BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 1 day ago:
Yes, normally noise is cumulative
It’s pretty easy to think about this in the context of a stadium of people. One person cherring, 10 people cheering, 1000 people cheering. They produce a louder result.
- Comment on Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry 3 days ago:
A realistic take on the situation.
I fully agree, despite how much people hate AI, training itself isn’t infringement based on how copyright laws are written.
I think we need to treat it as the copier situation, the person who is distributing the copyright infringing material is at fault, not the tool used to create it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I thought you were talking about some obscure car until number 4
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 1 week ago:
They didn’t even realize covid was killing them while they died in droves, so my bet is on never.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 1 week ago:
You think it’s a kids job to learn how to become an adult themselves? What the fuck
I’m 40, with my own kids. I’ve been teaching them everything I think they should know how to do to be an adult when they move out. How to cook and clean, make a budget, fill out forms, how to show up on time, be part of a team, etc. The school is taking care of most of the academics, but I add some extra things that the school fails to cover as extensively as I’d like such as how to properly use Microsoft Excel.
What they do to grow once they’re out of the house isn’t my problem, I’m just setting the foundation and that absolutely is the job of parents and teachers.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 1 week ago:
Practice can also be on using AI.
I think a lot of this is going to boil down to companies figuring out how to determine if someone can successfully use AI to produce output faster, or lack the skillset to do so. If you manage to get through university using AI and the profs are happy with the results, why wouldn’t a company be happy with the results?
Nobody asks me if I can do the math behind the spreadsheets I build, but I couldn’t do most of it by hand at this point because it’s been so long since I practiced that.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 1 week ago:
You’re not wrong, but also you aren’t right. The basics that you need should be taught to you by your parents and at school before you move out. AI isn’t interfering with either of those at this point.
You couldn’t manage your life in the event of every possible problem either, the question then becomes which things should you know how to do yourself, and which things can be delegated.
I don’t know how to repair a car beyond changing a tire or the oil, but even that isn’t really necessary anymore since many cars don’t even come with a spare at this point and knowing how to change the oil is now irrelevant to me, since I’m using an EV.
Knowing how to ferment for preservation may come in handy for saving a couple of dollars, but it’s hardly a life saving skill anymore. Even in the event of a massive catastrophe, it’s unlikely that fermentation would come in handy before aid arrived or you were able to leave the area.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 1 week ago:
You fail to realize that in order to get AI to do anything, you have to understand what to ask it in the first place. AI is not likely to do things you can’t accomplish at all, you would have no way to validate the results and therefore it would end up causing problems (like we’re seeing with people submitting papers written by AI without reviewing them) or making some code that doesn’t even compile/run.
It’s just a tool for speeding up that work that you already know, like learning the basics of multiplication, then using a calculator for the rest of your life. You still need to understand what multiplication and division are in order to work a calculator properly.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 1 week ago:
AI all the things? Bad
AI for specific use cases? Good
I use AI probably a dozen times a week for work tasks, saving myself about 2-4 hours of work time on tasks that I know it can do easily in seconds. Simple e-mail draft? Done. Write a complex formula for excel? Easy. Generate a summary of some longer text? Yup.
It’s easy to argue that we may become dependant upon it, but that’s already true for lots of things. Would you have any idea on how to preserve food if you didn’t have a fridge? Would you have any idea on even how to get food if you didn’t have a grocery store nearby? How would you organize a party with your friends without a phone? If a computer wasn’t tracking your bank balance, how would you keep track of your money? Can you multiply 423 by 365 without using a calculator?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
There are stabilizing benefits in some cases. Traditions can be valuable, even just for show.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Even something as simple as suggesting “Hey, these figures are made in Vietnam instead of China, so they’re lower cost right now” is political. It is, as you said unavoidable.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that they’re actively impacting your ability to participate in many hobbies, or eating up funds on necessities that force you to forgo other things entirely. It’s not that we’re just repeating “tariffs bad” when talking about them, it’s that they’re actually factoring into decisions being made in order to live our life.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Maybe if some orange turd wasn’t busy fucking up everything from board games to airplanes politics wouldn’t come up so much.
Hard to have a conversation without it when there’s a massive tariff on every single product related to work, hobbies, and even just living.
- Comment on If someone is bullied to suicide/threatened to death, and they actually attempt something like that or die, will the person who told them to do so get charged? 2 weeks ago:
This has happened, the girl was found guilty of manslaughter.
