h3ndrik
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- Comment on Anon meets his gf's parents 4 months ago:
And too obvious.
- Comment on Anon meets his gf's parents 4 months ago:
Hmm, you’d think. But actually health insurance works here. It’s nothing to brag about. I rarely hear people talking about it. At least not more than they talk about their households contents insurance. (I mean guns in the USA alzo aren’t something that’s exceptional… so you might have a point.)
- Comment on Anon meets his gf's parents 4 months ago:
So, what do we as Europeans whip out and place on the coffee table to make a statement?
- Comment on A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels 5 months ago:
Seems the two German supermarket chains really like to have the same infrastructure everywhere. Everywhere I go the Aldis look exactly the same. They have different products depending on the country. But the price tags, interior, … is basically the same. Okay and we don’t have “Flaschenpfand” everywhere… (deposit on the plastic bottles and the machines where you can return bottles.) I bet all of this makes it a lot easier for their techs. And it could also explain why they sometimes redo a store that still looks fine.
- Comment on A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels 5 months ago:
They’re already widely adopted in supermarkets here (Germany).
- Comment on Anon wants to ride a zeppelin 5 months ago:
Anon could ride a blimp
- Comment on Has Generative AI Already Peaked? - Computerphile 6 months ago:
I think that’s a good question. And a nice video. The findings in the paper seem to arrive at that conclusion and we might need to find a better approach. Mind that (as he pointed out) it doesn’t rule out growth in AI. It just hints at probable stagnation with the current methods. I’m already fascinated by the current tech and the new possibilities. But AI is really hyped as of now and I toi, think we should take the claims of the big AI companies with a grain of salt.
- Comment on Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests 6 months ago:
It’s a shame that nowadays everything “needs” a phone number. I just put in a proper prefix code and then all zeroes as a number if some company forces me to. That works some of the times. Some stores even print that on a shipping label. So it might supposedly be there for a reason. But I’ve never heard this helps if a parcel gets lost or something. They won’t call anyways and the real reason is they can store it in some database and depending on the exact business do all kinds of other stuff with it.
- Comment on Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests 6 months ago:
Seems in this case they got own domains and independent stores.
And Aliexpress and Temu are very different. Aliexpress seems to be a halfway decent platform. Never had any major issues with them, except what’s to be expected when importing stuff from China. I think it’s very similar to ordering the same thing on eBay.
Temu isn’t. That platform is made to harvest data and prey on their “customers”.
And I can’t comment on Wish. I haven’t been interested in cheap crap.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 6 months ago:
Yeah, I think I get it. I mean the analogy is a bit flawed. What she invented is that alike synchronizing the rolls of player pianos, you could build a mechanism that hops frequencies (instead of piano keys) to make remote controlling torpedos resilient against jamming.
Idk. To me it feels like calling the inventor of three-wheeled vehicles the father/mother of cars, if we want to stay with that analogy. It’s remotely related, not an integral part and nowadays solved differently. But the first car was a tricycle. (Benz Patent-Motorwagen)
But I don’t want to invalidate her achievements either…
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 6 months ago:
Hehehe, you can call her the mother of early 802.11 (and Bluetooth).
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 6 months ago:
But that’s not part of 802.11n or 802.11g or a or what we call “Wifi”… 802.11 in itself is a pretty long standard, including all kinds of different things.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 6 months ago:
Wifi doesn’t use frequency hopping. That’s bluetooth.
- Comment on Reactionary memes when sorting by new 6 months ago:
Hmm, I can’t believe that. Usually it takes a few minutes for me. Ocassionally I see some spam or hateful comments in my feed. And they disappear within minutes.
- Comment on Reactionary memes when sorting by new 6 months ago:
Nice, superb. Now they just need to delete the posts. The accounts already show up as “banned”.
- Comment on Reactionary memes when sorting by new 6 months ago:
Yeah, please report those accounts.
- Comment on teachings 7 months ago:
|x| = sqrt(…)
would be correct.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? 7 months ago:
Hmm, I think summarization is a bad example. I’ve read quite some summaries that miss the point, sum up to the point where the simplification makes it wrong or the AI added things or paraphrased and made things at least ambiguous. Even with the state of the art tech. Especially if the original texts were condensed or written by professionals. Like scientific papers or good news articles…
What I think works better are tasks like translating text. That works really well. Sometimes things like rewording text. Or the style-transfer the image generators can do. Restoring old photos, coloring them or editing something in/out. I also like the creativity they provide me with. They can come up with ideas, flesh out my ideas.
I think AI is an useful tool for tasks like that. But not so much for summarization or handling factual information. I don’t see a reason why further research coudn’t improve on that… But at the current state it’s just the wrong choice of tools.
- Comment on Which way, Western man? 8 months ago:
It’s funny because it’s true?
- Comment on suck it, math nerds 8 months ago:
I thought that was the joke in the comic? That we can’t know numbers exactly that have an infinite decimal expansion. That’d be true for some rational numbers like a third, if you change the basis of the numeral system it’d be different numbers. And irrational numbers too if you have a integer base. But I’d argue how we write down a number isn’t what determines ‘exactness’.
- Comment on suck it, math nerds 8 months ago:
You’re correct.
For reference: en.wikipedia.org/…/Non-integer_base_of_numeration
- Comment on suck it, math nerds 8 months ago:
Was going to say the same. Also π isn’t infinite. Far from it. it’s not even bigger than 4. It’s representation in the decimal system is just so that it can’t be written there with a finite number of decimal places. But you could just write “π”. It’s short, concise and exact.
- Comment on Star Trek on LaserDisc, if you've got the right equipment, it looks amazing! (samples in the description) 9 months ago:
Thanks, that explains a lot. Yeah, unfortunately some initial masters and releases are sub-par. Guess it’s the same for DVDs as it is for some music album releases. And I mean for TV shows from a certain era there’s not much to be done. Glad the VHS or DVD wasn’t the only release. I watched some DVD a year ago an let’s say I wasn’t impressed. It’s not up to today’s standards of high definition TVs and to me it’s neither a valuable collectors item.
- Comment on Star Trek on LaserDisc, if you've got the right equipment, it looks amazing! (samples in the description) 9 months ago:
Nice. But I suppose the quality also depends on the source material that got pressed on those disks?! I mean the credits are CGI and had been digitally created in a certain resolution and then been converted. But I really don’t know what kind of cameras and CGI tech they used for TV productions in the 90s. Might not have been 35mm film, but magnet tape.
- Comment on Let's remember some Star Trek games 11 months ago:
Some of my favorites were Star Trek Armada 2 and Star Trek Elite Force.