MystikIncarnate
@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
Some IT guy, IDK.
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 13 hours ago:
As someone who works in tech, I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already.
Part of my job is to oversee and arrange in some capacity for licensing of digital products, especially office 365, and I can count the number of people who have a copilot subscription on one hand, out of nearly, if not more than 1000 users across various clients.
I know some are using competing products, mainly chat GPT, and I don’t always have visibility to that, but still… The rate of adoption and the speed at which all of this is being developed and invested into… Does not bode well.
- Comment on Sorry everyone 2 days ago:
Thanks, I hate it.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 2 weeks ago:
You convinced me, it definitely didn’t happen. I was hallucinating again.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 2 weeks ago:
I work IT support. I’ve seen the dialog about 1000 times.
It’s crazy how many people prefer a browser that’s not edge.
They seem to have removed it in Windows 11, and even might have disabled it in later versions of 10. Idk, everything I’m dealing with now in terms of new setups are Windows 11.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 2 weeks ago:
I laughed at Microsoft a lot when they basically made Windows 10 beg people to try edge.
You tried to change your default and it was like, this isn’t recommended! And you’re like, idgaf change the default, and Windows is like, are you sure? Yes! But edge can save battery power. Are you really sure?
Fuck off edge. Change the default.
- Comment on Nice try 2 weeks ago:
Apparently they’re bothered by the constant calls for the Epstein files too.
Meanwhile I don’t recall any person I know who was bothered by them asking about the emails.
Interesting.
- Comment on Nice try 2 weeks ago:
Were people bothered by people asking about the emails?
I certainly wasn’t.
Also, not really a liberal thing, more of a people-who-don’t-like-child-exploitation thing…
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Ever since I saw the garden in the back yard, which occupies about half of the back yard, I wanted to make a vegetable garden with raised beds, eventually enclosing it like a greenhouse in the long term.
I’ve been too busy and my money has been to scarce trying to pay enough to live here that I haven’t made any progress on achieving that goal. It really doesn’t help that lumber prices went though the roof around the time we moved in, so I can’t even really afford to buy the wood I would need to make the raised beds. And I don’t want like 6" or whatever raised beds. I’m thinking more like 3 ft. I don’t want to have to crawl on the ground or even really bend over to plant/tend/harvest whatever I plant. So it’s not going to be a small amount of wood that I’ll need.
Then I need to figure out how to find the time to attend to it, when I should plant/fertilize/harvest, how often I should tend to the plants etc… There’s a lot I don’t know about what it takes to maintain a veggie garden. I’ll get there eventually, or I’ll die trying.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 weeks ago:
That’s not a conservative upbringing/mentality… That’s a capitalist mentality.
The only thing I can really say about capitalists is that they’re some of the worst people I’ve ever known, and I’ve known a few of them.
Very religious people (usually conservatives) are generally quite kind and generous. If they follow their religious book, that tracks. Since most religions teach about tolerance, acceptance, and understanding. Like the legend Fred Rogers; May he rest in peace.
Usually very liberal people are about basic social services for everyone, and programmes that support DEI. They want everyone to be on an equal playing field and they want that playing field to be, at a minimum, allowing all people to independently be able to live, have reasonably good health, food to eat, and somewhere to live.
Meanwhile capitalists always focus on the money. Who is paying for all of this? They don’t want their money (via taxes) to go to people that are less than them. Anyone who makes less or has less is “losing”, and they’re “winning”. All capitalists want to be on top, and they don’t care who they have to trample to achieve that.
There are exceptions of course, on every one of these groups. For example, Bill Gates who donates a lot of money for good causes. He still has plenty of money, but honestly, he gives away a lot. By no means do I mean to imply that any billionaire is good; in this case Bill is just using the wealth he has to do good. He’s clearly someone that made a lot of money doing capitalism things, and yet he believes in helping others.
The capitalists I have met are some of the most argumentative, vocal, and toxic people I’ve ever met.
Good on you for getting away from that mentality and finding enjoyment.
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 2 weeks ago:
Thank you kind stranger. I will look into it.
The only heartbreaking part is that before we moved in there were perennial flowers planted along the edge of the garden, I guess it was a flower garden for the previous owners, and I’m not sure I can save them before I go scorched earth on the rest of the area.
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 2 weeks ago:
My current grass is patchy, I’m certain there’s little or no nitrogen. I’ve been meaning to pick up a small bag of clover seeds and at least augment my lawn with them to make it a bit more green at least.
I’m fortunate that I was able to get a battery electric mower for my home shortly after moving in. So there’s no inconvenient gas fetching and mixing, just a pair of bigass fuck off batteries that live on the charger between mows.