- Comment on What would I need to do to successfully paint with my own menstrual blood? 2 weeks ago:
Well this is pushing the boundaries of “No Stupid Questions”
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 4 weeks ago:
Unless there’s some method for you to help them become eligible to work in your country, you legally need to put the company’s safety first. If you give different reason to hide things you could be exposing your company to liability, so the safest option for both the company and for the applicant is for you to straight up ghost them.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 4 weeks ago:
I really hope you mean to say “hiring” instead of “hitting”
The simple answer is just don’t hire them, and don’t give any reason.
- Comment on The inarguable case for banning social media for teens 4 weeks ago:
I mean, Facebook already requires ID in many cases. www.facebook.com/help/159096464162185/
You’re required to prove your age in a bunch of real life scenarios too, like buying alcohol, tobacco, or a firearm.
It is a privacy issue, but the question is on the balance is the privacy concern worse than the harms being done by youth on social media?
Given that there are literally hundreds of university studies showing how bad this shit is for kids, and leaked internal documents from the social media companies themselves, I think it’s the better choice at the moment.
- Comment on The inarguable case for banning social media for teens 4 weeks ago:
The same way Australia is doing it, a big fine for companies that don’t comply and add an age verification process to sites.
Will it work 100%? No
Will it work enough? Probably
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s not what I was taught or experienced firsthand while I was there.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It makes perfect sense, he’s asking for positive examples.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The vast majority of them are just fine, like with most tourists. The problem is there’s just massively large number of them in many tourist destinations compared to other countries (at least where I live), which means you more frequently see one acting poorly too.
The Americans are somewhat the same, we also get a lot of them.
That being said, even though most of the issues are because of sheer numbers it doesn’t mean there aren’t a few key cultural differences which can play a role in western locations being offended by Chinese behaviour.
The big one with China is that culturally there’s no expectation that you treat a stranger respectfully, the person you’re dealing with needs to earn your respect rather than having it by default. This comes across as quite rude to many other countries when you only have a single interaction with this person.
This isn’t a Chinese only issue though, Americans can also be quite rude depending on where they’re from and how they were raised, a good chunk of them are entitled assholes who think the world revolves around them when they visit.
- Comment on Since militaries are authoritarian, even in democratic countries; What would a military of a stateless/anarchist society look like? 1 month ago:
It wouldn’t work.
In order to have a military, you’d have to have at least one or more dedicated people, those people would need to be supported with resources and given that it’s a stateless society there’s zero chance that enough people would voluntarily choose to help them to allow them to operate effectively outside of a wartime event without requiring some sort of payment from everyone and then you’re back to having a state.
- Comment on What phones are the government people using that are supposedly secure enough to discuss war plans? iPhone? Android? Some special custom-made phone specifically for the government? 2 months ago:
News flash, your assumption that they’re using secure phones is false.
- Comment on how tf do you warm up plates? 2 months ago:
If you want to use the microwave for this, pop in a plate with some water, then heat it up for 1-2 minutes, take it out with something that doesn’t absorb water (or the hot water will wick through the material to your hand and burn you) dump the water in the sink and quickly wipe with a dish towel to dry before using.
Other methods include warming it in an oven set very low, or heating it in hot water from a sink or kettle.
In a restaurant, they may just grab a plate that has just come out of the dishwasher since industrial dishwashers are really fucking hot.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 2 months ago:
I do not recommend this Van gogh method
- Comment on How are batteries recycled? 2 months ago:
The simplified answer is, they get shredded, then various processes both physical and chemical are taken to extract the important materials and the rest is disposed of. Often certain metals will dissolve in specific acids or chemicals, then you can take that liquid with the specifically dissolved metal and precipitate it out.
- Comment on Why are autistic people so odd?? 2 months ago:
The simple answer is that their brain doesn’t work the same as a neurotypical person.
The question is like asking why driving a motorcycle is different than driving a car. They just function differently.
- Comment on Does not the constitution say something one should not be charged or something to vote? If so then why does my home state charge 50$ to get a regular id to vote? Is that no illegal? 2 months ago:
Loopholes baby!
- Comment on How much of a risk is it for naturalized US Citizens (or those with Derivative Citizenship) to protest against the US government, compared to natural-born US Citizens? 2 months ago:
www.uscis.gov/…/volume-12-part-l-chapter-2
Here’s the US rules for revocation of Naturalized Citizenship. It sounds like the OP has been naturalized for longer than 5 years, so essentially there is no way to do it anymore unless they had originally obtained it fraudulently.
The UK laws are actually a lot more lax in terms of reasons to revoke than these.