Eranziel

@Eranziel@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Thread] Mental Math⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s easy enough if you’re trying to catch the ball with your face. Usually that’s not the goal, so you’ll be standing slightly to the side or the object is moving toward your stomach. ;)

  Even then, that’s discounting the whole image analysis part of the equation, which your brain does dozens of times per second with incredible accuracy. Your waste bin example would have had to do enough to differentiate the ball from the background, and that definitely qualifies as a complex algorithm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Thread] Mental Math⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked on an industrial robot once, and we parked it such that the middle section of the arm was up above the robot and supposed to be level. I could tell from 50 feet away and a glance that it wasn’t, so we checked. It was off by literally 1 degree.

  Degrees are bigger than we think, but also our eyes are incredible instruments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think (as a white dude, so take your grains of salt as you please) that a dog would make you less threatening. Makes it clearer what you’re up to, and people bringing their dogs along to mug or rape someone is exceedingly rare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way, and good for you.

  Purposefully making women afraid they’re about to get assaulted is abhorrent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people impressed with SpaceX?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He can give himself whatever titles he likes, that doesn’t mean he makes any positive technical contribution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Machine learning has many valid applications, and there are some fields genuinely utilizing ML tools to make leaps and bounds in advancements.

  LLMs, aka bullshit generators, which is where a huge majority of corporate AI investment has gone in this latest craze, is one of the poorest. Not to mention the steaming pile of ethical issues with training data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very nice writeup. My only critique is the need to “lay off workers to stop inflation.” I have no doubt that some (many?) managers etc… believed that to be the case, but there’s rampant evidence that the spike of inflation we’ve seen over this period was largely due to corporate greed hiking prices, not due to increased costs from hiring too many workers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canadian Athlete Caught Using Performance Enhancer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which athlete / event was this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no way that arming Taiwan results in Taiwan starting a war of aggression against China.

  What arming Taiwan does is make it an increasingly bad idea for China to invade Taiwan. It’s a deterrent to make sure the nuclear power who constantly threatens Taiwan (read: China) doesn’t think they can just go and take what they want without consequence, and probably commit a little genocide on the side.

  You know, like Ukraine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every damn day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would check whether that’s actually legal in your area, if I were you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many times will I tell you?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, close the lid because that’s how you avoid coating everything in the room with a film of urine and feces. Open toilets are disgusting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unsubscribe link from their emails takes you to this. You then to sign in with email and password (I don't know my password) to manage preference. I just want all out!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Don’t make a threat - just make the GDPR complaint. Inform the company if you want. How many times have you remembered to follow up on one of those threats to see if you should still make a complaint?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unsubscribe link from their emails takes you to this. You then to sign in with email and password (I don't know my password) to manage preference. I just want all out!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not infantilization. These bills are designed to prevent “one more hoop” design by the company to make it too annoying to unsubscribe. Your position assumes good faith behaviour by the company with the newsletter. That is absolutely not a given.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Long It Takes the Largest Companies in America to Make One Employee's Average Annual Salary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fine? Payroll is an expense, it does come out of revenue. Profit is what’s left over after they pay everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don’t we use radiators as heat sinks in the summer and pump cold water through them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more because of the temperature differential. The more difference between the temperature of two objects, the faster they change temperature. A radiator with 50 degree water is ~30 degrees warmer than the room (or 80+ degrees for a steam rad), while cold water is going to be 10-15 degrees cooler than the room. Any colder and you need to use not-water so it doesn’t freeze. Condensation or frost is also a big concern to avoid property damage.