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- Comment on The heart we can't neglect indeed 5 days ago:
Wealth isn’t zero sum, it’s created all the time (and at a rate literally not achievable simply by underpaying employees, to pre-refute the expected response).
Explain. In a very basic sense wealth is created by acquiring resources (some of which are finite), then adding value through labor. So, the way I see it, the workers are creating the wealth, then the business/owners/investors/shareholders take a significant portion of the employees’ surplus value of labor. I.e. there is a pie of value/wealth that an employee creates, and the more of that pie the business/owners/investors/shareholders get, the less the workers/wealth-creators get.
- Comment on Tea Time 1 week ago:
I’ve never used it, but the idea is that nutrient uptake will be faster than if someone just dressed the top of the soil with compost. The extra aerobic bacteria could also be beneficial.
- Comment on meme 1 month ago:
I guess most of what I’ve heard from her wasn’t “bad,” but it wasn’t “good,” I’d describe it as just “uninteresting.” It’d probably start annoying me if I had to listen to a full album of hers, because it’s not the type of music I enjoy at all.
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 1 month ago:
4o scores worse on some benchmarks than 4. 4o is just faster and uses less resources.
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 1 month ago:
One hypothesis is that having more tokens to process lets it “think” longer. Chain of Thought prompting where you ask the LLM to explain its reasoning before giving an answer works similarly. Also, LLMs seem to be better at evaluating solutions that coming up with them, so there is a Tree of Thought technique, where the LLM is asked to generate multiple examples of a reasoning step then pick the “best” reasoning for each reasoning step.
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 1 month ago:
The set up is similar this well-known puzzle: en.wikipedia.org/…/Wolf,_goat_and_cabbage_problem
It was probably trained on this puzzle thousands of times. There are problem solving benchmarks for LLMs, and LLMs are probably over-trained on puzzles to get their scores up. When asked to solve a “puzzle” that looks very similar to a puzzle it’s seen many times before, it’s improbable that the solution is simple, so it gets tripped up. Kinda like people getting tripped up by “trick questions.”
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 1 month ago:
I tried it once with GPT-4o, GPT-4, and GPT-3.5, Meta AI, and Gemini. They all failed. Pretty interesting.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 month ago:
A lot of industrial produced food is cheap because of child, forced, and otherwise exploited labor (undocumented workers, for example). Heavily mechanized farming (mostly used for grains) is cheap because of the vast amount of fossil fuel “energy slaves” used. And that’s only cheap because the costs are externalized.
Anyways, growing your own food can definitely be cheaper than buying it. Of course, not if you start plants under lights, build raised beds and fill them with purchased soil, buy organic pelletized fertilizer, or stuff like that. It can be nearly free to grow your own food (if you don’t count the cost of your own labor) by saving seeds and intercepting materials from waste streams (wood chips, lawn clippings, manure, used coffee grounds, etc) to “feed your soil.”
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 month ago:
What are the solutions to #4? Had that problem this year. Something killed about a 1/4 of my tomato and pepper starts because they were still really small when it was time to plant them outdoors (guessing snails or cutworms; I have a lot of both).
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 2 months ago:
CK2 was a complete game at launch IIRC. They just kept releasing new DLC for it for many years, much of which was outside the scope of the original game (playing as Arabic rulers, vikings, Indians, etc). I think that’s fine. Them selling music, portraits, and new models separately was kinda shitty though.
- Comment on I miss windows 4 months ago:
Wages are usually much lower in rural areas (if there are even jobs available), so this still applies. And, as others have said, there’s plenty of pollution caused by farms and factories in rural areas. I grew up in a rural area, and still remember the seasonal smell of cow manure, and the river that was so polluted you could only eat 1 fish per month from it. I also got a check from a class action lawsuit because a waste disposal facility caught on fire and spewed toxic smoke all over a 50 mile radius. And a local factory got caught just dumping toxic waste in the ground.
- Comment on Why has the world gone to shit? 5 months ago:
Eh, I’m not sure what position Bezos has now. If I ran Amazon, I’d probably covertly support unionization of the entire workforce. I don’t really care about a luxurious lifestyle, and don’t plan on having kids to give an inheritance to, so yeah, I’d probably just give almost all away and buy a small farm to garden in and work on open source projects or something. Like, that’s my dream. It would actually be really hard to figure out how to give all that money away. Could provide the initial funding to like 100,000 decently sized worker-coops I guess.
- Comment on Why has the world gone to shit? 5 months ago:
Yeah, I agree. Our economic system and some of our culture encourages and rewards antisocial behavior.
- Comment on Why has the world gone to shit? 5 months ago:
Nah, only about 5% of the population have antisocial personality disorders. That’s a lot of people, but not “most.”
