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- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 5 days ago:
Thank you, I will now internalize this for future silly misuse
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 5 days ago:
Can it work the other way too? Like an excessively high energy person makes a normal energy person seem less so?
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 5 days ago:
I would like to request a translation
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 1 week ago:
I also use URLCheck on my phone. Made it the default browser and it pops up with options to clean the link and choose which browser to open it with
- Comment on Anon isn't a Microsoft fan 2 weeks ago:
Extend Embrace Extinguish
- Comment on AI-generated search result descriptions 2 weeks ago:
Only if you have very limited experience searching for information. Those kinda of details should be a given. That’s my concern, that people who do not know what information is useful come to rely on these summaries and forfeit their own agency, rather than develop critical reading and decision making skills
- Comment on Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got nearly a decade of experience in competitive pistol and three-gun matches and I was never by any means competitive. The footage of what he accomplished in his training is impressive and requires a significant amount of practice and skill. Even if what I saw was only the best roll, it was no accident
- Comment on AI-generated search result descriptions 2 weeks ago:
The problem I see is that it introduces another degree of separation between the user and the wider Internet. Instead of indexing sites, browsers are trying to interpret them for us. The extreme edge case of this is not having websites at all anymore, just apps and an omniscient AI that answers anything. Cool in theory, but in practice these omniscient beings really aren’t and instead are very fallible. Presumably these tools are also owned by corporations with shareholder values that are often contrary to user values. I can only speak for myself, but I experience these summaries as a loss of control over how I interact with the Internet and a step down a path I would rather not tread.
In this example the AI also does not provide anything valuable. It only defines a forum thread in terms of the question asked.
- Comment on Bill Burr Says Stop Blaming Immigrants, Blame Billionaires | SubwayTakes Uncut [13:16] 2 weeks ago:
Now I know what’s happening
- Comment on Bill Burr Says Stop Blaming Immigrants, Blame Billionaires | SubwayTakes Uncut [13:16] 3 weeks ago:
The rest of this thread is bonkers. I have no idea what’s happening
- Comment on I Asked ChatGPT What Would Happen If Billionaires Paid Taxes at the Same Rate as the Middle Class 4 weeks ago:
Pretty incredible that an author of a finance blog needed an LLM’s help to understand taxes
- Comment on The Weathered Rover 4 weeks ago:
Gotcha, I misinterpreted
- Comment on The Weathered Rover 4 weeks ago:
This is a super interesting image. Despite the prompt having zero requirements for human body shape or secondary sexual characteristics, the generator still choose to give it breasts. I wonder what that indicates about its data set and the general use of image gen
- Comment on Nobodywantstoworkanymore!! 4 weeks ago:
I am apparently unhirable as an IT manager because I only have 8 years of experience and Sec+, and not 15 years and scrum and agile certs
- Comment on Listen here, Little Dicky 5 weeks ago:
I found math in physics to have this really fun duality of “these are rigorous rules that must be followed” and “if we make a set of edge case assumptions, we can fit the square peg in the round hole”
Also I will always treat the derivative operator as a fraction
- Comment on Posting a new delicious meal daily for a week [Day 1] 5 weeks ago:
Looks like the swedish meatballs I had in Stockholm. They told me it was a national specialty, but I think they just wanted to sell them and I, an ignorant American, bought it
- Comment on Who is up for a coleslaw popsicle? 5 weeks ago:
Unironically, for sure
- Comment on Feeling whimsical, might kms later 1 month ago:
- Comment on It burns! 1 month ago:
False Knees? One of my favorites
- Comment on This guy saved more than 150 lives in the "Miracle of the Mojave" 1 month ago:
Gotcha, makes sense
- Comment on This guy saved more than 150 lives in the "Miracle of the Mojave" 1 month ago:
I misinterpreted “not a professional pilot,” thanks. Also, I still don’t understand and will probably never watch the show, sooo I guess that’s that
- Comment on This guy saved more than 150 lives in the "Miracle of the Mojave" 1 month ago:
He flew a plane? Without a pilots licence? And that saved lives?
- Comment on What TV series has the best intro song or sequence? What TV series have the worst intro song or sequence? 2 months ago:
The intro for Scavengers Reign is the absolutely perfect complement to the show. Ethereal, melancholic, and tense, just like the atmosphere of the story. Also it’s super short. Watched it every episode
- Comment on Google Is Burying the Web Alive 2 months ago:
Still sounds like an advertising racket, except instead of paying Google to show ads, companies will pay Google to include an ad script in its AI responses. The extreme case scenario is that websites no longer exist and all Internet searches are queries to a highly regulated AI agent with zero transparency. I doubt it will get exactly that far, but the closer we get the more harm we do to accessibility of the sum total of human knowledge
- Comment on Big Plans For ‘Love, Death & Robots’ Volume 5, But Viewership Drops 50% and Ratings Plummet 2 months ago:
I was not impressed. Probably two episodes were up to their established standard. Several barely made sense, were just a showcase for an animation style, or told no story at all. Hopefully they come out swinging with a new season, but this one felt like they phoned it in
- Comment on ‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24 2 months ago:
Uh huh
- Comment on I always get into to the wrong mlm 😫 2 months ago:
Fry making Walter Koenig say it as Chekov
- Comment on Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis 2 months ago:
Virgeon
- Comment on Choose one 3 months ago:
If I were to guess it serves two purposes:
- To dampen the reaction when absolutely wailing on some piece of shit steel that warped
- Accidentally getting welded to things
- Comment on I'm telling ya Jimbo.... 3 months ago:
Fear
