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zephr_c , 20 days ago

Do not take dietary advice from randos on the internet, yes, but also unless it's in relation to a medical condition or you are talking to a professional nutritionist don't take dietary advice from your doctor either. Med school teaches basically nothing about nutrition, and it's pretty sad how often you can figure out when a doctor went to med school by which fad diet they recommend.

zephr_c , 29 days ago

Those look like pretty thin slices. They might work. I'd also try it.

zephr_c , 1 month ago

Until someone figures out a better way of doing it that's not a real answer. I'm not going to pay for every website that gets shared on every website I regularly visit. Even if I wanted to, I just don't have that kind of money.

I don't know how to fix this, but it is fundamentally broken.

zephr_c , 1 month ago

Seriously? The old core i7 870 (not a typo) I have in my closet meets the requirements? Adding the watermark for CPUs older than that just seems mean-spirited.

zephr_c , 1 month ago

It's not really direct cause and effect, but yeah. The incentives for a publicly-traded company make enshitification far more appealing then it would be for most other organizations.

zephr_c , 1 month ago

Oh, also, it's a common misconception that publicly-traded companies are required to maximize profits. They can have whatever goals their shareholders want. It's just that the way modern publicly-traded companies work, most of their shareholders are people quickly buying and trading shares based on who they think will earn them the most money this month, so that sort of inevitably becomes the goal of any publicly-traded company.

zephr_c , 1 month ago

Apparently it's okay to commit genocide of an entire ethnic group if a few of them are Nazis, I guess. 'Cause, you know, swastikas made all Germans evil, and it wasn't all the war and genocide making the Nazis evil, right?

zephr_c , 1 month ago

Even if you did find a ventilation shaft big enough to crawl through, it would still be a terrible idea. First, they're made of hollow metal. Banging around in there would be incredibly loud. Second, they're not really designed to hold up the weight of an adult human. You'd just destroy it if you ever put your weight in a spot that wasn't supported, and you can't see where it's supported from the inside.

zephr_c , 1 month ago

Sadly no. The screws hold the sections they're made of together. The supports don't always have to be on those joints though. They tend to be. It's better to support a joint when you can, they just don't always have to be.

zephr_c , 1 month ago

Yeah, it would still be loud, but that does solve the other problems.

zephr_c , 1 month ago

If that were an actual manhole you'd be right, but its obviously not.

zephr_c , 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure the reason is that the hole isn't deep enough for it to matter. That's nowhere near big enough to be a manhole.

zephr_c , 1 month ago

I've heard that one before. I'm rooting for you and all, but it ain't really happening that way.

zephr_c , 1 month ago

They won't. I fought for decades, and all I got for my troubles was a heart attack and a world that's worse than when I started.

zephr_c , 1 month ago

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like you once. Lemmy here is my nice little hole. If you think anything happening here is going to change the world you are delusional. Go somewhere with people who can and will do things.

zephr_c , 1 month ago

Jokes on you then. I'm probably staring because I'm trying to figure out what's going on with that eye makeup, and I have no idea what that face is supposed to mean.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Because it's by area, not length.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Well if the CEO of clouds says it, it must be true!

zephr_c , 2 months ago

They're still neutron stars though. As far as we know the only ways for a neutron star to stop being a neutron star is for enough stuff to fall into them that they collapse into a black hole, two merge to become a black hole, or if they get eaten by a black hole. Otherwise neutron stars are just about the most stable things in the universe.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

I mean technically yes? There's kind of a post pandemic return to normal still going on, and before that there were consistent record low crime rates for the first half of the 10s, so they're not that low, but they're still pretty low. Nowhere near as bad as the terrifying dark ages of the 90s.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

So uh... how exactly does a 3D printer use AI? Is the AI running the stepper motors? Or is this person actually suggesting that an AI could design a bridge? Because, uh, no. No it can't. Maybe someday in the distant future, but large language models aren't structural engineers. Those aren't even remotely the same thing.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Did you actually even read the article you linked? It's about a type of generative AI that's slightly better than humans at finding the most efficient way of providing structural strength with minimal material. If you think that's all there is to designing a bridge I can only hope you aren't allowed anywhere near a bridge I need to drive across.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Engineers using a specialized AI to make a design slightly lighter and then using a 3D printer to print that design isn't a 3D printer using AI.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Yeah, and none of them can actually design bridges. Some of them can be useful tools for engineers to use while designing bridges, but this isn't tech bro fantasy land. You're gonna need some engineers. That's gonna take more than a day.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has it. The Fedora 40 beta has it. Its just a result of being bleeding edge. Arch doesn't have exclusive rights to that.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Uhh? Good for you?

zephr_c , 2 months ago

It literally does though. Stable doesn't mean bug free. It means unchanging. That's what the term "stable distro" actually means. That the software isn't being updated except for security patches. When people say stable distro, that is what they are trying to communicate. That means the software will be old. That's what stable actually means.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Meanwhile I'm over here dual booting Mint and Artix. I like fun, bleeding edge hobby distros and reliable boring ones that do everything I really need completely reliably.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

I think the question here is how is this money laundering? I could sell Sherlock Holmes for $60, and that wouldn't be Arthur Conan Doyle giving me money under the table. How is this any different?

