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bionicjoey , (edited )

Outdoor cat: "today I killed 300 birds and permanently altered the local ecosystem"

Indoor cat: "hehe I shit in a box"

bionicjoey ,

Cat in the wall eh? Okay, now you're talking my language!

bionicjoey ,

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature. I bet it flattened itself and slipped in through a seam in the wall

bionicjoey ,

I think the joke is that nobody ever actually enters LC. They just order from there. So there would be no way of knowing if it was actually secretly an entrance to the backrooms

bionicjoey ,

The door to the back is a portal to the elemental plane of pizza. Employees dip into the back to slay a pizza elemental and harvest its crust whenever they run out of dipping sticks.

bionicjoey , (edited )

I think I found that Petroff article if anyone is interested: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1504.02165

bionicjoey ,

And that's coming from someone who has "applelover" in their username. They fucked up big time by pissing off even their most loyal fans.

(/j)

bionicjoey ,

Ron Howard voice: "it didn't"

bionicjoey ,

Apple is bringing being forced to allow sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone

FTFY

'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al... (www.pcgamer.com)

'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al...::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers...

bionicjoey ,

I wouldn't ever count a Bernie bill out, no matter how unlikely it seems. He has a reputation for getting things passed. His nickname in the Senate is "the amendment king"

bionicjoey ,

Ask them to explain why a pun is funny or the solution to a riddle involving wordplay (cryptic crossword clues are particularly good for this) and you will quickly see they don't actually understand words.

bionicjoey , (edited )

Yeah, riddles work better than puns for what I'm talking about since most popular puns were probably in the training dataset.

Like I said, I've had best results (or worst) using cryptic crossword clues, since their solutions are almost definitely not in the training set. So it actually has to "think for itself" and you can see just how stupid it really is when it doesn't have some existing explanation buried somewhere in its training set.

bionicjoey , (edited )

One joke is a fluke, especially if the joke is out in the public discourse and appeared in some form in the training set. Call me when it can explain any novel joke written by a human where no explanation of that joke exists anywhere in the training data.

bionicjoey ,

Sure, here's a prompt:

Please solve and explain the following cryptic crossword clue: "Eddy's mother receiving broadcast alerts (9)"

Correct answer: MAELSTROM. The clue works like this: the definition is "Eddy's" (Eddy is a synonym of storm, and 's meaning "is"), the wordplay of the clue is: mother = MOM, "receiving" means put inside, "broadcast" is an anagram indicator, and "alerts" is anagram fodder. So put an anagram for ALERTS inside the word MOM.

This is not a particularly complicated cryptic crossword clue for anyone who understands the rules of cryptics. But cryptic crossword clues are rarely explained online, so the training set undoubtedly doesn't contain it. For context, I'm awful at cryptics (but I enjoy them) and I solved this one.

I haven't tested this prompt but I've tested half a dozen other cryptic clues and it always got them fantastically wrong. Its explanations often didn't make sense, and it frequently gave answers with the wrong number of letters, which is given in the clue. If by some miracle it does get this one right, I promise it's a fluke and I can provide several more to give you a decent sample size.

If ChatGPT had a brain, it would be able to solve this sort of thing no problem. People like to pretend it's superintelligent, and then as soon as it gets something wrong, they're like "well it just needs more training data". You can't have it both ways. If it needs to be trained on cryptic clues, then it doesn't really "understand" the rules of the game. It's simply a bunch of linear algebra.

bionicjoey ,

You can see clearly that it has no understanding of the wordplay. Though I'll concede it's impressive that it got the right answer at all.

bionicjoey ,

Or, there is no critical reasoning and better hardware will only hide that fact better. It will always be a Chinese room.

Computer scientist shows how to tamper with Georgia voting machine, in election security trial: “All it takes is five seconds and a Bic pen.” (www.ajc.com)

Computer scientist shows how to tamper with Georgia voting machine, in election security trial: “All it takes is five seconds and a Bic pen.”::An expert witness for plaintiffs seeking to bar Georgia's touchscreen voting machines showed a crowded courtroom how he could tamper with election res

bionicjoey ,

It scares the shit out of me that the US has so fully adopted voting machines. They are incredibly unreliable and it would be so easy for a bad actor to hack an election. Especially with FPTP, it would be so easy to goose the numbers in a couple of key districts and swing an election for whomever you wanted to win. It's almost definitely already happened several times.

In Canada we still do voting on paper, but then the votes are counted electronically and the paper copy is kept for recounting by a human later if needed. It's sort of the best of both worlds.

bionicjoey ,

Tom Scott warned us too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs

bionicjoey ,

Which is incredibly stupid since mods prolong the lifetime of a game's value

bionicjoey ,

Top left too

Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do. The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers. (www.vox.com)

Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do. The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.::undefined

bionicjoey ,

One does not simply buying gf

bionicjoey ,

They've only known devices which were built with such a curated UX that they never tried to troubleshoot problems for themselves. When I was a kid you had to be able to figure out how to edit config files and tweak registry keys to get your PC game to run. These days everything is so smooth and seamless. Oh sure, stuff still breaks. But the computers are pocket sized and run on a locked-down OS, so there's no point trying to troubleshoot them yourself.

bionicjoey ,

That's not the result of advancement, it's the result of obfuscation. It's a deliberate trend among companies to make us powerless to manage our own devices. They absolutely could make them in a way that is simple enough for an end-user to understand if they really wanted to.

bionicjoey ,

But HP thinks that when you buy a printer, the company is investing in you

That sounds gross, but I'm pretty sure what's meant is simply that their printers are a loss leader, and the margins are supposed to be made up in the ink cartridges. Like here's another way of putting it: when Keurig sells the coffee machine at a loss, they are investing in you hoping you will buy a lot of kcups to recoup the investment.

bionicjoey ,

Yeah I'm not saying HP are the good guys, just explaining the wording of that quote.

bionicjoey ,

straightens glasses

adjusts pocket protector

Ummm, ackchyually, it was an egg salad sandwich, not sushi.

bionicjoey ,

This feels like an interdimensional Peanuts cartoon

bionicjoey , (edited )

If she joined Lemmy then I could block her account and I wouldn't have to see her comics (as I did on Reddit). As it stands I don't really want to block OPs account since they post and comment lots of different stuff. It's nice to be able to block a specific creator from their own account rather than play whack-a-mole with freebooters.

