Khanzarate
@Khanzarate@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Automated Bot of Experian support phone line, refuses to let me to a real person... 🤬 3 days ago:
Hypothetically, yes, but during covid was when a company had to truly learn the work-at-home model. Some succeeded, some failed, but the reality is it was an excuse not to try. Automated is cheaper, and laying off employees because a pandemic has closed doors is a great excuse.
“I’m sorry, due to an abundance of caution we are unwilling to reopen the offices and do not have the infrastructure to have you work securely from home, so we’re going to have to furlough everyone until further notice”
Then they have a month testing the automated system and hit “good enough” by their standards so then they say the furlough becomes a layoff and everyone loses.
- Comment on My post was removed because it was not political? 1 week ago:
The orcs he made.
- Comment on 🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐 1 week ago:
Haven’t shared it enough. Send it to everyone you’ve ever interacted with on Lemmy, individually.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
I dunno about pricing back then but the issue is the amount of wealth that can be generated from a situation like that.
Like, hypothetically, let’s split your grandfather into two people. A landlord, and a maintenance guy hired to maintain those properties, getting paid a fair wage.
Would the landlord make money, after paying a mortgage and his maintenance man?
If the answer is no, then becoming a landlord isn’t financially beneficial, and your grandfather could’ve just been a handyman, and made a steadier income, his money not directly dependent on whether or not someone paid rent.
If the answer is yes, then your grandfather made more money than his labor was worth. While he earned money doing labor, the real issue is the money he earned by doing nothing. It’s likely your grandfather made quite a bit more money than his labor was worth, given the fact that property management companies live entirely off of the price difference from labor put into housing and the price they can charge.
Landlords are middlemen. They’re used car salesman for houses. Are there landlords that aren’t shitty? Yeah. My last landlord was awesome, he actually sold me the house I was renting, when I told him I was gonna buy a house and start my family. He was nice, reasonable, all those things. The total rent at the time (pre-covid, so a lot better than now, and split among 6 people) was 2250$, and my mortgage worked out to be 900$.
Did your grandfather put effort in? Yes. Did he make money doing nothing? Also yes, the difference between what his labor was worth and what he got paid.
That margin didn’t come from his labor or his smart investments, it came from other people trying to live, and potentially created hardships. If his tenants could’ve paid for the actual cost of housing instead of whatever your grandfather charged, that might mean another kid got to go to college, a father getting to retire earlier, a family that could’ve worked 1 job instead of 2.
Your grandfather is probably fine, he likely understood hardships and acted like a human being, but he still belonged to a class of people that are better off if they find ways to minimize the amount of money other people have. Some people judge others for taking what they don’t need.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
Sorry I forgot to send it, won’t happen again, boss.
- Comment on I live in the green part 2 weeks ago:
The “I can’t believe you’re so thin” is still mildly infuriating.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
Most that would die in the street would have an underlying condition, like ague or bleeding or even old age, since most people that starve would try to do something about it.
If you’re sick you might not be able to. If you find a job or charity successfully you’ve averted the death. If you tried to steal and fail you’ll get on the executed list, or if you got wounded but got away, you’ll be on the bleeding list, or if you succeed then you dont die on the street.
I imagine those six would have the “died of unknown causes” phrase attached to them in modern times.
- Comment on Question me not 1 month ago:
“Pinghe Teacher Hotel”
- Comment on Y=-x² 1 month ago:
Yeah but it’s not as good as a reading direction.
- Comment on Clever, clever 1 month ago:
I doubt it.
For the same reasons, really. People who already intend to thoroughly go over the input and output to use AI as a tool to help them write a paper would always have had a chance to spot this. People who are in a rush or don’t care about the assignment, it’s easier to overlook.
Also, given the plagiarism punishments out there that also apply to AI, knowing there’s traps at all is a deterrent. Plenty of people would rather get a 0 rather than get expelled in the worst case.
If this went viral enough that it could be considered common knowledge, it would reduce the effectiveness of the trap a bit, sure, but most of these techniques are talked about intentionally, anyway. A teacher would much rather scare would-be cheaters into honesty than get their students expelled for some petty thing. Less paperwork, even if they truly didn’t care about the students.
- Comment on Controversial US commentator Candace Owens refused Australian visa for speaking tour 1 month ago:
In my personal experience, she’s mostly famous as someone that right-wing news can bring on and have their token woman and/or black person to tell all the trumpets that X thing is liked by women/the black community even when it’s not.
She’s listed as an influencer because that’s what they bill her as and pay her for, but the influencing is secondary to that role. It’s also an inevitable side effect because those racist trumpets can all go “oh shes one of the good ones” and do all the social media things and go “no of course I’m a good person, look at who I follow”.
The only thing online I’ve ever seen about her from the black community is “race traitor for hire”.
