bryndos

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where the fuck am I?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That's a llama dude

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't people harassing marketers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I'd assume they do it at least as a ratio, not an absolute.
  They can't be that stupid . . . can they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't people harassing marketers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck comms/marketing. They harrass me and misrepresent my work all the time, they swap out carefully selected words and distort meaning for spurious reasons. They bend over backwards for ignorant journo scum and feed their misinformation just trying to "spin" it.
  They sound like ai, i wish they were ai. I wish all fucking comms cretins would quit and get a real job, like a fucking cleaner or binman or something actually helpful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good way to relate to your school teacher⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think they said people should not be silly. I think they just observed that sometimes people do silly things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what if Jeffrey Epsteins mansion would've blown up?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even close.

  You can kill all ceo in all the world, but some fucking human will figure out that burning fossilised carcasses is easier than real work.
  And at least 95% of humans are lazy as fuck.

  What is fundamentally driving climate change is a lack of birth control, or a lack of effective lions, tigers, wolves etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A car advertisement that you have to think about⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My other car is a vulva.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2³² will get interesting...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How many rounds until the first switch operator is on the tracks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what in the actual fuck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hornbills do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am the night riderrrrrr!!!!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t mean to spark a sociology thesis

  Be careful what you say where on lemmy then. This type of outcome is pretty much par for the course for a shitpost.
  Stick to the politics thread if you want a lighthearted shitty experience.

  ps- whats a roku? and if you're so into technology and all why are you not just using nixos? It can do anything else that any other thing can do with just one awesome config file???
  /j

  pps - If you can rile up tankies, linux users and get a sociology thesis out of someone all in one shitpost, then you'll win a lemming-turd-cake - one of the highest honours in all shitpostdom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmn, a "journalist" . . . that's a much worse slur, the way I use English.

  I'd far rather have a pint with a chav than any fucking journo.

  I agree with previous comment. Chav is a subculture that partially intersects with most other classes, except probably no overlap with fully inbred level pure-toffs. I'd say well over half of working class would not be classed as chav.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I learn to estimate the likelihood of real-world events?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, maths and statistics courses in school, college, university would be the tried and tested route for learning the analytical and practical tools and techniques.

  Forecasting rare events with any precision is almost a contradiction in terms though.
  When you're down to the 1/10000 type events you need such a large dataset/sample, that there are almost always unobservable sub-populations, or unobservable historical / environmental factors that your data is likely to be missing; something important that could materially change the forecast if you were to have had complete, unbiassed data on it for you whole sample.

  Practical forecasting though , i think, should be tied into the decision making, and trying to reduce the risk of choosing the course of action to take. The set of possible / feasible actions shapes the forecasting approach - you can't really learn that pragmatic tradeoff in academic institutions - i think it's just experience. Make some predictions, get them wrong, do a forensic analysis. Or collaborate with people who have done this for a living.

  In respect of the AI, you need to check it had a reasonable concept of the population of events you want to know about.
  Understands its sample of observations, how that sample was drawn (i.e. it wasn't random), and the biases in that sample or sampling method. Then it should be easy to recalculate its output, then you come up with some scenarios of the bias, or adjustments see what changes those scenarios have. A competent forecaster should have addressed major/obvious sources of bias, with ranges / scenarios etc. " how wrong might this forecast be if we assumed, X, Y, Z instead?" I don't trust anyone who asserts they have a representative sample, it's impossible to prove that 100% - otherwise you'd not need a sample in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it get windy in New York City?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "They've got cars big as bars, they've got rivers of gold
  But the wind goes right through you, it's no place for the old"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The history of soup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gary Pacho liked the idea but had ran out of matches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd think not a lot higher than currently.

  Thos says average land elevation is 840m
  https://www.studycountry.com/wiki/what-is-the-average-elevation-of-the-world

  Spread that over the other 70% of the surface and your probably down at a 3-400 hundred metres you floated it on top of the sea. Which i think is approxiimately the same thing if the land displaces its volume equally. I guess there'd be a decent amount of compression though so, my guess is mot much more than a few hundred metres.

  Anyway, I'm sure the good people of the Netherlands will find a way to foil your dastardly scheme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is AI’s Circular Financing Inflating a Bubble? [YT | 25'13"]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK for timekeeping but I'd say that's mostly for human scale stuff and as you say involves dumb stuff like leap seconds every handful of years, and presumably the Earth's spin and orbits will change more radically eventually - i guess we're just expecting humans to die out before it becomes too much more of a problem.

  But thinking about measuring for science - irrespective of human geocentrism?

