ApatheticCactus

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Weekend at Donald and Bernie's?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would AI inferencing, or training be better suited to a quantum computer? I recall thouse not being great at conventional math, but massively accelerates computations that sounded similar to machine learning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But if we force schools to change their curriculum to align with MY version of reality, that makes it true! Right?

Or it's just a really really long con for a ton of content creators to make content about "the shocking truth they won't teach you in school!!!". Because I guess that's the only way to get idiots to actually understand something is by packaging it in some hidden conspiracy wrapper.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've always kinda sucked at relationships and honestly don't need to be in one. I stopped trying years ago and basically have zero interest. I'm pretty weird, and I know my own red flags. If I were a used car I'd not even recommend a test drive in that death trap.

Seriously though, I needed to learn to be myself by myself. Now I know who I am, and finding anyone that would put up with my brand of crazy is a fool's errend, so I'm not gonna put in work on a futile task like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I worked at BlockBuster back when Netflix came out. It was legit a great contender, and an awesome service. BB had their own mail service, but it was just seen as a copycat. Also the franchise had a LOT of bad blood, and sometimes rightfully so. Depended on local management how much leeway you could have. The most lax stores that were lenient did the best.

The reason it worked was because physical media is protected by the first sale doctrine. So if you could buy a disc, it could be under one roof as rentable inventory.

Streaming and licenses is what fragmented everything and greed gave the appropriate incentive.

It also somewhat killed direct competition. When everything was physical on a shelf in front of you, all for the same price, you had direct comparison and competition. You could have any show or movie from any studio all side by side. That $2-5 could get you anything, across the board.

I saw this all coming from miles away. I don't blame anyone, every step sounded like a great deal. I see a lot of the same things with Gamepass. It's a great deal, and I don't blame anyone for using it... But I don't see it as being a long term net positive for the industry.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I really hate the term 'freedom' now. It's thrown around so much and it means basically nothing anymore. "Join this! Now with 20% more freedom!". Freedom to/from what? It's never stated, it's just a vibe.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The only smart thing I'd want an oven to do would be to turn itself off. That's it, really. Did I leave the oven on after I left the house? Easy fix. Otherwise everything else is pretty much useless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What about the god of stepping in spaghetti? Maybe fapping to that is like, prayer or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ever since they killed third party apps, I stopped using it on my phone. Now whenever I have time to kill on my phone, I'm on Lemmy. My PC still has the old interface and such, so i still check it from time to time at home, but never on mobile. I'm on mobile for news far more than at my desktop.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I recently took some college classes and they had us run our papers through gramarly to check for errors and to help our writing.

I hated it. It took the voice of your writing out almost completely and every sentence was weighted to be written like a standard textbook. Sure, all the same information was there, but when the ai said it was good... It sounded like it was just written by ai in the first place. Making it happy was worse than writing the paper in the first place since the grammar portion of the grading was simply 'run it through ai and mark down for any errors it picks up'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You think if he was shot the gun manufacturer would use that in their advertising?

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