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- Comment on How to know you'll turn out trans? 30 minutes ago:
How would you interpret it if you’re neutral towards the idea? Like, it would be an inconvenience to have to learn how to handle new bits, but otherwise, life just goes on as usual.
- Comment on How do you get people to wash their vegetables when you're at their house and you don't wanna seem rude? 1 week ago:
It doesn’t matter if they actually absorb water or not. Just try the mushrooms side by side, washed and unwashed. Decide based on what you prefer.
- Comment on How do you get people to wash their vegetables when you're at their house and you don't wanna seem rude? 1 week ago:
I’ve never had a problem with this, raw or cooked. The insides of my washed mushrooms are always dry.
- Comment on Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request 2 weeks ago:
This is a problem with the add-on store, not the browser. Do the forks have their own add-on stores? Or do they just use the same one that Mozilla provides? To the best of my knowledge, the only forks that have their own stores are the ones that wouldn’t be able to use Firefox plugins anyway (e.g. Palemoon).
- Comment on Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think forking Firefox is going to change what you see in the add-on store. You would need someone to run their own store. Or just install the plugin manually.
- Comment on Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less 3 weeks ago:
Maybe an advantage of this setup is that you ensure that your bus factor is high and you’re constantly testing it to make sure it stays high? Kind of like how Netflix uses ChaosMonkey.
- Comment on Is a peanut butter sandwich a balanced meal? 3 weeks ago:
You can also check the ingredients. It should have exactly one ingredient, and that’s peanuts. Maybe salt.
- Comment on Finish him. 🪓 4 weeks ago:
That’s how things work in the AI community. Publications all go through various conferences and journals that are free to submit to. In many of these avenues, if you submit something, the cost is to get a certain number of papers reviewed (not necessarily doing it yourself, but you have to find someone capable of doing it). The publications are then made freely available for anyone to read. Everything is organized by the research community for the benefit of that same community.
- Comment on Hero 4 weeks ago:
It’s also the only viable route to doing science for most people. So even if you’re aware of the problem, you just have to grit your teeth and play the game if you want to pursue your passion.
- Comment on In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing? 5 weeks ago:
Right, so if that’s the discussion you care about, that’s totally fair. Most researchers I know couldn’t give a rat’s ass what you call it as long as there’s something to call it. I think we’ve all long accepted that no two person will have the same idea of what intelligence means.
- Comment on In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing? 5 weeks ago:
You’ll be dismissing the vast majority of experts in the fields. The only people who refuse to call it AI are those who think AI refers to the stuff you see in sci-fi movies. The ones doing the work and who actually know what they’re talking about use AI to mean even the simplest thing like a bunch of if statements that make up a hard-coded decisions tree.
- Comment on LPT Do it. 5 weeks ago:
Ooh, that looks cool. Thanks for the recommendation.
- Comment on LPT Do it. 5 weeks ago:
Everyone still uses LaTeX for CS/Math at my school. It’s not an age thing. Just different circles. I don’t think anything similar even comes close to LaTeX yet.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
I subsist off Doritos and Mountain Dew. Let all the ladies know. I’ll be waiting in my mom’s basement.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
then-girlfriend/now-wife’s roommate
Had to do a double take on this.
- Comment on Anon goes to the gym 1 month ago:
It continues to build endurance and mental fortitude, which I think would be pretty important in the military.
- Comment on What side do you open a banana from? 2 months ago:
Yeah, but which side do you chomp first?
- Comment on military industrial publishing complex 2 months ago:
As far as I can tell, we’re just paying for the reputation of the journal.
- Comment on Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating. 2 months ago:
Or take a photo of your own haircut when it’s done the way you want. Or even if it’s not the way you want, so you can show the barber and tell them that you don’t want that, and how you want it to be different.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
Salt tends to be used in such small quantities that you’ll get much larger errors on the typical kitchen scale than with measuring spoons.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
I’ve seen “cups” used to mean anywhere between 225ml and 250ml. It’s very confusing.
- Comment on With public key cryptography, why can't someone decrypt a message using the public key? 2 months ago:
The same word will be encrypted the same way each time, and that’s actually the basis of one of the known attacks on LLMs like ChatGPT. They send responses back one “word” at a time, so someone who’s snooping can easily figure out what it’s saying from the encrypted messages. The exploit doesn’t affect Bard because it sends larger chunks of text at a time.
- Comment on I'm working on it, ok? 2 months ago:
If you can’t bring the savings side of the equation up, then bring the salary side down. Easy.
- Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana? 2 months ago:
It took me several reads to figure it out, but I think I know what Dasus is trying to say now
Because alcoholics are often violent.
Weeders rarely are.
Violent alcoholics means that they’ll fight to maintain access to their poison of choice, whereas the lethargy that comes with marijuana will have the opposite effect.
- Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana? 2 months ago:
I think you’re overstating the dangers of homebrewing with an improvised setup. If you screw up, you get mold and it’s very obvious.
I’ve never distilled before, but from what I’ve read, that’s really hard to screw up too.
- Comment on FearNoPeer is open for singups 3 months ago:
Had the same problem a few hours ago. It seems to be working now for me.
- Comment on How the coming flood of AI-generated content might actually free the soul of Internet StayGrounded.online 3 months ago:
Responding to your first two paragraphs:
The enjoyability of a piece of art isn’t independent of the creator. I will only speak for myself since I don’t know other people’s experiences. When you see something that tickles the happy part of your brain, part of that emotional response is in knowing that there’s another person out there who probably felt that way and wanted to share those feeling with you. In experiencing those emotions, you also experience a connection with another human being. The knowledge that you’re not alone and someone else out there has experienced the same thing. I wouldn’t read through the credits because I don’t care who that person is. I just care that this person existed. When you look at AI generated work and it just feels empty despite the surface beauty, this is the missing piece. It’s the human connection.
- Comment on What does "araffe" mean? 3 months ago:
I searched through Lemmy posts with that word. Half of them have people asking the exact same question, and based on the answers, I’m going to conclude that no one knows.
One guess that seems plausible is that it’s an AI hallucinated word that’s showing up a lot because they’re using AI to generate the captions.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You seem to be trying to solve a different problem. People who are working full time should be able to get all the necessities. It’s definitely a problem that they don’t. But if you believe that everyone should be able to feed/house/clothe themselves, including people who don’t have stable incomes (e.g. are in between jobs, busy caring for disabled folks, are disabled themselves, or going all in on building a bootstrapped business), then we need a system that doesn’t require you to have money in the first place to get the benefits.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
How does this suddenly make $110k jobs available to switch to?
I don’t think it does. Did I say something that implied this?