Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I am propane and propane accessories 21 hours ago:
They looked at you and said “That boi ain’t right”.
- Comment on Vibe management 1 week ago:
You know that wouldn’t happen. Which AI company wants to be the one that says, “we’re happy with where the model is at right now” and stops throwing cash into the boiler of the investor hype train and let their competitors exceed them in real or imagined metrics? Clearly firms like Anthropic have to rely on circus marketing tricks like “This model is too dangerous for the general public to see! Ooooh scary! Coming Soon!”, and they can’t do that without continuous training.
For you and I, the offline models aren’t too bad for getting little side projects started, but for major AI firms, the ongoing training cost for the next model and the one after that has become ingrained into the operating model.
- Comment on David Lammy promises 25% cut in number of children jailed while they await trial 1 week ago:
Better than Lammy promising to cut children in jail awaiting trial by 25%.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps some of them are betting on the AI bubble crashing in the next two years, bringing prices down, maybe, hopefully?
- Comment on What is it like traveling with two passports at the same time? 3 weeks ago:
You should enter and leave the country with the same passport (important if your country checks passports on exit), but you can switch it up en route. Generally if you need help with something in one of the countries of your nationality you go to that embassy, for example if a disaster hits and you need to be evacuated, whichever embassy would attempt at assisting you to get to that nation.
- Comment on SBA #94 THE FOOT LONG COMPENDIUM CONUNDRUM CONTINUES 5 weeks ago:
Its lower side tends to -3, asymptote at x=-2, a discontinuity between 0 and ~0.66, and an upper side tends to 3. The x+/-infinity ends are the least interesting parts of this eqaution’s graph…
- Comment on Some folks might call me a dreamer 1 month ago:
Why are you celebrating the good thing? Whatabout bad thing #768390626?
- Comment on How do I ACTUALLY get hired by the United States Postal Services (USPS)? 1 month ago:
Are you able to attach a reference from the local manager in your application? Can you attach a cover letter?
If you see the listing, can you basically paraphrase each qualification and/or key duty and tie it to your experience on your resumé? I don’t know what ARC role is but for example, “Sorted 100s of files per day as a Mytown Public Library volunteer.”
- Comment on China’s Electrostate Is Poised to Win From War in the Middle East 1 month ago:
Yep, both China and Russia are the victors of the war between USA, Israel and Iran. Russia for the short term boost to their coffers from sanction free oil, and China for having been prepared to meet the moment in renewable energy and battery tech.
- Comment on It's tax season and my parents don't really feel lime paying this... Alright Lemmy, what should they do? 👀 1 month ago:
According to NZXT’s advertising partners, all your parents need to do is to win a Fortnite tournament, then they can afford it, easy.
- Comment on Finally, a real name for your penis 1 month ago:
Danny DeVito would say, “Oh, whoops! I dropped my Monster Condom that I use for my Girthy Injector”
- Comment on Amazon’s idea of improving Luna involves stripping back most of it 1 month ago:
What do you even get from a Luna subscription? Just a Amazon-only rental library of games?
- Comment on aaand it's closed again 1 month ago:
My read on the situation:
- Iran said "We will stop attacking if US and Israel stop attacking and considers our plan"
- USA said "We will stop attacking, not go through with our genocidal war crime threat, and remove the time pressure we put on ourselves"
- Israel said “We will keep doing our extermination and colonization campaign in Lebanon on the side while you two talk, surely that doesn’t count as attacking”
- Comment on Is there no rule against politics in shitposts? I mean, most of y'all are way into regulation. I guess maybe not when it applies to you. 1 month ago:
Anything (not illegal and within reason). Post corn if you’re upset about that 🌽.
- Comment on The Three Big Questions Delaying New York [State]’s Budget 1 month ago:
- Comment on How long until the rise of games with mods turns into user created games. 1 month ago:
Legion TD2 is a game that was originally a Starcraft mod.
- Comment on how is lemmy funded? 2 months ago:
Many small server instances are paid for out of pocket (you can make your own too, about $60/year renting a cloud server and $10/year for a domain name). Bigger servers rely on user donations.
The Lemmy software development relies on donations as well, but they also receive grants from NLNet. Some of the grants are tied to accomplishing specific features. Third party app developers generally rely on donation support as well, if they’re not doing it just for the fun of it. Unsupported projects tend to get dropped after a while, though, so money does help keep up motivation.
