[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

I don't see how what you said is inconsistent with me saying "self" is special in lua. Note that I did not say it's a keyword.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 hours ago

Lua might have been a better choice, since self is special in lua.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

we've gone completely M.A.D.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 days ago

TIL of Aotearoa, thanks for sharing. That's a bad-ass name, NZ should switch back to that.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

CANZUK ✊ 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇬🇧

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

Even though the officer who issued the countercommand reiterated that the men were carrying a white flag, the deputy commander again requested that they be targeted with a drone. The order was, however, not carried out, the report noted.

The officer who issued the countercommand was deemed “a coward” by his commanding officers.

fucked up.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Right, they're asking to cut taxes because the purpose of taxes is to redistribute wealth.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

I'm saying WoD failed to stop drugs. Failed, as in, was supposed to and didn't. Was there a secondary purpose of incarcerating black people? Sure, could be. Is it racist to want to get rid of drugs? Nah.

Redistributing wealth by printing money is pretty stupid. The wealthy don't have money, because there are better investments. This is all based on the myth that inflation is necessary for society to function; that you need to push people to get rid of their money. Japan went like 20 years without inflation -- not saying they don't have problems, but to my eyes none of those problems are caused by a lack of inflation, and the typical person did not complain that inflation was too low. Redistributing wealth by taxing the rich is based.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

If you use LLMs, you should use it primarily in ways where it's easier to confirm the output is valid than it is to create the output yourself. For instance, "what API call in this poorly-documented system performs ?"

There is no consistent definition of AI so you might as well drop the quotation marks, lest you be prescriptivist.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

That's just how war is though. War is always justified by the enemy. I'm not saying it's sad that they choose to defend themselves -- it's sad that they're in a situation where they must.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 18 points 5 days ago

It's sad to see something made out of love for humanity used for war.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

die hard (bruce willis)

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I'm really loving Pedro Pascal these days.

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I changed the title from "Spying" to "Eavesdropping" because the article actually directly supports that it is "spying" on you, just not listening.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by jsomae@lemmy.ml to c/canada@lemmy.ca

They're very portable, so you can carry them around with you in case you come up with an idea of something to write on your Tesla while you're out and about. They stick to the surface quite well and don't wash off in the rain.

(Please try not to succumb to the temptation to write "F**k off Nazi Scum" or similar on somebody else's though like other people are suggesting. That might encourage people not to buy Teslas, which is a shame, because they're great American cars.)

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Just wanted to prove that political diversity ain't dead. Remember, don't downvote for disagreements.

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The experience seemed roughly on par with trying to advise a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student. However, this was an improvement over previous models, whose capability was closer to an actually incompetent graduate student. It may only take one or two further iterations of improved capability (and integration with other tools, such as computer algebra packages and proof assistants) until the level of "competent graduate student" is reached, at which point I could see this tool being of significant use in research level tasks.

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What do y'all guys use for cloud storage, like DropBox, Google Drive, and so on? Ideally something which works even when offline.

I'd like to de-google of course.

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(Please don't downvote just because I need some help.)

I was once a privacy nut. But it's getting so hard nowadays, and there are so many more important problems -- global warming, AI, the inevitable collapse of the current world order... how does privacy improve the world? Please help remind me.

I do approve of privacy, of course. All this protect-the-children flak is bullshit. I just can't remember why I thought it was something worth fighting for and preaching about.

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submitted 1 year ago by jsomae@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

In a poll on hexbear (see link), it was observed that there are very few cis women on Lemmy. I think this is the intersection of several problems:

  • engagement of women on Reddit was always low
  • fewer women in computer science
  • I'm hesitant to recommend anything fediversy to people who don't tinker with computers like I do and thus might need a more handholdy UX.

I gather that transgender people tend to be more into CS, though I don't see why that explains entirely such an astonishing presence of the transgender community on Hexbear.

Anyway, I just thought I'd open the floor to brainstorming.

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Safety tips:

  • Only use special eclipse glasses; regular sunglasses aren't safe
  • Wait for 100% totality before taking off your eclipse glasses. (If you don't have eclipse glasses, wait for totality before looking at all)
  • Have a timer prepared on your phone set to the duration of the eclipse at your location, so you know when to put your glasses back on.
  • When the sun is mostly (but not fully) eclipsed, it will likely not feel painful to look at it, but it will still damage your eyes permanently.
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