of evaluations and improvements, it gets better and better. LLMs’ results are probabilistic, not deterministic. So to build something on AI that actually works well, it needs to be “dialed in”. It scratches that kind of itch, for me.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
Formatting with AI is an antipattern. Formatters use far less energy and zero tokens.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
I really appreciate comments like these
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This is especially creepy right after watching a video about a cult that behaves similarly if you upset them.
(The cult is called AllatRa, btw. Very interesting rabbit hole)
- Comment on Don’t you lie to me 5 weeks ago:
I’d try to return it to the owner, which will allow me to forget the whole situation eventually.
If I kept it, I would never forget that I did that. For some reason, things like that stick around in my brain for decades.
I’ve lived my entire life so far without that person’s money, so I’ll continue to be fine without it.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s also possible to reduce perceived noise with some blade spacing tricks. I remember reading about how Apple designed the MacBook fan blades to seem really quiet under normal load. It was pretty interesting to read. I’m too lazy to find a link, but it should be easy to find with a quick search, if interested.
- Comment on The Head 1 month ago:
There are a LOT of different kinds of ammunition out there. I suppose if they get to choose what kind, they could opt for subsonic ammo (the kind that people usually use with suppressors). Otherwise, if it’s randomly selected or something, then there’s a pretty good chance that it’ll break the sound barrier.
- Comment on O hi 1 month ago:
- Comment on ngl it gets you pretty buzzed 2 months ago:
And not the slightest hint of PPE in the image. Such a different time. I don’t even spray water-based paints without a mask
- Comment on brand new sentence 2 months ago:
Ahh I see. It’s like gender reaffirming surgery for a male to become… still male, but “more so”.
Thanks for clearing that up. Sometimes I feel like a boomer trying to keep up, lol
- Comment on brand new sentence 2 months ago:
Is this a sentence that I might need to understand IRL, or is it just social media stuff?
(I don’t know if this question will be offensive, so apologies in advance if so.)
- Comment on Growth 2 months ago:
This is off-topic, but… For some reason, that reminded me of a funny exchange I had with someone who was buying a lottery ticket, years ago…
Me: “What are the chances that you’ll win?”
Him, with a heavy southern accent: “50/50. You either win or you don’t.”
- Comment on Correct 3 months ago:
For some reason, I think the funniest part of this is the two downvotes
- Comment on Reckless Ben's Newest Work 3 months ago:
I searched “bricks minifigs” (to cover both “Brick & Minifigs” and “Bricks and Minifigs”) to see if anyone on Lemmy was talking about this. I got no results from that, but I found this post by searching “Reckless Ben”.
Just in case anyone is interested in more, here’s Bricks & Minifigs’ blog post about the matter, and Reckless Ben’s reaction to the Bricks & Minifigs blog post.
The whole thing is kinda mind-blowing (even the fact that a Star Wars Lego collection could be worth $200k). It gets much worse in part 2, which is currently paywalled, but I think it’ll get published for free after some time.
Anyway, hopefully this makes the post more searchable :)
- Comment on Reckless Ben's Newest Work 3 months ago:
It gets wayyyy worse in part two.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 3 months ago:
Ah that sucks. Honestly, with their sales volume, it would have been worth it to raise my prices on the other platforms to comply with Amazon… Which sucks.
Good to know though. I’ve been somewhat considering getting back into it if/when AI kills my current career.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 3 months ago:
Having different prices for different marketplaces? No, I think that was fine back then (almost ~10 years ago), but not sure about now. And if it wasn’t I guess I just didn’t get caught 🙂. My prices were highest on Amazon, lower on eBay, and lowest on my site. Amazon had the highest sales volume by far though.
You couldn’t directly advertise your website to Amazon customers though, if that’s what you mean. Some sellers had other ways… I think I remember some sellers including a small card in their packages that would say something like “Register your purchase at https://… to extend your return period” (or activate a warranty, receive a coupon code for another purchase, etc.). Or maybe it would ask them to send an email instead of going to a URL (Amazon sellers can’t see their customers’ email addresses). Something like that.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 3 months ago:
When I was an Amazon seller, I loved when people did this, and my website prices were always lower. Amazon takes such a large chunk from each sale.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I’m kinda happy that this is possible in Linux now. I remember when even the “easy” distros were still not user friendly enough for mass adoption
- Comment on "Angel" 3 months ago:
We have to be a bit more careful in the US