  Should scientific measures all be built up from planck units or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is AI’s Circular Financing Inflating a Bubble? [YT | 25'13"]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Genuine question, do you think seconds are sensibly defined either in SI or otherwise?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They automatically come with a sense of scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨life purpose⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My first job was all small rooms of 4-6 desks. Rigid desks, with stuff like drawers where you could keep stuff. Enough space for a few desktop computers, crt monitors, in trays, out trays, reference books and files and still space to work.

  Way better than the open plan that came along and the desks gradually shrank down to a small square on a single large shared table who'se thin badly supported top is vibrating from everyone else typing.

  I'm sure a 70s typing pool type situation would have been worse - but personally my situation has regressed a lot closer to that now. WFH is more productive just because i have enough space for the way i work.

  I'd love a cubicle office - never actually worked in one - but I doubt it be as good as the small room setup was .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AWS Outage Was a Nightmare for College Students⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad to see all these supposedly smart people are just as fucking stupid as normals.
  Still it's a weird kind of nightmare - i remember being a student when the libraries closed early on Sundays .
  It was so unbearably awful that I was compelled to go to the pub and play pool - and condemned to a future life of poverty and shame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American public transit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, they just have to "run it at a loss". Instead of trying to drive up the fares trying to reach "profitable" levels.

  A lot of the savings should come from reduced road deterioration and lower road maintenance costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨N++ — 10th anniversary update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah one of the first games I played without a dvd on xbox 360 that was probably 20 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate it when a show gets a different actor for a main character.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "Hey. It’s Marta. Hey, Marta, everybody."

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Words used in a different context⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  peacum butter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, personally I'd rather know about this type of stuff - before this I'd have thought about buying or recommending it - it seems decent enough.

  Although, I doubt I'd ever have bought one at those prices so maybe irrelevant.
  But this will be enough that even if i do win the premium bonds, I won't get one and I won't recommend anyone else. Some shit does continue to stink.

  Any twat who thinks they are "building a wide tent" by tolerating nazis is pretty much a self defeating prophecy, or just a nazi trying to hide it.

  I'd just rather the title was clearer - I have no idea what an 'omarchy/dhh/hyprland' is, and I don't see how those words help the headline at all. Though anything with "hh" is immediately suspect - so that gives a cryptic hints what the title might be insinuating.
  I think title should just say for 'promoting nazi stuff'. If anyone cares about the details of these obscure projects then they can read more of the article.

  Do people feel they have to be crypto-antifascist now? That's a bit of a scary turn of events.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good for you - but that's not everyone's experience.
  So don't put your experience on others either.

  I'm sure it works the other way round, just as often.
  But that last time when my sister was literally filling out an RMA form for a perfectly functional disk drive because her brand new laptop wouldn't play a DVD. That was the last straw for me and windows. (except at work of course until/ unless I can get a better job).

  Windows, 20 minutes of being advertised at like the internet before pop-up blockers, being pushed to windows store to buy the film again from them, trying a few different media players from the store, various googling - i cant even remember if i was able to install vlc before giving up and going debian - fuck that, unusable, and she couldn't do it either, so that was at least two of us in the well-below-average slice of the distribution of windows users.

  Linux mint live iso booted about 5-10 mins to burn it and boot, play dvd (I dont even think i had to install vlc). Plus a bit of time to figure out how to get the boot menu. So maybe she was above average in debian users?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess what, just like you dgaf about all the windows issues i have that you don't; i also dgaf about all the linux issues that you have that i don't.

  It should be a mater of choice, but it isn't. I don't get a choice about windows for 7.5 hours a day because too many humans are fucking cunts - plus a lot of anti-competitive business practices and grooming lncompetence in corpo procurement . I don't really blame ms for that i blame people who keep paying them to make their shit worse, and the procurement rules that they come up with to bend themselves over that barrel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was some guy on telly did a test.
  Half the group had to eat oranges.
  The other half had to drink orange juice.
  Then swapped them over the next day.
  I can't remember the exact setup but i think it was like 'eat/drink as much as you want, stop when you feel full'.

  Everyone was able to consume far, far more calories in juice form and probably far more sugar than they needed.

  I think like even eating enough oranges for 1x300ml glass was hard for many people to do in fruit form.
  Basically, the rest of the orange filled them up and that's what we're better evolved for: slower digestion of a more varied mush and lots of fibre and stuff like that.

  The juice is far too easy for us to eat way more than needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, I seem to be an animal that keeps working 9-5, barely sees the sun for 2 months, and burns shit tonnes of fossil fuels to make up for the heat and light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PRAISE HIM⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He is alpha to the core.