The real problem is that we have a garden in the back that I want to set up as a vegetable garden and I just haven’t had time to do the work and it’s currently over run with weeds. I’ll get to it eventually. I’m planning on killing everything currently in the garden with some kind of weed killer, not sure what yet exactly, but I’ve seen some places recommend a soap/brine mix that seems effective. Then cover it with that black landscaping/gardening fabric so shit doesn’t grow for a while, if that’s successful, build raised beds and fill them with fresh, untainted soil and grow veggies there… It’s going to be a project and I have no idea how I’m going to find time or money to do it, but the way things are going, I can’t afford not to do it.
Anyways. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. I guess?
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 2 weeks ago:
Frick. I moved into a house from being in apartments for many years and I have to say, lawn and Garden work, suuuuucccckkksss.
I hate it. I have too much to do to deal with your… Growth.
Can I replace my lawn with an emo lawn so it cuts itself?
- Comment on Anon is exploited 3 weeks ago:
This is why I demand work from home.
I hate commuting.
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 3 weeks ago:
You see, the steamer depicted may not be the exact subject matter they’re referring to. They might have just googled female streamers, or loaded up Twitch and looked for the first girl on camera and snapped a screen shot.
With all that being said, I understand the appeal of wanting to watch something that you think is pretty. Hell, that’s the entire reason I played cyberpunk as a female character despite being very cis, and male.
For 90% of game play my gender doesn’t matter. Until cutscenes where I get to watch my avatar interacting with others.
Outside of cutscenes, I’m looking first person, so what difference does it make?
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 3 weeks ago:
I think that at least 7 people didn’t understand what you were trying to say.
I did. Well said. I can’t see any problems with your argument.
Though, I think that maybe the green text was more about female streamers in general, not just the one that’s depicted.
Whichever. Be well.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s bold of Anon to assume that the crows are not earning the money legitimately.
That’s racist.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 4 weeks ago:
The whole thing reminds me of many AITA threads that were clearly terrible people trying to justify their behavior against other terrible people.
I dunno. I will never have any further information than this so I won’t bother with it anymore.
Thank you for the discourse. I hope you have a good day.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 4 weeks ago:
Yup. We are. I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve made some pretty extensive assumptions here, and I don’t have nearly enough information to say either way.
I don’t think we’ll ever get any more info than we have here.
My main concern with the body count comments is… If that’s not the primary motivation for his decision, why bring it up at all? Seems unnecessary.
Bringing it up just makes me think it’s more important to Anon than he leads everyone to believe in the first part of his post.
There’s a whole thing about body count in simp/FA type groups, that having a nontrivial body count somehow invalidates a person. By bringing it up, at all, it makes me think that Anon is a part of that group, or at least catering to them for attention, which might be just as bad or worse.
My official standpoint is that both Anon and the girl are terrible people. Good on Anon for not being that person’s backup plan, but the reasons for rejecting the request are in question… And make me think Anon isn’t a good person either.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 4 weeks ago:
Setting aside the ick of valuing someone my how many (or how few) partners they’ve had…
Sounds to me like Anon is a “beta”, she was looking for an “alpha” (these would be my impression of her opinion)… When all the “Alphas” rejected her, or used her as a cumdumpster and left, and she started to lose the looks she thought would land her an “Alpha”, she finally considered Anon as a possible partner.
As horrible as that is, rejecting someone based on body count is pretty shitty. If the tables were turned and Anon had a massive body count, more people would think they’re a stud more than anything.
The double standard is horrid and unacceptable.
I don’t even remember my body count. I stopped keeping track after 12 or so? It’s just not important, and as long as you’re having safe, protected intimate times, who gives a shit?
- Comment on Related: https://lemmy.wtf/comment/16937362 4 weeks ago:
I like dark humor. A lot of the discourse surrounding Kirk has been downright hilarious.
I’m sure some Nazi motherfuckers take offense, but not me
- Comment on do you consider joking about dying and killing oneself a sign that the person saying it is troubled? 4 weeks ago:
It can be. It depends on context and tone.
If they say that shit with a tone of defeat, I’d address it head on. If it’s typical banter like this sucks kind of tone then whatever.
People say a lot of concerning shit if you take everything that they say literally. Fact is that a lot of us use sarcasm and hyperbole as coping mechanisms.
Today, I joked with a buddy at work that the day made me want to hang myself from my shoelaces. I have zero suicidal ideation right now, I’m just unhappy that I have to put up with the people I have to work with right now. He’s much the same, sick of the shit, so he gets me.
It really depends on the tone and context more than anything.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 weeks ago:
I like you.
