SmoothLiquidation

@SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finally gets a gf⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is why you need a 3-2-1 backup strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toilet Time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got one that has a normal handle, but you lift for a half flush and push down for a full one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s your favorite “flop” of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dark City is my favorite flop movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s your favorite “flop” of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It felt to me that the studios told the directors that they were going to reboot the franchise if they didn’t make a new one, so the writers decided to just make that the plot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Testing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No sir, I don’t like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Good Night's Rest⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When the mafia finally catches my bass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love to say “before the turn of the century” when referring to stuff like 1997.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marge Sort⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t matter. You check the first of each group and pick the smallest, then compare the one you didn’t pick with the next one of the other group. In your example, you would pick all of the ones from the right side and once it is empty, just add all the ones on the left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marge Sort⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you merge two sorted lists, you only have to compare the first element of each, since you can trust that all of the other elements are bigger. All the steps before that are there to make sure that is true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest, that seems like it should be the one thing they are reliably good at. It requires just looking up info on their database, with no manipulation.

  That’s not how they are designed at all. LLMs are just text predictors. If the user inputs something like “A B C D E F” then the next most likely word would be “G”.

  Companies like OpenAI will try to add context to make things seem smarter, like prime it with the current date so it won’t just respond with some date it was trained on, or look for info on specific people or whatnot, but at its core, they are just really big auto fill text predictors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every "non-smoking" section in a restaurant⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in the states and haven’t seen a smoking section of a restaurant or bar since around the turn of the century. There are ones which have smoking tables outside too close to the door, which sucks.

  It’s funny watching old movies like Airplane where he was buying a plane ticket and she asked “smoking or non-smoking” and you remember that people used to smoke while trapped in an airplane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn’t Still Better Than Streaming Digital⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I purchase physical media and then rip them, with all the extras, to my Jellyfin server. Best of both worlds.

  I get to vote with my wallet on what I like and I don’t have to worry about my shows disappearing on me when I want to watch them again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨J IS LORD⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That show was surprisingly good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took the DVD boom era for granted⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a good size collection that I have ripped for use on Jellyfin. I make sure to gram the extras and sort them where they belong.

  I remember setting the metadata for the Thermian language track for Galaxy Quest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBC created the perfect template for Star Trek to follow with future comedies⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of people assume they know what classic trek is about without even watching it. Hence the surprise when they realize that it’s “woke”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is There A Source For Unbiased Election Results As They Happen?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This show was brought to you by viewers like you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Someone should have gotten sued over Kangaroo Jack for deceiving trailer⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the trailer for “Cuffs” made it look like a buddy cop comedy that will be full of hilarious jokes. Went to see the movie and the jokes in the trailer were all the jokes in the movie. The rest was dark and depressing and I felt cheated after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to try before you buy⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No sir, I don’t like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the flies⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t read the study, but most of these would need a placebo group, so divide the herd into thirds, one with no paint, one with stripes, and one fully painted white to get a baseline for each group. Also would be good to randomize which group each cow goes in each day so to rule out one cow who is especially tasty to flies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't do it.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can even use this argument to avoid mowing the lawn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨33,000 Boeing workers lose health care coverage⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first thing we need to do to fix healthcare in this country is to decouple health insurance from our jobs. If you lose your job you should not lose your health benefits. And no, cobra is not a substitute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hotness aside, I actually prefer the taste of pretty much any pepper over jalapeños.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would add scooping dog shit is another test. There are people out there who will bag the shit and then leave the bag on the ground for the poop to steam in for a few days before they put another bag right next to it to keep it company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would Rankine not be an absolute?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#notaworm⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These are part of their own family of invertebrates.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onychophora

  Insects are a specific family that have 6 legs. So a bee or an ant are insects but a spider or a rolls polly is not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a problem and I don’t have a solution for. It is tricky balancing free press and letting the rich just say whatever the fuck they want, but none of this is a new problem and I do believe that we can find a way to figure it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trusting your sources has always been a problem. Newspapers have always been able to lie and it is up to the consumer to know the difference between the tabloid and the rest.

  I don’t think there is that much of a difference between lying in print and lying in video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Alpha Centauri was awesome, but so were a lot of the other games. Colonization was a lot of fun. Call to Power is the civ game I want a real sequel to. Going way into the future tech was a lot of fun, and being able to build cities at the bottom of the ocean.

  Of course, I think the whole franchise has gone downhill since Civ IV, so take my opinion as you will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never noticed it was him in X-Men: Apocalypse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This was very common in old-school Hollywood. It’s why we have the term Movie Stars. People would go out of their way to watch an Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cary Grant, whoever movie, when the people who were really good character actors slipped in the background just making movies better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every base is base 10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh yes, let’s introduce floating point rounding errors for one half. Sounds fun.