krashmo
@krashmo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Fuck the law 1 week ago:
Nice, it should be even easier to sneak a chicken past a guy in a wheelchair.
- Comment on Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis breaks 25% of the law. 1 week ago:
We’re calling them freedom tacos now you god damn xenophobe.
- Comment on What do you do with Nazi memorabilia? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you need to deface it. You could even display it if you’re so inclined. Just make it clear to people who see it that you aren’t a Nazi sympathizer in the same way you’ve done here and you’ll be fine.
- Comment on Report: Warner Bros. Execs Thought Suicide Squad Would Make A Ton Of Money Despite Development Woes 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. I would say an MBA is only useful if your undergrad degree was in something other than business. It is meant to add management skills to an already skilled individual. If you don’t have any other skills it’s just an expensive piece of paper that, at least to me, signifies essentially the same thing as being the boss’s son would. You probably aren’t very good at anything but always think you’re the smartest person in the room.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
My kid regularly gets a little bit of shit in his underwear and I’ll catch him sneakily changing his pants. When I ask him what happened he always says he was having too much fun to stop and go to the bathroom. If a kid was sick and excited about something, like the Hornet’s mascot showing up to school, I could easily see something like this happening.
- Comment on Report: Warner Bros. Execs Thought Suicide Squad Would Make A Ton Of Money Despite Development Woes 3 weeks ago:
MBAs have no useful skills and yet they run every company in existence.
- Comment on How come no true use for recent AI developments has been found yet? 3 weeks ago:
Current gen AI is pretty mediocre. It’s not much more than the bastard child of a search engine and every voice assistant that has been around for the last ten years. It has the potential to be a stepping stone to fantastic future tech, but that’s been true of tons of different technologies for basically as long as we’ve been inventing things.
AI is not good enough to replace the majority of workers yet. It summarizes information pretty well and can be helpful with drafting any sort of document, but so was Clippy. When it doesn’t know something it can lie confidently. Lie isn’t really the right word but I’ll come back to that concept in a second. Incorrect information is frustrating in most cases but it can be deadly when presented by a source that is viewed as trustworthy, and what could be more trustworthy than an AI with access to the collective knowledge of mankind? Well, unfortunately for us AI as we know it isn’t really intelligent and the databases they’re trained on also contain the collective stupidity of mankind.
That brings us back to the concept of lying and what I view as the fundamental flaw of current AI; namely that any sort of data interpretation can only be as good as the data it describes. ChatGPT isn’t lying to you when it says you can put glue on your cheese pizza, it’s just pointing out that someone who said that got a lot of attention. Unfortunately it leaves out all the context which could have told you that pizza would not be fit to consume and presents the fact that it was a popular answer as if that is the only thing that defines the best answer. There’s so much more that needs to be taken into account, so much unconscious human experience being drawn from when an actual human looks at something and tries to categorize or describe it. All of that necessary context is really difficult to impart to a computer and right now we’re not very good at that essential piece of the puzzle.
If we could assume that all datasets analyzed by AI were free from human error, AI would be taking over the word right now. However, that’s not the world we live in. All data has errors. Some are easy to spot but many are not. AI firms are getting companies to salivate at the idea of easy manipulation of data in one form or another. They aren’t worried about the errors in the data because they view that as someone else’s problem and the companies all think their data is good enough that it won’t be an issue. Both are wrong. That’s exactly why you hear a lot of talk about AI right now and not all that much practical application beyond replacing customer service reps, especially in the business world. Companies are finding out that years of bad practices have left them with a dataset full of errors. Can they find a way to get AI to correct those errors? In some cases yes, in others no. In either case the missing piece preventing a full scale AI takeover is all that human background context necessary for relevant data interpretation. If we find a way to teach that to an AI then the world is going to look vastly different than it does today, but we’re not there yet.
- Comment on Leaked still from the French pokemon reboot 3 weeks ago:
Onhh hnhh hnhh, wii wii
- Comment on How do you get into wild camping, it seems so overwhelming and a lot of information to try and gather? 4 weeks ago:
No problem. I’m not an expert in any of these topics but I have been camping and backpacking for a good chunk of my life so feel free to ask any specific questions you may have now or in the future.
- Comment on How do you get into wild camping, it seems so overwhelming and a lot of information to try and gather? 4 weeks ago:
Bushcraft is a good search term if you want to go as old school as possible. Ultralight is similar but using more modern equipment. Backpacking is the general term for long trips through the woods. Any of those will get you some good info on YouTube or various blogs to start with.
In warmer weather you can have a fine weekend with a very small amount of gear. A water filter, a dehydrated meal or two, and a small camp stove would be just fine for a beginner and shouldn’t cost too much for the basic version of any of them. Obviously many people would also want a tent and/or sleeping bag but you can decide how you want to handle that. Sleeping outside isn’t so bad and helps you appreciate a tent much more. Hammock camping is fairly popular as well so maybe consider that option if you want at least a bit of shelter without commiting to buying a tent right away.
I wouldn’t recommend foraging for food until you have some experience just being out there. Maybe bring a book about local plants on your first trip so that you can work on identifying them without the stress of them being your only food source.