These are all good points. Thank you.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 weeks ago:
Except an alien species wouldn’t know what cesium is… We would need to represent it to them as it’s molecular makeup, which is the only absolute representation of it, and would they know what a proton/neutron/electron are? Would they have a deeper understanding of the physics, and thereby have a different understanding of what we consider to be quantum particles?
We only generalize protons, elections and neutrons because we don’t really know what those things are made up of. Maybe they do, so when we show them our representation of it, would it be too rudimentary for them to comprehend what we mean?
There’s still a lot we don’t know. And these are the kinds of questions that tickle my brain.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think that was the idea when the second was created.
The solar rotation cycle is naturally divided into 365 rotations of Earth (give or take), each daily rotation was divided into 24 segments called hours, each hour was further divided into 60 units called minutes, and each minute was then further divided into 60 units which we call seconds.
In the modern era, we have refined how we measure a second by a very stable natural phenomenon, the emissions of cesium (which we also refer to as an “atomic” clock). But we got there first by dividing one of Earth’s rotations by 86400. It just so happens that 9 192 631 770 oscillations from cesium also equals 1/86400th of one rotation of Earth.
Additionally, neither a “second” nor even “one rotation of Earth” would have any meaning to someone who has never been to earth before.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 weeks ago:
See, this is all fascinating for me. I love this stuff.
It’s also a good exercise in recognizing the assumptions we make every day. I’m trying to get to a point where I can articulate my thoughts and I don’t have to struggle through the curse of knowledge.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 weeks ago:
That could work for velocities, but any measure of distance is based on our notion of time, like “light year” (the distance light can travel in one rotation of the Earth around the sun), which is relative.
Even an AU is the distance from Earth to our sun.
To be fair, we don’t really have another point of reference with which to measure stuff.
A good way to portray distance could be a blip the length of time it would take light to travel that far. Like an RF signal that lasts as long as it would take for light up travel from one edge of an object to the other edge of the object.
… It’s a difficult problem to try to solve even as a mental exercise.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 weeks ago:
All units of measure are abstract.
I like metric because it’s structured around an abstract amount. Even something like Celsius is pretty abstract, because the freezing and boiling point of water changes depending on the atmospheric pressure. The measure of a second? Why is a second, 1 second long? Why is it 1/60th of 1/60th of 1/24th of a day? There’s other stuff based on seconds too, like Hertz, which is literally “cycles per second”
I like to think about how abstract these things are, because if we were to ever try to communicate with a truly alien race, we couldn’t really use numbers, because their base numbering system would be different than ours, their symbols for numbers would be different, their entire understanding of math and how to calculate stuff could be wildly different, possibly because they understand things we do not. We couldn’t even say to them to communicate on a specific frequency of EM, because that frequency is based on Hertz, which is based on seconds, which is based on ??? IDFK (neither would they). We base everything we know on the world around us, and that’s entirely unique to earth. We make so many assumptions about how things are because we’ve only ever experienced life on this planet.
The only thing that kind of makes sense is how many days of the year there are, because it’s based on solid science about our solar system. It’s still unique to earth, but at least it makes sense on a larger scale. Everything else? Who the hell knows. Why is a meter as long as it is? Who defined this? Why? What abstract Earth-based thing was this based on that other societies of individuals would have no point of reference to relate to?
It’s wild we’ve made it this far, to be honest.
Anyways, I kind of got sidetracked… I guess all I’m really trying to say is that metric makes more sense than whatever the USA is doing. Even if it’s just as abstract in its conception.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 4 weeks ago:
I know there’s some opinions on this, but I would consider this to be the case. Many people don’t have so much pride in their origins to consider using a term like expat, then there’s Americans, who’s entire identity is based on where they were born.
So it makes sense that someone from America living in another country would identify as an American expat, while everyone else is just, immigrated to where they are. Not enough focus on what country they came from to bother with an expat definition.
Makes me think that American expats are looking backwards, while other immigrants are looking forwards.
- Comment on Foolproof advice 4 weeks ago:
Username is definitely relevant. :)
I would consider your comment to be far more truthful and accurate than what is pictured in the OP.
Have a good day.
- Comment on A conundrum 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, it’s a pretty large home. I’m living with my SO, my brother and his wife and there’s a couple of offspring that needed space too. Our house has ~5 ish bedrooms. Considering the number of people who live here, it can feel small. If it was just me and my SO, this would be humungous.
But that also means that we have four fully grown adults helping with the mortgage. So my share of the mortgage is around $1100 ish, per month, and we split most of the household bills, so I usually throw in about $400 more to help with that. I personally pay about $1500/mo.
My SO does the same, and we’ve encouraged my brother and his wife to also do the same. If everyone pays $1500 towards the house every month, we have more than enough to cover all the bills (electric/gas/water), as well as shared things like the Internet. Also that’s enough to cover the house insurance.