thebestaquaman

@thebestaquaman@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm the whale game devs never expected or wanted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I like the games where all the enemies simply level up along with you. That way you never get the super-boring enemies that you can just walk all over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do I keep doing this????⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to elaborate on this, please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do I keep doing this????⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is completely possible without having anything close to ADHD. Stop making everything a symptom of ADHD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A human with no experience in the field is liable to recognise that fact and start asking questions, showing doubt and learning. That’s infinitely better than spewing incorrect bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I do think the average accepted stackoverflow answer displays far more competence than the average human.

  One of the few things I use LLM’s for is giving me overviews of best-practice in things I’m not familiar with (before reading the posts I find to get more in-depth understanding)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what people have done for millennia though. It’s literally the reason you have heat in the winter and aren’t living in a cave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That isn’t what bothers me the most though. Earlier today I read a piece by a “tech journalist” in a paper I normally respect as doing proper work. The mentioned that one of the guys behind Claude says that Claude writes absolutely all their code now. They also said they did a test of one of the most recent models (released earlier this week), and that it wrote “A full Amazon-cloud based page that did various verification and authentication jobs, was about 67 000 lines of code, and was approved by the IT department in minutes in an afternoon”. The last part tells me they have no clue what they’re talking about. They just generated 67 000 lines of potential bugs that works, and which wasn’t reviewed by anyone competent. Nobody reviews 67 000 lines of code in a day, let alone minutes. Just the fact that they thought generating a shitload of boilerplate (most of the lines were likely that) impressive, says enough.

  It’s not your average Joe thinking this is cool that bothers me (it is cool). It’s when allegedly competent people start thinking the LLM actually has any idea what it’s doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say that this directly targets the people that can already clearly afford the fines easily enough that they keep speeding enough to get caught. Someone that is severely hurt by the fines are already likely to be deterred from speeding by the fines. This addresses the people that eat the fines and keep speeding again and again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Draw!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen an interview with a guy that said, with a straight face, “for legal reasons I’m not allowed to disclose to you whether or not I have an NDA with <company>”.

  I’m pretty sure they make NDAs where you’re not allowed to disclose the other party as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one of the most fundamental principles of chemistry and physics. It was discovered by Antoine Lavoisier in the late 18th century, and you can only meaningfully break it during nuclear reactions (fusion/fission). If any container is gaining mass, it is either a dying star or there is more mass entering the container than leaving it. This also applies to the human body: If you are gaining mass, it is because there is more going in than out, otherwise you’ve broken pretty much all known physics (or you’re about to go supernova).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You won’t gain net weight my that mechanism though, you’ll just grow more dense. Mass is a conserved quantity, so if you’re gaining more muscle mass than you’re losing fat, that extra mass is coming from somewhere. That somewhere is your food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or conclude that they were accumulating mass some other way, such as

  • Accumulating water
  • Being severely constipated
  • Some obscure bone disease that causes them to accumulate absurd amounts of minerals

  My bet would be on (1) and/or (2).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Water content could be increasing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I spend more time than I would like to admit on reddit 50/50…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's dad is a tailor⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf. a bunch of people (myself included) are very careful of calling something out unless there’s very good reason to believe it’s LLM crap. There’s really no reason to believe this greentext is generated by an LLM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, that’s definitely true! I was honestly surprised at how much response I got to what was initially meant as a semi-joke :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Preserving fish is great! You can salt it, dry it, ferment it, smoke it, pickle it, soak it in lye (we have a dedicated word for that), aand that’s about it :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe I’ve read that potato’s were, for a significant period of time, the average Norwegians primary source of vitamin C. Not because it contains loads of vitamin C, but because people ate them by the boatload. (Don’t peel them, that gives you scurvy)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of berries around. You can pick 10 L of blueberries in not too many man-hours, the same goes for cloud berries. Lingon berries are also abundant for that matter.

  As mentioned, they definitely had these things as part of their diet, but it was nowhere near being a primary calorie source. The reason for that is probably that fishing or harvesting seagull eggs was a much, much more efficient way to get the calories you need. When you’re already sustenance farming, you typically maximise efficiency when possible. My primary point was really that when maximising calorie-efficiency (which they largely did) you end up living primarily off boiled fish and boiled potatoes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Source: Grandparents that grew up on a plot of land (read: hunk of rock) on the west coast and lived off sustenance farming (which includes a significant amount of fishing) as late as the 1930’s.