- Comment on Clever, clever 1 month ago:
Right, but the whitespace between instructions wasn’t whitespace at all but white text on white background instructions to poison the copy-paste.
Also the people who are using chatGPT to write the whole paper are probably not double-checking the pasted prompt. Some will, sure, but this isnt supposed to find all of them its supposed to catch some with a basically-0% false positive rate.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It just needs to have the water and air removed, really, which is accomplished the same way as jerky, remove a bunch of it, then stick in a silicate packet, those ones that say not to eat them.
- Comment on my boss: "no you are in stem now" 2 months ago:
That is a footnote
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 2 months ago:
Depending on the specific game itself, we can boil down the multiple-stat problem in a few ways. If the goal is to get all the stats as high as possible evenly, then we can assign each stat a multiplier based on how low it is. Fixing lower stats becomes worth more than buffing higher stats. That multiplier would depend on the game, on how much it punishes the low stat. The multiplier itself might end up being a whole new problem to solve, but for now I’ll just say its not my problem and call it X.
Whatever X is though, every stat can then be reduced to a single value using it. Super-low fortitude should be buffed over already-high mana according to X, so all of the numerical values in the game become directly comparable at any stage in this problem. Then I expect it will be equivalent to the knapsack problem. Each item in the game will boost several stats in certain ways, and all of those boosts can be combined using X to become our item value in the knapsack problem.
So I consider it to be the knapsack problem + figuring out X (which might be NP-complete on its own, depending on the game).
- Comment on Michael Bay's Skibidi Toilet movie production company has apparently sent DMCA takedowns to Garry's Mod 4 months ago:
Garry’s mod uses Valve assets and is published by Valve. Of particular note, it has half life assets in it.
The skibidi toilet series was made with Source Filmmaker, a video editing software published by Valve, which allows people to use the Source engine, the game engine that half-life 2 used. As SFM was made by Valve, they allowed a bunch of half-life assets to be free in SFM. the original toilet head is an asset from Half-life 2, Male_07, which Garry’s Mod has access to, given it is a valve release and can use valve models.
They C&D’d Valve for using Valve assets in a Valve game.
- Comment on Conversing with Mathematicians 4 months ago:
They said x=10i^2, not 10i. Difference is it equals -10, and they chose not to simplify.
- Comment on Fortnite Players Band Together to Pick on In-Game Tesla Cybertrucks: 'Destroy on Sight' - IGN 4 months ago:
Just spray them with a hose
- Comment on Stop. Calling. Everything. AI 5 months ago:
You missed the memo!
- Comment on It's real 5 months ago:
He’s a cockatiel. The coloring is usually more indicative of a female, but they don’t have hard rules like that.
- Comment on It's real 5 months ago:
- Comment on It's real 5 months ago:
My wife named my bird Rizz.
She says I finally have rizz.
- Comment on viruses 6 months ago:
Nah they’re a single molecule. While they do have a mechanism to “reproduce”, they cannot react to stimuli of any kind, or evolve. Of the 7 commonly accepted traits of life, viruses have 5-6 depending on where you stand with them not being able to reproduce on their own. (In comparison, while a tapeworm or other parasite might need a host, they bring their reproductive equipment with them).
Prions have 1 of those traits. They can’t regulate an internal environment as they cannot have one, they lack any kind of organizational trait, they have no metabolism (the other one viruses lack), they do not grow, they don’t adapt to their environment, and they do not respond to stimuli.
A digital thermometer has organization and responds to stimuli, so it’s more alive than a prion.
- Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo 6 months ago:
My state banned billboards for the same reasons.
It’s a really good reminder when I’m ever in another state that things like that just… Aren’t needed.
The advertising thing is a slippery slope, and it’s OK for people to draw the line for how far down the slope they’re willing to go higher up than you would. It’s also OK that your line comfortably holds a 2-second ad.
No position here is unreasonable, and everyone should keep that in mind.
- Comment on Praise Sheezus 7 months ago:
Nah.
That one was dinosaurs changed gender to male, citing the frog DNA they completed the chain with as having that potential.
So what was supposed to be an all-female park to prevent reproduction became co-ed and then nature happened.
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 7 months ago:
I liked tiberium wars.
One of my favorite games actually.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 7 months ago:
Definitely are.
In a way it makes sense because the industry loves its acronyms and you’ll be using them.
On the other hand, I have the ability to search. I’m an IT professional, I will have a computer. Let me let the computer do the lookup. Its the old “you won’t have a calculator with you all the time” argument that was dated when my teachers told it to me.
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 7 months ago:
Churm
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 7 months ago:
Yeah but no one just has a kingdom or phylum.
Every living creature gets an entry from domain to species.
Celestial bodies aren’t a hierarchy, a planet isn’t also a dwarf planet or an asteroid.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 7 months ago:
Thing is everyone has one of those.
Compare it to non-sentience, sentience, and sapience, to properly anthropomorphize it.