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Is there any evidence of churches buying these stupid bibles? If there is that's a pretty serious accusation. If it's just weirdo Trump cultists then that's not actually money laundering.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Holy crap, you're making accusations that the guy who's out of money is illegally recieving tons of money and I'm the unreasonable one? From everything I'm seeing and hearing outside of Lemmy churches are actually pissed off at how tacky this is, but sure, baseless accusations make you the reasonable one.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Just because he does worse things all the time doesn't mean this isn't serious. Don't let him move the goalpost like that. But also maybe have some actual evidence instead of just paranoid conspiracy theories. That's their thing. We need to be better than them.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Look, campaign finance in the United States is absolute bullshit. Chances are that anyone dumb enough to buy an overpriced Trump branded bible could already legally just give him the money though.

Yes. He is a con-man and a grifter. We all know that here. Trying to pretend this is money laundering when the money doesn't even need to be laundered just makes you seem like a crazy person though. I would like for us to all stay in touch with reality. Election finance reform would be great. Wild criminal accusations based on nothing but vibes won't help that happen though.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

So your argument is that he's money laundering because money laundering doesn't mean money laundering.

Okay. This conversation was a mistake.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Cool. Guess you won't be able to reply when I tell you that I'm sorry I mistakenly believed you might be reasoned with. The idea that somehow "money laundering" actually means openly selling things to suckers totally legally is just an obvious lie because you don't want to admit you were wrong. You'll never get to hear that though.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

I know ad rates and metrics are heavily based around click through, but does it even actually matter? I mean, TV ads are big money expensive, and nobody has ever clicked on those. I guess if you're advertising a shitty mobile game or something then it matters, but does McDonalds or whatever even want you to buy a hamburger before you watch a YouTube video? That doesn't really make a lot of sense.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Partly it's just worse lighting, but also 3 months of sleep deprivation isn't conductive to looking your best.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Free speech means I'm allowed to say whatever I want, and everyone else is also allowed to say whatever I want, right?

zephr_c , 2 months ago

This just fundamentally doesn't understand what artificial general intelligence means. It's not a fancy way of saying "human but smarter". That's just wrong. It's an artificial intelligence that's good at a lot of different things. You know. General. Someday, if we live long enough, we will create an AI capable of figuring things out that it wasn't designed for and we didn't teach it. Maybe that will be tomorrow. Maybe it's still centuries away. It's actually really hard to figure out how long it will take us. Making a really good text generation algorithm doesn't make the concept of learning more than one thing obsolete though. And predicting what text goes in a bar exam after being given a massive sample of bar exams isn't the same thing as learning to be a lawyer.

Tech bros with more money than sense suing each other over terms they don't understand is not a rational system to base research off of, and we should ignore them.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Heck, sign me up. That's basically time travel to a future where presumably humanity has gotten its shit together if they're still around inventing better ships. I see no downsides.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

That's just how rich people say they're too dumb to figure out what makes them happy.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Canonical is a profitable corporation trying to convince people to use their actual closed garden software repository but they can't even be bothered to do even the most basic of sanity checks to prevent obvious scams from appearing on their store. Stop making excuses for them.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

Threads hasn't had federation enabled until now, but you've always been able to interact with Mastodon... sort of. The Lemmy UI doesn't really have a good way of finding Mastodon posts that don't tag a Lemmy community or of following Mastodon users, but if they do tag a community the Mastodon post will show up as a Lemmy post in that community.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

No, your employer doesn't want people to learn what they're really like, which is exactly why you should make it public.

zephr_c , 2 months ago

I've gotta say: My experience using Arch and its derivatives has really made sympathize with vegans. How in the world are you even supposed to respond when a total stranger just walks up to you out of nowhere to tell you that people who do the thing they don't know you do will never shut up about it. Like, seriously. What is even the appropriate response in that situation?

zephr_c , 2 months ago

I'm guessing this is probably a joke? I can't actually tell over the internet. Either way I hate you for doing exactly what makes this whole situation impossible though.

zephr_c , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I mean, I'm all for giving jobs to humans and all, but isn't monitoring a bunch of numbers and sending an alert when they go wrong one of the few things computers are actually objectively better at than humans are?

Edit: Holy crap people. I understand that they're probably not there for that purpose. That was the entire point I was trying to make. You don't ALL need to point out the obvious to me.

zephr_c , 3 months ago

I'm all of the above.