  Sure, berries and some other foraging products was part of their diet, but not a very significant one. It was mostly whatever would grow on that plot. Mostly potatoes and onions, with some other minor stuff. While berries are abundant, picking them gives you a lot fewer calories per man-hour than fishing, so fishing takes priority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Significant point: “Edible” is subject to discussion. Not more than 100 years ago, the expected diet in large parts of Norway was boiled fish, boiled potatoes, and some form of boiled grain. For every meal. Your entire life. Vitamins? Go chew on that shrub until the scurvy goes away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I seem to remember reading that the US navy comes in second (which makes sense considering that a single carrier has a larger air wing than most countries air forces) but the point still stands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing could go wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For all the shit that can (and should) be thrown for the blatantly illegal attack on Venezuela: Putins wet dream is that he could have pulled off the same attack against Ukraine.

  Full disclaimer: The attack on Venezuela’s integrity is horrendous and I condemn it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if I ever have grandkids that is⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the point is that the military, I assume in most countries, can accept a completely different risk picture for soldiers that society at large can accept for civilians. Thus, the military can viably mandate a vaccine that causes severe side effects in e.g. 1/1000 cases, given that the alternative (a serious disease spreading in the ranks) is worse.

  Remember that by far most military casualties have historically been due to disease and other conditions not directly related to the enemies weapons. The militaries primary job is to remain combat effective, even if it means mandating a vaccine that is known to cause casualties. This kind of approach would never be acceptable for civilian society at large, where society is deemed responsible for protecting every individual. The military isn’t. It’s primarily responsible for protecting the civilian society, even at the cost of exposing soldiers to high risk scenarios.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belief⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One has to wonder if that’s truly a highly specific incompetence, or intentional.

  I’ll apply Hanlons razor again: These people are stupid, therefore doing “everything in their power” involves using woefully ineffective means to achieve their goal. I have no problem believing that most anti-abortionists genuinely believe that they’re trying to save innocent lives. However, being relatively dumb people means they are primarily driven by feelings rather than logic, and are easily manipulated. This results in them using the means that they “feel” should be effective, rather than proven methods. It also means that the few people that actively are looking to oppress others can manipulate their feelings to make them support means that hurt the people they’re trying to help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anything from the lemmy universe ever went viral before Reddit or Tictac or Insta?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know for certain, but can’t really imagine that being the case. There are several reasons I can’t imagine something going viral off lemmy per now:

  1. The combined user mass of lemmy is probably smaller than the critical mass needed to really go viral 1a. This could be “worked around” if someone reposted from lemmy to some other, larger network. Still, I wouldn’t say that meant something “went viral off lemmy”, since that would imply it went viral before being reposted.

  2. Lemmy doesn’t (by default) push heavily to get trending stuff into everyones feed. 2a. I say “by default” because I’m assuming someone could set up an instance designed around maximising the views of trending material.

  3. Slightly related to 1, but afaik, there are few, if any, very big social media personalities on here. For something to go viral, you’re basically reliant on either an algorithm catching on to your stuff and shoving it in everyone’s face or some person with a huge following shoving it in everyone’s face.

  4. The very system of lemmy (following communities rather than users) makes it extremely difficult for any individual user to gather a large enough following to make things go viral by posting/sharing them

  Basically: Too small user mass, no big personalities, and a “following system”/visibility algorithm built around promoting interesting and healthy media consumption rather than cultish behaviour prevents things from going viral off lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨w e a k n e s s⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny, creative, smart woman that makes a living messing around with building cool stuff… was there anyone that didn’t have at least a little crush on her?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"i can hear the difference"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so glad this is illegal where I’m from

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  With modern tv/streaming, tickets aren’t a limited resource anymore, in the sense that by far most of the viewers are not in place live.

  Sure, you could price live tickets following “normal” market rules, since you still have the practical limitation regarding the number of people living in reasonable distance from the stadium. The idea of using pricing to regulate demand/consumption for streaming services doesn’t really make sense the same way, since the marginal cost of another viewer is essentially zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to admit that, without wanting to defend absurd wages for anyone, there’s a pretty decent explanation in the case of athletes. If you’re one of the top ten boxers in the world, there are tens (hundreds?) of millions of people that want to see your matches. It’s not unreasonable to ask for some compensation for providing entertainment, so let’s say each viewer is paying 1 USD / match. After paying the costs of setting up the match, you’re still left with millions of dollars per match.

  Specially in the case of top-level athletes, we’re in a situation where very may people want to see very few people provide entertainment. Even if they take a very low price, they’re still going to be making buckets of money. I don’t really think that would be unfair, provided they actually charged some small amount. What irritates me is that the sports associations have decided to charge absurd amounts to squeeze people fore mine to make even more. That should definitely be illegal.