- Comment on A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this? 5 months ago:
Layoffs make no sense when companies can afford to retain their workers. Layoffs typically hurt companies for 3 years after they happen: hbr.org/…/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about-la…
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 5 months ago:
Fucking Ridgid got me, because on paper, they have lifetime warranties on their batteries. But after buying an expensive combo, they made it an absolute hassle to register my tools, so I kinda doubt they’ll honor their warranty. Now I’m Ridgid + Dewalt. My corded tools and hand tools are whatever brand; harbor freight or walmart if not used often, Milwaukee, DeWalt, etc if I expect to use them often.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
Google has a great advantage in the SEO cat-and-mouse game (being able to hire and pay many very smart people). I think part of the problem is that Google has an incentive to not penalize pages with excessive and intrusive AdSense ads.
- Comment on Outdoor plants are a different breed 5 months ago:
Yeah, I don’t trust the infrastructure around me very much. I get multiple boil notices a year, and the last water quality report said I had a “safe” level of uranium in my water. I just run all the water I drink and cook with through a Zero pitcher filter now. Not sure if it filters out uranium though, lol.
- Comment on Outdoor plants are a different breed 5 months ago:
You could try sowing grass native to your area. Or, better yet, kill your lawn: piped.video/watch?v=xYdLfkJcfok
- Comment on Plummeting interest rate 6 months ago:
Nah, I don’t think that’s common. A lot of men swipe right on every woman, get a match with something like 1% of those, get a chat response with 0.1%, arrange a date with 0.01%, and have 100% back out of the date. At least that was my experience for a couple months of using dating apps, lol.
- Comment on Anon notes racism in hentai 6 months ago:
Yeah, most hentai I’ve seen is censored and/or involves characters that are drawn and act like high-school girls (and sometimes are explicitly high-school girls). I don’t like live-action Japenese porn either, because it’s censored and the actresses act weird.
The only hentai I can remember liking was Bible Black, and another one that I can’t remember the name of about a guy being accepted into some kind of wierd all-girls university. Wait… I think even Bible Black was set in highschool.
- Comment on Anon notes racism in hentai 6 months ago:
It’s over-done, but I sometimes like step-porn, and I’ve never felt like I wanted to do actual incest; step family or otherwise, lol. I like my porn to have some kind of minimal story/lead-up, and I guess step-porn is an easy way to do that. I don’t think I would like the very vanilla porn you described though :) Threesome, orgy, and ganbang porn is what I usually watch (if it has some kind of lead-up). I kinda miss when they used to make actual porn “movies” with some kind of plot.
- Comment on Would it make sense for a person in a "privileged class" to move from a red state? 10 months ago:
As someone has mentioned before, it’s more of a rural/urban divide. Rural northern states are also full of rednecks. In my experience, rural Texan bigots are a lot more overt though. Stopped at a gas station in rural Texas once with my girlfriend (now ex), and the old women at the register refused to ring us up (because my girlfriend was black).
- Comment on Would it make sense for a person in a "privileged class" to move from a red state? 10 months ago:
I’m left of the DNC (a socialist), so wouldn’t be a problem. Only things “right” about me are I like target shooting, and dislike restrictive zoning laws.
- Comment on Would it make sense for a person in a "privileged class" to move from a red state? 10 months ago:
Recreational marijuana is illegal in PA. I’ve kinda been using recreational marijuana laws as a litmus test on how authoritarian a state is. Also, I do sometimes use marijuana, and don’t want to go to jail. I’ve had a few close-calls here in Texas (once, the cops just stole my weed). Been looking at rural NY as a possibility. I may visit some intentional communities there soon.
- Comment on Would it make sense for a person in a "privileged class" to move from a red state? 10 months ago:
Yeah, I know. I grew up in a very rural area, and now live in a major metro area. It’s not so much the people in my area that I have a problem with, it’s the state government. I’ve met plenty of like-minded people in my area, and most have been contemplating moving out of state as well, lol. I’m trying to figure out where I want to set down roots at, and right now it seems like a gamble that Texas won’t become more authoritarian in ways that negatively affect me as time goes on. Even current legislation could negatively affect me if my life circumstances change.
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- Comment on Is the daily down time of lemmy.world because of attacks, system instability, or some kind of resource issue? 10 months ago:
Lemmy uses the Diesel ORM. Lemmy uses a large collection of Rust libraries, so I guess you could say they rolled their own framework. I’ve never encountered a framework that I believe could handle non-trivial high-traffic web applications. I worked on a project that used Django for years. By the time we were done, we bypassed almost all of Django’s functionality to get it to scale with our data and users.