And before people start saying I'm misogynist or something, I'm not. There are plenty of women webcomic artists I like. Extraordinary Comics and War and Peas just to name a couple. I just find pizzacake to be incredibly boring, low hanging fruit and barely even funny at all. Not trying to hurt feelings, I just don't like her stuff and prefer to block it from my feed.

bionicjoey ,

I'm pre-empting because I know both she and fans of hers have concocted this meme that anyone who doesn't like her comics is sexist.

bionicjoey ,

Yeah IDGAF if people like her comics. I just want to be able to block having to see them with a single click that doesn't also block an entire user who I might not mind seeing in other contexts.

bionicjoey ,

I bet you would have assumed I am a misogynist if I hadn't mentioned it at all in my initial comment above. Something about this comic artist specifically just brings out the most rabid mental gymnastics in people. As I said, I know that she encourages this behaviour too. Before I blocked her on Reddit I remember seeing a few of her comics where the "joke" was literally just "haha look at how dumb and sexist my haters are"

bionicjoey ,

Yes exactly. And to be fair I actually kinda like her art style. It's just that her jokes are so incredibly bland. It's been a while since I saw them regularly, by my recollection is that they're all either "DAE have unhealthy habits?" or "lol wardrobe malfunction amiright?"

bionicjoey ,

Right because there definitely won't ever be machines that can assemble things. Just tell that to the dozen factory workers who were put out of a job by a single robotic arm 20 years ago

bionicjoey ,

They have one conversation with ChatGPT, are convinced it's as smart as a person, and have no idea how it works.

bionicjoey ,

But you can't throw a house or office building on an assembly line and move it past stationary robot arms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabricated_home

See modular and panelized homes

bionicjoey ,

Give it a few more years. Robotics isn't some flash-in-the-pan fad. It's constantly improving in all kinds of ways. Just look at those Boston Dynamics dogs and leggy bois.

Of particular note is the fact that robotics advancements are part of one of the most powerful forces in the world right now: the military-industrial complex. So today it might be some weapons contractor inventing a drone that can navigate slightly more complex terrain in a bombed-out village, but tomorrow those same technological advancements are going to power the McMansion Assembler 3000.

bionicjoey ,

That mug is amazing and I want one.

bionicjoey ,

I like the way it's handled in PL:A. Before Pokémon have developed a symbiotic relationship with humans, they will straight up just attack you in the wild.

bionicjoey ,

You're allowed to return home anytime you want. Just walk your character into their bedroom, tuck them into bed, save, exit to the main menu, and delete the save. Congratulations, you have just completed the alternate ending to Pokémon.

bionicjoey ,

I know I'm replying to my own comment but this reminded me of a joke I once read about the first Bioshock game (Bioshock spoiler incoming)

Title

When Andrew Ryan told me to kill him at the end of Bioshock, I shut off the game and deleted the save. A man chooses, a slave obeys.

bionicjoey ,

In the second gen your mom can manage your finances for you, although she buys stuff with your money so I wouldn't call it a bank exactly lol.

Scientists Use WiFi to See Through People's Walls (www.popularmechanics.com)

“We developed a deep neural network that maps the phase and amplitude of WiFi signals to UV coordinates within 24 human regions. The results of the study reveal that our model can estimate the dense pose of multiple subjects, with comparable performance to image-based approaches, by utilizing WiFi signals as the only input.”

bionicjoey , (edited )

The "glass is a liquid" thing is a myth. The reason why old windows tended to be thicker at the bottom (which is usually the cited reason for this myth) is because windowpane making techniques weren't very good and so they would always have one thicker side. The builders would naturally install the pane with that side on the bottom because it was more stable. Glass doesn't "flow" over time, it's a solid crystalline amorphous material.

bionicjoey ,

Good point. Updated.

bionicjoey ,

Clifford the Big Red Dog terrifies me

NASA lost contact with its Mars helicopter. (www.theverge.com)

NASA lost contact with its Mars helicopter.::The Ingenuity helicopter, which has been fluttering around the red planet for almost three years now, fell out of contact with Perseverance, the rover that brought it to the planet (and that it communicates with using Zigbee!). NASA wrote yesterday that the flight, its 72nd, was a...

bionicjoey ,

Easy come, easy go.

bionicjoey ,

Boosters alone aren't enough to prevent the spread, and people who don't get the vaccine aren't the only ones who are at risk of getting sick.

bionicjoey ,

Mask requirements wherever possible. Especially in businesses where people don't need to expose their mouths. There is no reason you couldn't make everyone in a bookstore or on a bus mask up. In addition to mandatory vaccinations (barring legitimate health concerns like allergies) and limiting the amount of people in indoor spaces during high points in the viral spread.

bionicjoey ,

Yeah and that's what mildlyinfuriates me

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