The biggest piece of advice is just to get out there and see how it goes. Maybe you’ll love the freedom and challenge of having very little gear with you or maybe you’ll hate not having one specific comfort. Just pick a spot relatively close to civilization for your first trip so you can get out of any trouble you might find yourself in and you’ll be fine. Decide how you want the next trip to go based on the first one and just keep getting building from there.
- Comment on natural wonders 4 weeks ago:
Sure but they need to be at least a little bit believable and have a clear beneficiary or else they don’t serve much of a purpose. It’s pretty easy to see why various groups of people would have wanted JFK dead, or to fake the moon landing, or hide the fact that vaccines cause autism, or cover up alien abductions, or any of the other conspiracy theories you normally hear about. Flat earth just seems so benign in comparison.
- Comment on natural wonders 4 weeks ago:
I have so many questions about flat earth theory. Many practical questions like you noted but also more general stuff like who benefits from it? Conspiracies usually have some secret order hiding the truth in order to maintain power or enrich themselves. What difference does it make to anyone what shape the earth is? It doesn’t seem like it benefits anyone to deceive the world about that. Maybe globe makers since a 3D object is more expensive than a map on a piece of paper?
These questions pop into my head every time the topic gets brought up but I don’t make the effort to look into it because at the end of the day it feels like a pointless exercise to peer into the mind of a lunatic looking for rationality.
- Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo 5 weeks ago:
Except most people don’t give a shit about Dolby. Even audophiles mostly don’t care about them as a company or the fact that they’re involved beyond the games ability to support high end output devices. Put that garbage on the box or in the credits at the end of the game where it belongs
- Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo 5 weeks ago:
They’re so pointless too. What are they even expecting forcing them in our faces to accomplish? You either care about audio or you don’t. Seeing your logo isn’t going to change that
- Comment on Anon has a realization 1 month ago:
This meme is making me question my whole life. They’re not supposed to do that 😔
- Comment on For Edible Bug Fans, Cicadas Are Noisy Lobsters of the Trees | This year’s emergence presents an opportunity to cook up the trillion cicadas from two regional broods. 1 month ago:
I would definitely like to murder them but I’ll I’ll pass on the eating bit, thanks.
- Comment on Lightning bugs 1 month ago:
I don’t mind most insects but wasps can go fuck themselves. They are one of very few living things I will go out of my way to kill when I see them. Ticks and bedbugs are the other two.
- Comment on geoengineering 2 months ago:
Overpopulation doesn’t usually lead to extinction. Mass die-offs sure, but not extinction.
- Comment on Ah, the Nordic spring. 2 months ago:
Power washers clean everything
- Comment on California law would give employees the 'right to disconnect' during nonworking hours 2 months ago:
Is it really a widespread thing for people to get in trouble for not doing this? I’ve never answered an email or phone call while off work or on vacation and not once has anyone brought it up. The only people I see doing this are the people that do it of their own free will.
- Comment on Derps of Tiktok 2 months ago:
Interesting. Yeah I never heard of that movie so you may be correct.
- Comment on Derps of Tiktok 2 months ago:
What’s an example or two? I certainly haven’t seen them all but I’ve seen a fair amount of the ones I know about.
- Comment on Derps of Tiktok 2 months ago:
I’m not necessarily saying they are all on the same level but rather that they all, or at least all I’ve seen, capture that same late 90s or early 2000s vibe pretty well. Whether or not that vibe still appeals to you is a different story.
- Comment on Derps of Tiktok 2 months ago:
I think that has more to do with you maturing than the movies aging poorly. When I say timeless I mean they all depict a specific cultural perspective very well. It’s not as common as it once was but it certainly still exists.
- Comment on Derps of Tiktok 2 months ago:
If you’re implying he’s not then you and I are about to have fisticuffs. His comedy is timeless in an innocent sort of way and his dramas are surprisingly good. Critics don’t seem to like him for the most part but I don’t think anyone likes them so who cares.
- Comment on Derps of Tiktok 2 months ago:
Anytime it gets mentioned there’s always some neckbeard with who defines anything on the internet as social media making that exact comment too. “Lemmy is social media hehehe” as if there’s no difference between this and and FB.
- Comment on A handy reference 3 months ago:
I’m pretty particular about my there, their, and they’re but what you described happens to me all the time. My phone defaults to using “it’s” and, unlike many other scenarios, I don’t feel like correcting that one is worth the time it takes to do so.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 has "performed well ahead of expectations" and topped more than 8m sales 3 months ago:
What do you mean about the controls? I have no complaints in that realm but maybe I’m overlooking something.
- Comment on Here I go hate criming again 3 months ago:
It’s not careless use you’re just trying to be the gatekeeper of which uses are acceptable and which aren’t. Your interpretation isn’t automatically right just because it’s yours.
Besides, you’re trying to cast boomers as some marginalized group of people when they’re the wealthiest generation in the richest nation in the history of the world. That’s objectively a dumb position to take.
In summary, and in the clearest language I can muster, there is no award for being offended on behalf of the most people so quit being such a whiny little bitch about everything.
- Comment on Here I go hate criming again 3 months ago:
Language is like that. You can read into it what you want to in many cases. If you don’t want to accept what I’m telling you I mean when I say something then that’s fine. Just know at that point you’re giving more weight to your own assumptions than you are to what the speaker intended to convey and that’s the opposite of how listening is supposed to work.