- Comment on As a Chinese American, if I wanna travel internationally, is it better to just say I'm American, or pretend to be a Chinese National (to hide from Anti-American sentinments)? 2 months ago:
If you can be respectful of the local culture where you’re visiting while you’re there, you’ll be fine. Being an obnoxious American tourist is just as bad as an obnoxious Chinese tourist. Outside of unwarranted xenophobia, your behaviour matters more than your race.
- Comment on Wealth Taxes Are Pointless While Tax Havens Exist 2 months ago:
If it hides, we go to find it. Countries like the US, Canada, Ireland etc. choose to recognize as valid these elaborate schemes involving shell games in multiple countries, instead of insisting on their formula. But what would be better is a Canada-Europe agreement on a standardized taxation and deduction system that includes minimum wealth taxes applied across all member nations. Sketchy accounting is nothing new, we just have to agree to deal with it together.
- Comment on What the fuck is going on with Iran and what will happen next? 2 months ago:
Trump and his staffers are desperately trying to find a way to TACO but still somehow claim victory like his other two expeditions in Venezuela and Iran (2025), because it clearly didn’t have the effect they thought it would have like when Bush II did it.
Unlike the US, Iranian forces had a plan that was formulated for years. Doesn’t mean things will go as they envision, due to US, Israeli, Gulf state, and internal factors putting a lot of uncertainty in the mix. Iran is okay with the current situation in the short term unlike the US, but there is elevated risk for a potential coup, an Israeli-style drawn out genocide and annexation, just a stalemate war of air defense attrition, or who knows what in Iran. There will be pressure from all sides to figure something amicable between the belligerents, hopefully sooner than later.
I predict: Oil/gas prices will stay high for months, air ship and truck transportation costs will be somewhat higher and goods will be a little higher for the same period. Over the next year, governments, businesses and people will turn to electricity and renewables pretty much out of necessity (look at Indian residents turning to Induction Stoves in droves) that will lower our needs for fuel which will hopefully offset the shock from future oil supply crunches. Optimistically, it could accelerate the world’s efforts to net zero.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sorry, I’m taken already. Isn’t that right, Nicole the Fediverse Chick?
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 months ago:
It’s a mixed bag, I’m pretty neutral on it since it prevents copyleft licensing as much as copyright.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 months ago:
I don’t mind if the developer adds AI-generated code, but if they mix it with their own work without appropriate attribution in a way that it could be considered all AI-generated, it may become un-copyrightable.
- Comment on Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices while making Battle Passes and Crew way worse in value 2 months ago:
Uh oh, Epic’s not making more profit than last year! We need to squeeze money out of parents’ pockets for their gullible kids and milk our cash cow harder!
- Comment on NBC Interview abruptly ends after New Yorker blames private equity and landlords for the city's issues 2 months ago:
Because Donald Trump… the Dow! The Dow right now, is over… THE DOW IS OVER FIFTY THOUSAND DO- I don’t know why you’re laughing, I hear you’re a great stock-trader, as I hear, Raskin… the DOW is over fifty thousand, right now…
- Comment on Lemmy needs real deletion, not just soft‑delete/hiding 2 months ago:
As a general note, the design of Lemmy is around preserving information against censorship over having private conversations (like Matrix for example). You’re probably aware that once data is delivered to other servers, the origin server can’t guarantee deletions of data from them.
I’m not an admin, but I remember that Lemmy admins are able to purge content from their server, and send out a request for other servers to purge their copy of data which by default would be accepted if received from the canonical server. This was used to remove some harmful content that was posted on Lemmy a few times. This feature isn’t user accessible, at least as of now.
Media uploaded to Lemmy by the user can be deleted.
Edits are propagated through federation, so if you are concerned, you can edit posts you want to delete before deleting them which is close enough.
- Comment on Shit, I'd pay $9 3 months ago:
Makes me want a phone tree…
Thank you for calling. Are you trying to sell me something? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no.
Am I in trouble? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no.
Could you just have sent me a message instead? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no.
- Comment on The duality of search engines 3 months ago:
I use DuckDuckGo which is Bing’s results more or less.
- Comment on Windows 11 has a new Start menu — here's how to unlock it 3 months ago:
It’s not ready for full rollout until Microslop gets Slopilot to put sponsored apps back into it.
- Comment on Judge Strikes Down California’s Ban on Masks for Federal Agents 3 months ago:
