raltoid
@raltoid@lemmy.world
- Comment on Cursed 5 days ago:
Not only can they do math, they can percieve time
- Comment on Cursed 1 week ago:
Fun fact: Bees actually make round holes, the hexagon shape forms as the wax dries.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 1 week ago:
Bing is used a lot more than most people think. It’s also used by sites like DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Swisscows, etc.
As for why: They want them to train their own replacement.
- Comment on Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Europeans themselves also travel to other European countries for cheaper healthcare.
For example, there’s a town of 35k people in Hungary that has over 300 dental clinics, because it’s close to the Austrian border and is about half the cost or less.
- Comment on I want these walls back 2 weeks ago:
And it’s by Doctor Spin aka. Andrew Lloyd Webber. The guy who wrote the most famous songs in Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Evita, etc.
- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 2 weeks ago:
Cool, so he follows the bible and is saying people should be working just as much, or little, as him, right? RIGHT!?
I remember hearing about journalists as a kid, the ones who would actually ask questions and investigate. Not just reguritate whatever word vomit these troglodytes spew.
- Comment on wtf 2 weeks ago:
It’s why the trope of an enemy that never stops/is endless is so terrifying, and thus common in media.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 2 weeks ago:
Using modified hardware might break other regulations or terms of services, but using a backup copy of a copy you own to do so, is not piracy. Which is the answer to the question in the comment.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 2 weeks ago:
Because in the US and several other countries you can legally back up a cartridge that you have bought. Meaning it’s not piracy.
- Comment on These captchas are getting ridiculous 4 weeks ago:
They can produce an unlimited number of CGI challenges and know what is correct so collecting AI training data only makes sense for classifying images from the real world.
In some cases they’re testing for the most common solutions human use for a problem with multiple paths and choices.
- Comment on I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought.... 4 weeks ago:
A photojournalist was hit over the weekend and is still in the hospital after surgery.
- Comment on These captchas are getting ridiculous 4 weeks ago:
That’s literally not a captcha, that’s “AI” training. You could probably input anything.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 4 weeks ago:
While there are quite a few people who would jump ship from their marriage, that’s not why the trope so popular. It’s just that a lot of people like “forbidden love” tropes. Although most don’t actually dream of doing those things, it’s pure fantasy.
- Comment on Everyone has a special talent. You just have to discover yours's 4 weeks ago:
Then why didn’t you post a picture from that? This is from the indy500.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, he’s still just as delutional and thinks the problem is everyone else.
- Comment on That's a good question 4 weeks ago:
Do you have any sources on the claim that it wasn’t a cross and was changed later for pagans?
No they do not, because the early symbol was already T.
There are writings from ~200s talking about how the letter T looks like the execution cross.
- Comment on Fractured Blooms - Official Announcement Trailer 4 weeks ago:
It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if it’s actually set in a more anime-style world, and that the “real” looking one in the trailer is imaginery or something.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 4 weeks ago:
Please don’t migrate to a new instance.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 4 weeks ago:
Stuttering and changing FPS.
And it’s not exclusive to modern games, just a lot more common now if you don’t lower settings or lock the fps to keep it consistent.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 5 weeks ago:
The “collected data types” in that comment seems to be copy/pasted from the actual one:
- Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery Lost $11.5 Billion in 2024. So How Did CEO David Zaslav Exceed His Bonus Targets? 5 weeks ago:
At this point you can’t convince that he was anything but a plant to lower the company value.
- Comment on This fell off my car, can I just rip it off and not care? 5 weeks ago:
Depends on the car, but they’re usally there to protect something. Removing it could mean water and mud splashing up near the belts, potential damage to the oil pan, etc.
It appears that it was just zip tied back on…
yeah that’s not uncommon, just drive the front onto a curb and zip tie it again.
- Comment on what is north? 5 weeks ago:
It’s not just kids, gen-z’s are legal adults now.
And for further clarification:
The Antarctic Peninsula(the long bit sticking out) is the furtest part away from the south pole in the antarctic and is thus the northernmost part, and is generally considered to be the “north” when using cardinal directions there. The Weddell Sea is off the coast of the peninsula.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 5 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, that is by far the best device used these days. Although that has little to do with grenades per se, since they can use all kinds of different explosive devices.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 5 weeks ago:
Frisbee golf players being drafted…
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 5 weeks ago:
Grenades are used at closer and more hectic ranges that most people realize, so it’s often much faster to just throw it instead of having to prepare some sort of implement to increase range.
There have been instances of things being used, like slings, slingshots and even devices similar to those things you use to throw tennis balls for dogs. But at the end of the day, the increased range is rarely worth the extra time. You would only get an advantage as an opening attack from a longer distance. And for that we already have underslung grenade launchers on weapons, or mortars from much further out.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 5 weeks ago:
You are seemingly correct:
According to the British War Office, the stielhandgranate had a throwing distance of up to 27m while standing, compared to the 35m distance of the M67. Which weighs 30% less and take up 75% less space lengthwise.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 5 weeks ago:
No, just no.
Even if you think it’s a good idea, there’s way too much room for error. Hundreds of people in the UK have been charged with falsely accusing someone of rape. Just two years ago a woman beat herself with a hammer to accuse someone. Multiple innocent people where harassed, had their homes vandalized, there was attempted suicide, etc. And now they want to add more trauma?
It’s not an “ethical minefield”, it’s sociopathic to even consider.
- Comment on No time to explain, grab a milk and look at the camera 5 weeks ago:
I’m guessing he was from the New York area. Since it had been spreading from upstate New York since the 30s and 40s among people working in freezing buildings like warehouses.
- Comment on Weapons trafficking 1 month ago:
I don’t remember it being revealed what Rob’s job is, but he is transferred from New York to Paris. And it’s his former townhouse that is used in Home Alone 2.