clif
@clif@lemmy.world
Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 1 week ago:
One example I like to use is to ask it for the lyrics of an extremely well known song. It just makes shit up based on the title you give it.
The online ones (Claude, chatgpt, copilot, etc) now refuse to do it for ““copyright reasons”” but the offline ones still happily oblige. I assume the online ones added that block because it was such an obvious way to prove they don’t “know” shit.
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 1 week ago:
I’d agree with this. I’m a dev, I can make things work, I can’t do art/graphics/assets/etc for shit. Give me 5 or 6 hours and I might be able to get you one image that is semi passable if the intended artistic style is “3 year old with crayons”
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 5 weeks ago:
Went to a wedding shower that was nature themed awhile back and the attendance prize was a small jar of local honey with one of these attached. I’ve never used one so I am curious to give it a try.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 5 weeks ago:
Biggest rock is best rock.
I still use this joke any time rocks or size comes up in conversation but it’s so old that nobody ever gets it and they just look at me like I had a stroke.
- Comment on All glory to the techno viking. 5 weeks ago:
I was getting “made up for a joke” vibes while reading that but this line clinched it :
“Yeah, I got angry at one of the lads and I punched a tree. But the tree fell on top of my supervisor and broke his leg. They don’t make speed like that any more,” he laughed.
Good read though. Thank you.
- Comment on All glory to the techno viking. 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure I read an explanation and it was choreographed. Now… If I could find it…
- Comment on First snake to be covered in vegan butter?!? 2 months ago:
They got really REALLY good at a particular niche. They suck at everything else.
I say this as a loving python parent.
- Comment on First snake to be covered in vegan butter?!? 2 months ago:
This tracks with my experience. “get really high… Fall off”
Lil goobers.
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 2 months ago:
They will, however, ask you for the account info/receipt to recover it. When you reply, a different help desk person will reply asking for that info you just sent. When you reply, a different help desk person will reply asking for that info you just sent. When you reply, a different help desk person will reply asking for that info you just sent.
… I got to five replies (in a chain, with history and all requested info attached) before I gave up. Just another reason I hate microsoft
- Comment on What went wrong with Pizza Hut? 2 months ago:
It’s a “deal” they always have, if you find it on their site, but any large 2 topping pizza for $9 doesn’t seem bad… As many as you want.
- Comment on Updates that don't tell me what is being updated 3 months ago:
“Bugfixes and performance improvements”
I see that one all the from big companies because it sounds nice and tells you nothing.
One of those updates a few years included embedding adware. So, thanks for that… jackhole
- Comment on Wobble wobble 3 months ago:
I forget that there are large centrifuges (somebody posted about Stuxnet further down).
Or, more accurately, I’m more familiar with the small ones (ThermoFisher calls them “Mini” and “Micro” centrifuges) for ~0.5mL samples and I had a hard time thinking that those would blow out a room. But the same link (ThermFisher) that I looked at to find the names also specifies 17,000g and 21,000g models which is just… fucking insane. I knew they spun fast, I didn’t know they spun 21,000g’s fast. Learn something new every day.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 3 months ago:
Look at the elitist over here that knows how to read : P
I never learned and you can’t make me.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 3 months ago:
I thought it was the same thing in the first frame : D
- Comment on Wobble wobble 3 months ago:
That’s awesome… And also funny that it had to be added. Thanks for the info!
I still want to know what happens on an old one without vibration detection or if it was “broken”. I assume something like an unbalanced washing machine but on a smaller scale? It just going out for a stroll :)
- Comment on Wobble wobble 3 months ago:
First frame isa centrifuge that spins samples at high speed to separate the components in them (I think that’s the purpose, not a scientist).
I hear that if it’s unbalanced, bad things happen, because you’re not spinning an unbalanced rotor at high speeds.
I honestly was coming to check the comments to see if anyone had experience with it so I could ask how bad it is.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 months ago:
I just referred to the BOFH in class last week.
… Nobody caught the reference but it made me happy.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 months ago:
Me too
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 5 months ago:
Beat me to it (by 24+ hours) ya cunt.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 6 months ago:
A web interface? Is the keyboard running a webserver or is it remotely managed by the manufacturers website?
I’m confused about configuring keyboards via web app.
- Comment on Corruption fetishists 6 months ago:
Hey! You can’t say that on the internet! You have to say
fuck - Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am. 6 months ago:
This was me on Sunday… And then also on Monday after realizing that the fan motor was janky (which might be what caused the cap to fail)
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 7 months ago:
Promise in one hand, shit in the other, let me know which one fills up first.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #7 9 months ago:
Don’t mind me, I’m just going to keep up voting these posts because they’re so well done.
- Comment on Is Half-Life Opposing Force still known to current gamers, or is this a side game that's fallen through the cracks. 1 year ago:
I replayed it on Deck a month or two back… And then Blue Shift. Still in my library from when I bought the Orange Box pre steam and then eventually registered it with my steam account
- Comment on Do the ultra-rich consume popular media? 1 year ago:
I’ve never met a mason that didn’t watch TV and listen to the radio but my sample size is only a few hundred.
- Comment on Enshittification only hurts product itself, not users. 1 year ago:
and the Mojang to Microsoft account migration for Java made a lot of people lose their accounts entirely.
Hey, it’s me. I contacted support and got a list of info they needed to fix it. I responded with that info and got a reply from a different person with a list of info they needed to fix it. I responded with that info and got a reply from a different person with a list of info they needed to fix it.
Then I said said “fuck this shit” and gave up to never play again.
- Comment on I will vote for whomever bans happy birthday. 1 year ago:
This. I go on a solo backpacking trip every year that for some reason coincides with my birthday… Weird how that works out.
- Comment on Joy & Curiosity 1 year ago:
If you like this and haven’t seen “Good Night, Oppy” you should go do that right now.
- Comment on Assassin Bug 1 year ago:
“Nature is fucking metal”