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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Gsus4@lemmy.one to c/technology@lemmy.world

Can we discuss how it's possible that the paid model (gpt4) got worse and the free one (gpt3.5) got better? Is it because the free one is being trained on a larger pool of users or what?

[-] Gsus4@lemmy.one 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True, but if you wanted those things before AirBnB, they existed, they're called aparthotels e.g.: https://www.booking.com/hotel/es/art-las-palmas.es.html?label=gen173bo-1DCAMYsQIoggJCGmxhcy1wYWxtYXMtZGUtZ3Jhbi1jYW5hcmlhSApYA2i7AYgBAZgBCrgBF8gBD9gBA-gBAfgBAogCAZgCAqgCA7gCp7PVpQbAAgHSAiRkYWQxZjI5NS1hMDBhLTQxMzYtOTI3OS1jNWM1OTczYjAxYWTYAgTgAgE

with a kitchen, washing machine, etc. Very common in touristy areas for decades.

The main difference between an AirBnB and a generalized hotel is that the former is supposed to be inhabited by the owner most of the year. The others are hotels pretending to be something else.

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submitted 1 year ago by Gsus4@lemmy.one to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

If we can do multi-use Uber-routing and live route updates and live bus fleet management, we can have buses that stop where each passenger wants to be picked up and dropped :D

[-] Gsus4@lemmy.one 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reddit answers to shareholders and a board of directors. Each fediverse instance is run by its owner and negotiates with other instances to federate.

If some bigshot wants to own reddit or rule it like a totalitarian asshole, he can buy it and vandalize it if he wants to. If some bigshot wants to own the fediverse, good luck buying the thousands of instances that exist and they still wouldn't get us, because we'd move to or create new instances.

[-] Gsus4@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not so much a dark pattern, but an emergent property of the upvote system: usually the first commenters tended to have an advantage and late good comments actually would never get enough exposure to float to the top.

Karma farmers would just sit at "new", spam comments and get visibility for joke and outrage comments.

The solution may be to randomly order comments below a certain threshold and/or within an upvote range.

[-] Gsus4@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago

Major reason not to buy ebooks from amazon: you can't lend, give, exchange, sell them and you may lose all of them if you anger the right people. They are not yours, you are not buying them, you merely paid for conditioned access to them.

[-] Gsus4@lemmy.one 53 points 1 year ago

@RemindMe@mstdn.social 10 days

[-] Gsus4@lemmy.one 29 points 1 year ago

Which reminds me: we need a leopardsatemyface community

[-] Gsus4@lemmy.one 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because reddit is inundated with bots and trolls. You could see it during the gone private strike, people who can't think 2 steps ahead heckling the mods for wanting to be able to do their job voluntarily.

PS: see https://lemmy.world/post/1044141

[-] Gsus4@lemmy.one 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol I'm 40% sure this is a joke, but in case it isn't: if you place conductors in the microwave: sometimes it's a spoon, sometimes it's the silver lining on a plate, or you can go overboard and throw actual aluminum foil in there for good measure...the microwaves drive a current in the conductor **, which creates sparks from lots of tiny arcs...lightning indeed my friend :D

Suggestion: Forks are particularly spectacular too

PS: the foil should act as shielding against the microwaves, so I predict that the content won't warm up, but maybe the hole is enough to let it heat it a bit :)

** If a conductor is not convex (e.g. fork, crinkled aluminum foil), each crease acts as a capacitor, so when the microwaves drive (through resonance) a current and overcharge the capacitor plates, they short the dielectric (the air in this case) and create the arcs.

[-] Gsus4@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No lemmy, no mastodon? Uuuhh...back to IRC, some forum maybe.

PS: Element looks like a pretty good FOSS alternative to discord and IRC.

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submitted 1 year ago by Gsus4@lemmy.one to c/technology@lemmy.world

This is the big snag with EVs (as with solar panels and wind turbines): how much does a battery really cost if you factor in recycling and environmental damages? (Sorry about the slideshow format.)

[-] Gsus4@lemmy.one 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We'll live. Long live the fediverse (and old-school forums)

BTW: was there ever or is there any sort of listing for all sorts of hobbyist or thematic forums? The main reason I never used many of them was because I never came across them and admittedly it was pretty easy to do that in reddit just by typing r/doesacommunityforthistopicexist

edit: is there some similar listing for mastodon? I'm having trouble finding a type of technical-oriented crowd.

[-] Gsus4@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago

I only disagree with one thing on that: youtube is not a social media platform. It is horrible for discussions, topic discovery and organization, the comment sections and chat are worse than 4chan. It is a video diffusion platform, but not truly social media.

[-] Gsus4@lemmy.one 18 points 1 year ago

I think it is a combination between interest rate hikes from the free money paradigm that propped up startups and the gig economy and the AI hype train driving the capture of public data (think enclosures 3.0) at the expense of strong communities. This somehow reminds me of when post-dot-com bubble companies like google had to become "profitable" so "don't be evil" went down the drain and they found ways to monetize their users' data.

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